The Swiss AI Center for SMEs is organizing the MSE Summer School 2025: AI & Data Services, a one-week program running 25–29 August 2025 at HES-SO Master, Av. de Provence 6, Lausanne. The format combines morning expert talks and afternoon case-study sprints with industry partners.
What to expect
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Audience & format: 29 students, working in small teams on industry-defined case studies; mornings feature 4×45’ talks with invited experts, afternoons are dedicated to the cases.
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Outcomes & credits: 3 ECTS on successful completion; final presentations Friday 29 Aug (12’ + 3’ Q&A) and a report due the following week. Assessment by 2 professors + 1 industry expert.
Daily themes
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Mon 25.08 — Business case understanding: AI adoption, project & change management, and innovation support.
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Tue 26.08 — Advanced data engineering: Polars & DuckDB at scale, imaging pipelines, and practical data prep.
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Wed 27.08 — AI modelling: Reinforcement learning (RL/RLHF), NLP matching, and advanced LLMs.
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Thu 28.08 — MLOps & deployment: From lab to production—technical, organizational and regulatory challenges.
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Fri 29.08 — Law, safety & ethics: GDPR/Swiss DPA basics, contracts & liability, and ethics-by-design; final presentations 14:30, apéro 17:00.
Speakers & partners (selection)
From HSLU Hochschule Luzern (Claudiu Mușat) to Siemens Healthineers (Thomas Yu), Die Schweizerische Post (Huriel Reichel), Debiopharm (Vaibhav Kulkarni), Picterra (Julien Rebetez), Unit8 (Alain Gysi), Synchrotech SA (Benjamin Décaillet), XpertIA (Catherine Charbonnier), EPFL Innovation Park (Robert van Kommer), e-Justice Etat de Fribourg – Staat Freiburg (Axel Casareale), MCE Avocats et Notaires (Simon Perona) and plus HES-SO experts Jean Hennebert, Philipp Bubenzer, Gregory Mermoud, Francesco Carrino, Louis Lettry, Bertil Chapuis, and Hatem Ghorbel.
Why it matters
Students gain a 360° view of business-driven AI & data services—from discovery and data engineering to modelling, MLOps, and legal/ethical foundations—while delivering concrete results for participating companies.