Advisory Board #3

Head of innovation and business intelligence • Canton de Vaud (SPEI)

Senior Innovation Expert • Groupe Mutuel

Gilles Burnier is Senior Innovation Expert at Groupe Mutuel, one of Switzerland’s leading health insurance companies. In this role, he leads the company’s AI technology-scouting efforts, helping to identify, evaluate and implement emerging technologies that align with strategic innovation imperatives in health- and insurtech. panoramai.ch +2 LinkedIn +2 He is particularly focused on practical AI deployment, developer empowerment and transforming large-scale regulated organisations through digital innovation. For example, his work has included enabling nearly 300 internal developers to adopt AI-assisted development tools as standard practice. panoramai.ch With a background in innovation strategy, data-driven transformation and technology adoption, Burnier acts as a bridge between startup ecosystems, emerging deep-tech and enterprise scale-up environments. He is actively engaged in collaborations across sectors and leverages experience in emerging-tech scouting, regulation and internal innovation enablement.

Chief Information Security Officer • IPSOS

Executive Director, C4DT • EPFL

Olivier Crochat is the Executive Director of the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) at EPFL. Olivier has a strong scientific background (M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Communication Systems) and 25+ years of executive roles in startups, SMEs and large companies. Olivier has an excellent understanding of the ICT domain, where he successfully led several projects from idea to exit.

Global CISO • L'Occitane International

Maxime DESCOMBES, currently serving as the Group Chief Information Security Officer at L’OCCITANE Group, is a seasoned cybersecurity expert with over 20 years of experience in the field. Since July 2023, Maxime as been responsible for leading a global cybersecurity team, devising and implementing strategies for risk management, governance, and compliance, as well as managing cybersecurity crises. Playing a critical role in shaping the technological landscape of the organization, focusing on threat intelligence, security operations centers (SOC), and security by design.

Chief Executive Officer • Cyber Peace Institute

Stéphane Duguin is the CEO of the CyberPeace Institute. Humanitarian, entrepreneur, investigator, he spent two decades tracking how criminals groups and terrorists organisation weaponise disruptive technologies, such as Al, against vulnerable communities. At Europol, Stephane led major international counter cybercrime, terrorism and hybrid threats operations, and investigated threat actors deploying cyberattacks, illegal content and disinformation techniques. Stephane leads the CyberPeace Institute to provide free cybersecurity for the most vulnerable and hold threat actors to account for the harms they cause. Stéphane Duguin sits on the Board of the Datasphere Initiative and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Open Quantum Institute, the Global Forum on Cybercrime Expertise (GFCE), the Tech4Trust initiative, the Fighting Terrorist Content Online (FRISCO) and the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA).