Zurich Hub - 7th Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon

Ab 17:30 Uhr hast du die Gelegenheit, die vielfältigen Demos des AI+X Summit zu entdecken, innovative Anwendungen auszuprobieren und mit Forschenden, Entwicklern und Unternehmen ins Gespräch zu kommen. Auf der Innovator Stage werden die Finalist*innen der KI Challenge ihre Projekte in kurzen Pitches vorstellen. Um 18:30 Uhr startet unser Bühnenprogramm, moderiert von Damita Pressl. Freu dich auf inspirierende Beiträge von Nadine Bienefeld (ETH Zürich) und dem Künstlerduo AATB – Andrea Anner & Thibault Brevet - und weitere spannende Programmpunkte. Den krönenden Abschluss bildet die Siegerehrung der KI Challenge 2026, bei der junge Talente aus der Schweiz für ihre innovativen KI-Projekte ausgezeichnet werden. +++ This event is part of the Zurich AI Festival, taking place from September 28 to October 3, 2026. Zurich AI Festival unites the minds building the future - visionary founders, bold investors, and tech leaders shaping tomorrow. Connect to tomorrow! Zurich AI Festival is a flagship initiative presented by ETH AI Center, Greater Zurich Area, the City of Zurich, the Canton of Zurich, and Zurich Tourism, and supported by leading partners from academia, industry, government and the broader AI ecosystem. We look forward to welcoming you soon! Zurich AI Festival Team

AI use in banking increasingly depends on where sensitive data is processed, who controls the model, and how outputs can be audited. This executive breakfast explores the trade-offs between frontier models, open models and confidential deployment, with a focus on data protection, banking secrecy, outsourcing risk and practical governance. +++ This event is part of the Zurich AI Festival, taking place from September 28 to October 3, 2026. Zurich AI Festival unites the minds building the future - visionary founders, bold investors, and tech leaders shaping tomorrow. Connect to tomorrow! Zurich AI Festival is a flagship initiative presented by ETH AI Center, Greater Zurich Area, the City of Zurich, the Canton of Zurich, and Zurich Tourism, and supported by leading partners from academia, industry, government and the broader AI ecosystem. We look forward to welcoming you soon! Zurich AI Festival Team

Join a Claude Community Event, organized by local enthusiasts for everyone who loves building with Claude! The Claude Community Zurich is happy to announce the Claude Opus 5.5 Build Night! Presented by the your local Ambassador Karl Pilgram and special guest from Australia (with Swiss roots) Dominik Fretz, founder and Managing Director of Harbour Edge Intelligence. We'll get some first hand experiences with the latest Claude Opus 5.5 on the night! No panel. No long demo. A short talk from a developer to set up the stack, and then the rest of the night is yours to build in. Audience is limited to strictly 50 people for this format! The format You get a problem and a backend. You get the rest of the night to turn that into something that runs, and if you want it to, something that is live on the internet before you go home. You will not get the problem in advance. That is deliberate. Going from a cold brief to a working thing is most of the actual skill in building with Claude Code, and you cannot practise it if you have had a week to plan. Everyone starts at the same line, at the same minute. What we will tell you now: You'll get a boilerplate app that allows you to deploy to a fully accessible URL within minutes. If you want to choose your own stack - feel free. People who already build with Claude Code. Not "I have heard of it". You have installed it, pointed it at a project, and got something working. Read this bit properly. If you are earlier than that, apply anyway. You will learn a lot from being in the room. But go in with your eyes open. It moves fast, there is no beginner track, and nobody will be explaining the fundamentals from scratch. Parts of the night will be uncomfortable. That is a fine trade if you know it is coming. If you would rather start gentler, come to one of our intro sessions and catch the next build night instead. Seats are approved, not first come. Tell us honestly where you are at when you apply. We would rather put you in the right

A technical evening exploring how retrieval, vector search, reranking, and generative models are evolving for the age of AI agents. Join senior engineers, researchers, and technical leaders from Nebius, NVIDIA, Tavily and the wider search community for a practical discussion about the systems behind modern agentic search — from low-level search primitives on modern GPUs, through advanced retrieval and ranking, to the latest developments in agents for search workloads. The evening will feature four technical talks, followed by networking, drinks, and bites. Who Should Join The event is primarily designed for senior-level technical professionals: ML engineers and AI researchers AI agent developers Infrastructure, platform, and database engineers Anyone interested in information retrieval and search performance in the agentic era Let's meet in person! Agenda 17:00 — Doors open and registration 17:30 — Welcome and opening remarks 17:40 — Vector Search & Indexing 18:00 — Rethinking Evaluation for Multi-Turn, Tool-Using Search Agents 18:20 — Break, drinks, and bites 18:50 — Reranking in the Age of Search Agents: From Document Relevance to Task Utility 19:10 — Optimizing Generative Models for Search 19:30 — Networking, drinks, and bites 20:00 — Event ends Join us in Zurich for the first Nebius Agentic Search event, bringing together engineers eager to explore and shape this rapidly evolving field. About Nebius The Nebius AI Cloud brings powerful full-stack infrastructure for AI developers and practitioners across startups, enterprises and science institutes to build and deploy generative AI applications and rapidly deliver scientific breakthroughs by training and running ML models within a secure, high-performance, and cost-optimized cloud environment. Privacy Notices By submitting, you acknowledge that your personal data will be processed in accordance with the Nebius Privacy Policy. For information on how we process the personal data you provide when registering, pl

Mohamed Aly Sayed, will start by introducing what Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is, share some use cases of where it is applied in industry, and provide some examples of how CFD is leveraged in F1 to improve performance. He finishes on a personal reflection — what matters more: the engineering challenge or the character of the individuals in the team. Mohamed holds a PhD in particle tracking & turbulence monitoring from EPFL. He has worked at both ends of the loop as a CFD engineer in F1: the simulations that come before anything is built, and observed the real-world testing that decides whether the simulation was right. Hosted by & in the location of Ship26 - the co-building space in zurich for Founders and Independents. More info about Ship26: www.ship26.com

Claude Cyber | Zurich The official Anthropic-backed Claude for Cybersecurity Community Event Hosted by digitalswitzerland Join Zurich’s cybersecurity pioneers for the inaugural Claude Cyber Community meetup. We are bringing together local defenders, security architects, red teamers, researchers, and CISOs exploring how AI is reshaping threat defense, offensive research, and security architecture. Agenda 18:00 – Registration & Welcome Drink by PEAQ 18:20 – Welcome & Opening Remarks 18:30 – Technical Talks (3x 15 min) 19:15 – Apéro & Networking 20:30 – Event Close Featured Lineup Andrea Cereghino (Sales Engineer AI Security Specialist | CrowdStrike) - AI Guardrails & MCP Live Demo Arthur Rapp (Security Engineer / Consultant | Accenture) - Building DLP.AI: Rapid Case Management Prototyping with Claude David Gugelmann (Fоunder & Cо-CE0 | Exeon Analytics) - How to control your AI agent Who Should Attend Practitioners: Security Engineers, Red Teamers, Threat Researchers, and AppSec Devs. Leaders: CISOs, Security Directors, and Architects navigating AI governance and compliance. Builders: Anyone actively developing or testing AI-native security tooling. Space is limited to keep discussions high-signal. By attending, you acknowledge that photos/footage may be recorded for community updates. Registration data is used solely for event management.