GenAI Zürich 2025

Conference Schedule

GenAI Zürich 2025, the European Summit on Applied Generative AI, featured over 100 speakers across multiple stages.

GenAI Zürich 2025

Conference Schedule

GenAI Zürich 2025, the European Summit on Applied Generative AI, featured over 100 speakers across multiple stages.

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Opening Remarks

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Keynote

Keynote

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

Leandro von Werra, Chief Loss Officer at Hugging Face
Leandro von Werra
Chief Loss Officer @ Hugging Face

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GenAI at Big Tech

Talk

Sovereign AI – What and Why?

Artur Shaygardanov, EMEA GTM Strategy Lead at NVIDIA
Artur Shaygardanov
EMEA GTM Strategy Lead @ NVIDIA

Talk

Data Sovereignty in Challenging Times

Stefan Brock, Head of AI Excellence Center at HPE
Stefan Brock
Head of AI Excellence Center @ HPE

Talk

Agentic AI in Practice: Lessons from IBM as Client Zero

Dennis Scheuer, Data Platform Leader at IBM
Dennis Scheuer
Data Platform Leader @ IBM
Mohamed Ali Dhraief, AI Specialist at IBM
Mohamed Ali Dhraief
AI Specialist @ IBM

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GenAI Tech Stack

Talk

Reinventing and Augmenting Organizations with Enterprise Agents

Julian Jobstreibizer, RVP Switzerland at UiPath
Julian Jobstreibizer
RVP Switzerland @ UiPath
Boris Krumrey, VP, Automation Innovation at UiPath
Boris Krumrey
VP, Automation Innovation @ UiPath

Talk

Agentic BI: The Next Step for Business Intelligence

JP Monteiro, CTO & Co-Founder at Veezoo
JP Monteiro
CTO & Co-Founder @ Veezoo

Talk

Frontier Models Capabilities and the Open Machine Learning Ecosystem

Omar Sanseviero, AI Developer Relations Lead at Google DeepMind
Omar Sanseviero
AI Developer Relations Lead @ Google DeepMind

Talk

Unlocking AI-Powered Insights with Snowflake Cortex Agents

Michael Gorkow, Field CTO AI/ML EMEA at Snowflake
Michael Gorkow
Field CTO AI/ML EMEA @ Snowflake

Talk

How to Unlock RO(gen)AI?

Eleni Tragousti, Healthcare and Life Sciences Lead at Dataiku
Eleni Tragousti
Healthcare and Life Sciences Lead @ Dataiku

Talk

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

Massimo Brignoli, Director Presales, EMEA at GigaSpaces
Massimo Brignoli
Director Presales, EMEA @ GigaSpaces

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

Christian Pala, Senior Data Scientist at Artificialy
Christian Pala
Senior Data Scientist @ Artificialy
Claudio Hintermann, CEO at Abacus Research AG
Claudio Hintermann
CEO @ Abacus Research AG

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Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

GenAI in 2025: Current State & What Lies Ahead

Leandro von Werra, Chief Loss Officer at Hugging Face
Leandro von Werra
Chief Loss Officer @ Hugging Face
Boris Krumrey, VP, Automation Innovation at UiPath
Boris Krumrey
VP, Automation Innovation @ UiPath
Dennis Scheuer, Data Platform Leader at IBM
Dennis Scheuer
Data Platform Leader @ IBM
Demetrios Brinkmann, Chief Happiness Engineer at MLOps Community
Demetrios Brinkmann
Chief Happiness Engineer @ MLOps Community
Christoph Schnidrig, Head of Technology at Amazon Web Services
Christoph Schnidrig
Head of Technology @ Amazon Web Services

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Afternoon Opening

Talk

Navigating Through Global AI Dynamics

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

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Inspirational Speech

Talk

Renaissance 2.0 – When AI and Robots Take Over

Pascal Kaufmann, Founder & CEO at AlpineAI
Pascal Kaufmann
Founder & CEO @ AlpineAI

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GenAI Through the Lens of Corporates

Talk

Hey AI, How Can We Trust You?

