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Sweet & Salty Startup Accelerator

12.5 Tuesday
INNOVATION &TECH WEEK
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The culmination of the Sweet & Salty AI accelerator program

Watch the battle for a €10,000 investment and see how artificial intelligence is changing the rules of the game. Who will win the favour of investors and the startup community?

We invite you to the final Demo Day, the result of a three-month acceleration of startups focused on AI implementation. Startups will stand directly before investors and fight for an investment of €10,000.

More about Sweet & Salty AI

Day program

17:30 – 18:00 Guest arrival and registration
18:00 Event start
18:00 – 18:06 Music and dance show
18:05 – 18:20 Innovation discussion
18:20 – 18:50 Startup pitches — Round 1
18:50 – 19:00 Singing performance — Celeste Buckingham with band
19:00 – 19:30 Startup pitches — Round 2
19:30 – 19:40 Audience award voting
19:45 – 20:00 Winner and audience award announcement
20:00 Event closing
20:00 – 22:30 VIP — networking and catering

Special guest

CelesteBuckinghamwith band
18:50 – 19:00

Celeste
Buckingham
with band

Side Event & Workshop

AI in SDLC — a new „engineering mindset“

  • Date Tuesday 12 May 2026
  • Time 15:00 – 17:00
  • Location GlobalLogic Slovakia, Business Centre Košice III, Štúrova 50, 040 01 Košice
  • Capacity 20 people
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Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword — it is a total game-changer that is fundamentally reshaping software development. Join us for a packed workshop by GlobalLogic Slovakia. We will show you how to turn AI experiments into a real superpower and how to deploy AI effectively into every phase of your Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

For: university students and professionals · Language: Slovak · Entry: free

MUST HAVE: your own laptop with installed tools — Gemini CLI / Copilot CLI / Claude CLI / Cursor CLI / Codex CLI, Coding IDE (VS Code), Git.

What to expect:

  • The role of AI in SDLC and how it improves it.
  • Key fundamentals for working effectively with AI: context, skills, instructions and MCP.
  • How to use AI CLI agent capabilities to speed up and improve common engineering tasks — bug fixing, planning, building and documentation.

Capacity is limited, please register only if you can commit.

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Registration closed Day program
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Experience raw startup energy. Get ready for sharp pitching. Startups will face investors and fight for an investment of €10,000.

Registration closed Day program
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