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Meet our esteemed speakers

Meet the leaders shaping the conversation at the Swiss AI Summit 2026 in Zurich. Under the theme AUTONOMY & SOVEREIGNTY: The New Rules of Business, Work & Competition, our speakers explore how AI is moving from assisting work to performing it, and what this means for decision-making, strategic control and the future of organisations.

Carmen Walker Späh
District President & Chairperson @ Dep. of Economic Affairs, Ct. of Zurich
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Colonel Ludovic Monnerat
Head of Space Command, COL (GS), Commander @ Swiss Armed Forces
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Markus Reubi
Special Envoy Geneva AI Summit 2027 @ Feder Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA
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Yvonne Dharshing
Head of Data, Ethics, Governance & Controls & Program Director CAS Data Protection Officer @ Zurich Insurance Company Ltd & HSG
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Silvan Lohri
Head AI Transformation Office @ Swisscom
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Julian Biegmann
General Manager Switzerland @ Revolut
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Eva Blaya
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) @ BBVA
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Adri Purkayastha
Group Head AI Technology OpRisk @ BNP Paribas
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Matthias Bryner
Chief Information Officer (CIO) @ Kinderspital Zürich
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Laure Frank
Director Digital Business @ Raiffeisen Switzerland
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Michael Föhner
Global Head Data & AI Governance @ Swiss Re
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Anne-Sophie Lotgering
CEO Europe @ NTT DATA Inc
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Christian Sebregondi
Head AI @ Zürcher Kantonalbank ZKB
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Alfonso Gomez
CEO @ HSBC Swiss Private Bank @ Country Head @ HSBC Switzerland
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Urs Haeusler
Head of Strategic Investment Development @ Die Mobiliar
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Cornelia Oppliger
Head of Digital Banking and Channel Management @ Valiant Bank
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Alberto Sanz de Lama
Designated CEO @ SMG Swiss Marketplace Group
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Jan Mikolon
Chief Technology Officer @ Quantum Basel
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Marc Holitscher
National Technology Officer (NTO); Member of the Board @ Microsoft Switzerland
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Marc Stampfli
Business Director & AI Leader @ NVIDIA
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Dr. Dorian Selz
Co-founder & Vice Chairman @ Squirro AG
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Andie Zhang
Global Portfolio and Technology Manager - Collaborative Robots @ ABB
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Daniel Naeff
Head of Innovation & Entrepreneurship @ ETH AI Center
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Markus Danhel
Head AI Software - Austria & Switzerland @ IBM
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Dalith Steiger-Gablinger
Co-founder & Managing Partner @ SwissCognitive
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Andy Fitze
Co-founder and Managing Partner @ SwissCognitive
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Christian Seider
Country Lead Switzerland @ NTT DATA
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Prof. Dr. Cornelia Stengel
Partner @ Kellerhals Carrard & Co-Director @ Swiss FinTech Innovations
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Yusuf Barman
Sr Manager Account Portfolio Government & Defense @ Wavestone, Major @Swiss Armed Forces
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Silvia Signoretti
Co-Founder & President @ Swiss InsurTech Hub
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Jonas Tresch
Associate @ Kellerhals Carrard
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Franziska-J. Klebôn
General Manager - DACH @ Clouds on Mars Switzerland
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Simon Muskett
Principal, AI & Quantum @ Digital Realty
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Ralf Balayan
Practice Area Lead - Artificial Intelligence @ Innflow AG
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Marcus Köhnlein
CEO @ Quarero Robotics
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Paula Reichenberg
Chair of the Board & Founder @ Neur.on
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Dr. Alessandro Palese
International Product Manager @ Roche
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Dr. Estera Kot
Chief Technology Officer @ Clouds on Mars GmbH
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Jan-Pieter Nentwig
Senior Director Solution Engineering @ Salesforce
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Raphael von Thiessen
Program Lead AI @ Office for Economy, Canton of Zurich
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Sarah Levy
Head Swiss AI Platform @ Swisscom
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Philip Dieringer
Member of the Executive Board & Chief AI Officer @ ti&m AG
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Callan Abrahams
Executive: Artificial Intelligence @ iOCO
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Prof. Dr. Daniel Patrick Politze
Professor and Head of the Institute for Network and Security (INS) @ OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
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Arda Ergun
Director EMEA, Forward Deployed Engineering, Agentforce @ Salesforce
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Frank Panknin
Head RegTech Switzerland @ Capco
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Thierry Buecheler
Strategist | Tech Innovation Practitioner | AI Advisor (AI PhD) @ Oracle
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Lena Kukharets
Head of DACH @ Depositphotos and VistaCreate (Vista)
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Loïc Battistelli
Digital Product Lead @ Zurich Insurance
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Elena Enache
Vice President Strategic Initiatives @ Vesto 3D
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Mourad Kalai
Transformation Leader @ Novartis
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John Kuenzler
Principal Consultant @ Innflow AG
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Klaas Neubert
Head of AI Engineering @ adesso Schweiz AG
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Anastasia Stasenko
Co-Founder & CEO @ pleias
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Timea Nagy
Founder & Lawyer @ Swiss AI Summit
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Jaysen Kratz
IBM Data Platform Specialist @ IBM
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Simon Anliker
Senior Solutions Engineer - Confluent @ IBM
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