BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Swiss Data Events//Calendar feed//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Swiss Data Events X-WR-CALDESC:Upcoming AI and data events in Switzerland\, from swissdataeve nts.ch X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Zurich X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:eth-ai-center-researchers-meetup-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260924T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260924T190000 SUMMARY:ETH AI Center Researchers Community Meetup LOCATION:ETH AI Center\, OAT X 11\, Oerlikon\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Recurring meetup series for the AI research community at ETH Zu rich.\n\nRuns until 25 Nov — see the event page for session dates.\n\nOr ganiser: ETH AI Center\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevent s.ch/events/eth-ai-center-researchers-meetup-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/eth-ai-center-researchers-meetup-2026 / SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-responsible-business-conduct-bern-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261102T100500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261102T120500 SUMMARY:AI and Responsible Business Conduct LOCATION:Kursaal Bern\, Kornhausstrasse 3 DESCRIPTION:A plenary session at the Swiss Forum on Business and Human Righ ts on applying the UN Guiding Principles and OECD Guidelines to AI systems in practice\, with UN representatives\, technology companies and civil so ciety. Interpretation in German\, French and English.\n\nOrganiser: SECO / Federal Department of Foreign Affairs\n\nDetails and registration: https: //swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-responsible-business-conduct-bern-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-responsible-business-conduct-bern- 2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:containers-aws-trust-sovereignty-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T154500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T203000 SUMMARY:Architecting for Trust: Resilience & Sovereignty on AWS LOCATION:Bluelion\, Josefstrasse 219\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:An afternoon hands-on lab on AWS resilience with the Karpenter autoscaler\, then an evening of talks from AWS and copebit on designing re silient workloads\, running enterprise Claude Code on AWS\, and digital so vereignty — closing with pizza and beer.\n\nOrganiser: Containers and AW S Meetup Group / copebit\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataeve nts.ch/events/containers-aws-trust-sovereignty-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/containers-aws-trust-sovereignty-zuri ch-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:gfn-ai-day-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T183000 SUMMARY:GFN AI Day LOCATION:GFN Hub\, ORBIZ Josef\, Josefstrasse 214a\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:A working day rather than a talking one: a morning of practitio ner talks from SSF\, ZHAW\, Correntics and Resilens on what AI can actuall y do for sustainable finance\, then small groups spend the afternoon on re al challenges submitted by GFN startups and demo what they built. Thirty p laces.\n\nOrganiser: Green FinTech Network\n\nDetails and registration: ht tps://swissdataevents.ch/events/gfn-ai-day-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/gfn-ai-day-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:isa-lunch-learn-ai-tools-at-work-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T130000 SUMMARY:ISA Lunch & Learn: AI Tools at Work LOCATION:Online DESCRIPTION:A 45-minute English-language lunch session on where AI tools ge nuinely lift productivity at work\, built around real use cases and what h as changed recently\, closing with open Q&A.\n\nOrganiser: Innovationsverb and Schweizer Arbeitsmarkt (ISA)\n\nDetails and registration: https://swis sdataevents.ch/events/isa-lunch-learn-ai-tools-at-work-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/isa-lunch-learn-ai-tools-at-work-2026 / SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:td-synnex-destination-ai-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T200000 SUMMARY:Destination AI – Verpasse den Zug nicht! LOCATION:Pathé Dietlikon DESCRIPTION:Full-day German-language AI conference for the Swiss partner an d reseller ecosystem\, with a keynote by futurist Gerd Leonhard\, vendor b reakout sessions and business meetings.\n\nOrganiser: TD SYNNEX\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/td-synnex-destination -ai-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/td-synnex-destination-ai-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:tufa-talks-5-dream-machines-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T174500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T200000 SUMMARY:Tufa Talks #5 — Dominique Paul (Dream Machines) LOCATION:Tufa Labs\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Dream Machines founder Dominique Paul on teaching robots by dem onstration so that non-roboticists can automate variable\, repetitive manu facturing work in small and medium-sized businesses\, followed by Q&A and pizza.\n\nOrganiser: Tufa Labs\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissd ataevents.ch/events/tufa-talks-5-dream-machines-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/tufa-talks-5-dream-machines-zurich-20 26/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:zwischen-prompt-und-urteilskraft-lucerne-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T181500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T194500 SUMMARY:Zwischen Prompt und Urteilskraft LOCATION:Hochschule Luzern – Wirtschaft\, Walter-von-Moos-Promenade 1\, L ucerne DESCRIPTION:Impulse talks and a panel at HSLU Lucerne on what communication work is still worth when AI writes the first draft\, and which skills mat ter next — apéro afterwards.\n\nOrganiser: HSLU Institut für Kommunika tion und Marketing (IKM) / ZSPR\n\nDetails and registration: https://swiss dataevents.ch/events/zwischen-prompt-und-urteilskraft-lucerne-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/zwischen-prompt-und-urteilskraft-luce rne-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mindstone-zurich-ai-meetup-november-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261104T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261104T210000 SUMMARY:Mindstone Zurich November AI Meetup LOCATION:Unit8\, Beethovenstrasse 49 (entrance on Gartenstrasse)\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:The Zurich edition of the Mindstone AI evenings\, hosted at Uni t8: 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 stud ents\, and a talk on where AI takes work and society next\, then pizza and networking.\n\nOrganiser: Mindstone Zürich AI Meetup\n\nDetails and regi stration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/mindstone-zurich-ai-meetup-nov ember-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/mindstone-zurich-ai-meetup-november-2 026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:netnode-agentic-ai-prozesse-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261104T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261104T114500 SUMMARY:Agentic AI: Wie agentische KI Prozesse übernimmt LOCATION:Online DESCRIPTION:Free German-language webinar with live demos on production syst ems showing what AI agents can really do today\, where they fail\, and how to run a safe pilot.\n\nOrganiser: NETNODE AG\n\nDetails and registration : https://swissdataevents.ch/events/netnode-agentic-ai-prozesse-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/netnode-agentic-ai-prozesse-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:netnode-ai-im-unternehmen-wo-anfangen-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261104T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261104T104500 SUMMARY:AI im Unternehmen: Wo anfangen? LOCATION:Online DESCRIPTION:Free 45-minute German-language webinar in which NETNODE founder Lukas Fischer shows how to find and score AI use cases by value\, effort and risk\, with three Swiss examples and Q&A.\n\nOrganiser: NETNODE AG\n\n Details and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/netnode-ai-im- unternehmen-wo-anfangen-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/netnode-ai-im-unternehmen-wo-anfangen -2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:eqs-connect-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T180000 SUMMARY:EQS Connect Zurich 2026 — From Compliance Activity to Compliance Impact LOCATION:Rooftopevents\, Talacker 50\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:An English-language afternoon for compliance\, legal and data l eaders built entirely around AI: an opening keynote on what AI is doing to judgement\, a keynote on Swiss exposure to international AI governance ex pectations\, panels on shadow AI and defensible decisions\, and a workshop on where the human–AI boundary should sit.\n\nOrganiser: EQS Group\n\nD etails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/eqs-connect-zur ich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/eqs-connect-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fabric-user-group-switzerland-88th-online-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T190000 SUMMARY:Zürich — 88th Fabric User Group (online) LOCATION:Online DESCRIPTION:The Swiss Fabric user group’s monthly online session: the lat est Fabric news\, then Franco on automating semantic model health checks w ith a Fabric notebook\, the Best Practice Analyzer\, Memory Analyzer and D AX INFO views\, writing results to a Lakehouse to track model quality and memory over time.\n\nOrganiser: Microsoft Fabric User Group Switzerland\n\ nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/fabric-user-g roup-switzerland-88th-online-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/fabric-user-group-switzerland-88th-on line-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:gdg-cloud-zurich-tech-talks-38-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T172500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T210000 SUMMARY:GDG Cloud Zürich: Tech Talks #38 LOCATION:Google Switzerland\, Zurich (address on registration) DESCRIPTION:Two evening talks on Google Cloud and Google DeepMind at Google ’s Zurich office\, followed by a sponsored apéro — note that doors cl ose at 17:55 and late entry is not possible.\n\nOrganiser: GDG Cloud Züri ch\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/gdg-clou d-zurich-tech-talks-38-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/gdg-cloud-zurich-tech-talks-38-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:physical-ai-meetup-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T210000 SUMMARY:Physical AI Meetup — Zurich Edition LOCATION:J floor\, Josefstrasse 206\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:An evening of 15-minute lightning talks and live demos on what it takes to move robots out of demo videos and into factories and warehous es\, with speakers from rerun\, Cerrion\, Sereact and Modal.\n\nOrganiser: {Tech: Europe} with Modal\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdatae vents.ch/events/physical-ai-meetup-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/physical-ai-meetup-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:saic-040-ai-agent-ready-geneva-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T220000 SUMMARY:SAIC #040: From Prototype to Production — Knowing When Your AI Ag ent Is Ready LOCATION:Tesla\, Centre Confédération\, Geneva DESCRIPTION:How to tell whether an AI agent is ready for real users: evalua tion with golden datasets\, comparing models and prompts\, end-to-end prod uction tracing and tying agent performance to business metrics\, worked th rough a multilingual support agent built with LangGraph\, MCP tools and RA G.\n\nOrganiser: Switzerland AI Community\n\nDetails and registration: htt ps://swissdataevents.ch/events/saic-040-ai-agent-ready-geneva-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/saic-040-ai-agent-ready-geneva-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:snowflake-forum-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261105T190000 SUMMARY:Snowflake Forum Zurich 2026 LOCATION:The Circle Convention Center\, The Circle 27\, Zurich-Flughafen DESCRIPTION:Free data-platform conference bringing together Swiss data team s and partners.\n\nOrganiser: Snowflake\n\nDetails and registration: https ://swissdataevents.ch/events/snowflake-forum-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/snowflake-forum-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-in-biomedicine-forum-lugano-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261106T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261106T193000 SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine Forum 2026 LOCATION:Aula Polivalente\, Campus Est USI-SUPSI\, Lugano DESCRIPTION:A free day in Lugano on AI from basic research through to the c linic: one session on digital twins and personalised medicine\, one on pro tein and compound design\, plus abstract talks\, posters and a closing con versation on global AI governance ahead of the Geneva AI Summit 2027.\n\nO rganiser: IBSA Foundation / IDSIA USI-SUPSI\n\nDetails and registration: h ttps://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-in-biomedicine-forum-lugano-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-in-biomedicine-forum-lugano-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:herimpact-who-decides-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261106T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261106T200000 SUMMARY:HerImpact 2026: Who Decides — You or AI? LOCATION:Im Viadukt\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Talks and a panel on who stays accountable when AI shapes an or ganisational decision — who can question it\, correct it or stop it — drawing on current Swiss and Japanese research and real cases\, closing wi th questions the group puts forward for the 2027 Geneva summit.\n\nOrganis er: SOTRAI (Source of Trust in AI)\n\nDetails and registration: https://sw issdataevents.ch/events/herimpact-who-decides-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/herimpact-who-decides-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:swiss-ai-safety-days-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261109 SUMMARY:Swiss AI Safety Days 2026 LOCATION:ETH main building\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Two days at ETH Zurich on AI safety research\, governance and c areers\, with trust-based pricing from free upwards. Attendance is by appl ication\; the deadline is 17 October.\n\nOrganiser: Zurich AI Safety\n\nDe tails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-ai-safety- days-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-ai-safety-days-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:build-your-own-assistant-writing-geneva-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261108T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261108T123000 SUMMARY:Build Your Own Assistant: Time to Stop AI Slop LOCATION:Voisins de Saint-Gervais\, Bd James-Fazy 8\, Geneva DESCRIPTION:A session on getting an assistant to write in your own voice ra ther than generic model output\, then turning the week's news into a post and a newsletter worth reading.\n\nOrganiser: AI Ready Professionals\n\nDe tails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/build-your-own-a ssistant-writing-geneva-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/build-your-own-assistant-writing-gene va-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:heg-geneve-de-lia-aux-resultats-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261109T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261109T193000 SUMMARY:Les Rendez-vous de la HEG-Genève : De l’IA aux résultats LOCATION:HEG-Genève\, Campus Battelle\, Rue de la Tambourine 17\, Carouge (Geneva) DESCRIPTION:Round table in which four organisations present AI initiatives that moved past the pilot stage to measurable business impact — the orga nisers promise fewer speeches and more lived experience — followed by a cocktail.\n\nOrganiser: HEG-Genève / Observatoire Data & IA (with Oracle and Colombus Consulting)\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataeve nts.ch/events/heg-geneve-de-lia-aux-resultats-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/heg-geneve-de-lia-aux-resultats-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:unige-recherche-documentaire-ia-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261109T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261109T114500 SUMMARY:UNIGE – Recherche documentaire et IA LOCATION:Uni Mail 2220\, Geneva DESCRIPTION:University of Geneva workshop on using AI tools for academic re search.\n\nOrganiser: Université de Genève\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/unige-recherche-documentaire-ia-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/unige-recherche-documentaire-ia-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:agentic-trio-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T193000 SUMMARY:Agentic Trio LOCATION:Hardturmstrasse 253\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:INNOQ’s Fabian Walther reframes Teresa Torres’ Product Trio as an "Agentic Trio"\, arguing that AI should change how software teams s plit responsibility — not just how fast they ship.\n\nOrganiser: Zürich Agentic Coding and Architectures\n\nDetails and registration: https://swi ssdataevents.ch/events/agentic-trio-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/agentic-trio-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-in-food-state-of-play-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T180000 SUMMARY:AI in Food — State of Play LOCATION:Helbling\, Hohlstrasse 614\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:A full day of keynotes and workshops for food-industry professi onals past the AI hype stage\, on what it actually takes to implement AI a gainst real problems inside their own organisations.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss F ood & Nutrition Valley / Porsche Consulting\n\nDetails and registration: h ttps://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-in-food-state-of-play-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-in-food-state-of-play-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-swiss-groupe-mutuel-base-sion-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261111 SUMMARY:AI Swiss x Groupe Mutuel : d’une discussion d’équipe à une IA façonnée pour elle\, avec BASE LOCATION:Groupe Mutuel Assurances\, Sion DESCRIPTION:Second stop of AI Swiss’s roadshow on BASE\, its free open st andard for responsible AI adoption\, with a live demonstration turning a t ranscribed team interview into an agreed usage framework\, plus a Q&A on l imits and oversight.\n\nOrganiser: AI Swiss / Groupe Mutuel\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-swiss-groupe-mutuel-ba se-sion-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-swiss-groupe-mutuel-base-sion-2026 / SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:apertus-for-ngos-workshop-lausanne-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T123000 SUMMARY:Apertus for NGOs: Running and Deploying Switzerland’s Open-source LLM LOCATION:EPFL AI Center Lounge\, Lausanne DESCRIPTION:Hands-on morning for non-profit staff and researchers on deploy ing Apertus\, Switzerland’s fully open large language model\, on their o wn infrastructure or via a provider — with a Swiss non-profit case study and group exercises.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss AI Initiative (ETH Zurich\, EPFL & CSCS)\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ap ertus-for-ngos-workshop-lausanne-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/apertus-for-ngos-workshop-lausanne-20 26/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c4dt-ai-sovereignty-conference-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T180000 SUMMARY:C4DT Conference on AI Sovereignty: Charting Switzerland’s Path LOCATION:Starling Hotel\, 1025 Saint-Sulpice\, Saint-Sulpice (Lausanne) DESCRIPTION: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 deployme nt realities\, and concrete recommendations for national strategy.\n\nOrga niser: Center for Digital Trust (C4DT)\, EPFL\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/c4dt-ai-sovereignty-conference-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/c4dt-ai-sovereignty-conference-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:data-protection-tia-ai-startups-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T110000 SUMMARY:Navigating Data Protection and Transfer Impact Assessments for AI S tartups LOCATION:AI Startup Center\, Technopark Zürich\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Breakfast session with lawyers from Wenger Vieli on when a Tran sfer Impact Assessment is actually required for cross-border data transfer s\, and how to keep them manageable as an AI company.\n\nOrganiser: AI Sta rtup Center / Wenger Vieli\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdatae vents.ch/events/data-protection-tia-ai-startups-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/data-protection-tia-ai-startups-zuric h-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:devops-for-fabric-git-deployment-pipelines-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T200000 SUMMARY:DevOps for Fabric — Git & Deployment Pipelines LOCATION:Online DESCRIPTION:Bringing proper CI/CD to Microsoft Fabric: Git integration\, de ployment pipelines\, variable libraries and sensitivity labels for enterpr ise-ready BI.\n\nOrganiser: Data and AI for Intelligent Cloud\n\nDetails a nd registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/devops-for-fabric-git-d eployment-pipelines-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/devops-for-fabric-git-deployment-pipe lines-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:machine-intelligence-summit-dubendorf-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T200000 SUMMARY:Machine Intelligence Summit LOCATION:Stiftung Innovationspark Zürich\, Wangenstrasse 68\, Dübendorf DESCRIPTION:Three hundred people who build frontier AI in Europe\, across f our 80-minute blocks — infrastructure\, learning\, agents and the physic al world — each pairing academia\, a frontier lab and a startup\, plus f ounder lightning talks and fifty students presenting posters. Nothing is r ecorded.\n\nOrganiser: ellipsis Venture\n\nDetails and registration: https ://swissdataevents.ch/events/machine-intelligence-summit-dubendorf-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/machine-intelligence-summit-dubendorf -2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mongodb-user-group-zurich-hallucinations-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T210000 SUMMARY:MUG Zürich — How to Truly Stop AI Hallucinations LOCATION:Zurich (venue to be announced) DESCRIPTION: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 se arch\, reranking and output guardrails — and a second session on the ben efits and risks of AI-assisted development.\n\nOrganiser: Zürich MongoDB User Group\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ mongodb-user-group-zurich-hallucinations-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/mongodb-user-group-zurich-hallucinati ons-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:software-architecture-residuality-ai-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261110T200000 SUMMARY:Rethinking Architecture Through Residuality and AI LOCATION:ERNI Schweiz AG\, Löwenstrasse 11\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Barry O’Reilly’s Residuality Theory applied to the age of A I-generated code: what architects should still decide themselves when mach ines write the implementation. Live stream plus a few on-site seats at ERN I.\n\nOrganiser: Software Architecture and Project Design Zurich\n\nDetail s and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/software-architectur e-residuality-ai-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/software-architecture-residuality-ai- zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:analytics-roundtable-zurich-eth-data-stack-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T193000 SUMMARY:Inside ETH Zurich’s Data Stack: Analytics for Universities LOCATION:Advance Metrics\, Heinrichstrasse 267A\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:A walk through a real analytics stack built with ETH Zurich — the original setup and why\, what got bolted on later\, how individual de partments were brought up to speed with the data\, and where it goes next — then open discussion over drinks.\n\nOrganiser: Analytics Roundtable Z urich\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/analy tics-roundtable-zurich-eth-data-stack-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/analytics-roundtable-zurich-eth-data- stack-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:east-ki-st-gallen-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T220000 SUMMARY:east#KI 2026 LOCATION:Pfalzkeller\, Klosterhof\, St. Gallen DESCRIPTION:Second edition of Eastern Switzerland’s AI evening: a panel o n how safe AI really is\, five-minute pitches from regional companies\, an AI table fair and a networking apéro.\n\nOrganiser: IT rockt! (ICT Clust er Ostschweiz) with swissAI\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdata events.ch/events/east-ki-st-gallen-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/east-ki-st-gallen-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ikm-impuls-vom-trigger-zum-agenten-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T123000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T133000 SUMMARY:IKM Impuls: Vom Trigger zum Agenten LOCATION:Online DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime session from HSLU on what changes when marketing auto mation stops following rules and starts deciding\, and what companies need in data\, technology and organisation to run AI agents in customer dialog ue.\n\nOrganiser: HSLU Institut für Kommunikation und Marketing (IKM)\n\n Details and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ikm-impuls-vom -trigger-zum-agenten-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ikm-impuls-vom-trigger-zum-agenten-20 26/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:opentech-connect-inspire-lausanne-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T173000 SUMMARY:OpenTech Connect 2026 — Day 1: INSPIRE LOCATION:EPFL Innovation Park I\, Lausanne DESCRIPTION:First day of a two-day open-technology gathering at EPFL Innova tion Park\, with talks\, demos\, lightning sessions and panel discussions on data\, AI and open technology for researchers\, students\, developers a nd industry.