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Swiss Software Festival

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Swiss Software Festival

The Swiss software industry has been growing steadily over recent decades, becoming a strategic economic force for Switzerland. In times of geopolitical uncertainty, Swiss companies and organizations are increasingly on the lookout for solutions that support them in the pursuit of digital sovereignty. And these solutions exist!

These autonomy-first, Swiss-made solutions will be presented and discussed on June 24, 2026, at the Swiss Software Festival, where tech enthusiasts, digitalization experts, and software-makers will share their responses to current technological challenges and trends.

With two plenary sessions and over 75 talks across eight themed tracks, the Swiss Software Festival is a unique platform for the Swiss

The data innovation alliance is involved in a special track, addressing current debates about the limits of pure model scaling and highlights why good AI is primarily a matter of design and governance. Following an introductory summary of the risks associated with variable quality and different approaches to evaluation, a selection of practical case studies to demonstrate how the Data Fairness Label can be used as a framework for creating fair and robust AI systems will be presented.A moderated panel discussion with experts from industry and practice will expand the conversation around experiences, challenges, and best practices.

DAWO26 – Third European DAO Workshop

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European DAO Workshop 2026

DAOs are a rapidly growing phenomena, and the importance of these new organizational structures is only going to increase over the next years with the further adoption of blockchain technology. Research on how to build more inclusive and democratic systems representing cooperative values needs more consideration and DAWO is a testbed for continues conversation.

The 2-day workshop brings together researchers examining the potential of DAOs, leveraging a culture of participation to fosters innovation and knowledge transfer between academics to advance DAO as a new organizational structure. We expect that the workshop yields a variety of novel research opportunities, which will set a basis for continuous collaboration among participants of the workshop.

Hack Apertus

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Sovereign multilingual solutions — built by the community

Hack Apertus – Fine-tune Apertus. Serve Public & Private Sector

Start: Q3/4 2026

Public institutions and private organisations alike process thousands of sensitive documents every year — asylum applications, medical records, legal contracts, internal communications, customer data. Most rely on cloud-based AI tools that route this data through external infrastructure, creating compliance exposure under Switzerland’s FADP and the EU AI Act.

Hack Apertus creates replicable blueprints for AI adoption across industries and public administrations. Interdisciplinary academic and professional teams worldwide source and curate datasets across text, image, and voice, fine-tune Apertus 8B v1.5, and build open, on-premise use case solutions with public and private sector partners.
All outputs, including datasets, fine-tuned models, and Docker images, are published as open commons and feed back to the Swiss AI Initiative as training data for next Apertus iterations.

INNOwork #02: Workshop “AI Know-How meets AI Challenge”

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Du kennst dich mit KI aus und suchst einen konkreten Anwendungsfall um deine Expertise einzubringen?

Dann stell dich den Herausforderungen unseres Industriepartners.
Tauche ein in die spannenden Fragestellungen aus der realen Welt, diskutiere zusammen mit weiteren Expertinnen und Experten mögliche Lösungsansätze und öffne die Tür zur Entwicklung tragfähiger Lösungen.
Die Teilnahme ebnet dir den Weg zu einer Projektförderung durch Innosuisse und könnte der entscheidende Schritt sein, deine Idee Realität werden zu lassen.

Der Workshop wird in Kooperation mit dem Innosuisse Innovation Booster Artificial Intelligence durchgeführt.
Für die Teilnehmenden an dieser Veranstaltung besteht im Anschluss die Möglichkeit, ihre Ideen gemeinsam mit einem Konsortium im Rahmen der Fördermöglichkeiten
des Innovation Booster Programmes weiter zu schärfen.

ABLAUF

  • 14:00 Uhr: Registrierung und Socializing
  • 14:30 Uhr: Begrüssung, Zielsetzung, Ablauf
  • 14:45 Uhr: Start des Workshops
  • Vorstellung der Challenges
  • Aufteilung in Kleingruppen
  • Shaping, Challenging and Ideation
  • 17:45 Uhr: Wrap-Up & Follow-Up
  • 18:00 Uhr: Ende des Workshops
  • 18:00 Uhr: Apéro und Networking
  • 19:30 Uhr: Ende der Veranstaltung

ZIELGRUPPE & SPRACHE

  • Offene Veranstaltung für alle Personen, welche mit KI zur Lösung konkreter Herausforderungen beitragen wollen, d.h. insbesondere aus Start-Ups, aus Lehre und Forschung, aus der Welt der KMU und der Verwaltung
  • Der Workshop findet auf Deutsch statt. Fragen können gerne auch in Englisch gestellt werden.
Registration

VERANSTALTER

Moderationsteam der swissICT Fachgruppe Innovation (Emilie Etesi, Viktoria Mauz, Violeta Lozano, Harald Bader) & Geschäftsstelle swissICT (Carol Lechner) in Kooperation mit dem Innovation Booster Artificial Intelligence (powered by Innosuisse) (Reik Leiterer).

