SIRA is a non-profit association representing the professors and lecturers of the Informatics Departments of the Swiss universities, federal institutes of technology and universities of applied sciences. The goals of SIRA are to foster national and international collaboration within the ICT research community and to promote the visibility and recognition of research and higher education in ICT and its related fields performed in Switzerland.
SIRA achieves these goals by working to influence policy that impacts ICT research, coordinate ICT related efforts in research and higher education both within Switzerland and with organizations abroad, and cultivating communication with industry, government, the media, and the general public.
The SIRA members are those professors and lecturers of the Informatics Departments of the Swiss universities, ETHs and universities of applied sciences who have been registered with SIRA by their respective departments.
SIRA is an independent association which is affiliated with SI. All SIRA members are also SI members.
The 2025 Annual SIRA Conference, in conjunction with our next SIRA Brown Bag talk, will be held on Friday November 21, 2025.
Program:
13:15–14:15 CET SIRA Brown Bag Talk by
Martin Jaggi (EPFL) on
“Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments”
14:15-16:15 CET SIRA Conference
Venue:
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Please find a pdf with the details of Martin Jaggi’s talk in the flier at the bottom of this page.
The formal invitation to the SIRA Conference has been sent by e-mail to all SIRA representatives on October 21. SIRA members who are neither a SIRA representative nor an official substitute for a SIRA representative are invited to attend, but have no vote.
The 2024 SIRA Annual Conference has elected the SIRA President and Board as follows:
Martin Glinz (UZH), president
Christian Tschudin (UniBas), treasurer
Matthias Grossglauser (EPFL)
Matthias Hauswirth (USI), vice-president
Here is a database of all SIRA members.
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