\n\nOrganiser: Data\, Cloud and AI in Switzerland (with Big Da ta University and IBM Research)\n\nDetails and registration: https://swiss dataevents.ch/events/opentech-connect-inspire-lausanne-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/opentech-connect-inspire-lausanne-202 6/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sprint-robotics-europe-summit-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261113 SUMMARY:SPRINT Robotics Europe Summit 2026 LOCATION:ETH Zürich\, Rämistrasse 101\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Two-day European summit on robotics\, AI and autonomous technol ogy for industrial inspection\, maintenance and operations\, hosted at ETH Zürich\, with company visits on the second day.\n\nOrganiser: SPRINT Rob otics\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/sprin t-robotics-europe-summit-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/sprint-robotics-europe-summit-zurich- 2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:swiss-ai-industry-connect-bern-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T084500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T131500 SUMMARY:Swiss AI Industry Connect LOCATION:Swisscom Office\, Genfergasse 14\, Bern DESCRIPTION:Half-day morning session at Swisscom’s Bern office bringing E PFL and ETH Zurich AI researchers together with industry partners.\n\nOrga niser: EPFL & ETH Zurich\, hosted by Swisscom\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-ai-industry-connect-bern-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-ai-industry-connect-bern-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:swiss-data-ai-group-ai-enabled-workflows-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T210000 SUMMARY:Swiss Data & AI — AI Enabled Workflows LOCATION:Zurich (venue to be announced) DESCRIPTION:The first Zurich gathering of the Swiss Data & AI group\, on au tomating data work with AI-enabled workflows. Topics\, speakers and the ve nue are still to be announced\, and the group is open to offers to speak.\ n\nOrganiser: Swiss Data and AI Group (Databricks User Group)\n\nDetails a nd registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-data-ai-group-ai- enabled-workflows-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-data-ai-group-ai-enabled-workfl ows-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-startup-center-community-meetup-november-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T103000 SUMMARY:AI Startup Center Community Meetup — November Edition LOCATION:AI Startup Center\, Technopark Zürich\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:A deliberately informal morning meetup over coffee for the cent re’s AI startups and corporate partners — no agenda and no presentatio ns\, just conversations about partnerships\, where AI is heading and what is actually hard right now.\n\nOrganiser: AI Startup Center\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-startup-center-communi ty-meetup-november-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-startup-center-community-meetup-no vember-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:business-leaders-evening-your-ai-your-data-geneva-2026@swissdataevents. ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T210000 SUMMARY:Business Leaders' Evening: Your AI\, your data\, under your roof LOCATION:LeBooster Genève\, Route de Jussy 35 (2nd floor)\, Thônex (Genev a) DESCRIPTION: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 doc uments with per-employee permissions\, what the revised Swiss data protect ion act expects of management\, and a networking apéro.\n\nOrganiser: ABA XINFO / AXION / Keeping Life Simple\, hosted by CCI France Suisse\n\nDetai ls and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/business-leaders-ev ening-your-ai-your-data-geneva-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/business-leaders-evening-your-ai-your -data-geneva-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:generative-ai-geneve-5-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T203000 SUMMARY:IA : meetup « Generative AI Genève » #5 LOCATION:Foound\, Rue Jean-Dassier 7\, Geneva DESCRIPTION:Your data\, your models\, your infrastructure: ELCA and EPFL sp in-off Anyway Systems on running LLMs locally or in a private cloud\, and on the trade-offs between performance\, sovereignty and cost when a compan y wants generative AI without handing over its data.\n\nOrganiser: Generat ive AI Genève\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/eve nts/generative-ai-geneve-5-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/generative-ai-geneve-5-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:opentech-connect-build-lausanne-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261113 SUMMARY:OpenTech Connect 2026 — Day 2: BUILD LOCATION:EPFL Innovation Park I\, Lausanne DESCRIPTION:Hands-on second day of OpenTech Connect: workshops\, technical deep dives and practical labs with speakers from LlamaIndex\, Skilder\, Sy nergix and IBM Research. Registration is separate from day one.\n\nOrganis er: Data\, Cloud and AI in Switzerland (with Big Data University and IBM R esearch)\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/op entech-connect-build-lausanne-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/opentech-connect-build-lausanne-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:silicon-chalet-sc71-database-postgresql-gland-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T174500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T210000 SUMMARY:SC71: Meetup Database / PostgreSQL LOCATION:Swissquote Bank SA\, Chemin de la Crétaux 33\, Gland DESCRIPTION:Two database talks hosted by Swissquote in Gland — PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with Laurent Parodi and multi-version concurrency control w ith Louis Tochon — followed by a quiz and apéro.\n\nOrganiser: Silicon Chalet\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/sili con-chalet-sc71-database-postgresql-gland-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/silicon-chalet-sc71-database-postgres ql-gland-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:zurich-ai-safety-ai-futures-post-agi-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T200000 SUMMARY:AI Futures: Trajectories for a Post-AGI Civilization LOCATION:ETH Zurich Main Building\, Rämistrasse 101\, Room F 26.5 DESCRIPTION:Part of a discussion series on where AI development leads: expe rt forecasts for transformative AI\, the economic effects of AGI\, possibl e civilisational paths and what to do about them\, mixing short explainers with group discussion.\n\nOrganiser: Zurich AI Safety\n\nDetails and regi stration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/zurich-ai-safety-ai-futures-po st-agi-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/zurich-ai-safety-ai-futures-post-agi- 2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:swiss-robotics-day-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261113T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261113T180000 SUMMARY:Swiss Robotics Day 2026 LOCATION:StageOne Event & Convention Hall\, Elias-Canetti-Strasse 146\, Zur ich DESCRIPTION:The national robotics meeting point: keynotes\, panels and work shops alongside an exhibition floor with 60+ exhibitors and live demos\, b ringing together labs\, industry\, policymakers and spin-offs.\n\nOrganise r: ETH Zurich RobotX / Swiss Robotics Association\n\nDetails and registrat ion: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-robotics-day-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-robotics-day-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:product-academy-hype-vs-shipped-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261116T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261116T210000 SUMMARY:Hype vs. Shipped: What AI Really Changes in Product Work LOCATION:SMG Swiss Marketplace Group\, Thurgauerstrasse 36\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Two talks on what AI has actually changed in building products: Coople on a year spent replacing squads\, sprints and story points with A I-first workflows and smaller teams\, including the experiments that faile d\, and Brack.Alltron on where AI earned its place and why plain analytics sometimes still beats machine learning.\n\nOrganiser: Product Academy Swi tzerland\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/pr oduct-academy-hype-vs-shipped-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/product-academy-hype-vs-shipped-zuric h-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:swiss-ai-summit-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261116T070000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261116T200000 SUMMARY:Swiss AI Summit 2026 LOCATION:Kunsthaus Zürich\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Full-day summit at the Kunsthaus for senior business\, technolo gy and government leaders\, spanning finance and insurance\, government an d defence\, manufacturing\, cybersecurity\, quantum and healthcare — wit h speakers from Microsoft Switzerland\, IBM\, Nestlé\, ABB\, HSBC and the Canton of Zurich\, plus workshops\, demos and a one-to-one meeting platfo rm.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss AI Summit\n\nDetails and registration: https://swi ssdataevents.ch/events/swiss-ai-summit-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-ai-summit-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-in-azienda-ai-sotto-controllo-lugano-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T200000 SUMMARY:AI in azienda: AI sotto controllo LOCATION:Campus Est USI-SUPSI\, Blocco C\, Aula C1.02\, Via la Santa 1\, Vi ganello\, Lugano DESCRIPTION:Closing evening of the Ticino series on conscious AI use in bus iness\, this one on data\, responsibility\, rules and governance — conte nt\, a hands-on workshop and networking\, capped at thirty participants.\n \nOrganiser: Fondazione AGIRE / SUPSI DTI\n\nDetails and registration: htt ps://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-in-azienda-ai-sotto-controllo-lugano-202 6/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-in-azienda-ai-sotto-controllo-luga no-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fongit-boosting-life-sciences-ai-geneva-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T143000 SUMMARY:Boosting Life Sciences Innovation with AI LOCATION:Campus Biotech\, Chemin des Mines 9\, Geneva DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime session with the Wyss Center AI Hub\, SOPHiA GENETICS \, the Swiss Data Science Center and BrainQuant on the data\, infrastructu re\, validation and regulatory groundwork behind AI in research partnershi ps\, precision medicine and digital biomarkers.\n\nOrganiser: FONGIT / Swi ss Data Science Center\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevent s.ch/events/fongit-boosting-life-sciences-ai-geneva-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/fongit-boosting-life-sciences-ai-gene va-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:growing-together-conference-gtc26-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T180000 SUMMARY:Growing Together Conference GTC26 LOCATION:The Circle Convention Center\, The Circle 27\, Zurich-Flughafen DESCRIPTION:A full day for business and data leaders on getting AI past iso lated use cases and into scalable capability — keynotes from Benedict Ev ans and Google Cloud’s Alon Halevy\, leader tracks with Helvetia\, Axpo and Emmi\, plus tech talks and workshops.\n\nOrganiser: D ONE\n\nDetails a nd registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/growing-together-confer ence-gtc26-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/growing-together-conference-gtc26-202 6/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sdsc-mlops-introduction-epfl-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T170000 SUMMARY:AI in Production: Introduction to MLOps — Training at EPFL LOCATION:EPFL\, Lausanne DESCRIPTION:One-day SDSC training on designing\, deploying and operating ML systems at scale — version control\, CI/CD\, experiment tracking\, moni toring\, drift detection and automated retraining. Registration closes 24 September.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss Data Science Center\n\nDetails and registra tion: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/sdsc-mlops-introduction-epfl-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/sdsc-mlops-introduction-epfl-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:swiss-ai-summit-satellite-asset-management-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T160000 SUMMARY:Satellite Event: From Data to Decisions — AI in Asset Management LOCATION:Beethovenstrasse 48\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:A Swiss AI Summit satellite session on how asset managers turn increasingly complex data into usable investment insight\, and where AI ma kes a genuine difference rather than noise.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss AI Summit\ n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-ai-su mmit-satellite-asset-management-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-ai-summit-satellite-asset-manag ement-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:swiss-ai-summit-satellite-better-work-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261117T180000 SUMMARY:Satellite Event: From Smart AI to Better Work LOCATION:Beethovenstrasse 48\, Zurich DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nOrgani ser: Swiss AI Summit / Zeix\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdata events.ch/events/swiss-ai-summit-satellite-better-work-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-ai-summit-satellite-better-work -2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dinacon-2026-bern@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261118T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261118T170000 SUMMARY:DINAcon 2026 LOCATION:Kongresszentrum Bern\, Zeughausgasse 41 DESCRIPTION:Switzerland’s conference on digital sustainability — 36 ses sions on open source\, open data\, digital sovereignty\, data protection a nd copyright\, with 250+ attendees and a closing Hacknight.\n\nOrganiser: Verein CH Open\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/eve nts/dinacon-2026-bern/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/dinacon-2026-bern/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:scs-ai-risks-in-cybersecurity-geneva-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261119T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261119T193000 SUMMARY:AI Risks in CyberSecurity LOCATION:Novotel Genève Centre\, Rue de Zurich 19\, Geneva DESCRIPTION:Afternoon session in Geneva on how organisations can keep using AI internally without taking on unmanaged risk\, with presentations follo wed by a networking reception\; CPE credits available via ISC2 and ISACA.\ n\nOrganiser: Swiss CyberSecurity (SCS)\n\nDetails and registration: https ://swissdataevents.ch/events/scs-ai-risks-in-cybersecurity-geneva-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/scs-ai-risks-in-cybersecurity-geneva- 2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:agentic-engineering-days-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261121 SUMMARY:Agentic Engineering Days Zurich 2026 LOCATION:Zurich Marriott Hotel\, Neumühlequai 42 DESCRIPTION: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 fro m OpenAI\, Hugging Face\, NVIDIA\, Google and AWS.\n\nOrganiser: letsboot. ch (felixideas GmbH)\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents. ch/events/agentic-engineering-days-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/agentic-engineering-days-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-breakfast-luzern-56@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261120T073000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261120T090000 SUMMARY:AI Breakfast #56 Luzern LOCATION:Universität Luzern\, Frohburgstrasse 3\, Lucerne DESCRIPTION: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 s etup on Azure App Services.\n\nOrganiser: Digital & AI Community\n\nDetail s and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-breakfast-luzern- 56/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-breakfast-luzern-56/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:stem4health-hackathon-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261121 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123 SUMMARY:STEM4Health Hackathon LOCATION:ETH Zürich Campus Hönggerberg\, HPH building\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:A hundred students and early-career researchers spend a weekend on real pharmaceutical manufacturing problems\, combining manufacturing d ata\, mechanistic modelling and machine learning with industry and academi c mentors before pitching to a jury.\n\nOrganiser: Johnson & Johnson Switz erland / Swiss Data Science Center\n\nDetails and registration: https://sw issdataevents.ch/events/stem4health-hackathon-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/stem4health-hackathon-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-safety-trustworthy-ai-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261124T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261124T210000 SUMMARY:AI Safety: Building Trustworthy AI in the Real World LOCATION:Zalando\, Prime Tower\, Hardstrasse 201\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Four speakers from Google\, AWS\, Unique and Systematic-X on ke eping AI systems trustworthy once they act on their own — how to evaluat e and monitor before and after deployment\, where guardrails\, human overs ight and red-teaming fit\, and how to ship fast without losing accountabil ity.\n\nOrganiser: Elevate Tech: Women and Minorities in AI\, Tech\, and S cience\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-s afety-trustworthy-ai-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-safety-trustworthy-ai-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:schwyz-next-ki-agenten-work-immensee-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261124T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261124T160000 SUMMARY:KI-Agenten & -Work: Skills und Anbindungen für konkrete Entlastung im Alltag LOCATION:Hohle Gasse AG\, Coworking «Connect»\, Artherstrasse 60\, Immens ee DESCRIPTION: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 wo rkflows run with clear checkpoints for human review. Fifteen places\, and a paid ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required.\n\nOrganiser: Schwyz Ne xt\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/schwyz-n ext-ki-agenten-work-immensee-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/schwyz-next-ki-agenten-work-immensee- 2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:geneva-ai-conference-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261125T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261125T210000 SUMMARY:The Geneva AI Conference 2026 LOCATION:Venue to be confirmed\, Geneva DESCRIPTION:An evening on enterprise AI strategy and returns\, opened by Ge neva city executive councillor Joëlle Bertossa and built around a panel w ith IBM\, SAP\, Hostelworld and Executive AI. The venue is still to be con firmed.\n\nOrganiser: Startup Network Europe\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/geneva-ai-conference-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/geneva-ai-conference-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:kongress-ki-im-energiesektor-bern-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261125T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261125T173000 SUMMARY:Kongress «KI im Energiesektor» LOCATION:Kursaal Bern DESCRIPTION:Day-long congress bringing around 150 specialists from energy\, technology and policy together on where AI and data create real value in grids\, buildings and districts\, with a keynote by Gerard Reid of Alexa C apital.\n\nOrganiser: energie-cluster.ch\n\nDetails and registration: http s://swissdataevents.ch/events/kongress-ki-im-energiesektor-bern-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/kongress-ki-im-energiesektor-bern-202 6/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mindstone-geneva-ai-meetup-november-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261125T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261125T210000 SUMMARY:Mindstone Geneva November AI Meetup LOCATION:L’Annexe by Rentes Genevoises\, Rue du Port 3\, Geneva DESCRIPTION:Monthly Geneva AI evening with three practical talks — buildi ng with LLMs\, working faster with AI and where it is all heading — then pizza and networking. Forty places.\n\nOrganiser: Mindstone Geneva AI Mee tup\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/mindsto ne-geneva-ai-meetup-november-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/mindstone-geneva-ai-meetup-november-2 026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:after-microsoft-ignite-special-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261127T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261127T190000 SUMMARY:After Microsoft Ignite Special 2026 LOCATION:Microsoft Switzerland\, The Circle\, Zurich-Flughafen DESCRIPTION:Swiss MVPs recap the announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2026 i n short sessions on Cloud & AI\, the agent platform\, Copilot and Microsof t IQ\, security\, data security and compliance\, and agentic business appl ications\, with an apéro after.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss Microsoft Community ( Microsoft Cloud Security & Modern Work)\n\nDetails and registration: https ://swissdataevents.ch/events/after-microsoft-ignite-special-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/after-microsoft-ignite-special-zurich -2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:hack-apertus-onsite-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261129 SUMMARY:Hack Apertus — Onsite Hackathon Zurich LOCATION:AI Startup Center\, Technopark Zürich\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:The on-site leg of the national Apertus hackathon: build on the open Apertus 8B model\, strengthen its multilingual abilities and ship ap plications for private- and public-sector problems\, with everything relea sed as Open Commons.\n\nOrganiser: AI Startup Center\n\nDetails and regist ration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/hack-apertus-onsite-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/hack-apertus-onsite-zurich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sdsc-ai-insights-chief-executives-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261127T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261127T170000 SUMMARY:AI Insights for Chief Executives LOCATION:Swiss AI Tower\, ETH Zürich\, Andreasstrasse 5\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Executive workshop for CEOs\, CFOs\, CDOs and CTOs on turning d ata and AI into measurable business value\, with case studies from EKZ\, M erck and Richemont. Limited seats.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss Data Science Center / FBXperts\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events /sdsc-ai-insights-chief-executives-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/sdsc-ai-insights-chief-executives-202 6/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:airistoteles-4-hslu-lucerne-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261201T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261201T203000 SUMMARY:AIristoteles 4.0 — Bis dass der Strom uns scheidet LOCATION:Hochschule Luzern – Wirtschaft\, Walter-von-Moos-Promenade 1\, L ucerne DESCRIPTION:Fourth edition of HSLU’s AIristoteles series: an EPFL evoluti onary psychologist and a psychotherapist discuss what it means when people enter long-term relationships with AI bots\, moderated by Stephan Klappro th and followed by an apéro.\n\nOrganiser: HSLU Institut für Kommunikati on und Marketing (IKM)\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevent s.ch/events/airistoteles-4-hslu-lucerne-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/airistoteles-4-hslu-lucerne-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:databricks-data-ai-world-tour-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261201T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261201T183000 SUMMARY:Databricks Data + AI World Tour Zurich 2026 LOCATION:StageOne Event & Convention Hall\, Oerlikon\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Databricks' flagship Swiss stop on the Data + AI World Tour: ke ynotes\, breakout sessions and hands-on training on Genie and Lakebase\, p lus an expo\, with speakers from Databricks and Zurich Insurance.\n\nOrgan iser: Databricks\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/e vents/databricks-data-ai-world-tour-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/databricks-data-ai-world-tour-zurich- 2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:epfl-reshaping-information-research-with-ai-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261201T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261201T163000 SUMMARY:Reshaping Information Research with AI LOCATION:EPFL\, room MED 0 1618\, Lausanne DESCRIPTION:Two-hour on-site workshop from the EPFL Library comparing four AI-powered research assistants\, how they work and where they differ from traditional information retrieval. Open to the public\, registration requi red.\n\nOrganiser: EPFL Library\n\nDetails and registration: https://swiss dataevents.ch/events/epfl-reshaping-information-research-with-ai-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/epfl-reshaping-information-research-w ith-ai-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ibm-bob-coding-watch-party-zurich-december-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261201T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261201T200000 SUMMARY:IBM Bob Coding Watch Party Zürich — Final Edition LOCATION:IBM Switzerland AG\, Vulkanstrasse 106 (+ online)\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:The closing session of IBM's 2026 hybrid series on IBM Bob\, it s AI development assistant — coding live alongside other European cities \, with beginner\, intermediate and expert tracks covering everything from first idea to modernising legacy applications.