GenAI Zurich 2026: agents, geopolitics, and the gap between promise and production

Two days, one clear theme: the industry is shifting from asking “what can AI do?” to the harder question “how do we actually make AI work?” GenAI Zurich brought together researchers, enterprise teams, cloud providers, and ethicists for two days of talks and workshops. The mood was both energetic and critical. The agentic shift is real, but messy The single biggest theme across both days was the move from chatbots to agents.