Management & coding
Digital De-Weighting: Subtraction and Exaptation as the Real Engines of AI Innovation
Radu Orghidan - Co-founder - AI Strategy @ CoRAI Labs
Conference hall
13th November, 16:45-17:15
Our instinct in innovation is to add—more features, more tools, more complexity. Yet in the AI era, addition often kills impact. Real transformation starts with digital de-weighting: the deliberate removal of obsolete layers that slow learning and adaptation. In this talk, we explore how subtraction becomes a creative act and how exaptation—repurposing existing capabilities for new uses—drives the next wave of AI product design. We’ll contrast workflow-based and autonomous agent architectures and show two live examples of agent teams in action: one rethinking academic grading, another exploring AI-driven market analysis. Creation, it turns out, begins by letting go.
Radu Orghidan
CoRAI Labs
Researcher, innovator, and AI enthusiast, blending 20+ years of work in computer vision and applied machine learning with a passion for education. With a PhD in Computer Vision and experience leading global AI strategy, he now pioneers Responsible AI for academia. At MeritMinds, Radu drives the vision of building cognitive, explainable AI assistants tailored for professors, researchers, and students.
Outside of work, he finds freedom in motorcycle tours across Europe, energy in skiing down alpine slopes, and balance in hiking mountain trails with his kids. His curiosity doesn’t stop at nature, he also enjoys exploring the latest AI models in his spare time.
