How can one AI help another AI treat brain tumours more safely? Amith Kamath explores how one AI outlines tumours and sensitive brain structures while another flags the mistakes that matter for radiation treatment.  
 
Amith Kamath is a researcher at the ARTORG Center, University of Bern, and founder of ContourAId. After eight years at MathWorks, he completed his PhD in Bern on safer AI for radiotherapy. 

What happens when the disembodied mind of a large language model is placed inside a robotic body? In a comic co-created with generative AI, Carmiella Salzberg explores the strange, fascinating and absurd consequences of this unlikely partnership—and how AI can turn even a crisis into a positive report for management.  

Carmiella Salzberg is an artist-researcher in Bern and studies Digital Humanities with a philosophy minor at the University of Bern. 

What happens when a T cell and a microchip learn to communicate despite their differences? Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli tells the story of Cell and Chip, whose friendship opens up new ways to tackle immune-mediated disorders. 

Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli is a researcher at the Theodor Kocher Institute at the University of Bern and the MeDiTech Institute at SUPSI in Lugano. He leads a research group at the intersection of life and computational sciences. 

Software is made up of many ingredients – and some of them can create unexpected risks. Roman Bögli explains why software ingredient lists matter and why we need to address post-quantum cryptography before the age of quantum computers arrives.  

Roman Bögli is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Bern, working in software engineering. 

Who is actually making the law? Simon M. Graf explains the legislative process in Switzerland’s federal system through a surprising analogy: loading a dishwasher properly.  

On the one hand, Simon M. Graf is a PhD candidate and researcher in law at the University of Bern. On the other, he works as an attorney, both advising clients and litigating. His focus is on data protection in the use of artificial intelligence in public administration. 

Rocks and minerals are everywhere—and Vianne Gernhöfer can no longer look away. In her slam, she takes the audience on a journey through her geological perspective, analysing bracelets, train station floors and even entire mountain ranges.  

Vianne Gernhöfer studies psychology, with geography and geology as minors, at the University of Bern.