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Welcome to our blog where we share valuable know-how from events, insights from role models and much more!
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Welcome to our blog where we share valuable know-how from events, insights from role models and much more!
The Role Models
Role Model:
Sandra Tobler
This month we sat together with Sandra Tobler, Co-Founder and CEO at Futurae, a cybersecurity startup from Zurich.… Read More
Role Model:
Philomena Schwab
Philomena Schwab is a Swiss game designer and co-founder of the game studio “Stray Fawn”. In 2016 she not only scored a success with the genetics survival game “Niche” and won several awards with, but was also voted “30 under 30” in the category technology by the business magazine Forbes… Read More
Role Model:
Sara Wick
Sara enjoys building bridges between technology and business. In her work at turicode she gets to learn a lot about different business sectors and its specific challenges… Read More
Role Model:
Sunnie J. Groeneveld
Sunnie build up the service companies Inspire 925 and Inspire 529 as well as the SaaS startup LunchLottery. She talks about tough moments as an entrepreneur and other experiences as a successful woman in tech… Read More
Role Model:
Chanel Greco
Originally hooked to tech by a game of Indiana Jones, Chanel officially joined the Master21 team in January 2019 as the Lead Teacher for all coding courses and events… Read More
Role Model:
Besiana Bandilli
Besiana has been working in the Swiss tech and media industry for almost 10 years now, currently supporting the HIT Foundation with its UX & Business Development… Read More
Role Model:
Paloma Bosco
Paloma Bosco is the COO at i-surance AG. She previously held leadership positions at Ebay and Bain & Company, and has been a We Shape Tech board member… Read More
Role Model:
Dr. Gundula Heinatz Bürki
Dr. Gundula Heinatz Bürki is Managing Director of the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services, a Swiss-wide network of competences for innovative companies and universities. In her role, she enables the collaboration between industry and universities to develop new data-driven business models, products and services… Read More
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Knowledge
Know-ledge
Take Aways: The YOU Brand
When it comes to shaping your professional future, there’s only one guaranteed weapon: your personal brand… Read More
Take Aways: The Decisive Decade
There is no doubt: The climate crisis is not a far distant danger for the planet. It is affecting all of us already today. That’s why we need a new form of innovation
… Read More
Take Aways: How TikTok Can Help Businesses Thrive
Antoinette Mussig from TikTok taught us new hacks to grow an audience, get more reach or more revenue on TikTok and which advertising magic the platform offers to businesses… Read More
Take Aways: The Innovation Theatre Killed My Company: Lessons from Ernit
How to recognize warning signals that your project won’t fly? Søren Nielsen shared his learnings on how to survive “the innovation theater”.… Read More
Take Aways: The Trap of Gendered Design and How to Overcome It
There are 4 traps that are easy to get caught in at any stage of your product development process. They can result in design fails that in some cases even can be fatal. However, we can overcome these traps by using the principles of User Centered Design and having the right focus.… Read More
Take Aways: Setting up an Agile Hub at a Pharmaceutical Company
In our Lunch & Learn session of 24 March, Anna Heid from McKinsey & Company explained how she went about setting up an agile hub. Read the take aways… Read More
Four Tips for Launching a Start-Up
Learn from the founders of Kito, a Innosuisse-supported project, the four most important tips for a successful launch of a start-up… Read More
Take Aways: How to Automate Workflows and Build Your Own Platform
In our Lunch & Learn “How to Automate Workflows and Build Your Own Platform” Esther gave some non-technical insights… Read More
Opinions
News
Monika Blaser kommt zu WST Bern
Monika Blaser wird sich zukünftig als Vorstandsmitglied von We Shape Tech Bern für das Netzwerk engagieren… Read More
From Our Events
The Future Gets Going
Dieses Jahr hatten wir von We Shape Tech das Vergnügen gleich bei zwei Unternehmen den Zukunftstag mitzugestalten – nämlich bei Namics und bei Google… Read More
WE SHAPE TECH
Christmas Dinner
WE SHAPE TECH set up a cool X-mas event at a hip place in Zurich, in the midst of the trendy neighbourhood of Escher Wyss Platz… Read More
Recruiting, Retaining and Leading Diverse Teams
The fourth We Shape Tech event in Zurich was dedicated to recruit, retain and lead diverse teams… Read More
Inauguration Event Bern
Der 15. September war ein spannender Tag für WE SHAPE TECH. Wir freuen uns über das zweite Chapter in Bern, dass von Miriam Gantert, Sombra Gonzàles und Brigitte Hulliger geleitet wird… Read More
We Shape Tech is Working on the Future
The board is busy funnelling the positive energy from received feedback in order to shape a good positioning for our network in the future… Read More
The Third We Shape Tech Event – A “YES” Evening
The inauguration event in March assembled more than 100 women from all IT areas. Several interactive workshops were held to develop the manifesto of We Shape Tech… Read More
Inspiration
Inspire
Tips, Tricks & Hacks
Data-Powered Diversity
Stephanie talks about her experiences as a black woman in tech, the importance of expanding our social graphs to solve diversity challenges, and why she has largely abandoned the pursuit of traditional venture capital… Read More
How AI Helps Shatter Barriers to Equality
Artificial intelligence could help people who might otherwise be left behind to create human connection. Find out how… Read More
Joyful Learning (Podcast)
Melanie Kovacs recently launched her podcast series on “Joyful Learning”. In this episode she chats with Janine, Board Member of We Shape Tech, about learning in a community… Read More
Get Inspired by These Books & Podcasts
What crazy times we are currently living in! While digitalization seems to get a boost like never before (yay!), we also spend all our time at home (for those who can) where it sometimes might seem difficult to get new inspiration.… Read More
20 Women in AI You Should Know
Recommended read by our community member Stoilka Krasteva – and yes, you should know these ai-mazing women!… Read More
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Books we Recommend
Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level
What If?
Automation and the Future of Work
