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#wetechtogether Conference 2026 (September 2026)
Switzerland's leading conference for diversity, equity and inclusion in tech, organized by TechFace with female-led tech communities. Two days of keynotes, workshops and networking draw developers, engineers, designers, product leaders, students and allies. It is relevant to founders for talent, inclusive hiring and ecosystem networking.
Alexander Lichter
Developer relations engineer at VoidZero and a Nuxt and Vue.js ecosystem contributor, known for his web development teaching and open-source tooling work in JavaScript and TypeScript. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
Arnau Gómez Farell
Senior full stack engineer at Tiptap, building the headless rich-text editor framework used across modern JavaScript and web applications. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
Assaia
Assaia is a Zurich-based company that uses AI and computer vision to give airports and airlines real-time visibility into aircraft turnaround operations on the apron. Its ApronAI platform includes TurnaroundControl, ResourceManager, SafetyControl, and EmissionsControl products, used to reduce ground delays, improve on-time performance, detect unsafe behavior, and cut emissions. Assaia reports having monitored over 2.8 million turnarounds across 31 airports and 507 airlines, with customers including United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Gatwick, Fraport, and Toronto Pearson.
Atila Fassina
Software engineer and developer advocate, lead of the SolidStart project and a core contributor to the Solid.js JavaScript framework, working as a fullstack engineer in the developer-tools space. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf.
Beekeeper
Beekeeper is a Zurich-based enterprise software company founded in 2012 by Cristian Grossmann and Flavio Pfaffhauser to build a communication and operations platform for frontline workers — those in manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and logistics who don't sit at a desk. The platform provides a mobile-first digital workspace enabling team messaging, task management, document sharing, and HR workflows for workers without corporate email addresses. Beekeeper raised a Series C in 2021 led by Alpana Ventures with participation from Atomico and Swiss Post, bringing total funding to over $100 million. The platform is used by companies including Marriott, Hilton, and Heathrow Airport, supporting over 1,000 enterprise customers globally. Beekeeper is a flagship example of Zurich's SaaS ecosystem building at the intersection of human capital management and operational technology.
btov Partners
btov Partners (now operating as b2venture) is a European venture capital firm founded in 2000 in St. Gallen, Switzerland, managing approximately €510 million across institutional, partner, and private investor funds from offices in Zurich, Berlin, Munich, and Luxembourg. The firm invests in early-stage digital and industrial technology companies across Europe, with ticket sizes of €250,000 to €3.5 million and roughly €50 million deployed per year. Notable portfolio companies include DeepL, SumUp, Raisin, and Blacklane.
Carmen Huidobro
Chief Technology Officer at Incredible Holding GmbH and a web development educator active in the JavaScript and frontend community. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
Christoph Jenny
Co-founder and CEO of Planted, the Zurich-based food technology company he co-founded in 2019 as an ETH Zurich spin-out. Jenny led Planted through a CHF 70 million Series B in 2021 and expanded the company's plant-based meat products across Swiss supermarkets, Germany, and European food service channels. Planted's wet extrusion technology, developed from ETH Zurich research, produces fibrous plant-based textures that closely mimic animal protein.
Climeworks
Climeworks is one of Europe's most important climate-tech companies because it is building commercial direct air capture systems that remove carbon dioxide from ambient air. The company operates in a category that sits beyond emissions reduction alone: carbon removal infrastructure intended to address legacy emissions and hard-to-abate sectors. Its plants use modular collectors and specialized filters to capture CO2, after which the gas can be permanently stored or used in industrial processes. That combination of chemical engineering, energy systems, project execution, and long-term offtake sales makes Climeworks a very different kind of startup from software-led climate businesses. It is a capital-intensive industrial platform that depends on trust, scientific credibility, and customer willingness to commit to the future carbon-removal market. In the European ecosystem, Climeworks matters not only for its own category leadership, but also because it shows that globally significant climate infrastructure can be conceived, financed, and scaled from Europe. It serves as a benchmark for founders and investors interested in hard-tech and climate infrastructure companies where the technical ambition, funding requirements, and operational complexity are far greater than in conventional SaaS.
Cristian Grossmann
Co-founder and CEO of Beekeeper, the Zurich-based frontline workforce platform he co-founded in 2012 with Flavio Pfaffhauser. Grossmann led Beekeeper through a Series C in 2021 backed by Atomico, Alpana Ventures, and Swiss Post, bringing total funding to over $100 million. The platform scales to over 1,000 enterprise customers including Marriott, Hilton, and Heathrow Airport, serving workers in manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and logistics without corporate email addresses.
CV Summit 2026
Switzerland's largest blockchain, AI and digital-assets business conference at Kongresshaus Zurich. Two days, four stages, 3,000+ attendees and 250 speakers spanning Web3, AI and tokenized finance for founders, investors, institutions and policymakers.
Daniel Afonso
Senior developer advocate at PagerDuty and a JavaScript and React engineer focused on state management and developer experience across the web platform. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
Daniel Noel-Davies
Founder of Pokélink and a JavaScript developer building real-time web and streaming tools for online communities. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
Daniel Roe
Open-source software engineer at Vercel and lead of the Nuxt core team, the Vue.js meta-framework, focused on the modern JavaScript and TypeScript web development ecosystem. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf.
Debbie O'Brien
Platform engineer working on applied AI at Zephyr Cloud, a long-time developer advocate and web testing and tooling specialist in the JavaScript ecosystem. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
DeepJudge
DeepJudge is a Zurich-based legal AI company founded in 2021 by AI researchers who met while completing PhDs at ETH Zurich. Its platform provides intent-driven, retrieval-first enterprise search across a law firm's internal document repositories and data sources such as SharePoint, OneDrive and document management systems, enabling permission-respecting access to institutional knowledge before generating AI responses. The product supports multi-document analysis and LLM-powered workflows for legal teams. Reported customers include Freshfields, Holland & Knight, Gunderson Dettmer and Homburger, and the company maintains teams in the United States and Canada.
Dominik Dorfmeister
Software engineer at Sentry and maintainer of TanStack Query, a widely used data-fetching and state-management library for the React and JavaScript ecosystem. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
Emelie Emanuelsson
Sustainability Project Manager in Smart Infrastructure at Siemens Switzerland, working on sustainability initiatives within the industrial and building-technology business. She is an announced speaker in the Hidden Figures Awards program at the 2026 #wetechtogether Conference in Zurich.
Eric Stirnemann
Co-founder of Planted, the Zurich-based food technology company he co-founded in 2019 from ETH Zurich research. Stirnemann's background in food engineering contributed to the development of Planted's proprietary wet extrusion platform for plant-based meat. The company raised CHF 70 million in 2021 and distributes products across Switzerland, Germany, and broader European markets.
