Workshops
March 23-25, 2026 • Martigny & Fribourg
Workshop Sessions
Martigny - March 23
Digital Transformation Assessment & Guidance (TAG) Workshop
This workshop demonstrates how AI can augment digital coaching and accelerate SME digital transformation roadmap building. Digital TAG provides an integrated platform that connects assessment, reflection, and action planning. It combines three key components: 1. Digital Maturity Assessment - a stru...
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On-Premise AI with Anyway Systems using distributed LLM Inference
Most organizations are already using AI, but often at the cost of data privacy, regulatory exposure, and vendor lock-in. Relying on external AI services means sensitive business data leaves the organization, creating risks that many executives underestimate. While on-premise AI promises full control...
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Getting Started with AI Agents in Python
Whether you know Python or not, this workshop will help you set up a ready-to-use environment in minutes and quickly get hands-on. The workshop is structured around two concrete mini-projects designed to explore different ways of building and using agents. 1) Data Analysis and Visualization We'll...
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Optimize Your AI at the Edge: Explore Hardware Options with dAIEdge-VLab
The goal of this workshop is to raise the awareness of SMEs and Machine Learning developers on the challenges of deploying AI models on the edge. A hands-on activity will demonstrate how to use the dAIEdge-VLab (https://vlab.daiedge.eu/) to identify the most suitable edge device that meets the model...
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LLM Supervised Fine-Tuning for SMEs: From Open Models to In-House Solutions
Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming how information is accessed, processed, and delivered, yet many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) still rely on external API providers, which limits their ability to ensure model and data sovereignty and to shape AI-driven solutions around the co...
View detailsFribourg - March 24
AI for Leaders: From Prompts to Agent Instructions
Have you ever felt that you are not getting the most out of AI even though you already use it regularly at work? Or maybe you just can't get it to do what you want it to quickly as you need it? You're not alone. The truth is, getting real value from AI isn't intuitive. The biggest difference betwee...
View detailsFribourg - March 25
AI and Cyber Defence: Threats, mitigations, automation and monitoring
Cyber Defence Campus (armasuisse S&T) conducts various projects, in collaboration with Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland, in the domain of AI. Acting as a hub between the DDPS , Industry and Research Institutions its main goal facilitating the collaboration, knowledge...
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Compute Infrastructures for IA applications in the wild - second edition
With the advent of Chatbots, LLMs and other generative IA technologies, as well as other progresses in the IA field, there is an explosion of the demand for compute force. IA is no longer computer science: it is computational science. As such, it can no longer be done with casual, self-managed equip...
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Foundations of AI Security and Privacy
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly embedded in critical infrastructures, autonomous agents, and physical devices, creating unprecedented opportunities but also new risks to security, privacy, and societal trust. As AI becomes embodied and agentic—integrated into healthcare diagnos...
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Is AI environmentally sustainable?
The rapid proliferation of AI applications is placing significant pressure on infrastructure. The extensive computational requirements of AI algorithms and systems raise serious concerns about the long- and potentially medium-term sustainability of producing and operating the necessary servers and a...
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Understanding Apertus, the Swiss LLM research platform
This workshop introduces the Apertus LLM, an open-source large language model developed through the Swiss National AI Initiative (SNAI). We begin with a 20-minute overview highlighting its Swiss origins, collaboration within SNAI, and its transparency and open-source nature. The model's world-leadin...
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