ETH AI Center Researchers Community Meetup
Recurring meetup series for the AI research community at ETH Zurich.
- 21 – 27 September
- 24 Thu, Sep to 25 NovMeetup Free
- 19 – 25 October
- 21 Wed, Oct
Brain2Brain: IA & formation en entreprise
A French-language evening from AI Swiss on how AI changes the skills a company needs and the way people learn them — talks from Julien Schiess on rebuilding team capability and Dr Vincent Nassar on his Sustainable AI Leadership approach, then a round table.
Meetup Not listed - 21 Wed, Oct
Team 'Harness' (new)
A workshop on harness engineering — the plumbing that turns a language model into a working agent — in which the room assembles a coding agent by playing the harness themselves, no coding required, then talks it over with pizza.
Workshop Free - 21 Wed, Oct
Our Minds Under Siege — An Evening with Bruno Giussani
An evening on AI, information and trust: how machine-generated content is changing our ability to tell truth from manipulation, and what it takes to keep human judgement intact in a world shaped by algorithms.
Networking Not listed - 22 Thu, Oct
Vibe Coding war gestern. Spec-Driven Development für Enterprise-Software (new)
Java Champion Simon Martinelli shows how a specification rather than a prompt can drive an AI-assisted build on a real Java project, then ti&m engineers run hands-on stations on customising Claude Code and GitHub Copilot and on capturing requirements with OpenSpec. Bring a laptop with a working licence.
Meetup Not listed - 22 Thu, Oct to 23 Oct
F{AI}R Unconference 2026
Two days of AI talks, workshops and demos in Bern run as an unconference, with the programme built from sessions submitted by the people who turn up.
Conference Not listed - 22 Thu, Oct to 23 Oct
Swiss Python Summit 2026 (new)
Two days on the OST Rapperswil campus: a general Python day followed by a full Data Science day on machine learning, data processing and analytics, data engineering, visualisation, AI and LLMs.
Conference CHF 50–130 (online sales closed; limited on-site tickets with a CHF 10 surcharge) - 22 Thu, Oct
The Zurich AI Summit 2026 – Digital Trust
An evening for around 250 Swiss AI and business leaders, built around a panel on digital trust with speakers from Novartis, ABB, Nemetschek Group and Swiss Re, followed by networking.
Networking Ticketed (Eventbrite) - 22 Thu, Oct
Zurich Robotics Roundtable #5
Zurich’s quarterly gathering for people building in robotics and physical AI — newly funded robotics startups present, then a panel and open networking for around 250 founders, engineers and researchers.
Networking Free (waitlist) - 23 Fri, Oct
AI Productivity User Group Conference @ Microsoft Switzerland
In-person conference on AI productivity tooling — Copilot Cowork, Azure AI integration, and AI-driven meeting workflows — with MVP speakers at Microsoft's Zurich Airport campus.
Conference Not listed - 23 Fri, Oct to 25 Oct
ArtTech Hack 2026
A three-day hackathon in Zurich for students and recent graduates from art, design and technology, with briefs in data, simulation and robotics — challenges revealed Friday, building Saturday, jury presentations Sunday.
Workshop Not listed - 23 Fri, Oct to 24 Oct
Zentral Hack 2026
24-hour hackathon for central Switzerland, bringing together students, business and the regional ICT community at HSLU Rotkreuz.
Workshop Not listed - 24 Sat, Oct
Coffee & Prompt #008
The weekly Geneva builders’ coworking morning: work on your own AI project alongside other makers, share a lesson learned if you want to, and talk through what is not working yet.
Networking Free - 24 Sat, Oct
Vibe Code Fest Basel 2026 (new)
A one-day unconference on building software with AI: morning keynotes and community talks on vibe coding with design systems, AI in lab software and vibe marketing, a panel on where the money goes once software is cheap, then a five-hour build sprint ending in community voting, pitches and an awards ceremony.
Conference CHF 99 (CHF 75 early bird) - 25 Sun, Oct
Build Your Own Assistant: Never Walk Into A Meeting Blind
Build an agent that briefs you on the person, the company and the purpose before every meeting, then drafts the follow-up the moment it ends.
