Suggested topics
AI agents: what happens after the good answer?
From language model to workflow: context, tools, permissions and checking the outcome.
For teams, founders and people who want to use AI practically.
What participants can take away
- Describe a task so its outcome can be checked.
- Distinguish automated workflows, agents and human decisions.
- Design a bounded first trial with useful test cases.
Software that keeps working after the demo.
What lies between a prototype and everyday use: requirements, roles, data quality, operations and responsibility.
For organisations, educational institutions and teams facing a software decision.
What participants can take away
- Describe the key workflow from the users’ perspective.
- Ask early about support, failure cases and data handover.
- Understand the next technical decision and its consequences.
Build it yourself. Take responsibility.
How to turn a problem into a manageable first step, and which questions support a collaboration.
For founders, students and people with a product idea of their own.
What participants can take away
- Refine an idea against its audience and actual needs.
- Clarify contributions, expectations and a first outcome of a partnership.
- Consider technology, ongoing work and public communication together.
Suited to the occasion
- Short talk
- One clear idea with a concrete example. A starting point for an event or a team discussion.
- Talk and discussion
- Develop a topic in more detail, explain decisions and then address participants’ questions.
- Workshop
- Work on a specific question: define an AI experiment, examine a workflow or structure a project.
- Panel or interview
- Contribute a technical perspective to a moderated conversation. The press kit offers further topics for podcast and media enquiries.
Duration, group size, preparation, language and terms are agreed for each occasion. A hands-on workshop requires different conditions from a talk.
Background in development and teaching
Raphael Lugmayr is a software engineer, entrepreneur and author from Upper Austria. As a partner and managing director of Stoicera Group, he contributes to all projects, usually as Head of IT. He develops software himself and coordinates technical work with freelancers and partners, including AI-assisted workflows. His work includes MealTime (Schulmittag), open software tools and Austrian Business Magazine. In his writing and teaching, he explores the practical use of technology and responsibility for its results.
Adult education lecturer
IT workshops in the JET (Job Excellence Team) and BITEC programmes.
Free workshops for founders
Tools and workshops for founders in Austria — I lead the workshops myself.
The biography page places these professional roles in context with their documented status.
Discuss an occasion
For an initial enquiry, please include the topic, audience, preferred format, location or online attendance, date and duration. If recording is planned, also mention the intended publication. An available budget range helps with planning.
Gunter, my digital assistant, receives your enquiry, acknowledges it and forwards it to me.