What we’re about
This is a group for data professionals and / or KNIME users or anyone interested to learn more about how to work with data. We have events focusing on success stories with data, workshops on the latest techniques like AI, educational methods, and just for networking.
If you have an interesting data and/or KNIME story to tell - please do contact us!
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Introduction to AI and AI Agents - KNIME Data Connect : ZurichZurich Bleicherweg , Zurich
Venue Address:
Westhive Bleicherweg
Stockerstrasse 38, 8002 ZurichKNIME Data Connect will be making its next stop in Zurich on May 8th, 2025, featuring presentations on AI and AI agents.
Talk 1 - AI in Business – Lessons from Real-World Use Cases by Sandro Saitta
Artificial Intelligence is far more than ChatGPT or Generative AI. This talk begins with a brief overview of AI, followed by a review of real-world use cases across key industries, including telecommunications, chemicals, food, manufacturing, and banking. We explore how AI is being applied in these sectors and examine the lessons learned through successes and failures. The session concludes with a brief look at how KNIME is integrated into executive education to support AI literacy and adoption.
Talk 2 - Building AI Agents with KNIME: A practical walkthrough by Roberto Cadili
GenAI understands and responds to natural language, which is why early use cases often centered around chatbots. However, when an LLM is equipped with tools and the ability to orchestrate them intelligently, it evolves beyond a simple chatbot—it becomes an agentic system. These AI agents can interact with data, take action, pursue goals, and adapt to dynamic environments with varying levels of autonomy. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build an AI agent for a company's "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) project using KNIME. We'll walk through how to create and integrate both intelligent and traditional tools (e.g., customer support tickets, company insight retriever) that the agent can leverage. We'll also see how to design the agent to orchestrate these tools effectively and deliver smart, contextual answers to user queries. Best of all, we’ll do it all using KNIME’s visual workflows, ensuring transparency, self-documentability and without coding.
Agenda:
17:30-17:45: Welcome - Elisabeth Richter, KNIME
17:45-18:15: Talk 1 - Sandro Saitta, viadata
18:15-18:45: Talk 2 - Roberto Cadili, KNIME
18:45-20:30: NetworkingSpeakers:
Sandro Saitta is passionate about helping companies become more data-driven. He has worked across various industries to promote data usage and is currently a Data & AI advisor at viadata, a company specializing in executive advising and corporate training. He gained experience with a wide range of companies, including Swisscom (as a consultant), SICPA Security Solutions, Expedia, Nestlé Nespresso and the Swiss Data Science Center. Sandro also lectures at Business School Lausanne (BSL) and in the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Data Science & Management at HEC Lausanne. Additionally, he is a member of the executive committee of CDOIQ Europe and co-founded the Swiss Association for Analytics. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Roberto Cadili is a data scientist on the Evangelism team at KNIME. As editor for Low Code for Data Science, he is helping the KNIME community shape successful data science stories, tutorials, and best practices that are worth sharing.
