January, 2026 | Swiss Alps, Champery
As record snowfall blanketed Europe in January 2026, Team Teza convened in the Swiss Alps for five days of intensive collaboration.
Team members from across our global offices gathered near Geneva to align on strategy, advance research priorities, and build the technical and operational foundations for the year ahead.
Embedded in our philosophy is the freedom to explore: together, anything is possible
The setting was deliberate. There is something about the snow capped mountains that puts one in the right state for long-term planning.
The Week
Our days began with firm-wide sessions on planning methodology, organizational systems, and emerging technologies. AI researchers ran hands-on workshops exploring practical applications across our research infrastructure.
The days were intentionally split between shared context and focused, hands-on work.
Late mornings and afternoons were reserved for working sessions. Investment, technology, and operations teams broke into parallel tracks, tackling complex problems that require deep collaboration. Leadership ran one-on-one sessions throughout the week, creating space for mentorship and individual goal-setting.
Evenings continued the work. Dinner conversations ranged from behavioral economics to complex mathematical optimizations.
And sometimes the best ideas were born in the late night conversations by the fireplace.
The symbolism was intentional, but the experience was literal.
Summit Day
The week together included an ascent to see Mont Blanc - the highest peak in the Alps. Teams that spent the week planning together spent half day going up to the Aiguille du Midi.
Why We Do This
Teza operates across global markets with teams distributed across time zones. Most of our collaboration happens remotely, asynchronously, through systems we've built to make it effective. But there are certain kinds of alignment - strategic clarity, trust between teams, shared understanding of where we're going - that require being in the same room.
We gather for a reason - take the smartest people we can find, remove the distractions, and give them time to think together about hard problems.
The Alps in January gave us that. Five working days, one mountain, and the foundation for everything we'll create in 2026.
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