Investors & Innovators Breakfast: Meet Startups of the AI Triangle region
Following the AI+X Summit, we’re closing the Zurich AI Festival Week with a relaxed morning focused on meaningful conversations between the founders building AI companies and the people backing them.
Over breakfast and coffee at the ETH AI Center, you’ll meet founders from across the AI Triangle region of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and Switzerland, investors exploring what’s next, and entrepreneurially minded fellows and researchers considering the path from lab to company. After a short welcome from the ETH AI Center, the morning is dedicated to open networking — no stage, no pitches, just time and space to connect.
Who it's for
Investors: Meet a curated group of promising AI founders from Zurich and beyond, as well as promising researchers at the start of their entrepreneurial journey.
Founders: Connect with investors, fellow founders, and researchers, and exchange perspectives on building and funding AI companies.
Fellows & researchers: Get to know the founders and investors shaping the AI ecosystem and accelerate your path from researcher to founder.
Agenda
9:00am: Doors open, breakfast & coffee
9:30am: Welcome from the ETH AI Center & Oliver Heimes, Partner at Lakestar
9:45am: Open networking
12:00pm: Official end
This is the final stop of Festival Week for founders and investors, following the AI+X Summit the day before.
This is an exclusively curated gathering — come for the AI+X Summit, and stay for a morning of getting connected with the AI Triangle region's most promising founders, innovators, and investors.
+++ This event is part of the Zurich AI Festival, taking place from September 28 to October 3, 2026. Zurich AI Festival unites the minds building the future - visionary founders, bold investors, and tech leaders shaping tomorrow. Connect to tomorrow!
Zurich AI Festival is a flagship initiative presented by ETH AI Center, Greater Zurich Area, the City of Zurich, the Canton of Zurich, and Zurich Tourism, and supported by leading partners from academia, industry, government and the broader AI ecosystem.
We look forward to welcoming you soon!
Zurich AI Festival Team