Nextcasts

We are excited to announce a special podcast series in collaboration with the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco titled Space, Science and Switzerland. Featuring expert interviews, the podcast explores Switzerland’s involvement in space research, challenges we face on Earth such as climate change, NASA’s recent Mission to Mars, and the role of international law and the UN in space.

The first episode features an interview with Maria Santos, Professor of Earth System Science at the University of Zurich (UZH), who discusses how space data and research is used to better understand challenges we face on Earth. Maria Santos has worked in California with both UC Berkeley and Stanford, and in Switzerland with UZH, and has collaborated with agencies such as NASA and ESA.

This episode is produced and hosted by Perrine Huber.

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Every year Swiss artists working in new media present their work at the New Frontier Exhibition at Sundance Film Festival in Utah USA – one of the world’s premier independent film festivals. This exhibition showcases narrative worlds that leverage new technologies, immersive designs, game theory, transmedia activism, and shifts in the boundaries of authorship. We spoke with Dance Trail’s lead artist: Gilles Jobin during the festival – hear our conversation recorded live from Park City in Utah.

Image: Still from Dance Trail by Gilles Jobin, Camilo De Martino, Tristan Siodlak, and Susana Panades Diaz. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

The current global pandemic is impacting every aspect of our lives. In a series of online events, our CEO Gioia Deucher is in conversation with two thought-leaders from the US and Switzerland to discuss the future, and our new normal. Hear from Ajay Chander, VP, Research (AI, Prosperity, Foresight) at Fujitsu Labs of America, and Thierry Duvanel, Director of Collaborative Innovation at Bühler Group in our latest episode of nextcasts which is produced from the live-event recording.

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Instant Space: a series of curtains designed by Zurich-based architects Nele Dechmann and Ortreport

In our final special episode of nextcasts recorded at CES earlier this year, our CEO Gioia Deucher interviews Michael Hengartner, the President of the University of Zurich. They discuss the importance of life-long learning and the role human connection plays in education, innovation, and progress.

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We interviewed the Swiss Ambassador to the USA Jacques Pitteloud at CES in Las Vegas. Hear his perspective on Switzerland’s role as a global innovation leader, and how a country the size of the City of New York is able to be one of the leading global hubs for biotech, food tech and pharmaceuticals. He also gives insight into Switzerland’s role as the number one R&D investor in the USA.

Our CEO Gioia Deucher is the special host guest of these episodes. Here’s her conversation on the Swiss Tech Stage with the Swiss Ambassador to the USA Jacques Pitteloud.

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swissnex kicked off the new decade with a full program of activities that commenced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. 30 Swiss startups presented their innovations at the Swiss Tech Pavilion presented by PRS, Switzerland Global Enterprise, digitalswitzerland and swissnex at the world’s leading global tech conference.

This is the second episode of our special nextcasts Series: Signals of the Future recorded LIVE during the conference.

Our CEO Gioia Deucher is the special host guest of these episodes. Here’s her conversation on the Swiss Tech Stage with Andreas Meyer CEO of SBB.

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swissnex San Francisco kicked off the new decade with a full program of activities that commenced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. 30 Swiss startups presented their innovations at the Swiss Tech Pavilion presented by PRS, Switzerland Global Enterprise, digitalswitzerland and swissnex SF at the world’s leading global tech conference.

In this special episode of nextcasts, our CEO, Gioia Deucher, interviews Martin Vetterli, EPFL President, and Joel Mesot, ETH President, LIVE on stage at the Swiss Tech Pavilion.

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50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy made a promise to the world to take on one of the biggest challenges of the time and boldly go where no one had gone before. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface, safely delivering Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first humans to land on the moon. The Swiss Solar Wind Composition Experiment, devised by the University of Bern and the Swiss National Science Foundation, was the only non-American experiment to be part of the Apollo landings.

To celebrate this anniversary we discussed the past, present and future of space exploration with Switzerland’s first astronaut Claude Nicolier, Muriel Richard-Noca from the CleanSpace One mission (and who worked at NASA for 12 years in the Mars Program and at Switzerland’s Space Center in Lausanne), Jill Tarter from SETI Research (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and Eugene Tu the Center Director of Nasa Ames Research Centre.

Have you ever thought about what it takes to build a house in our digital age? In this episode we chat to architect and ETH Professor Matthias Kohler, Arup Fellow and Global Director of Arup Foresight Chris Luebkeman, and swissnex San Francisco’s Emina Reissinger about how new technologies are shaping our built environment.

Mattias Kohler is one of the people behind the current exhibition in the swissnex Gallery, How to Build a House: Architectural Research in the Digital Age, curated by Hannes Mayer and Sarah Schneider of Gramazio Kohler Research. Chris Luebkeman is a longtime collaborator of swissnex. In 2016, Arup Foresight, the Deloitte Center for the Edge, and swissnex SF partnered to co-host a series of foresight workshops, titled AfterWork, on the future of work, with the goal to share insights and communities.

Will robots be the teachers of the future? In this episode we chat to Selim Benayat, CEO & Co-Founder of Rosie Reality, an augmented reality game that teaches kids the concept of coding. Benayat, a swisnex Startup Camp alumni, discusses the future of education and shares insight into his startup journey: from raising funds, to building a multi-disciplinary team, and working in Switzerland & San Francisco.