Swiss AI Summit 2026 Edition: Autonomy & Sovereignty

Please purchase your ticket on our website directly: https://www.swissaisummit.com/ Main Stage 07:30-08:30 REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE 08:30-08:35 OPENING ADDRESS Timea Nagy 08:35-08:45 WELCOME ADDRESS Zürich: Where trust meets innovation For Zurich and Switzerland, the question is no longer whether to participate in the AI race, but how to remain a place where talent, capital, technology and companies choose to build the future. Carmen Walker Späh, District President and Chairperson @ Department of Economic Affairs, Canton of Zürich 08:45:-09:30 PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A Executive View on AI: How is AI reshaping your Global Strategy Moderator: Dorian Selz, Co-founder and Chairman @ Squirro AG Alfonso Gomez, CEO @ HSBC Swiss Private Bank, Country Head @ HSBC Switzerland Anne-Sophie Litgering, CEO Europe @ NTT DATA Julian Biegmann, General Manager Switzerland @ Revolut Dr. Lisa Bechtold, Global Head of Group Risk Management @ Nestlé 09:30-10:15 PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A The new Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence. Is AI becoming the new currency of geopolitical power? AI is creating a new geopolitical order: Europe’s position between competing technology powers, and what strategic autonomy means in an increasingly AI-dependent world. Moderator: Raphael von Thiessen, Lead AI – Innovation Sandbox @ Kanton of Zurich Markus Reubi, Special Envoy Geneva AI Summit 2027 @ Feder Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA Marc Holitscher, National Technology Officer (NTO); Member of the Board @ Microsoft Switzerland Surprise Guest coming in from Austria. Stay Tuned. 10:15-10:30 KEYNOTE+QA Run AI at the Quantum Edge: From Quantum Advantage to Post-Quantum Readiness Enterprise AI is hitting a new frontier combining classical and quantum computing to solve increasingly complex problems at scale. Jan Mikolon, CTO @ QuantumBasel 10:30-10:45 KEYNOTE+QA Accelerate Your AI Transformation: Become an Agentic Enterprise What does it take to truly transform with AI? The companies winning today aren't experimenting, they're deploying. Moving from AI curiosity to AI execution with Agentforce. Arda Ergun, Director EMEA, Forward Deployed Engineering, Agentforce @ Salesforce 10:45-11:15 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK 11:15-11:55 PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A Space is no longer “space”: it’s infrastructure As space becomes critical infrastructure for defence, communications, navigation, intelligence and the digital economy, who will control the systems that societies increasingly depend on, governments, national industries, or private technology companies? Moderator: Yusuf Barman, Senior Manager @ Wavestone Ludovic Monnerat, Head of the Swiss Armed Forces Space Command New Signal Detected. Or was it a breach? Houston, we have something flying in from outer space. 11:55-12:30 PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A How AI moves from models and infrastructure into real economy Data-centre capacity, energy, compute, chips, networks and cooling are becoming strategic constraints on AI adoption. Moderator: Dalith Steiger-Gablinger, Co-Founder & CEO @ SwissCognitive Marc Stampfli, Business Director Switzerland @ NVIDIA Alberto Sanz, CEO @ SMG Swiss Marketplace Group Simon Muskett, Principal AI & Quantum @ Digital Realty Late Reveal. Stay Tuned. 12:30-12:45 INNOVATION JOURNEY + Q&A AI Sovereignty in Practice: Lessons from an SME’s Transformation - From trusted services to AI infrastructure and governance - with the support of Innosuisse Paula Reichenberg, Chair of the Board & Founder @ Neur.on 12:45-13:00 KEYNOTE + Q&A Agentic AI Without Owners: Governing the Rise of Digital Zombies Estera Kot, PhD, CTO @ Clouds on Mars 13:00-14:30 NETWORKING LUNCH OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences – Robotic presentation Cold Brew – Barista Show 14:30-14:40 Keynote + QA From AI to Action: How Agentic AI is redefining work. Which work should humans lead, which should AI execute, and how organisations should redesign the workforce for an agentic future. Callan Abrahams, Executive: Artificial Intelligence @ iOCO 14:40-15:15 PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A Hacking AI agents: when autonomous AI becomes the attack surface. How can we secure AI that can act on our behalf? Moderator: Andy Fitze, Co-founder and Managing Partner @ SwissCognitive Prof. Dr. Daniel Patrick Politze, Professor and Head of the Institute for Network and Security (INS) @ OST Markus Danhel, Head AI Software Austria & Switzerland @ IBM Mostafa Hassanin, Group CISO/CSO @ SMG Swiss Marketplace AG Shira Kaplan, Founder @ Cyverse Capital GmbH 15:15-15:35 KEYNOTE + QA 20,000 Employees, One Mandate: Everyone Builds an Agent Sarah Levy, Head Swiss AI Platform @ Swisscom 15:35-16:05 NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK 16:05-16:20 KEYNOTE + QA Late Reveal. Stay Tuned. 16:20-16:55 PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A AI-Driven Commercial Operations: from marketing automation to autonomous growth Moderator: Franziska-J Klebon, General Manager, Member of the Executive Board @ Clouds on Mars Lena Kukharets, Head DACH & EMEA Lead AI Partnerships @ Depositphotos & VistaCreate (Vista) Late Reveal. Stay Tuned. Late Reveal. Stay Tuned. 16:55-17:30 PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A AI & Healthcare: Use Cases, Challenges, and Trade-Offs Moderator: Dr. Alessandro Palese, International Product Manager @ Roche Klaas Neubert, Head of AI Engineering @ Adesso Matthias Bryner, CIO @ Kinderspital Zürich Leila Schwery, VP Manufacturing & Technical Operations @ Johnson & Johnson 17:30-18:00 PANEL DISCUSSION + Q&A Who controls the intelligence of finance? AI & Big Tech & the future of Financial Sovereignity. Moderator: Andra Maute, Executive Board Member & DLT Lead @ Swiss Fintech Innovations Michael Föhner, Global Head Data & AI Governance @ SwissRe Anastasia Stasenki, Co-founder @ Pleias Silvan Lohri, Head AI Transformation @ Swisscom Christian Sebregondi, Head AI @ Zürcher Kantonalbank 18:00-21:00 NETWORKING APÉRO IN PARALLEL: ROOM 1  Roundtables & Workshops 09:00-10:00 ROUNDTABLE Building Trustworthy AI Frameworks in Financial Ins