AI & Automation
Sandro has worked with talking machines for about fifteen years. He began with rule-based chatbots, where every answer is written by hand and chosen by rules, and today builds AI assistants and automations inside organisations and teaches people to do the same.
He leads AI Transformation & Automation at A Group — Aldagi, Imedi L and Ardi — and teaches AI-related courses at Ilia State University.
Now
A Group: Head of AI Transformation & Automation
Leads the adoption of AI across the holding’s insurance companies, Aldagi, Imedi L and Ardi: training for staff and management, personal and corporate AI assistants, and the automation of everyday work.
2026
The ART of Using AI in Austria
A GeoLab training programme built on the book, supported by the EU and UNDP: eight online workshops and two in Graz, on assistants that work on a company’s own documents, workflow automation and small applications made in plain language.
2025
The Art of Using AI
A practical handbook co-authored with Karl Stocker, written together with AI and illustrated by Sandro. Published in Georgian, English and German.
Talk
Popularizing Science Through Modern Technologies
A public lecture at Ilia State University on technology and the humanities: turning Mzekala Shanidze’s manuscript calligraphy into a digital font, using AI to turn scientific articles into audio summaries, and generative AI to visualise historical events.
2021
Technologies Around Us: Chatbotics, a Linguistic Copy of Man
A public talk at Ilia State University, 13 May 2021, on what a chatbot is and how it imitates human language.
2018–2020
Anima Chatbotics
Co-founder. The team created and launched chatbots for different purposes, including educational ones.
2017
Una, the chatbot of Ilia State University
Una is the university’s “robot employee”, answering visitors’ questions about the university since 22 June 2017. Sandro coordinated the project with Zura Jishkariani and designed the website and Una’s visual identity with Giorgi Kavlashvili.
2011
Cybergala
The first chatbot in the Georgian language: a virtual reincarnation of the poet Galaktion Tabidze. The idea is Zura Jishkariani’s; Sandro worked on the technical side of the project. Cybergala was rule-based, like all chatbots of its time. Every reply was written in advance and matched to the visitor’s words by rules, with no neural network behind it.