2025
Transforming Uncertainty into Opportunity
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.
Academic Partners
Master of Science UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance
Participating Universities:
EPFL Lausanne
ETH Zurich
Université de Genève
Université de Lausanne
Università della Svizzera italiana
University of Basel
University of Liechtenstein
University of St. Gallen
Ambassador Sponsors
Lead Sponsors
Team Sponsors
Strategic Partners
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
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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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
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Bruno Meyer, Board Member, CEO & Chair of Executive Committee, Swiss Risk Association
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Eva Selamlar, Head Swiss Financial Innovation Desk – FIND / Federal Department of Finance
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Prof Dr Josef Teichmann, Professorship for Financial Mathematics, ETH Zurich
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Stephanie Wickihalder, Deputy Managing Director of the Liechtenstein Bankers Association, President of Swiss Fintech Innovations / SFTI
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Fabienne Wikler, Senior Manager Risk Consulting Financial Services, PwC Switzerland
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Daniel Zuberbühler, Member of the Board of Directors, Banca Popolare di Sondrio (Suisse)/ Former Vice Chairman FINMA
