GenAI Zürich 2025
Conference Schedule
Experience over 80 sessions across multiple stages at GenAI Zürich 2025, the European Summit on Applied Generative AI.
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Networking Area
Main Hall
7:30 – 9:00
Registration and Coffee
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee Break (sponsored by Trinnovo Group & DeepRec)
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
18:30 – 20:00
Networking Reception & Apéro
20:00 – 02:00
GenAI Zürich 2025 After Party @ SOHO
Main Stage
Auditorium
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Stage Moderator
9:00 – 9:10
Opening Remarks
9:10 – 9:30
Keynote
TECH
BUSINESS
Reasoning and Agency: The Next Frontier of Open and Closed LLMs
Leandro von Werra
@Hugging Face
9:30 – 10:15
GenAI at Big Tech
BUSINESS
Sovereign AI – What and Why?
Artur Shaygardanov
@NVIDIA
TECH
BUSINESS
Data Sovereignty in Challenging Times
Stefan Brock
@HPE
TECH
BUSINESS
Agentic AI in Practice: Lessons from IBM as Client Zero
Dennis Scheuer & Mohamed Ali Dhraief
@IBM
10:45 – 12:00
GenAI Tech Stack
BUSINESS
Reinventing and Augmenting Organizations with Enterprise Agents
Julian Jobstreibizer & Boris Krumrey
@UiPath
TECH
BUSINESS
Agentic BI: The Next Step for Business Intelligence
JP Monteiro
@Veezoo
TECH
Frontier Models Capabilities and the Open Machine Learning Ecosystem
Omar Sanseviero
@DeepMind
TECH
Unlocking AI-Powered Insights with Snowflake Cortex Agents
Michael Gorkow
@Snowflake
BUSINESS
How to unlock RO(gen)AI?
Eleni Tragousti
@Dataiku
TECH
BUSINESS
Talk to your structured data spontaneously, in natural language. Just Ask!
Massimo Brignoli
@GigaSpaces
TECH
BUSINESS
Agentic AI: Cutting Through the Hype to Deliver Real Business Value
Claudio Hintermann and Christian Pala
@Abacus Research & Artificialy
12:05 – 12:30
Panel Discussion
GenAI in 2025: Current State & What Lies Ahead
Demetrios Brinkmann
@MLops Community
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Christoph Schnidrig
@AWS
Boris Krumrey
@UiPath
Dennis Scheuer
@IBM
Leandro von Werra
@Hugging Face
13:30 – 13:40
Afternoon Opening
TECH
BUSINESS
Navigating Through Global AI Dynamics
Thomas Schneider
@Swiss Federal Office of Communications and Council of Europe
13:40 – 13:55
Inspirational Speech
BUSINESS
Renaissance 2.0 – When AI and Robots Take Over
Pascal Kaufmann
@AlpineAI
14:00 – 14:45
GenAI Through the Lens of Corporates
BUSINESS
Hey AI, How Can We Trust You?
Thomas Buck
@ZF Group
TECH
BUSINESS
What are Agentic AI’s Workers and Can We Trust Them?
Sam Khalil, PhD
TECH
BUSINESS
Why it takes a data-driven organization to fully leverage AI
Edeltraud Leibrock
@Roland Berger
14:45 – 15:00
Inspirational Speech
TECH
BUSINESS
Friendly Fire at the Shrink
Manuel Flurin Hendry
15:30 – 15:55
Keynote
TECH
BUSINESS
The Generative AI Mindset
Ralf-Dieter Wagner
@AWS
15:55 – 16:40
Case Studies: GenAI Solutions
TECH
BUSINESS
Empowering Nature: Harnessing AI for Real-World Impact
Francois Jolles & Igor Izraylevych
@IUCN & S-PRO
TECH
BUSINESS
Roadmap to Multi-Agent-Systems
Stefan Ravizza
@Artifact
BUSINESS
Navigating the GenAI Jungle: Governing AI Activities for Innovation & Growth
Florian Heidecke
@valantic
BUSINESS
State of AI Adoption in Enterprises 2025
Michał Rachtan
@Unit8
BUSINESS
Unlocking the value of GenAI at scale in real-world environments
Alen Arslanagic
@Visium
16:40 – 17:15
GenAI Tech Stack
TECH
Scaling Multimodal Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges
Dr. Wafae Bakkali
@Google
TECH
Agentic RAG, How to Go from Naive RAG to a More Advanced One
Stephen Batifol
@Zilliz
BUSINESS
Enterprise AI, your data, your solution, your models and your AI. Delivering Private AI for the Enterprise.
