#wetechtogether 2026 Workshops

Come and explore practical, authentic ways to make your strengths, achievements, and ambitions visible, without worrying about sounding self‑promotional or overly assertive, feeling overwhelmed, or not “enough”. This workshop helps you communicate your value with confidence, integrity and impact, and building meaningful professional connections without compromising who you are.

Through engaging conversations, reflection exercises and peer exchange, you will:
– Explore practical ways to build authentic visibility and identify opportunities
– Communicate your impact with confidence
– Create meaningful professional connections
– Practice sharing your achievements
– Define one concrete action that you can use in your daily life

This workshop is designed for women and allies at all career stages (beginner, intermediate to advanced) who want to increase their confidence, expand their network and be more intentional about their professional visibility.

Format: interactive workshop (notebook, pen or digital, you choose). Come ready to reflect, connect, exchange experiences and take meaningful steps towards greater visibility.

“Everyone has access to the AI assistant now.” Decision made. Licences are live, the launch mail went out, the intro session was well attended — and then nothing moves. The sponsor goes quiet. A peer team says they’ll look at it after the quarter. Half your pilot group logs in twice and never comes back. It feels like resistance. Usually it isn’t. They’re on the same road as you, just a few steps behind.

In this interactive, no-laptop session you’ll work on a real change you are driving right now: getting AI used in your team, a tool rollout, a re-org, a new way of working. We give you one simple model of how people move through change, and one question that tells you where any stakeholder actually stands. Then you use it. You map your own stakeholders, find the ones who are stuck, and decide what each of them needs from you next.You leave with a stakeholder map for your change, a short list of concrete next moves, and a question you can keep using long after Saturday.

Bring one change you care about. That is what makes the two hours pay off. No change-management background needed (beginner to intermediate). No hardware, no software, no pre-reading.

AI is transforming organizations, but success hinges on managing data risk, governance, and the many decisions across the AI lifecycle.

This hands-on workshop skips theory and puts you in real AI dilemmas. You will see how choices at each stage affect compliance, risk, and outcomes.

Part 1: AI Risk and Governance
Map the AI lifecycle, identify where risk emerges, and learn to manage it. Explore the AI trust gap, how AI risk differs from IT risk, and how to embed trustworthy AI and practical governance without stifling innovation.

Part 2: AI Simulation
In teams, guide an AI use case from concept to production. At each step, make realistic decisions on data, teams, monitoring, and incidents. Choices earn or cost points based on real-world outcomes: innovation speed, risk mitigation, compliance, trust, and business impact.

Why it matters
AI governance is a strategic capability. Organizations that balance innovation with governance outcompete those that treat risk as a brake.

You will leave with

• A clear view of AI risk

• Practical AI governance essentials

• Insight into how decisions shape AI quality and risk

• Confidence in the why behind AI risk management

For executives, risk and compliance professionals, data scientists, product leaders, students, and anyone curious about AI governance. No prior AI expertise needed.

Expect an interactive, energetic session with team work, realistic dilemmas, competition, and real insight.

Conflict is part of every team, but how we respond to it can determine whether people feel heard, valued and able to thrive. In this interactive workshop, we will explore how misunderstandings, different communication styles and unspoken assumptions can turn everyday disagreements into difficult conversations, particularly in diverse teams. Rather than avoiding conflict, we will look at how to create spaces that are safe for disagreement and use them to strengthen trust.

Through reflection exercises, group work and practical tools, participants will explore what can sit underneath conflict and learn ways to approach challenging conversations with greater curiosity and confidence.

Whether you are a manager, team member or simply someone who sometimes finds difficult conversations… difficult, this workshop is for you. No previous experience is required, the workshop is suitable for all levels and no laptop or other equipment is needed.

Wir starten mit einem kurzen Warm-up: Ihr bewertet einige AI Use Cases spontan als «gut» oder «schlecht». Anschliessend zeigen wir anhand eines konkreten SBB-Beispiels, wie aus strategischen Zielen Bewertungskriterien entstehen.

