Every tech event in DACH, on one page

Getting started w/ ellipsis & Fly

by Thomas Bollenbach

Your pitch taken apart in public Most feedback founders get is polite. This isn't that. Fly and ellipsis are coming together to give early-stage founders brutally honest feedback on their business idea and pitch. The things a VC thinks in a meeting but doesn't tell you. Between us we've backed 70+ startups. Both funds are run by ex-engineers and deep tech founders, so questions get technical fast.

Impulse Hack #1

by ETH AI Club

Welcome to our Friday Hacking Session! Have an AI-related idea you’ve been meaning to build? Join our Friday evening hacking sessions, organized together with VMI. Whether you’re coming solo or as part of a team, you’ll have 2-3 hours to turn your idea into a prototype, followed by demos at the end. It’s also a great opportunity to work on an existing ETH AI Club Project or start building toward a

VIScon Symposium 2026

VIScon is the biggest student-led tech convention at ETH Zurich. Join us for a day full of talks, workshops and networking. Open to everyone interested in technology and innovation! Sign up here: https://vis.ethz.ch/en/events/1128/.

Hack Night: Content Machine

by Start Campus

Do you ask yourself how some founders post every day, look on-brand every time, and still have time to build their company, while you're stuck staring at an empty content calendar? For this Hack Night we are hosting Andy Was Right, one of Zurich's best creative agencies, to show you how to make branding fun again and let automations handle the boring parts of content. To do so, they will walk you

Head of AI Club

by Nick G

“The first rule of AI Club: you don’t pitch in AI Club.” Welcome to the underground of AI leadership — where the real Heads of AI, ex-CTOs, and builders behind the scenes meet. No slides. No buzzwords. No VC fairy tales. Just battle-tested minds talking about what actually works in production — and what crashed gloriously. 🧠 What happens in the room: Brutally honest AI war stories. What scaling AI

Impulse Hack #2

by ETH AI Club

Welcome to our Friday Hacking Session! Have an AI-related idea you’ve been meaning to build? Join our Friday evening hacking sessions, organized together with VMI. Whether you’re coming solo or as part of a team, you’ll have 2-3 hours to turn your idea into a prototype, followed by demos at the end. It’s also a great opportunity to work on an existing ETH AI Club Project or start building toward a

AI Agents Marketing Lab

by kv luzern

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

AI Superpowers - 10x smarter arbeiten (Intensivlehrgang)

by Kuble - House of Intelligence

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

FORMA APERTA

by Generative Center SAGL

FORMA APERTA | WHERE DOES THE CREATIVE PROCESS LIVE? From **28 September to 11 October**, **PalaCinema Locarno** will host and co-organize an open space for film production, research and dialogue. The **Generative Center** is opening the production process of _Daniel JeanRichard_, a film combining traditional filmmaking with AI-generated imagery. At a time of radical transformation for cinema a

AI Game Changers Club | Zurich, Switzerland | Trust at Scale in the Age of AI

by Emi Olausson Fourounjieva

Trust at Scale: Leadership, Governance and Accountability for Sustainable Growth AI Game Changers Club | Zurich Executive Leadership Exchange Hosted at IBM Zurich 8 October 2026 The conversation around AI is entering a new phase. Organizations are moving beyond experimentation. AI is becoming increasingly embedded in decisions, workflows, customer interactions, operating models and strategic choic

Getting started w/ ellipsis & Fly

by Thomas Bollenbach

Your pitch taken apart in public Most feedback founders get is polite. This isn't that. Fly and ellipsis are coming together to give early-stage founders brutally honest feedback on their business idea and pitch. The things a VC thinks in a meeting but doesn't tell you. Between us we've backed 70+ startups. Both funds are run by ex-engineers and deep tech founders, so questions get technical fast.

