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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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GenAI Zürich 2025

Conference Schedule

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

Highlights

All speakers

Photos

Day 1

1 April 2025

Networking Area

Main Hall

Main Stage

Auditorium

Use Case Stage

Fortran

Innovation Stage

Cobol

Workshops I

Newton 1010

Workshops II

Basic

Use Case Stage

Fortran

Use Case Stage

Fortran

09:30

10:10

GenAI in Consumer Goods

Talk

How Fashion Meets GenAI at Zalando

Dr. Lokesh Mishra

Senior Applied Scientist @ Zalando

Talk

SMG Real Estate: Leveraging GenAI across the Board

Dmytro Yurchenko

Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ SMG Swiss Marketplace Group

10:45

11:45

GenAI Zürich Award: Nominee Pitches

Pitch

[Rising Innovators] kaiko.ai.on

Roman Moser

Staff ML engineer @ Kaiko

Nils Eckstein

Staff ML engineer @ Kaiko

Pitch

[Rising Innovators] GeneWise Oncology

Jan Mikolon

CTO @ QuantumBasel

Jörg Hölzing

CEO @ CGC Genomics Consults

Pitch

[Rising Innovators] Agentic Investment Insights: Transforming Financial Services with GenAI

Fabian Schläpfer

Data Scientist @ Unique

Pitch

[Enterprise Transformers] AI Compliance Agents for Modulos AI Governance Platform

Kevin Schawinski

Co-founder @ Modulos

Pitch

[Enterprise Transformers] Scalable Product Specification Pipeline for Switzerland's' Largest Online Retailer

Bernhard Walser

Senior ML Engineer @ Digitech Galaxus

Michael Hardegger

Lead ML Engineer @ Digitech Galaxus

Pitch

[Enterprise Transformers] ReportGenie: Smart Financial Report Compilation

Stefan Jeker

Innovationsmanagement @ Raiffeisen

Joel Akeret

Principal ML Engineer @ ti&m

Pitch

[Impact Achievers] Spirecut, the Future of Hand Surgery

Clémence Hermann

Business Development Manager @ Spirecut

Pitch

[Impact Achievers] GoGymi

Jan Bühlmann

Founder @ Gogymi

Pitch

[Impact Achievers] Cropwise Grower - A farmer centric application for smallholder farmers

Flora Viana

Global Head of Digital AgTech GTM @ Syngenta

Conor Marsh

Digital Innovation & Strategic Partnerships Lead @ Syngenta

11:50

12:30

Case Studies: GenAI Solutions

Talk

Turning Setbacks into Success: Lessons from Others' Mistakes

Markus Grob

Head of BU Data, Analytics & AI @ ELCA

Talk

Pioneering the Future of Work: How to scale GenAI to 40,000 Employees

Katharina Schoeneich

AI Strategy Director @ Novartis

Jakob Teubert

GenAI Expert @ Capgemini Invent

Talk

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

Tommy Gmuender

Business Developer @ Elma Electronic

13:30

14:00

GenAI in Pharma

Talk

Acceleration of Clinical Development with GenAI Agents

Thirupathi Pattipaka

Global Director, DataScience & AI @ Novartis

Talk

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

Rasmus Sten Andersen

AI Engineer Lead @ Novo Nordisk

Talk

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

14:00

14:30

Enterprises Leveraging GenAI

Talk

How Lufthansa Group Leverages GenAI to Drive Business Innovation

Claudia Wenzel

Project Portfolio Manager @ Lufthansa Group

Talk

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

Merlin Bauer

Head of Data Platforms @ Ringier AG

Stefany Barker

Data & AI Lead @ Palantir Technologies

14:30

15:00

GenAI in Construction and Manufacturing

Talk

Unlocking Efficiency in Building Management with Agentic AI

Josip Lazarevski

Global Director of AI and Data Science @ Johnson Controls Industries

Talk

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

Ria Riemer

Project Manager AI & Digitalization @ Bosch

15:30

16:45

GenAI in Finance

Talk

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

Dorian-Raphael Signer

Head AI & Robotics Platforms @ SIX

Talk

Innovating International Transfer Pricing: Generative AI at Work

Jürgen Friedrich

Transfer Pricing Partner @ Questro International

Stephen Alleway

Transfer Pricing Partner @ Questro International

Talk

Revolutionizing Data Access with RAG and Knowledge Graphs

Dr. Javiera Guedes

Senior AI & RAG Data Scientist @ UBS

Talk

Telling Stories from Both Numbers and Text

Egor Kraev

Principal AI Scientist @ Wise

Talk

Developing an AI Strategy for the German Savings Banks

Matthias Mohn

AI Strategy Lead @ DSGV

Edeltraud Leibrock

Global Managing Director @ Roland Berger

Talk

Practical Tips for Building LLM Agents

Oren Dinai

GenAI and NLP Tech Lead @ Citi

16:45

17:15

Panel Discussion

GenAI in Finance Panel

Oren Dinai

GenAI and NLP Tech Lead @ Citi

Hilda Liswani

Founder and CEO @ WeBloom

Michael Braendle

Senior Solutions Architect Manager @ AWS

Hanno Dachwitz

Partner @ Roland Berger

Dr. Efi Pylarinou

Global Fintech & Tech Thought Leader @ GrowFin

17:15

18:00

GenAI in Design and Creativity (co-organized with DA Z )

Talk

AI: The Future of Communication and Culture?

Hans Peter Riegel

Chairman @ Digital Arts Zurich - DA Z

Talk

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

Francesca Giudice

Managing Director @ CreativeAnswer SA

Talk

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

Signe Fleischmann

Founder + Designer @ dynesis

Talk

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

Tanya Rey

Head of Design, and Product Designer @ Nonkonformer

2026 Sponsors and Partners

industry leaders and innovative startups

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The Turing Genius

Neural Masters

Generative Starters

Startup Allies

Hackathon Co-organizers

Hackathon Partners

wide

Corporate Partners

Special Partner for Ethical AI, Cybersecurity Governance & Human Rights

Community Partner

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?

Partner with us

The Turing Genius

Neural Masters

Generative Starters

Startup Allies

Hackathon Co-organizers

Hackathon Partners

wide

Corporate Partners

Special Partner for Ethical AI, Cybersecurity Governance & Human Rights

Community Partner

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