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7. Wiener Produktionstechnik Kongress (WPK2026)

by TU Wien

The 7th Wiener Produktionstechnik Kongress (WPK2026) is a two-day production engineering conference hosted by TU Wien's Institute of Production Engineering and Photonic Technologies (IFT) in the Kuppelsaal at Karlsplatz. Under the theme "From Data-Driven Production to Autonomous Manufacturing Systems", it covers manufacturing concepts, AI-supported data-based optimisation and process innovations towards highly automated and autonomous machines, as well as the human-centred redesign of factory work. Speakers from industry and academia, including Siemens, Bosch, DMG Mori, BMW Group, Boeing, FILL, TU Munich, TU Darmstadt and KU Leuven, present talks on AI in the factory, physical AI, software-defined automation, agentic systems in manufacturing, real-time quality monitoring, quantum computing in manufacturing and additive manufacturing. The congress runs on 7 and 8 October 2026. A come-together at TUtheSky on 6 October comes before it, and a gala dinner takes place at the Wiener Rathauskeller on 7 October. Tickets for both days cost from EUR 150 (students) to EUR 900 (regular ticket with the gala dinner), and registration runs through the congress website.

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.

Nebius Build Week Hackathon in partnership with NVIDIA

by {Tech: Europe}

Build something real with Nebius and NVIDIA before GTC Berlin begins. On Sunday, 18 October, Nebius is bringing together around 250 AI engineers, agent builders, startup teams and technical practitioners for a full day of hands-on building in Berlin. Teams will use Nebius AI Cloud, Serverless, Token Factory, Tavily and NVIDIA technologies to build practical AI applications, agents and workflows. T

🤖 Zurich Robotics Roundtable #5

by Yves Albers

Zurich's quarterly gathering for the people building in robotics and physical AI — capped at 250 people. 250 people in one room: founders, operators, big tech engineers, researchers, and the city's most ambitious students. Built for real conversations and meaningful connections. This is the robotics meetup in Zurich. It runs quarterly, and it's built around one thing: meeting the people actually d

Critical Infrastructure Shield Hackathon Switzerland

by EDTH

The event will run through our EDTH event platform — apply directly here to find the agenda, challenges, and team formation: https://events.eurodefense.tech/critical-infra-shield-hackathon-switzerland Europe’s critical infrastructure is increasingly exposed — from energy grids and transport hubs to data centers and communication networks. The threat landscape has changed: low-cost drones, hybrid c

The Future of Cleaning Challenge – from Vorwerk & Women in Robotics

by Women in Robotics Switzerland

One week online and one day at DARE campus. Real prototypes, not slides. Teams of five to seven spend the day turning a real household problem: hardware, software, robotics, AI, any mix into something that actually runs. We are looking for: Robotics / ROS + CV Perception and navigation. You'd rather get a robot to actually see a room than argue about SLAM in theory. Robotics + Embodied AI Perceive

7. Wiener Produktionstechnik Kongress (WPK2026)

by TU Wien

The 7th Wiener Produktionstechnik Kongress (WPK2026) is a two-day production engineering conference hosted by TU Wien's Institute of Production Engineering and Photonic Technologies (IFT) in the Kuppelsaal at Karlsplatz. Under the theme "From Data-Driven Production to Autonomous Manufacturing Systems", it covers manufacturing concepts, AI-supported data-based optimisation and process innovations towards highly automated and autonomous machines, as well as the human-centred redesign of factory work. Speakers from industry and academia, including Siemens, Bosch, DMG Mori, BMW Group, Boeing, FILL, TU Munich, TU Darmstadt and KU Leuven, present talks on AI in the factory, physical AI, software-defined automation, agentic systems in manufacturing, real-time quality monitoring, quantum computing in manufacturing and additive manufacturing. The congress runs on 7 and 8 October 2026. A come-together at TUtheSky on 6 October comes before it, and a gala dinner takes place at the Wiener Rathauskeller on 7 October. Tickets for both days cost from EUR 150 (students) to EUR 900 (regular ticket with the gala dinner), and registration runs through the congress website.

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.

AWS UG HH October: Vibecoding Between Meetings & AI-Driven Incident Response

by Hamburg AWS User Group

**Dear AWS users,** our October event will happen soon! Thanks to **Consid** for providing us the space, drinks and food for this AWS User Group Meetup. **Agenda & Talks**: * 18:00 Warm-up * 18:30 - 19:00 **Vibecoding Between Meetings: Using an AI-Native SDLC as Engineering Leverage** by Davide De Paolis * 19:00 - 19:15 Break * 19:15 - 19:45 **AI-Driven Incident Response: From Alert to Postmorte

Defence Tech Meetup Hamburg

by Alexander Ternovy

Defence Tech Meetup Hamburg is happening. This is a space for people who are building, funding, and supporting defence technology - in Germany, Ukraine, and beyond. Whether you are an engineer working on a specific problem, a founder looking for partners, an investor scouting opportunities, or someone who simply wants to understand where the industry is heading - this meetup is for you. The format

AI-Driven Development Meets Jakarta EE: Why Standards Matter More Than Ever

by Java User Group Stuttgart

As AI tools increasingly assist in software development—from code generation to architecture decisions—the value of stable, well-documented, and consistent APIs has never been greater. In this talk, we’ll explore how Jakarta EE and MicroProfile provide the perfect foundation for AI-assisted and even autonomous application development. Drawing on practical experiments developing applications with

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

Robotics Beyond Your Expectations: Talks & Lab Visits at EPFL

by EPFL

Join Women In Robotics and EPFL for an inspiring afternoon exploring how robotics is going beyond expectations

Google AI Live + Labs - Berlin

by Berlin AI Developers Group

**Important Note**: You must register on the [AICamp event website](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026101401) (or on [luma](https://luma.com/7n69d2jd)) is required for admission. RSP on meetup is turned off. Join Google Cloud experts in Berlin to explore, build, and scale agentic AI through expert insights, hands-on labs, demos, and role-based breakout sessions. Learn how to empower

robotics & physical ai CLUB

by Shrouk Ehab

robotics & physical ai hamburg - bring your hardware (or just yourself) hamburg has world-class hardware people. accelerator instrumentation, maritime, aerospace, labs full of machines that move. what it doesn't have is a room where those people show up together on a Wednesday evening with the thing they've been building. so we're making one. low-key, no strict agenda beyond people meeting people.