Two Day Workshop: Career Intelligence & Verdeckter Arbeitsmarkt

by Innovationsverband Schweizer Arbeitsmarkt

Die Jobsuche auf Senior Level ist heute weniger eine Frage von Glück oder Timing, sondern von Methode. Wer als Fach- oder Führungskraft die nächste passende Position finden will, profitiert davon, die Jobsuche wie ein eigenes Projekt zu führen: mit klarer Strategie, strukturierten Etappen, den richtigen Werkzeugen und einer belastbaren Pipeline an Zielunternehmen. Genau hier setzt Career Intellige

AI Society - AI Coffee Chats - Zurich

by Tata Maytesyan

What’s it all about: A casual get-together for anyone who’s interested in AI — no matter your level, background or titles. Bring your questions, your insights, or simply your curiosity. We talk about latest AI tips & hacks, share learning, spark new ideas — all over a freshly brewed cup of coffee. What to expect: A space with no formal presentations — just real conversations. No reservations requi

MedTalk: CSEM

by HSC Zurich

Join us for a MedTalk with Felix Kurth, Group Leader of the Biosensing Technologies group and member of the Research & Business Development Team Life Sciences at CSEM, one of Switzerland's leading technology innovation centers. With a background in bioengineering, microfluidics, biosensing, and health technologies, Felix leads interdisciplinary teams developing next-generation diagnostic and monit

Impulse Hack #1

by ETH AI Club

Welcome to our Friday Hacking Session! Have an AI-related idea you’ve been meaning to build? Join our Friday evening hacking sessions, organized together with VMI. Whether you’re coming solo or as part of a team, you’ll have 2-3 hours to turn your idea into a prototype, followed by demos at the end. It’s also a great opportunity to work on an existing ETH AI Club Project or start building toward a

VIScon Symposium 2026

VIScon is the biggest student-led tech convention at ETH Zurich. Join us for a day full of talks, workshops and networking. Open to everyone interested in technology and innovation! Sign up here: https://vis.ethz.ch/en/events/1128/.

{Tech: Europe} Agentic AI Hack

by {Tech: Europe}

{Tech: Europe} Agentic AI Hack Talking about AI is easy, getting something to actually work by sundown is the interesting part. That's the idea behind this season, run together with Google DeepMind teams form in the morning, build through the day, demo in the evening. Prizes and credits on the line, food all day, and maybe your next startup mvp? Limited to 70 participants – secure your spot now! O

Build Your Own Assistants #1

by Sanjida

Email Triage and task Prioritisation - connects your inbox and calendar, sorts what’s urgent, drafts the replies. ​It’s time to let AI do more for you, spend 3 hours on a Sunday building your own agent to manage your email, slack messages and calendar. In this session, you’ll connect your inbox, calendar and slack to Claude and build an agent that organises your overwhelmed inbox, reads your email

🦠 Biosecurity Futures | AI Meets Biology

by Zurich Biosecurity Hub

AI Meets Biology What Frontier Models Actually Change Monday, 12 October 2026 · 18:15–19:45 ETH Zürich, room to be confirmed Every major AI lab now publishes commitments about biological misuse. Governments cite it in national security strategy. The claim is that these systems could help someone build a weapon they otherwise couldn't. The interesting question is whether that's true, and how anyone

Next Gen Omics Tech & Data 2026

NextGen Omics Tech & Data Europe 2026 (Basel, Switzerland, on 13–14 October) connects genomics, bioinformatics, AI and data leaders to explore emerging technologies, share insights and drive innovation across the life sciences.

lunch&LEARN | Access Timing as Scaffolding: Does the timing of GenAI access matter?

by EPFL AI Center

2026-10-13 – 2026-10-13

Daten verstehen, besser entscheiden: Praktische Data Literacy & Data Governance für die öffentliche Verwaltung

by Alex

Du arbeitest mit Kennzahlen, Zahlenberichten oder Datensätzen, bist aber nicht immer sicher, was die Daten und Analysen tatsächlich aussagen, wie verlässlich sie sind oder wie sie sinnvoll für Entscheidungen genutzt werden können? Daten spielen in der öffentlichen Verwaltung und im Dritten Sektor eine immer wichtigere Rolle. Gleichzeitig fehlen im Arbeitsalltag häufig die Ressourcen, gemeinsame Gr

AI Salon - Swiss {ai} Weeks edition | AI aperta vs AI chiusa: la sfida

by Gaetano Biondo

Un dibattito - cordiale, ma senza esclusione di colpi - tra i sostenitori di AI locali, modelli open-weights e open-source e i fautori dell'AI integrata in piattaforme gestionali o centralizzate. Chi vincerà? Certamente il pubblico, che potrà finalmente capirne di più e sapere cosa scegliere. Altri dettagli TBD

