ETH AI Center Researchers Community Meetup
Recurring meetup series for the AI research community at ETH Zurich.
- 2 – 8 November
- Meetup Free
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Architecting for Trust: Resilience & Sovereignty on AWS
An afternoon hands-on lab on AWS resilience with the Karpenter autoscaler, then an evening of talks from AWS and copebit on designing resilient workloads, running enterprise Claude Code on AWS, and digital sovereignty — closing with pizza and beer.
Meetup Free -
GFN AI Day
A working day rather than a talking one: a morning of practitioner talks from SSF, ZHAW, Correntics and Resilens on what AI can actually do for sustainable finance, then small groups spend the afternoon on real challenges submitted by GFN startups and demo what they built. Thirty places.
Workshop CHF 15 members / CHF 70 external (lunch and apéro included) -
ISA Lunch & Learn: AI Tools at Work
A 45-minute English-language lunch session on where AI tools genuinely lift productivity at work, built around real use cases and what has changed recently, closing with open Q&A.
Webinar Free -
Destination AI – Verpasse den Zug nicht!
Full-day German-language AI conference for the Swiss partner and reseller ecosystem, with a keynote by futurist Gerd Leonhard, vendor breakout sessions and business meetings.
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Tufa Talks #5 — Dominique Paul (Dream Machines)
Dream Machines founder Dominique Paul on teaching robots by demonstration so that non-roboticists can automate variable, repetitive manufacturing work in small and medium-sized businesses, followed by Q&A and pizza.
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Zwischen Prompt und Urteilskraft
Impulse talks and a panel at HSLU Lucerne on what communication work is still worth when AI writes the first draft, and which skills matter next — apéro afterwards.
Networking Not listed -
Claude Code for the Financial Services Industry (new)
Live demos rather than theory: practitioners from MFM Mirante Fund Management, AtonRâ Partners and Moody’s Analytics show what they have actually built with Claude Code in quant workflows, investment research and credit risk analytics.
Meetup Free (event full, waitlist) -
Economics of AI: Capabilities, Trends, Price-Wars (Part 1 of 2) (new)
First of two sessions on the economics of AI: how models are trained, what makes them economically unusual, and how that plays out in moats, price wars and distillation strategies across the hardware supply chain.
Meetup Free (event full, waitlist) -
Mindstone Zurich November AI Meetup
The Zurich edition of the Mindstone AI evenings, hosted at Unit8: a technical demo of what one team learned building a product with LLMs, a practical session on closing the AI skills gap for non-technical students, and a talk on where AI takes work and society next, then pizza and networking.
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Agentic AI: Wie agentische KI Prozesse übernimmt
Free German-language webinar with live demos on production systems showing what AI agents can really do today, where they fail, and how to run a safe pilot.
Webinar Free -
AI im Unternehmen: Wo anfangen?
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.
Webinar Free -
Vision AI Business Circle (new)
A moderated panel on where AI is actually useful in business, with Revylr, Optohive, Bailey AI Consulting and the AI Business School, followed by an apéro and networking south of Lake Zurich.
Networking CHF 45 / CHF 35 members (apéro and snacks included) -
AI Safety Meetup Geneva — First Session (new)
The opening session of a new Geneva AI safety group, deliberately mixing technical, governance and UN/NGO people: short introductions, flash talks and a round table, with paper clubs planned for later meetings.
Meetup Free (event full, waitlist) -
EQS Connect Zurich 2026 — From Compliance Activity to Compliance Impact
An English-language afternoon for compliance, legal and data leaders built entirely around AI: an opening keynote on what AI is doing to judgement, a keynote on Swiss exposure to international AI governance expectations, panels on shadow AI and defensible decisions, and a workshop on where the human–AI boundary should sit.
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Zürich — 88th Fabric User Group (online)
The Swiss Fabric user group’s monthly online session: the latest Fabric news, then Franco on automating semantic model health checks with a Fabric notebook, the Best Practice Analyzer, Memory Analyzer and DAX INFO views, writing results to a Lakehouse to track model quality and memory over time.
Webinar Free -
GDG Cloud Zürich: Tech Talks #38
Two evening talks on Google Cloud and Google DeepMind at Google’s Zurich office, followed by a sponsored apéro — note that doors close at 17:55 and late entry is not possible.
Meetup Free (host approval required) -
Physical AI Meetup — Zurich Edition (new)
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 warehouses, with speakers from rerun, Cerrion, Sereact and Modal.
Meetup Free (host approval required) -
SAIC #040: From Prototype to Production — Knowing When Your AI Agent Is Ready (new)
How to tell whether an AI agent is ready for real users: evaluation with golden datasets, comparing models and prompts, end-to-end production tracing and tying agent performance to business metrics, worked through a multilingual support agent built with LangGraph, MCP tools and RAG.
Meetup Free (registration required) -
Snowflake Forum Zurich 2026
Free data-platform conference bringing together Swiss data teams and partners.
Conference Free -
Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine Forum 2026
A free day in Lugano on AI from basic research through to the clinic: one session on digital twins and personalised medicine, one on protein and compound design, plus abstract talks, posters and a closing conversation on global AI governance ahead of the Geneva AI Summit 2027.
Conference Free (registration requested) -
AI x Finance Hackathon with Brevan Howard (new)
An eight-hour hackathon on a finance challenge set by macro investment firm Brevan Howard, open to anyone comfortable with Python who wants to work on real market data problems at EPFL.
Workshop Free (approx. 80 places, registration by approval; CHF 500–1,000 prizes) -
Autoresearch Log 002 (new)
A paper club for people building AI systems that run their own research loops, with a talk on swarm intelligence from Junpeng Lao (rekursiv.ai) and breakouts on current challenges, including negative results.
Meetup Free (host approval required) -
HerImpact 2026: Who Decides — You or AI?
Talks and a panel on who stays accountable when AI shapes an organisational decision — who can question it, correct it or stop it — drawing on current Swiss and Japanese research and real cases, closing with questions the group puts forward for the 2027 Geneva summit.
Networking CHF 50 -
Move Faster or Break Trust? Key Trade-off Moments in AI Product Development (new)
A morning panel on the trade-offs teams actually face when shipping AI products, with product leaders from Google DeepMind, Unique AI, Benetics AI and Product People, opened by Google’s Karin Hennessey.
Meetup Free (registration subject to approval) -
Saturday coffee+AI lab: build your first automation (new)
A beginners’ session where each participant picks one recurring weekly task and leaves with a working AI automation wired to their own inbox and calendar. Bring a laptop.
Workshop CHF 39 (drinks and snacks included) -
Coffee & Prompt #010 (new)
The Geneva builders’ Saturday morning coworking session: bring an AI project or side hustle, show a feature or a lesson learned, and get feedback from the room over coffee.
Networking Not listed -
Swiss AI Safety Days 2026
Two days at ETH Zurich on AI safety research, governance and careers, with trust-based pricing from free upwards. Attendance is by application; the deadline is 17 October.
Conference Free–CHF 320 (trust-based) -
Build Your Own Assistant: Time to Stop AI Slop
A session on getting an assistant to write in your own voice rather than generic model output, then turning the week's news into a post and a newsletter worth reading.
Workshop CHF 85 - 9 – 15 November
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Les Rendez-vous de la HEG-Genève : De l’IA aux résultats (new)
Round table in which four organisations present AI initiatives that moved past the pilot stage to measurable business impact — the organisers promise fewer speeches and more lived experience — followed by a cocktail.
Conference Free (registration required) -
The Judgements You Cannot Outsource (new)
Short talks and open discussion on which professional judgements should stay human as AI absorbs more decisions, with Chuck Garcia (Columbia Engineering), Pascal Wiscour-Conter and Dr Jacqueline Kucera (IDHEAP, UNIL).
Meetup Free (registration required) -
Knowledge Transfer in the Age of AI (new)
A workshop plus panel on how AI changes knowledge transfer between research, industry and new talent, with ETH Zurich, Artefact and KPMG Switzerland’s head of AI answering questions the room drafts first.
Meetup Free (50 places, registration required) -
UNIGE – Recherche documentaire et IA
University of Geneva workshop on using AI tools for academic research.
Workshop Not specified -
Women & AI: How to Lead Change & Build the Future (new)
Zurich founders and AI practitioners on how they actually use AI inside their companies and lead teams through the change it brings, followed by an open panel and networking.
Networking Free -
Agentic Trio
INNOQ’s Fabian Walther reframes Teresa Torres’ Product Trio as an "Agentic Trio", arguing that AI should change how software teams split responsibility — not just how fast they ship.
Meetup Free -
AI in Food — State of Play
A full day of keynotes and workshops for food-industry professionals past the AI hype stage, on what it actually takes to implement AI against real problems inside their own organisations.
Conference CHF 0–250 (free for SFNV partners) -
AI Swiss x Groupe Mutuel : d’une discussion d’équipe à une IA façonnée pour elle, avec BASE (new)
Second stop of AI Swiss’s roadshow on BASE, its free open standard for responsible AI adoption, with a live demonstration turning a transcribed team interview into an agreed usage framework, plus a Q&A on limits and oversight.
Meetup Not listed (registration required) -
aiHealth 2026 — 3rd International Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Health (new)
A two-morning boutique conference bringing clinicians, industry and academics together across three sessions — AI for diagnostics, AI for therapeutics and AI in citizen health.
Conference EUR 400–900 -
Apertus for NGOs: Running and Deploying Switzerland’s Open-source LLM
Hands-on morning for non-profit staff and researchers on deploying Apertus, Switzerland’s fully open large language model, on their own infrastructure or via a provider — with a Swiss non-profit case study and group exercises.
Workshop Free -
C4DT Conference on AI Sovereignty: Charting Switzerland’s Path
A full day on how Switzerland builds strategic independence in AI between US and Chinese dominance — lessons from other middle powers, Swiss research including the Apertus foundation model, industry deployment realities, and concrete recommendations for national strategy.
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Navigating Data Protection and Transfer Impact Assessments for AI Startups
Breakfast session with lawyers from Wenger Vieli on when a Transfer Impact Assessment is actually required for cross-border data transfers, and how to keep them manageable as an AI company.
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DevOps for Fabric — Git & Deployment Pipelines
Bringing proper CI/CD to Microsoft Fabric: Git integration, deployment pipelines, variable libraries and sensitivity labels for enterprise-ready BI.
Webinar Free -
Machine Intelligence Summit
Three hundred people who build frontier AI in Europe, across four 80-minute blocks — infrastructure, learning, agents and the physical world — each pairing academia, a frontier lab and a startup, plus founder lightning talks and fifty students presenting posters. Nothing is recorded.
Conference Not listed (curated attendance, host approval required) -
MUG Zürich — How to Truly Stop AI Hallucinations
Two talks from Helvetia Insurance engineers: why factual errors in generative AI apps usually come from weak retrieval design rather than the model — covering semantic chunking, metadata filtering, hybrid search, reranking and output guardrails — and a second session on the benefits and risks of AI-assisted development.
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Rethinking Architecture Through Residuality and AI
Barry O’Reilly’s Residuality Theory applied to the age of AI-generated code: what architects should still decide themselves when machines write the implementation. Live stream plus a few on-site seats at ERNI.
Meetup Free -
Inside ETH Zurich’s Data Stack: Analytics for Universities
A walk through a real analytics stack built with ETH Zurich — the original setup and why, what got bolted on later, how individual departments were brought up to speed with the data, and where it goes next — then open discussion over drinks.
Meetup Free -
east#KI 2026 (new)
Second edition of Eastern Switzerland’s AI evening: a panel on how safe AI really is, five-minute pitches from regional companies, an AI table fair and a networking apéro.
Conference CHF 25 -
IKM Impuls: Vom Trigger zum Agenten
Lunchtime session from HSLU on what changes when marketing automation stops following rules and starts deciding, and what companies need in data, technology and organisation to run AI agents in customer dialogue.
Webinar Not listed -
OpenTech Connect 2026 — Day 1: INSPIRE (new)
First day of a two-day open-technology gathering at EPFL Innovation Park, with talks, demos, lightning sessions and panel discussions on data, AI and open technology for researchers, students, developers and industry.
Conference Free (host approval required) -
The Robotics Founder’s Guide: Find Your Ideal Customer with Data (new)
A hands-on session for robotics and deep-tech teams on choosing a first market: comparing customer segments, testing assumptions against market and sales data, and using AI to spot buying signals. Networking drinks follow.
Workshop Free (places limited, registration by approval) -
SPRINT Robotics Europe Summit 2026 (new)
Two-day European summit on robotics, AI and autonomous technology for industrial inspection, maintenance and operations, hosted at ETH Zürich, with company visits on the second day.
Conference EUR 400 community / EUR 900 non-members / EUR 150 students -
Swiss AI Industry Connect (new)
Half-day morning session at Swisscom’s Bern office bringing EPFL and ETH Zurich AI researchers together with industry partners.
Networking Not listed -
Swiss Data & AI — AI Enabled Workflows
The first Zurich gathering of the Swiss Data & AI group, on automating data work with AI-enabled workflows. Topics, speakers and the venue are still to be announced, and the group is open to offers to speak.
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AI Startup Center Community Meetup — November Edition
A deliberately informal morning meetup over coffee for the centre’s AI startups and corporate partners — no agenda and no presentations, just conversations about partnerships, where AI is heading and what is actually hard right now.
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Business Leaders' Evening: Your AI, your data, under your roof
A French-language evening for SME leaders on getting value from AI without giving up control of the data: three levels of sovereign AI, a live demo of a fully offline model answering on a sample company’s documents with per-employee permissions, what the revised Swiss data protection act expects of management, and a networking apéro.
Networking CHF 69 -
Why Adam Works in Optimizing Language Models: Heavy-Tailed Data Imbalance (new)
Frederik Kunstner (INRIA) on why plain gradient descent struggles to train language models while Adam does not — tracing the gap to Zipf-law imbalance in language data, with empirical results and a proof on a linear bigram model.
Meetup Free (registration required) -
IA : meetup « Generative AI Genève » #5
Your data, your models, your infrastructure: ELCA and EPFL spin-off Anyway Systems on running LLMs locally or in a private cloud, and on the trade-offs between performance, sovereignty and cost when a company wants generative AI without handing over its data.
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OpenTech Connect 2026 — Day 2: BUILD (new)
Hands-on second day of OpenTech Connect: workshops, technical deep dives and practical labs with speakers from LlamaIndex, Skilder, Synergix and IBM Research. Registration is separate from day one.
Workshop Free (host approval required) -
SC71: Meetup Database / PostgreSQL
Two database talks hosted by Swissquote in Gland — PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with Laurent Parodi and multi-version concurrency control with Louis Tochon — followed by a quiz and apéro.
Meetup Free -
AI Futures: Trajectories for a Post-AGI Civilization
Part of a discussion series on where AI development leads: expert forecasts for transformative AI, the economic effects of AGI, possible civilisational paths and what to do about them, mixing short explainers with group discussion.
Meetup Free -
Mit Claude in die Agentic Economy (new)
A four-hour German-language workshop for non-programmers in management roles: build your own tool with Claude Code, then cover Skills and Projects for reuse plus data protection and model choice. Five to ten participants.
Workshop CHF 450 (coffee and pastries included) -
Swiss Robotics Day 2026
The national robotics meeting point: keynotes, panels and workshops alongside an exhibition floor with 60+ exhibitors and live demos, bringing together labs, industry, policymakers and spin-offs.
Conference Not listed - 16 – 22 November
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Hype vs. Shipped: What AI Really Changes in Product Work
Two talks on what AI has actually changed in building products: Coople on a year spent replacing squads, sprints and story points with AI-first workflows and smaller teams, including the experiments that failed, and Brack.Alltron on where AI earned its place and why plain analytics sometimes still beats machine learning.
Meetup Free -
Swiss AI Summit 2026
Full-day summit at the Kunsthaus for senior business, technology and government leaders, spanning finance and insurance, government and defence, manufacturing, cybersecurity, quantum and healthcare — with speakers from Microsoft Switzerland, IBM, Nestlé, ABB, HSBC and the Canton of Zurich, plus workshops, demos and a one-to-one meeting platform.
Conference CHF 790 Executive Pass / CHF 950 standard (excl. VAT) -
AI in azienda: AI sotto controllo
Closing evening of the Ticino series on conscious AI use in business, this one on data, responsibility, rules and governance — content, a hands-on workshop and networking, capped at thirty participants.
Workshop Free (registration required) -
Cloud Native Computing Meetup — November 2026 (new)
Three talks and an apéro: the guardrails Open Systems put in place before letting an AI agent work on its Kubernetes clusters, a Rust-based zero-dependency etcd replacement with the QuantyKube sandbox, and a session on Jellyfin.
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Building a Multi-AZ Cloud in Switzerland & Embedding Quality in Agile Delivery (new)
The group’s last evening of 2026: Hidora on building a highly available multi-availability-zone cloud in Switzerland on Kubernetes, and a talk on defining quality processes across several teams in scrum-of-scrums delivery.
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Boosting Life Sciences Innovation with AI (new)
Lunchtime session with the Wyss Center AI Hub, SOPHiA GENETICS, the Swiss Data Science Center and BrainQuant on the data, infrastructure, validation and regulatory groundwork behind AI in research partnerships, precision medicine and digital biomarkers.
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The Glass Box Roadshow — Executive Track Zurich (new)
An evening counterpart to the roadshow for leaders accountable for AI returns: a keynote from someone who has already rolled AI out in their company, a live demonstration and a closed-door roundtable.
Networking Free (registration by approval) -
The Glass Box Roadshow — Zurich (new)
Make’s Zurich stop on where AI automation already works and where it does not: live demos, a product roadmap session, an open panel and lunch, aimed at operations, IT and transformation leads scaling automation across teams.
Conference Free (registration by approval) -
Growing Together Conference GTC26
A full day for business and data leaders on getting AI past isolated use cases and into scalable capability — keynotes from Benedict Evans and Google Cloud’s Alon Halevy, leader tracks with Helvetia, Axpo and Emmi, plus tech talks and workshops.
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SAIC #041: AI in Healthcare & Pharma — From Breakthrough Technology to Better Patient Outcomes (new)
Dr Stamen Popov on where AI already adds value from drug discovery to patient support, and where trust, ethics, regulation and adoption still get in the way of better outcomes.
Meetup CHF 5 in person (50 places) / free online livestream -
AI in Production: Introduction to MLOps — Training at EPFL
One-day SDSC training on designing, deploying and operating ML systems at scale — version control, CI/CD, experiment tracking, monitoring, drift detection and automated retraining. Registration closes 24 September.
Workshop CHF 1,000 (10% off for EPFL alumni and SDSC partners) -
Satellite Event: From Data to Decisions — AI in Asset Management
A Swiss AI Summit satellite session on how asset managers turn increasingly complex data into usable investment insight, and where AI makes a genuine difference rather than noise.
Networking Not listed (registration required) -
Satellite Event: From Smart AI to Better Work
An interactive executive lab run with Zeix on redesigning work around AI: deciding what the machine should actually do, and marking out where human judgement, responsibility and control have to stay.
Workshop Not listed (registration required) -
AI Safety Weekly: Alignment from Token Zero (new)
V. Moskvoretskii (EPFL) on building an assistant persona into pretraining rather than bolting alignment on afterwards — a technique now part of training Apertus 2, Switzerland’s open model. Moderate technical background assumed.
Meetup Free (registration by approval, food provided) -
DINAcon 2026
Switzerland’s conference on digital sustainability — 36 sessions on open source, open data, digital sovereignty, data protection and copyright, with 250+ attendees and a closing Hacknight.
Conference Ticketed (via eventfrog.ch) -
AI Risks in CyberSecurity
Afternoon session in Geneva on how organisations can keep using AI internally without taking on unmanaged risk, with presentations followed by a networking reception; CPE credits available via ISC2 and ISACA.
Conference CHF 25 -
Agentic Engineering Days Zurich 2026
A one-day engineering conference on AI coding and agent systems: 38+ sessions across four tracks — using AI tools, building AI-powered systems, sponsor spotlights and hands-on workshops — with speakers from OpenAI, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Google and AWS.
Conference CHF 442 (group discount for 3+) -
AI Breakfast #56 Luzern
Merun Gugelmann of Aeberli Treuhand on how an 80-year-old trust company got from Microsoft Teams to building its own Azure applications — the steps of that digitisation journey, concrete examples, and the setup on Azure App Services.
