Agenda: Microsoft AI Tour Lausanne – June 16, 2025

Welcome, 09:00 - 09:45

Catrin Hinkel
CEO Microsoft Switzerland

Main Hall

Welcome, 09:00 - 09:45

Samer Abu-Ltaif
President Microsoft EMEA

Main Hall

Mission AI Possible: Adventures in AgentLand, 09:45 - 10:30

Dona Sarkar
Chief Troublemaker – Microsoft AI, Copilots and Agents Microsoft Corp.

Main Hall

Mission AI Possible: Adventures in AgentLand, 09:45 - 10:30

Francesco Sodano
Azure GTM App Innovation, Microsoft Switzerland

Main Hall

Build your code-first app with Azure AI Agent Service

Speakers: Anastasia Salari (MDW) & Aymen Furter (Microsoft)
This session is co-hosted by our Gold Partner MDW.

With Azure AI Agent Service, developers can take a code-first approach to building AI-driven solutions that automate processes, enhance decision-making, and optimize workflows. This session will show you how to move beyond the buzz and start developing AI agents that drive real business value.

Room 3

Microsoft Fabric: Reimagine Real-Time Intelligence

Speakers: Patrik Borosch & Liviana Zürcher (Microsoft)

Microsoft Fabric: Reimagine Real-Time Intelligence – This breakout session unveils a new chapter in real-time analytics with Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence. Whether you’re a business user, pro developer, or data enthusiast, you’ll discover how to transform high-volume streaming events into a competitive advantage. Learn how Fabric’s unified platform seamlessly integrates streaming data ingestion, analysis, and real-time actions—empowering you to build live dashboards and automated responses with minimal code. Join us to see how reimagining real-time data can drive faster, smarter decisions and unlock next-level insights for AI-driven innovation.

Room 1

Build and deploy AI apps faster with low code and DevOps

Speaker: Juan Carlos Ordas (Microsoft)

Learn how your development team can build AI enabled applications faster with Power Platform and DevOps. We'll show you how the new developer capabilities combined with DevOps best practices can empower your team to build, test, and deploy enterprise-grade apps faster.

Room 4

SaaS Pricing in the era of GenAI and the Implication on your Architecture

Speakers: Tom Petty (QARAlink), Fabien Nisol (QARAlink) & Christin Pohl (Microsoft)

Great GenAI products don’t just run—they deliver value, and that starts with smart pricing. In this session, we’ll explore how pricing has evolved from traditional SaaS models to dynamic, usage-based approaches that better reflect how GenAI systems operate. You’ll get practical guidance on architecture, model selection, and observability—plus a behind-the-scenes look at how QARAlink, a GenAI compliance startup, built their platform on Azure. Their journey offers real-world lessons on balancing innovation, efficiency, and pricing that works for both business and customer.

Room 2

Getting started with AI Agents in Azure

Speakers: Amalia Spataru (Microsoft) & Dominique Broeglin (Microsoft)

Explore the fascinating world of multi agentic AI with Azure! Dive into the innovative Azure AI Agent Service, where you’ll discover how these intelligent agents can transform processes and products. Build collaborative, multi-agent systems with Connected Agents or Semantic Kernel. Learn about the diverse use cases, from automating customer support to enhancing decision-making processes. Understand why multi-agent AI systems are essential for modern businesses, offering efficiency, scalability, and advanced problem-solving capabilities.

Room 3

Empower developer experience with Microsoft Dev Box

Speakers: Laurent Bugnion (Microsoft) & Jessica Tibaldi (Microsoft)

AI is reshaping how we build, deploy, and scale software. As more apps become AI-powered, developers need environments that can keep up with speed and demands of innovation without compromising reliability and security.
In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft Dev Box is transforming the way developers work by delivering ready-to-code cloud development environments optimized for AI workloads—whether you’re building copilots, training models, or iterating on multi-agent systems.

Starting with a deep dive into the architecture behind Dev Box, unpacking how it seamlessly integrates with Azure, Microsoft Entra ID, and enterprise-grade security controls. You’ll see how real organizations are using Dev Box to streamline developer onboarding, enable hybrid and remote teams, and revive legacy apps that need specialized dev environments. Expect live demos, implementation insights, and a glimpse into the future with the latest roadmap updates.

Whether you're a developer or supporting dev teams, this session will show you how Dev Box isn't just a tool—it's a game-changer for developer velocity.

Room 1

Copilot Studio Agents & Azure AI Foundry: better together

Speaker: Victoria Vassilea (Microsoft)

Join us for a session on how to build agents in Copilot Studio with deep integration into Azure AI Foundry services. Learn to leverage your vectorized indices from Azure AI Search to perform RAG and integrate 1800+ models in the Azure model catalog into your Copilot Studio agents.