Workshop Free - 26 October – 1 November
- 26 Mon, Oct
Zurich Language AI Meetup #22
Three talks on language AI in Zurich — masking personal data without breaking a language pipeline, benchmarking LLM translations against thousands of native speakers, and a session from Supertext’s CTO — followed by drinks.
Meetup Not listed - 27 Tue, Oct
AI in azienda: Dal prompt al processo
Second of three Italian-language evenings on using AI deliberately in a business: turning individual tool use into organisational value, with a Use Case Canvas worked through on the spot. Thirty places, priority to local SMEs.
Workshop Free (registration required) - 27 Tue, Oct
Cloudflare Community Meetup #3 — AI Updates Fresh out of Connect San Francisco
The Swiss Cloudflare user group condenses the AI announcements from Connect San Francisco into one evening, then hands over to community members showing what they have actually built on the platform.
Meetup Free - 27 Tue, Oct
AI Agent Sandbox: Could an Agent Help With This?
Bring a repetitive or awkward task from your own work and the room takes it apart together to see whether an agent would actually help — discussion and experimentation rather than a lecture, with no prior agent experience needed.
Meetup Not listed - 27 Tue, Oct
The Data Stewards Master Class with Stefaan Verhulst
A limited-places afternoon master class on data stewardship — who holds responsibility for data being shared, and how to organise that in practice — held the day before the Swiss Data Space Forum and closing with a networking apéro.
Workshop Ticketed (combo ticket with the Forum) - 27 Tue, Oct
Leading Data Conference Switzerland 2026
DAMA Switzerland's annual data leadership conference at IMD Lausanne, covering data modelling, data-as-an-asset workshops, and CDMP certification.
Conference 200 CHF (170 early bird) / 140 CHF members (110 early bird) - 28 Wed, Oct
Mapping Knowledge Across Time by Paul Kahn (new)
Author Paul Kahn compares seven notable visual works from the 12th to the 20th century — their maps, diagrams and illustrations — and draws out what their design choices mean for digital data visualisation today, with a group Q&A to close. Also livestreamed.
Meetup Not listed - 28 Wed, Oct
MS Cloud for IT Pro Zentralschweiz — Podium Special
An open-mic German-language panel in Lucerne on how much control a company really keeps in the cloud — data location, the US CLOUD Act, foreign authority access, compliance and exit strategies — with Microsoft Switzerland’s CTO, a CIO, a lawyer and an MVP.
Meetup Free - 28 Wed, Oct
Swiss Data Space Forum 2026: Unlocking Data for AI
National forum on data governance and data spaces for AI, hosted at unlimitrust.
Conference Not listed - 29 Thu, Oct
CAR16 : IA en entreprise avec AI Foundry et sécurité des MCP
French-language Azure community evening in Geneva on enterprise AI with Azure AI Foundry, securing Model Context Protocol servers, and modern cloud architecture and automation with GitHub Copilot.
Meetup Free - 29 Thu, Oct
Claude Code Workshop for Beginners (new)
A two-hour online beginners' session from the Geneva-based Switzerland AI Community on getting started with Claude Code, working through a small project with instructors on hand for the exercises.
Workshop CHF 30 - 29 Thu, Oct
Cloud-Native Geospatial Zürich (new)
The closing stop of the Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum's 2026 series, hosted by Meta in Zurich — an afternoon of talks, demos and community for practitioners working on cloud-native formats and pipelines for geospatial data, followed by a reception.
Meetup Not listed (registration required) - 29 Thu, Oct
Workshop: The Anomaly in Plain Sight (new)
A hands-on evening on anomalies nobody flagged: how people approach unfamiliar data, feature engineering and machine learning to surface hidden patterns with a look at Polars, why a flagged transaction is not yet fraud, and using generative AI to explain detection results in plain language.
Workshop Free (registration required) - 29 Thu, Oct
Conversation avec Bruno Giussani sur l'emprise et la souveraineté technologique
A French-language discussion with Swiss author and podcaster Bruno Giussani on resisting technological capture and European dependence on American digital infrastructure, drawing on his Manuel de résistance à l'emprise technologique.
