Uphill Conf 2025 (5th edition)

24 & 25 April, 2025 | Bern, Switzerland

In 2025, the AI community returned to Bern for Uphill Conf's sold-out fifth edition, where software developers explored practical applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Through hands-on workshops, expert talks, and live demonstrations, the conference showcased how AI is transforming software engineering from theory into real-world impact.

Photos 2025 on Flickr

Talks 2025

Keys, Queries, and Values: The Celestial Mechanics of Attention

Luis Serrano

Let’s Build K.I.T.T. with JavaScript

Nico Martin

Reinforcement Learning - What It Is, How It Works, and How It Can Enhance Your Business

Joshua Starmer

From Prompt to Production: Agent-Based LLMs for Data Analysis and Fixing Software and Data Visualization Bugs

Nicole Königstein

SmolLM: The Rise of Smol Models

Loubna Ben Allal

Crafting Intelligent Applications in Java with Quarkus/LangChain4j

Dimitris Andreadis

Teaching Machines to See: Vision-Language Models Made Efficient with SmolVLM

Andrés Marafioti

Multi Adapter Hosting LoRA Adapter

Simon Peyer, Luca Perrozzi

Max Productivity, Minimal Compute, Zero Leaks: Pioneering Secure Enterprise Agents

Sandra Kublik

Speakers 2025

Joshua Starmer

Founder and CEO at StatQuest and Lead AI Educator at Lightning AI

Nicole Königstein

Chief AI Officer & Head of AI at quantmate, Author

Luis Serrano

Founder of Serrano.Academy, YouTuber, Author, Mathematician

Loubna Ben Allal

ML Research Engineer at Hugging Face

Dimitris Andreadis

Engineering Director at Red Hat, Quarkus Team, Cloud Native Runtimes

Michael Gygli

Principal Applied Scientist at zalando

Luca Perrozzi

Solutions Architect at AWS

Simon Peyer

Solutions Architect at AWS

Nico Martin

Google Developer Expert

Ioannis Canellos

Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat

Andrés Marafioti

AI Researcher at Hugging Face

Réginald Bien-Aimé

Entrepreneur, MC at Uphill Conf 2025

Georgios Andrianakis

Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat

Sandra Kublik

Developer Relations at Cohere, YouTuber, Author, Community Builder

Alain Leclerc von Bonin

AI Product Designer

Lewis Tunstall

Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face