Have you joined several AI conferences, roundtables and other events? You heard many interesting insights but AI applications still feel remote, theoretical and a bit mysterious to you?
Join us on 2nd November 2026 for a hands-on experience at our exclusive Innovation Lab: a one-day coding sprint on the topic “Artificial Intelligence applications for Sustainable Finance”, at Technopark Zurich.
This mini hackathon is co-organized by Swiss Sustainable Finance and Uthereal, and in collaboration with the Sustainable Digital Finance initiative by ZHAW and UZH. No coding experience is required.
The day brings together small, cross-company teams to design, prototype and stress-test an AI solution to a real sustainable finance challenge. Each team picks its challenge from a pre-designed menu of use cases:
Climate risk and scenario analysis
Sustainable product design
Company sustainability scoring
Reporting and disclosures – producing them, or assessing those of others
Customer chatbots on sustainable product features
Greenwashing detection
“Building” here will mean designing, vibe-coding and stress-testing a solution with AI tools such as Claude Code – a hands-on approach, but made for a business audience. Each team will be joined and supported by an AI engineer from Uthereal, and facilitators are available throughout the day.
The Lab is designed for a small group of 15 to 20 participants from across the SSF member community – business roles, all sectors, all levels of AI literacy.
The day is deliberately structured as a neutral, peer-learning environment: the goal is insight, learning and capability-building, that can then be brought back to day-to-day business life. No confidential company data is needed for this, we will use public data only.