Zurich AI

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Description:
Join us for a community-led developer event focused on AI-assisted coding with GitHub Copilot. This event brings together developers to explore practical workflows, real-world use cases, and hands-on experiences using GitHub Copilot.

Whether you are new to GitHub Copilot or already using it, this event will help you better understand how to apply AI-assisted coding techniques in everyday development.

Agenda
- 4:30pm: Doors open, Snacks, and Networking
- 5:00pm: Welcome, Community update
- 5:10pm~5:40pm: Tech talk: GitHub Copilot overview
- 5:40pm~6:40pm: Tech talk: GitHub Copilot in Practice
- 6:40pm~7:30pm: Open discussion and closing

Tech talk: Mastering GitHub Copilot CLI
Speaker: Aymen Furter - Cloud & AI Solution Engineer, Microsoft
Abstract: Learn to harness the power of agentic development by transitioning to autonomous, multi-step terminal workflows. This session focuses on mastering plan-based execution, repository-aware context, and integrating external data via the Model Context Protocol.

Tech talk: GitStop Using GitHub Copilot Like a Toy
Speaker: Emanuele Bartolesi - GitHub Tech Lead, Xebia
Abstract: Hub Copilot is easy to love in a demo. Real projects are different. Production codebases come with legacy code, missing context, inconsistent patterns, unclear requirements, and delivery pressure. That is where GitHub Copilot either becomes a real advantage or just an expensive toy. This talk focuses on practical ways to use Copilot in real development workflows, going beyond autocomplete. Agent mode, skills, Copilot CLI, and better prompting can make a real difference when working in messy repositories and under real deadlines. Designed for developers and tech leads who want more than flashy demos, this session shares concrete tactics to get better output, reduce noise, and make Copilot genuinely useful in day-to-day software delivery.

Speakers/Topics:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Venue:
Microsoft Schweiz GmbH
The Circle 02, 8058 Zürich ZH

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 3,000+ AI developers in Zurich and 500K+ worldwide.

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Description:
The 2026 Semantic Layer Summit is the must-attend virtual event for AI, data, and business intelligence professionals. Explore how semantic layers deliver the context AI needs to power agentic analytics, governed decisions, and trusted enterprise intelligence.

What to Expect:

• Enterprise Case Studies: Hear directly from Papa Johns, Carrefour, Blue Yonder, Vodafone, SlickDeals, and TELUS on how they're building AI-ready semantic foundations.
• Expert Panels & Roundtables: Explore the future of open semantics, agentic AI, and analytics modernization with leaders from Snowflake, Omni, and dbt.
• Keynote & Product Vision: Dave Mariani, Co-Founder and CTO of AtScale, shares what's next for the semantic layer as the context layer for enterprise AI.

Speakers:

• André Balleyguier, Anthropic
• Cornell Lee, Telus
• Dave Marianim AtScale
• Jamie Davidson, Omni
• Josh Klahr, The Snowflake Data Cloud
• Juan Sequeda, ServiceNow
• Justin Lo, Chevron
• Ken Wong, Databricks
• Ted Kwartler, Accenture
• and 20+ more