Dr. Chris Royles
@Cloudera
17:25 – 17:55
Panel Discussion
From Lab to Leaderboard: Greater Zurich as a Global (Gen)AI Hub
Nicole Barth
@ETH AI Center
Daniel Naeff
@ETH AI Center
Sabine Müller
@Greater Zurich Area
Dr. Christian Hugo Hoffmann
@Foundation Technopark Zürich
Denis Samuylov
@GenAI Zürich
18:00 – 18:25
GenAI Zürich Award Ceremony
18:25 – 18:30
Closing Remarks
Use Case Stage
Fortran
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Stage Moderator
09:30 – 10:10
GenAI in Consumer Goods
BUSINESS
How Fashion Meets GenAI at Zalando?
Dr. Lokesh Mishra
@Zalando
BUSINESS
SMG Real Estate: Leveraging GenAI Across the Board
Dmytro Yurchenko
@SMG Swiss Marketplace Group
10:45 – 11:45
GenAI Zürich Award: Nominee Pitches
BUSINESS
[Rising Innovators] kaiko.ai.on
Roman Moser and Nils Eckstein
@Kaiko.ai
BUSINESS
[Rising Innovators] GeneWise Oncology
Jan Mikolon and Jörg Hölzing
@CGC Genomics & QuantumBasel
BUSINESS
[Rising Innovators] Agentic Investment Insights: Transforming Financial Services with GenAI
Fabian Schläpfer
@Unique AG
BUSINESS
[Enterprise Transformers] AI Compliance Agents for Modulos AI Governance Platform
Kevin Schawinski
@Modulos AG
BUSINESS
[Enterprise Transformers] Scalable Product Specification Pipeline for Switzerland's' Largest Online Retailer
Bernhard Walser and Michael Hardegger
@Digitec Galaxus AG
BUSINESS
[Enterprise Transformers] ReportGenie: Smart Financial Report Compilation
Stefan Jeker and Joel Akeret
@ti&m AG & Raiffeisen Group
BUSINESS
[Impact Achievers] Spirecut, the Future of Hand Surgery
Clémence Hermann
@Spirecut AG
BUSINESS
[Impact Achievers] GoGymi
Jan Bühlmann
@GoGymi
BUSINESS
[Impact Achievers] Cropwise Grower - A farmer centric application for smallholder farmers
Flora Viana and Conor Marsh
@Syngenta
11:50 – 12:30
Case Studies: GenAI Solutions
BUSINESS
Turning Setbacks into Success: Lessons from Others' Mistakes
Markus Grob
@ELCA
BUSINESS
Pioneering the Future of Work: How to scale GenAI to 40,000 Employees
Jakob Teubert & Katharina Schoeneich
@Capgemini Invent & Novartis
BUSINESS
Elma Electronic Jetsys-2010 AI-Rugged Edge Computer and Its Business Cases
Tommy Gmuender
@Elma Electronic
13:30 – 14:00
GenAI in Pharma
BUSINESS
Accelaration of Clinical Development with GenAI Agents
Thirupathi Pattipaka
@Novartis
TECH
BUSINESS
Unlocking Clinical Data: The Journey from Traditional to Graph and Hybrid RAG Systems
Rasmus Sten Andersen
@Novo Nordisk
BUSINESS
From Chaos to Clarity: Structuring Data for Meaningful GenAI in Pharma
Gernot Weber
@Merck
14:00 – 14:30
Enterprises Leveraging GenAI
BUSINESS
How Lufthansa Group Leverages GenAI to Drive Business Innovation
Claudia Wenzel
@Lufthansa Group
TECH
BUSINESS
Automate Sales Success with AI: Grow Revenue 4x Faster Than Your Team
Merlin Bauer & Stefany Barker
@Ringier AG & Palantir Technologies
14:30 – 15:00
GenAI in Construction and Manufacturing
BUSINESS
Unlocking Efficiency in Building Management with Agentic AI
Josip Lazarevski
@Johnson Controls Industries
BUSINESS
GenAI in Manufacturing: A Game-Changing Use Case for AI-Based Quality Checks
Ria Riemer
@Bosch
15:30 – 16:45
GenAI in Finance
BUSINESS
Shifting AI Innovation to the Left: From Folding Paper Planes to Real Business Value
Dorian-Raphael Signer
@SIX
BUSINESS
Innovating International Transfer Pricing: Generative AI at Work
Stephen Alleway & Jürgen Friedrich
@Questro International
TECH
Revolutionizing Data Access with RAG and Knowledge Graphs
Dr. Javiera Guedes
@UBS
TECH
Telling Stories from Both Numbers and Text
Egor Kraev
@Wise
BUSINESS
Developing an Al Strategy for the German Savings Banks
Matthias Mohn & Edeltraud Leibrock
@DSGV & Roland Berger
TECH
BUSINESS
Practical Tips for Building LLM Agents
Oren Dinai, Ph.D.
