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SPEAKER

Dr. Jochen Papenbrock

Head of Financial Technology at NVIDIA

Dr. Thorsten Kurth

Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Prof. Ciira Maina

Director at Data Science Africa

PD Dr. Alexander Ilic

Co-Founder & Executive Director at ETH AI Center

Martin Hirzel

President at Swissmem

Leonardo De Marchi

VP of Labs at Thomson Reuters

Prof. Anikó Hannák

Assistant Professor at University of Zurich

Dennis Meier

Chapter Lead AI at UBS

Claudio Mirti

Senior Advanced Analytics & AI Specialist EMEA at Microsoft

Prof. Björn Ommer

Head of Computer Vision & Learning Group at LMU

Dr. Hendrik Strobelt

Sr Research Scientist at MIT-IBM AI Lab

Prof. Alexander Lex

Associate Professor at University of Utah

PROGRAM

  • 03/10/24

    Translating AI's Promise to Solutions in Africa

    by Prof. Ciira Maina, Director at Data Science Africa

    03/10/24

    Shaping Tomorrow’s Innovators: AI Education and Skills

    Moderated by Cloé Salzgeber 


    Panelists: 

    Fiona Könz, Project Lead AI for Schools 

    Martin Hirzel, Präsident Swissmem 

    Andreas Urbanski, Former Director of AI Partnerships, Google 

    Andri Silberschmidt, Nationalrat, FDP 

    Prof. Dirk Wilhelm, Dean School of Engineering at ZHAW

    03/10/24

    Rebalancing the Global AI Landscape - the International Computation and AI Network (ICAIN)

    by Prof. Ciira Maina, Director at Data Science Africa and Katharina Frey Deputy Head of Division for Digital Foreign Policy at FDFA

    03/10/24

    The State of AI

    Moderated by Daniel Naeff, Head of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, ETH AI Center 


    Panelists: 

    Adrian Ott, Chief AI Officer, EY 

    Angela Carpintieri, Head Analytics & Transformation - CRO, Julius Bär 

    Islam El-Ashi, AI Lead, Staff Engineer, DFINITY Foundation 

    Dr. Abdel Labbi, Engineer & Dept Head, Data & AI 

    03/10/24

    How to Worry about AI the Right Way

    by Petar Tsankov, Co-Founder and CEO, LatticeFlow AI

    03/10/24

    What you need to know about language in order to use AI effectively

    by Prof. Noah Bubenhofer, Professor at University of Zurich

    04/10/24

    AI Geopolitics

    by Elisabeth L'Orange, Co-Founder & CCO Oxolo

    04/10/24

    AI for Spaceship Earth: Innovations at the Intersection of Technology and Environmental Science

    Moderated by Dr. David Dao, Co-Founder GainForest, Co-Lead ETH BiodivX 


    Panelists: 

    Prof. Kristy Deiner, Co-Founder & CEO at SimplexDNA 

    Dr. Lily Xu, Postdoc at Oxford 

    Prof. Andreas Krause, Professor at ETH Zurich, Chair and Core Faculty Member at ETH AI Center

    04/10/24

    New Faces of Bias in Online Platforms

    by Prof. Anikó Hannák, Assistant Professor at University of Zurich

    04/10/24

    Generative AI: Unleashing Our New Superpower or Hitting PeakAI?

    by Prof. Björn Ommer, Head of Computer Vision & Learning Group at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

    04/10/24

    Unlocking Entrepreneurial Success in Tech

    by Melanie Gabriel, Co-founder of Yokoy & followthegradient.io

  • 03/10/24

    Multimodal Foundation Models in Oncology: from research to clinical impact

    Robert Berke, CTO at Kaiko.ai

    03/10/24

    The Next Frontier in AI-Powered Industrial Anomaly Detection

    Christian Henning, Product Owner at EthonAI

    03/10/24

    AI INNOVATION & TRUST

    Dr. Daniel Dobos, Research Director at Swisscom
    Dr. David Froelicher, Research Manager at Swisscom
    Dominik Temerowski, AI & Innovation Director at Swisscom
    Dr. Christoph Meier, VP Product Management at Swisscom

    03/10/24

    Exploring the Frontiers of low-code/no-code Tools for Digital Health Software Development

    Prof. Dr. Marcela Ruiz, Professor of Software Engineering at ZHAW

    03/10/24

    The “Back to the Future” Problem of LLM

    Stefan Klauser, CEO & Co-Founder at Aisot Technologies
    Dr. Nino Antulov-Fantulin, Co-Founder & Head of Research at Aisot Technologies

    03/10/24

    Pioneering Robotics - Navigating the Journey from Research to Startup-Up Success

    Moderated by Max Vogt, Investment Analyst at Swisscom Ventures

    Panelists:
    Klea Wenger, Investment Director at Swisscom Ventures
    Prof. Dr. Stelian Coros, Associate Professor at ETH at the Department of Computer Science, Head of the Computational Robotics Lab
    Dr. Ryan Johns, CEO & Co-Founder of Gravis Robotics

    03/10/24

    On-demand Human Feedback and Annotation for AI

    Mads Kuhlmann-Joergensen, CIO at Rapidata

    03/10/24

    From Vision to Value: How to build a Scalable AI Operating Model

    Andreas Blum, Data & AI Consulting Practice lead at Unit8

    03/10/24

    Trust by Design: Building Reliable AI where Trust is Crucial

    Simon Raess, CEO at Ginetta
    Luca Fábián, Co-Founder & CEO at Jurata

    03/10/24

    Building AI-Driven Deep Tech Startups in Europe: From Research to Global Success

    Moderated by Melanie Gabriel, Entrepreneur in Residence at ETH AI Center


    Panelists:
    Steven Jacobs, Partner at Lakestar
    Nicolas Autret, Partner at Walden Catalyst Ventures

