Ein Abend auf dem Zürichsee

Two weeks ago at Lake Zurich, I was on a boat and gave a speech to 40 people about how to actually bring AI into a business.

A former student of mine invited me to speak, and Sonio AG hosted the whole evening on the lake.

There were three speeches: One from Sonio on where AI is heading, one from AMD about the hardware side, and mine.

My message was simple: stay curious, run small experiments, and worry less about the AI itself than about the process you want to improve. Do that, and you usually find a tool that fits.

But the best moment of the whole night came later, over dinner.

I had the pleasure of inviting a few friends along.

Damian Nomura, building his own AI tool.

Andreas Wüst, running an agentic AI company for accounting firms.

Michel Luarasi, scaling a platform for creatives to work together.

And Dennis Garrn, who builds with us at Gopf – Strategic Intelligence.

Most of them aren't coders. Yet with tools like Cursor and Copilot, they now ship things that once took a whole team.

So when one of the speeches explained what an AI agent "means," we had a quiet laugh. We live it every day, limitations and all.

We all agreed on one thing: the question is rarely whether an agent can do a task. It usually can.

The harder question is whether it's worth building once you factor in the setup, maintenance, and failures.

But aside from the AI talk, what you really remember after an evening like this is the people. There's nothing better than familiar faces and good conversations.

Thank you, Sonio AG, for the platform and for hosting such an amazing event.