\n\nOrganiser: IBM Switzerl and\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ibm-bob -coding-watch-party-zurich-december-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ibm-bob-coding-watch-party-zurich-dec ember-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:schwyz-next-ki-strategie-governance-immensee-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261201T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261201T183000 SUMMARY:KI-Strategie und -Governance für KMUs LOCATION:Hohle Gasse AG\, Coworking «Connect»\, Artherstrasse 60\, Immens ee DESCRIPTION:A 90-minute German-language session for SME decision-makers on steering generative AI use rather than letting it spread: setting a strate gic frame\, drafting an internal AI policy\, weighing data-protection\, li ability and wrong-output risks\, and planning a safe rollout under Swiss d ata protection law and the EU AI Act. Fifteen places.\n\nOrganiser: Schwyz Next\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/schwy z-next-ki-strategie-governance-immensee-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/schwyz-next-ki-strategie-governance-i mmensee-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:agile-breakfast-zurich-viele-agenten-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261202T081500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261202T101500 SUMMARY:Ein Team\, ein Plan und viele Agenten LOCATION:Freiraum\, Zürcher Kantonalbank\, Bahnhofstrasse 9\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:A German-language breakfast session with Quatico CEO Jan Wloka on why adding more AI agents tends to produce more review work than finish ed work\, and the three changes that fixed it for his team: a written deci sion 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.\n\nOrganis er: Agile Breakfast Zürich (swissICT)\n\nDetails and registration: https: //swissdataevents.ch/events/agile-breakfast-zurich-viele-agenten-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/agile-breakfast-zurich-viele-agenten- 2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ki-update-swissai-meetup-gebenstorf-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261202T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261202T210000 SUMMARY:KI-Update x swissAI Meetup — Die Auswirkungen der KI auf Kinder LOCATION:Geelig Zentrum\, 3rd floor\, Wambisterstrasse 1a\, Gebenstorf DESCRIPTION:Free German-language evening in Gebenstorf: a current AI update from Michael Kyburz\, then Alexander Repenning on what AI means for child ren\, closing with an apéro with the swissAI community.\n\nOrganiser: BEY ONDER & swissAI\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/ev ents/ki-update-swissai-meetup-gebenstorf-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ki-update-swissai-meetup-gebenstorf-2 026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:swiss-it-minds-2026-zurich@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261204 SUMMARY:Swiss IT Minds 2026 — IT\, AI & Cyber Security LOCATION:The Dolder Grand\, Kurhausstrasse 65\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Two days for Swiss IT and data leaders at the Dolder Grand on e nterprise AI as a strategic capability\, centralised versus decentralised AI governance in large organisations\, securing AI agents as a hybrid work force\, and the governance basics behind all of it.\n\nOrganiser: business factors Deutschland GmbH\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataev ents.ch/events/swiss-it-minds-2026-zurich/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-it-minds-2026-zurich/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dbt-meetup-zurich-december-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261203T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261203T193000 SUMMARY:dbt Meetup Zurich LOCATION:EF Education AG\, Selnaustrasse 30\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Evening for the Zürich dbt community aimed at analytics engine ers\, data engineers and data leaders\, opening with Massimo Turola of Ban k Vontobel on using dbt to manage Snowflake Cortex AI applications in an A I data catalog\, then an apéro.\n\nOrganiser: Switzerland dbt Meetup\n\nD etails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/dbt-meetup-zuri ch-december-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/dbt-meetup-zurich-december-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fuehrung-ist-kein-prompt-lucerne-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261203T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261203T210000 SUMMARY:Business mit KI. Heute\, nicht 2030. Vol. 02 — Führung ist kein Prompt LOCATION:Schlössli Pop-Up\, Sternmattstrasse 3\, Lucerne DESCRIPTION:Second volume of the Lucerne series for entrepreneurs and C-lev el leaders on how AI reshapes teams\, leadership and the job market: two s hort talks\, a moderated panel and an apéro\, capped at 50 guests and hel d in German.\n\nOrganiser: Pixels / Digital & AI Community\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/fuehrung-ist-kein-prompt-l ucerne-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/fuehrung-ist-kein-prompt-lucerne-2026 / SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:hack-apertus-onsite-basel-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261206 SUMMARY:Hack Apertus — Onsite Hackathon Basel LOCATION:Basel DESCRIPTION:The Basel leg of the national Apertus hackathon series\, buildi ng applications and multilingual improvements on Switzerland’s open Aper tus model\, with everything produced released for reuse. Venue still to be announced.\n\nOrganiser: aiLights Association\n\nDetails and registration : https://swissdataevents.ch/events/hack-apertus-onsite-basel-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/hack-apertus-onsite-basel-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:databricks-christmas-hackathon-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261207T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261207T200000 SUMMARY:Christmas Special Hackathon — Operation Silent Night LOCATION:Headsquarter – The Artistic\, Stockerstrasse 33\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:Festive team hackathon where the Zurich Databricks User Group t urns a sabotage mystery into hands-on practice with Genie\, Lakebase and D atabricks Apps.\n\nOrganiser: Zurich Databricks User Group\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/databricks-christmas-hacka thon-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/databricks-christmas-hackathon-zurich -2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:azure-zurich-user-group-xmas-special-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261208T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261208T220000 SUMMARY:Azure Zurich User Group X-Mas Special 2026 LOCATION:Frau Gerolds Garten\, Geroldstrasse 23\, Zurich DESCRIPTION:The Azure Zürich User Group closes the year with its Christmas get-together at Frau Gerolds Wintergarten — no agenda\, just food\, gl ühwein and the Swiss Azure community. Places are limited.\n\nOrganiser: M icrosoft Azure Zürich User Group\n\nDetails and registration: https://swi ssdataevents.ch/events/azure-zurich-user-group-xmas-special-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/azure-zurich-user-group-xmas-special- 2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:devops-zurich-kubevirt-ai-in-qa-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261208T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261208T203000 SUMMARY:KubeVirt in Practice & AI in QA: What Works\, What Doesn't LOCATION:Digicomp Academy AG\, Limmatstrasse 50\, Zurich DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nOr ganiser: DevOps Meetup Zürich\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissd ataevents.ch/events/devops-zurich-kubevirt-ai-in-qa-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/devops-zurich-kubevirt-ai-in-qa-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fabric-year-in-review-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261208T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261208T200000 SUMMARY:Fabric Year in Review 2026 — Highlights & Outlook LOCATION:Online DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nOrganiser: Data and AI for Intelligent Cloud\n\nDetails and r egistration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/fabric-year-in-review-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/fabric-year-in-review-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:night-of-data-talents-lausanne-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261217T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261217T233000 SUMMARY:The Night of Data Talents: Startup Edition LOCATION:Cercle des Bains\, Lausanne DESCRIPTION:Swiss data startups pitch to an investor panel with community v oting\, capping the year for the Suisse Romande data scene.\n\nOrganiser: DatAfterwork Suisse\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.c h/events/night-of-data-talents-lausanne-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/night-of-data-talents-lausanne-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:davos-catalyst-ai-summit-2027@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270116 SUMMARY:Davos Catalyst: AI Summit 2027 LOCATION:Davos Event Lounge\, Rätia Center\, Promenade 40 DESCRIPTION:Invitation-only summit running alongside Davos week for around 200 founders\, investors\, corporate leaders and researchers\, with roundt ables and closed-door sessions on AI infrastructure\, investment\, enterpr ise deployment and governance.