GenAI Zürich 2025 Highlights

GenAI Zürich 2025 gathered more than 1,000 GenAI experts, innovators and industry leaders in the heart of Europe, facilitating a dynamic exchange of best practices and novel ideas.

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GenAI Zürich 2025
The conference program

Inspiring talks, engaging panel discussions, interactive workshops, innovative startup pitches and plenty of networking opportunities.

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2025 Talks and workshops

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Speaker lineup

Gathering GenAI thought leaders
in the heart of Europe

Reasoning and Agency: The Next Frontier of Open and Closed LLMs

Leandro von Werra
Chief Loss Officer
@
Hugging Face

Agentic BI: The Next Step for Business Intelligence

JP Monteiro
CTO & Co-Founder
@
Veezoo

Scaling Multimodal Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges

Dr. Wafae Bakkali
Staff Generative AI Specialist, Blackbelt
@
Google

What are Agentic AI’s Workers and Can We Trust Them?

Sam Khalil, PhD
Senior AI Advisor
@

Renaissance 2.0 – When AI and Robots Take Over

Pascal Kaufmann
Founder & CEO
@
AlpineAI

The GenAI VC Paradigm: Innovating in the US, Regulating in the EU, Scaling in Emerging Markets

Haider Alleg
General Partner
@
Allegory Capital

Agentic RAG, How to Go from Naive RAG to a More Advanced One

Stephen Batifol
Developer Advocate
@
Zilliz

Friendly Fire at the Shrink

Manuel Flurin Hendry
Filmmaker and Artistic Researcher
@

How Do You Ensure Compliance with AI Governance and Regulatory Frameworks?

Petar Tsankov
Co-Founder and CEO
@
LatticeFlow

Revolutionizing Business Language Training: AI in Corporate Learning

Ketrin Radovanovic
CEO & Founder
@
AI Tutor

Give Work to AI: How Agentic AI Powered the Humanless Swiss AI Chatbot Factory

Nick Gushchin

Enhancing Human Collective Intelligence Through Collaborative AI Platforms

Maciej Peter-Wirski

Innovating International Transfer Pricing: Generative AI at Work

Jürgen Friedrich
Transfer Pricing Partner
@
Questro International

Innovating International Transfer Pricing: Generative AI at Work

Stephen Alleway
Transfer Pricing Partner
@
Questro International

Harnessing Generative AI to Elevate the Strategic Impact of Consumer Insights

Stefan Oglesby
Founder
@
Insight-Lab

Dr. René Deist
Chief Digital Officer
@
ZF Group

Telling Stories from Both Numbers and Text

Egor Kraev
Principal AI Scientist
@
Wise

Unlocking Efficiency in Building Management with Agentic AI

Josip Lazarevski
Global Director of AI and Data Science
@
Johnson Controls Industries

Reasoning in the Open

Luke de Oliveira

Empowering Nature: Harnessing AI for Real-World Impact

Francois Jolles
CIO & Director, Global Information Systems
@
IUCN

Empowering Nature: Harnessing AI for Real-World Impact

Igor Izrayleyvch
CEO
@
S-PRO

Revolutionizing Market Research: Augmenting Social Media Surveys with Synthetic Data

Linda Stougaard Nielsen
Lead Data Scientist
@
Boomerang Ideas

Reinventing and Augmenting Organizations with Enterprise Agents

Julian Jobstreibizer
RVP Switzerland
@
UiPath

Reinventing and Augmenting Organizations with Enterprise Agents

Boris Krumrey
VP, Automation Innovation
@
UiPath

Revolutionizing Data Access with RAG and Knowledge Graphs

Dr. Javiera Guedes
Senior AI & RAG Data Scientist
@
UBS

How Fashion Meets GenAI at Zalando

Dr. Lokesh Mishra
Senior Applied Scientist
@
Zalando

Quantum Computing: The Next Revolution in AI

Jan Mikolon

Sovereign AI – What and Why?

Artur Shaygardanov
EMEA GTM Strategy Lead
@
NVIDIA

Shifting AI Innovation to the Left: From Folding Paper Planes to Real Business Value

Dorian-Raphael Signer
Head AI & Robotics Platforms
@
SIX

Trustworthy AI, from Theory to Practice

Tine Petric
Analytics & AI GTM Lead
@
Microsoft

Turning Setbacks into Success: Lessons from Others' Mistakes

Markus Grob
Head of BU Data, Analytics & AI
@
ELCA

Hey AI, How Can We Trust You?

Thomas Buck

Roadmap to Multi-Agent-Systems

Stefan Ravizza
Co-Founder
@
Artifact

Pioneering the Future of Work: How Capgemini and Novartis Are Scaling GenAI to 40,000 Employees

Katharina Schoeneich
AI Strategy Director
@
Novartis

Pioneering the Future of Work: How Capgemini and Novartis Are Scaling GenAI to 40,000 Employees

Jakob Teubert
GenAI Expert
@
Capgemini Invent

The Generative AI Mindset

Ralf-Dieter Wagner
Head of Specialists & GenAI
@
AWS

How Lufthansa Group Leverages GenAI to Drive Business Innovation

Claudia Wenzel
Project Portfolio Manager
@
Lufthansa Group

Multimodal Data Exploration Using Agentic AI

Beyond Compliance: Responsible Technology Use of AI in Private Security and Beyond

Anne-Marie Buzatu
Executive Director
@
ICT4peace

Building a News Sleuth for the Deep Research Paradigm

Robert Caulk, Ph.D

GenAI in Manufacturing: A Game-Changing Use Case for AI-Based Quality Checks

Ria Riemer
Project Manager AI & Digitalization
@
Bosch

Unlocking AI-Powered Insights with Snowflake Cortex Agents

Michael Gorkow
Field CTO AI/ML EMEA
@
Snowflake

Navigating the GenAI Jungle: Governing AI Activities for Innovation & Growth

Florian Heidecke
Partner & Managing Director
@
valantic

SMG Real Estate: Leveraging GenAI across the Board

Dmytro Yurchenko
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
@
SMG Swiss Marketplace Group

The Open-Source Synthetic Data SDK: Privacy-Safe Data Collaboration for Everyone

John Sullivan
VP GTM
@
MOSTLY AI

Examples and Impact of Innosuisse Funding

Ladina Schubert
Advisor International Collaboration
@
Innosuisse

Data Sovereignty in Challenging Times

Stefan Brock
Head of AI Excellence Center
@
HPE

Automate Sales Success with AI: Grow Revenue 4x Faster Than Your Team

Merlin Bauer
Head of Data Platforms
@
Ringier AG

Automate Sales Success with AI: Grow Revenue 4x Faster Than Your Team

Stefany Barker
Data & AI Lead
@
Palantir Technologies

Navigating Through Global AI Dynamics

Thomas Schneider
Swiss Ambassador and Vice-Chair of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence
@
Swiss Federal Office of Communications and Council of Europe

Human After All: Leading with Design in the Age of AI

Signe Fleischmann
Founder + Designer
@
dynesis

AI as a Creative Mirror: Crafting Your Unique Aesthetic in the Age of Generative Design

Tanya Rey
Head of Design, and Product Designer
@
Nonkonformer

Unlocking Clinical Data: The Journey from Traditional to Graph and Hybrid RAG Systems

Rasmus Sten Andersen
AI Engineer Lead
@
Novo Nordisk

Acceleration of Clinical Development with GenAI Agents

Thirupathi Pattipaka
Global Director, DataScience & AI
@
Novartis

Elma Electronic Jetsys-2010 AI-Rugged Edge Computer and Its Business Cases

Tommy Gmuender
Business Developer
@
Elma Electronic

Agentic AI: Cutting Through the Hype to Deliver Real Business Value

Christian Pala
Senior Data Scientist
@
Artificialy

How to Unlock RO(gen)AI?

Eleni Tragousti
Healthcare and Life Sciences Lead
@
Dataiku

Selling GenAI Tools to Corporates: Smart Contracting Strategies

Thomas Kuster
Partner
@
LEXR

The Complete AI Creative Factory: Boost Marketing Output, Spend Less, Maximize ROI

Francesca Giudice
Managing Director
@
CreativeAnswer SA

From Chaos to Clarity: Structuring Data for Meaningful GenAI in Pharma

Gernot Weber
Head of Data Strategy & Digital Innovation, Global Development Operations
@
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt

Agentic AI in Practice: Lessons from IBM as Client Zero

Dennis Scheuer
Data Platform Leader
@
IBM

Agentic AI in Practice: Lessons from IBM as Client Zero

Mohamed Ali Dhraief
AI Specialist
@
IBM

Talk to Your Structured Data Spontaneously, in Natural Language. Just Ask!

Massimo Brignoli
Director Presales, EMEA
@
GigaSpaces

Human-Centric AI-Powered Virtual Beings Subtitle: Making Digital Interactions Feel Natural and Lifelike

Piotr Kalinowski
Head of Data & AI
@
Software Mind

Human-Centric AI-Powered Virtual Beings Subtitle: Making Digital Interactions Feel Natural and Lifelike

Gregory Mangos
Founder & CEO
@
Azor AI

Agents and the Spectrum of Autonomy

Emma Burrows
Co-Founder / CTO
@
Portia AI

Enterprise AI, Your Data, Your Solution, Your Models and Your AI. Delivering Private AI for the Enterprise.

Dr. Chris Royles
EMEA Field CTO
@
Cloudera

Talk to Your Structured Data Spontaneously, in Natural Language. Just Ask!

Massimo Brignoli
Director Presales, EMEA
@
GigaSpaces

Unlocking the Value of GenAI at Scale in Real-World Environments

Alen Arslanagic
CEO
@
Visium

AI as a Creative Mirror: Crafting Your Unique Aesthetic in the Age of Generative Design

Tanya Rey
Head of Design, and Product Designer
@
Nonkonformer

Why It Takes a Data-Driven Organization to Fully Leverage AI

Edeltraud Leibrock
Global Managing Director
@
Roland Berger

Agentic AI: Cutting Through the Hype to Deliver Real Business Value

Claudio Hintermann

Developing an AI Strategy for the German Savings Banks

Matthias Mohn
AI Strategy Lead
@
DSGV

Developing an AI Strategy for the German Savings Banks

Edeltraud Leibrock
Global Managing Director
@
Roland Berger

State of AI Adoption in Enterprises 2025

Michał Rachtan
CTO and Co-founder
@
Unit8

From Idea to Implementation: Five Key Learnings from GenAI Use Cases in Regulated Industries

Sina Wulfmeyer
CDO
@
Unique

Frontier Models Capabilities and the Open Machine Learning Ecosystem

Omar Sanseviero
AI Developer Relations Lead
@
Google DeepMind

AI: The Future of Communication and Culture?

Hans Peter Riegel

Practical Tips for Building LLM Agents

Oren Dinai
GenAI and NLP Tech Lead
@
Citi

Mobile Phone Photography in the AI Era: Tackling Challenges with 3D Gaussian Splatting and Vision Momba Architecture

Dengxin Dai
Director of Computer Vision and Machine Learning
@
Huawei Zurich Research Center
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