Danach arbeitet ihr in Gruppen mit bewusst unterschiedlichen Zielsetzungen. Jede Gruppe entwickelt eigene Kriterien und entscheidet, welche AI Use Cases weiterverfolgt werden sollen. Im Plenum vergleichen wir die Ergebnisse.

Dabei wird schnell sichtbar: Obwohl alle dieselben Use Cases bewerten, fallen die Entscheidungen unterschiedlich aus. Genau darin liegt die zentrale Erkenntnis des Workshops: Die Frage ist nicht, ob ein AI Use Case gut ist, sondern wofür er gut sein soll.

Der Workshop macht die Logik hinter solchen Entscheidungen erlebbar: Aus strategischen Zielen entstehen Kriterien, aus Kriterien Prioritäten. Dabei betrachten wir nicht nur kurzfristige Ziele und Effizienzgewinne, sondern auch die mittel- und langfristigen Auswirkungen auf Mensch und Organisation.

Kriterien sind dabei kein Selbstzweck, sondern ein Werkzeug für bessere Entscheidungen.

Das nehmt ihr mit:

• Bewertungskriterien aus strategischen Zielen ableiten
• AI Use Cases strukturierter bewerten und priorisieren
• Entscheidungen nachvollziehbar begründen und diskutieren
• Mehr Sicherheit beim eigenen Ja oder Nein zu AI Use Cases

Cybersecurity conversations at work tend to stay at work, but the same people making security decisions in the office are also the ones managing passwords for aging parents, spotting (or missing) deepfake scams in a family group chat, or deciding how much private information to share online.

This session brings a financial-sector security practitioner’s lens to the risks people actually encounter outside the workplace: deepfakes and AI-enabled scams, social engineering and privacy hygiene, public wi-fi and sockets etc. Rather than a fear-based “here’s everything that can go wrong” talk, the session uses a human-first, practical approach: real scenarios, interactive discussion and take-home habits participants can apply immediately — for themselves and the people they care for. By the end of the session, participants will be able to: 

• Spot the tell-tale signs of manipulated content and social engineering like phishing attempts, AI-generated video/audio fakes and more
• Understand what happens to their data once it leaves their hands; how platforms and advertisers profile and monetize personal information
• Read the warning signs of real-world digital traps outside the home: public wi-fi networks, malicious QR codes etc.
• Walk away with a short, concrete checklist for locking down their devices and accounts that make up a typical household’s digital setup.

AI is changing the way we work, learn and make decisions. But while technology continues to evolve, one question becomes increasingly important: How do we grow and adapt without losing ourselves in the process?

In this interactive session, we will explore what self-leadership means in times of constant change. Together, we will reflect on our strengths, values and sources of resilience, and discover practical ways to stay authentic while navigating uncertainty, new expectations and rapid technological developments.

This is not a session about AI tools. It is a session about the human behind the tool.

Expect reflection, exchange, inspiration and concrete insights to help you grow with confidence and remain true to yourself in an AI-powered world.

Women in AI: Build Your First AI Agent with Copilot Studio

Curious about AI and want to go beyond prompting? Join this interactive workshop to learn how AI agents work and how to create your own using Microsoft Copilot Studio. We’ll explore the difference between large language models and AI agents, see real-world examples, and then get hands-on building an agent together.

Who is it for?
Women interested in AI, innovation, and technology. No technical background required.

Level: Beginner

Key takeaways:

Understand what AI agents are and how they differ from LLMs
Learn the basics of Microsoft Copilot Studio
See a live demonstration of an AI agent in action
Build your own AI agent during a guided hands-on session
Leave with practical knowledge and inspiration to continue your AI journey

Requirements:

Laptop recommended (Windows or Mac)
Access to a web browser (Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome)
No prior experience with AI or coding required

Come curious, experiment with AI, and discover how easy it is to create your own intelligent assistant.