Thomas Buck, CIO at ZF Group
Thomas Buck
CIO @ ZF Group

Talk

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

Sam Khalil, PhD
Sam Khalil, PhD
Senior AI Advisor

Talk

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

Edeltraud Leibrock, Global Managing Director at Roland Berger
Edeltraud Leibrock
Global Managing Director @ Roland Berger

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Inspirational Speech

Talk

Friendly Fire at the Shrink

Manuel Flurin Hendry
Manuel Flurin Hendry
Filmmaker and Artistic Researcher

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Keynote

Keynote

The Generative AI Mindset

Ralf-Dieter Wagner, Head of Specialists & GenAI at AWS
Ralf-Dieter Wagner
Head of Specialists & GenAI @ AWS

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Case Studies: GenAI Solutions

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Empowering Nature: Harnessing AI for Real-World Impact

Francois Jolles, CIO & Director, Global Information Systems at IUCN
Francois Jolles
CIO & Director, Global Information Systems @ IUCN
Igor Izraylevych, CEO at S-PRO
Igor Izraylevych
CEO @ S-PRO

Talk

Roadmap to Multi-Agent-Systems

Stefan Ravizza, Co-Founder at Artifact
Stefan Ravizza
Co-Founder @ Artifact

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

Florian Heidecke, Partner & Managing Director at valantic
Florian Heidecke
Partner & Managing Director @ valantic

Talk

State of AI Adoption in Enterprises 2025

Michał Rachtan, CTO and Co-founder at Unit8
Michał Rachtan
CTO and Co-founder @ Unit8

Talk

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

Alen Arslanagic, CEO at Visium
Alen Arslanagic
CEO @ Visium

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GenAI Tech Stack

Talk

Scaling Multimodal Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges

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

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

Stephen Batifol, Developer Advocate at Zilliz
Stephen Batifol
Developer Advocate @ Zilliz

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

Dr. Chris Royles, EMEA Field CTO at Cloudera
Dr. Chris Royles
EMEA Field CTO @ Cloudera

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Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

From Lab to Leaderboard: Greater Zurich as a Global (Gen)AI Hub

Nicole Barth, Entrepreneurship coordinator at ETH Zurich
Nicole Barth
Entrepreneurship coordinator @ ETH Zurich
Daniel Naeff, Head of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich
Daniel Naeff
Head of Innovation & Entrepreneurship @ ETH Zurich
Sabine Müller, Head of Marketing and Communications, Deputy Managing Director at Greater Zurich Area Ltd
Sabine Müller
Head of Marketing and Communications, Deputy Managing Director @ Greater Zurich Area Ltd
Dr. Christian Hugo Hoffmann, Director AI Startup Center at Foundation Technopark Zürich
Dr. Christian Hugo Hoffmann
Director AI Startup Center @ Foundation Technopark Zürich
Denis Samuylov, Co-founder at GenAI Zürich
Denis Samuylov
Co-founder @ GenAI Zürich

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GenAI Zürich Award Ceremony

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Closing Remarks

2026 Sponsors and Partners

industry leaders and innovative startups

Supported by

Forward-looking companies at the frontier of GenAI innovation made GenAI Zürich 2026 possible. Interested in joining them in 2027?