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STEM4Health Hackathon
A hundred students and early-career researchers spend a weekend on real pharmaceutical manufacturing problems, combining manufacturing data, mechanistic modelling and machine learning with industry and academic mentors before pitching to a jury.
Workshop Free - 23 – 29 November
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AI Safety: Building Trustworthy AI in the Real World
Four speakers from Google, AWS, Unique and Systematic-X on keeping AI systems trustworthy once they act on their own — how to evaluate and monitor before and after deployment, where guardrails, human oversight and red-teaming fit, and how to ship fast without losing accountability.
Meetup Not listed (registration required) -
Apertus Claritas: An Inside View of Switzerland’s Open Model (new)
Lightning talks from the interpretability and safety hub built around Apertus, Switzerland’s open multilingual model: shared representations across languages, emergent misalignment from stereotypes that pass moderation, probes that catch repetition loops early, and persona binding formed in pre-training.
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KI-Agenten & -Work: Skills und Anbindungen für konkrete Entlastung im Alltag
A full German-language day with Michael Kyburz on getting AI to take over recurring work: three base skills, how to build your own, and wiring assistants into calendar, mail and project tools so multi-step workflows run with clear checkpoints for human review. Fifteen places, and a paid ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required.
Workshop CHF 400 members / CHF 500 non-members -
DemystifAI 01 — Homebrewed (new)
Kouros, who is not a developer and has a full-time job, explains how he used AI to build a custom ERP for the La Nébuleuse brewery, followed by guided discussion, audience questions and an apéro.
Meetup CHF 15 -
The Geneva AI Conference 2026
An evening on enterprise AI strategy and returns, opened by Geneva city executive councillor Joëlle Bertossa and built around a panel with IBM, SAP, Hostelworld and Executive AI. The venue is still to be confirmed.
Networking Ticketed (Eventbrite) -
Kongress «KI im Energiesektor» (new)
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 Capital.
Conference CHF 440 members / CHF 550 non-members -
Mindstone Geneva November AI Meetup
Monthly Geneva AI evening with three practical talks — building with LLMs, working faster with AI and where it is all heading — then pizza and networking. Forty places.
Meetup Free -
Zurich Pre-NeurIPS 2026 Poster Session (new)
Zurich’s official pre-conference poster session ahead of NeurIPS 2026, where researchers from across the city show accepted papers and other peer-reviewed work and meet the rest of the local AI community.
Networking Free (registration required) -
Robot Learning Paper Club — The World Model Edition (new)
Short talks and paper walkthroughs on learned world models for robotics — action-conditioned video prediction, joint observation and action models, planning and policy evaluation, and synthetic data generation.
Meetup Free (host approval required) -
After Microsoft Ignite Special 2026
Swiss MVPs recap the announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2026 in short sessions on Cloud & AI, the agent platform, Copilot and Microsoft IQ, security, data security and compliance, and agentic business applications, with an apéro after.
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Hack Apertus — Onsite Hackathon Zurich
The on-site leg of the national Apertus hackathon: build on the open Apertus 8B model, strengthen its multilingual abilities and ship applications for private- and public-sector problems, with everything released as Open Commons.
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AI Insights for Chief Executives
Executive workshop for CEOs, CFOs, CDOs and CTOs on turning data and AI into measurable business value, with case studies from EKZ, Merck and Richemont. Limited seats.
Workshop 50 CHF - 30 November – 6 December
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AIristoteles 4.0 — Bis dass der Strom uns scheidet (new)
Fourth edition of HSLU’s AIristoteles series: an EPFL evolutionary psychologist and a psychotherapist discuss what it means when people enter long-term relationships with AI bots, moderated by Stephan Klapproth and followed by an apéro.
Networking CHF 15 -
Databricks Data + AI World Tour Zurich 2026
Databricks' flagship Swiss stop on the Data + AI World Tour: keynotes, breakout sessions and hands-on training on Genie and Lakebase, plus an expo, with speakers from Databricks and Zurich Insurance.
Conference Free (apply to attend) -
Reshaping Information Research with AI
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 required.
