
Jeannine Pilloud
ETH Partnerships for
Innovation
jeannine.pilloud@sl.ethz.ch
We believe that future readiness is built on trust. Trust in digital technologies, in scientific excellence, and in the people who design, deploy, and govern these systems responsibly.
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ETH Partnerships for
Innovation
jeannine.pilloud@sl.ethz.ch

AVP Southern Europe &
Switzerland DigiCert
reto.scagnetti@digicert.com

Head of Industry
Liaison Office
hana.disch@sl.ethz.ch
Health: Trusting the body or data?
31 August 2026
Restaurant UniTurm, University of Zurich
17:00
Aperitif
Welcome
Jeannine Pilloud
Head of ETH Partnerships for Innovation
Reto Scagnetti
AVP Southern Europe & Switzerland, DigiCert
Hana Disch
Head Industry Liaison Office
17:45
Keynote
Can we design reliable AI agents for high-stakes domains?
Q & A
ETH Professor Michael Moor
18:45
Dinner
Keynote
Between Feeling and Knowing: When the Body and Data Disagree
Q&A
ETH Professor Catherine Jutzeler
22:00
Farewell and end of the event
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Map and address
University of Zurich, Restaurant UniTurm, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich
How to get there
The University of Zurich is best reached by public transport: Trams 6 or 10 from Zurich main station to ETH Universitätsspital, then 5 minutes on foot; alternatively, the Polybahn from Central, then 5 minutes on foot.

Medical AI Lab
ETH Zurich
michael.moor@bsse.ethz.ch
Amid the recent surge in the capabilities of AI systems - especially language agents, or simply agents - it is reasonable to ask: Can these agents truly be trusted in high-stakes domains such as healthcare? Against a backdrop of reports about agents deleting inboxes, lying, hallucinating, and failing in unexpected ways, how can we design agents and agentic systems that are trustworthy, capable, and aligned, while (semi)-autonomously performing complex tasks? How can we train language agents specifically for the medical domain? In this talk, we will review some of our latest work, along with recent literature on advancing the frontier of language agents toward safer and more reliable AI in medicine.

Biomedical Data Science Lab
ETH Zurich
catherine.jutzeler@hest.ethz.ch
"The body speaks in feelings, but it does not always speak in truth. Data speaks in truth, but it does not always speak in meaning. The danger is believing either one alone."
In modern health and medicine, we often assume the body will warn us when something is wrong. Yet both neuroscience and clinical practice show that this assumption is fragile. In pain research, individuals with spinal cord injury may lose all sensation in their legs yet still experience intense pain in limbs they cannot physically feel—revealing that pain is constructed by the nervous system, not simply read from the body. In sepsis, the opposite paradox appears: a life-threatening infection can progress rapidly while early symptoms feel deceptively mild or non-specific, only becoming obvious when the body is already critically compromised. This talk explores these contradictions between subjective experience and objective data, asking when we should trust what we feel, when we should trust what we measure, and how these two sources of knowledge can disagree in ways that fundamentally reshape our understanding of the human body.

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