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Prof Dr Henry Markram

Blue Brain Founder and Director

Prof. Dr. Henry Markram is the Director of the Human Brain Project ( previously Blue Brain Project), which he founded in 2005. He began his research career in South Africa in the early 1980s, later moving to Israel and then to the EPFL, where he founded the Brain Mind Institute in 2002. 

Since the start of his career, he has focused on neural microcircuitry, applying a broad range of anatomical, physiological, biophysical and molecular techniques, and pioneering the multi-neuron patch-clamp approach. His best-known discoveries are the principles of Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP), Redistribution of Synaptic Efficacy (RSE), and Long-Term Microcircuit Plasticity (LTMP). He has worked with theoreticians to develop the concept of "liquid computing", a novel technique for handling real time continuous input to recurrent neural networks. He has also been active in autism research, a field in which he has co-developed the "Intense World Theory of Autism”. He is currently working on the design of the Human Brain Project – the successor to the Blue Brain Project.

Stephan Handschin

Founder, Unic AG

Stephan Handschin founded UNIC AG in 1996. In the last 20 years he has accompanied Unic on an operative and strategic level, having a distinctive impact. Unic today is a top provider in Switzerland and Germany when it comes to digital experiences and first-class business solutions. 

In the last few years, he held various leading operative roles and advanced the company on a strategic level. Among his initiatives are the internationalization to Germany and the creation of a nearshore development center in Wroclaw, Poland. As a board member of PIT Solutions he is tasked with developing the strategic cooperation between Unic and PIT Solutions. In 2017, he lead Unic into a new organizational form and currently holds different roles in the area of finance, legal, account management and sales. Additionally, he is responsible for the project business of Unic Switzerland.

Dr. Beat D. Wyser

Online Marketing Expert, Netcast AG

Beat D. Wyser is an online marketing expert who specializes in Search Engine Optimization , social media and marketing trends . After completing his studies at the University of St. Gallen , he worked as an e- business consultant for different companies in his work and got to know many new technologies.

In 1998, he started his own consulting company through which he was responsible in the last few years, for different online projects of Swiss Post, like www.swisspost.ch/counter. At the moment, he works with a new foresight company, which offers innovation tools, methodologies and know-how for strategic foresight projects. Beat D. Wyser is the author of several e-business books, the newest one being on Search Engine Marketing & optimization (SEO). He is a visiting lecturer at some Swiss universities of applied science and also a logistics consultant for GS1, The Swiss Logistic Association.

Dieter von Ziegler

President, Azinova Group AG

Dieter von Ziegler is CEO of Azinova group of companies based in Switzerland. He was involved in the business of PIT Solutions for more than 10 years. He played a very active role in PIT Solutions business during the initial years as an investor and mentor.

Dieter holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, USA, and is a graduate in Economics from the University of St. Gall, Switzerland. He is a serial entrepreneur who has various companies in the field of textiles, real estate,restaurant, hotel and tourism. Before starting this venture, he has been working for the Cargill Group, a multinational provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services.

Dr. Harald R. Raetzsch

Founder & CEO, IoT40 Systems AG

Dr. Raetzsch is CEO at IoT40 Systems AG, an exciting venture offering Internet of Things Solutions. He has managed research and development divisions of large corporations and grew startups to significant size by inventing and building high tech product portfolios, specializing on mission critical cloud applications. 

ln his last position, he was the CTO & CIO SKIDATA AG, which is one of the worldwide leading providers of access solutions with specific focus on Ski ticketing and Parking solutions. He is currently the Technology & Business Strategy advisor for several European high tech companies and is a lector at Universities. He is a member of Microsoft’s ISV Partner Advisory Council and IBM’s Center of CIO Leadership since 2012. He has been an affiliate of the Stern School of Business, University of New York. Dr. Raetzsch has founded TTAGroup, a cross-industry community for technical and market development of safety-related architectures used for drive- and fly-by-wire. He is a founding member, was elected Vice Chairman and is now a fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition. He also have experience in building software factories and establishment of distributed software development projects (in Europe, India and the US) to successfully deal with challenging quality, time and social constraints.

Prof. Dr. Uwe Serdült

Professor at Ritsumeikan University, Japan

As of 1 April 2017 Uwe Serdült is working as a full professor at Ritsumeikan University, Japan, in the College of Information Science and Engineering while keeping some projects as a principle investigator at the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA), University of Zurich, Switzerland. In this dual position he teaches and conducts interdisciplinary research in several domains of e-society. Within digital democracy he is especially interested in internet based platforms and tools for citizens (e-participation) as well as public administrations (e-government) in order to enhance transparency and deliberation in an information society.

Dr. Tom Hinzdorf

VP Europe, MPB GmbH

Tom started his career in digital business at eBay/Paypal in 2005. During his almost 10-year journey with the American group, he was responsible for the entire Home & Garden business for eBay from London for 3 years. During this period, he led the European service strategy for eBay and developed and scaled Europe's largest new car portal for mobile.de with his team.

He then built the marketplace for Europe's largest furniture e-tailer home24 before turning his attention to completely new digital business models. This started in 2015 in Switzerland with siroop.ch, where as employee #2 he helped build Switzerland's largest marketplace in a short time. After integrating into the Coop Group, Tom founded two more startups, one of which involved the successful development of a digital business model for one of Europe's largest event agencies.

His expertise focuses on: Developing digital business models to disrupt industries, deriving and coordinating innovation and growth initiatives, pricing, customer centricity, marketplaces, and building a customer-centric and innovation-driven organization. Tom recently joined our team with his expertise and is driving internationalization with a focus on Germany.

Tom did his Masters in Marketing & Retail from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and later completed his Doctorate in Pricing from Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.