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IBM Bob Coding Watch Party Zürich — Final Edition
The closing session of IBM's 2026 hybrid series on IBM Bob, its AI development assistant — coding live alongside other European cities, with beginner, intermediate and expert tracks covering everything from first idea to modernising legacy applications.
Meetup Free (limited on-site places) -
KI-Strategie und -Governance für KMUs
A 90-minute German-language session for SME decision-makers on steering generative AI use rather than letting it spread: setting a strategic frame, drafting an internal AI policy, weighing data-protection, liability and wrong-output risks, and planning a safe rollout under Swiss data protection law and the EU AI Act. Fifteen places.
Workshop CHF 150 members / CHF 200 non-members -
TechTalk #30 @ Nine — What Tools Won’t Do for You (new)
Build-and-deploy evening at Nine: nxt Engineering on how not to wreck an Azure migration, and Access for all on why manual accessibility testing still matters alongside automated and AI-assisted checks. Also livestreamed.
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Ein Team, ein Plan und viele Agenten
A German-language breakfast session with Quatico CEO Jan Wloka on why adding more AI agents tends to produce more review work than finished work, and the three changes that fixed it for his team: a written decision before any agent starts coding, work split into packages that run in parallel, and one daily overview of what needs a human. Aimed at product owners and delivery leads, with a real work package run live.
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KI-Update x swissAI Meetup — Die Auswirkungen der KI auf Kinder (new)
Free German-language evening in Gebenstorf: a current AI update from Michael Kyburz, then Alexander Repenning on what AI means for children, closing with an apéro with the swissAI community.
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Swiss IT Minds 2026 — IT, AI & Cyber Security
Two days for Swiss IT and data leaders at the Dolder Grand on enterprise AI as a strategic capability, centralised versus decentralised AI governance in large organisations, securing AI agents as a hybrid workforce, and the governance basics behind all of it.
Conference Not listed (complimentary participation for qualified attendees) -
dbt Meetup Zurich
Evening for the Zürich dbt community aimed at analytics engineers, data engineers and data leaders, opening with Massimo Turola of Bank Vontobel on using dbt to manage Snowflake Cortex AI applications in an AI data catalog, then an apéro.
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Business mit KI. Heute, nicht 2030. Vol. 02 — Führung ist kein Prompt (new)
Second volume of the Lucerne series for entrepreneurs and C-level leaders on how AI reshapes teams, leadership and the job market: two short talks, a moderated panel and an apéro, capped at 50 guests and held in German.
Networking Free for members / CHF 25 guests -
Workplace & Security Ninja User Group Switzerland 2612 (new)
Full day of community sessions on Microsoft endpoint, identity and security work, including securing agent identities, privileged-access strategy with Entra and Intune, secure low-code on the Power Platform, and label engineering.
Conference Free (registration required) -
Hack Apertus — Onsite Hackathon Basel
The Basel leg of the national Apertus hackathon series, building applications and multilingual improvements on Switzerland’s open Apertus model, with everything produced released for reuse. Venue still to be announced.
Workshop Not listed - 7 – 13 December
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Christmas Special Hackathon — Operation Silent Night
Festive team hackathon where the Zurich Databricks User Group turns a sabotage mystery into hands-on practice with Genie, Lakebase and Databricks Apps.
Workshop Free -
Azure Zurich User Group X-Mas Special 2026
The Azure Zürich User Group closes the year with its Christmas get-together at Frau Gerolds Wintergarten — no agenda, just food, glühwein and the Swiss Azure community. Places are limited.
Networking Free -
KubeVirt in Practice & AI in QA: What Works, What Doesn't
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.
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Fabric Year in Review 2026 — Highlights & Outlook
Year-end session from the Zurich Microsoft data-platform group on what actually shipped in Fabric during 2026 and what is worth planning for next.
Webinar Free -
Robots, Agents and the Future of Work (new)
A panel with Peter Fankhauser (co-founder and CEO of ANYbotics) and Anne Scherer (co-founder of Delta Labs) on how AI is changing company operations, from autonomous robots on the plant floor to generative AI in the boardroom.
