Are you betting on cutting-edge models from frontier labs in the public cloud, opting for a sovereign Swiss cloud, or running open-source models locally? Join the debate and cast your vote live!

 

This session pits market realities head-to-head: speed-to-market versus digital independence, strict strict Swiss DSG compliance versus vendor lock-in. Crucially, it tackles the ultimate trade-off: do you accept reliance on global tech giants, or do you self-host to keep full control? And which path actually delivers true financial certainty when it comes to Total Cost of Ownership?

 

We compare real-world use cases:

• Insurance: Turnkey SaaS generative AI for policy and contract analysis versus a self-hosted open-source LLM with a local Swiss provider such as Swisscom or Green.

• Banking: Real-time fraud detection via Azure or AWS versus a fully explainable, FINMA-compliant credit scoring model on-premises.

• Public Sector (Federal & Cantonal): An OpenAI-powered citizen chatbot versus sovereign document analysis for confidential government business hosted on Swiss infrastructure.

Is Swiss-based sovereignty a genuine competitive edge or just an expensive luxury? Have your say live, and walk away with a battle-tested checklist to help you answer these strategic questions for your own organisation.