Interviews with developers, researchers, and practitioners from the North of the Netherlands — and beyond. What are they building, what breaks, and what's actually working?
Season 3 kicks off with an open mic conversation between JP and BB. No agenda, no filters — just two people thinking out loud about where AI is headed and what it means for the region.
Dominique Cirkel on AI in practice — the real challenges of bringing AI into organisations, what actually sticks, and the difference between proof-of-concept energy and production-grade reality.
Arjan Egges on building Learntail — a platform that uses AI to turn any text, website, or YouTube video into a quiz. Architecture decisions, prompting challenges, and what he learned shipping an AI product from scratch.
Bob van Luijt, CEO of Weaviate, on the vector database revolution and what it means for how we build AI applications. Why semantic search changes everything, and where AI infrastructure is headed.
Rix Groenboom on integrating AI across the curriculum at Hanze University of Applied Sciences. What does it mean to prepare students for an AI-saturated profession — across law, marketing, programming, and music?
Yonatan Alexander on what it takes to lead and work in an AI-first world. From prompt engineering and hyperparameters to the organizational shifts that separate teams that thrive from those that stall — unfiltered and practical.
Jean-Paul van Oosten on the gap between LLM hype and production reality — what it really takes to apply AI to business-critical problems, why context is everything, and the value of data governance when deploying language models.
The very first episode. An introduction to who aiGrunn is, what this podcast is about, and why a community-driven AI event in the North of the Netherlands is worth paying attention to.