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IoT-Konferenz 2025

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Am 11.03.2025 findet die IoT-Konferenz in den Trafo Halle Baden unter dem Motto «IoT-Zukunft gestalten – Technologien, Geschäftsmodelle, Sicherheit» statt.

IoT-Zukunft gestalten – Technologien, Geschäftsmodelle, Sicherheit

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:

IoT-Konferenz 2025

When is your test good enough? Building a Robust Testing Framework for AI.

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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:

https://forms.office.com/e/CjS4iSEcj0

Expert Day

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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.

Uphill Conference 2025

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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.

Website and Registration

Be a Leader in AI Ethics Assessment – IEEE CertifAIEd™ Assessor Training

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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.

Dates & Times: 24. – 27. Februar 2025
(Monday – Wednesday: 9am – 5pm / Thursday 9am – 12.30pm)

Location: Technikumstrasse 71, 8400 Winterthur
Language: English
Fee: CHF 3’500 (Regular) / CHF 1’750 (Academic/NGOs)

IEEE CertifAIEd™ Assessor Training | ZHAW School of Engineering

Public Event of the Data Ethics Expert Group – Planning Workshop

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We invite all members of the data innovation alliance and also external partners to contribute to a planning workshop. In this workshop, we will shape the content of two public events in 2025 that address pressing issues in data and AI with a particular focus on startups and companies active in the field. The goal of these events is to provide both an overview on relevant topic and to show concrete options for responsible data-based value creation. At the event, we will also update you on other activities of the Data Ethics Expert group and indicate funding possibilities (AI Booster) in order to turn some of the pressing questions into solution-oriented projects.

The workshop takes place on Wednesday February 19 from 16:30 to 18:00 at the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich (Rämistrasse 69). Please register below if you plan to participate until Monday February 17.

If you are unable to attend, please provide your ideas in this short survey, where you also can rate proposed topics – the results will be used also in the planning workshop:

https://ufspezurich.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5tCsWlSWamE7FMG

If possible, provide your feedback until Monday February 17 2025.

Swiss NLP Days 2025

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The Swiss NLP Days 2025 are a series of activities in 2025 about Natural Language Processing (NLP), which will take place May 13-15, 2025 in Winterthur, Switzerland. They provide a unique opportunity for everyone interested in NLP applications to connect with experts and gain insights into the current state of NLP, and they serve as a platform for NLP professionals to present their work and exchange with potential clients and other NLP experts. 

The Swiss NLP Days consist of two main events:

  • An NLP Expo for the interested public with more than 70 exhibitors which present current industrial and academic solutions in NLP.
  • A scientific conference called SwissText for researchers and NLP experts.

These two events are accompanied by an NLP Crash Course – Insightful sessions on practical applications and fundamental technologies of Natural Language Processing – throughout the year with workshops and tutorials.

The Swiss NLP Days 2025 mark the 10th anniversary of the SwissText conference, which was initiated in 2016 by NLP researchers at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).

Find more information on the official website!

NLP Crash Course – Bias in NLP – A Practical Perspective

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Led by industry and academic experts, the NLP Crash Course explores a wide range of NLP topics and aims to help participants understand how NLP can be applied in various business and organizational contexts.

Perfect preparation for the NLP Expo 2025. Biweekly. Free of charge.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mascha Kurpicz-Briki (Bern University of Applied Sciences)

Participate online via Zoom.

Register here

NLP Crash Course – The “Sudden” Success of Generative AI and LLMs

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Led by industry and academic experts, the NLP Crash Course explores a wide range of NLP topics and aims to help participants understand how NLP can be applied in various business and organizational contexts.

Perfect preparation for the NLP Expo 2025. Biweekly. Free of charge.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rico Sennrich (University of Zurich)

Participate online via Zoom.

Register here

Service Lunch: “Eating, Learning, Networking” – Apple Vision Pro: Potential for Smart Services

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Key Speaker

René Vogel
Digital Innovator
Mr. Vision

Participants will receive an access link after registration. See also the flyer for more information.

  • Discover the Apple Vision Pro: find out more about the latest functions and applications of these revolutionary VR glasses.
  • Diverse application examples: Experience practical applications and discover the many possible uses of VR in different areas.
  • Hands-on experience: participants will have the opportunity to try out the Apple Vision Pro for themselves.
  • Experience reports and exchange: Take the opportunity to exchange ideas with Apple Vision Pro expert René Vogel and benefit from his experience.