The 5th edition of the Industry Day was held on Wednesday March 8, 2023 at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne.
Program
12:00 Networking booths and light lunch
13:00 Welcome from the Dean of the EPFL School of Engineering Prof. Ali H. Sayed
- Prof. Giulia Tagliabue – Laboratory of Nanoscience and Energy Technologies
- Prof. Anirudh Raju Natarajan – Laboratory of Materials Design and Simulation
- Prof. Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus – Laboratory of Hybrid Photonics
- Prof. Tiffany Abitbol – Sustainable Materials Laboratory
- Start-up : Remco Van Erp, CEO of Corintis
- Industrial Collaboration : Dr. Damien Lachenal, Head of Meyer Burger Research & Prof. Christophe Ballif – PVLab
- Prof. Selman Sakar – MicroBioRobotic Systems Laboratory
- Prof. Hatice Altug – BIOnanophotonic Systems laboratory
- Start-up : Prof. Li Tang – Co-Founder of Leman Biotech
- Start-up : Dr. Jérôme Thevenot – CTO of Sensemodi
- Start-up : Dr. Nicolas Vachicouras – CEO of NeuroSoft Bioelectronics
- Prof. Vivek Subramanian – Laboratory for Advanced Fabrication Technologies
- Prof. Josie Hughes – Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab
- Start-up : Prof. Jamie Paik – Co-Founder of Miros
- Industrial Collaboration : Dr. Martin Völcker, Innovation Program of Carl Zeiss & Prof. Yves Bellouard – Galatea Lab
15:10 Break and Networking Booths
- Prof. Pierre Vandergheynst – Signal Processing Laboratory 2
- Prof. Volkan Cevher – Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems
- Prof. Maryam Kamgarpour – Systems Control and Multiagent Optimization Research
- Start-up : Dr. Hugo Flayac, CEO of ClearSky
- Industrial Collaboration : Dr. Matteo Feo, Associate R&D Specialist of Nespresso & prof. David Atienza – Embedded Systems Laboratory
- Industrial Collaboration : EPFLoop : Dr. Denis Tudor, CEO of SwissPod & Dr. Andreea Hossman Principal Product Manager for Data, Analytics & AI of SwissCom & Prof. Andreas Peter Burg – Telecommunications Circuits Lab
16:40 Innovation journey by EPFL Vice-President for Innovation Dr. Ursula Oesterle
- Energy crisis or energy (r)evolution?
- From Data to Watts: how Data Science can inform the Swiss energy transition
- Sustainable Computing
- AI in Engineering
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Quantum Materials
- What are the obstacles to sustainability in an organization?
- Quantifying-self for well-being and performance
- Preparing the workforce of the future
- Open Innovation with Academia
- IP, Agreements and Licensing with EPFL
17:40 Closing
17:50 Apero and booths
Exhibitors
Start-ups:
Centers & institutes:
- Neuro-X
- Imaging Center
- Micromanufacturing Science & Engineering Center
- Center for Intelligent Systems
- Quantum Science and Engineering Center
- Space Center
- Swiss Data Science Center
- Enterprise 4 Society
- Center for Energy
- EcoCloud
EPFL Internal Services
- Vice-Presidency for Innovation
- Technology Transfer Office
- Extension School
- Career Center
- EPFL Alumni
Institutional Partners:
Student association: