Day Zero of the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva and within one hour I went from a neuroscientist explaining why robots need bodies to feel socially real, to a roboticist showing self-healing machines and a chart on compute doubling every six months.

I only made it down from Zurich for the one day, but that was enough.

Both talks were genuinely great. My problem wasn't the content, it was me trying to figure out where any of it lands for the work I actually do day to day as an AI consultant in Switzerland.

That's the whole shape of Day Zero, and honestly, of where we are as a society right now: an ITU summit, the UN's tech agency, co-convened with the Swiss government, every angle covered, robotics, governance, frontier neuroscience research that won't touch a business for years. So much information available to anyone who wants it. The real question isn't access anymore. It's: which part of all this is actually FOR ME? 🫨

I walked every stand, sat through three conferences and recognized the same feeling I see in my own AI adoption trainings, week one, when a team is handed five tools and told "one of these will help." Too much, not yet sorted by relevance.

This is exactly why I go to events like this. Not to collect impressions, to filter them, on behalf of the people I work with.

My work isn't just AI tool evaluation, helping a company or an individual professional pick the right software. It's also helping them figure out which AI solution is worth building in the first place, whether that's for their company or their own professional practice, with a real look at the ethics and data safety questions involved, not as an afterthought.

Also had a great conversation with a training company founder from London, and ran into an old colleague, Steven, who's just launched his own AI company. It's great to see entrepreneurs with strong backgrounds finding their place in the AI world and putting their know-how to use.

If you've felt that "so much out there, which part applies to me" feeling lately, that's the exact gap I work in with my AI training and consulting practice.

PS: one day, three conferences, a full expo and 4 hours back to Zurich. A great day of learning and I bring it all back for my clients 🦾