Forum KI-Recht
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Location:
Zurich -
Date:
21 August 2025 - Organizer:Swiss Association for AI Law
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Uhrzeit | Thema | Speaker |
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08.15 – 08.45 | Eintreffen | |
08.45 – 09.00 | Begrüssung | Schweizer Verein für KI-Recht |
09.00 – 09.30 | Keynote | Urs Gasser |
09.30 – 09.50 | Künstliche Intelligenz: Eine grundlegende Übersicht | Nino Weingart |
09.50 – 10.20 | Kaffeepause | |
10.20 – 11.00 | Der AI Act - Herausforderungen und Stolpersteine für Unternehmen bei der Umsetzung | Kai Zenner |
11.00 – 11.30 | KI in der Bundesverwaltung und öffentliches Vertrauen | Kerstin Johansson Baker |
11.30 – 12.15 | Paneldiskussion - Herausforderungen und Chancen für die Regulierung von KI | Urs Gasser David Rosenthal Kerstin Johansson Baker Anna Zeiter |
12.15 – 13.15 | Lunch | |
13.15 – 13.45 | KI-Anwendungen als Herausforderung für das Urheberrecht | Sandra Marmy-Brändli |
13.45 – 14.15 | Genügen unsere Haftungsgrundlagen für KI? | Isabelle Wildhaber |
14.15 – 14.45 | Kaffeepause | |
14.45 – 15.45 | Sektor-spezifische Roundtables | Interaktiver Austausch zwischen Praktikern und Praktikerinnen in Fachgruppen (ca. 10 Personen) |
16.00 – 16.30 | Implementation of Responsible AI in a Global Acting Company | Anna Zeiter |
16.30 – 17.10 | GenAI in Firmen – welche Use Cases funktionieren wirklich? | Adrian Ott |
17.10 – 17.30 | 10 Fragen an... | Adrienne Fichter |
17.30 – 17.45 | Abschluss | Schweizer Verein für KI-Recht |
17.45 | Apéro riche mit DJ |
Adrian Ott
Partner, Chief AI Officer
GenAI in Firmen – welche Use Cases funktionieren wirklich?
Adrian Ott
Partner, Chief AI Officer
Presentation topic:
"GenAI in Firmen – welche Use Cases funktionieren wirklich?"
Adrian Ott is EY Switzerland’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and a Partner in the Forensic department.
He joined EY in 2017 and has over 15 years of professional experience within the area of digital innovation, solution design and Artificial Intelligence – especially in the context of analyzing large amounts of data in a forensically sound manner and aligned with external and internal regulatory requirements.
Prior to this, he was heading the Forensics and Integrity Services department in Switzerland, where he worked with his team to integrate the latest GenAI technologies into traditional investigation workflows and he was leading projects related to Cyber Crime, Investigations as well as supporting clients in international and national court proceedings.
Adrian comes from an IT engineering background where, prior to joining EY in 2017, he worked for the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Switzerland building up the Digital Forensics department and subsequentially leading the department over the course of five years.
Urs Gasser
Prof. Dr. iur., LL.M.
Key Note
Urs Gasser
Prof. Dr. iur., LL.M.
Presentation topic:
"Key Note"
Urs Gasser is Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and Innovative Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he serves as Dean of the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology and Rector of the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy. He co-leads the TUM Generative AI Task Force and founded the Quantum Social Lab at the TUM Think Tank. Before joining TUM, Urs Gasser was Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. He served on Angela Merkel’s Digital Council, the Colombian President’s Commission of Experts on AI, and is currently Chair of Thailand’s International Policy Advisory Panel on AI. He is also a member of the WEF Resilient Governance and Regulation Working Group, and the UNSECO High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on the implementation of the AI recommendation, among other committees. Together with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, he is the author of Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI (Princeton University Press, March 2024).
Adrienne Fichter
Investigative Tech Reporter Republik.ch und CO-Herausgeberin für DNIP.ch
10 Fragen an...
Adrienne Fichter
Investigative Tech Reporter Republik.ch und CO-Herausgeberin für DNIP.ch
Presentation topic:
"10 Fragen an..."
Adrienne Fichter completed a master’s degree in political science, economic and social history and constitutional law at the University of Zurich. In 2009, Fichter cofounded the the web-start-up politnetz.ch as a community manager. She then worked as a social media editor for the comany Orell Füssli Wirtschaftsinformationen (now CRIF AG). Fichter started her journalistic career in 2014 as a social media editor at the newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). Since 2017, she has been working as an investigative tech reporter for the magazine Republik.ch and also writes for her own blog dnip.ch (Das Netz ist politisch). She has won various awards for her journalistic work.
David Rosenthal
Partner
Panel
Anna Zeiter
Chief Privacy Officer & Vice President for Privacy, Data & AI Responsibility
Implementation of Responsible AI in a Global Acting Company
Anna Zeiter
Chief Privacy Officer & Vice President for Privacy, Data & AI Responsibility
Presentation topic:
"Implementation of Responsible AI in a Global Acting Company"
Anna Zeiter is Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President for Privacy, Data & AI Responsibility at eBay Inc. Since March 2022 she is also managing director of the eBay Marketplaces GmbH, the holding company of eBay’s international business. Anna is regularly giving key notes at international Privacy and AI conferences and teaches Privacy and Responsible AI at several universities e.g., in Bern, Zurich, St. Gallen, Göttingen, and Stanford. Since 2020, Anna is serving as board member of the IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals), and she is – besides the Chief Privacy Officers of Google, Microsoft, IBM and OpenAI – also member of the Global AI Governance Advisory Board. In 2020, she also joined the Digital Transformations Working Group of the World Economic Forum (WEF), co-leading the workstream Business of Data & Data Valuation until 2022. Since 2022, Anna is also member of the Privacy & Security Advisory Board of Flo Health Inc. (a global leading female health tracking app).
Sandra Marmy-Brändli
Dr. iur, Partner Schiffbau Attorneys at Law
KI-Anwendungen als Herausforderung für das Urheberrecht
Sandra Marmy-Brändli
Dr. iur, Partner Schiffbau Attorneys at Law
Presentation topic:
"KI-Anwendungen als Herausforderung für das Urheberrecht"
Sandra Marmy-Brändli is a partner at Schiffbau Attorneys at Law in Zurich. She advises international and national clients in the areas of intellectual property and commercial law. Before joining Schiffbau Attorneys at Law, she was a Senior Associate in the IP Tech team of Baker McKenzie in Zurich. She studied Law & Economics at the University of St. Gallen and wrote her dissertation on the the flexibility of copyright exception systems (“The flexibility of copyright exception systems. A comparative legal analysis using the example of digital challenges.”)
Nino Weingart
MSc ETH
Künstliche Intelligenz: Eine grundlegende Übersicht
Isabelle Wildhaber
Prof. Dr. iur., LL.M.
Genügen unsere Haftungsgrundlagen für KI?
Kai Zenner
Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser for MEP Axel Voss (European People’s Party Group) in the European Parliament
AI Act - Herausforderungen und Stolpersteine in der praktischen Umsetzung
Kai Zenner
Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser for MEP Axel Voss (European People’s Party Group) in the European Parliament
Presentation topic:
"AI Act - Herausforderungen und Stolpersteine in der praktischen Umsetzung"
Kai Zenner is Head of Office and Digital Policy Advisor to MEP Axel Voss (EPP Group) in the European Parliament and focuses on AI, data and digital transformation in the EU. Currently, he is involved in the political negotiations on the AI Liability Directive, the eprivacy Regulation and the revision of the GDPR. Before joining the European Parliament, he worked as a research assistant at the European Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Brussels. Mr. Zenner is a member of the OECD.AI Network of Experts and of the expert group supporting the United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on AI. He was awarded Best MEP Assistant 2023 and ranked 13th in Politico’s Power 40 – class 2023.
Kerstin Johansson Baker
Head of CNAI Unit, Swiss Federal Statistical Office
KI in der Bundesverwaltung und öffentliches Vertrauen
Kerstin Johansson Baker
Head of CNAI Unit, Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Presentation topic:
"KI in der Bundesverwaltung und öffentliches Vertrauen"
Dr Kerstin Johansson Baker is currently Head of the Competence Network for Artificial Intelligence (CNAI) unit at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. This network aims to build trust in AI and facilitate an active and sustainable knowledge exchange, both within the Swiss Federal Administration and beyond. Dr Johansson Baker participates in UN working groups such as “Responsible AI” and “Privacy-enhancing technologies Legal subgroup”, and works closely with the Data science competence center at the FSO in these areas. With her deep understanding of the issues surrounding AI and its impact on democracy and the rule of law, she follows the development of digital law and data protection and advocates for responsible, trustworthy and ethical AI practices. Dr Johansson Baker holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Geneva and has a strong background in academic diabetes research. She more recently retrained as a data scientist and completed a Certificate of Open Studies in Data Science and Machine Learning at the EPFL Extension School.
Sektor | Thema | Moderation |
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Insurance | AI in der Versicherungsbranche | Lisa Bechtold |
Öffentliche Verwaltung | Play & Learn – In einer Sandbox die Zukunft von KI gestalten | Raphael von Thiessen Stephanie Volz |
Banking | Herausforderungen und Risiken beim Einsatz von KI-Anwendungen im Finanzsektor | Olivier Heuberger Michal Cichocki |
Öffentliche Verwaltung | Chancengleichheit dank KI-Einsatz durch die öffentliche Verwaltung? Bekämpfung von Diskriminierung in algorithmischen Systemen | Liliane Obrecht |
Ethik | KI-Tools verantwortungsvoll einsetzen – Ethik-Richtlinien im Unternehmen | Cornelia Diethelm |
Pharma | Nutzung künstlicher Intelligenz in der Pharmaforschung: Chancen und regulatorische Anforderungen | Robert Braun |
Innovation | KI in der Schweiz – Innovationsräume schaffen und stärken | Angela Anthamatten |
Retail | Wenn Algorithmen die Regale füllen: Künstliche Intelligenz im Retail | Matthias Glatthaar |
Forschung | Herausforderungen bei der Vertragsgestaltung von KI-Forschungsprojekten | Christian Koch Raoul Breuleux |
Telekom | KI und die Automatisierung | Daniel Dobos |
Ethik | Responsible AI in der Medienindustrie: Innovation im Einklang mit rechtlichen und ethischen Anforderungen vorantreiben | Paula Cipierre |
LegalTech | AI & mehr Zugang zum Recht | Ioannis Martinis |
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Organisation
The Swiss Association for AI Law was founded with the vision of establishing an exchange platform for topics relating to artificial intelligence. This gave rise to the Forum KI-Recht.
The aim of the association is
- to make an active contribution to the discussion of issues in the field of AI,
- to promote discourse at the interfaces between AI and law, business, politics and science,
- to shape the discussion on AI regulation in Switzerland, and
- to offer interested parties an ideal networking platform to discuss the challenges of AI governance and other current topics.
Executive Board
The Swiss Association for AI law was founded in 2023 by the three experts in AI Law: Rehana Harasgama, Anne-Sophie Morand and Noémi Ziegler. Our vision is to bring together stakeholders from politics, business and legal practice, technology and academia in order to shape the interface between AI and law and promote a meaningful discourse on the topic of AI Governance. The annual “Forum KI-Recht” provides the platform to achieve these goals and brings together all the relevant experts.
Rehana Harasgama
Rehana Harasgama is an expert in Swiss and international data, cybersecurity, and data protection law.
She also advises clients on information, media and technology law as well as other regulatory areas, in particular, on the use of artificial intelligence and platform regulation. She joined Bär & Karrer in 2019 and leads Bär & Karrer’s data protection team together with the practice heads. Previously, she worked as interim Data Protection Officer of one of the Big Four. Rehana Harasgama completed her entire studies at the University of St. Gallen and also obtained her doctorate there as part of an SNF project “Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age”, which was carried out jointly with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Rehana Harasgama is also a lecturer for the course “Datenschutz im digitalen Markt” at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). She is also a founding member and advisory board member of the Swiss IT Women Lawyers’ Association.
Anne-Sophie Morand
Anne-Sophie Morand is a lawyer
and works as a Data Governance Counsel at Swisscom.
She is recognised as a legal expert on digital topics such as data protection and artificial intelligence. She lectures on these topics at the University of Lucerne and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, publishes specialist publications and moderates events. Anne-Sophie studied law at the Universities of Lucerne and Neuchâtel. After graduating, she was a research assistant at the University of Lucerne and wrote a dissertation on the protection of personality rights and sports sponsorship, which was awarded the Swiss Sports Law Prize. She then completed an LLM in IT Law at the University of Edinburgh.
She has worked for the Swiss Parliament, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) and the renowned law firm Walder Wyss, among others.
Noémi Ziegler
Noémi Ziegler is an expert
in Swiss and international data and technology law.
She advises on all issues in this area as well as related interface topics (e.g. financial market, health, insurance and pension fund law). Her practice also focuses on advising on all issues relating to AI-based applications. After graduating in political science (majoring in economics) at the Universities of Zurich and Nanterre (Paris X), she completed her law studies at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). Before joining MME Legal AG as a lawyer, Noémi Ziegler worked for the commercial law firm Walder Wyss and as an in-house DPO for a large insurance group. She is a board member of the Swiss Association for AI Law, is a member of the advisory board of the Swiss IT Lawyers Association and co-head of the data (protection) committee, gives lectures in her specialist field and teaches as a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU).
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