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

Ewelina Kawczynska, Communications Consultant at Impact with ewelina
Ewelina Kawczynska
Communications Consultant @ Impact with ewelina

Stage moderator

Ewelina Kawczynska, Communications Consultant at Impact with ewelina
Ewelina Kawczynska
Communications Consultant @ Impact with ewelina

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GenAI in Action

Talk

Document Intelligence Without the Black Box: How Thesify Makes AI-Assisted Writing Traceable, Auditable, and Trustworthy

Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Co-Founder & CEO at thesify.ai
Marc-Oliver Gewaltig
Co-Founder & CEO @ thesify.ai

Talk

From Pilots to Production: How Enterprises Build, Orchestrate and Secure AI Agents

Dr. Christian Koeppel, Co-Founder & CEO at Swisper
Dr. Christian Koeppel
Co-Founder & CEO @ Swisper

Talk

From SaaS Sprawl to Savings: How GenAI Cuts Software Waste at Scale

Philipp Helbling, CTO at innovAIro
Philipp Helbling
CTO @ innovAIro

Talk

From PDF Chaos to ERP Gold: Document Extraction in Manufacturing with GenAI

Chris Ryan, Founder & CEO at iosys
Chris Ryan
Founder & CEO @ iosys

Talk

The Agentic Future of Customer Engagement in Pharma

Peter Nistrup, Head of AI at Intellishore
Peter Nistrup
Head of AI @ Intellishore

Talk

Risk-Free GenAI Agents for SMEs and Mid-Sized Businesses – Pay-Per-Use Transformation

Kai Brobeil, Group Chief Technical Officer at New-Digital-Intelligence
Kai Brobeil
Group Chief Technical Officer @ New-Digital-Intelligence

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Building Reliable (Gen)AI Systems

Talk

Testing LLM Outputs: Caging the Wind or Just Another Day in the Office?

Alex Carol, Software Development Engineer at Adobe
Alex Carol
Software Development Engineer @ Adobe

Talk

AI at the Edge: Enabling Semantic Search and Device Memory with Qdrant

Chadha Sridi, DevRel Engineer at Qdrant
Chadha Sridi
DevRel Engineer @ Qdrant

Talk

Full-Stack Sovereignty: What It Really Takes to Own Your AI

Lennert Rienau, Senior Solutions Architect at Cohere
Lennert Rienau
Senior Solutions Architect @ Cohere

Talk

Why Specialized Models Will Always Matter

Darin Verheijke, Developer Relations at Featherless AI
Darin Verheijke
Developer Relations @ Featherless AI

Talk

Data Sovereignty as the Foundation for Enterprise GenAI

Ralf Damerau, Country Manager Alps, Cohesity at Cohesity
Ralf Damerau
Country Manager Alps, Cohesity @ Cohesity

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Rethinking Control: From Data Sovereignty to Decentralized AI

Talk

Decentralized AI

Patrick Tobler, Co-Founder at Masumi Network
Patrick Tobler
Co-Founder @ Masumi Network

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(Gen)AI-Augmented Decision Making

Talk

From Data to Wisdom: Designing Robust Human – AI Decision Systems

Patricia Ferreiro, Advisor, Digital Natives & Scale-Ups at Databricks
Patricia Ferreiro
Advisor, Digital Natives & Scale-Ups @ Databricks

Talk

How AI Agents Negotiate: Why Governance Matters to Scale Good Intentions

Dr. Vitalijs Butenko
Dr. Vitalijs Butenko
Researcher in AI and Decision Making

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GenAI Research, Innovation & Education

Talk

Service Offerings from CSCS for the Swiss R&D+Innovation Ecosystem

Prashanth Kanduri, Research Software Engineer at Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS)
Prashanth Kanduri
Research Software Engineer @ Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS)

Talk

Cognitive Debt and AI: Reality and Mitigation Strategy

Dr. Andrei Villarroel, Founder and CAIO at innoverse.ai
Dr. Andrei Villarroel
Founder and CAIO @ innoverse.ai

Talk

Can You See the Algorithm?

Martina Huber, Founder and Curator at WE ARE AIA I Awareness in Art
Martina Huber
Founder and Curator @ WE ARE AIA I Awareness in Art

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The VC Lens on GenAI

Talk

The Zero Partner Fund: Building an AI-Native VC

Yariv Adan, General Partner at Ellipsis Venture
Yariv Adan
General Partner @ Ellipsis Venture

Talk

Pre-Seed Investments in Switzerland

Edouard Treccani, Partner at Founderful
Edouard Treccani
Partner @ Founderful

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Art in the age of GenAI

Co-hosted by

After The Algorithm

After The Algorithm logo

Talk

Dancing Plague - Hackinig GTA to let the men dance

2girls1comp, Artist Duo at 2girls1comp
2girls1comp
Artist Duo @ 2girls1comp

Talk

Friendly Fire at the Shrink - An AI psychiatrist for (neuro) physiological impact research

Manuel Flurin Hendry, Festival Founder, Filmmaker, Researcher at 'After the Algorithm' Festival
Manuel Flurin Hendry
Festival Founder, Filmmaker, Researcher @ 'After the Algorithm' Festival

Panel Discussion

Why Technology Needs Art?

2girls1comp, Artist Duo at 2girls1comp
2girls1comp
Artist Duo @ 2girls1comp
Adrian Christopher Notz, Curator at 'After the Algorithm' Festival
Adrian Christopher Notz
Curator @ 'After the Algorithm' Festival
Manuel Flurin Hendry, Festival Founder, Filmmaker, Researcher at 'After the Algorithm' Festival
Manuel Flurin Hendry
Festival Founder, Filmmaker, Researcher @ 'After the Algorithm' Festival

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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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.

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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