17.11.2026
The Circle Convention Center, Flughafen Zürich

The leading voice for the Data and AI community in Switzerland. Delivering value from actual results without the marketing hype.

Growing Together Conference 2026 will take place for the sixth time.

Created by:

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Last year's conference:

12

Leaders Talks

3

Workshops

8

Tech Talks

450

Participants

Speakers from past events:

Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen
Head of Science, NASA

Cole Nussbaumer-Knaflic
CEO storytelling with data, five times best-selling author

Benedict Evans
leading independent technology analyst

Boyd Varty
Lion tracker and life coach, owner of Londolozi Game Reserve

Michael Wade
Professor of Innovation and Strategy, IMD

Lukasz Lewandowski
Head Data and AI Platforms, Director

Swiss Re

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Dr. Matthias Lein
Head of AI Foundations


ERGO

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Dr. Sherryl Manalo
Global Head of GPS Software Solutions

Julius Bär

Dr. Sotirios Dimopoulos
Senior Manager, Data Science & AI

Hewlett Packard

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Martin Weber Nisslé
Vice President Global IT


Ricola

Ronald Zankl
Head Data&Analytics CoE

Implenia

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Sofia Kyriakopoulou
Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Scor

Matthias Brändle
Lead Data & Analytics Strategy

La Mobilière

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Dr. Markus Beck
Head of Data & AI


localsearch

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Dr. Lukas Seger
Leiter Data Science 


Raiffeisen