Quantum technologies have the potential to transform industries, from healthcare and cybersecurity to finance and manufacturing. To celebrate the UNESCO International Year of Quantum Science & Technology, the ETHZ Quantum Center will host a special event to explore the impacts and applications of quantum technologies.
Experts will share insights on:
> The global race to build quantum computers > The impact of quantum computing on cybersecurity and optimisation > Advances in quantum simulation for healthcare and materials discovery > Leveraging quantum sensing for medicine, energy and navigation
This event is designed for industry leaders, policymakers and philanthropists looking to gain strategic insights and stay ahead in the quantum revolution.
15:00 – Welcome: Prof. Dr. Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zürich 15:15 – Keynote Talk: Prof. Dr. Renato Renner, ETH Zürich 16:00 – Panel Discussion with: Prof. Dr. Yiwen Chu, ETH Zürich Dr. Pavel Hrmo, CEO/Co-Founder, ZuriQ Dr. Andrea Morales, CTO/Co-Founder, QZabre Prof. Dr. Kenny Paterson, ETH Zürich Prof. Dr. Markus Reiher, ETH Zürich 17:00 – Exhibition & Networking Apéro 18:30 – End of the event
The first edition of this Precision Health Day will focus on applied research for precision health, a holistic approach aimed at developing proactive and personalized solutions to health problems by integrating interindividual variability into behavioral, environmental, and genetic determinants of health.
The event is organized by the Institute of Digital Technologies for Personalized Healthcare (MeDiTech), Dalle Molle Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI), Institute of Information Systems and Networking (ISIN) and the Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale (EOC) to share experiences and develop collaborations in precision health care with experts from academia, industry and institutions.
Our mission for the HackAIthon is to ignite innovation, collaboration, and problem-solving through the power of AI in Central Switzerland. By bringing together talented developers, creative minds, and local organizations, we aim to tackle real-world challenges and foster cutting-edge solutions that address the needs of our community.
Call for Challenge Owners: Do you want to apply artificial intelligence in your company but are unsure how to go about it? Do you want to increase the efficiency of your employees and automate processes, but haven’t had the time, resources or the right team to implement it yet? This is exactly where we can help! At this HackAIthon, talented developers from the region will work during a 36-hour event to develop creative and innovative AI solutions to solve your real-world problems. For you as a challenge owner, the event offers the perfect opportunity to present a specific challenge and start your AI journey. Take the chance to work with creative talent and design future-oriented solutions together! If you are interested to become a challenge owner, get in contact!
The presentation will show the conceptual possibilities and concrete examples from ZHAW projects. We discuss the opportunities and challenges of using generative AI in the customer lifecycle. Examples include content creation automation and the use of co-pilots in customer service.
PD Dr. habil. HSG Jochen Wulf ZHAW Engineering Institut für Datenanalyse und Prozessdesign
Prof. Dr. Frank Hannich ZHAW Management and Law Fachstelle Customer Management & e-Commerce
Online by Microsoft Teams, Participants get an access link after registration. Number of places limited. See also the flyer for more information.
Am 11.03.2025 findet die IoT-Konferenz in den Trafo Halle Baden unter dem Motto «IoT-Zukunft gestalten – Technologien, Geschäftsmodelle, Sicherheit» statt.
Technologischer Fortschritt mit wirtschaftlichem Nutzen wird die Zukunft des IoT entscheidend prägen. Dabei stehen effiziente Unternehmensprozesse und klare Geschäftsmodelle im Fokus: Lösungen müssen einen messbaren Mehrwert bieten, etwa durch Kostensenkung, Effizienzsteigerung oder neue Einnahmequellen. Besonders «as a Service»-Ansätze, bieten flexible und skalierbare Optionen, die sich in bestehende Ökosysteme integrieren lassen.
Gleichzeitig treiben technologische Innovationen die Weiterentwicklung voran. Künstliche Intelligenz und maschinelles Lernen optimieren IoT-Systeme durch Automatisierung und prädiktive Analysen, während Technologien wie 5G und Cloud Computing neue Massstäbe bei Verfügbarkeit, Geschwindigkeit und Skalierbarkeit setzen.
Ein weiterer Erfolgsfaktor ist die Sicherheit. Resiliente und zuverlässige Systeme sind unerlässlich, um das Vertrauen von Unternehmen und Nutzern zu gewinnen. Datenschutz und Cybersicherheit werden dabei genauso wichtig sein wie Redundanz und Ausfallsicherheit.