Robotics Roundtable: Tough commercial decisions

by Innovation Park Zurich

If you are the founder or executive manager of a robotics company, this event is for you: We will be talking about the tough commercial decisions you have to make to move from technology to first customers. Every robotics company reaches a point where the hard problems stop being technical. You've proven the technology works. Now you have to decide which market to enter, which customer to chase, h

Hack Night: Content Machine

by Start Campus

Do you ask yourself how some founders post every day, look on-brand every time, and still have time to build their company, while you're stuck staring at an empty content calendar? For this Hack Night we are hosting Andy Was Right, one of Zurich's best creative agencies, to show you how to make branding fun again and let automations handle the boring parts of content. To do so, they will walk you

PyCarinthia #1 - hello_world

by PyCarinthia

A Python and AI community in Carinthia, Austria. Meetups, talks, workshops, and hands-on sessions for everyone building with Python and AI.

Romandy CTO 2026

IBM has a rule: run every new technology on yourself before you sell it to anyone else. On Thursday 15 October, Romandy CTO is at IBM in Lancy to hear what happened when they pointed that rule at agentic AI — a real HR and IT transformation, the password resets no human touches any more, and the architecture underneath it. 18:30, in English, open to anyone building with this. romandycto.o

AI Center x Sony AI Impact Talk Mireille El Gheche – Learning to Play at Human Speed: From Simulation to Expert-Level Robot Table Tennis

by EPFL AI Center

2026-10-15 – 2026-10-15

Bob DACH Community Gathering & Coding Watch Party Zürich

by Sebastian Grodzietzki

Developers, Ops, domain experts - let's get your hands dirty! We are rolling out a series of hands-on practitioner events around IBM Bob, the new AI-powered development partner designed to help you ideate, build, modernize and ship better code, faster. What makes these events stand out? 👩‍💻👨‍💻🧑‍💻🪩 Coding Watch Parties in Berlin, Cologne, Ehningen, Frankfurt, Vienna, Zürich... Join live sessions to

AI, Truth and Images | Talk by Giga Photo Award

by Attila Horvath

As generative AI makes it easier than ever to create convincing images, how do we distinguish between what is real, synthetic, and emotionally persuasive? Join us for an evening of discussion with: Clément Lambelet (Head of Master Photography- ECAL and Soft Photography) Hannah Reyes Morales (Pulitzer finalist and National Geographic Explorer) Moderated by Anne Wyrsch (Photo Editor, Le Temps) Throu

TAIC: The uneven distribution of AI's promise

by Anna Fedorova

The gap between cutting-edge AI research and its "last-mile" applications in low- and middle-income countries remains stubbornly large. Closing it requires more than better models: it takes organisations deliberately partnering to put AI capabilities in service of the world's most pressing problems. There are far too few organizations focused on that today at the necessary scale. This talk unpacks

Improve Your Python Development Workflow

by LauzHack

Improve Your Python Development Workflow

KI Update x swiss AI Meetup - Thema Musik mit KI

by Karolin Wiezel

KI Update x swiss AI Meetup - Thema Musik mit KI Die kostenlose Kl-Info-Reihe in Gebenstorf organisiert von BEYONDER und swissAI. Künstliche Intelligenz verständlich, mit praktischen Beispielen ganz ohne Buzzwords. Referierende: Michale Kyburz & Martin Villiger Parking im kostenpflichtigen Coop Parkhaus oder umliegenden Gratis Parkplätzen. So findest du uns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SjGx9w

AI Futures | Forecasting Transformative AI

by Zurich AI Safety

How do we predict when transformative AI might arrive? An examination of data and tools, what signals to watch for, and how to think clearly about AI timelines. AI Futures Discussions Where is artificial intelligence headed, and what does it mean for our future? Join us for an engaging five-part series exploring the most important questions about AI development, from current technology to long-ter

Client zero - Agentic AI in action

by Romandy CTO

IBM's rule for new technology: run it on yourself first. An evening inside a real HR and IT transformation — and the architectural building block that makes it possible

