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Uphill Conf 2026

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phill 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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22Voices
6Underwriters
0Exhibitors
18On the bill · sessions
22Companies · in total
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The Voices

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
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
iptGold
Die MobiliarSilver
approppoBronze
Stepping StoneBronze
AWSBeer
PostFinanceBarista
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The Programme

Selected from 18 sessions on the bill.
  • 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

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

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.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
3All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
16Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

ipt·AWS·Stepping Stone

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, 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 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01iptSp·G2V
  2. 02AWSSp·B1V
  3. 03Stepping StoneSp·B1V
  4. 04approppoSp·B
  5. 05Die MobiliarSp·S
  6. 06PostFinanceSp·B
  7. 07Studio Jadu2V
  8. 08Towards AI2V
  9. 09CrowdStrike1V
  10. 10Decoding AI1V
  11. 11Digital Futures1V
  12. 12Digitec Galaxus1V
  13. 13ETH AI Center1V
  14. 14GetYourGuide1V
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
gold1
17% of 6
silver1
17% of 6
bronze2
33% of 6
barista1
17% of 6
beer1
17% of 6
№ 06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters