AI Sovereignty: Charting Switzerland's Path Amid US and Chinese AI Dominance

Speaker: Antoine Bosselut (Professor, Natural Language Processing Laboratory NLP, EPFL) Rachid Guerraoui (Professor, Distributed Computing Laboratory DCL, EPFL) Robert West, (Professor, Data Science in AI Laboratory DLAB, EPFL) Carsten Maple (Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering, University of Warwick, UK) Lam Kwok Yan (Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Céline Castets-Renard (Full Professor of Law FDEF University of Luxembourg / ANITI Chair / EU AI Expert Scientific Panel @AI Office European Commission AI Act);  Cristian Canton (Associate Director, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Yves Pitton (Chief Business Solutions Officer and Executive Board Member, ELCA)  Wallyson Lemes de Oliveira, Chief AI Officer, Giotto.ai,  Yaniv Benhamou (Professor of Digital Law, University of Geneva) Organiser: This event is organized by the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT), EPFL. <p>As the global AI landscape consolidates around US and Chinese dominance, every nation outside this duopoly faces an urgent question: how can countries retain meaningful control over a technology increasingly expected to shape their economic competitiveness, national security, and societal resilience? From the viability of sovereign cloud architectures and open-weight foundation models to the governance mechanisms needed to ensure AI systems reflect Swiss values and legal frameworks, this conference brings together industry leaders, researchers, legal experts, policymakers, and civil society