GenAI Zürich 2026

Conference Schedule

GenAI Zürich 2026, the European Summit on Applied Generative AI, brought together over 175 speakers across multiple stages.

GenAI Zürich 2026

Conference Schedule

GenAI Zürich 2026, the European Summit on Applied Generative AI, brought together over 175 speakers across multiple stages.

Stage moderator

Hilda Liswani, Founder & CEO at WeBloom
Hilda Liswani
Founder & CEO @ WeBloom

Stage moderator

Hilda Liswani, Founder & CEO at WeBloom
Hilda Liswani
Founder & CEO @ WeBloom

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GenAI Zürich Award 2026: Nominee Pitches

Talk

Building the Infrastructure Layer Between Academia and Industry With GenAI

Micha Brugger, Chief Agentic Officer at Studyond
Micha Brugger
Chief Agentic Officer @ Studyond

Talk

Balingo: Controlled GenAI for Regulated Enterprise Language

Sercan Ates, AI Engineer at Helvetia Baloise Group
Sercan Ates
AI Engineer @ Helvetia Baloise Group

Talk

AI Productivity Solution for Healthcare Professionals

Fabrice Gürmann, Co-Founder at Saipient AG
Fabrice Gürmann
Co-Founder @ Saipient AG

Talk

The Adaptive, Sovereign AI Translator with Human Experts Built In

Dr. Samuel Läubli, CEO at Supertext
Dr. Samuel Läubli
CEO @ Supertext

Talk

Provenance Lab: Turning AI's Invisible Choices Into Auditable Evidence

Dr. Sachit Mahajan, Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich
Dr. Sachit Mahajan
Senior Scientist @ ETH Zurich

Talk

Reinventing the Enterprise Through Responsible, Scalable Generative & Agentic AI

Rehouven Libine, Director AI Adoption & Emerging Tech at Philip Morris International
Rehouven Libine
Director AI Adoption & Emerging Tech @ Philip Morris International

Talk

Scaling Intelligence: AI as Infrastructure at Syngenta

Ajit Azariah, Head of Engineering, P&S DPI at Syngenta AG
Ajit Azariah
Head of Engineering, P&S DPI @ Syngenta AG

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GenAI in Banking

Talk

How the Leading Banks Kill Their Biggest Hidden Cost with AI

Simon Hecker, Co-founder & CRO at fore ai
Simon Hecker
Co-founder & CRO @ fore ai

Talk

AI Journey of the ZKB

Christian Sebregondi, Head of AI at Zürcher Kantonalbank
Christian Sebregondi
Head of AI @ Zürcher Kantonalbank

Talk

The Power of Hyper Personalization in Banking: Citadele Banking Group Case-Study

Edward Rebane, Management Board Member at Citadele Banking Group
Edward Rebane
Management Board Member @ Citadele Banking Group

Talk

How to Make the Human/Ethics Side Work When Applying GenAI

Sarah Gadd, Managing Director, Data Special Project at Julius Baer
Sarah Gadd
Managing Director, Data Special Project @ Julius Baer

Talk

The Future Nervous System of Businesses: Is Agentic AI the New Operating System?

Johannes Windus, Manager Agentic AI Strategy at Wavestone
Johannes Windus
Manager Agentic AI Strategy @ Wavestone
Luc-Phillip Heidel, Senior Consultant at Wavestone
Luc-Phillip Heidel
Senior Consultant @ Wavestone

Talk

The Intelligence Layer: Reimagining Financial Services with Opus

Shirin Aalami, AI Solutions Architect at AppliedAI
Shirin Aalami
AI Solutions Architect @ AppliedAI

Talk

Why Your Operating Model Matters More Than Your AI

Jonas Epp, AI Transformation Leader at SIX Group
Jonas Epp
AI Transformation Leader @ SIX Group

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GenAI in Insurance

Talk

Designing and Delivering the First Agentic Claims-Handling Platform in Insurance

Ekaterina Kavtaradze, Chief Data Officer at Solvd Group
Ekaterina Kavtaradze
Chief Data Officer @ Solvd Group

Talk

AI Concierge - A Solution to Generate Counter Offers Instantaneously

Dr. Matthias Ruefenacht, Project Manager at Helvetia
Dr. Matthias Ruefenacht
Project Manager @ Helvetia

Talk

Designing Context-First AI Systems

Shubhangi Goyal, Senior Analyst at Admiral
Shubhangi Goyal
Senior Analyst @ Admiral

Talk

From Personal Productivity to Reimagining Work

Maria Apazoglou, Group Head of AI Engineering & Platforms at Zurich
Maria Apazoglou
Group Head of AI Engineering & Platforms @ Zurich

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GenAI in Retail

Talk

Building Chatbots in Minutes: How Migros Made GenAI Fast, Secure and Enterprise‑Ready

Oliver Förg, Product Owner AI Solutions at Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund
Oliver Förg
Product Owner AI Solutions @ Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund

Talk

Agentic AI @ IKEA Supply

Marco Dütsch, AI Lab Lead at IKEA
Marco Dütsch
AI Lab Lead @ IKEA

Talk

Agentic Fashion: Using Generative AI to Decode Life's "What Should I Wear?" Moments

Marco-Andrea Buchmann, Head of Applied Science at Zalando Switzerland AG
Marco-Andrea Buchmann
Head of Applied Science @ Zalando Switzerland AG

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GenAI Governance & Ethics

Talk

The Illusion of Intent: Why Language is the First Line of AI Governance

Sarah Mathews, Group Responsible AI Manager at The Adecco Group
Sarah Mathews
Group Responsible AI Manager @ The Adecco Group

Talk

Conscious Humans Lead: The Ethical Decision Architecture for Safe GenAI Scaling

Dr. Joanna Michalska, CEO at Ethica Group ltd
Dr. Joanna Michalska
CEO @ Ethica Group ltd

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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