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

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

Nebius Build Week Hackathon in partnership with NVIDIA

by {Tech: Europe}

Build something real with Nebius and NVIDIA before GTC Berlin begins. On Sunday, 18 October, Nebius is bringing together around 250 AI engineers, agent builders, startup teams and technical practitioners for a full day of hands-on building in Berlin. Teams will use Nebius AI Cloud, Serverless, Token Factory, Tavily and NVIDIA technologies to build practical AI applications, agents and workflows. T

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

From Prototype to Production: What It Takes to Scale Robotics

by Anna Andersson

'Gradient Descending' is a series of roundtables on AI: curated deep dives with technical builders. Past roundtables discussions covered RL Environments, Evals, Fine-Tuning, Agent Frameworks, Open Source Models, and Knowledge Graphs with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI and many more. For our next Zurich session, we’re teaming up with Pluto to bring together a small group of foun

🤖 Zurich Robotics Roundtable #5

by Yves Albers

Zurich's quarterly gathering for the people building in robotics and physical AI — capped at 250 people. 250 people in one room: founders, operators, big tech engineers, researchers, and the city's most ambitious students. Built for real conversations and meaningful connections. This is the robotics meetup in Zurich. It runs quarterly, and it's built around one thing: meeting the people actually d

Between Worlds: An Evening on Art, AI and Climate

by Carbon Equity

Carbon Equity, CSP and Gian Klain (artist & impact investor) would like to invite you to a private evening in Gian's Zürich studio, a week before his new work opens to the public. You will be among a small group: a handful of family offices, entrepreneurs and investors in the room before anyone else sees the work. Gian will walk you through it himself and screen his AI-generated film. Dinner follo

Critical Infrastructure Shield Hackathon Switzerland

by EDTH

The event will run through our EDTH event platform — apply directly here to find the agenda, challenges, and team formation: https://events.eurodefense.tech/critical-infra-shield-hackathon-switzerland Europe’s critical infrastructure is increasingly exposed — from energy grids and transport hubs to data centers and communication networks. The threat landscape has changed: low-cost drones, hybrid c

The Future of Cleaning Challenge – from Vorwerk & Women in Robotics

by Women in Robotics Switzerland

One week online and one day at DARE campus. Real prototypes, not slides. Teams of five to seven spend the day turning a real household problem: hardware, software, robotics, AI, any mix into something that actually runs. We are looking for: Robotics / ROS + CV Perception and navigation. You'd rather get a robot to actually see a room than argue about SLAM in theory. Robotics + Embodied AI Perceive

ViennaJS October Meetup

by ViennaJS

Bring your JS interest and a good vibe! Everybody is welcome & feel free to share this invitation! **Talks and info:** All details: [https://viennajs.org/en/meetup/vienna-js-october-2026](https://viennajs.org/en/meetup/vienna-js-october-2026) **Timetable:** * 18:00: Gathering, food & drinks * \~18:45 - 19:00: Start of the first talk **Talks:** \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-

Robot Learning Paper Club - The RL post-training edition.

by Dominique Paul

Robot learning in Zurich is scattered. Academia, big tech, and startups are all pushing the field forward, but rarely in the same room. If Zurich is going to lead in robotics globally, the people building it need to talk to each other. This is a space for exactly that. We mix 10-minute presentations from researchers in the local community presenting their own work and participants presenting recen

RISE Venture Salon Physical AI

by Constantin Convalexius

15 startups. 15 investors. Four days. From 3–6 November 2026, a handpicked circle of frontier founders, deep-tech investors, institutional capital and policy architects will gather at a secluded lakeside art venue in the Austrian Alps. The focus: embodied AI, intelligent robotics, AI-native hardware and European technological sovereignty. The programme is built around peer-level roundtables, rever

Swiss Robotics Day 2026

by ETH RobotX & Swiss Robotics Association

SWISS ROBOTICS DAY 2026 13 November 2026 • StageOne Event & Convention Center • Zurich Register here 17 years at the forefront of the Swiss robotics exhibitions & networking scene https://swissroboticsday.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/SRD24.mp4 A national meeting point for robotics A platform uniting academia, industry, policymakers, and innovators. Organized by ETH Zurich RobotX with the valuable

Innovation Insights: Physical AI & Robotics | Members Only

by weXelerate

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗮🇨🇭🤖🌍

Switzerland is proud to host the next global AI Summit! – President Guy Parmelin announced at the 2026 AI Summit in New Delhi that Switzerland will host the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 in Geneva. This event will position Geneva as the global hub for AI governance, addressing AI's impact across medicine, climate, agriculture, and society at large. This continues the rotating global summit series launched in 2023 by the United Kingdom, with South Korea and France as subsequent hosts. Geneva's selection reflects Switzerland's longstanding tradition of 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 and its world-class international infrastructure, making it a natural home for governments, technology leaders, and researchers to shape the future of AI responsibly. 👉 Press Release: https://lnkd.in/g9xeszhn 👉 News Report: https://lnkd.in/e2Au3e5G #SwitzerlandAI #AIGovernance #Geneva2027