Meetup Free - 29 Thu, Oct
Fabric & Power BI User Group Geneva 2026
Fifth Romandie gathering of the Swiss Fabric & Power BI user group: MVP Alexandru Badiu on what the new Fabric Apps are good for and what they cost, then the latest news out of FabCon Europe, followed by an apéro.
Meetup Free - 29 Thu, Oct
The Great Data Heist: Trust, Power & Cyber Warfare
Cybersecurity experts and hackers unpack how data breaches actually happen, with live hacking demos and an immersive escape game.
Networking 150 CHF - 29 Thu, Oct
Robot Learning Paper Club — The RL Post-Training Edition
Zurich’s robot-learning community — scattered across ETH, big tech and startups — meets for short talks and paper walkthroughs on reinforcement learning for post-training vision-language-action models and world models.
Meetup Free (host approval required) - 29 Thu, Oct
Spec-driven Development mit KI
Two German-language talks on the OST Rapperswil campus: Java Champion Simon Martinelli on driving development from specifications with AI, and Michael Inden on why algorithms and data structures matter more, not less, once everyone can generate code — followed by networking.
Meetup Free (registration via OST) - 29 Thu, Oct
SURGE 2026: AI. Energy. Robotics. (new)
A deliberately small afternoon — roughly 100 to 150 people — on where AI, energy and robotics meet, with keynotes, panels on energy-and-AI and AI-and-robotics, and structured one-to-one sessions for founders, operators and executives. Attendance is by request.
Conference CHF 499 (early bird sold out; startup discounts available) - 30 Fri, Oct
AI Breakfast #55 Luzern
Louis Hermann, co-founder of DocPier, on how accurate document processing actually has to be before it can run in production, why a generic model on its own is not enough, and what trustees, insurers and banks can take from that for their own AI projects.
Networking Not listed - 30 Fri, Oct to 1 Nov
BaselHack 2026
Free 48-hour hackathon for the Basel region with open and sponsored challenges, for developers, designers and anyone wanting to turn an idea into a working prototype.
Workshop Free - 30 Fri, Oct
From Lab to Market: How Can Switzerland Turn World-Class AI Research into World-Class Companies? (new)
A panel with the presidents and vice-presidents of EPFL and ETH Zurich, GESDA and Proton on the three things Switzerland needs to turn its AI research into companies — compute, capital and data governance — and why the economic value has so far gone elsewhere.
Networking Not listed (registration required) - 30 Fri, Oct
KustoCon 2026
A full day on Kusto Query Language at Microsoft’s Zurich Airport campus: a hands-on morning workshop dissecting a real investigation, then an afternoon of practitioner talks on detection engineering and threat hunting, also livestreamed.
Conference EUR 85 in person (workshop, lunch and drinks included) / free online - 30 Fri, Oct
Ticino Data Conference 2026
Free one-day community summit in Ticino with three tracks on Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, AI-assisted tooling and data governance, in English and Italian.
Conference Free (lunch included) - 31 Sat, Oct
Coffee & Prompt #009 (Halloween edition) (new)
A Halloween edition of the weekly Geneva builders’ coworking morning: bring your own AI project or side hustle, optionally show a feature or a lesson learned, and get feedback from the room.
Networking Not listed - 1 Sun, Nov
Build Your Own Assistant: What Did I Even Get Done This Week?
Build an agent that produces daily and weekly recaps of your own or your team's work, alongside the industry and regulatory news that actually affects you.
Workshop Free - 2 – 8 November
- 2 Mon, Nov
AI and Responsible Business Conduct
A plenary session at the Swiss Forum on Business and Human Rights on applying the UN Guiding Principles and OECD Guidelines to AI systems in practice, with UN representatives, technology companies and civil society. Interpretation in German, French and English.
Conference Free - 3 Tue, Nov
Architecting for Trust: Resilience & Sovereignty on AWS (new)
An afternoon hands-on lab on AWS resilience with the Karpenter autoscaler, then an evening of talks from AWS and copebit on designing resilient workloads, running enterprise Claude Code on AWS, and digital sovereignty — closing with pizza and beer.
Meetup Free - 3 Tue, Nov
GFN AI Day (new)
A working day rather than a talking one: a morning of practitioner talks from SSF, ZHAW, Correntics and Resilens on what AI can actually do for sustainable finance, then small groups spend the afternoon on real challenges submitted by GFN startups and demo what they built. Thirty places.
