Schedule

9:00	Welcome Coffee
10:00	Opening Presentation
10:15	Room: G61 Keynote: Research Context Engineering - Agentic Development in RSE Markus Kreft Agentic Systems Lab
	Room: G61 Track AI Reshaping Research Software	Room: G59 Track RSE Profession & Career	Room: G56 Track Software Craft & Engineering	Room: G52 Track Platforms & Applications	Room: G57
11:15	OptiMat Alloys: a FAIR living database enabled by a conversational agent Yang Hu EMPA	Developing software engineering 'industry skills' for graduates Ben Thomas Software Sustainability Institute UK	EVERSE Project: Tools and Resources for Research Software Quality Kenneth Rioja CERN	Storing cryogenic samples in ultra-high vacuum Reto Trappitsch EPFL
11:45	Life Cycle Assessment Data and the Advent of Artificial Intelligence Michael Weinold ecoinvent Association	Defining Data Steward and RSE Roles through a Task-Based Survey Stefanie Hauser EMPA	Building Sustainable Scientific Software: Lessons from Industry–Academia Arnaud Mercier PhD in Mathematical Geophysics in D-EAPS at ETH Zurich	Empowering sustainable research projects with Renku Elisabet Capon Garcia Swiss Data Science Center
12:15	Lunch Break
13:45	Room: G61 Keynote: FAIR Enough? Why Isn't More Data Being Reused? James Runnalls EAWAG
14:45	From Beginner to Builder: Supplier Rating App with an AI Coding Assistant Anusch Bachofer EMPA	Developing career pathways for RSEs and dRTPs: A UK perspective Jeremy Cohen Imperial College London	RO-Crate Schema Plus: Self-Describing, Ontologized RO-Crate Andreas Meier ETH Zurich	NTSuisse: a Web Platform for LC-HRMS Data of Swiss Surface Water Kai-Michael Kammer EAWAG
15:15	Coffee Break
15:45	Research Software Engineering in the Age of Generative AI Michelle Barker Research Software Alliance	Code Is Cheap Now — Understanding Users Isn't Ali Khosravi PSI	Why make it long and understandable when you can make it short and terrible? Samuel Gaist Idiap Research Institute	An open-source chat platform for independent research: Matrix at EPFL Carine Dengler EPFL
16:15	The age of personalized software and how it might change research Simon Dürr HES-SO Valais-Wallis	RésIn: local network of RSEs in Paris Diego Antolinos Université de Neuchâtel	The case for research software engineers Erik Fröjdh Paul Scherrer Institut	Symbolica: a modern computer algebra system Ben Ruijl Ruijl Research	Inauguration Meeting rse.swiss Association
16:45	Closing + Group Picture
17:00	Apero
	Poster Danu - exploring federated services in your browser Linus Gasser EPFL	Poster Fractal: Towards FAIR bioimage analysis at scale with OME-Zarr-native workflows Lorenzo Cerrone BioVisionCenter, Universität Zürich	Poster DALIA - High Performance Statistical Modelling made accessible Stefan zur Bonsen Student ETH Zurich	Poster Hospital in the cloud Claudia Wecker ETH Zurich
	Digital Presentation NestBot 2.0: A Controlled Multi-Agent AI System for Research Building Data at EMPA Michael Locher EMPA	Digital Presentation Web applications for education and behavioural experiments Justinas Grigaitis UZH Department of Economics	Digital Presentation Accelerate cosmological simulations Tommaso Boschi ETH Zurich	Digital Presentation Connecting life cycle assessment expertise to research & development, proposal of an interactive digital evaluation and reporting tool Francesco Barilli EMPA (SG)