The ETH AI Center is ETH Zurich's central hub for artificial intelligence, established in 2020 to advance interdisciplinary AI research across all of the university's departments. It brings together researchers working on AI foundations, applications and implications, and fosters industry innovation and AI entrepreneurship. Its office is in the OAT building at Andreasstrasse 5, next to Zürich Oerlikon train station. Talks and researcher community meet-ups from its events calendar take place there.
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Federated learning (FL) is a field of ML focused on learning from decentralized data (e.g., across a population of mobile phones). FL at Google has undergone a transformation over the last several years, in order to (a) enable privacy protections which are verifiable by external parties and (b) support LLM-powered data science workflows. In this talk I'll present an overview of our new FL
Please note that attendance at this event is by invitation only.
Our Researchers Community comprises ETH AI Center Fellows and Associated Researchers. Once a month during the semester, we organize the ETH AI Center Researchers Community Meet-up, an informal and collaborative gathering designed to foster connection and exchange within the community. These meet-ups provide a platform to share insigh
AI Governance in Action: Turning Principles into Practice AI capabilities are advancing faster than many organizations can translate principles, policies and regulatory requirements into effective governance. As regulation tightens in some jurisdictions and loosens in others, the challenge is increasingly practical: how do organizations govern high-capability AI in a way that works in the real wor
Most organizations are no longer experimenting with AI - they are trying to scale it. And this is where things start to break. Despite strong models and successful pilots, many AI initiatives fail to deliver real value. Not because the technology doesn’t work, but because success is not well defined, measured and managed in real-world conditions. In this interactive session, participants will step
Join us for a XFN panel hosted by Meta with Senior Professionals from other local AI Labs and Professors. Bharath Sankaran (Agent Data & Optimization Team, Meta) Vittorio Ferrari (Codec Labs Team,Meta) Enrique Alfonseca (Consumer Agents Team, Meta) Please register by Tuesday 22nd September as we will be closing registration then. +++ This event is part of the Zurich AI Festival, taking place from
3rd Open LLM Builders Summit – September 30, 2026 at ETH AI Center
The third edition of the Open LLM Builders Summit will be held on 30 September 2026 at the ETH AI Center in Zurich, as an official event of the Zurich AI Festival.
The event is organized by the Swiss AI Initiative, coordinated by the ETH AI Center and EPFL AI Center. The summit will bring together leading international initiative