UPcoming PAntalks
January 21th, 18:30-21:00
At the Community Salon, Impact Hub Zurich
Pantalks Speaker:
Freelance Developer Evangelist focusing on media performance. Google Developer Expert & O'Reilly author
Topic (tech):
Building an ARt Gallery in the Browser
AR and VR in the Browser
The world of virtual reality allows us to build new 3D interactive spaces that we can fill with anything we want - like the art of the great Renaissance masters. More into Cubism? With a quick click - now the gallery is full of a completely different genre. With new AR features, we can actually build the gallery in our own space - and just as easily swap out the art - all in our browser! In this talk, we’ll walk through the steps to build a virtual ARt gallery, with web technology available today, but also take a peek at the new WebXR technology that is coming to our browsers soon!
Doug is a freelance mobile performance expert, studying the intersection of media and web performance. A Google Developer Expert and the author of O’Reilly’s “High Performance Android Apps,” Doug regularly speaks at conferences, and blogs at dougsillars.com. He is currently working as a freelance digital nomad, traveling with his family in Europe.
February 18th, 18:30-21:00
At the Community Salon, Impact Hub Zurich
Topic (non-tech):
The potential of Sustainable Finance to make the world a better placeThe global financial system is a powerful force for our planet – it has huge potential to steer money into sustainable activities and make economies more climate-friendly.
Tillmann Lang, CEO and co-founder of Yova Impact Investing, talks about the potential of sustainable finance and shows how even small investors without any financial knowledge can be part of the world’s shift to sustainable finance.
Dr. Tillmann Lang is the CEO and a co-founder of Yova AG (www.yova.ch), a digital wealth manager offering impact investing solutions to mainstream investors and consumers. Before founding Yova AG, Tillmann was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company where he consulted leading global organizations on innovation, product development and corporate strategy. Tillmann served as CFO to Benefiit Impact Investing in Zurich and Singapore. Moreover, Tillmann founded the Sustainability-in-Business Lab at ETH Zurich. Tillmann is an economist, mathematician and computer scientist. He holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and a Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) from Universitaet Heidelberg.
March 17th, 18:30-21:00
At the Community Salon, Impact Hub Zurich
Pantalks Speaker:
Senior Software Engineer, User Experience Engineer and Digital Entrepreneur. Managing Partner at Unchained Commerce
Topic (tech): TBA
Simon is enthusiastic about digital products that are fascinating and comprehensible to use. To achieve this goal, he uses more than a decade of experience as a Software Engineer and his passion for design, user experience and digital entrepreneurship.
Upcoming AI MORNINGS
January 28th 2020, 08:00-09:00
Auer&Co. Café
Topic:
Observations on the Decision Making Process around Investments in Artificial Intelligence
In this talk Donnacha will draw on his 20+ years industrial experience in pitching, funding, and managing data-centric projects & businesses, to provide a personal perspective on the decision-making process around investments in Artificial Intelligence. As we move into the second decade of the 21st Century, AI is approaching an important inflection point, whereby disruption gives way to ubiquity, creating a new cohort of corporate winners and losers. Investors and managers can really struggle to place meaningful bets in this marketplace, given the game-changing nature of the technology, the unfamiliarity of the start-up ecosystem and the novelty of emerging business models. A framework is proposed that the speaker has found useful to navigate these considerations, and which will be illustrated in the talk, through real and experienced use-cases from across the industry.
For the last 5 years, Donnacha Daly has been leading global innovation at Lanids+Gyr in Zug, a world leading provider of smart-metering and energy management solutions. His role there included start-up venturing, M&A and also managing the company IPO in 2017. From 2020 he begins lecturing and research in Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship at the Luzern University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Previously Donnacha was active in several European tech startups such as swissQuant in Zurich, with a focus on value-creation through data engineering. He has a PhD in signal processing and holds dual Irish and Swiss citizenships.
February 25th, 08:00-09:00
Auer&Co. Café
Speaker:
tba
Topic:
TBA
March 31st, 08:00-09:00
Auer&Co. Café
Speaker:
tba
Topic:
TBA
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