Leadership

Dalith Steiger-Gablinger

Independent Board Member & Strategic Advisor | Co-Founder & Managing Partner, SwissCognitive

Biography

Dalith Steiger-Gablinger is an internationally recognised AI expert, independent board member, and strategic advisor. She is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SwissCognitive, an AI Advisory and AI Venture company she co-founded together with Andy Fitze in 2016.

She advises boards and executive teams on how AI is reshaping value creation, business models, decision-making, governance, and leadership. Her work focuses on a central question for today’s boards: how to turn rapidly evolving AI capabilities into sustainable competitive advantage while maintaining human judgment, accountability, and trust.

Dalith studied mathematics and business informatics at the University of Zurich. She is an Associate of the AI Stream at Creative Destruction Lab at HEC Paris, a guest lecturer at several universities and an international keynote speaker. Her work and leadership have received international recognition. She was named among the 100 Digital Shapers Switzerland 2026, the Top 100 Women in AI and the Top 100 Women in Business in 2026. In 2025, she received the EuroKnowledge Global AI Innovation & Digital Transformation Leadership Award at the House of Lords in London.

Talk

Fault Lines and Front Lines - Board leadership in an age of disruption

Geopolitics draws the fault lines, Boards stand on the front lines with specific as well as common challenges. Take a cyber incident: For a listed company it raises a disclosure question, for a state-owned group a public one, for a regulated bank a supervisory matter, and for a health insurer a question of trust. Same event, four boardrooms, four specific challenges but also many common aspects to address such as customer impact. Resilience involves recognising the factors that characterise a specific crisis for a given company.