Workshop CHF 15 members / CHF 70 external (lunch and apéro included) - 3 Tue, Nov
ISA Lunch & Learn: AI Tools at Work
A 45-minute English-language lunch session on where AI tools genuinely lift productivity at work, built around real use cases and what has changed recently, closing with open Q&A.
Webinar Free - 3 Tue, Nov
Destination AI – Verpasse den Zug nicht!
Full-day German-language AI conference for the Swiss partner and reseller ecosystem, with a keynote by futurist Gerd Leonhard, vendor breakout sessions and business meetings.
Conference Not listed - 4 Wed, Nov
Mindstone Zurich November AI Meetup (new)
The Zurich edition of the Mindstone AI evenings, hosted at Unit8: a technical demo of what one team learned building a product with LLMs, a practical session on closing the AI skills gap for non-technical students, and a talk on where AI takes work and society next, then pizza and networking.
Meetup Not listed - 5 Thu, Nov
GDG Cloud Zürich: Tech Talks #38
Two evening talks on Google Cloud and Google DeepMind at Google’s Zurich office, followed by a sponsored apéro — note that doors close at 17:55 and late entry is not possible.
Meetup Free (host approval required) - 5 Thu, Nov
Snowflake Forum Zurich 2026
Free data-platform conference bringing together Swiss data teams and partners.
Conference Free - 6 Fri, Nov
HerImpact 2026: Who Decides — You or AI?
Talks and a panel on who stays accountable when AI shapes an organisational decision — who can question it, correct it or stop it — drawing on current Swiss and Japanese research and real cases, closing with questions the group puts forward for the 2027 Geneva summit.
Networking CHF 50 - 7 Sat, Nov to 8 Nov
Swiss AI Safety Days 2026
Two days at ETH Zurich on AI safety research, governance and careers, with trust-based pricing from free upwards. Attendance is by application; the deadline is 17 October.
Conference Free–CHF 320 (trust-based) - 8 Sun, Nov
Build Your Own Assistant: Time to Stop AI Slop
A session on getting an assistant to write in your own voice rather than generic model output, then turning the week's news into a post and a newsletter worth reading.
Workshop Free - 9 – 15 November
- 9 Mon, Nov
UNIGE – Recherche documentaire et IA
University of Geneva workshop on using AI tools for academic research.
Workshop Not specified - 10 Tue, Nov
Agentic Trio
INNOQ’s Fabian Walther reframes Teresa Torres’ Product Trio as an "Agentic Trio", arguing that AI should change how software teams split responsibility — not just how fast they ship.
Meetup Free - 10 Tue, Nov
AI in Food — State of Play
A full day of keynotes and workshops for food-industry professionals past the AI hype stage, on what it actually takes to implement AI against real problems inside their own organisations.
Conference CHF 0–250 (free for SFNV partners) - 10 Tue, Nov
C4DT Conference on AI Sovereignty: Charting Switzerland’s Path
A full day on how Switzerland builds strategic independence in AI between US and Chinese dominance — lessons from other middle powers, Swiss research including the Apertus foundation model, industry deployment realities, and concrete recommendations for national strategy.
Conference Not listed - 10 Tue, Nov
Navigating Data Protection and Transfer Impact Assessments for AI Startups
Breakfast session with lawyers from Wenger Vieli on when a Transfer Impact Assessment is actually required for cross-border data transfers, and how to keep them manageable as an AI company.
Networking Not listed - 10 Tue, Nov
DevOps for Fabric — Git & Deployment Pipelines
Bringing proper CI/CD to Microsoft Fabric: Git integration, deployment pipelines, variable libraries and sensitivity labels for enterprise-ready BI.
Webinar Free - 10 Tue, Nov
Machine Intelligence Summit (new)
Three hundred people who build frontier AI in Europe, across four 80-minute blocks — infrastructure, learning, agents and the physical world — each pairing academia, a frontier lab and a startup, plus founder lightning talks and fifty students presenting posters. Nothing is recorded.
