Het AI van Columbus: how AI is changing education — report on a remarkable hackathon
By Pascal Mariany – Tech Lead at Personal Tutor & Adviser on AI in Education. On 10 and 11 June 2025 the hackathon “Het AI van Columbus” took place: a two-day AI…
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By Pascal Mariany – Tech Lead at Personal Tutor & Adviser on AI in Education. On 10 and 11 June 2025 the hackathon “Het AI van Columbus” took place: a two-day AI…

More and more people are discovering the power of 1-to-1 AI coaching. Maybe webinars don't work for you. Or it's yet another AI e-learning course full of tricks. I am…

In this new episode of our podcast "AI and Education", we explore the world of AI agents with Pascal Mariany (HU). No hype, but concrete applications, from feedback…

📄🔍 Do you want to find documents quickly and always have insight into each other's schedules? In this knowledge clip I show how centralising information helps you work…

🚀 Hosting your own ChatGPT-like environment within the EU? It can be done! In this knowledge clip I explain how educational institutions and businesses can easily take…

This week I joined a podcast remotely about one of the most exciting developments in education: AI agents. Together with Peter Loonen (Metis Onderwijsadvies) and Thijs…

AI agents that take over boring tasks? It's possible. And I build them. 😎 Did you know that I will soon be training an organisation to use n8n? How cool is that? 😊 With…

Imagine: you run advanced AI chat software locally or on your own VPS, have full control over your data and access to virtually every existing LLM (Large Language Model)…

Microsoft has announced that it is making additional investments in digital infrastructure, training and AI in Europe. As Microsoft puts it: “We are putting Europe…

Last Monday I had another inspiring 1-to-1 coaching session at my wooden kitchen table in the morning sun. We sat amid a whiteboard, Open WebUI installations, prompt…

Last week I had the honour of kicking off the day with a keynote at the TOI Domain Day of Hogeschool Inholland, in the impressive Corpus Congress Centre in Leiden. A day…

On 27 March, ROC Mondriaan held its AI Symposium in the iconic Fokker Terminal in The Hague. A day full of inspiration, innovation and interaction — exactly how you hope…