No, exponential technologies, like AI or blockchain, are not going to disrupt the toilet paper business. At least, not as fast and deeply as they will with strategic industries of our economy, like healthcare or energy, or education. Certain things will evolve more rapidly than others. It’s life. If you...

Former politician and ambassador, Raymond Loretan is the President of the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), the foundation that best represents and promotes globally one of the finest arts of Switzerland, watchmaking. “We are a platform, at the services of the entire global network of watchmaking, end to end,...

What is knowledge? Why should we bother with this as we build the next generation of artificial intelligence models to replace and outperform humans in all intellectual tasks and decisions? This is a fundamental question, and it’s a case of always having the right people (read, humans) in the room...

Let’s look at the other side of the banking world. What’s a crypto bank? Is there such a thing? How do they work, compared to traditional banking institutions? Amina Bank, formerly known as Seba and with offices across the globe, wants to be the bank of choice for crypto innovators...

One of the most important changes of the past thirty years is the advent of a digital and globalized economy. Thanks to that, we could finally write and read content generated by random users from all over the planet, on top of the official channels and traditional media. Information was...

One of the most critical industries of our society, as a whole, is energy. We need it desperately, and always at the lowest cost. Most often than not, we get it from the farthest locations, where natural elements and resources are abundant, thanks to heavy industrial equipment and complex deals...

Given the relevance of the intersection between health and tech, we decided to speak to Enrico Perfler, Founder at 1 MED, a company born in 2014 and based in Switzerland. Perfler is a serial entrepreneur and a former university professor, who decided to create a different Contract Research Organization (CRO),...

Pooling, cleaning and making sense of data will make us healthier and will give us longevity. Above all, exponential technologies will broaden access to healthcare, progressively including the entire world population, thanks to new capabilities and dramatically lower costs. The advantages of tech need to be assessed from the margin...

The idea of a digital twin (or, passport,) fits very well with scarcity. As humans, we have always admired the fine craft of a maestro, like a watchmaker, a jeweler and a leather artisan, let alone the creative hand of a couturier. And, yet, gray and counterfeit products infest our...

Twinning supply: Virginie Maillard works for Siemens, one of the largest industrial companies on the planet, where she leads the global research for the Simulation and Digital Twin Technology, from her office in New Jersey (US,) while carrying also the responsibility for research in key markets, like Germany, India and...