Join us for an afternoon workshop of learning, discussion, and networking, focused on the latest trends and real-world challenges in implementing digitalization and AI across the infrastructure, energy, mobility, and manufacturing sectors.
Time: Thursday, 25 September 2025, 13:00–17:30 Location: Zurich University Main Building, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich Room: KOL-E-18
Agenda:
13:30-13:45: Gathering and introduction
13:45-15:15: An interactive panel discussion “Successes and Challenges of Digitalization Efforts” featuring experts from different industry branches. Participants: Swiss Intl. Airlines, Stadler Services, Hitachi Energy, AXPO Schweiz, Endress+Hauser
15:30-16:30: A use-case presentation and demo “Boosting Industrial Health Monitoring with LLM Assistants”. Prof. Manuel Arias Chao (ZHAW & TU Delft )
Save the date! The data innovation alliance and Innovation Booster Artificial Intelligence invite you to participate in the Expert Day, hosted by Center of Research & Methods of HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich. We are excited to bring together three Expert Groups (EG): EG Industrial AI, EG Smart Services, and EG Governance for Growth with Data & AI.
Join us for an insightful afternoon with presentations, engaging discussions, and potential collaborations. Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with experts and exchange ideas and experiences.
The detailed program will follow shortly.
Agenda
Prof. Claude Meier (Leiter Center for Research & Methods HWZ) Sven Remke (Managing Director data innovation alliance)
Innovation literature mostly talks about radical innovation, significant steps that transform markets. Still, most of the innovation is happening incrementally. New product versions are released with new features, serving the existing market. In this talk, I will present a few thoughts on changing one’s viewpoint. Seeing things from a different angle may help to discover new approaches to customers’ challenges. How this relates to Monty Python remains to be seen.
During the coffee break you’ll have the opportunity to join one or more posters sessions with the following topics:
How to make AI usable for trends and developments in Banking & Finance (e.g. for Open Finance)?
How to automatise qualitative content analysis with AI? Basis: A study done to climate communication of Swiss companies.
Actual AI-based research projects at HWZ.
We are looking forward to exciting discussions.
Would you like to explore how AI can drive innovation in your industry? Join us for the first meeting of the new “Industrial AI” Expert Group.
What is on the program? ⚙️ Learn how the Innovation Booster facilitates collaboration and accelerates industrial AI solutions. ⚙️ Hear from companies that have successfully leveraged the AI Booster in past and ongoing projects. ⚙️ Engage in an interactive session to assess your company’s AI potential and explore new ideas.
We are looking forward to meet you there!
Biruk, Maik, Thomas, Manuel and Lilach
The Expert Group “Smart Services” will have an ideation session, with Gerrit Schatte from Kistler moderating the discussion about the following topics:
Software / services as upselling product for hardware
Software / services as enablers to sell hardware in the system network at all
Almost any physical product sold in the EU may soon require a digital counterpart that provides access to data on materials, recycling, supply chains, and production. In just two years, this will apply to the first product group: batteries.
What can we expect from the digital product pass in Switzerland? Join us for an interactive session with Peter Krummenacher from Bloqsense, where we will explore challenges, requirements, opportunities, and the potential of data governance.
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