On February 21st, 2019 the IMAGINE IF! Swiss Finals have been held at EPFL in the CO2 auditorium hosting more than 70 people coming from EPFL, start-ups and companies. After a brief Innovation Forum Lausanne introduction by the association President Claudia Bigoni, Marc Gruber, Vice President for Innovation at EPFL, warmed the audience with aaaa
On March 7th, at the Forum of Rolex Learning Center at EPFL, the finals of My Thesis in 180 Seconds (MT180) were held. On this occasion, 14 doctoral students of EPFL presented their project thesis in 3 minutes in front of a jury of expert and an audience of 600 people. Alvaro Charlet, a memberaaa
LakeDiamond, a Swiss start-up led by Pascal Gallo, is leading the way for lab-grown ultra-pure diamonds. Their synthetic diamonds have numerous potential technological applications, beyond jewellery. Their custom-developed Micro-Wave Chemical Vapor Deposition reactors grow the highest quality diamond on earth, mono-crystals up to the centimetre in scale. The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) spin-off is currently undergoingaaa
Congratulations to our Top10 IMAGINE IF! Finalists! Almost a month has passed since we closed the IMAGINE IF! applications. In Switzerland, we received many valuable projects that our expert mentors and judges have been scoring in the past weeks. However, only 10 made it to the finals. The winning teams, already announced last Wednesday duringaaa
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