Our work

What ZAICC has already made happen

Companies, the university, public administration and students. Over the past year, AI strategies for industry, pilot AI solutions, a research consortium and events for hundreds of people from the region have come to life.

Dny.AI
Educating Upcoming

AI fast, not furious: ZAICC conference at Dny.AI

How Continental, Blogic, Creepy and UTB do it. Adopting AI fast is a necessity today, but without forethought it brings more chaos than value.

With: Dny.AI · UTB ve Zlíně · Continental Barum · TIC Zlín · Zlínský kraj

Continental Barum
Consulting Completed

AI strategy for tyre production at Continental Barum

For the Process Engineering division in Otrokovice, we built a portfolio of 26 concrete AI use cases and a roadmap separating quick wins from strategic projects.

With: Continental Barum

Workshop participants around the meeting table
Connecting Completed

Workshop: Technology trends in the Zlín Region

IT and cybersecurity companies from across the region at one table: trends, barriers to adopting new solutions and what would help them move forward.

With: TIC Zlín · Agentura Modifo

Consulting Completed

AI for the Rožnov pod Radhoštěm town office

Together with the office staff, we went through individual departments and identified where AI saves time, from meeting summaries to tracking grant calls.

With: Město Rožnov pod Radhoštěm

Award winners of the regional AI Olympiad round
Educating Completed

Regional round of the Czech AI Olympiad

Secondary school students used real Zlín Region data to optimise the regional school network. ZAICC brought experts onto the jury.

With: TIC Zlín · Česká AI olympiáda

Carleon Design
Consulting Pilot

Creative AI for a car wrap studio

Zlín-based studio Carleon Design is piloting a web app that generates a car wrap design from photos of the customer's vehicle and calculates foil consumption.

With: Carleon Design

Fakulta aplikované informatiky UTB (FAI)
Educating Completed

UTB students working on real industrial data

A bachelor's thesis at UTB's Faculty of Applied Informatics explores machine learning and large language models for industrial data analysis, based on a real-world brief.

With: Fakulta aplikované informatiky UTB (FAI)

Fakulta managementu a ekonomiky UTB (FaME)
Connecting Submitted

Research project: Disinformation, AI and trust in institutions

Thanks to ZAICC, a consortium was formed with the UTB Faculty of Management and Economics and a project submitted to the TA ČR SIGMA programme, aiming at AI tools for informed decision-making by municipalities.

With: Fakulta managementu a ekonomiky UTB (FaME)

TIC Zlín
Consulting Open to companies

AI consulting for SMEs in the Platinn programme

Small and medium-sized companies from the Zlín Region can use subsidised consulting on AI adoption strategy in the Platinn programme, with experts provided through ZAICC.

With: TIC Zlín · Platinn

Holík International
Consulting Completed

AI strategy for Holík International

A Zlín-based manufacturer of protective equipment exporting to over 80 countries received an AI readiness audit, concrete opportunities and a plan of next steps.

With: Holík International

Audience at the AI for Business conference, TIC Zlín
Educating Completed

AI for Business: Conference during AI Days

A full house at TIC Zlín. Practitioners showed how agentic development, Microsoft Copilot and a change of mindset deliver real results for companies.

With: TIC Zlín · Česká národní AI platforma (CNAIP) · Continental Barum

A packed Kavárna Továrna during AI Club
Educating Completed

AI Club: AI in your business. Safely. Effectively.

The first open meet-up for companies at Zlín's Továrna: how ready Czech companies are for AI, how to use it effectively and how hackers misuse it today.

With: Česká asociace umělé inteligence

The overview includes activities carried out within the centre as well as those that emerged from connections and activities of the AI ecosystem in the Zlín Region.

Become Part of the Zlín Region's AI Ecosystem

We are looking for partners from companies and institutions who want to jointly develop the potential of artificial intelligence in the region.