Head of AI Club

by Nick G

“The first rule of AI Club: you don’t pitch in AI Club.” Welcome to the underground of AI leadership — where the real Heads of AI, ex-CTOs, and builders behind the scenes meet. No slides. No buzzwords. No VC fairy tales. Just battle-tested minds talking about what actually works in production — and what crashed gloriously. 🧠 What happens in the room: Brutally honest AI war stories. What scaling AI

Impulse Hack #2

by ETH AI Club

Welcome to our Friday Hacking Session! Have an AI-related idea you’ve been meaning to build? Join our Friday evening hacking sessions, organized together with VMI. Whether you’re coming solo or as part of a team, you’ll have 2-3 hours to turn your idea into a prototype, followed by demos at the end. It’s also a great opportunity to work on an existing ETH AI Club Project or start building toward a

Neural Wave

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

ERH Physical AI Hackathon

by Pasha Rizali

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

Hack Apertus — Join us! — Bern

by aiLights Association

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.

Technical Hands-on Workshop MariaDB & VSHN in Zürich

by Markus Speth

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

«Hack Apertus» Liebefeld Finals

by aiLights Association

👉🏼 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

OILS26 — From Bit to Bench: SustAInable & Ethical Innovation in Life Sciences

by Marta

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

Talent Science Executive Boardroom: The Workforce Economics of AI and Digital Transformation

by The IN Group

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

Effizienter Arbeiten mit KI-Tools wie ChatGPT: Prompting für die öffentliche Verwaltung

by Alex

Founders Academy: From Innovation to IP: Patent Strategy for Startups

by Swiss Startup Association

A practical session on patent strategy for startups, covering what, when, and how to protect innovations in IT, AI, Software, Biotech, and Life Sciences.

Ethische Führung im KI-Zeitalter: Wie gelingt verantwortungsvolle Innovation?

by AI Startup Center

Künstliche Intelligenz verändert nicht nur Arbeitsprozesse, sondern auch Führung, Verantwortung und Zusammenarbeit. Wie können Unternehmen diese Entwicklung verantwortungsvoll gestalten? Und welche Rolle kommt Führungskräften dabei zu? Die Veranstaltung greift zentrale Gedanken aus dem Buch „Mensch. Macht. Maschine. – 17 Wege zu ethischer Führung im KI-Zeitalter“ von Dr. Sebastian Rosengrün (www.r

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

Women in Tech Panel: FINNOFLEET x WINZ

by WINZ

✨ 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

AI Experience

AI Experience is the second edition of a series of sector-specific events designed to explore how AI can be applied to different industries in a practical way. This edition focuses on **manufacturing** and will combine **expert talks, real use cases and live demos** to explore the potential, risks and governance of AI agents, the use of Copilot and Power Platform to optimize everyday work, the dev

Speaker & Partner Apéro | SWAIS 2026

by SwissAISummit

The Speaker & Partner Apéro is a chance to connect before the Summit gets into full swing 🥂 Join us and fellow speakers and partners for an informal evening of drinks, conversation, and networking without the busy programme and packed schedule of the Summit itself. Looking forward to welcoming you and connecting ahead of the Swiss AI Summit 🚀 This apéro is by invitation only for our Speakers & Par

AI Apéro

by Hélène Moore

AI Apero: Edition #1 The AI technology revolution Tuesday, October 21, 2026 · 18:00–20:00 CET · Vulkanstrasse 106, Zurich AI Apéro is an event series created by AI practitioners, for AI practitioners. It is a place to connect with peers, exchange experiences, ask questions, and openly discuss the opportunities and challenges of a technology that is reshaping our world. Through real conversations a

UNICORN PITCHES Zurich | AI Revolution: From Vision to Reality

by Andrii Moroz

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

Our Minds Under Siege - An Evening with Bruno Giussani

by ETH AI Center

​A conversation on AI, information, trust and the future of human judgment. ​Artificial intelligence is transforming how we search, read, decide and form opinions. As AI systems become increasingly capable of generating persuasive text, images and videos, distinguishing truth from manipulation becomes more difficult - and more important. ​Join us for an evening with writer and former TED curator B