\n\nOrganiser: Davos Catalyst\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/davos-catalyst-ai-summit- 2027/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/davos-catalyst-ai-summit-2027/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:digitalswitzerland-davos-2027@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270119T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270119T180000 SUMMARY:digitalswitzerland @ Davos LOCATION:Davos DESCRIPTION:A full day in Davos on Switzerland's digital future\, with spea kers from business\, government and research building on the national AI A ction Plan and looking ahead to the Geneva AI Summit 2027. Programme detai ls still to be published.\n\nOrganiser: digitalswitzerland\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/digitalswitzerland-davos-2 027/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/digitalswitzerland-davos-2027/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:digital-lounge-davos-2027@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270121T091500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270121T111500 SUMMARY:Digital Lounge @ Davos — Enterprise Data\, AI & Robotics LOCATION:Davos (venue shared with invitees) DESCRIPTION:An invitation-only forum during Davos week for CxOs and transfo rmation leaders on enterprise data\, AI and robotics — morning and after noon keynotes and panels\, a live technology showcase\, entrepreneur talks and parallel workshops\, closing with an awards ceremony and dinner.\n\nO rganiser: JiVS / Data Migration International\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/digital-lounge-davos-2027/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/digital-lounge-davos-2027/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sdsc-ai-for-decision-makers-eth-2027@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270122T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270122T170000 SUMMARY:AI for Decision Makers — Executive Course at ETH Zurich LOCATION:Swiss AI Tower (Andreasturm)\, Andreasstrasse 5\, Oerlikon\, Zuric h DESCRIPTION:A five-day English-language executive course for leaders who ne ed to challenge assumptions on AI projects without becoming data scientist s — data science foundations\, MLOps\, AI governance and ethics\, genera tive AI and a first agent\, with an ETH Zurich certificate. Registration c loses 15 January 2027.\n\nRuns until 5 Feb — see the event page for sess ion dates.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss Data Science Center / ETH Zürich School fo r Continuing Education\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevent s.ch/events/sdsc-ai-for-decision-makers-eth-2027/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/sdsc-ai-for-decision-makers-eth-2027/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ost-generative-ai-agentic-systems-rapperswil-2027@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270130 SUMMARY:Generative AI & Agentische Systeme LOCATION:OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule\, Campus Rapperswil\, Rappersw il-Jona DESCRIPTION:Two-day German-language course for developers\, architects\, da ta scientists and ML engineers on building agentic LLM systems that surviv e production: function calling\, hybrid-search RAG\, LangGraph topologies\ , security hardening and systematic evaluation. Places are limited.\n\nOrg aniser: OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (Institut für Computational E ngineering)\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events /ost-generative-ai-agentic-systems-rapperswil-2027/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ost-generative-ai-agentic-systems-rap perswil-2027/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:swat4hcls-basel-2027@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270205 SUMMARY:SWAT4HCLS 2027 LOCATION:University of Basel\, Petersplatz 1 DESCRIPTION:The 15th edition of the long-running international conference o n semantics in healthcare and life sciences — ontologies\, knowledge gra phs and AI — with keynotes\, tutorials and a dedicated biohackathon day in Basel.\n\nOrganiser: SWAT4HCLS / University of Basel\n\nDetails and reg istration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swat4hcls-basel-2027/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swat4hcls-basel-2027/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:sdsc-connect-environmental-sciences-bern-2027@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270203T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270203T163000 SUMMARY:SDSC-Connect: Connecting Digital Environmental Sciences LOCATION:Central Bern venue to be announced DESCRIPTION:A day in Bern on making environmental data usable across discip lines and institutions — data access and sharing\, data infrastructure\, and the role of machine learning and AI across climate\, ecology\, hydrol ogy\, the cryosphere\, natural hazards and agriculture\, with keynotes\, i nvited talks\, break-outs and a poster fair. Seats are limited and the ven ue is still to be announced.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss Data Science Center\n\nDe tails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/sdsc-connect-env ironmental-sciences-bern-2027/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/sdsc-connect-environmental-sciences-b ern-2027/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:swiss-ai-summit-ai-quantum-course-zurich-2027@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270205T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270205T180000 SUMMARY:AI & Quantum Course: From Foundations to Scalable Intelligence LOCATION:Headsquarter – The Artistic\, Stockerstrasse 33\, Zurich DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss AI Summit / Quantum Basel\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevent s.ch/events/swiss-ai-summit-ai-quantum-course-zurich-2027/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/swiss-ai-summit-ai-quantum-course-zur ich-2027/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:databricks-kickstart-ai-workflows-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270210T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20270210T210000 SUMMARY:Kickstart AI Workflows with Databricks LOCATION:Zurich (address on registration) DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Databricks user-group evening in Zurich on automating da ta work with AI-enabled workflows\, including a session on Databricks Apps and Lakebase applied to clinical cancer research cohorts. Rescheduled fro m November 2026 to February 2027.\n\nOrganiser: Swiss Data & AI Group (Dat abricks User Group)\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.c h/events/databricks-kickstart-ai-workflows-zurich-2026/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/databricks-kickstart-ai-workflows-zur ich-2026/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-days-2027-geneva@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270217 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270218 SUMMARY:AI Days 2027 — Geneva LOCATION:Geneva DESCRIPTION:Geneva leg of the fifth AI Days\, the Swiss AI Center’s appli ed-AI conference for SMEs\, with workshops\, talks\, research and demos. R egistration not yet open.\n\nOrganiser: HES-SO / Swiss AI Center\n\nDetail s and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-days-2027-geneva/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-days-2027-geneva/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-days-2027-yverdon-les-bains@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270219 SUMMARY:AI Days 2027 — Yverdon-les-Bains LOCATION:Yverdon-les-Bains DESCRIPTION:Yverdon-les-Bains leg of AI Days 2027\, the Swiss AI Center’s applied-AI conference for SMEs\, with workshops\, talks and demos. Regist ration not yet open.\n\nOrganiser: HES-SO / Swiss AI Center\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-days-2027-yverdon-les- bains/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-days-2027-yverdon-les-bains/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai-days-2027-fribourg@swissdataevents.ch DTSTAMP:20261102T054720Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270220 SUMMARY:AI Days 2027 — Fribourg LOCATION:Fribourg DESCRIPTION:Fribourg leg of AI Days 2027\, the Swiss AI Center’s applied- AI conference for SMEs\, closing the three-city edition with workshops\, t alks and demos. Registration not yet open.\n\nOrganiser: HES-SO / Swiss AI Center\n\nDetails and registration: https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai- days-2027-fribourg/ URL:https://swissdataevents.ch/events/ai-days-2027-fribourg/ SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR