«Hack Apertus» Midway
Hack Apertus is a Swiss-wide community initiative accelerating the adoption of Apertus. Across an online hackathon, on-site hackathons from Bern to Basel, and the Grand Finals in St. Gallen in May 2027, around a thousand developers, researchers, and students are building on the model — supported by 130 partner organisations from industry, academia, and the public sector. The goal: open-source prototypes for sovereign, compliant AI solutions that any organisation can adopt.
Hack Apertus Midway is where we show the first results of the Hack Apertus initiative — and bring the angles that matter most — model, infrastructure, and security — together into one afternoon.
What to expect:
· The Apertus model
Dr. Imanol Schlag · ETH AI Center, co-lead of Apertus
· Sovereign infrastructure
Thomas Taroni · Executive Chairman, Phoeniqs
· Security across the stack
Dr. David Gugelmann · Founding Chairman & Co-CEO Exeon Analytics
· 3 Apertus showcases from the Hack Apertus Hackathons
· Questions & answers
3 parallel topic tables — model, infrastructure, and security — hosted by the speakers, 3 × 30 min.
Pick the table you’d like to start at and move on after 30 minutes.
We close with an Apéro Riche.
📅 Date: 9 February 2027, 15:00–19:00
📍 Location: Novu Campus @ The Circle, Zurich Airport
🌐 Language: English
👥 Audience: Decision-makers and specialists working on AI, infrastructure and security in industry, the public sector and research.
Seats are limited.
«Hack Apertus» is supported by its Main Partners Phoeniqs, CSCS, Canton St.Gallen, Innosuisse, Canton Bern, BaselTech, and Wikimedia CH.