Room 4

Database Aspects for Implementing AI - Strategies and Methods

Speakers: Hamid Azimi (Novigenix) & Sevgi Uzungelis (Microsoft)

Discover how Microsoft's database technologies enable next-generation AI solutions. In this session, we'll explore various database technologies optimized for AI applications and their support for real-world scenarios. Novigenix SA will showcase NoviMetaHarmony, an AI-powered SaaS built on Azure that leverages Microsoft Cosmos DB and LLMs to clean and harmonize complex clinical metadata. By applying RAG, this solution dramatically reduces manual data curation and enhances reliability, accelerating breakthroughs in precision medicine.

Room 2

Code-first GenAIOps from prototype to production

Speakers: Tiago Duarte (Stellium), Daniela Dorneanu (Microsoft) & Jason Johnson (Microsoft)
This session is co-hosted by our Gold Partner Stellium.

This session is built for developers and executives who want to move fast, stay in control, and scale GenAI solutions with confidence. You’ll explore how to deploy and automate LLM-powered applications using your local tools, while integrating seamlessly with Azure AI Studio for collaboration and governance.

What’s in it for you? You’ll walk away with practical strategies to streamline your GenAIOps workflows, insights from real-world demos, and a behind-the-scenes look at how Stellium took a GenAI prototype all the way to production. The session wraps with a live Q&A, giving you direct access to experts ready to help you apply what you’ve learned.

Whether you're building your first LLM app or scaling your tenth, this session will equip you with the tools and patterns to do it better—and faster.

Room 3

GitHub Platform: Enabling every developer to build, release, scale, and secure software

Speakers: Pavel Nasovich (EPAM), Roman Pavlov (EPAM), Sandra Parlant (GITHUB) & Kim-Adeline Miguel (GITHUB)
This session is co-hosted by our Gold Partner EPAM.

GitHub Copilot has redefined the way you code, but did you know it has much more to offer than just coding assistance? In this session, we'll explore Copilot's latest features, as well as preview and incubator tools that promise to transform your workflows even further.
Whether in your favorite IDEs or directly within the GitHub ecosystem, learn how to use the latest features to incorporate Copilot into key steps such as code review, complex project analysis or proactive documentation.

You'll leave with concrete ideas for not only maximizing the impact of Copilot in your day-to-day work, but also integrating the new features that are shaping the future of software development into your working environment. Copilot is no longer just an assistant: make it a real co-pilot for your projects of tomorrow!

Room 1

“Reach the peak” of AI Communication

Speakers: Malin Thorslund (Microsoft) & Patrick Fontana (Microsoft)

How your AI Baby starts to Talk – AI based bots and applications are highly trendy and RAG based agents supporting all the tasks during the day. But is it necessary that AI driven application have all the time chat windows or how we could integrate other input output methods for a better and more inclusive AI felling. Join the session to learn what's new in Azure Speech AI models (realtime-4o, currently in preview), how to integrate Azure Communication Services (aka ACS) for more voice and organizational agent systems and how-to combine with ML based solution to integrate emotional capturing and drive more inclusive solutions for your agents.

Room 4

Optimize your Development with Microsoft - Learnings from the AI Tech Accelerator

Speakers: Simon Sommerhalder (Exeon Analytics), Hana Farid (Exeon Analytics), Nino Antulov-Fantulin (Aisot Technologies), Maruscha Heyner (Microsoft) & Andrew Reid (Microsoft)

Want to get more out of your stack while scaling faster? This session dives into how developers can build smarter on Microsoft’s cloud and AI platforms, with practical insights from the Swiss AI Tech Accelerator. We’ll cover how to best engage with Microsoft as a technical partner, and share hands-on learnings from building real-world AI solutions. You’ll see how domo.health, an AI Tech Accelerator alumni, turned their project into a production-ready solution now live on the market, and hear from this year’s cohort - Exeon Analytics and Aisot Technologies - on what they worked on and the technical insights they gained along the way.

Room 2

Navigating the Future of Intelligence

Cyrill Glockner
Thought Leader in the Future of Intelligence

Main Hall

IT'S A RAG AI Hackathon

This hackathon is designed to help you learn and grow your skills in the field of AI and RAGs: you will learn how to build RAG apps on top of Azure Open AI model with multiple retrievers (AI Search, Azure SQL) with a defined Dataset.

Seats to participate in the Hackathon are limited. Request to join now by klicking on the thumbnail and registering on the Hackathon registration page.

Room 5

Startup Pitches

In the Networking Zone