QUO VADIS Frontier AI ? Speed, Sovereignty, Scale: trireme or trilemma
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About the event
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The most advanced AI‑native infrastructure can’t be optimized for speed of implementation, sovereignty of law, and scale of capability all at once — or can it?
⚖️ Central question: a coordination challenge (trireme) or an impossible constraint (trilemma)?
Each panelist brings complementary evidence to illuminate the trade‑offs. You, the audience, will weigh the options and help decide which strategic framework Switzerland should pursue.
Speakers:
- 🇺🇸 Prof. John Horton – MIT Sloan, MIT Generative AI Lab, Anthropic Economic Advisory Council. AI social simulations shaping strategy exploration.
- 🖥️ Abhi Ingle – Chief Product & Strategy Officer, SambaNova Systems. Sovereign chip‑to‑model AI in practice.
- 🌍 Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis – MIT PhD, AI & robotics consultant. Educating the world for the era of AI.
- 🇪🇺 Boguslawa (Bogy) Cimoszko Skowronski – MIT & Harvard alumna, Partner at FounderPartners. Europe’s HPC infrastructure and AI investments.
- 🇨🇭 Dr. Andrei Villarroel – EPFL & MIT alumnus, Founder of innoverse.ai. Moderator framing the trade‑offs: speed, sovereignty, scale.
🔥 WHY THIS MATTERS
- Budgets are tight — yet trillions are being invested globally in AI infrastructure.
- Energy is finite — yet multi‑gigawatt AI campuses are planned to go live by 2028.
- Export rules are uncertain — NVIDIA remains the de facto supplier of frontier AI chips.
The wrong strategy could cost years. The right choice will define Switzerland’s role in AI, shape jobs, industries, and global competitiveness.
📌 WHAT TO EXPECT
- Flash evidence presentations
- Strategic framework
- Before & after survey
👤 WHO SHOULD JOIN
- Policy makers • Institutional leaders • CIOs & CTOs • Data‑center & cloud operators • Researchers • Founders in regulated sectors (health, finance, industry) • Journalists covering AI policy & infrastructure.