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Innovation requires sovereignty: how KPT is implementing digital transformation

Sovereignty in healthcare // Implementing digital innovation in healthcare means constantly balancing progress, responsibility, and trust. For KPT, being responsible and independent and focusing on customer value is essential for digital innovation. Digital sovereignty provides the basis for implementing innovations strategically and consciously managing dependencies. In the long term, it ensures the ability to act.

Thomas Harnischberg, Maurizio Gitto - Oct 19, 2026

24 banks, one platform: The ESPRIT Network puts its trust in ti&m Banking

ti&m Banking for the ESPRIT Network // After the latest wave of migrations at the end of May, 24 ESPRIT Networkaffiliated banks are now using ti&m’s mobile and online banking services. We spoke with Bernhard Fässler, CEO of ESPRIT Netzwerk AG, and Stephan Bärtschi, CEO of Spar- und Leihkasse Frutigen AG, about the project and the new opportunities ti&m Banking has opened up.

Bernhard Fässler, Stephan Bärtschi - Oct 14, 2026

“Digital infrastructures are the foundation for a successful Switzerland”

Digital infrastructures // asut, the Swiss Telecommunications Association, serves as a bridge between technology, politics, and society. In an interview with us, Managing Director Christian Grasser explains why digital infrastructures cannot be taken for granted and why sovereignty is about striking the right balance.

Christian Grasser - Oct 5, 2026

Digital sovereignty begins with transparency

ti&m Digital Sovereignty Check // Many organizations know they have built up technological dependencies. However, they often don’t know how critical these dependencies are, where regulatory risks lie, what long-term costs they may create, or what alternatives exist. That’s exactly where our Digital Sovereignty Check comes in: It creates transparency, assesses risks, and identifies where greater sovereignty makes economic sense.

Pascal Wild - Sep 29, 2026

“Replacements are always costly – that’s not an argument against open source”

Open-source alternatives // How dependent is Switzerland on global tech giants? A discussion on dependencies, and concrete alternatives with Pascal Stöckli, Project Lead for Digital Sovereignty and co-initiator of the “SDS Network – Sovereign Digital Switzerland” at the Institute for Public Sector Transformation at Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH).

Pascal Stöckli - Sep 21, 2026

On-premises AI: more control, but at a cost

Open AI models have caught up with commercial models. This is prompting many companies to ask whether they could run AI in-house. It would allow them to use their own data—and they would no longer be dependent on U.S. or Chinese providers. But what hardware, technical expertise, and budget are required for on-premises hosting?

Simon Bächler - Sep 21, 2026

The FOITT’s approach to strengthening digital sovereignty – the realistic way

Sovereignty in the Swiss federal administration // The Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT) is driving the digital transformation in Switzerland. This also means considering the question of digital sovereignty. But how can such a small country realistically strengthen its digital sovereignty? Here we outline the FOITT’s pragmatic approach.

Dirk Lindemann - Sep 10, 2026

“With Apertus, we offer a high-performance alternative to U.S. and Chinese providers”

Transparent LLMs // Open-source models are catching up. But can they truly rival commercial providers like OpenAI and Google while offering full transparency? Martin Jaggi of EPFL wants to prove this with Apertus.

Martin Jaggi - Sep 7, 2026

How sovereign is the cloud really, AWS and Microsoft?

Hyperscaler // The cloud, and consequently hyperscalers, are key factors in determining digital sovereignty. We talked to AWS and Microsoft about control, the Cloud Act, exit strategies, and just how sovereign global cloud platforms can be.

Marc Holitscher, Christoph Schnidrig - Sep 1, 2026

Cognitive debt: when AI writes faster than we can understand

AI now generates code in minutes, but understanding takes as long as it ever did. In exactly this gap, a silent debt is growing: cognitive debt. Drawing on hands-on experience, this article shows how teams can contain this risk in their day-to-day work through dialogue and clear responsibility instead of blind trust.

Benjamin Bachmann - Jul 24, 2026

How companies can reduce dependencies while remaining economically viable

For companies and public administrations, digital sovereignty is increasingly becoming a strategic and economic issue: How can technological dependencies be reduced, risks controlled, and innovation and efficiency maintained at the same time? One thing is clear: the goal is not maximum independence, but the ability to make deliberate and economically sound decisions.

Thomas Wüst - Jul 3, 2026

AI-and-Open-Source, Special

“If you opt for on-prem technology, you assume full responsibility for security”

Guardrails, prompt injection, and the AI Banking Assistant: Joel Akeret, Machine Learning Architect at ti&m, talks about the risks of AI in banking and why relying on a single security filter is not as safe as it may seem.

Joel Akeret - Jun 15, 2026

Special, AI-and-Open-Source

AI in software development – between euphoria and reality

Code meets AI // Generative AI has taken the software industry by storm. New models with record benchmarks appear every day, and promises of efficiency dominate the debate. While the technology is undoubtedly transformative, though, in the enterprise environment there is often a wide gap between expectations and reality. We take a critical look at three key misconceptions – and what companies really need to know.

Dieter Abplanalp, David Gillet - Mar 31, 2026

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