Lecturers & Speakers
The CAS is shaped by a deliberate mix of voices. ETH faculty bring the mathematical rigour and conceptual clarity. Senior practitioners from leading banks, insurers, technology companies and bring the operational reality of building, governing and scaling GenAI inside complex organisations
Programme leadership and core faculty include:
- Patrick Cheridito, Professor, D-MATH
- Josef Teichmann, Professor, D-MATH
- Bastian Bergmann, Executive Director, FinsureTech Hub
- Katrin Kröger, Senior GenAI Practitioner in Insurance
- Kornelia Papp, Group Head of Conversational AI and Automation, Zurich Insurance
- Luca Baldassarre, AI Governance Director, Swiss Re
- Pier Paolo Ippolito, Forward Deployed Engineer, Google
- Lukas Gonon, Professor, University of St. Gallen
- Andrea Ferrario, Senior Researcher, UZH and IDSIA
- supported by additional ETH researchers across the FinsureTech Hub network.
Industry Experience
Each block is enriched by guest lectures and case sessions led by senior practitioners from the FinsureTech Hub community. They share live cases, architectural decisions, governance frameworks and lessons from scaling AI in regulated environ-ments.