Conference Not listed (curated attendance, host approval required) - 10 Tue, Nov
MUG Zürich — How to Truly Stop AI Hallucinations (new)
Two talks from Helvetia Insurance engineers: why factual errors in generative AI apps usually come from weak retrieval design rather than the model — covering semantic chunking, metadata filtering, hybrid search, reranking and output guardrails — and a second session on the benefits and risks of AI-assisted development.
Meetup Not listed - 11 Wed, Nov
Swiss Data & AI — AI Enabled Workflows (new)
The first Zurich gathering of the Swiss Data & AI group, on automating data work with AI-enabled workflows. Topics, speakers and the venue are still to be announced, and the group is open to offers to speak.
Meetup Not listed - 12 Thu, Nov
AI Startup Center Community Meetup — November Edition
A deliberately informal morning meetup over coffee for the centre’s AI startups and corporate partners — no agenda and no presentations, just conversations about partnerships, where AI is heading and what is actually hard right now.
Networking Not listed - 12 Thu, Nov
Business Leaders' Evening: Your AI, your data, under your roof (new)
A French-language evening for SME leaders on getting value from AI without giving up control of the data: three levels of sovereign AI, a live demo of a fully offline model answering on a sample company’s documents with per-employee permissions, what the revised Swiss data protection act expects of management, and a networking apéro.
Networking CHF 69 - 12 Thu, Nov
IA : meetup « Generative AI Genève » #5
Your data, your models, your infrastructure: ELCA and EPFL spin-off Anyway Systems on running LLMs locally or in a private cloud, and on the trade-offs between performance, sovereignty and cost when a company wants generative AI without handing over its data.
Meetup Not listed - 13 Fri, Nov
Swiss Robotics Day 2026
The national robotics meeting point: keynotes, panels and workshops alongside an exhibition floor with 60+ exhibitors and live demos, bringing together labs, industry, policymakers and spin-offs.
Conference Not listed - 16 – 22 November
- 16 Mon, Nov
Swiss AI Summit 2026
Full-day summit at the Kunsthaus for senior business, technology and government leaders, spanning finance and insurance, government and defence, manufacturing, cybersecurity, quantum and healthcare — with speakers from Microsoft Switzerland, IBM, Nestlé, ABB, HSBC and the Canton of Zurich, plus workshops, demos and a one-to-one meeting platform.
Conference Ticketed (TBC) - 17 Tue, Nov
AI in azienda: AI sotto controllo
Closing evening of the Ticino series on conscious AI use in business, this one on data, responsibility, rules and governance — content, a hands-on workshop and networking, capped at thirty participants.
Workshop Free (registration required) - 17 Tue, Nov
Growing Together Conference GTC26
A full day for business and data leaders on getting AI past isolated use cases and into scalable capability — keynotes from Benedict Evans and Google Cloud’s Alon Halevy, leader tracks with Helvetia, Axpo and Emmi, plus tech talks and workshops.
Conference Not listed - 17 Tue, Nov
AI in Production: Introduction to MLOps — Training at EPFL
One-day SDSC training on designing, deploying and operating ML systems at scale — version control, CI/CD, experiment tracking, monitoring, drift detection and automated retraining. Registration closes 24 September.
Workshop CHF 1,000 (10% off for EPFL alumni and SDSC partners) - 17 Tue, Nov
Satellite Event: From Data to Decisions — AI in Asset Management (new)
A Swiss AI Summit satellite session on how asset managers turn increasingly complex data into usable investment insight, and where AI makes a genuine difference rather than noise.
Networking Not listed (registration required) - 17 Tue, Nov
Satellite Event: From Smart AI to Better Work (new)
An interactive executive lab run with Zeix on redesigning work around AI: deciding what the machine should actually do, and marking out where human judgement, responsibility and control have to stay.
Workshop Not listed (registration required) - 18 Wed, Nov
DINAcon 2026
Switzerland’s conference on digital sustainability — 36 sessions on open source, open data, digital sovereignty, data protection and copyright, with 250+ attendees and a closing Hacknight.
