Events

Swiss AI Events offer opportunities for our community to convene and collaborate in person.

LLM Builders' Summit

Details

🗓️ Monday, February 9, 2026

📍 EPFL, Lausanne, Vaud

*Note that this is an invitation-only event organized by the Swiss AI Initiative, led by EPFL AI Center and ETH AI Center.

Overview

The second edition of the Open-Source LLM Builders Summit will take place on 9th February 2026 at EPFL Lausanne, right before the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD).

The event is organized by the Swiss AI Initiative, coordinated by the EPFL AI Center and ETH AI Center. The summit will bring together leading international initiatives developing open foundation models, as well as infrastructure providers, researchers, and policymakers, to chart the path toward global, open, and collaborative AI development.

This year’s focus is threefold:

Highlighting progress from major open-source efforts
Sharing infrastructure access opportunities for large-scale training
Defining long-term models of international collaboration for AI research and governance

The summit welcomes contributors from research, government, and industry who are actively building transparent, multilingual, and mission-aligned AI systems for the public good. Participation is free, but registration is required. Space is limited and registration is subjected to approval prior confirmation.

Program

Morning

Presentations from Major Initiatives

Apertus | Martin Jaggi & Antoine Bosselut, Swiss AI Initiative
Olmo | Kyle Lo & Luca Soldaini, Ai2
OpenEuroLLM | Matthias Bethge, Tübingen University
EuroLLM | André F. T. Martins, Técnico Lisboa
SEA-LION | Jian Gang Ngui, AI Singapore

Calls for collaboration from major facilities

ALPS | Joost VandeVondele, CSCS
EuroHPC | Timothy Llewellynn, Euresearch

Lunch & Posters Session

Afternoon

Workshop - Blueprints for Global Collaboration on Open LLMs

Breakout Rooms
Consolidation Panel
Presentations and Discussions

Ápero

Points of Contact

Federico Fanalista, federico.fanalista@epfl.ch
Arnout Devos, arnout.devos@ai.ethz.ch