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UID:pretalx-pyconde-pydata-2026-MS7AWK@pretalx.com
DTSTART;TZID=CET:20260416T132000
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DESCRIPTION:Everyone talks about LLMs\, RAG\, and AI agents - but who truly
  understands them? Marketing promises magic while documentation assumes ex
 pertise. Recent research from Gartner reveals the consequences: only 8% of
  HR leaders believe their managers possess adequate AI competency\, while 
 companies that restructure work around AI achieve revenue goals twice as o
 ften as those who merely train employees. The problem isn't lack of inform
 ation\; it's the lack of genuine understanding through experience.\n\nWe t
 ook a different approach. Instead of slides or tutorials\, we built "AI Fa
 ctory" - a non-profit educational platform in the form of escape room game
  where players learn by doing. Craft prompts under budget pressure. Watch 
 guardrails fail in real-time. Break their own RAG pipeline. Each mistake t
 eaches more than any documentation ever could. \n\nIn this talk\, we'll sh
 are what we discovered while building and testing this game with real user
 s: why failure-driven learning outperforms tutorials\, how game mechanics 
 create memorable "aha moments\," and the surprising concepts that clicked 
 only through play.
DTSTAMP:20260412T141833Z
LOCATION:Helium [3rd Floor]
SUMMARY:Escape the Hype: Teaching LLM Concepts Through an Interactive AI Fa
 ctory Game - Vadim Vlasov\, Eric Glaser\, Lisa Amrhein
URL:https://pretalx.com/pyconde-pydata-2026/talk/MS7AWK/
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