
Swiss {ai} Weeks
Curated calendar of the best AI, robotics, deep tech and startup events in Switzerland and the DACH region for 2026. Filter by topic, city and month.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · 🧠 AI / ML
Machine learning, LLMs, applied AI. 118 upcoming across 8 cities, 110 in September 2026. ~26,931 attendees expected.

Curated calendar of the best AI, robotics, deep tech and startup events in Switzerland and the DACH region for 2026. Filter by topic, city and month.

Together with Swiss AI Summit, we are running the AI & Quantum Course, a four-week executive program starting 4 September 2026 in Zurich. One module per week, every Friday, in English, to equip leaders with the practical knowledge and frameworks needed to design, implement, and scale AI and quantum-driven solutions.

Der Zertifikatslehrgang «AI Agents Marketing Lab» vermittelt praxisorientierte Kompetenzen zur Entwicklung und produktiven Nutzung von KI-Agenten im Marketing-, Kommunikations- und Vertriebsumfeld.

The 2026 digitalswitzerland Forum brings together 200+ leaders and experts to discuss pragmatic solutions and concrete actions for Switzerland’s AI future, as part of the Road to Geneva and ahead of the Geneva AI Summit 2027.

The largest annual gathering of the digitalswitzerland community, on 15 September 2026 at Bernexpo in Bern. Under the theme of enabling trustworthy AI through skills and governance, 200+ policymakers, business leaders, technology experts, and academics discuss AI-era competencies and a smart AI governance framework for Switzerland, ahead of the Geneva AI Summit 2027.

Viele KI-Initiativen verfehlen ihre Wirkung, nicht wegen der Technologie, sondern weil sie als IT-Projekt statt als **Change-Thema** behandelt werden. Genau hier liegt die Chance: KI entfaltet ihr Potenzial erst, wenn Organisationen sie strategisch denken und als Veränderungsprozess gestalten. Mit dem **KI Learning Lunch** schaffen wir dafür einen festen Raum. Wir teilen Praxiserfahrungen, schärf

Join us to meet other AI researcher / practitioner for a lunch (around EPFL). Due to high demand the participants are filter. You should work in AI.

When AI doesn’t just respond, but takes action. Artificial intelligence is continuing to evolve. It is moving from a role of assistance towards one of active intervention. Systems no longer merely answer questions. They plan workflows, integrate tools, suggest solutions and carry out the initial steps independently. But what does this mean for companies that bear responsibility for data, process

On large websites, information is spread across many pages and different sources. More of it sits in people's heads and leaves when they do. Before an agent can build a page from that material, three things have to be in place. It needs a schema, a place where the knowledge lives, and a decision about who checks before publication. The session works through those three, then shows the system runn

Kickstart's **Forward Ceremony** is the official launch of Forward Days showcasing different innovation activities including 12-week sprints, Mission 2050 as well as Swiss {ai} Weeks. One of our forward initiatives include collaboration with the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Switzerland to support startups from Italian Sardinia, which will be included in the pitches and presentations next to ot

As digital technologies reshape how we work, collaborate and make decisions, a second digital divide is emerging: the gap between professionals who continuously develop the skills to understand and apply new technologies – and those struggling to keep pace. _How can organizations build lifelong learning ecosystems that enable professionals to continuously adapt to rapid technological change? _Thro

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Künstliche Intelligenz ist in unserem Alltag angekommen und prägt unsere Gesellschaft: Mit KI erstellte Deepfakes werden auf Social Media massenhaft verbreitet, Suchmaschinen spucken KI-generierte Zusammenfassungen aus und Politiker\*innen lassen sich von KI-Chatbots beraten. Beim Podium mit** Chantal Galladé** (Kantonsrätin GLP Zürich), **Daniel Binswanger** (Republik Co-Chefredaktor) und **Angel

From ETH to SF: Building Companies, Backing Founders A fireside chat with Erasmus Elsner & Antti Karjalainen, hosted by ETH Center for Law & Economics in collaboration with S2S Ventures at the ETH AI Center. Two founders who took very different routes out of the ETH/European tech ecosystem. Erasmus, an ETH Zürich PhD, Co-founder, President at Inference Capital and founder of Sand Hill Road, a make

Claude Code in Financial Services: How Swiss FSI Teams Build with AI Timeline 18:30 — Doors open & registration 19:00 — ADNOVUM 19:20 — SIX – Claude Code und AI in Software Engineering 19:40 — [SLOT 3] 20:00 - Networking drinks 20:30 - Close By attending, you acknowledge that the event may be photographed and recorded. Images and footage may appear in promotional content. Your registration data is

Künstliche Intelligenz bietet enormes Potenzial – entscheidend ist jedoch, wie Menschen und Unternehmen daraus echten Mehrwert schaffen. Bei diesem exklusiven Event stellen wir im kleinen Kreis genau diese Frage in den Fokus: Wie gelingt der Weg von der Vision zur erfolgreichen Umsetzung von KI im KMU-Umfeld? Freuen Sie sich auf spannende Impulse, den Austausch mit Expertinnen und Experten sowie w

At the ETH AI Center, much of our work is about helping researchers and students turn AI ideas into companies. Some of the most important decisions on that path come early: how you split shares with co-founders, or how you keep control of your startup as you grow. That's why we're hosting this session with our partner Wenger Vieli, one of Switzerland's leading startup law firms. Claudia Keller and