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BuilderBase Physical AI Hackathon — Swiss AI Weeks

by BuilderBase

A one-day Physical AI hackathon on a robotics campus in Zurich: twelve hours, two tracks, real hardware in the building. Eighty builders get one day at DARE Campus in Schlieren to make something that perceives its environment, decides what to do and does it, then demo it live to the people who do this for a living. DARE is a deep tech and robotics campus, not a conference room. Tethys Robotics builds underwater inspection drones there and FORGIS runs AI agents on factory equipment; their engineers are the mentors and the judges, and the maker space is down the hall. Two tracks run in parallel: Hardware puts teams on real robots, sensors and actuators, while Simulation needs nothing but a laptop and is judged on exactly the same rubric. Doors and check-in at 09:00, opening and team formation at 09:45, build from 10:30, tools down at 16:30, four-minute live demos and judging from 17:00, winners and drinks at 19:30. Teams are two to four people and most participants arrive alone. Free to attend, part of Swiss AI Weeks.

TechBio Day 2026

by CSEM

CSEM's flagship bioconvergence event, on 15 September 2026 at blue Cinema Abaton in Zurich. Themed from point-of-care to on-body intelligence, the program covers point-of-care diagnostics, multi-omics, microneedle-based sensing, and clinical-grade wearables, with speakers from Roche, AWS, Xsensio, and CSEM spin-offs. Tickets CHF 150.

GenAI Engineers #0001

by GenAI Engineers

GenAI Engineers is a new hands-on format, an evening for practitioners who build with generative AI, not only talk about it. Every edition follows the same shape: one sharp keynote, a real Q&A, then a working block where you actually build something. This first edition is hosted at DARE Campus, one of Zurich's leading hubs for deep tech, AI, robotics and applied research. Doors open at 18:00 with tea and coffee, the keynote and Q&A run from 18:30, the hands-on session starts at 19:00, and open networking with snacks and drinks follows at 20:00 before a 21:00 close. The hands-on session has no workshop script and no fixed track: open your laptop and work on something real, whether that is a prototype you have not had a quiet evening for, an agent that keeps misbehaving, an eval you cannot get to pass, or a paper you want to reimplement. Nobody has to present anything. It is aimed at engineers, ML and data practitioners, technical founders and researchers who build and ship generative AI in production. Places are limited and every registration is reviewed.

Finnova Hackathon

by finnova AG Bankware

**Join a high-energy AI hackathon where diverse teams build practical, real-world solutions in just 12 hours.** Open to students, developers, startups, experts, and anyone curious about AI, this event brings people together to tackle real challenges from the **banking and finance sector**. Expect: \- Real-world challenges out of the Swiss banking community \- Teams open to all skill levels and ba

Startup Pitch & Networking in Zurich

by Startup Valley

🚀 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

Legal Hackathon

by HerCode

A one-day sprint on a question that matters to every organization handling data: how do we build AI that's responsible with the information people trust us with? ​**Build together across three real challenge tracks:** 🔹 Data Minimiser — how much data do we really need to ask for? 🔹 Customer Know-How Repo / Self-Learning CRM — what happens to everything your team knows when someone leaves? 🔹 Vibe

Zurich Hackathon 2026

​Take part in collaborative, high-energy coding event where teams work intensively to create innovative, real-world AI solutions. Over 36 hours, participants team up to tackle challenges that matter. ​All hackathons are open to everyone — whether you're a student, developer, startup, government innovator, corporate expert, or just curious about AI.