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This week, Michiel Vandendriessche and Daphné Vermeiren had the pleasure of giving a keynote about generative artificial intelligence for Actueel Denken en Leven in Koksijde. The auditorium at Casino Koksijde was packed with an audience eager to explore the possibilities of genAI. We love seeing our keynotes inspire a diverse crowd - from young to old, from techies to non-techies. The feedback we received speaks for itself: "Just got home and still deeply impressed by your presentation - for me, the most interesting one of this year’s program." 🙏 Would you like to organize a keynote or masterclass for your organization? Reach out via https://lnkd.in/eUHZY47N. We still have some openings from April onwards! 📩

SPEAKER - Simon Meurs Less than one month to go until the next edition of The Bar. Seats are filling up fast, so if you're curious about AI in credit management, now's the time to register. ✅ Simon will take the stage to share CrediBill's AI roadmap. As a trusted partner for professionals looking to streamline their credit management process, the company wanted to explore how AI could fit into this process. And explore, they did! As time is money (quite literally in this case), enabling financial professionals to stay on top of overdue payments, credit limits, and customer behavior is the top priority of CrediBill. Our AI implementation makes sure this can be done even more efficiently in the future. Simon will walk you through the approach and key learnings. Join us on March 20, 2025, at our headquarters in Leuven. Fresh perspectives, great drinks, and delicious pizza will be served. 🍕 Register via https://lnkd.in/efVVpjdu.

What if financial professionals could just ask their data a question and get instant answers? Together with CrediBill, we built an AI-driven system that lets users ask their data questions and get instant, actionable insights. 💬 “Which customers were late with payments?”  💬 “What’s the average payment term in Antwerp?”  💬 “Who exceeds their credit limit?” A multi-agent AI system handles the heavy lifting - querying data, structuring insights, and visualizing results. No friction, just faster decisions. Read the full case via the link in comments. 👇🏼

All Colors of Communication invited Daphné to talk about combining marketing management, business development, and podcast hosting at Raccoons in their biweekly podcast, 'All Colors vraagt door'. Some key conclusions of the episode? As a marketer of an AI company, you have to: • Do research like you’re on steroids • Stay up to date with industry news, or you risk sounding out of touch • Be genuinely interested in your industry, not just your job • Never accept “We can’t do that” for an answer Listen now on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/eVjxTeWF 🎧 Pocket Casts: https://lnkd.in/ex-Ckb8h 🎧 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/enMUp5PA

Just dropped: de nieuwste aflevering van Radio Raccoons. 👋 Deevid De Meyer en Daphné Vermeiren duiken in de Amerikaanse, Chinese én Europese AI-wedloop. Een heleboel innovaties worden in enorm snel tempo op ons afgevuurd. We zouden het begrijpen als je bijna niet meer kan volgen. Gelukkig zijn onze hosts er om je om de twee weken up-to-date te brengen. Deze keer op het programma: Grok 3, de roadmap van OpenAI, oppassen voor DeepSeek, nieuwe modellen van Google, de lancering van InvestAI en nog véél meer. Te beluisteren op jouw favoriet podcastplatform. 🎧

Students don’t want to dig through websites or wait for emails. They want instant answers. That’s exactly what Odisee’s chatbot Lisa delivers. 24/7. Since 2019, Lisa has been a go-to for student questions, but in 2024, we gave her a major upgrade. With GPT-4o mini and direct access to Odisee’s knowledge base, she now: ✔️ Handles complex, open-ended questions  ✔️ Provides context-aware responses  ✔️ Blends structured chatbot flows with generative AI-powered answers The result? 38,000+ questions answered in one month, with a 97% success rate. The best part? All built on our all-in-one chatbot platform, Oswald Chatbots. Want to see how we went to work? 👉 Swipe through the carousel or read the case study via https://lnkd.in/ev8kpk7q.

⚠️ Breaking news ⚠️ xAI lanceert hun nieuwste powerhouse, Grok 3, en verovert daarmee meteen de eerste plaats in bijna alle benchmarks en leaderboards. Deevid en Daphné konden niet wachten tot donderdag om deze tech scoop de wereld in te sturen. Benieuwd? Luister dan zeker naar Radio Raccoons deze donderdag. 🎧

Our founder Michiel Vandendriessche was invited as a guest for the Never Overdue podcast by Triple A Solutions to share his insights on artificial intelligence. 🎧 It's clear AI is reshaping how we work, make strategic decisions, and optimize processes. This transformation is exactly what Michiel and Simon explore in the latest episode of Never Overdue. Listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gvsstz6W

It's always a pleasure to welcome eager students to our ranks - and we were very lucky this week! Jorrit Ruelens joined us for his internship as part of his Applied Informatics studies at UCLL. During his time at Raccoons, he'll be exploring ways to enhance retrieval-augmented generation systems. Beyond his interest in LLMs, Jorrit is fascinated by the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics. We have no doubt he’ll fit right in. Welcome, Jorrit! We can't wait to see what you'll build. 👏

The Bar is back in 2025, and we're ready to bring you right up-to-date with what has been disrupting the tech (and mostly AI) industry in the past few months. The battle of LLMs is back on thanks to DeepSeek (was it ever off, though?), AI songs are winning Grammys, and the United States' project Stargate might just be the beginning of something revolutionary. Michiel Vandendriessche will discuss the most important events of the past few months so you can go home fully updated. In addition to our quarterly tech wrap-up, we're inviting one of our esteemed clients: CrediBill. Simon Meurs will explain the impact of AI on their platform and how their first AI implementation is just the beginning of an ambitious roadmap. Save your seat (for free!) via https://lnkd.in/efVVpjdu. Spots are limited, so be quick.