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Shaping Value Creation by Smart Services at Mobiliar Forum Thun Workshop

By Jürg Meierhofer, ZHAW Data Science, machine learning, artificial intelligence etc. are hot …

The Potential of Differential Privacy (decentriq)

The Expert Group took place as a virtual meeting on June 26, 2022. Tim Geppert from ZHAW op…

SDS2022

With more than double the attendees compared to last year’s conference, the SDS2022 was a great s…

What are the benefits of the “Digital Trust Label”?

By Markus Christen, UZH, Christoph Heitz, ZHAW and Karin Lange, La Mobilière Together with the…

Showcase Kistler & Digitalization

By Jürg Meierhofer, ZHAW In the afternoon of June 8, the Expert Group Smart Services gathered …

How can we enable a more sustainable industry?

By Melanie Geiger, data innovation alliance Report-back on the 5th Conference on Industry Pers…

Wie kann Industrie 4.0 die Nachhaltigkeit fördern?

Erfolgreiche 5. Konferenz Perspektiven mit Industrie 4.0 Synergien und Chancen für die Kreislaufw…

Databooster Shaping Workshop:
Design thinking and Digital Strategy workshop for SwissRe’s Specialty unit

By Markus Konz, SwissRe and Jürg Meierhofer, ZHAW At 31st May SwissRe’s Specialty unit hold an…

Expert Group Meeting – Blockchain in Interorganisational Collaboration

By Lukas Schädler, ZHAW Meeting of Expert Group Blockchain, May 5th 2022 In the recent year…

Synthetic Data Generation on The Hype Train

By Stefan Keller, Reik Leiterer, Nicolas Lenz When it comes to predictions, we should always b…

Service Lunch Smart Services: Transformation of the service business of Swiss industrial companies

With Boris Ricken, AWK Group COVID-19 has posed enormous challenges to Swiss industrial compan…

Expert Group Meeting Big Data and AI

The Expert Group Meeting of the Big Data and AI Expert Group (lead by Luca Furrer, Trivadis, and …

Towards fair algorithms

By Markus Christen, Karin Lange, Christoph Heitz, Michele Loi Meeting of Expert Group Data Eth…

Databooster – To support SMEs

HEPIA, HES-SO, OPI, and NTN Innovation Booster Databooster join their forces to support SMEs on t…

The Potential of Swarm Learning (HPE)

The Expert Group took place as a virtual meeting on February 15, 2022. We were joined by 12 parti…

Challenges in Applied Computer Vision

By Philipp Schmid, CSEM, Andrea Dunbar, CSEM and Jakob Olbrich, PwC Meeting of Expert Group Ma…

Operational ML for Service Engineers: Successes and Pitfalls

By Lilach Goren Huber, Thomas Palmé, Manuel Arias Chao (all ZHAW), Maik Hadorn, Roche Smart Ma…

Grounding sleep health interventions on objective data

By Ulrich Reimer, OST Meeting of Expert Group Digital Health, 17 December 2021 Background:S…

No Time To Die

By Nicolas Lenz, Litix GmbH The organization of the 11th meeting of the Spatial Data Analytics…

NFT Symposium

By Michael LustenbergerThe 14th meeting of the expert group “Blockchain Technology in Interorgani…

Expert Group “Privacy Technologies” meeting, 23.11.2021

The fourth meeting of the Expert Group Privacy Technologies for Data Collaboration took place in …

The Art of Data Fusion

By Nicolas Lenz (Litix), Stefan Keller (OST) and Reik Leiterer (ExoLabs)Geodata are used in vario…

AI in Human Resources – dangerous to employee well-being?

HR analytics is studying all people’s processes, functions, challenges, and opportunities at work…

Smart Service Innovation for Adapting to the Pandemic Situation – Successful Smart Services Summit 2021

By Jürg MeierhoferOn October 22, the expert group Smart Services welcomed worldwide top exper…

Community Exchange at the General Assembly

What a great late afternoon we had at the Kongresshaus in Zurich. 33 representatives of the membe…

data innovation alliance at the AI+X Summit

The ETH AI Center celebrated its first birthday on October 15, 2021, at the AI+X Summit and the d…

Expert Group “Blockchain” meeting, 30.09.2021

The 13th meeting of the expert group “Blockchain Technology in Interorganisational Collaboration”…

Spatial Data Analytics at the
#wetechtogether conference, 02.10.2021

By Nicolas Lenz, Litix Applied Data Science Spatial Data was a workshop topic at the #wetechto…

Expert Group “Big Data & AI Tech” meeting 10.09.2021

By Kurt Stockinger, ZHAW In our latest expert group meeting, the following talks were presente…

The Potential of Synthetic Data, 08.09.2021

The 3rd meeting of the Expert Group Privacy Technologies for Data Collaboration took place online…

AI Use-Case Talk Series, 30.08.2021

In this edition of the AI Use-Case Talks, on the 30th of August 2021 and the first time live on-s…

Expert Group “Data Ethics” meeting 24.06.21

The 18th meeting of the expert group “Data Ethics” took place online on June 24, 2021 in the afte…

Visualizing Swiss Open Government Data

Benjamin Wiederkehr, Interactive ThingsJune 28, 2021 Open Government Data has the power to tra…

SDS2021 was a lot of fun!

Another year, another successful SDS! In 2021 the data innovation alliance took the bold move to …

Rare events in Machine Learning

In person meetings have been a rare event over the last months, so coming together to discuss rar…

Interview with Zetamind

Could you shortly tell us what Zetaminddoes and who you are? Zetamind is a consulting company….

The first “Battle of NLP Ideas” @SwissText

It has become rather difficult over the last two years for professionals to meet and informally d…

Expert Group “Blockchain Technology in Interorganisational Collaboration” meeting 29.04.21

The 12th meeting of the expert group “Blockchain Technology in Interorganisational Collaboration”…

Service Lunch Smart Services: Pollux – Digital Alpine Twin

Marco Zgraggen, Geschäftsführer, Sisag AG, Daniel Pfiffner, Geschäftsführer, ProSim GmbHDate of p…

Ask the Experts

New structure, new logo, new concept: the expert group “Machine Learning Clinic” is a unique pool…

First Use-Case Talk of 2021

The first Use-Case Talk of the year the took place online on the 15th of March 2021. Industry, ac…

Interview with Securaxis

Who is Securaxis is and what do you do ? We are a start-up based in Geneva, Switzerland. …

The Kistler Innovation Lab as a powerful Digitization Booster

On February 4, 2021, the expert group Smart Services got together online for another successful e…

Interview with Kitro SA

Can you shortly tell us what Kitro does and who you are? Kitro aims to reduce food waste in th…

Service Excellence Sommer Olympiade

And The Winner is… Am ersten Juli 2020 fiel der Start zur Sommerolympiade service excellence…

Interview with Data Ahead Analytics

Could you shortly tell who Data Ahead Analytics is and what you do? Data Ahead Analytics is a …

Code of Ethics: a comprehensive guideline for responsible action

Since December 2018, the Expert Group for Data Ethics within the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensiv…

Interview with Sedimentum

Could you shortly tell us what Sedimentum does? Sedimentum is a healthcare and technology …

First Event: Match-Making in Big Data with Academia and Industry 10.11.2020

The National Research Program, NRP embraces research projects that contribute to solving key …

Active Activities with Autonomous Robots

What are the likes and dislikes of robots and what makes them act? On October 15, 2020 F&P Ro…

AI Use-Case Talk Series, 02.11.2020

At our latest online edition of the Use-Case Talks, held on November 2, 2020, industry, acade…

Service Lunch “Transformation Journey to Smart Products” 22.9.2020

About 20 guests attended the online Service Lunch organized by the Smart Services Expert Group on…

Active Activities with Autonomous Robots 15.10.2020

What are the likes and dislikes of robots and what makes them act? On October 15, 2020 F&…

Interview with Rockstar Recruiting

Could you shortly tell us what Rockstar Recruiting does? Rockstar Recruiting is a personal…

Blockchain in Supply Chain Management Expert Group Meeting 17.09.2020

Our 10th meeting of the expert group “Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management”…

Interview with Skillue

Could you shortly tell us what Skillue is? Skillue is an ICT start-up in the HR and Recruitmen…

Updates from the last Data Ethics Expert Group meeting 20.04.2020

The main part of the meeting consisted in an update regarding the work for the new “Data Ethics C…

Digital Health Expert Group Meeting, 07.07.2020

The Expert Group on Digital Health met once again in person on the 7th of July. This was wel…

7th Swiss Conference on Data Science SDS2020, 26.06.2020

On the 26th of June 2020, the 7th Swiss Conference on Data Science took place, for the first …

Interview with Aspaara Algorithmic Solutions AG

Could you shortly tell us what Aspaara is? Employees are the most influential production f…

A Hybrid Edge-Cloud Platform for Self-Adaptive Machine Learning Based IoT Applications, Pre-conference workshop, 25.06.2020

On the 25th of June, the day before the SDS2020, Nabil Abdennadher, professor at the Universi…

Machine Learning Push-Down to SAP HANA with Python, Pre-conference workshop 25.06.2020

On the 25th of June 2020, the day prior to the SDS2020 conference, Andreas Forster, Thom…

Implementing Data Ethics in Business Processes, Pre-Conference Workshop, 25.06.2020

In 2019, the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services launched the first version of its “Data E…

An Experimental Exploratory Data Analysis for a Classification Task, Pre-Conference Workshop 25.06.2020

From Visualization to Statistical Analysis From Feature Engineering to Feature Selection Fr…

NLPeasy – Harnessing the Power of Unstructured Data, Pre-conference Workshop 25.06.2020

At this year’s virtual pre-conference workshop, Philipp, Jacqueline, and Jürgen from D ONE got th…

A.I. Use-Case Talk Series, 17.06.2020

Because of the exceptional situation, industry, academic and individual members of the Swiss Alli…

Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management Expert Group meeting 18.06.2020

On Thursday, 18th June 2020, we had our 9th meeting of the Expert Group “Blockchain Technology in…

Spatial Data Analytics Expert Group Meeting 4.06.2020

The 7th meeting of the spatial data analytics expert group was held online on June 4th&nbsp…

CAS Data Product Design / Smart Service Engineering Course 04-05.06.2020

Value creation through data is a very current topic of utmost importance. However, in practical a…

Interview with legal-i

Could you shortly tell us what legal-i is? legal-i is like a virtual lawyer, based on artifici…

Online Expert Group Leaders Meeting, 28.04.2020

In these exceptional times of COVID-19, the Expert Groups of the Swiss Alliance continue to find …

Online Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services Match-Making Event, 28.04.2020

On the 28th of April 2020 we held our Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services Match-Making eve…

Updates from the last Data Ethics Expert Group meeting 20.04.2020

The main part of the meeting consisted in an update regarding the work for the new “Data Ethics C…

Interview with ExoLabs

In short words, what is ExoLabs? ExoLabs’ mission is to provide unique data products as …

Updates from the last Blockchain Expert Group meeting 19.02.2020

The 8th meeting of the expert group “Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management” was split …

Smart Maintenance Conference at Messe Zürich

The conference focused on two themes: predictive maintenance & smart services. We gained …

CAS Data Product Design at the Mobiliar Forum Thun

Everywhere we read and hear about digitization. But what is behind it? How does it create concret…

Updates from the last Data Ethics Expert Group meeting

Prior to the meeting, Christoph, Markus, Tom and Michele met to discuss the proposed changes to t…

Data-Driven Predictive Maintenance of Industrial Assets Expert Group: last meeting updates

It was our pleasure to have you at our latest Smart Maintenance Network event at ZHAW Zurich on T…

Updates from the last Blockchain in Supply Chain Management Expert Group meeting

The 7th meeting of the Expert Group “Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management” was again …

A summary of the 2nd Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services Match-Making Event

The FHNW School of Applied Psychology hosted the 2nd Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services M…

“SDS2019” mentioned in Swiss Statistical Society bulletin

We are extremely happy and thankful about the mention of Swiss Conference on Data Science 2019, S…

The second Smart Services Summit, Zurich, 13 September 2019

Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services held in Zurich its second Smart Services Summit at Swi…

How IoT is Changing the Electrolux Service

The author of this post, Paolo Mauri, was invited as a speaker at the recently held “Smart Servic…

IBH-Lab KMUdigital: Project «DigiNav» (Digitalisierungsnavigator, digitization navigator)

Digitalisation has an impact on organisational areas such as strategy, products and services, inv…

Data logistics and AI in insurance risk management

Data is quickly becoming the most valuable asset in the insurance sector, given its tremendous vo…

Highlights from the 6th meeting of the expert group “Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management”

The 6th meeting of the expert group “Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management” was split …

Paper and presentation at the 10th year Naples Forum on Service by the Expert Group “Smart Services”

How to create service value by a digital twin? How to support business actors in their decision m…

Successful “Service Lunch” with SBB on May 16, 2019 / Expert Group Smart Services

Some 20 guests attended last week’s Service Lunch of the expert group “Smart Services” to find ou…

Highlights from the 5th “Blockchain in Supply Chain Management” Expert Group meeting

Our 5th meeting of the expert group “Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management” took place…

“The making of……” A toolbox for service-oriented business models

– by a member of the Expert Group “Smart Services” Get insights from a member of the expert gr…

Highlights from the 9th Machine Learning Expert Group Meeting

The 9th Machine Learning Expert Group Meeting was held on February 12, 2019 at SAP in Regensdorf….

“Smart Services” Service Lunch : Innovating Healthcare through Mobile Data and Predictive Analytics

Last week’s Brown Bag Lunch was dedicated to databased services in healthcare. Two industry exper…

Highlights from the 4th meeting of the expert group Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management

Our 4th meeting of the expert group “Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management” w…

Updates from the Data+Service Alliance General Assembly on Nov 8th 2018

2 weeks back we held our 2nd General Assembly for the year 2018. The assembly was located at the …

Use-Case Talk Series on Artificial Intelligence 31.10.2018!

This was a great event! Industry, academic and individual members enjoyed in-depth technical disc…

Highlights of Expert Group Meeting Smart Services, Service Lunch “Towards a Data-driven Company”

October 24th 2018, Zürich The data driven company is a combination of mindset, skills, infrast…

Highlights on the recently held “Data Ethics” Expert Group Meeting

Last week, we had a meeting of the Expert Group Data Ethics in Bern, hosted by Mobiliar. Main top…

Highlights on the recently held “Blockchain in Supply Chain Management” Expert Group meeting

On Thursday 13th of September, the 3rd meeting of the expert group “Blockchain Technolo…

Highlights on conference “Perspektiven mit Industrie 4.0”

Under the motto “Learning through examples”, the conference on 5th September highlighted viable p…

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