Are you a PhD student or Postdoc interested in Innovation, Business and Networking? Do you want to meet new people, expand your professional network and obtain useful skills?  Then we are looking for someone like you! The Innovation Forum is an international grassroots network of scientific entrepreneurs aiming to build a global innovation community toaaa

How can technology and innovation cooperate to bring a greener future?  This was the main topic addressed by the Innovation Forum Lausanne Annual Conference that attracted more than 350 participants, between professors, scientists and students, sharing the same question and curiosity. The conference, held on October 16th 2019, focused on Materials for Sustainability: materials scienceaaa

This year edition of Pint of Science, the unique festival that brings free science in local pubs all over the world, involved Switzerland for the first time and Innovation Forum Lausanne joined its team for one night! Last week, researchers from the area pitched their research topics in front of people from Lausanne and surroundingsaaa

Swoxid is a Swiss pre-launch start-up led by Endre Horváth, developing filters to sterilize water. Their innovative material based on titanium oxide is activated using sunlight, and requires no electrical power. The filters can be used in remote places, and require little maintenance. The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) spin-off is aiming to haveaaa

  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

Innovator of the Month Interview by Adele Fanelli and Caterina Bigoni   The Swiss start-up Picterra, based in Lausanne recently released the beta version of their software for Earth observation. This AI based tool not only makes it easier to analyse drone or satellite images, it is also a platform for peer cooperation, moving theaaa

Innovator of the Month Interview by Veronica Bianchi and Beatrice Volpe   GDPR put the spot light on data protection, which has become an increasingly important issue for both individuals and corporations. The Swiss company Pryv SA offers a data management solution designed to help companies comply with regulatory requirements. Recent events over privacy andaaa

Innovator of the Month Interview by Eleonora Borda and Ece Yıldız   Swiss Motion Technologies (formerly Nextep) is a Swiss start-up based in Lausanne, which develops innovative mobility solutions for amputees. Their tailored liners combine revolutionary manufacturing techniques including scanning the residual limb and implementing digital manufacturing methods to reduce cost and enhance comfort. Moreover,aaa

—Written By Atilla Vrasdonk — This year Innovation Forum Lausanne’s Annual Conference is devoted to inspiring the next generation of scientist-entrepeneurs with the latest advances in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). On April 3rd, IFL will co-host the Virtual Reality conference together with Virtual Switzerland, the newly established national network about immersive technologiesaaa

***** Download the Planify App with the program *****      Click here https://planify.io/download/ and enter the program code: “PersonalisedHealthcare”   What is personalised healthcare? And why does the world need it? How do we improve treatments and diagnostics with personalised approaches? Is there such a thing as “knowing too much” about yourself?   As Siraaa