Schedule
23 March 2026 (Martigny) • 24-25 March 2026 (Fribourg)
DAY 1 - 23.03.26 - MARTIGNY
Conference, keynotes, and workshops
☕ Welcome
08:30-09:15
Official Opening
09:15-09:30 · Salle A
Francesco Carrino & Patricia Constantin
Invited - Romain Bouvy
09:30-09:45 · Salle A
AI for artisans
Posters & Demos
09:45-12:40
Swiss AI center presentations
09:45-10:30 · Salle A
Week-Ahead Drinking Water Demand Prediction Using Machine Learning: A Case Study from Val de Bagnes
AI-Driven Summaries of Parliamentary Sessions: Enabling SME-Ready Policy Intelligence in Valais
☕ Coffee Break
10:30-10:40
Workshop
10:40-11:40 · Salle A
On-Premise AI with Anyway Systems using distributed LLM Inference
Geovani Rizk
Workshop
09:45-11:40 · Salle B
Digital Transformation Assessment & Guidance (TAG)
🥗 Lunch Break
11:40-12:40
Artistic Performance
12:40-13:00 · Espace Compagnie Néo
LA BULLE IA · Compagnie Néo
Keynote - François Buchard
13:00-13:30 · Salle A
Before AI, there is data: building the future of a family SME step by step
Workshop
13:30-17:00 · Salle C
Optimize Your AI at the Edge: Explore Hardware Options with dAIEdge-VLab
Nuria Pazos Escudero,
Maïck Huguenin-Vuillemin,
Margaux Divernois
Workshop
13:30-17:00 · Salle B
Getting Started with AI Agents in Python
William Droz
Workshop
13:30-17:00 · Salle A
LLM Supervised Fine-Tuning for SMEs: From Open Models to In-House Solutions
Andrei Coman,
Pamela Delgado
🥂 DRINKS
17:00-18:00
DAY 2 - 24.03.26 - FRIBOURG
Conference, keynotes, and workshops
☕ Welcome
08:30-09:00 · A00 & A01
Official Opening
09:00-09:30 · Auditoire Gremaud
Jean Hennebert & Sébastien Rumley
Keynote - Luciana Vaccaro
09:30-10:00 · Auditoire Gremaud
Educate, innovate, and support in the age of artificial intelligence
Invited - Nijat Hajikhanov
10:00-10:30 · Auditoire Gremaud
Luxembourg AI Factory
☕ Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 · A00 & A01
Panel Session
11:00-12:00 · Auditoire Gremaud
AI at the service of society
Anthony Masure, Associate Professor, HEAD Geneva
Stefano Carrino, Associate Professor, HE-Arc Engineering
Justine Dima, Associate Professor, HEIG-VD
Sébastien Rumley, Associate Professor, HEIA-FR
Florian Bürki, Scientific Adjunct, HEG Valais-Wallis
Christine Pirinoli, Vice-Rector, HES-SO (moderator)
Swiss AI center presentations
11:00-12:00 · B30.16
Information Extraction from Long Documents with Local LLMs · Andrei Popescu-Belis
INOVA – From discovering AI to selling custom AI services and solutions · Emmanuel de Salis
Human-centered AI through multimodal perception · Guillaume Chanel
🥗 Lunch Break
12:00-13:10 · A00 & A01
Posters & Demos
12:00-13:10 · A00 & A01
Invited - Thilo Stadelmann
13:10-13:40 · Auditoire Gremaud
From real-world machine learning to pro-human AI: Mending the break points of man and machine with applied research
Invited - Robert Van Kommer
13:40-14:00 · Auditoire Gremaud
Switzerland offers a rich innovation ecosystem that provides continuous support throughout the entire innovation journey
☕ Coffee Break
14:00-14:10 · A00 & A01
Industry Session
14:10-15:20 · Auditoire Gremaud
Advancing Forecasting in Aviation: Lessons from IATA's Machine-Learning Journey · IATA Data Science Team
Fast, customized document classification for law and notary firms · Thomas Phung
Boosting AML Efficiency with Machine Learning at PostFinance · Daniel Coderre
☕ Coffee Break
15:20-15:30 · A00 & A01
Industry Session
15:30-16:20 · Auditoire Gremaud
Visual AI in agriculture: opportunities and challenges · Hassan-Roland Nasser
When AI Meets Reality: Successes, Setbacks and Surprises · Olga Popovych
☕ Coffee Break
14:00-14:10 · A00 & A01
Workshop
14:10-16:20 · B30.16
AI for Leaders: From Prompts to Agent Instructions
Marius Vetrici,
Martin Söderberg
Speed Dating
14:00-15:10 · A01
☕ Coffee Break
15:10-15:20 · A00 & A01
Paper Session
15:20-16:20 · C00.11
RIS: Region-to-Image Search using ViT-like Embeddings · Zayene et al.
