ETH AI Club members & its wider community at the first ETH AI Club Demo Night (2026–05–13).
◢ Explore◢ Research◢ Innovate◢ Inspire// four pillars · one community
/ 01Mission · Four Pillars
We don’t just study AI. We ship it.
P.01Pillar
Explore.
Learning that ships.
Hands-on workshops
Study groups
Bootcamps
Peer teaching
P.02Pillar
Research.
Closer to the labs.
Lab visits
Talks & meet-ups
Paper clubs
Researcher meetups
P.03Pillar
Innovate.
From prototype to demo.
Hackathons
Build sprints
Demo nights
Hacker houses
P.04Pillar
Inspire.
Making ambition visible.
Member visibility
Alumni network
Public demos
Recognition
/ 02Who We Are
Founded at ETH — built by the people who ship.
▣Executive Board
01President
Thomas Bollenbach
Strategy, partnerships
02Vice President
Alessio Rimoldi
Operations, programming, member growth
◇Advisory Board
01Advisor
Arnout Devos
AI Lecturer at ETH Zurich
02Advisor
Andreas Krause
AI Professor at ETH Zurich
●Excellence — ETH-grade output, nothing less
●Ownership — members lead, don’t attend
●Collaboration — breakthroughs live across silos
/ 03Events & Formats
What we actually run.
EVT.01Monthly
Demo Night
Five-minute demos, no slides. Open-source over product.
Flagship↗
EVT.02Quarterly
Build Sprints
Peer-led hackathons with occasional researcher and industry mentorship.
Innovate↗
EVT.03Ongoing
Lab Lines
Match making and meet-ups with AI labs across ETH.
Research↗
EVT.04Retreats
Hacker Houses
Retreats where members go deep on a shared problem.
Community↗
From our events —
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ETH AI Club member Emmanuel Omont (ETH Zurich BSc Computer Science) demos the ETH AI Club affiliated project BaikeFitter.
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ETH AI Club member Flavio Rump (ETH Zurich Entrepreneur in Residence) demos the ETH AI Club affiliated project tap-to-tmux.
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The Anthropic-ETH AI Sprint, co-organized by ETH AI Club and ETH AI Center.
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ETH AI Club members Orestis Oikonomou (ETH Zurich PhD) & Levi Lingsch (ETH Zurich PhD) win 1st place with their ETH AI Club project Echolocation at the Anthropic-ETH AI Sprint.
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ETH AI Club member Michael Moor (ETH Zurich Professor) and team demo their ETH AI Club project AgentGUI at the Anthropic-ETH AI Sprint.
Supporters —· more to come
/ 04Affiliated Projects
Projects from the community.
Earlykayba.ai
Kayba
Trace analysis for recursive agent learning
Visit kayba.ai →↗
Early
tap-to-tmux
Phone push notifications with one-tap SSH deep links for tmux-based AI agents.
· more to come
