AI & Machine Learning

Uphill Conf 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

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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