Innovation tours

Innovation With Trust: A Central Bank Perspective

Details:
Date: 25 June
Time: 2:00PM - 6:00PM CET
Location: Gleisarena FFHS, Zollstrasse 11, 8005 Zürich

Synopsis:
As places are limited, we kindly ask you to register in advance.

Registration deadline: 15 June 2026

With technologies such as tokenisation, AI and cybersecurity reshaping the financial and monetary system, the BIS Innovation Hub invites attendees to explore how it is stewarding innovation in partnership with central bank partners.

A poster-based exhibition will showcase projects and insights from across the Hub, with opportunities to interact directly with project teams. Attendees will also hear from the Head of the Innovation Hub about how the BIS supports central banks in delivering their mandates through trusted collaboration and innovation.

• 2:00PM - 2: 15PM: Arrival and registration
• 2:15PM - 2:50PM: Fireside chat with BIS Innovation Hub Head, Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli on "Stewarding Central Bank Innovation"
• 2:50PM - 6:00PM: Poster exhibition

Moving Regulated Digital Assets from Conception to Reality

Details:
Date: 25 June
Time: 10:00 AM - 2:00PM CET
Location: Zunfthaus zur Zimmerleuten, Limmatquai 40, 8001 Zürich

Synopsis:

Join us in the heart of Zurich in a wonderful historic building right at the Limmat within close walking distance of the Point Zero Forum venue to talk about Digital Assets.

This innovation tour at the Point Zero Forum showcases how IBM and LFDT open-source technologies are advancing scalable, secure, and interoperable digital asset infrastructure for enterprise, financial, and government use cases.

Through live demonstrations, the tour highlights four key dimensions:

• DLT Scalability with next-generation architectures such as Hyperledger Fabric-X
• Advanced Privacy Technologies, featuring a multi-ledger tokenization framework and quantum-safe cryptography
• Interoperability, enabling cross-application interaction and integration with real-world systems
• Application Portability, supporting synergies between smart contracts from different application stacks, bringing together the best of all worlds!

Complementing these pillars, the tour features a live demonstration of IBM Digital Asset Haven, providing a security and coordination layer for multi-ledger environments, enabling trusted asset management and policy enforcement.

Through focused demonstrations led by domain experts and technologists, the innovation tour showcases how these capabilities are expanding the digital asset paradigm. In addition, attendees are invited to engage in in-depth discussions with our experts to explore concrete use cases, architectural choices, and adoption pathways across industries.

The 1st Pan-European Settlement Platform for Tokenized Assets

Details:
Date: 25 June
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00PM CET
Location: BX Swiss Office, Talacker 50, 8001 Zurich, 5th Floor

Synopsis:

Europe’s capital markets are strong, but fragmented. Blockchain now offers a unique opportunity for unified infrastructure.

In this innovation tour, we explore how Seturion and its subsidiary, BX Digital, enables financial institutions to leverage this technology and support the vision of a Pan-European Capital Markets Union. We will examine the current landscape, future operating model, key benefits and ways institutions can connect and participate.

This session is primarily aimed at banks, securities firms, and asset managers, followed by a sandwich lunch.

Agenda:
Presentation, Workshop, Apéro

Beyond Digital Banking: Agentic AI and the New Banking Stack

Innovation Tours Breakfast Event | Swiss Fintech Week 2026: As artificial intelligence evolves from a productivity tool into an autonomous decision-making and orchestration layer, the banking industry is entering a new era. Agentic AI has the potential to fundamentally reshape how financial institutions operate, interact with customers, and build products—driving a shift from traditional digital banking toward intelligent, AI-native banking ecosystems.

In this exclusive Innovation Tours Breakfast Event during Swiss Fintech Week 2026, Matthias Kröner, digital banking pioneer and fintech thought leader, and Roger Furrer, Director at ERI Bancaire, will explore how Agentic AI is transforming banking business models, core banking platforms, and the broader financial technology stack. Together, they will discuss the opportunities, challenges, and strategic implications of building the next generation of banking infrastructure.

The keynotes will be followed by an interactive panel discussion and audience Q&A, before concluding with a networking breakfast among leaders from Switzerland’s fintech and banking ecosystem.

Tour Agenda:

• 08:30 – 08:55 Registration, coffee and breakfast

• 08:30 – 08:55 Welcome Remarks by SFTA

• 09:00 – 09:20 Keynote 1: The Future of Banking in the Age of Agentic AI | Matthias Kröner

• 09:20 – 09:40 Keynote 2: Building the New Banking Stack | Roger Furrer

• 09:40 – 09:55 Panel Discussion & Audience Q&A

• 09:55 – 10:00 Closing Remarks by SFTA

• 10:00 – 10:30 Networking

Location of Tour:

Signature by Regus, Zurich, Bahnhofplatz / Bahnhofquai 11, 8001 Zurich, CH

Your Gateway to Switzerland's Financial Innovation Hub: Discover Zurich's Ecosystem

Details:
Date: 25 Jun 2026
Time: 8:45 AM - 10:30 AM CET
Location: Switzerland Global Enterprise, Stampfenbachstrasse 85, 8006 Zurich

Synopsis:
Join us for a breakfast session and hear what makes Switzerland and Zurich a preferred destination for global companies in finance, FinTech, and blockchain. Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE), together with the Canton of Zurich, will host and walk you through the key factors for entering the Swiss market - and why establishing a foothold in Switzerland to serve global customers is a smart business move.

Network with a select group of industry professionals from Zurich's finance ecosystem over coffee & a croissant.

Who this is for: International FinTechs, financial institutions, and technology-driven companies looking to expand in Switzerland.