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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Role Model:
Laura Kieser
Laura finished her Master of Science in Business Information Systems in 2018 with her Thesis about e-ID. She furthermore is a consultant at APP Unternehmensberatung AG… Read More
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Take Aways: Dos and Don’ts – Legal Considerations in AI Implementation
What are the new aspects to consider when introducing AI technology and what are the legal aspects that could jeopardize these actions?… Read More
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
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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
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Building the Metaverse & the Future of the Internet
Years before the buzz around the metaverse, Philip Rosedale experimented with the same ideas in the virtual world of “Second Life”. He shares his vision for a metaverse where data privacy is more important than advertising, and our online and offline lives intersect in a healthier way… Read More
Finding Inner Safety
When we work hard, sometimes we put our mental health on the backburner. Dr Dr Nerina Ramlakhan talks about how we can balance our goals with a peaceful lifestyle… Read More
Ideas & Empathy
This episode of Stanford’s podcast series “Think Fast, Talk Smart” explores how design and communication both start with the same ingredient: empathy.… Read More
How the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Will Change Cyberwar
Azeem Azhar speaks to Robert Hannigan, the former head of GCHQ (UK’s equivalent to the USA’s NSA), to find out how the current conflict is playing out in cyberspace and what might happen next… Read More
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