The Turing Genius

Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo

Neural Masters

Cloudera logo

Dataiku logo

Artifact logo

Snowflake logo

Unit8 logo

Albatross AI logo

Veezoo logo

S-PRO logo

MongoDB logo

KPMG logo

Apify logo

Eraneos logo

D ONE logo

Cognizant Netcentric logo

Oxagile logo

RESHAPE.SYSTEMS logo

elaboratum logo

Generative Starters

Red Hat logo

Wavestone logo

Aixolotl logo

thirty3 logo

SkipLabs logo

Cohesity logo

Intellishore logo

Team Extension logo

AppliedAI logo

iosys logo

DeepL logo

Elma Electronic logo

Startup Allies

AI Business School logo

Swisper AI logo

Xinity AI logo

Thesify logo

tialto logo

innovAIro logo

Hackathon Co-organizers

ETH Entrepreneur Club logo

Colosseum by ETH Entrepreneur Club logo

AI Startup Center logo

Hackathon Partners

Lovable logo

wide

Hugging Face logo

Swiss Engineering STV UTS ATS logo

databricks logo

Qdrant logo

Ava logo

Opendata.ch logo

LIVEMAP AG logo

GoCalma logo

Manukai logo

Apify logo

Featherless AI logo

Siemens logo

SonyAI logo

Corporate Partners

Migros Online logo

Special Partner for Ethical AI, Cybersecurity Governance & Human Rights

ICT4peace Foundation logo

Community Partner

FRZ Flughafenregion Zürich logo

FlexOffice logo

Davos Tech Summit logo

After The Algorithm logo

Kanton Zürich logo

Innovation Zurich logo

WeBloom logo

SICTIC logo

StartGlobal logo

Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society logo

SwissMBAs - Swiss Association of MBAs logo

Swisspreneur logo

Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW logo

Girls Can Code logo

SwissDevJobs logo

DataCareer logo

AI Startup Center logo

TechFace logo

Elevate Tech logo

CV Labs logo

Wildcard Media logo

aiLights logo

Women in Data Science (WiDS) Zurich logo

AI Team logo

M01N Startup Camp logo

Women in AI Switzerland logo

The Ai Salon logo

Switzerland AI Community logo

Swiss AI Association logo

ZHAW Center for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) logo

AI Alliance logo

Kickstart Innovation logo

GenAI London logo

GenAI Enterprise Hub logo

2026 Sponsors and Partners

industry leaders and innovative startups

Supported by

Forward-looking companies at the frontier of GenAI innovation made GenAI Zürich 2026 possible. Interested in joining them in 2027?

The Turing Genius

Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo

Neural Masters

Cloudera logo

Dataiku logo

Artifact logo

Snowflake logo

Unit8 logo

Albatross AI logo

Veezoo logo

S-PRO logo

MongoDB logo

KPMG logo

Apify logo

Eraneos logo

D ONE logo

Cognizant Netcentric logo

Oxagile logo

RESHAPE.SYSTEMS logo

elaboratum logo

Generative Starters

Red Hat logo

Wavestone logo

Aixolotl logo

thirty3 logo

SkipLabs logo

Cohesity logo

Intellishore logo

Team Extension logo

AppliedAI logo

iosys logo

DeepL logo

Elma Electronic logo

Startup Allies

AI Business School logo

Swisper AI logo

Xinity AI logo

Thesify logo

tialto logo

innovAIro logo

Hackathon Co-organizers

ETH Entrepreneur Club logo

Colosseum by ETH Entrepreneur Club logo

AI Startup Center logo

Hackathon Partners

Lovable logo

wide

Hugging Face logo

Swiss Engineering STV UTS ATS logo

databricks logo

Qdrant logo

Ava logo

Opendata.ch logo

LIVEMAP AG logo

GoCalma logo

Manukai logo

Apify logo

Featherless AI logo

Siemens logo

SonyAI logo

Corporate Partners

Migros Online logo

Special Partner for Ethical AI, Cybersecurity Governance & Human Rights

ICT4peace Foundation logo

Community Partner

FRZ Flughafenregion Zürich logo

FlexOffice logo

Davos Tech Summit logo

After The Algorithm logo

Kanton Zürich logo

Innovation Zurich logo

WeBloom logo

SICTIC logo

StartGlobal logo

Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society logo

SwissMBAs - Swiss Association of MBAs logo

Swisspreneur logo

Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW logo

Girls Can Code logo

SwissDevJobs logo

DataCareer logo

AI Startup Center logo

TechFace logo

Elevate Tech logo

CV Labs logo

Wildcard Media logo

aiLights logo

Women in Data Science (WiDS) Zurich logo

AI Team logo

M01N Startup Camp logo

Women in AI Switzerland logo

The Ai Salon logo

Switzerland AI Community logo

Swiss AI Association logo

ZHAW Center for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) logo

AI Alliance logo

Kickstart Innovation logo

GenAI London logo

GenAI Enterprise Hub logo

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Join us for the next edition of GenAI Zürich to learn about latest developments in the field, network with like-minded professionals and gain deeper insights into GenAI applications reshaping both our professional and personal lives.

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Shape the future of GenAI in Switzerland and beyond

Join us for the next edition of GenAI Zürich to learn about latest developments in the field, network with like-minded professionals and gain deeper insights into GenAI applications reshaping both our professional and personal lives.

Join us

Shape the future of GenAI in Switzerland and beyond

Join us for the next edition of GenAI Zürich to learn about latest developments in the field, network with like-minded professionals and gain deeper insights into GenAI applications reshaping both our professional and personal lives.

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