EPFL Industry Relations

Thank you Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, for highlighting the power of collaboration! EPFL is grateful for long-standing partners like Merck who share our vision of driving impactful innovation. Together with EPFL School of Life Sciences and the EPFL AI Center, we’re pushing boundaries in AI and healthcare, advancing Switzerland’s role on the global stage. Looking forward to many more years of meaningful partnership! #InnovationPartnership #EPFLCommunity #FutureOfScience #AI #Healthcare Zsuzsanna Püspöki, PhD Fiorella Ghisays, Ph.D. EPFL Innovation Park

🚀 We are excited to announce the launch of the #AMLDEPFL2025 event schedule and the opening of Early bird registration! 🚀 Purchase your ticket before December 11, 2024 and benefit from the early bird rates. https://lnkd.in/eEGGEamZ The program is exceptional - with an interactive exhibition space, 40 tracks and 17 workshops covering AI in healthcare, business, security, climate, science, energy and more - this is an event not to be missed!  Join us in shaping the future with AI. 🗓️ February 11-13, 2025 🇨🇭SwissTech Convention Center, EPFL, Lausanne 🌍 https://lnkd.in/gu5UD6Qz EPFL, EPFL AI Center, EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL Industry Relations, EPFL Innovation Park, EPFL School of Engineering, EPFL ENAC, EPFL Alumni, EPFL College of Management of Technology #AI, #machinelearning, #generativeai, #LLM, #startups, #techconference, #opensourceai

If you are at THE SPOT by ThinkSport today, come say hi to our colleagues Emilie Michel and Pascal Vuilliomenet on the Smart Move booth! They will be thrilled to discuss about Sport Innovation and how the academic network in Switzerland can support you! #Innovation #Sport #Industry #Academia #Collaboration EPFL, University of Lausanne - UNIL, HEIG-VD, CHUV | Lausanne university hospital, HESAV, University of Geneva, ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne, Haute école pédagogique du canton de Vaud (HEP Vaud)

🚀 If you are active in the Space industry and are in Milan this week, come say hi to our colleagues SXS- Space Exchange Switzerland at the Swiss Pavilion IAC 2024 🤝

We kicked off this week with the October #KNOVA sprint - we love hearing from forward-thinking professors, labs, and companies that are driving innovation within our ecosystem! DAY 1 – 🤝 We began the day with our "Meet Your Neighbor" session, featuring brilliant presentations by Csilla Miko, Head of Innovation and Laboratory at Comadur SA, along with her team, and by Eric Bouchardy, General Manager, as well as Guillaume DOY, Business Development Director at SIPCHEM InnoVent SA. 📚 We continued by discussing upskilling and reskilling with the EPFL Extension School team: Kate Davey, Commercial Lead, Rigas Hadzilacos, Head of EPFL Extension School, and Miglena Malaj, Business Development Manager. 🧩 Our members had the opportunity to visit the EPFL Additive Manufacturing Workshop AFA (3D printing) and learn more about its commercial potential, thanks to Manuel Leitos, Head of the Additive Manufacturing Workshop. 💡 We ended this dynamic day on a high note with an engaging Think Afterwork session, featuring Isabel Götz (高 怡 美), Head of Research, Scenarios, and Open Innovation at SBB CFF FFS. Isabel delivered an insightful talk, sharing both her professional expertise and academic knowledge in innovation, which sparked great discussions. DAY 2 – The sprint continued with the KNOVA #TechRoadshow, exploring Campus Biotech in Geneva! 🏫 We started with a presentation on Campus Biotech by Danielle Desravines, Operations Director, who introduced us to the innovative projects and opportunities at the campus. The morning continued with a fascinating session led by Niels Lion, Deputy at EPFL Neuro-X, who provided a deep dive into neuroscience innovations happening on the campus, followed by a tour of the laboratories. 🧬 Jon Mark Walls, Business Development Manager, welcomed us to the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, where he presented the Center and introduced us to two startups they are supporting. And we learned how FONGIT supports entrepreneurs, thanks to Enrico Bergamini, PhD, Startup Analyst. 🚀 We wrapped up this intense day with presentations from the University of Geneva by Romain Cartoni, Director of the Research and Grants Office, and Roberto Perez, Head of Business Development and Innovation at the Laboratory of Advanced Technology. Thank you to everyone who participated and the Switzerland Innovation Park West EPFL for co-organizing the TechRoadshow! Looking forward to explore more opportunities in November! 🙌 About KNOVA: The KNOVA platform supports companies in nurturing their innovation by leveraging EPFL's research ecosystem while providing the university's start-ups and researchers the opportunity to make a global impact with their technologies. Learn more at knova.epfl.ch Your KNOVA Team: Assuntina Desogus Pacella, Sandrine Maillard, Antoine Jourdan, Sania Kordic, Eleonora Borda, PhD, Sébastien Lavanchy, Pascale Van Landuyt, Zsuzsanna Püspöki, PhD, Emilie Michel, Giovanni Porcellana

We proudly congratulate Demis Hassabis, Doctor Honoris Causa of our School in 2023, for the very well deserved Nobel Prize in Chemistry received yesterday. For those interested in better understanding his topic and the reason for his recognition, watch his speech held last year on our campus, demonstrating how AI, if used well, can strongly accelerate scientific discovery. Kudos to Demis and his co-laureates John Jumper and David Baker!

🌍 Sustainability Collider: Confronting Challenges in Materials Innovation and Circularity for Industries 🌱   📅 Date: Monday, 25 November 2024 📍 Location: @ EPFL Forum Rolex 🕐 Time: 13:00 – 19:30   Join us for a vibrant forum organized by EPFL Vice Presidency for Innovation and Vice Presidency for Responsible Transformation as well as EPFL Innovation Park’s Tech4Regeneration startup accelerator. This event brings together EPFL’s research labs, startups, corporates and public institutions to tackle key sustainability challenges. 💡 Key topics include: • New materials and sustainable alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics and composites • Circularity of materials and components • Fabrication processes and for green supply chains   🔜 Plus, Tech4Regeneration and partners will introduce startups driving the regenerative economy and launch a new call for applications! 🍸 The event will conclude with a cocktail dinner for networking opportunities. Don’t miss out!   🔗 Provisional agenda and registration here: https://lnkd.in/e7_inQpY    EPFL Transformation Responsable EPFL Industry Relations EPFL Startup Pauline Pichard Bertrand Klaiber Emmanuelle Marendaz Colle Dimitris Noukakis Ursula Oesterle Gisou van der Goot Veronique Michaud Tiffany Abitbol

🙌 A big thank you to the Greater Geneva Bern area (GGBa) for such an inspiring day! It was a wonderful opportunity for some of our KNOVA members and companies located at EPFL Innovation Park to showcase their innovation successes. And many thanks to our colleague Giovanni Porcellana from Switzerland Innovation Park West EPFL for putting together this amazing agenda for the Club de Paris des Directeurs de l'Innovation ! #Innovation #EPFL #Industry #Collaborations #Switzerland #Swisstech

🚨 Exciting news for AI in Switzerland 🚨 EPFL and ETH Zürich are joining forces to boost AI in Switzerland with the launch of the Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI). By leveraging a broad scientific expertise, SNAI will accelerate the development of a responsable AI based on Swiss values: trustworthy, open and transparent. This milestone strengthens Swiss leadership in AI and fosters a collaborative ecosystem in favor of Swiss industry and society at large 🤝 👉 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eFRKWerU #AI #Innovation #Switzerland #ETHZurich #EPFL ETH AI Center

Last week marked the return of our #KNOVA sprints after the summer break. This #KNOVA Sprint was filled with enriching events and great opportunities for networking again! DAY 1 - We kicked off this sprint with the KNOVA #TechRoadshow exploring the HEIG-VD in Yverdon and the Biopôle Lausanne, it’s been a full day of learning! 🏫 We started with a presentation about the HEIG-VD by Martha Liley, Director of the R&D Center and Dario Capraro, R&D mission Manager, showcasing the innovative projects and opportunities at the campus. The morning continued with lab visits discovering their Automation and robotics laboratory, Geomatics Laboratory and Energy Institute Laboratory. 🔬 In the afternoon, we discovered the Biopôle Lausanne with Olivier Philippe, Director of Business Development & Relations, who gave us an in-depth presentation of the Biopôle community and took us on a tour of some of the startups located at the Biopôle Lausanne: StartLab Vanarix: Vannary Tieng, PhD, MBA, CEO, Laura Bengtsson del Barrio, clinical trial manager and Yassir D. R&D Engineer, PeriVision: Pablo Gonzalez Ruiz, Chief of Staff and Superlab: Marylou Favre, Lab manager Superlab suisse DAY 2 - Members had a private visit of the EPFL Swiss Cat+ Lab, exploring the incredible possibilities available at #EPFL, thanks to Pascal Miéville, Executive Director Swiss CAT+💡 📈 We then discussed and explored “How to find new growth opportunies?” with Marc Gruber, former VP for Innovation and EPFL Professor with his “Where to play” session. 🤝 We concluded the day with our session “Meet your neighbor” with insightful presentations from Na-Tanja Rebsamen, Senior Project Manager Global Innovation at Sika and Philippe Saltarski, Product Development and QA Director at Bvlgari. Thank you to everyone who participated and made this sprint a success and the Switzerland Innovation Park West EPFL for co-organizing the TechRoadshow! Looking forward to explore more opportunities in October! 🙌 About KNOVA: The KNOVA platform supports companies in nurturing their innovation by leveraging EPFL's research ecosystem while providing the university's start-ups and researchers the opportunity to make a global impact with their technologies. Learn more at knova.epfl.ch Your KNOVA Team: Assuntina Desogus Pacella, Sandrine Maillard, Antoine Jourdan, Sania Kordic, Eleonora Borda, PhD, Matteo Gasbarri, PhD, Sébastien Lavanchy, Pascale Van Landuyt, Zsuzsanna Püspöki, PhD, Emilie Michel, Giovanni Porcellana