Building innovation and resilience through trustworthy data spaces

The Swiss Data Space Forum will take place on 2 September 2025 at the HSLU Campus in Rotkreuz.

Keynotes and Lightning Talks

  • Stefaan Verhulst

    RECOMMENDATIONS
    FOR SWISS DATA SPACES

    Bio

  • Christa Hostettler

    MOBILITY DATA FOR BETTER TRAFFIC EFFICIENCY

    bio

  • Daniel Markwalder

    STRATEGIE & POLITIK ZU DATEN AUS SICHT DES BUNDES

    BIO

  • Matthias Michel

    DIGITAL FIRST: ON THE FEDERAL DIGITALIZATION POLICY

    BIO

  • Franziska Barmettler

    DATA SPACE SUCESS FACTORS

    BIO

  • Alexandre Kech

    ELECTRONIC IDENTITY AS AN ENABLER FOR DATA SPACES

    BIO

  • Marius Pohl

    SHARED DATA IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

    BIO

  • Adina Dorthe

    TRUST & INTEROPERABILITY LIGHTNING TALK

    Bio

  • Roland Kühnelt

    THE IMPORTANCE OF MOBILITY DATA FOR LOGISTICS

    BIO

  • Jürg Röthlisberger

    MOBILITY DATA FOR BETTER TRAFFIC EFFICIENCY

    BIO

  • Paola Daniore

    REALIZING THE VALUE
    OF HEALTH DATA

    Bio

  • Thomas Schneider

    RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SWISS DATA SPACES

    Bio

  • Georges-Simon Ulrich

    COLLABORATION – TURNING DATA INTO VALUE

    BIO

  • Moritz Stober

    A DATA SPACE FOR FUTURE MOBILITY

    BIO

  • Otto Bruun

    POINT OF CONTACT FOR THE SWISS DATA ECOSYSTEM

    bio

  • Diego Kuonen

    CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE LIGHTNING TALK

    Bio

  • Nicola Rustignoli

    SECURING CONNECTIVITY LIGHTNING TALK

    BIO

  • Melanie Kolbe

    DIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE LIGHTNING TALK

    BIO

Program

    • André Golliez (President, Swiss Data Alliance)

    • Sarah Hauser (Vice Dean, HSLU Computer Science)

    • Andreas Meyer (President, digitalswitzerland)

  • Presentation of the Swiss Data Space Study 2025: Key Success Factors and Recommendation for the Swiss Data Ecosystem

    • Jonas Bärtschi (Managing Director, Swiss Data Alliance)

    • André Golliez (President, Swiss Data Alliance)

    • Stephan Haller (Lecturer, BFH)

    • Lukas Hohl (Co-Founder & CPO, Beyond Civic)

    • Georges-Simon Ulrich (Director, Swiss Federal Office of Statistics)

    • Daniel Markwalder (Delegierter des Bundesrates für digitale Transformation und IKT-Lenkung, BK-DTI)

    • Matthias Michel (Ständerat, Kanton Zug/FDP)

  • Point of Contact for the Swiss Data Ecosystem: Impact, Insights, and Involvement

    This session will introduce the official point of contact for the Swiss data ecosystem. Discover its role, learn about ongoing initiatives, and find out how you or your organization can actively contribute to it.

    • Thomas Schneider (Bundesamt für Kommunikation BAKOM)

    • Cyrille Gattiker & Otto Bruun (Anlaufstelle Datenökosystem Schweiz, Bundeskanzlei)

Subject to change.
Speakers will present in English, German or French.

Keynotes

11:05 Success Factors for Data Spaces: Domain Workshops (Round 1)

Discussion of the hypotheses and how to put them into action

  1. Mobility & Logistics

  2. Health & Pharma

    • Lightning Talk: «Your digital twin knows what kills you before you do», Christian Haltiner, Dassault

    • Lightning Talk: «Closing the Benefit-Risk Loop: Realizing the Value of Secondary Use of Health Data in Switzerland», Paola Daniore, C4DT

  3. Geo, Weather & Climate

    • Lightning Talk: «Nationale Geodateninfrastruktur», Christine Najar, swisstopo

    • Lightning Talk: Martin Fengler, Meteomatics

  4. Critical Infrastructures & Public Safety

    • Lightning Talk: «Projekt WILSON», Andreas Rumsch, HSLU

    • Lightning Talk: «Kritische Infrastrukturen und öffentliche Sicherheit hängen am Datenraum im Cyberraum», Diego Kuonen, Université de Genève