Neben technologischer und betrieblicher Exzellenz gewinnt Nachhaltigkeit zunehmend an Bedeutung. Energieeffiziente Hardware, nachhaltiges Design und die Reduktion von Ressourcenverbrauch werden zur Basis moderner IoT-Lösungen. Ebenso wichtig ist die Nutzerzentrierung: Intuitive Bedienbarkeit und das Lernen aus Konsumentenanwendungen wie Smart Homes machen IoT attraktiver. Der Erfolg wird letztlich durch starke Ökosysteme und offene Partnerschaften bestimmt, die Innovation und Zusammenarbeit fördern. Nur so kann IoT langfristig sein Potenzial entfalten.
Wie können nun IoT-Technologien effizient und sicher in bestehende Geschäftsmodelle integriert werden? Welches Potential bieten innovative «as a Service»-Modelle? Und welche Rolle spielen dabei Technologien wie AI, 5G und Cloud Computing? Darüber sprechen CEOs führender Unternehmen sowie weitere ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten aus Wirtschaft und Forschung an der Konferenz «IoT-Zukunft gestalten: Technologien, Geschäftsmodelle, Sicherheit» in der Trafo Halle in Baden.
Wie gewohnt bietet die Veranstaltung den Teilnehmenden den idealen Rahmen, um mit Vertretern aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Verwaltung zu diskutieren und wertvolle Kontakte über die Branchengrenzen hinweg zu knüpfen sowie sich in der begleitenden Ausstellung über die neusten Trends zu informieren.
Mitglieder der alliance können ein vergünstigtes Ticket verwenden. Wählen Sie dazu bei der Registration die Option Patronats-/Verbandspartner und geben in den Bemerkungen ‘data innovation alliance’ an.
Finden Sie zusätzliche Informationen sowie die Registration auf der Homepage der IoT-Konferenz:
As organizations integrate advanced AI systems into their business, ensuring their safety, reliability, and robustness becomes a critical priority. However, AI testing remains a complex and evolving field. Key questions from an organizational perspective are: What expertise is required to ensure a secure application? Who is responsible for testing? When do you test? How much testing is enough? How much will it cost?
With this workshop, we want to explore and discuss common challenges within the domain of testing AI applications. We want your input for our initiative to develop cost effective AI safety testing programs. For a warmup, a hands-on demo exercise lets us experiment jailbreaking a LLM and assessing the effectiveness of these jailbreaks (no technical expertise required). Next, we explore in groups common challenges, approaches, and structures that help us address this topic from an organizational perspective. We reconvene to review the practical question around AI safety testing and identify what is needed to help businesses plan and run AI tests.
Who will get the most out of this: CISOs and AI safety specialists DPOs, Compliance and Risk Management Leaders AI Product Managers, AI Product Designers or leaders of AI projects
What to bring: A laptop or willingness to work in groups. Your expertise to share ideas.
Sign-up: The workshop will be limited to 25 people. Please reserve your spot with this link:
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
14:30 Registration
15:00 Welcome
Prof. Claude Meier (Leiter Center for Research & Methods HWZ) Sven Remke (Managing Director data innovation alliance)
15:10 Keynote by Christopher Ganz: What Can Monthy Python Teach Us About Innovation
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.
15:45 World Café by HWZ
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.
16:30 Breakout Session – Industrial AI: From Research to Real-World Impact
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
16:30 Breakout Session – Smart Services
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
16:30 Breakout Session – Governance for Growth with Data & AI: Digital Product Pass & Its Impact on Switzerland
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.
After a sold-out event with stellar feedback, Uphill Conf returns for its fifth edition to dive even deeper into the transformative power of AI in software development. This year, we’ll uncover new perspectives and explore fresh advancements, showcasing how AI continues to reshape problem-solving in software engineering
Get in-depth insights in our full day workshops on Thursday, April 24, 2025. The workshops are hosted by recognized experts and will give you the chance for an immersive learning experience, featuring practical, hands-on activities.
Gain valuable insights at our talks on Friday, April 25, 2025. Delivered by leading experts, these sessions will explore cutting-edge topics and offer fresh perspectives, providing a unique opportunity to deepen your knowledge and spark new ideas.
Deep-dive training in the key areas of Ethical Transparency, Ethical Privacy, Ethical Accountability, and Ethical Algorithmic Bias. Participants who successfully complete the training receive a certificate from IEEE Standards Association, thus achieving the first step towards becoming an IEEE CertifAIEd™ authorized assessor.
This training is the first of its kind in Switzerland and is provided by IEEE CertifAIEd™ certified trainers.
Audience: Representatives of academia (universities), NGO’s and from the private sector in the Zurich region and beyond interested in becoming leaders in AI ethics assessments.
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