What does it take to bring a real-world AI application into production for a public sector client with strict compliance, complex stakeholder landscapes, and evolving requirements?

In this session, we’ll take you behind the scenes of delivering and operating a production-grade AI solution for a Swiss government department. From the first line of code to stable operations in Azure, you'll learn how we built and shipped a secure, maintainable, and scalable application using Terraform, Azure Landing Zones, and modern DevOps practices.

We’ll dive into:

- Architecting and deploying AI workloads on Azure with reproducibility and compliance in mind
- Handling data management, access control, and incident response in regulated environments
- Navigating stakeholder complexity through iterative workshops and rapid feedback loops
- Real-world failures, security incidents, and how we improved resilience and observability
- Lessons learned in managing environments, pipelines, and infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

This talk is ideal for cloud architects, developers, and IT pros who want to learn from practical experience delivering AI systems in high-trust environments.