SITIC Special Event AI 2026, 22 – 23 June, Schloss Liebegg, CH-5722 Gränichen AG
Where
Business Stakeholders and IT Professionals
Share AI Know-how
Artificial intelligence has long been more than just a topic for the future – it is already being successfully used and further developed today. Many organisations are faced with similar questions:
- Which use cases work in practice? Where does AI bring real added value?
- Why did AI projects fail? Which use cases did not work in practice?
- How do you organise governance over the use of AI?
- And what insights from previous AI projects would you like to share and compare with others in order to secure the next steps and develop new ambitions?
(All images legally acquired)
SITIC invites IT user organisations to present specific AI use cases that have already been successfully implemented, are currently in planning, or even those that were not successful – because, as we all know, we learn the most from our mistakes. Whether initial pilot projects, productive solutions or strategic plans: your practical insight is of great value to other organisations.
Why participating?
Why your participation will benefit your organisation:
- Direct insight into real challenges and solutions
Lessons learned from other organisations implementing AI, including what worked, what didn’t, and why. - Benefit from proven methodologies
Which approaches, frameworks, and tools have been successful in delivering AI applications in other organisations. - Positioning as an active AI leader
Participation demonstrates your organisation’s commitment to innovation and technological advancement. - Constructive feedback and fresh inspiration
Gain new perspectives from peers who are working on similar challenges and opportunities. - Valuable professional connections
Build relationships with business and IT leaders who are making comparable strategic decisions.
The event emphasises real experience, honest lessons learned, and open, collegial exchange on equal footing — not abstract concepts or high‑level plans.
Location
Schloss Liebegg – Cinematic 4K – YouTube
Two shuttle buses will be available:
- For public transport passengers from Bleien Liebegg S14 train station («Stop on request» !!!) to the castle and back, in just a few minutes.
- For drivers from the castle parking lot up the steep hill to the castle and back, in less than two minutes.
Participants will be asked a few days before the event which shuttle they prefer and at what times.
Language / Sprache
Presentations / Präsentationen
Englisch or German, according to individual preference / Englisch oder Deutsch, je nach individueller Präferenz.
Plenary and World Café Discussions / Plenums- und World-Café-Diskussionen
Preferably in German / Vorzugsweise in Deutsch.
Target Audience
Business and IT executives, stakeholders, and IT professionals from large organizations, with responsibilities spanning business development, digital transformation, AI applications, enterprise and IT architecture, software engineering, compliance, and business ethics.
Management
All SITIC Board Members
and
Dr. Laetitia Ramelet
TA Swiss, Foundation for Technology Assessment
Handout
Keynotes
Presentations
World Cafés
Registration
Participants: Email to iva.hollenstein@sitic.org
Presenting Participants: Email to kurt.wehrli@sitic.org
Fees
Participation is free of charge for
– SITIC members as part of their annual membership.
– Non-members from IT user organisations with a presentation (2 seats for both days).
– IT service providers with a presentation jointly with an IT user organisation (3 seats for both days).
For non-members from IT user organisations, one seat costs CHF 750/day.
AI Consensus?

EU Artificial Intelligence Act
Article 3: Definitions
(1) ‘AI system’ means a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments;
Reference
Your Thumbs – Up Or Down?
1. Emmanuel Macron
«India trains hundreds of thousands of AI engineers every year … And we have now more than 1’100 AI startups thriving in France creating dozens of thousands of jobs.»
Emmanuel Macron’s speech during India AI Impact Summit 2026
2. Mette Frederiksen
«But in the near future, everybody has to think the other way around. Maybe this is fake news. Maybe this picture is not for real. Maybe the voice and the words is not linked. And that will undermine the faith in humanity. Dangerous stuff.»
Fireside Chat with Acting Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen | 2026 Copenhagen Summit
3. Xi Jinping
«Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the importance of developing artificial intelligence.
At his first formal meeting with ministers of 2026, Xi described AI as an “epoch-making technological transformation,” comparable to quantum computing and biotechnology, and likened it to the industrial revolution and the early Internet era. Xi urged officials to break development bottlenecks that continue to slow domestic technology, stressing a “whole-of-nation” approach to support indigenous capabilities and maintain global competitiveness.»
Xi Jinping pushes China’s AI ambition but warns against idle capacity
4. Donald Trump
«We have a very substantial on AI and it’s causing a tremendous good and it’s also bringing a lot of Jobs, tremendous number of jobs.»
Trump explains why he postponed signing executive order on AI
5. Pope Leo XIV
AI must be “disarmed,” Pope Leo XIV continues, in order to free it from the mentality of military, economic, and cognitive competition. “To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power automatically confers the right to govern,” he says. “To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity”.
Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power
6. Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement EJPD
«Allerdings bleibt, wie in anderen Rechtsbereichen auch, darauf hinzuweisen, dass es sich bei Straftaten, die unter Zuhilfenahme von KI-Systemen begangen werden oder anderweitig unter Mitwirkung von KI zu strafrechtlich relevanten Schädigungen führen, zuweilen als schwierig erweisen dürfte, die Täterschaft dahinter zu eruieren oder – bei Vorliegen entsprechender Sorgfaltspflichten – die Voraussehbarkeit und Vermeidbarkeit von Systemmängeln nachzuweisen. Die Identifizierung der Täter, die Suche nach Beweisen sowie die klare Eruierung, die Lokalisierung und der Nachweis von Fehlerquellen und Sorgfaltspflichtverletzungen bei automatisierten Produkten wird zweifelsohne auch im strafrechtlichen Kontext eine besondere Herausforderung darstellen.»
Rechtliche Basisanalyse im Rahmen der Auslegeordnung zu den Regulierungsansätzen im Bereich künstliche Intelligenz
7. Geoffrey Everest Hinton
«If you sleep well tonight, you may not have understood this lecture.»
(i.e., Digital Intelligence versus Biological Intelligence)
Will AI outsmart human intelligence? – with «Godfather of AI» Geoffrey Hinton
@ChatGPT: How Did People React to the First Railway?

Answer, as of 6 June 2026:
When the first railways appeared in the early 19th century, reactions were a mix of excitement, disbelief, and genuine fear. People weren’t just reacting to a new technology — they were trying to make sense of something that felt almost unreal at the time.
One of the earliest major public railways was the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, designed by engineers like George Stephenson. When it opened in 1830, it became a kind of global test case for how humans would respond to fast, steam-powered land travel.