Conference Ticketed (via eventfrog.ch) - 20 Fri, Nov
Agentic Engineering Days Zurich 2026
A one-day engineering conference on AI coding and agent systems: 38+ sessions across four tracks — using AI tools, building AI-powered systems, sponsor spotlights and hands-on workshops — with speakers from OpenAI, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Google and AWS.
Conference CHF 442 (group discount for 3+) - 20 Fri, Nov
AI Breakfast #56 Luzern
Merun Gugelmann of Aeberli Treuhand on how an 80-year-old trust company got from Microsoft Teams to building its own Azure applications — the steps of that digitisation journey, concrete examples, and the setup on Azure App Services.
Networking Not listed - 21 Sat, Nov to 22 Nov
STEM4Health Hackathon
A hundred students and early-career researchers spend a weekend on real pharmaceutical manufacturing problems, combining manufacturing data, mechanistic modelling and machine learning with industry and academic mentors before pitching to a jury.
Workshop Free - 23 – 29 November
- 24 Tue, Nov
AI Safety: Building Trustworthy AI in the Real World (new)
Four speakers from Google, AWS, Unique and Systematic-X on keeping AI systems trustworthy once they act on their own — how to evaluate and monitor before and after deployment, where guardrails, human oversight and red-teaming fit, and how to ship fast without losing accountability.
Meetup Not listed (registration required) - 24 Tue, Nov
KI-Agenten & -Work: Skills und Anbindungen für konkrete Entlastung im Alltag (new)
A full German-language day with Michael Kyburz on getting AI to take over recurring work: three base skills, how to build your own, and wiring assistants into calendar, mail and project tools so multi-step workflows run with clear checkpoints for human review. Fifteen places, and a paid ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required.
Workshop CHF 400 members / CHF 500 non-members - 25 Wed, Nov
The Geneva AI Conference 2026
An evening on enterprise AI strategy and returns, opened by Geneva city executive councillor Joëlle Bertossa and built around a panel with IBM, SAP, Hostelworld and Executive AI. The venue is still to be confirmed.
Networking Ticketed (Eventbrite) - 27 Fri, Nov to 28 Nov
Hack Apertus — Onsite Hackathon Zurich
The on-site leg of the national Apertus hackathon: build on the open Apertus 8B model, strengthen its multilingual abilities and ship applications for private- and public-sector problems, with everything released as Open Commons.
Workshop Not listed - 27 Fri, Nov
AI Insights for Chief Executives
Executive workshop for CEOs, CFOs, CDOs and CTOs on turning data and AI into measurable business value, with case studies from EKZ, Merck and Richemont. Limited seats.
Workshop 50 CHF - 30 November – 6 December
- 1 Tue, Dec
Databricks Data + AI World Tour Zurich 2026
Databricks' flagship Swiss stop on the Data + AI World Tour: keynotes, breakout sessions and hands-on training on Genie and Lakebase, plus an expo, with speakers from Databricks and Zurich Insurance.
Conference Free (apply to attend) - 1 Tue, Dec
IBM Bob Coding Watch Party Zürich — Final Edition
The closing session of IBM's 2026 hybrid series on IBM Bob, its AI development assistant — coding live alongside other European cities, with beginner, intermediate and expert tracks covering everything from first idea to modernising legacy applications.
Meetup Free (limited on-site places) - 1 Tue, Dec
KI-Strategie und -Governance für KMUs (new)
A 90-minute German-language session for SME decision-makers on steering generative AI use rather than letting it spread: setting a strategic frame, drafting an internal AI policy, weighing data-protection, liability and wrong-output risks, and planning a safe rollout under Swiss data protection law and the EU AI Act. Fifteen places.
Workshop CHF 150 members / CHF 200 non-members - 2 Wed, Dec
Ein Team, ein Plan und viele Agenten (new)
A German-language breakfast session with Quatico CEO Jan Wloka on why adding more AI agents tends to produce more review work than finished work, and the three changes that fixed it for his team: a written decision before any agent starts coding, work split into packages that run in parallel, and one daily overview of what needs a human. Aimed at product owners and delivery leads, with a real work package run live.
Meetup Not listed - 2 Wed, Dec to 3 Dec
Swiss IT Minds 2026 — IT, AI & Cyber Security
Two days for Swiss IT and data leaders at the Dolder Grand on enterprise AI as a strategic capability, centralised versus decentralised AI governance in large organisations, securing AI agents as a hybrid workforce, and the governance basics behind all of it.
Conference Not listed (complimentary participation for qualified attendees) - 4 Fri, Dec to 5 Dec
Hack Apertus — Onsite Hackathon Basel
The Basel leg of the national Apertus hackathon series, building applications and multilingual improvements on Switzerland’s open Apertus model, with everything produced released for reuse. Venue still to be announced.
Workshop Not listed - 7 – 13 December
- 8 Tue, Dec
KubeVirt in Practice & AI in QA: What Works, What Doesn't (new)
Two talks in Zurich: Red Hat's Simon Krenger on running virtual machines next to containers with KubeVirt, including live demos and when it is the wrong tool, and Basia Karaagac on where AI genuinely helps in QA and where exploratory testing and human risk judgement still win.
Meetup Not listed - 8 Tue, Dec
Fabric Year in Review 2026 — Highlights & Outlook
Year-end session from the Zurich Microsoft data-platform group on what actually shipped in Fabric during 2026 and what is worth planning for next.
Webinar Free - 14 – 20 December
- 17 Thu, Dec
The Night of Data Talents: Swiss Edition
Swiss data startups pitch to an investor panel with community voting, capping the year for the Suisse Romande data scene.
Networking 150 CHF - 18 – 24 January
- 19 Tue, Jan
digitalswitzerland @ Davos
A full day in Davos on Switzerland's digital future, with speakers from business, government and research building on the national AI Action Plan and looking ahead to the Geneva AI Summit 2027. Programme details still to be published.
Networking Not listed - 21 Thu, Jan
Digital Lounge @ Davos — Enterprise Data, AI & Robotics (new)
An invitation-only forum during Davos week for CxOs and transformation leaders on enterprise data, AI and robotics — morning and afternoon keynotes and panels, a live technology showcase, entrepreneur talks and parallel workshops, closing with an awards ceremony and dinner.
Conference Not listed (invitation only, limited seating) - 22 Fri, Jan to 5 Feb
AI for Decision Makers — Executive Course at ETH Zurich
A five-day English-language executive course for leaders who need to challenge assumptions on AI projects without becoming data scientists — data science foundations, MLOps, AI governance and ethics, generative AI and a first agent, with an ETH Zurich certificate. Registration closes 15 January 2027.
Workshop CHF 4,000 (10% off for ETH staff and alumni and SDSC partners) - 25 – 31 January
- 28 Thu, Jan to 29 Jan
Generative AI & Agentische Systeme
Two-day German-language course for developers, architects, data scientists and ML engineers on building agentic LLM systems that survive production: function calling, hybrid-search RAG, LangGraph topologies, security hardening and systematic evaluation. Places are limited.
Workshop Not listed - 1 – 7 February
- 1 Mon, Feb to 4 Feb
SWAT4HCLS 2027
The 15th edition of the long-running international conference on semantics in healthcare and life sciences — ontologies, knowledge graphs and AI — with keynotes, tutorials and a dedicated biohackathon day in Basel.
Conference Not listed - 3 Wed, Feb
SDSC-Connect: Connecting Digital Environmental Sciences
A day in Bern on making environmental data usable across disciplines and institutions — data access and sharing, data infrastructure, and the role of machine learning and AI across climate, ecology, hydrology, the cryosphere, natural hazards and agriculture, with keynotes, invited talks, break-outs and a poster fair. Seats are limited and the venue is still to be announced.
Conference CHF 50 (meals included) - 5 Fri, Feb
AI & Quantum Course: From Foundations to Scalable Intelligence (new)
An afternoon course run with Quantum Basel, led by its CTO Jan Mikolon, bridging current AI practice and quantum technologies — from the foundations through to what it takes to scale.
Workshop Not listed (registration required) - 8 – 14 February
- 10 Wed, Feb
Kickstart AI Workflows with Databricks
Hybrid Databricks user-group evening in Zurich on automating data work with AI-enabled workflows, including a session on Databricks Apps and Lakebase applied to clinical cancer research cohorts. Rescheduled from November 2026 to February 2027.
Meetup Not listed
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