The 5% Club: Your Escape from POC to Production

​95% of AI pilots never reach production. The question is not whether your model works. It is whether your organisation can actually escape the traps that keep most projects permanently stuck at pilot.

​This hands-on workshop puts you inside the escape. Teams work through a series of real-world scenarios that mirror the moments where most AI initiatives quietly stall: the successful demo that never gets an owner, the pilot with great metrics but almost no adoption, the data that has been almost ready for five weeks. Each stage presents a concrete challenge and one unlock condition to advance.

​The goal is not a textbook answer. It is to recognise the actual blocker in your own project and leave with something you can act on tomorrow. At any point, teams can play a Joker Card to get a straight conversation with someone who has navigated the same wall.

​Please only apply for this workshop if you hold a valid GenAI Zürich 2026 ticket. Applications submitted without a valid ticket will be rejected. Don’t have a ticket yet? You can secure yours here.

​All applications are subject to approval by the workshop organizers. If your application is successful, we recommend arriving 10 minutes before the workshop starts to secure your seat. Allocated seats that have not been filled 5 minutes before the workshop start may be released and reallocated to spontaneous participants.