🇨🇭 Switzerland · 🎓 For students
Hackathons, workshops and beginner-friendly events for students and anyone early in their tech career, most of them free. 90 upcoming across 12 cities, 70 in October 2026.
Future ready mit fundierter KI Kompetenz Starte deine Transformation in die Welt der Künstlichen Intelligenz und entwickle deine Superkräfte mit dem brandneuen Trainingsprogramm „Generative AI Superpowers", powered by Kuble Academy. In diesem interaktiven und praxisorientierten Trainingsprogramm mit vierzehn Modulen entwickelst du die praktischen Skills, um deine Produktivität und deinen Output du
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.
Investment in Startups: How to get it right Join us for an insightful session on how to get started in angel investing, featuring Ralph Mogicato, SICTIC Board Member, entrepreneur and experienced business angel with multiple board positions, alongside Nicolas Berg, long-standing Venture Kick jury member, founder of two VC funds, and experienced tech entrepreneur and business angel. Drawing on thei
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
What could the future of women’s health look like in Switzerland, and how can we shape it together? Join us in Zürich on October 19 for the first FemTech Café, the inaugural gathering of FemTech Switzerland. We’re bringing FemTech Switzerland to life with a shared vision: to connect the people and organisations advancing women’s health, make their work more visible, and build bridges that help inn
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
Join us at Superlab Suisse Schlieren for the Thermo Fisher Scientific Accelerator Bootcamp: What's Next for Your Molecule? Agenda 08:30–09:00 – Arrival / Registration & Breakfast 09:00–09:15 – Welcome 09:15–10:15 – Thermo Fisher Scientific Innovation Experience Station 1: Discovery & Research Station 2: Characterization, Development & Laboratory Automation Station 3: CMC, Scale-Up & Manufacturing
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
Your Robot Works. Now a Company Wants to Pilot It. What Should You Agree Before You Say Yes? You’ve built the prototype. It works. Now a company wants to test it in a warehouse, factory, lab, or real-world environment. Great. But what exactly are you agreeing to? Join Thomas Steiner at Wenger Vieli in Zurich, together with the ETH Robotics Club, for a practical session on how robotics teams can st
🚀 Join our event in Zurich! We design Pitch and Networking nights to help founders sharpen their thinking through direct, candid feedback and to give strong investors access to serious teams. Our pitch night is complemented by a structured networking session before and after the pitch session. 💡 What to expect: Startups pitch live and receive focused feedback from angels and VC partners Structured
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 the EPFL AI Team for an NVIDIA GTC Watch Party at EPFL! We’ll be watching the NVIDIA GTC livestream together, featuring the latest announcements and developments in AI, accelerated computing, and emerging technologies. The event will also include a session with Cyrille Favreau from NVIDIA, giving participants the opportunity to hear directly from NVIDIA and connect with other students interes
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