AI in practice

Artificial intelligence has long since arrived in everyday working life – at least in theory. In practice, however, there are very different realities: from initial experiments and productive individual solutions to the question of how AI can be anchored in organizations in a meaningful, responsible and sustainable way. This is precisely where Quality Night Hamburg comes in under the motto AI in practice.

Instead of glossy strategies and buzzwords, the focus is on real experiences: What is already working today? Where are the limits? And how do teams and organizations actually learn to deal with AI?

In three presentations, we will shed light on the topic from different, complementary perspectives.
Franziska Jon will show how AI usage emerges bottom-up from everyday working life with the help of AI Allies. The practical use of Azure and Copilot for effective AI solutions will be the focus of Barbara Faulstich’s and Enrico Goerlitz’s presentation. Alexander Opalic (Otto IT) will take a technical approach, demonstrating how an AI-supported QA engineer integrates automated browser tests directly into the development process and thus measurably improves quality.

After the presentations, we will open up the room: in an open-space format, there will be time for exchange, discussion and networking. Here you can deepen your experiences, ask questions and contribute your own practical examples – in the spirit of a learning community.

The Quality Night Hamburg is aimed at anyone who not only wants to understand AI, but also apply it, reflect on it and develop it further together. We are looking forward to an open evening full of insights, discussions and new perspectives.

The program

16:00 Admission

16:30 Welcome

16:45 AI Allies – How to strategize AI without a strategy? with Franziska Jon

5:30 p.m. Anyone can do AI – or can’t they? with Barbara Faulstich & Enrico Goerlitz

18:15 Break

19:00 Building an AI QA Engineer with Claude Code and Playwright MCP with Alexander Opalic

19:45 Open-space agenda setting with Georg Haupt, oose

20:00 Open Space 1

20:30 Open Space 2

21:00 Closing and conclusion of the evening

The lectures

AI Allies - How to strategize AI without a strategy?

A lecture with Franziska Jon

Many companies talk about "the" AI strategy - but the day-to-day work of consultants shows that this is the case:
Value is not created on paper, but in action.
Instead of waiting months for the perfect concept, successful teams start with concrete experiments. This presentation shows how AI use in a consultancy can be operationalized bottom-up from day-to-day business - without waiting for a perfect strategy document first.

The focus is on the "AI Allies" - Employees who voluntarily and of their own accord in small experiment in small pilot projects and learn where AI helps and where it doesn't. You share their experiences - successes and failures - and thus gradually build trust with their colleagues auf. Etwa wenn ein Berater zeigt, wie er mit KI Recherchen von Stunden auf Minuten verkürzt – inklusive der Grenzen, die er dabei erkannt hat. Kurze Feedback-Schleifen, niedrigschwellige Experimente und Practical showcases are far more convincing than slides and slogans.

Another focus is on the role of leadership: Wie hole ich das Management nicht nur als Entscheider, sondern als Lernende in den Prozess? Statt monatlicher Statusberichte braucht es gemeinsame Experimente und Reflexionsschleifen. Real buy-in arises when benefits, risks and limitations are not reported retrospectively, but are evaluated together on an ongoing basis - and when managers try out AI themselves.

The key insight: a sustainable AI strategy is created through use, not on the drawing board. Those who consistently open up spaces for exchange, enable experiments and make successes visible will build a network of AI allies - and thus a living, learning organization that grows with the technology.

Franziska Jon

Franziska Jon works as a Consultant Manager at Consid. Her focus is on strategic agile leadership and sustainable collaboration and transformation. It is particularly important to her that leadership is effective in everyday life and can reflect the increasingly complex requirements. She is also enthusiastic about the topic of AI in all its facets, which also motivated her to give the presentation. The integration between AI revolution and leadership and a real implementation fascinates her in everyday life.

Anyone can do AI - or can't they?

A lecture with Barbara Faulstich and Enrico Goerlitz

Artificial intelligence is changing the corporate world - it will be shown how modern AI solutions with Azure and Copilot are created in practice and generate real added value. The most important development stages of AI development will be highlighted and an outlook given on the next trends that companies and users can expect in the future.

Barbara Faulstich

Barbara Faulstich is a data and AI expert with a focus on cybersecurity and digital health. She works on AI workflows, data-driven system architectures and production-related applications in regulated sectors such as healthcare and defense. She also conducts research at the Berlin Institute of Health (Charité) on data protection and governance issues in the context of generative AI.

Enrico Goerlitz

Enrico Goerlitz has been involved in software development and data engineering for over eight years and has been working intensively on the development of AI systems for several years. As a Senior Data & AI Engineer at the Public Cloud Group (PCG), his current focus is on the development of cloud data platforms (in particular Microsoft Fabric) and AI systems on Azure.

Building an AI QA Engineer with Claude Code and Playwright MCP

A lecture with Alexander Opalic

This talk will explain how to use Claude Code and the Playwright MCP to develop an AI-powered QA engineer that tests web applications like a real user in the browser. The goal is to integrate automated quality assurance directly into the GitHub Actions workflow to receive detailed bug reports including screenshots with every pull request.

Alexander Opalic

Alex has over 7 years of experience in software development and currently works at Otto Payments. He is passionate about sharing his expertise as a blogger(alexop.dev) and speaker. In addition to knowledge transfer, his main focus is on inspiring exchange with others.