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From February 10-12, 2026, the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne became the meeting point for the people building what's next in AI.
In a landscape crowded with hype and surface-level conversations, AMLD cut through the noise to get down to the signal - creating space for real exchange, deep insight, and meaningful collaboration between builders, founders, scientists, and policymakers.
Photography @Samuel Devantery
This year's summit was redesigned from the ground up - not to be louder, but to go deeper. New formats were engineered for substance and interaction: Our strongest keynote lineup to date. Fishbowl sessions that challenged assumptions. Unconference round tables shaped by the room. An open stage for emerging voices and bold ideas. An exhibition designed for meaningful exchange. Hands-on workshops where participants built in real time.
Not surface-level conversations, but lasting connections. Not just talks, but traction - getting down to signal. Not just inspiration, but a renewed momentum.
AMLD 2026 made one thing clear: the defining question of the next decade is not whether AI will advance - but how we integrate human and machine intelligence in a way that truly serves society. How we build this future. And how we build it responsibly, inclusively and across disciplines. And thats exactly what happened here!
Paralyzed patients walking again. Robots navigating extreme alpine terrain. AI systems designing drugs and running autonomous experiments. Artificial intelligence and human intelligence converging.
Grégoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch shared how a brain-spine interface enabled thought-controlled walking. Marko Hutter showed how legged robots move through terrain once thought impossible. Isomorphic Labs demonstrated how AlphaFold is reshaping drug discovery. Charlotte Bunne presented models predicting cellular response to treatment. Andy Yen spoke about privacy, sovereignty, and trust in the AI era. Armand Joulin brought us inside Google DeepMind.
The Swiss AI Initiative teams opened the doors to Apertus, Switzerland's sovereign foundation model. Leaders behind Europe's largest public GPU cluster shared what sovereign AI infrastructure actually requires. Roche explored AI for de-risking clinical trials. Across robotics, chemistry agents, AI safety, humanitarian response, law, media, energy, and democracy - the people building it, funding it, regulating it, and questioning it were all in the same room.
Thank you to the AMLD community - our partners, keynote speakers, exhibitors, track organizers, participants, and friends - for making AMLD's 10th anniversary truly special.
