The MSE Summer School 2025 AI & Data Services ran 25–29 August 2025 at HES-SO Master in Lausanne, co-organised by the Swiss AI Center for SMEs and HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland in the context of the Master of Science in Engineering (MSE).
29 MSE students from across Switzerland combined morning expert sessions with afternoon, team-based case sprints.

Week highlights

• Morning deep dives: business discovery, advanced data engineering (Polars, DuckDB, imaging/computer vision), AI modelling (RL, NLP matching, advanced LLMs), MLOps & real-life deployment, and law/safety/ethics.

• Afternoons: industry case-study sprints.

• Friday wrap-up: student pitches and an apéro at 17:00.

• Deliverables: final report due the following week.

Speakers & partners (selection)

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Claudiu Musat), Siemens Healthineers (Thomas Yu), Swiss Post (Huriel Reichel), Debiopharm (Vaibhav Kulkarni), Picterra (Julien Rebetez), Unit8 (Alain Gysi), Synchrotech SA (Benjamin Decaillet), XpertIA (Catherine Charbonnier), EPFL Innovation Park (Robert van Kommer), e-Justice Etat de Fribourg – Staat Freiburg (Axel Casareale), MCE Avocats et Notaires (Simon Perona), plus HES-SO experts Jean Hennebert, Philipp Bubenzer, Gregory Mermoud, Francesco Carrino, Louis Lettry, Bertil Chapuis, and Hatem Ghorbel.

Why it matters

Students gained a 360° view of business-driven AI and data services, from discovery and data engineering to modelling, MLOps, and legal/ethical foundations, while delivering concrete results for partner organisations.

Thank you to all students, speakers, partners and case study authors who made the week a success. See you next year!