Data Science Seminar "AI for SE: Do you have the right vibe?"

The Data Science Seminar "AI for SE: Do you have the right vibe?" took place place as a sTARTUp Day 2026 side-event on 28 January at 16:15 at the Delta study building lecture hall 1037.

The seminar explores how the quickly evolving availability of GenAI tools helps to analyse and improve the quality of software applications, no matter whether these applications have been developed manually, generated with the help of GenAI tools like GitHub Copilot, Gemini, or ChatGPT (to name just a few), or are a hybrid of both.

Special focus is set on discussing opportunities and challenges related to AI-supported code analysis, and AI-generated test code and test data. The goal of the seminar is to showcase the state-of-practice in the Estonian industry as well as to understand how academia can be of help to industry by adjusting its teaching and connecting its research to the needs of the companies and government agencies.

Schedule:

15.45 Gathering and welcome coffee

16.15 Opening words from Professor of Software Engineering Dietmar Pfahl.

16.25 Chief Government Technology Officer at Nortal Priit Liivak, "You need to work to make AI work"

16.45 Data Scientist at Swedbank Artem Mateush, "Spare Tire or Steering Wheel? How GenAI Fits — and Transforms — Software Team Culture"

17.05 Associate Professor in Informatics at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science Marina Lepp, "The Learning Vibe with AI: How Students Perceive, Use, and Perform in Programming"

17.30 Coffee break

18.00 Hanna Tagen, Head of Software Engineering at IndiGO Technologies

18.20 Toomas Römer, VP of Engineering at Bolt

18.40 Panel discussion

19.00 Networking

The academic organiser of this event is Professor of Software Engineering Dietmar Pfahl.

Seminar video recording

Seminar photo gallery