  5. Data Spaces as Digital Public Infrastructure

    • Lightning Talk: «Datensilos brechen wir nicht mit Technik auf, sondern mit Politik», Melanie Kolbe-Guyot, ehemals C4DT

    • Lightning Talk: Matthias Born, I14Y.admin.ch

  6. Digital Self-Determination

    • Lightning Talk: Stefaan Verhulst, The GovLab

    • Lightning Talk: Pablo Wey, EDA

  • Anforderungen & Möglichkeiten mit Daten und KI in Healthcare

    • Thomas Zaugg (Head of Open Innovation & External Networks, Roche Diagnostics International)

  • Driving Change Together: How Shared Data Transforms the Automotive Industry

  • Die Bedeutung von Mobilitätsdaten für das Logistikunternehmen Planzer

  • MODI – Der Austausch von Mobilitätsdaten als Schlüssel zu mehr Effizienz im Mobilitätssystem

  • Digital identities for organizations as a key enabler for trusted data ecosystems.

    • Alexandre Kech (CEO, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – GLEIF)

    • Vasily Suvorov (Managing Partner, Accelerate)

Keynotes

15:30 Success Factors for Data Spaces: Domain Workshops (Round 2)

  1. Mobility & Logistics

    • Lightning Talk: «Mit Daten bewegen – Chancen für die Mobilität von morgen», Moritz Stober, mobility-dataspace.eu

    • Lightning Talk: «Verkehrsnetz CH – die Geodateninfrastruktur für ein effizientes Mobilitätssystem», Stefan Zingg, swisstopo

  2. Health & Pharma

    • Lightning Talk: «The Swiss Personalized Health Network Data Space», Thomas Geiger, SPHN

    • Lightning Talk: «Closing the Benefit-Risk Loop: Realizing the Value of Secondary Use of Health Data in Switzerland», Paola Daniore, C4DT

  3. Geo, Weather & Climate

    • Lightning Talk: «Gemeinsame Informationsplattform Naturgefahren», Markus Aeschlimann, BAFU

    • Lightning Talk: «Why Swiss cities will flood while Singapore stays dry», Matthias Szeszat, Dassault

  4. Critical Infrastructures & Public Safety

    • Lightning Talk: «TEMS, a Secure and Trusted data space to strengthen European media», Lucille Verbaere, European Broadcasting Union

    • Lightning Talk: «Securing connectivity and mitigating risks with SCION», Nicola Rustignoli, SCION

  5. Trustworthy & Interoperable Data Sharing

    • Lightning Talk: Matthias Born, I14Y.admin.ch

    • Lightning Talk: «Re4dy to Share: Building Trust & Interoperability in Data Ecosystems», Adina Dorthe, United Machining (former GF Machining Solutions)

  6. Digital Self-Determination

  • Workshop Conclusions, moderated by Franziska Barmettler (CEO of digitalswitzerland)

    Panel with Stefaan Verhulst (The GovLab) and Thomas Schneider (Federal Office of Communications)

    • André Golliez (Swiss Data Alliance)

    • Franziska Barmettler (digitalswitzerland)

Currently, a lot is happening in the field of data spaces in Switzerland. However, these efforts are often scattered and unrelated. Therefore, the Swiss Data Space Forum 2025 aims to achieve the following objectives:

  • Overview of the current situation of data spaces in Switzerland

  • Swiss best practices for the development of data spaces

  • Private sector perspectives

  • Cooperation between the confederation, cantons, and cities in establishing necessary standards for data spaces

  • Mutual understanding of which questions need to be addressed

  • Roadmap for next steps including political support for relevant initiatives

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Location

HSLU’s Computer Science and Information Technology campus is located at the Suurstoffi site in Rotkreuz. It is a 2 minute walk from Rotkreuz train station.

Virtual tour

 

HSLU Campus Rotkreuz
Suurstoffi 1
CH-6343 Rotkreuz

The Swiss Data Space Forum, organized by the Swiss Data Alliance and digitalswitzerland, aims to advance the understanding of dataspaces as a key element of a trustworthy digital infrastructure in Switzerland.

Founded in 2017, the Swiss Data Alliance is an independent think tank focusing on data policy and data re-use in Switzerland. It is financed through its members.

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