    04/10/24

    AI INNOVATION & TRUST II

    Dr. Daniel Dobos, Research Director at Swisscom
    Dr. David Froelicher, Research Manager at Swisscom
    Dominik Temerowski, AI & Innovation Director at Swisscom
    Armin Ledergerber, VP Tribe Chief at Swisscom

    04/10/24

    Turning Theory into Practice - How Real-World Constraints shape Product Engineering

    Lukas Möller, VP of Engineering at DeepJudge
    Timothy Sulzer, Founder Associate at DeepJudge

    04/10/24

    How Google Cloud can support you Startup to scale with AI - a Startup Story with 44ai

    Kira Brakhage, Startup Success Manager at Google
    Jannis Schönleber, CEO & Founder at 44ai AG

    04/10/24

    Ensuring AI Reliability and Performance: Innovations in Data and Model Health Checks

    Pavol Bielik, CTO and Co-Founder at LatticeFlow AI

    04/10/24

    mimic: General Purpose Robotic Manipulation

    Elvis Nava, CTO and Co-Founder at mimic robotics

    04/10/24

    AI Startup Playbook: Dos and Don'ts for Founders

    Damian Janzi, Investment Manager at Swisscom Ventures
    Yariv Adan, Founding Partner at Future Fund
    Pepijn Rot, Investment Associate at Verve Ventures
    Jason Corkill, Founder & CEO at Rapidata
    Syang Zhou, Co-Founder & CTO at Calvin Risk

    04/10/24

    The AI Song Contest: Striking a Creative and Ethical Balance

    Natasha Mangal, Legal Expert of the AI Song Contest Foundation

    04/10/24

    Using AI to democratize expert ultrasound

    Stefan Tuchschmid, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder at Scanvio Medical

    04/10/24

    Democratizing Data Analytics with GenAI and Knowledge Graphs

    João Pedro Monteiro, CTO and Co-Founder at Veezoo

    04/10/24

    AI+Earth Impact Hour

    Hosted by Flavio Rump, Entrepreneur in Residence for AI in Sustainability at ETH AI Center


    UpCircle - Unlocking the value of waste with AI
    Irmos Technologies - Revolutionizing Infrastructure with AI-Powered Monitoring

    04/10/24

    Transforming Finance: Scalable AI Solutions for Financial Institutions

    Pascal Hauri, Lead Data Scientist at Unique

    • This workshop on Human-Centric Computing highlights the latest advancements in understanding human interaction with the physical world. It focuses on mixed reality applications, medical AR, telepresence, and immersive entertainment and concludes with hosted demos.
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    • This mobility track explores future solutions for city transport, covering regulatory frameworks, algorithmic fairness, data-driven congestion strategies, computer vision, digital twins, and open data. A panel will integrate these insights, emphasizing AI's role in urban mobility.
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    • Part I of the AI in Financial Services Track covers recent AI trends, banking transformations, AI use case management, and technology strategies. Part II focuses on AI and big data applications in capital and real estate markets, including greenwashing detection and ESG analyses.
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    • focuses on fostering effective human-AI collaboration. Participants will explore state-of-the-art interfaces from the IVIA Lab through a keynote on RLHF, healthcare design, and explainability techniques, followed by an interactive workshop to engage with these interfaces and provide feedback.
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    • The Swiss AI Initiative, led by ETHZ and EPFL, aims to build Generative AI Foundation Models in Switzerland. Involving over 70 professors and leveraging 10M GPU hours on the Alps supercomputer, this track presents work on a Swiss LLM, climate models, and a foundation model for Science.
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    • Artificial intelligence (AI) presents significant opportunities but also raises questions about job design and AI's impact on work. This track explores the intersection of technology development and work psychology, presenting research on human-centered AI in healthcare, construction, and railways.
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    • This workshop on Human-Centric Computing highlights the latest advancements in understanding human interaction with the physical world. It focuses on mixed reality applications, medical AR, telepresence, and immersive entertainment and concludes with a panel discussion.
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    • This workshop addresses the challenges and opportunities in designing software infrastructure for training and serving large-scale AI models, highlighting advances in cost-efficient AI training on public clouds and GPU clusters, & discussing future challenges for foundation and generative AI models
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    • This workshop on "responsible AI" explores methods to mitigate bias, promote fairness, enhance transparency, and ensure safety in AI systems. It approaches these issues from computer science, digital ethics, and legal perspectives through talks, interactive sessions, group work, and discussions.
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    • This track addresses how healthcare innovations can create or perpetuate health inequalities, bringing diverse stakeholders to explore strategies for fostering equitable & inclusive technology ecosystems, with a focus on overcoming systemic barriers & integrating diversity in tech development
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    • This workshop on GenAI explores the latest advancements and future possibilities in AI, examining developments from technical and legal perspectives, showcasing real use cases, and concluding with a discussion on the societal impact and the kind of society we envision with AI.
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    • This workshop explores AI's impact on science, featuring presentations on cardiovascular data, physics simulations, weather prediction, and vehicle optimization. A panel will discuss AI's capabilities and challenges, ending with insights on using AI to reduce engineering costs.
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2024 RECAP

The AI+X Summit 2024 in Zurich has cemented its reputation as a leading ecosystem event in the AI calendar.

 

Hosted by the ETH AI Center in collaboration with ZHAW and University of Zurich, this year’s summit brought together ∼2,000 participants, 150+ expert speakers, and 50+ exhibitors. The summit was as an essential meeting point for researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and innovators from various sectors. 

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