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VAIA

VAIA accelerates the adoption of AI in Flemish companies and organisations by gathering and redistributing a broad and relevant range of AI training courses for professionals in Flanders.

We help training organisations tailor their courses to meet current and future AI needs, by providing insights into the AI training requirements of different professional sectors and connecting them with AI expertise from academia and industry.

As a bridge-builder, we facilitate the smooth exchange of AI knowledge between academics and businesses. In this way, we promote lifelong learning in Flanders and make AI knowledge accessible for everyone.

Domain/sector

  • Across all disciplines (AI in general)

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Permanent courses

Automated detection of political trends and vaccine skepticism from social media text

VAIA Presents Pieter Fivez (UAntwerp) - webinar - VAIA

How design thinking and map sets improve AI products and services

VAIA Presents Laurens Vreekamp (author of 'The Art of AI') - webinar - VAIA

A Mixed Blessing: Big Data and AI for Migration

VAIA Presents Tuba Bircan (VUB) - Webinar - VAIA

Scheduled courses

Building Trustworthy AI in Healthcare

8 December 2026

study day on the state of the art in Flemish research - Gent - Flanders AI Research, VAIA, UZ Antwerpen

Robots on the Factory Floor: What works today, what comes next?

16 December 2026

study day on the state of the art in Flemish research - Gent - Flanders AI Research, VAIA, Volvo Car Gent

Past courses

Reproducible Machine Learning

25 May 2023

Seminar - Liège or online - VAIA & TRAIL

Review of DNN optimization and compression methods for Edge AI systems

23 June 2023

Seminar - Mons or online - VAIA & TRAIL

Machine Learning in Control and Automation

1 November 2022 - 30 June 2023

Webinar - Online - VAIA, Flanders AI Research & KU Leuven STADIUS

Physical dynamic systems learning from interactions with the real world

21 November 2022

Webinar with Guillaume Crevecoeur (Ghent University) - Online - VAIA & KU Leuven Stadius, Flanders AI EDIH

Balancing safety and performance in learning-based optimal control

30 January 2023

Webinar - Online - VAIA, KU Leuven ESAT STADIUS, Flanders AI EDIH

Triple helix for control: model-based, learning and embodied intelligence

27 February 2023

Webinar - Online - VAIA & KU Leuven ESAT Stadius

Flames & VAIA Data Science Track

16 January 2023 - 21 October 2022

Training series - Flanders - VAIA & Flames

De-identification and anonymisation of sensitive data

20 October 2022

Two-day course - Hasselt - VAIA, Flames Network & UHasselt

A deep dive into reinforcement learning

6 February 2023

Course - Brussels - VAIA & Flames

Blog posts

Seeing is believing: data visualization is key for successful AI implementation

Data may be the new gold, but what do you do with all those insights? A good dashboard, a punchy graph or a great story are essential to ensure that people actually understand, use and follow data insights.

ChatGPT's revolutionary insight in language unlocks multitude of new applications

Beyond fun: the in-depth language knowledge of the new chatbot generation allows computers to deepen their collaboration with humans.

Middle finger problem, about the value of human colleagues in a world with AI

VAIA also got to work with DALL-E and discovered its pros and cons in practice.

Tine Goovaerts Goovaerts

Tine Goovaerts

VAIA UGent liaison & Project Leader

Isabelle Borremans Borremans

Isabelle Borremans

Not an AI expert! Communication about AI courses at VAIA

Femke De Backere De Backere

Femke De Backere

Project lead bij VAIA en associate professor in software engineering bij UGent. Specialisaties: eHealth & personalisering

Bart De Moor De Moor

Bart De Moor

Voorzitter VAIA (Vlaamse AI Academie), Co-auteur van het Vlaamse Beleidplan Artificiële Intelligentie, Gewoon hoogleraar - KU Leuven

Lisa Hilte Hilte

Lisa Hilte

University of Antwerp, VAIA, freelancer

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