KONTAKT

Carol Lechner, Geschäftsstelle swissICT: event@swissict.ch

KOSTEN

Kostenlos. Bitte informiere uns so schnell wie möglich, falls du nicht teilnehmen kannst.

Innovation Booster Stories – Radical Innovation through Digitalization

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A series of lunch & afterwork webinars showing radical innovation emerged from the Innovation Booster program powered by Innosuisse

Do we have the courage—and the endurance—to pursue truly radical ideas? 

Most so-called “moonshot” ideas don’t fail because they lack potential, but because the risks feel too high and markets are misunderstood. We’re here to change that mindset.

Through the Innovation Booster Program, powered by Innosuisse, we transform high-risk challenges into collaborative and desirable opportunities:

Explore – Solve complex challenges within an open innovation ecosystem

Support – Receive financial backing for selected early-stage ideas

Grow – Benefit from targeted coaching to navigate uncertainty

Website & Registration

Innovation Booster Stories brings together projects from different Innovation Boosters to pitch their radical ideas on topics that matter across the Innovation Booster communities. Each session features bold early-stage projects, diverse audiences, and focused peer feedback.

 Format

  • 3-minute pitch per project
  • 3 minutes of silent feedback from the community
  • A highly diverse audience from multiple IB communities, contributing a wide range of expertise and perspectives

TOUCHING INTELLIGENCE – DAVOS TECH SUMMIT

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From stage conversations to city-scale encounters, Davos Tech Summit is designed as an immersive experience around robotics, physical AI, and real-world deployment. With the conference and the Robot City, Davos becomes a living laboratory for the near future. Find more information on the official website.

Davos Tech Summit

Expert Group Meeting – Natural Language Processing in Action: Corporate GenAI

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We are happy to invite you to our next NLP Expert Meeting on April 16th, 2026, at our regular venue – ZHAW on Lagerstrasse – followed by an apéro at Nüü. In this session, we will focus on “Corporate GenAI” and will as always feature three great speakers.

  • Holger Keibel from Karakun will show how a “Search first, then RAG” workflow improves the accuracy and relevance of RAG responses, puts the user in control and scales as a knowledge access strategy.
  • Norbert Kremer will reveal how Panter helps the Swiss Post keep 10’000+ corporate pages up to date using AI-assisted workflows.
  • Albert Weichselbraun and Silvan Wiedmer from Fachhochschule Graubünden will talk about their research on neurosymbolic AI for developing confidential and reliable assistants for high-stakes environments in the financial sector.

Join us on April 16th at 17:30 at Lagerstrasse 41/45, 8004 Zurich. The presentations will take place from 17:30 to 19:15, followed by the apéro downstairs from 19:15 onwards.

For those unable to attend in person, online participation is also available.

Please confirm your attendance by April 12th using the following form:

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/SXQYspjxxq

MOSAIC Shaping Workshop

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MOSAIC (Multimodal Open-Science AI-Powered Integrative Computation) is an initiative to build the missing infrastructure layer for next-generation research on humans: a platform for synchronized multimodal physiology + behavior + subjective reports enabling scalable and reproducible neurophenomenological and clinical research.

Today, sophisticated multimodal studies (EEG, audio/video, speech, physiology, psychometrics, experience sampling) remain difficult to conduct due to fragmented tool ecosystems, high expertise requirements, and critical bottlenecks in signal synchronization and integrated processing.

The MOSAIC Shaping Workshop «From fragmented multimodal studies to scalable multimodal science infrastructure» brings together leading experts from neuroscience, multimodal AI, research infrastructure, clinical research, and innovation to:

  • evaluate feasibility and innovation gaps
  • define a tractable MVP and implementation pathway
  • shape the roadmap toward follow-up funding and prototyping

Event Information:

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Expert Evaluation
Time: 09:00 – 14:00
Venue: Digital Society Initiative (DSI),
University of Zurich (SOC-E-010)
Address: Rämistrasse 69, 8001 Zurich

Tentative agenda:

  • Opening — Welcome; genesis story; project introduction
  • Short Participant Introductions
  • Network Mapping (people, disciplines, infrastructure, funding)
  • Coffee Break and Networking
  • Data Types Exercise (participant input)
  • Implementation of MOSAIC
  • Standing Lunch
  • Research Questions and Pilot Projects
  • Innovation Gaps and Collaboration

Core Team Meeting
Time: 14:00 – 16:00
Venue: Digital Society Initiative (DSI), University of Zurich (SOC-E-006)
Address: Rämistrasse 69, 8001 Zurich

Tentative agenda:

  • Summary of the expert evaluation
  • Next steps

Friday, February 20, 2026

Implementation Strategy
Time: 09:00 – 12:00
Venue: Kleine Aula, University of Zurich (RAA-G-01)
Address: Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zurich

Tentative agenda:

  • Implementation plan
  • Business plan
  • Current state of the technology
  • Pilot projects
  • Target customers
  • Funding strategy

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