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After a short summer break, the next Basel Data Science & AI meetup is back on track!
Join us for another evening of inspiration, networking and building the local data science and AI community together. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Agenda
18:30 - Arrival & mingling
19:00 - Talks

• Muhmmad Saad Uddin, Data Scientist @ Endress+Hauser:
  When LLMs Meet SAP: An Agentic AI Case Study from Purchase Order to IDoc
• Diogo Rodrigues, Lead Data Scientist @ MDPI:
  Finding the Right ROR - Semantic Search for Research Institutions
• Alina Denzler, Data Analyst:
  Synthetically Feasible Drug Design: Rule-Based Alternative to Generative Models

20:20 - Pizza, beers & networking

The commitment fee of 5 CHF helps reduce no-shows goes directly towards elevating our apéro with some pizzas 🍕. If you have any issue with the payment method, let me know and we can figure something out!

Thanks a lot to Acuity Analytics for hosting the meetup and to Machine Learning Architects Basel for supporting us and providing the Apéro!

AI-Lunch Basel: Brown Bag über Mittag - English below
Mittagspause mit Leuten, die sich für dasselbe interessieren wie du. Kein Vortrag, keine Slides, keine Vorbereitung. Wir diskutieren über verschiedene Themen, Learnings oder Anwendungszwecke in den Industrien.
Der AI-Lunch ist bewusst niederschwellig: Wer abends keine Zeit hat, kommt hier zum Zug. Wer lieber zuhört als spricht, ist genauso willkommen wie jemand mit einer starken Meinung.
🥪 Brown Bag heisst Brown Bag: Bitte bring dein Mittagessen selber mit. Getränke stellen wir.

Ablauf

• 12:00 Uhr: Ankommen, auspacken, kurze Vorstellungsrunde
• 12:15 Uhr: Impuls zum Thema des Tages (Thema folgt)
• danach: offene Diskussion, eigene Fragen und Themen willkommen
• 14:00 Uhr: Schluss, damit alle rechtzeitig zurück sind

📍 iRIX, Gundeldinger Feld, Bau 5
Dornacherstrasse 192, 4053 Basel
🗓️ Donnerstag, 17.09.2026, 12:00 bis 14:00 Uhr
🗣️ Deutsch / Englisch
🎟️ Teilnahme kostenlos, Anmeldung über Meetup

Der AI-Lunch ist Teil von AI@iRIX. Wir wechseln monatlich zwischen Stammtisch, Lunch und Kolumne.

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AI Lunch Basel: Brown Bag over lunch
A lunch break with people who are interested in the same things as you. No presentation, no slides, no preparation. We talk about various topics, learnings or use cases across industries.
The AI Lunch is deliberately low-threshold: if you can't make it in the evening, this is your slot. If you would rather listen than speak, you are just as welcome as someone with a strong opinion.
🥪 Brown Bag means Brown Bag: please bring your own lunch. We provide the drinks.

Schedule

• 12:00: Arrive, unpack, short round of introductions
• 12:15: Short input on the topic of the day (topic to be announced)
• afterwards: open discussion, your own questions and topics are welcome
• 14:00: End, so everyone gets back in time

📍 iRIX, Gundeldinger Feld, Bau 5
Dornacherstrasse 192, 4053 Basel
🗓️ Thursday, 17.09.2026, 12:00 to 14:00
🗣️ German / English
🎟️ Free of charge, registration via Meetup

The AI Lunch is part of AI@iRIX. We alternate monthly between Stammtisch, Lunch and column.

This is not a panel about AI in theory. It's a conversation between founders who are living it — building companies, raising capital, and making decisions where AI is already part of the equation.

Brought to you by TechLounges, connecting the people shaping Swiss tech.

What to expect:
- 30-min moderated roundtable on AI and startup fundability
- Open Q&A with both speakers
- Networking drinks — connecting companies and talent across Switzerland

SPEAKER BIOs:

Pierre A. MORGON is a life science entrepreneur, co-founder of life science companies, and advisor to family offices, venture capital and private equity funds focused on life sciences. He also holds several board positions in private and public emerging healthcare ventures and non-profit organizations. Pierre has over 40 years of experience in the global life science industry, in C-level
positions at global level in multinational corporations and as CEO of start-up companies.
He is a mentor for CEOs of start-uphealth tech companies at Mass Challenge.
He holds a Doctorate of Pharmacy, a Master in Business Law and a MBA, and he is an alumnus of INSEAD and IMD.

Vitaly PODOPLELOV is co-founder and CEO of BioWerkLi, a smart decision-support platform for cell and gene therapy manufacturing focused on reducing batch failure and improving process reliability.
He moved to Switzerland in 2009, building sales channels for scientific and research equipment, from major brands to spinoffs of ETH and EPFL, before moving into venture investing, with a focus on novel materials and alternative energy. He is also founder of IdeaLinkHub, a non-profit (Verein, Kanton Schwyz) that guides non-Swiss scientific founders from the ideation stage into the Swiss startup ecosystem. Vitaly
recently completed the MIT certificate program on AI Strategy and Leadership, and works actively on AI transformation across the companies and organizations' part of.

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