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UID:gfn-ai-day-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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/
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UID:build-your-own-assistant-writing-geneva-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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/
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UID:unige-recherche-documentaire-ia-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:apertus-for-ngos-workshop-lausanne-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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/
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UID:opentech-connect-build-lausanne-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:ai-in-azienda-ai-sotto-controllo-lugano-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:fongit-boosting-life-sciences-ai-geneva-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:sdsc-mlops-introduction-epfl-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:swiss-ai-summit-satellite-better-work-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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/
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UID:stem4health-hackathon-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:schwyz-next-ki-agenten-work-immensee-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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/
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UID:hack-apertus-onsite-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:sdsc-ai-insights-chief-executives-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:epfl-reshaping-information-research-with-ai-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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/
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UID:schwyz-next-ki-strategie-governance-immensee-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:hack-apertus-onsite-basel-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:databricks-christmas-hackathon-zurich-2026@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:sdsc-ai-for-decision-makers-eth-2027@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:ost-generative-ai-agentic-systems-rapperswil-2027@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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
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UID:swiss-ai-summit-ai-quantum-course-zurich-2027@swissdataevents.ch
DTSTAMP:20261102T054721Z
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/
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