Switzerland and Silicon Valley: EP6 Sherry Wong ‘Living in a society where capital is strong and the welfare state is weak‘
Send us Fan Mail For artist and researcher Şerife (Sherry) Wong the popular image of visionary geniuses who change the world from their garages is an illusion. “We are idealising the myth of the inven...
20 Aug 202423min
Switzerland and Silicon Valley: EP5 Fred Turner ‘The dream of tech companies serving humanity has turned into a nightmare‘
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk to Stanford University professor Fred Turner, who’s been studying the impact of new media technologies on American culture for decades. Turner is also among t...
13 Aug 202418min
Switzerland and Silicon Valley: EP4 Pamela Munster ‘From cancer doctor to cancer patient and back again’
Send us Fan Mail Pamela Munster, a world-renowned oncologist, has been working in San Francisco for 15 years. In this episode, she recounts her battle against breast cancer. You can find more writt...
6 Aug 202419min
What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley: EP3 Connected through Innovation
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, SWI swissinfo.ch sat down with Claude Zellweger, Google's in-house design guru. We discussed the role of designers in tech innovation, AI, and the future of education...
30 Jul 202413min
What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley: EP2 Swiss start-ups in California
Send us Fan Mail More than 150 Swiss start-ups have received a boost from California entrepreneurship, and three of them are already worth $1 billion. This is a source of pride for Swissnex in San Fra...
23 Jul 202414min
What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley and Hippies: EP1 The potential of human beings
Send us Fan Mail In his 50 years in the USA, St. Gallen psychologist and consultant Herman Gyr has never lost faith in human ingenuity, the ability to learn and adapt to even the most adverse circumst...
16 Jul 202418min
Why Are leading Swiss Pharmaceutical Companies Investing in Slovenia?
Send us Fan Mail Pharmaceutical giant Novartis invested billions in Slovenia, helping turn the country into a global player in generic drug production. Now, as cheap Asian competitors increasingly do...
23 Apr 202416min
Swiss training for forensic scientists in Africa and Mexico
Send us Fan Mail Forensic science is critical in the search for justice and the fight against impunity. Africa suffers from a dearth of forensic pathologists and Switzerland is helping to boost their ...
16 Apr 202415min
