Pi School of AI Session 16 Pitch Day: Where Applied Research Meets Real-World Impact.

What we showcased

Four interdisciplinary teams of fellows presented the AI prototypes they developed in partnership with leading companies and institutions, tackling real-world challenges across industries.

Challenge 1


Daikin Applied Europe — LLM Information Extraction for HVAC Sales: an AI system that automates product selection, reducing manual reading time from hours to minutes.

Challenge 2


Prima Sole Components s.p.a. — Explainable Anomaly Detection: a predictive model that detects production defects in real time, preventing costly rework and waste.

Challenge 3

ELT Group — Confidentiality-First Live Speech Translation: a live translation pipeline ensuring data privacy in business communication.

Challenge 4


ESA Φ-lab — Earth Virtual Expert (EVE): an intelligent assistant for Earth Observation, combining retrieval-augmented generation and hallucination detection to provide reliable, cited insights.

The event brought together partners, mentors, and AI practitioners at Pi Campus to discuss the impact of applied AI and witness the fellows’ results first-hand.

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