🇨🇭 Switzerland · 💻 For developers
Meetups, hackathons, workshops and conferences on the technology you build with, from web and cloud to AI, data and security. 66 upcoming across 10 cities, 47 in October 2026.
36 hours of building. 50 engineers. Real hardware. The ERH Physical AI Hackathon brings 50 of the sharpest builders in Europe to Dare Campus for a weekend of building physical AI. You get the keys to the hardware: robot arms, mobile platforms, sensors and compute, all on site and all yours for the weekend. It starts Friday night. On Friday 16 October we kick off with an evening meetup: intro talks
Neural Wave brings together talented teams from Switzerland and abroad to the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano for an intensive 48-hour AI hackathon. Moving beyond theoretical exercises, participating teams leverage machine learning and data science to tackle real-world challenges provided directly by project partners. To keep your energy high and focus sharp, food, snacks, and d
Bern/Liebefeld on-site edition of «Hack Apertus», the hackathon series around Apertus, Switzerland's fully open large language model. On 18–19 October 2026 at WORKSPACE & MORE in Liebefeld, teams solve partner challenges and develop open, trustworthy blueprints for sovereign AI infrastructure.
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Meet Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, at our technical hands-on workshop with VSHN and MariaDB. Beyond the chance to hear from Monty himself on migrations, the roadmap, and the wider MariaDB ecosystem, we're going beyond the marketing pitch: what MariaDB Enterprise actually adds on top of Community, and what that looks like running in production. Live demos of MaxScale f
👉🏼 Come and join us. On 19 October, the Top 6 Hack teams of the Liebefeld Hackathon bring their Apertus prototypes to the stage for the Liebefeld Finals at WORKSPACE & MORE. Over the hackathon, the teams built working prototypes on Apertus, Switzerland's open large language model. Now watch the top 6 pitch them live and compete for a spot at the Grand Finals. There's also the local community prese
Swiss Cyber Storm is the long-established security conference setting the IT security agenda for Switzerland. We present renowned international speakers to a national audience. This audience stretches from students to techies, to security officers and CISOs. There are many conferences talking about vulnerabilities. But Swiss Cyber Storm puts it all in context and delivers proven solutions to the s
Open Innovation in Life Sciences 2026 (OILS26) brings together researchers, innovators and professionals from academia, industry and society to explore how open science can shape the future of life sciences. This year’s one-day conference focuses on the journey from digital innovation to real-world impact — and on how we can make that journey more sustainable, responsible and ethical. What to expe
Alongside the BioTechX conference in Basel, at this invite-only roundtable we'll explore a critical question: we model the technology, but are we adequately modelling the workforce risk beneath it? Senior executives spanning data, analytics, AI, digital, operations and finance will examine how workforce capability, knowledge dependencies and decision bottlenecks affect AI adoption, operational per
Join Google Cloud experts in Zurich to explore, build, and scale agentic AI through expert insights, hands-on labs, demos, and role-based breakout sessions. Learn how to empower your workforce, automate complex tasks, and build a scalable AI agent strategy. Hear from Google Cloud experts, explore practical applications across business and technology, and get hands-on with AI solutions designed to
The Science of Bitcoin The workshop marks the public launch of the Scientific Bitcoin Institute (SBI), a research organizationdedicated to the rigorous, multidisciplinary study of Bitcoin as a complex adaptive system. Rather than approaching Bitcoin through the lens of advocacy, trading, or industry promotion, the Institute treats it as a natural object of scientific inquiry: a global socio-econom
The HSG ETH Student Project House is soft launching in St. Gallen, and we want you there on day one. SPH is a place for curious students who want to get hands-on and build their own ideas: business and technical students working on real projects together. No idea yet? No problem. Not an engineer? Even better. What's happening 🚪 Drop in anytime between 18:00 and 19:00. We'll welcome you at the desk
Where Deep Tech meets the Next Generation of Builders Location: bQm Kulturcafé & Bar (Directly under the Polyterrasse, ETH Zurich) Time: 7:00 PM onwards Access: Open to summit delegates, ETH/UZH founders, researchers & student innovators Following the closed-door summit at the Semper Aula, the conversation moves underground to ETH’s iconic bQm. The Tech Exchange After Party strips away the formali
✨ Join WiNZ and FINNOFLEET for an afternoon of discussion and networking! 👩💻✨ Calling all aspiring technologists and anyone stepping into the industry! Get ready for an afternoon that brings the AI conversation back down to earth, with the women building software at FINNOFLEET. 🌍💡 📅 Wednesday, 21 October | 🕜 13:30 to 17:30 | 📍 BIM U2-020, Binzmühlestrasse 11 🌟 What to Expect Keynote: AI and the F
SwissLedger – Plan ₿ Edition is an event dedicated to the institutional blockchain promoted by the City of Lugano and to the applications already running on it. Talks and panel discussions look at how a publicly-promoted permissioned network, governed as a consortium of public, academic and private institutions and anchored to Bitcoin and Ethereum, is being used beyond the pilot stage. Two themati
Calling all Innovation Enthusiasts & Founders! Join us for the highly anticipated Unicorn Pitches Zurich on October 21, 2026, starting at 6:00 PM! Witness the next generation of AI startups battle it out for a chance to gain recognition and funding — and level up your own AI skills before the pitches even begin. Limited Tickets Available! Why Attend? Kickstart your day with two hands-on AI worksho
Can't make it/event sold out? Sign up here and we'll let you know about the next one! After traveling around the world from Berlin to London to Lisbon to Malta to Mexico City, we're back in Zurich for our second year! 😎 📦 WHAT'S THIS ABOUT? F*ck the Small Talk is a one-of-a-kind social experience where strangers come together for an evening of meaningful, fun, and deep conversation. It’s also just
A small dinner for the people who move aid money — and thepeople building the rails underneath it. No slides, no panels, no press. Just great food, honest stories from the field and around fifteen friends swapping notes on stablecoins, last-mile cash and what's actually working. What's said at the table stays at the table. What happens on chain is, of course, fully auditable :-)
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