Benchmarking Time Series Foundation Models on their Accuracy and Energy Consumption · Guibert et al.
Predictive Modeling of Long-Term CPAP Non-Adherence in OSA patients from Post-Initiation Treatment Telemonitoring Data · Giachetti et al.
☕ Coffee Break
16:20-16:30 · A00 & A01
Keynote - Antoine Bosselut
16:30-17:00 · Auditoire Gremaud
Apertus: Democratizing the Foundations for Global Sovereign AI
🥂 DRINKS
17:00-18:00 · A00 & A01
DAY 3 - 25.03.26 - FRIBOURG
Conference, keynotes, and workshops
☕ Welcome
08:30-09:00 · A00 & A01
Paper Session
09:00-10:00 · Auditoire Gremaud
Simple Probability Truncation Improves Soft Red List Watermarks · Da Silva Gameiro et al.
Why measuring AI environmental impact of organisations is non-trivial? · Guibert et al.
IA4FriLex: Enhancing The Legislative Consultation Process With AI · Vaccarelli et al.
Workshop
09:00-12:10 · B30.16
AI and Cyber Defence: Threats, mitigations, automation and monitoring
Raphael Meier,
Ljiljana Dolamic
Workshop
09:00-12:10 · C00.11
Compute Infrastructures for IA applications in the wild - second edition
Sébastien Rumley,
Bertil Chapuis
☕ Coffee Break
10:00-10:10 · A00 & A01
Paper Session
10:10-10:50 · Auditoire Gremaud
Detecting Whisper Hallucinations with Local Confidence Contrasts · Corpataux et al.
A Lightweight Deep Residual Network for Rehabilitation Activity Recognition (...) · Costantini et al.
☕ Coffee Break
10:50-11:00 · A00 & A01
Industry Session
11:00-12:10 · Auditoire Gremaud
Implementing Secure AI Agent Use Cases in Enterprise Environments · Mira El Kamali et al.
Transforming Industrial Operations with Multimodal AI · Fabien Roth et al.
Integrating AI into Geographic Information Services (GIS): from GeoAI to AI assistants on ArcGIS · Maria Algora Tussy
🥗 Lunch Break
12:10-13:00 · A00 & A01
Posters & Demos
12:10-13:00 · A00 & A01
Invited - Richard-Emmanuel Eastes
13:00-13:30 · Auditoire Gremaud
What skills and what initial and continuing education in a world of AI?
Workshop
13:30-16:20 · C00.11
Is AI Environmentally Sustainable?
Peva Blanchard,
Pamela Delgado,
Sébastien Rumley
Panel Session
13:30-14:50 · Auditoire Gremaud
AI adoption in SMEs: current state of affairs
François Briguet, Board Member, Banque Cantonale de Fribourg
Xavier Bays, Head of Services, Swiss SDI
Philippe Rapin, Head of Mikron Digital Solutions
Maria Sokhn, Full Professor, HEG-Arc
Anda-Catalina Giraud, Independent Cloud Consultant
Jerry Krattiger, Director, Promotion Economique Fribourg (moderator)
☕ Coffee Break
14:50-15:10 · A00 & A01
Industry Session
15:10-16:20 · Auditoire Gremaud
Deploying AI transcription and report generation in sensitive contexts · Esther Sève
Networked intelligence - when AI helps to activate the weak ties of your network · Leila Delarive
Testing the reliability of LLM systems: frameworks, methods, and field feedback · Gaetan Stein
Workshop
13:00-15:00 · B30.16
Foundations of AI Security and Privacy
Rafael Pinot,
Nirupam Gupta,
Yann Chevaleyre,
Sayan Biswas,
Anastasiia Kucherenko,
Leonardo F. Toso
☕ Coffee Break
15:00-15:10 · A00 & A01
Workshop
15:10-16:30 · B30.16
Understanding Apertus, the Swiss LLM research platform
Oleg Lavrovsky
☕ Coffee Break
16:20-16:30 · A00 & A01
Keynote - François Fleuret
16:30-17:00 · Auditoire Gremaud
The Path to AI
Official Closure
17:00-17:10 · Auditoire Gremaud
🥂 DRINKS
17:10-18:10 · A00 & A01