01 October 2026 | StageOne, Zurich
2026 Speakers
Dr. Andreas Marfurt
HSLU
Lecturer
Vedang Naik
HSLU
Research assistant
Christof Bless
HSLU, LUH
Ph.D student
Angelina Parfenova
HSLU, TUM
Ph.D student
Prof. Dr. Abraham Bernstein
UZH
Director of Digital Society Initiative
Nicolas de Skowronski
Julius Baer
Head Digital Business Transformation and Deputy COO
Adrian Ott
EY Switzerland
Chief AI Officer
Dr. Valentin Verschinin
ipt
Public Cloud Advocate & Expert in Sovereign AI
Dr. Heejin Do
ETH Zurich, ETH AI Center
Postdoctoral Fellow
Prof. Olga Fink
EPFL
Associate Professor
Prof. Menna El-Assady
ETH Zurich
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Prof. Melika Payvand
University of Zurich
Assistant Professor, Neuroinformatics
Julia Kornfeind
ZHAW School of Applied Psychology, IAP Institute of Applied Psychology
Lecturer and Consultant
Dr. Anna-Lena Majkovic
ZHAW School of Applied Psychology, IAP Institute of Applied Psychology
Senior Lecturer / Consultant
Katharina “Nina” Frey
International Computation and AI Network (ICAIN), ETH Zurich
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Stefan Klauser
Aisot Technologies
Co-Founder & CEO
Gohar Tamrazyan
Pavoot
Co-Founder
Christian Gehring
ANYbotics
Senior Director of Robotics & Co-Founder
Jordis Herrmann
ANYbotics
Engineering Manager, Motion Intelligence
Marc Willhaus
optohive AG
Head of Software
Marco Bagatella
ETH MLP CLS
PhD Student
Prof. Andrea Emilio Rizzoli
IDSIA
Director
Sebastiano Cobianco
Ex Machina SA
CEO
Tommaso Bendinelli
CSEM SA
PhD
Haris Kupinic
CSEM SA
intern
Dr. Giulio Masinelli
CSEM SA
R&D Engineer
Dr. Samuel Läubli
Supertext
CEO
Oskar Truffer
CSEM
Senior R&D Research Engineer
Silvano Petrini
CSI – Centro Sistemi Informativi, Canton Ticino
Director
Athos Fiori
Artificialy SA
Head of Client Solutions
David Huber
IDSIA USI-SUPSI
Senior Researcher
Pablo Fernandez
CSCS
Senior Business Development Manager
Dr. Jorge Pena Queralta
ZHAW School of Engineering
Senior Lecturer
Prof. Theresa Schmiedel
ZHAW SML
Professor
Prof. Yulia Sandamirskaya
ZHAW LSFM
Professor
Stefan Weirich
Mimic
CEO
Simon Lehmann
CEO
GetDone
Philippe Heim
SteelcoBelimed
EVP Products & Solutions
Dr. Andrei Dmitrenko
D ONE Value Creation AG
Managing Consultant
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Alexander Stanenko
D ONE Value Creation AG
Senior Consultant
Dr. Marco Petrella
D ONE Value Creation AG
Senior Consultant
Andrei Postaru
CREATEQ AG
Head of AI Competence Center
Daria Mühlethaler
CREATEQ AG
Head of Business Development
Sophia Worth
King's College London and ODI
PhD Student KCL, Researcher ODI
Prof. Jing Zeng
University of Zurich
Assistant Professor
Dr. Manuel Hendry
Zurich University of the Arts
Lecturer and Researcher
Prof. Christoph Hoelscher
ETH Zurich
Full Professor for Cognitive Science
Dr. Giovanni De Toni
ETH Zurich
Postdoctoral Researcher / AI Center Fellow
Arthur Ben Zaquin
Deloitte
Senior Consultant, AI&D
Miguel Aires
Deloitte
Senior Consultant, AI&D
Dr. Janani Durairaj
University of Basel
Ambizione Project Leader
Prof. Martin Pačesa
University of Zurich (UZH)
Assistant Professor & Group Leader, Institute of Pharmacology
Eli Bixby
Cradle
Co-Founder & ML Lead
Dr. Gabriele Corso
Boltz
Co-Founder & CEO
Prof. Kjell Jorner
ETH Zurich
Assistant Professor of Digital Chemistry
Stefano Schuppli
CSCS
Lead ML Platform Services
Dr. Sebastian Keller
CSCS
Lead Engineer, Scientific Software
Dino Conciatore
CSCS
Lead Engineer, Inference Infrastructure
Dr. Elia Palme
CSCS
Lead Engineer, Post-Training Infrastructure
Dr. Jonathan Coles
CSCS
Lead Engineer, Pre-Training Infrastructure
Prof. Annie Hartley
EPFL
Professor, Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies
Prof. Martin Jaggi
EPFL
Associate Professor, Head of the Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory
Antoine Bergerault
UZH
PhD Student, Autonomous Learning and Predictive Intelligence Lab
Dr. Matthias Seibold
Balgrist University Hospital
Deputy Head ROCS
Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd Stadlinger
UZH
Deputy Head of the Clinic of Oral Surgery at the Center of Dental Medicine
Ruben Kranendonk
UZH.ai
Head
Nick Kabrel
UZH
Doctoral researcher
Nicole Freudiger
SRF
Radio Journalist
Eryk Salvaggi
University of Cambridge
Gates Scholar, PhD in Digital Humanities
Prof. Dr. Kate Devlin
King's College London
Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society
Dr. Sebastiano Caprara
Balgrist Campus
General Manager
Prof. Davide Scaramuzza
UZH
Professor of Robotics and Perception
Dr. Flora Vajda
Balgrist University Hospital
Head of Innovation & Partnerships
Valeria Bella
IMMERSE
Project Manager
Prof. Dr. Claudia Witt
UZH
Co-Director Digital Society Initiative
Prof. Dr. Beth Singler
UZH
Assistant Professor in Digital Religion
Dr. Chuck Rosenberg
Vice President of Engineering
Jake Stein
University of Oxford & ODI
PhD Researcher
Prof. Konrad Kollnig
Maastricht Law&Tech
Associate Professor
Dr. João Vinagre
European Commission
Scientific Project Officer
Henry Tari
Maastricht Univ.
