The Community Bulletin #18

Welcome to all the new SFTA members!

What a week it has been for the SFTA community:

• a lively monthly afterwork event on?Wednesday in Zurich, and
• a fully-packed event on Artificial Intelligence on?Thursday in Zug.

And on the back of these events, it's great to see new members joining and getting involved! So from the team and myself: warm welcome to all! ????

In The Community Bulletin, I am sharing weekly what our members are talking about, what they are doing or planning to do to help develop the Swiss Fintech ecosystem and how you can get involved with other community members.

Here is what you can do??

Join one of our live Experiences

• SFTA events are a great way to meet the community and have insightful conversations with peers, in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere ??????

1. What you missed at our SFTA afterwork in Zurich ...

Our third event took place at the Baryton Cocktail Lounge, with over 25 persons attending! It was great to mingle and discuss projects and opportunities!

Who was there ????

2.?What you missed at our SFTA Zug Meetup on AI ...

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere... and on Thursday it was at CV Labs in Zug with our top notch speaker panel and over 80 participants! Thanks Philipp E. Dettwiler, SFTA Head Chapter Zug?for organising this insightful event.

Who spoke ????

1?? Claudio Mirti from Microsoft

Claudio explained how they are rolling out AI through Azure platform.

2?? Stefan Klauser from Aisot Technologies

Stefan discussed the case for using AI for investment advice.

3?? Fabian Schenker from Google

Fabian told us how they have trained BERT.

4?? Arthur Gervais from University College London

Arthur detailed how to use AI to learn from past fraud and detect new fraud.

5?? Alexa Pizzinini from Swiss Re

Alexa covered how each country/jurisdiction is writing its own regulation for AI and explained the need for consolidation.

And we finished with networking:

Take a new Challenge and lead a SFTA project

• We have a host of projects for the second part of 2023… and we are happy to consider new ideas…
• Now is the time to get involved: take the lead on a project, develop new skills and your knowledge, as well as your professional network in the industry.

1. Help us organise the next SFTA Artificial Intelligence meetup

Our Zug event was so popular that we want to continue exploring the fascinating world of Artificial Intelligence. We are looking for volunteers and speakers to organise a series of panels on the topic, in collaboration with the SFTA Lugano Chapter.

Contact us if interested! ????

[email protected]

2. Help us organise a SFTA study trip to the Emirates ????

We are looking for volunteers to organise a study trip in different countries to foster exchange of ideas and best practices between our Swiss eco-system and other eco-systems like Luxembourg, the Emirates, or Turkey.

Contact us if interested! ????

[email protected]

3. Help us organise our 1st SFTA blind-date event in Zurich

We are looking for volunteers to organise a networking event with our Start-ups and Corporate Members so they get to know more about each other's offering and discuss possible collaborations.

Contact us if interested! ????

[email protected]

About The Community Bulletin

The Community Bulletin is a weekly publication where I share regular updates from my external activities with the Swiss Finance + Technology Association and discuss my experience at helping building a thriving community.

You can consult the previous editions?here.

I encourage anyone who has any feedback or wants to get involved to leave a comment below ????