AI & Machine Learning

Uphill Conf 2026

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Uphill Conf 2026 ran May 6–8, 2026 at Gurten in Bern, Switzerland. It is an AI & Machine Learning conference that expected about 300 attendees. ConferenceGrid lists 22 speakers, 6 sponsors and 18 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Last verified May 4, 2026

Uphill Conf 2026 is a conference focused on the practical, hands-on applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in software engineering. Targeted specifically at software developers, it showcases real projects where AI is used in production, offering a range of live examples and a holistic introduction to applied AI. The event features natio…

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22Speakers
6Sponsors
18Sessions
22Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Uphill, in alphabetical order.

Alain Leclerc von Bonin
AI Product Designer · viboo
Ben Burtenshaw
Machine Learning Engineer · Hugging Face
Charlie Gerard
Senior Research Engineer · CrowdStrike
Cliff des Ligneris
Lead Product Manager · GetYourGuide
Cyrill Rüttimann
Technology Strategist · ipt
Imanol Schlag
Co-Lead Apertus, the Swiss AI Initiative's LLM Effort · ETH AI Center
Isa Simó
Product Design Lead · Studio Jadu
Jonny Burger
Creator · Remotion
Konrad Handrick
Software Developer · Stepping Stone
Lisa Carpenter
Lead Data Science & AI Instructor · Digital Futures
Lokesh Mishra
Chief AI Officer · Mentiora AI
Louis-François Bouchard
CTO & Co-Founder · Towards AI
Miquel Farré
Head of AI · Studio Jadu
Nikola Hardi
Data, Analytics, and AI Engineer · Swisscom
Omar Sanseviero
Developer Experience lead · Google DeepMind
Omar Solano
Machine Learning Engineer · Towards AI
Panos Vagenas
Advisory Software Engineer · IBM Research
Paul Iusztin
Senior AI Engineer · Decoding AI
Réginald Bien-Aimé
Entrepreneur, MC · Uphill Conf 2026
Romain Jourdan
Chief Technologist at AWS · AWS
Ryan Prater
Product Manager - Search · Digitec Galaxus
Valentin Verschinin
Principal Architect · ipt

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

iptGold
Die MobiliarSilver
approppoBronze
Stepping StoneBronze
AWSBeer
PostFinanceBarista

Agenda

Selected from 18 sessions.

  • 09:00 - 09:30

    Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs For Global Language Environments

  • 09:40 - 10:10

    An explainable agentic interface for Swisscom's real-time enterprise knowledge graph

  • 09:40 - 10:10

    Building AI-Native Products: A Design + Engineering Playbook

  • 10:20 - 10:50

    The Unsexy Side of AI: Evals, Constraints, and Saying No

  • 10:20 - 10:50

    Workflows, Agents, and Multi-Agent Systems

  • 11:20 - 11:50

    Agents building Agents on the Hugging Face hub

  • 11:20 - 11:50

    Docling: Insights & Lessons from Building an Open-Source AI Standard for Unstructured Data

  • 12:00 - 12:30

    Agentic Debt: Why the AI Value Gap Isn’t About Models

  • 12:00 - 12:30

    Open by Design: Cost-Efficient Private AI Platforms

Quick answers

When is Uphill Conf 2026?
Uphill Conf 2026 ran May 6–8, 2026 at Gurten in Bern, Switzerland.
Where is Uphill Conf 2026 held?
Uphill Conf 2026 was held at Gurten in Bern, Switzerland.
Who is speaking at Uphill Conf 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 22 speakers, including Alain Leclerc von Bonin (AI Product Designer, viboo), Ben Burtenshaw (Machine Learning Engineer, Hugging Face) and Charlie Gerard (Senior Research Engineer, CrowdStrike).
Who sponsors Uphill Conf 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 6 sponsors, including ipt, Die Mobiliar, approppo, Stepping Stone and AWS.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 22 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

22 companies. three are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
3All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
16Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

ipt·AWS·Stepping Stone

Speakers by seniority

18% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite314%
  • Director / Head of15%
  • Manager / Lead523%
  • Product29%
  • Engineer · IC732%
  • Research / Science15%
  • Other roles314%

Of 22 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1iptSponsor · Gold2
2AWSSponsor · Beer1
3Stepping StoneSponsor · Bronze1
4approppoSponsor · Bronze-
5Die MobiliarSponsor · Silver-
6PostFinanceSponsor · Barista-
7Studio Jadu2
8Towards AI2
9CrowdStrike1
10Decoding AI1
11Digital Futures1
12Digitec Galaxus1
13ETH AI Center1
14GetYourGuide1
Sponsors by tier
gold1
17% of 6
silver1
17% of 6
bronze2
33% of 6
barista1
17% of 6
beer1
17% of 6
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