GenAI Zürich 2026

Conference Schedule

Experience over 120 sessions across multiple stages at GenAI
Zürich 2026, the European Summit on Applied Generative AI

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Day 1
1 April 2026
Day 2
2 April 2026
Workshops I
2nd floor – Zimmer 20
9:30-10:30
Cognizant Workshop
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The 5% Club: Your Escape from POC to Production
95% of AI pilots never reach production. The question is not whether your model works. It is whether your organisation can actually escape the traps that keep most projects permanently stuck at pilot. This hands-on workshop puts you inside the escape. Teams work through a series of real-world scenarios that mirror the moments where most AI initiatives quietly stall: the successful demo that never gets an owner, the pilot with great metrics but almost no adoption, the data that has been almost ready for five weeks. Each stage presents a concrete challenge and one unlock condition to advance. The goal is not a textbook answer. It is to recognise the actual blocker in your own project and leave with something you can act on tomorrow. At any point, teams can play a Joker Card to get a straight conversation with someone who has navigated the same wall.
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10:45-11:45
MongoDB Workshop
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Systems of Action: Data, Decisions and the New Agentic Operating Model
Senior Industry Solutions Consultant
@MongoDB

Enterprises have long relied on systems of record: databases and applications optimized for capturing and reconciling business data as the authoritative source of “what happened”. These human-centric architectures with rigid schemas and batch processes create barriers for agentic AI, which requires perceiving context, reasoning, and taking real-time action. This session explores the shift to systems of action, where an intelligence layer augments (rather than replaces) existing systems of record, enriching business objects with agent-generated insights to enable faster, smarter decisions.

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12:00-13:00
Cloudera Workshop
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From Zero to Agentic: Building Enterprise AI Agents in 10 Minutes
Senior Director Product Marketing
@Cloudera Switzerland GmbH
While the potential of Agentic AI is clear, many organizations struggle with the complexity of moving from simple chatbots to autonomous agents that can actually do work. In this live demo, we strip away the complexity. Using Cloudera AI Agent Studio, we will demonstrate how to build and deploy a fully functional AI agent in just 10 minutes. You’ll see how to leverage a low-code environment to connect agents to enterprise data, define multi-step reasoning workflows, and integrate with existing data services—all while maintaining the security and governance required for production environments. Join us to see how "Agentic" is moving from a buzzword to a standard tool in the developer’s toolkit.
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14:30-15:30
Dataiku Workshop
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Beyond Conversational AI: Engineering Structured Intelligence for the Enterprise

Generative AI is only as valuable as the structure behind it. While simple interfaces are great for prototyping, enterprise-grade autonomy requires a structured approach to ensure reliability and governance. In this workshop, we dive into the visual tools within Dataiku to build Autonomous Agents—AI workers designed to follow complex business rules, safely access enterprise data via the LLM Mesh, and execute multi-step tasks. We will explore the design patterns that separate "toy" use cases from sophisticated agentic loops, moving from basic interactions to robust engines that solve real organizational challenges.

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15:45-16:45
Albatross AI Workshop
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Your Recommender Can’t See New Items: Fixing Cold Start at the Root
Cofounder & Chief Scientist
@Albatross AI
Most recommender systems perform until they encounter something new. Cold start is often treated as a data sparsity issue, but in practice it is a representation problem. Systems that rely on interactions alone are inherently blind to large parts of the catalog. In this workshop, we break down why common solutions fail and present a structured path toward more robust architectures. We cover approaches ranging from basic content features to dense representations and semantic identifiers, and show how they interact with state of the art recommendation models. Using concrete examples and a guided walkthrough, we demonstrate how Albatross incorporates richer item representations into recommendation systems to improve performance on new and long-tail items. Participants will leave with a clear mental model of the problem and a practical toolkit for addressing it in production environments.
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17:00-18:00
S-PRO Workshop
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APEX - AI Prototyping & Execution Workshop
Digital Strategy & Solutions Lead
@S-PRO
Head of S-PRO Switzerland
@S-PRO

Maximize your learning at GenAI Zürich with this hands-on workshop designed for executives, product managers, innovation managers and founders. In a condensed 50-minute sprint, your team will tackle a set scenario and build a minimal working prototype with the help of Claude Code. Immediate, expert coaching from S-PRO facilitators ensures rapid progress and technical breakthroughs. Perfect for maximizing hands-on experience and showcasing the speed of GenAI development. No prior coding or AI expertise needed!

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