PhD Candidate
Dr. Angela Mueller
AlgorithmWatch CH
Executive Director
Dick Van Blankvoort
HSG
PhD Candidate
Prof. Simon Mayer
HSG
Professor of Computer Science
Prof. Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux
HSG
Professor of Law and Technology
Alice Palmieri
HSG
PhD Candidate
Luka Bekavac
HSG
PhD Candidate
Fabian Streiff
Kanton Zürich
Head of Office for Economy
Damita Pressl
Self-employed
Professional Moderator
Thibault Brevet
Kinematics Robot Services
Co-Founder & Director
Andrea Anner
Kinematics Robot Services
Co-Founder
PD Dr. Nadine Bienefeld
ETH Zurich
Lecturer
Ines Iraki
Uncovr
Co-founder & CEO
Prof. Annette Oxenius
ETH Zurich
VP Research
PD Dr. Alexander Ilic
ETH AI Center
Executive Director
Dr. Imanol Schlag
ETH AI Center and Apertus
AI Research Scientist at ETH AI Center, co-leading Apertus
Dr. Jonathan Schmidt
Project Prometheus
Researcher
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Dr. Cristian Bodnar
Project Prometheus
Founding Member
Dr. Heike Riel
IBM
Head Quantum & AI Technologies
Dr. Burkhard Schwab
ipt
Thought Leader & Practical Expert in Regulated Enterprise AI
Dr. Nils Eckstein
kaiko
Head of Research
Dr. Roy Assaf
kaiko
Head of Clinical AI Engineering
Dr. Aleksandar Duric
Siemens Switzerland
Senior Key Expert
Dr. Christian Jaeger
ZHAW
Senior lecturer
Prof. Monika Reif
ZHAW
Professor
Catia Gnägi
ZHAW IAP
Research assistant
Noemi DeBellis
ZHAW IAP
Research assistant
Mirja Gabathuler
ZHAW IAP
Research assistant
Dr. Dorothea Baur
baur consulting
Ethics strategy consultant
Prof. Franziska Babel
Linköping University
Assistant Professor
Dr. Patricia Kahr
Universität Zürich
Postdoc
Prof. Christoph Heitz
ZHAW IDS
Head of Research Group Maintenance, Mobility, AI & Society
Prof. Alexandre de Spindler
ZHAW SML
Professor of Information Systems
Prof. Markus Langer
Universität Freiburg
Professor
Dr. Marisa Tschopp
ZHAW
Head of Subject Area Humans and AI at the Institute of Human Behaviour, Society and Technology
Eduardas Lazebnyj
ZHAW SML
Senior Researcher
Clémence Gallopin
Fondation Ethos
Senior ESG Analyst
Raphaël Caregnato
Fondation Ethos
Senior Sustainability Analyst
Prof. Peter Schwendner
ZHAW SML
Head of Institute of Wealth & Asset Management
Dr. Tomasz Orpiszewski
ZHAW SML
Senior researcher
Dr. Michel Neuhaus
UBS Switzerland
Managing Director
Fabio Ferrari
Raiffeisen Schweiz
Head of Risk & Compliance Solutions
Marc Stampfli
Nvidia
Business Director Switzerland
Dr. Patrick Hauf
ZHAW SML
Senior Lecturer
Prof. Jonnie Penn
Cambridge University
Assistant Professor
Stella Biderman
EleutherAI
Executive Director
Guilherme Santos
Blindsight
Ethical Hacker
Julian Minder
ETHZ/EPFL
PhD
Dr. Magda Dubois
UK AISI
Research Scientist
Cynthia Chen
ETH Zurich
PhD
Dr. Thomas Kleine Buening
ETH Zurich
Postdoc
Prof. Robert West
EPFL
Associate Professor
Dr. Luca Finelli
Roche
VP, Global Head of Digital Endpoints and Patient-Centered Solutions
Dr. Marc Kissling
Kantonsspital Baden
Oberarzt
Prof. Barbara Solenthaler
ETH Zurich
Adjunct Professor
Dr. Benito Benitez
UKBB
Head of Paediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Prof. Marianna Rapsomanik
UNIL and CHUV
Assistant Professor
Prof. Julia Vogt
ETH Zurich
Associate Professor
Prof. Kenneth Holstein
EPFL, CMU
Assistant Professor
Dr. Gerd Kortemeyer
ETH Zurich, ETH AI Center
AI for Education, Rectorate
Dr. Judit Moreno
Sparkli
Founding member & Director of Education and Research
Dr. Felix Ohswald
Go Student
CEO & Co-Founder
Zeinab Taghavi
HSLU, EPFL, LightLab
Ph.D student