Programme
30 minutes
Welcome coffee & registration
20 minutes
Keynote
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Lennig Pedron +2
Speakers
Raphaël Conz
Managing Director, Office for Economic Affairs and Innovation
State of Vaud
Pascal Marmier
Unlimitrust Campus Director
SICPA
Lennig Pedron
CEO
Trust Valley
20 minutes
Keynote
Burn Tokens, Build Brains: The Self-Improving AI-Native Company
Laurent Balmelli
This talk explores the AI-native company as a self-improving organization where context, not software alone, becomes the core operating asset. Rather than simply adding AI tools to existing workflows, the AI-native enterprise captures market signals, customer conversations, product decisions, internal knowledge, and execution patterns into a governed “company brain.” Using ideas from DevOps, context development lifecycle, and machine-readable governance, the talk examines how organizations can build recursive loops that sense, decide, act, verify, and learn. It also challenges the seductive promise of “burn tokens, not headcount” by asking how companies can preserve human judgment, protect strategic knowledge, avoid cognitive overload, and maintain differentiation in a world where features are easy to copy. The goal is a practical framework for building companies that learn continuously without becoming opaque, noisy, or over-automated.
Speakers
Laurent Balmelli
General Manager, Secure Developer Spaces
Citrix
10 minutes
Keynote
The Tech4Trust Ecosystem in 2026
Charlotte Mounier
Highlight of the Season 7 Roadshows
Speakers
Charlotte Mounier
Project & Event Manager
Trust Valley
5 minutes
Swiss AI Weeks
Daniel Dobos
Speakers
Daniel Dobos
Research Director
Swisscom
30 minutes
Panel
Advisory Board Panel
Lajla Aganovic +3
Speakers
Lajla Aganovic
Head of Venture Engagement
Logitech
Olivier Crochat
Executive Director, C4DT
EPFL
Ekaterina Khrustaleva
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder
ImmuniWeb
Jean-Christophe Makuch
Head of Digital Research and Innovation
SICPA
10 minutes
Keynote
Special Keynote by Michael Page
Imogen Pilgrim
Speakers
Imogen Pilgrim
Senior Associate Manager
Michael Page
30 minutes
Break
Coffee Break
10 minutes
Award "Best Value Creation" by Grant Alexander - Hekzé
Romain Buob
Speakers
Romain Buob
Managing Director
Grant Alexander Switzerland
5 minutes
Award "Public Speaking Excellence" by Céline Renaud
Charlotte Mounier
Speakers
Charlotte Mounier
Project & Event Manager
Trust Valley
5 minutes
Award "Coup de Coeur" by Trust Valley
Lennig Pedron
Speakers
Lennig Pedron
CEO
Trust Valley
10 minutes
Award " Cloud Innovation" by Exoscale
Meggie Abelard
Speakers
Meggie Abelard
Cloud sales specialist
Exoscale
10 minutes
3rd Prize Presentation
Achim Freyer
by Fortinet - Award giving - Pitch - Photos 📸
Speakers
Achim Freyer
Country Manager Switzerland
Fortinet
10 minutes
2nd Prize Presentation
Yan Borboën
by PwC Switzerland - Award giving - Pitch - Photos 📸
Speakers
Yan Borboën
Leader Digital Assurance & Trust Switzerland
PwC Switzerland
10 minutes
1st Prize Presentation
Iohannés Bry
by the Canton of Vaud - Award giving - Pitch - Photos 📸
Speakers
Iohannés Bry
Head of innovation and business intelligence
Canton de Vaud (SPEI)
120 minutes
Demo
Networking Lunch & Startups Demos
60 minutes
Workshop
Workshop Michael Page
Room A3