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2025

Transforming Uncertainty into Opportunity

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The RiskOn event on September 2nd – 3th, 2025 brings together experienced risk professionals with experts and talents from Switzerlands leading universities to co-create innovative solutions in the realm of risk management.

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Ambassador Sponsors

Lead Sponsors

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Team Sponsors

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Strategic Partners

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Co-Create innovative solutions in 30h

Team up with other students, corporate partners, and industry experts to take part of the annual innovation challenge in risk management

1 Select Challenge

Select a challenge to tackle

2 Co-Create

In multiple ideation sessions you will adress problems faced by corporate partners and create a proof of concept / minimum viable product (MVP)

3 Win

Win cash prices and get the chance to bring your idea further into reality

POINT OF DEPARTURE

In an era marked by global crises and digital transformation, businesses and banks face heightened risks, underscoring the need for robust and resilient risk management.

RULES AND MEASURES

Effective risk management identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks, safeguarding interests, depositors' funds, and building trust across stakeholders in banking.

Purpose

RiskON, guided by the University of Zurich and key partners, aims to inspire groundbreaking solutions in the realm of risk management in Switzerland.

Challenges to tackle

These challenges will be tackled during RiskON 2025

Quality Assurance for Client Contact Notes — How can AI help?

Client Contact Notes (CCNs) are essential for compliance with regulatory requirements like reverse solicitation and cross-border documentation. Yet, ensuring their completeness, quality, and control remains resource intensive in international banking.

By choosing this challenge, you aim to explore how technologies like AI, NLP and LLMs can enhance CCN quality assurance—ensuring consistent coverage of the five Ws (Who, What, Why, Where, When) and additional solicitation context—while automating controls across jurisdictions.

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KYC vs. Adverse Media — Can AI match identities across sources?

Compliance teams must assess whether individuals mentioned in negative news (e.g., fraud or sanctions) match known clients. Due to common names and unstructured KYC data, this task often involves tedious manual work.

By choosing this challenge, you aim to develop an AI or ML solution that links clients to external news articles with high accuracy. Provided with synthetic KYC and media data, you will build and test a model that supports risk detection by identifying name matches across unstructured data.

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AI-powered Fraud Detection — How can patterns reveal risk in private banking?​

Fraud remains a major threat to private banks, often hiding in vast volumes of transactional and behavioral data. Detecting it requires speed, precision, and scalable analysis.

By choosing this challenge, you aim to design an AI-driven system that flags potential fraud in real-time by analyzing patterns in user behavior and transaction data. Your solution should also consider how to present results through a user-friendly interface and improve over time via feedback and adaptive learning. 

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Enabling great ideas
to be accelerated

Winning teams will receive funding and support to ensure practical implementation. Within six months, you can achieve a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) or Proof of Concept (POC), showcasing the feasibility of your ideas.

You'll also have the opportunity to co-author articles and white papers with UZH professors, gaining access to cutting-edge research and enhancing your academic credentials.

 

This is your chance to establish yourself as an innovative young leader in risk management, gaining visibility and recognition in the industry. Shape the future of risk management and boost your professional profile. Join us and make a difference!

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EMOTIONS

Awards

1st Place 
Innobooster Accelerator
CHF 1600.- 
Exposure to Key Contacts
Certificate of Completion
2nd
Place
CHF 800.- 
Exposure to Key Contacts
Certificate of Completion

Award Committee

  • Bruno Meyer, Board Member, CEO & Chair of Executive Committee, Swiss Risk Association

  • Eva Selamlar, Head Swiss Financial Innovation Desk – FIND / Federal Department of Finance

  • Prof Dr Josef Teichmann, Professorship for Financial Mathematics, ETH Zurich  

  • Stephanie Wickihalder, Deputy Managing Director of the Liechtenstein Bankers Association, President of Swiss Fintech Innovations / SFTI 

  • Fabienne Wikler, Senior Manager Risk Consulting Financial Services, PwC Switzerland  

  • Daniel Zuberbühler, Member of the Board of Directors, Banca Popolare di Sondrio (Suisse)/ Former Vice Chairman FINMA

Two Days
 

Wednesday, 02.09.2025
Thursday, 03.09.2025
12:00 Welcome & Lunchbox
09:00 Start Second Day
13:00 Opening

Prof. Dr. Harald C. Gall
Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Informatics University of Zurich
15:00 Pitches
18:00 Apero Riche
19:00 Award Ceremony
13:30 Kickoff Challenges
from 20:00 Facultative
RiskON Afterparty
open end

Crack real challenges from top banks

Join solo or as a team — we’ll match you with a team if needed.

🎯 Real-world cases

🤝 Industry mentors

🏆 Prizes & career opportunities

Spots are limited – register now.

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