Events
SLOAI x Google: Search & Reasoning - Damir Sabol & Dr. Marko Velić
Past
Damir Sabol & Dr. Marko Velić (Google) on LLM-powered Search and the science of reasoning in AI models.
- When:
- Thursday, 18 June 2026
- Where:
- Grand Plaza Hotel & Congress Center, Ljubljana, 60 Slovenska cesta, 1000 Ljubljana
What to expect
Two talks from Google engineers on LLM-powered Search and reasoning in AI models, plus Q&A and networking. Open to engineers, researchers, founders, and anyone seriously interested in how AI is built today. Organised by SLOAI and *codeplain.
Talks
Damir Sabol (Google): Building LLM-Powered Google Search Features
- High-level look at how Gemini models improve and develop new Google Search experiences
- Serial entrepreneur (Iskon Internet, Microblink, Photomath); Photomath was acquired by Google
Dr. Marko Velić (Google): How Are AI Models Trained to Think?
- How reasoning emerges in LLMs, the role of scale, and current limits
- RL with LLMs: RLHF, GRPO, on-policy distillation, SDPO, with open-source references
- 20 years building AI at Facebook, Google, LEGO, and Photomath; university and MBA professor
Agenda
- 17:50: Doors open
- 18:00: Welcome from SLOAI
- 18:10: Talk 1: Damir Sabol
- 18:50: Talk 2: Dr. Marko Velić
- 19:30: Networking