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

    DATA STRATEGY AND POLICY

    BIO

  • Matthias Michel

    SECONDAY DATA USE AS A BUSINESS LOCATION FACTOR

    BIO

  • Franziska Barmettler

    DATA SPACE SUCESS FACTORS

    BIO

  • Alexandre Kech

    DIGITAL IDENTITIES FOR ORGANIZATIONS

    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

    HEALTH & PHARMA
    LIGHTNING TALK

    Bio

  • Thomas Schneider

    RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SWISS DATA SPACES

    Bio

  • Georges-Simon Ulrich

    CREATING VALUE WITH DATA

    BIO

  • Diego Kuonen

    CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE LIGHTNING TALK

    Bio

  • Nicola Rustignoli

    SECURING CONNECTIVITY LIGHTNING TALK

    BIO

  • Melanie Kolbe

    DIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE LIGHTNING TALK

    BIO

Program

  • Opening Remarks and presentation of the Swiss Data Space Study 2025

    • Overview of data sharing initiatives in Switzerland

    • Five key success factors for stakeholders

    André Golliez (Swiss Data Alliance) & Andreas Meyer (digitalswitzerland)

  • Keynote by Georges-Simon Ulrich, director of the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics

  • Keynote by Daniel Markwalder, Delegate of the Federal Council for the Digital Transformation and ICT Steering Sector of the Federal Chancellery

  • Keynote by Matthias Michel, Ständerat for the canton of Zug.

  • 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.

Subject to change

Keynotes

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

  1. Mobility & Logistics (Lightning Talks: Flock Labs & Verkehrsnetz CH)

  2. Health & Pharma (Lightning Talks: SPHN & Paola Daniore C4DT)

  3. Geo, Weather & Climate (Lightning Talks: Informationsplattform Naturgefahren & Meteomatics)

  4. Critical Infrastructures & Public Safety (Lightning Talks: WILSON HSLU & Diego Kuonen)

  5. Data Spaces as Digital Public Infrastructure (Lightning Talks: Melanie Kolbe-Guyot C4DT & Matthias Born I14Y)

  6. Digital Self-Determination

  • Requirements and opportunities for using data and AI in the healthcare sector.

    Keynote by Thomas Zaugg, Head of Open Innovation & External Networks at Roche Diagnostics International

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

    Keynote by Marius Pohl, Business Development Manager at Cofinity-X

  • Keynote by Roland Kühnelt, Head of Business Intelligence & Algorithm at Planzer

  • The national Mobility Data Infrastructure (MODI) as a way towards better efficiency in the mobility system.

    Keynote by Christa Hostettler (Director of the Federal Office of Transport) & Jürg Röthlisberger (Director of the Federal Roads Office)

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

    Keynote by Alexandre Kech (CEO Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – GLEIF) & Vasily Suvorov (Co-Founder & Board Member of DIDAS)

Keynotes

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

  1. Mobility & Logistics (Lightning Talks: mobility-dataspace.eu & Verkehrsnetz CH)

  2. Health & Pharma (Lightning Talks: Sphin-X & Paola Daniore C4DT)

  3. Geo, Weather & Climate (Lightning Talks: NGDI swisstopo & Meteomatics)

  4. Critical Infrastructures & Public Safety (Lightning Talks: Lucille Verbaere TEMS & Nicola Rustignoli SCION)

  5. Trustworthy & Interoperable Data Sharing (Lightning Talks: Matthias Born I14Y & Adina Dorthe Georg Fischer AG)

  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)

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’s data spaces working group 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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