{"id":147901,"date":"2026-07-31T13:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/?p=147901"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:49:14","slug":"five-days-in-indias-silicon-valley-how-sii-experts-built-ai-tools-at-the-abb-accelerator-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/news-feed\/five-days-in-indias-silicon-valley-how-sii-experts-built-ai-tools-at-the-abb-accelerator-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Five days in India&#8217;s \u201cSilicon Valley\u201d: How Sii experts built AI tools at the ABB Accelerator 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sii-nsw-container container container-e46c064a-0501-4771-864d-398b4a5636a1\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.container-e46c064a-0501-4771-864d-398b4a5636a1 {  }\n                         @media screen and (max-width: 991px) { .container-e46c064a-0501-4771-864d-398b4a5636a1 {  } }<\/style>\n<p><strong><strong>More than 2,000 participants from 37 countries, over 600&nbsp;submitted&nbsp;use cases, and two Stevie\u00ae Awards plus an International Innovation Award to its name \u2013 that\u2019s ABB Accelerator in numbers, the global innovation program&nbsp;Sii&nbsp;experts&nbsp;joined&nbsp;in June 2026&nbsp;in Bengaluru. In a few days we designed working AI solutions for real, everyday problems at ABB.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key&nbsp;takeaway from the week is simple: when you bring together the right people, a clear goal, and a few days of focused, shared work, AI stops being a promise and becomes a working solution.&nbsp;That\u2019s&nbsp;how work on AI projects should look \u2013 fast, with effective communication, and across organizational boundaries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABB Accelerator is&nbsp;a global innovation platform, complemented this year by the AI Boost conference, product sessions, and countless opportunities to talk with people from industry and from India\u2019s technical universities. Those conversations, between&nbsp;presentations&nbsp;and over coffee and&nbsp;<em>kadak&nbsp;chai<\/em>, carried the most energy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our speakers&nbsp;from&nbsp;Sii&nbsp;Poland&nbsp;\u2013 Bogus\u0142aw&nbsp;Kos\u0119da, Pawe\u0142 Mazur and Patryk Wy\u017cgowski&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;brought their own topics to that exchange, close to ABB\u2019s business: predicting safety risks in industrial environments, AI-augmented field service built on Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry, and parameter-correction recommendations built from machine-data streams in waste management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-nsw-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201c<em>Predicting a&nbsp;safety&nbsp;hazard&nbsp;in industrial environment&nbsp;before it reaches a worker is no longer the hard part. That layer is already production-grade. The hard part is the line: AI predicts and advises, a human commits the decision, and a certified, deterministic function is the one that acts. The winning architecture&nbsp;isn\u2019t&nbsp;the most autonomous one&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013<em>&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;the one an operator trusts and an auditor can defend. The technology was never the obstacle. Trust is<\/em><\/em>. <em>\u201d \u2013 says <strong>Bogus\u0142aw Kos\u0119da, PhD, Senior AI Architect, Sii Poland.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from&nbsp;taking part in the AI Boost&nbsp;talks,&nbsp;Sii&nbsp;experts&nbsp;built&nbsp;four hackathon solutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Four&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;built&nbsp;in a&nbsp;few&nbsp;days<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>All four&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;addressed processes that in a large, international organization can drag on for weeks&nbsp;\u2013 and that&nbsp;Sii&nbsp;managed to bring&nbsp;down to a working prototype in a few days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&nbsp;Sii&nbsp;experts&nbsp;learned is that adoption depends on embedding a solution in the tools people already use, on keeping control and traceability of every decision, and on AI that advises rather than replaces people. The effects were measurable \u2013 the prototypes genuinely cut the time needed for these tasks and were well received by ABB business teams.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>These&nbsp;weren\u2019t&nbsp;demo-only&nbsp;prototypes&nbsp;<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s&nbsp;easy to assume that something built in a few days of a hackathon is just a demo that will never reach daily work. Bengaluru showed otherwise<em>&nbsp;and suggested solutions<\/em>&nbsp;respond&nbsp;immediately&nbsp;to recurring, everyday&nbsp;challanges&nbsp;at ABB.&nbsp;These&nbsp;initiatives got&nbsp;warm&nbsp;reviews&nbsp;and&nbsp;some of them&nbsp;immediately&nbsp;got traction for bringing them into production.&nbsp;We&nbsp;observed&nbsp;that&nbsp;short build time does not&nbsp;mean a short shelf life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-nsw-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201c<em>Automatization&nbsp;rarely&nbsp;stall&nbsp;because&nbsp;people&nbsp;are&nbsp;slow&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;they&nbsp;stall in&nbsp;handoffs, in&nbsp;inboxes, and&nbsp;when&nbsp;nobody&nbsp;knows&nbsp;where&nbsp;a&nbsp;document&nbsp;actually&nbsp;is.&nbsp;That&nbsp;was&nbsp;our&nbsp;biggest&nbsp;learning:&nbsp;simplicity,&nbsp;security, and&nbsp;meeting&nbsp;people&nbsp;inside&nbsp;the&nbsp;tools&nbsp;they&nbsp;already&nbsp;work&nbsp;in&nbsp;are&nbsp;what&nbsp;drive&nbsp;adoption. Automation&nbsp;only&nbsp;counts&nbsp;when&nbsp;people&nbsp;actually&nbsp;use&nbsp;it<\/em>\u201d \u2013 says <strong>Pawe\u0142 Mazur, Senior Microsoft 365 Consultant, Sii Poland.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Lessons from Bengaluru<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some insights brought by Sii Poland Team from ABB Accelerator 2026:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-checked-gradient\">\n<li>Put&nbsp;a team with&nbsp;different&nbsp;skills&nbsp;and from&nbsp;different&nbsp;organizations&nbsp;at&nbsp;one&nbsp;table,&nbsp;instead&nbsp;of&nbsp;splitting&nbsp;the&nbsp;work&nbsp;across&nbsp;distant&nbsp;departments.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give&nbsp;it&nbsp;one&nbsp;specific,&nbsp;narrow&nbsp;problem \u2013 not a&nbsp;vague&nbsp;\u201clet\u2019s&nbsp;do&nbsp;something&nbsp;with AI.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shorten&nbsp;the feedback&nbsp;loop: a&nbsp;few&nbsp;days&nbsp;of&nbsp;focused,&nbsp;shared&nbsp;work&nbsp;beats&nbsp;months&nbsp;of email&nbsp;back-and-forth.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treat organizational boundaries \u2013 IT, Legal, Finance, different countries \u2013 as something to cross, not accept.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank&nbsp;you&nbsp;to ABB for&nbsp;inviting&nbsp;us&nbsp;on&nbsp;this&nbsp;adventure&nbsp;\u2013 we&nbsp;can\u2019t&nbsp;wait&nbsp;for the&nbsp;next&nbsp;one.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":147894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[5742,6001,5935],"class_list":["post-147901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-sii-pune","tag-technology-partnerships"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1920x740_cover-www-worker-4.jpg","category_names":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148358,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147901\/revisions\/148358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sii.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}