Meetup Free (registration required) - 14 – 20 December
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From Parallel Token Prediction to Scalable Language Models (new)
Prof. Stephan Mandt (UC Irvine) on generating several mutually consistent tokens in one forward pass — models pretrained to 3 billion parameters that approach autoregressive quality with inference up to 5.7× faster. Hosted by Prof. Julia Vogt.
Meetup Free (registration required) -
The Night of Data Talents: Startup Edition
Swiss data startups pitch to an investor panel with community voting, capping the year for the Suisse Romande data scene.
Networking 150 CHF - 11 – 17 January
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Davos Catalyst: AI Summit 2027 (new)
Invitation-only summit running alongside Davos week for around 200 founders, investors, corporate leaders and researchers, with roundtables and closed-door sessions on AI infrastructure, investment, enterprise deployment and governance.
Conference CHF 7,900 delegate pass (CHF 5,900 until 31 October, excl. VAT) - 18 – 24 January
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digitalswitzerland @ Davos
A full day in Davos on Switzerland's digital future, with speakers from business, government and research building on the national AI Action Plan and looking ahead to the Geneva AI Summit 2027. Programme details still to be published.
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Digital Lounge @ Davos — Enterprise Data, AI & Robotics
An invitation-only forum during Davos week for CxOs and transformation leaders on enterprise data, AI and robotics — morning and afternoon keynotes and panels, a live technology showcase, entrepreneur talks and parallel workshops, closing with an awards ceremony and dinner.
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AI for Decision Makers — Executive Course at ETH Zurich
A five-day English-language executive course for leaders who need to challenge assumptions on AI projects without becoming data scientists — data science foundations, MLOps, AI governance and ethics, generative AI and a first agent, with an ETH Zurich certificate. Registration closes 15 January 2027.
Workshop CHF 4,000 (10% off for ETH staff and alumni and SDSC partners) - 25 – 31 January
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Generative AI & Agentische Systeme
Two-day German-language course for developers, architects, data scientists and ML engineers on building agentic LLM systems that survive production: function calling, hybrid-search RAG, LangGraph topologies, security hardening and systematic evaluation. Places are limited.
Workshop Not listed - 1 – 7 February
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SWAT4HCLS 2027
The 15th edition of the long-running international conference on semantics in healthcare and life sciences — ontologies, knowledge graphs and AI — with keynotes, tutorials and a dedicated biohackathon day in Basel.
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SDSC-Connect: Connecting Digital Environmental Sciences
A day in Bern on making environmental data usable across disciplines and institutions — data access and sharing, data infrastructure, and the role of machine learning and AI across climate, ecology, hydrology, the cryosphere, natural hazards and agriculture, with keynotes, invited talks, break-outs and a poster fair. Seats are limited and the venue is still to be announced.
Conference CHF 50 (meals included) -
AI & Quantum Course: From Foundations to Scalable Intelligence
An afternoon course run with Quantum Basel, led by its CTO Jan Mikolon, bridging current AI practice and quantum technologies — from the foundations through to what it takes to scale.
Workshop Not listed (registration required) - 8 – 14 February
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Kickstart AI Workflows with Databricks
Hybrid Databricks user-group evening in Zurich on automating data work with AI-enabled workflows, including a session on Databricks Apps and Lakebase applied to clinical cancer research cohorts. Rescheduled from November 2026 to February 2027.
Meetup Not listed - 15 – 21 February
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AI Days 2027 — Geneva
Geneva leg of the fifth AI Days, the Swiss AI Center’s applied-AI conference for SMEs, with workshops, talks, research and demos. Registration not yet open.
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AI Days 2027 — Yverdon-les-Bains
Yverdon-les-Bains leg of AI Days 2027, the Swiss AI Center’s applied-AI conference for SMEs, with workshops, talks and demos. Registration not yet open.
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AI Days 2027 — Fribourg
Fribourg leg of AI Days 2027, the Swiss AI Center’s applied-AI conference for SMEs, closing the three-city edition with workshops, talks and demos. Registration not yet open.
Conference Not announced - 22 – 28 February
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GenAI Zürich 2027 (new)
A two-day European summit on applied generative AI at the Volkshaus: keynotes, panels, workshops, roundtables, a hackathon, startup pitches and the GenAI Zürich Award, focused on what works in production.
Conference From CHF 250 (Phase 1 conference pass)
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