Into the wild - AI in Business
Circle - Convention Center
Airport Zurich
17 November 2026
GTC-The leading voice for the Data and AI community in Switzerland.
Delivering value from actual results without the marketing hype.
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Growing Together Conference 26 will take place for the sixth time.
Keynotes GTC26
Leading Independent Tech Analyst
Benedict Evans
What matters in tech? What’s going on, what might it mean, and what will happen next?
Distinguished Engineer at Google Cloud
Alon Halevy
Data Management Meets its AI Partners
Into the wild - AI in Business
Once again this year, the GTC is offering two Leader Tracks where leading figures will share their insights. Authentic and valuable.
The following companies have confirmed their participation.
The final Program will be ready early October:
Helvetia
Benjamin Theunissen
Head Data & AI
WWF Switzerland
Attila Steinegger
Head Digital Transformation & Data
Sonova
Anne Thielen
Director Data & AI Solutions
Axpo
Gaudenz Köppel
Chief Data & Analytics Officer T&S
Emmi
Marco Fedeli
Head Data & Digital Experience
Luzerner Kantonalbank
Tamara Hofer
Leiterin Data, Analytics & KI
… There's more to come …
The Data & AI Tech Talks will follow soon:
As every year, experienced professionals will discuss applications and technical solutions from the top platforms. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the topics:
More topics to follow by the end of the month.
Framework for successful Data Initiatives
From promising idea to scalable data product.
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Designing data platform
What a future-ready data architecture needs.
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RAG Evaluation
How do you know if your RAG system is actually good?
AI E2E Automation Framework
From individual AI tasks to automated workflows.
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Automated Data Governance
Can AI help govern data at scale?
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Upskilling the AI organisation
Moving from individual experimentation to organisational capability.
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Semantic Layer and Ontology
Giving AI the business context it needs.
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Finops +AI
Keeping the cost of AI and cloud under control.
Small/Open Models
When smaller can actually be smarter.
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LLM for information extraction
Turning unstructured documents into structured, usable data.