@Citi
16:45 - 17:15
Panel Discussion
GenAI in Finance Panel
Hilda Liswani
@WeBloom
Michael Braendle
@AWS
Hanno Dachwitz
@Roland Berger
Dr. Efi Pylarinou
@GrowFin
Oren Dinai, Ph.D.
@Citi
17:15 – 18:00
GenAI in Design and Creativity (co-organized with DA Z)
BUSINESS
AI: The future of Communication and Culture?
Hans Peter Riegel
@Digital Arts Zurich - DA Z
BUSINESS
The complete AI Creative Factory: boost marketing output, spend less, maximize ROI
Francesca Giudice
@CreativeAnswer
BUSINESS
Human After All: Leading with Design in the Age of AI
Signe Fleischmann
@dynesis
BUSINESS
AI as a Creative Mirror: Crafting Your Unique Aesthetic in the Age of Generative Design
Tanya Rey
@Nonkonformer
Innovation Stage
Cobol
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Stage Moderator
09:30 – 10:15
GenAI Agents and Automation
TECH
BUSINESS
Give Work to AI: How Agentic AI Powered the Humanless Swiss AI Chatbot Factory
Nick Gushchin
@Swiss AI Chatbot Factory
TECH
BUSINESS
Multi-Modal Data Exploration using Agentic AI
Kurt Stockinger
@ZHAW
TECH
BUSINESS
Human-Centric AI-Powered Virtual Beings: Making Digital Interactions feel Natural and Lifelike
Piotr Kalinowski & Gregory Mangos
@Software Mind & Azor AI
10:45 – 11:20
GenAI Startups & Scale-up's
TECH
The Open-Source Synthetic Data SDK: Privacy-Safe Data Collaboration for Everyone
John Sullivan
@MOSTLY AI
BUSINESS
From Idea to Implementation: Five Key Learnings from GenAI Use Cases in Regulated Industries
Sina Wulfmeyer
@Unique
TECH
BUSINESS
Building a News Sleuth for the Deep Research Paradigm
Robert Caulk, Ph.D
@Ask News
11:25 – 12:00
Innovative Startups Leveraging GenAI
TECH
BUSINESS
Harnessing Generative AI to Elevate the Strategic Impact of Consumer Insights
Stefan Oglesby
@Insight-Lab
TECH
BUSINESS
Revolutionizing Business Language Training: AI in Corporate Learning
Ketrin Radovanovic
@AI Tutor
TECH
BUSINESS
Revolutionizing Market Research: Augmenting Social Media Surveys with Synthetic Data
Linda Stougaard Nielsen
@Boomerang Ideas
13:30 – 14:15
Early-stage Startup Pitches
BUSINESS
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Dr. Kevin Kahn
@Albatross AI
BUSINESS
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Pietro Valfrè
@What About You
BUSINESS
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Joy Bordini
@Go Healthy & Co
BUSINESS
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Philipp Graw
@Atenia AI
14:15 – 15:00
At the Frontier of GenAI Innovation
TECH
BUSINESS
Quantum Computing: The Next Revolution in AI
Jan Mikolon
@Quantum Basel
TECH
Reasoning in the Open
Luke de Oliveira
@Rokos Capital Management
TECH
Agents and the Spectrum of Autonomy
Emma Burrows
@Portia AI
TECH
Mobile Phone Photography in the AI Era: Tackling Challenges with 3D Gaussian Splatting and Vision Momba Architecture
Dengxin Dai
@Huawei
15:30 – 16:15
GenAI Investment & Legal Landscape
BUSINESS
The GenAI VC Paradigm: Innovating in the US, Regulating in the EU, Scaling in Emerging Markets
Haider Alleg
@Allegory Capital
BUSINESS
Selling GenAI Tools to Corporates: Smart Contracting Strategies
Thomas Kuster
@LEXR
16:20 - 16:50
Panel Discussion
GenAI VC Panel
Désirée Dosch
@Alvicus
Philip Kneis
@Redalpine
Haider Alleg
@Allegory Capital
Philip Kneis
@Redalpine
Luka Secilmis
@Merantix Capital
16:55 – 17:55
GenAI Governance, Collaborations & Ethics
BUSINESS
How Do You Ensure Compliance with AI Governance and Regulatory Frameworks?
Petar Tsankov
@LatticeFlow
BUSINESS
Enhancing Human Collective Intelligence Through Collaborative AI Platforms
Maciej Peter-Wirski, PhD
@HighemblemX
BUSINESS
Trustworthy AI, from Theory to Practice
Tine Petric
@Microsoft
BUSINESS
Beyond Compliance: Responsible Technology Use of AI in Private Security and Beyond
Anne-Marie Buzatu
@ict4peace
BUSINESS
Examples and Impact of Innosuisse Funding
Ladina Schubert
@Innosuisse
Workshops I
Newton 1010
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Stage Moderator
09:15 – 13:45
Workshops
BUSINESS
Practical AI for Business – Beyond Chatbots and Hype
Dustin Schulze and Michael Barskyi
@S-PRO
This workshop is currently full. However, you can still join the waitlist to be admitted if a spot opens up.
BUSINESS
Data Sovereignty in challenging times
Stefan Brock
@HPE
TECH
Let's build a Multi-Agent Workflow step-by-step
Jacky Tam and Malte Reimann
@AWS
This workshop is currently full. However, you can still join the waitlist to be admitted if a spot opens up.
14:00 – 17:45
Workshops
BUSINESS
How to Enable Your Organization Working with Enterprise Agents
Boris Krumrey and Andrei Hruscovschi
@UiPath
TECH
Agent 007 – License to Scale?
Building and Scaling Your AI Agents with Control
Rogier van Aarle
@Dataiku
BUSINESS
From Agents to Ecosystems – a pragmatic exchange
Dr. Stefan Ravizza, Roman Einikis, and Michael Wegmüller
@Artifact
Workshops II
Basic
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Stage Moderator
10:30 – 13:50
Workshops
TECH
BUSINESS
Agentic AI Bootcamp
Eva Ritz and Naim Zierau
@IBM
This workshop is currently full. However, you can still join the waitlist to be admitted if a spot opens up.
BUSINESS
AI Governance and compliance: Ensuring guardrails and controlling risks
Thomas Mueller
@Visium
TECH
BUSINESS
AI Developer Workshop
Tomas Zeleny
@Yololab
14:00 – 17:45
Workshops
TECH
Hands-On with Veezoo: Using Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs for Business Intelligence
JP Monteiro
@Veezoo
TECH
BUSINESS
Building Intelligent AI Agents: Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI in Action
Laurent Edel
@Cloudera
TECH
BUSINESS
From idea to launch: How to effectively deploy practical AI applications for customers
Hendrik Grahl
@valantic
8:00 – 9:00
Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:10
Opening Remarks
9:15 – 9:45
Keynote
Enterprise GenAI: Advantages of Running Your Own Model & Hybrid Approaches
Simone Giacomelli
@PremAI
9:45 – 12:10
Block 1
Auditorium stage
Achieving Business Outcomes with Generative AI
Marco Guerriero, PhD
@AWS
LLMs: Beyond Chat
Eleanor Berger
@Microsoft
Search 2024 – How Google's 25+ Year Leadership in Search Powers State-of-the-art RAG in the Age of GenAI
Daniel Leahy
@Google
Beyond Fiction – The AI Briefcase
Christian Stocker
@LIIP
Building Agents with Intelligent Extraction
Ruggiero Dargenio
@Duenders
How to make an LLMs dance – with structured data. An innovative Case for Switzerland Tourism
Michael Wegmüller
@Artifact
GenAI for All: How SMEs can Harness Generative AI for Success?
Denis Samuylov
@SamuylovAI
How GenAI Can Transform User-Centricity and Content Consumption: New Approaches and Use-Cases
Nick Gushchin
@Gutschwald AI Zentrum
Mastering GPT: Insights from Training 300+ Business Professionals
David Furrer & Eric Anderegg
@LLM Training
Navigating the Open Source LLM Landscape
Joel Akeret
@ti&m
The Current State of GenAI
Afke Schouten
@AI Bridge
Simone Giacomelli
@PremAI
Eleanor Berger
@Microsoft
Daniel Leahy
@Google
Fortran stage
Decoding Visual Data with GenAI
Massimo Nicosia
@DeepMind
Has AI killed the artist?
Gabrielle Kincheloe
@tinyrainboot
Beyond Astronaut on a Horse: Repurposing Text-to-Image Models
Anton Obukhov
@ETH Zürich
Entity Extraction from Unstructured Data
Mostafa Ajallooeian
@Unit8
Transforming Healthcare with GenAI: Paving the Way for the European Health Data Space
Simone Abbiati
@Squirro AG
Business Process Automation: Connecting GenAI with Existing Systems
Tomas Zeleny
@Yololab
Mind/Machine Intelligence – Visions of Multi-agent Human/AI systems
Maciej Peter-Wirski, PhD
@HighemblemX
12:10 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30
Keynote
How Meta Builds the Next Generation of Open Models?
Onur Çelebi
@Meta
13:30 – 15:00
Block 2
Auditorium stage
Cracking the Code: Key Learnings in LLMOps for Faster, Confident Development
Nicolas Remerscheid
@Weights & Biases
Deconstructing Text Embedding Models
Kacper Lukawski
@Qdrant
Veezoo - Democratizing Data Analytics with GenAI and Knowledge Graphs
JP Monteiro
@Veezoo
Increase Precision in Your RAG Applications with MongoDB Atlas Vector Search
Philip Eschenbacher
@MongoDB
Generative AI in Banking
Carmina Jaro
@radicant bank
Tax Consulting for Multinationals – the Race to leverage GenAI
Stephen Alleway
@Questro International
Automatic Incident Report Generation Using Generative AI
Oren Dinai
@Citi
Fortran stage
Heuristica
Engin Arslan
flowrabbit.ai
Nina Knauf
Storique
Valentina Halasi
GoGymi
Jan Bühlmann
AI Tutor
Ketrin Radovanovic
M.A.I.S.E.Y.
Nick Gushchin
StreamZero
Balaji Bal
Strategizing AI Integration: Navigating Challenges and Unlocking Advantages
Patrick Fabian
@CSL
Elevating Brand Strategy & Customer Experience with GenAI
Emma Hovhannisyan
@Roche
GenAI Generates More Possibilities for Structural Heart Interventions
Mi Chen
@USZ
15:00 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 18:00
Block 3
Auditorium stage
Computable Contracts in Insurance
Guillaume Reille
@Unit8
Making Chatbot Interactions More Natural with Digital Assistants
Harry Meier
@Dell
Hi, my name is Digi - The friendly AI Chatbot Transforming Online Retail Experience at Migros
Oliver Förg and Ingo Hofmann
@Migros
Enhancing Patent Management Efficiency through Fine-Tuned AI Models
Paul Röseler, Daniel Holzner, Naim Zierau
@IBM and ABP PATENT NETWORK GmbH
From Idea to GenAI Solution in Three Months
Katarina Granath
@SIX
Fact or Fiction? Evaluating Your AI App
Florian Görisch
@fore ai
Why GenAI Can't Govern Itself?
Syang Zhou
@Calvin Risk
Open-Source Small Language Models at the Service of Privacy-First AI Solutions
Hugo Flayac
Using AI to augment, not replace, human talent
Camilo Rojas
@ProjectUs
Engineering transparency in the news with GenAI
Robert Caulk
@Emergent Methods
Fortran stage
RAG Development and Deployment with Llama 3 on Prem Platform
Filippo Pedrazzini
@PremAI
The GenAI Gold Rush from a VC Perspective
Haider Alleg
@Allegory Capital
Accelerating GenAI innovation by building a bridge between academia and industry
Hannes Badertscher
@OST
GenAI serving society: How GenAI enhances the Impact of NGOs and benefits companies
Moritz Gomm
@MI4People
18:00 – 18:25
Panel Discussion
The Next Wave of GenAI: What to Expect in Q3/Q4 2024 and Beyond
Michal Rachtan
@Unit8
Katarina Granath
@SIX
Hans Peter Riegel
@DA Z
Ruggiero Dargenio
@Duenders
Denis Samuylov
@SamuylovAI
18:25 – 18:30
Closing Remarks
18:30 – 20:00
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