Board

Head of Venture Engagement • Logitech

Tech Program Lead Personalised Medicine / President WIT Switzerland • Roche - Women In Tech Switzerland

Experienced Head of Private Banking with a strong track record in the banking industry. Skilled in leadership of growth hacking, transformation, execution, change management and strategic projets. Strong Management with an Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School and an EMBA from HEC School of Management. A computer scientist and executive leader with 19 years in Swiss pharmaceuticals, Safia currently serves as Senior Program Manager at Roche working in Digital Pathology overseeing the development of AI and Imaging based algorithms products solutions. Safia's healthcare journey includes leadership in IT Governance and Digital Health. Early in her career, she championed women in STEM, expanding her vision to later launch the Swiss Chapter of WomenInTech in 2021. Nominated for the Hidden Figures Award 2023 and 'Advocate of the Year 2023' at the PowerHer Awards, Safia is recognized for catalyzing change and promoting equal opportunities for women in the innovation ecosystem.

CEO • DuoKey

Nagib Aouini holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Cryptography from the French university National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble. He is a former CISO at AMINA Bank which is one of the 1st licensed crypto bank. Nagib has more than 20 years of experience in the field of digital identity and smartcards and has proven experience in the implementation of complex technical projects with high added value. Previously, he held key positions in a number of large companies specializing in digital security, such as Gemalto, Thales Security, and Accenture. Nagib has worked with governments on large-scale ID projects, including the French Ministry of the Interior on the biometric e-passport project and the US Department of Defense on the CAC access card program among others.

Attorney at Law • Walder Wyss

Maël Azokly is an Attorney at Law at Walder Wyss. He advises Swiss and international entities, as well as private individuals, on litigious and non-litigious matters arising from disruptive technologies and business models, transnational trade, employment relationships, and criminal investigations.

Responsable de la sécurité de l'information et de la cyber-sécurité • Canton de Vaud

Investor, advisor and board member • Vibes

Senior Information Security Risk Manager • Sygnum

Leader Digital Assurance & Trust Switzerland • PwC Switzerland

As the National Leader of Digital Assurance & Trust in Switzerland and Regional Leader of Cybersecurity Services in Western Switzerland (Romandie) at PwC, I manage a team of over 150 experts focused on helping organizations handle digital risks effectively to leverage the opportunities technology offers. With over 20 years of experience, I provide advice to banks and international companies on Digital Trust and Cybersecurity, assisting them in areas such as Responsible AI, Finance Transformation, outsourcing, and regulatory compliance. Since joining PwC Switzerland in 2011 and becoming a partner in 2015, I have been actively involved in helping organizations managing inherent risks while unlocking the potential of new technologies. I help them creating a "safety net" with processes, governance, and controls that mitigate risk and allow opportunities to emerge. In addition to client engagements, I represent PwC as a speaker at industry events and serve as a part-time lecturer at the University of Lausanne on Digital Trust, contributing to discussions on cybersecurity and digital assurance.

Chief of Strategy • Cyber Peace Institute

Cyber is about people and a peaceful cyberspace is one that improves lives. With an International Law and Human Rights background, I have 15+ years’ experience in working for international organizations(United Nations, World Economic Forum, CyberPeace Institute) on strategy and partnerships development, action-oriented research, technical assistance and capacity building in international justice, human rights and security. I have developed my expertise on countering and preventing cybercrime and misuse of technology, focusing on opportunities, risks and threats created by new technologies. I have a long standing expertise on leading programs to foster cybersecurity, increase cyber resilience and promote cyberpeace. We have been working hard in making our societies more resilient. We need now to make them "anti-fragile". At the Institute, I am leading the strategic engagement in programs and initiatives leveraging multistakeholder cooperation and partnerships (with civil society, academia, corporates, philanthropy and public institutions) to strengthen cyber resilience and secure digital transformation, to reduce the harms from cyberattacks and disinformation, to anticipate the challenges posed by AI and emerging technology, and to promote sustainable cyberpeace. It is a shared responsibility.

Head Sales and Markets Private Banking • BCV

Experienced Head of Private Banking with a strong track record in the banking industry. Skilled in leadership of growth hacking, transformation, execution, change management and strategic projets. Strong Management with an Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School and an EMBA from HEC School of Management. Patrick is a business Angel and is actively involved with several Advisory Boards and initiatives in Switzerland to advocate innovation and support entrepreneurs journey.

Director Information Technology Solutions Division • WTO

Chief Information Security Officer • Mirabaud & Cie

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.

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).

Cyber Security Consultant • Swisscom

Head of Market - Identity • SICPA

Bringing technology to result oriented business applications Seasoned manager with extensive international experience in establishing business/partnership strategies, roadmaps, identifying new markets, designing technical solutions and their implementations - in material and digital decentralized verifiable credential-based identity. Recognized expert, speaker and moderator in large international fora dealing with document protection, security solutions and digital identity. While in the field: capacity to analyze complex business situations (B2G & B2B), streamline them into simpler decision trees, and lead toward an efficient solution meeting customer needs. While in the Laboratories: led the R&D team, which designed effective new security features protecting countrywide logistics applications to track-and-trace tobacco and/or alcohol. Participated, as lead Solution Architect, in successfully implemented brand protection projects based on custom security features in food and luxury in Europe and Asia. Long lasting customer commitments generated recurring revenues based on high standards SLAs.

Chief Information Security Officer • MSC

CEO • DFI Service SA

Franck Franchin is the CEO of DFI Service, the swiss subsidiary of the french Cloud and Cybersecurity leading company, Cheops Technology Group. Prior joining DFI Service, Franck was CEO of several startups involved in Cybersecurity and Content Monetization. He had also senior positions in Thales and Vivendi and was Deputy CISO of the Orange Group during 10 years. He earned a MBA from ESCP and Master of Science degrees in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence.

Vice-recteur • UNIGE

Head of the Regional Cyber Competence Centres for Western Switzerland • Republic and State of Geneva

Head of the Forensic Section of the Geneva Cantonal Police; Head of the Regional Cyber Competence Centre for Western Switzerland; Deputy Director of the National Network for Investigative Support in the Fight against Computer Crime. Captain Patrick GHION heads the Forensic Section of the Geneva Cantonal Police. This section is composed of six brigades, including Cyber Investigations, Criminal Intelligence and Computer Crime. He also heads the Cyber Competence Centre for Western Switzerland and is the Deputy Director of the National Network for Investigative Support in the Fight against Computer Crime. After working for five years in Swiss banks, he worked in Asia as a diving instructor before joining the criminal police in 1997. His many passions include scuba diving and flying.

Director HUB Entrepreneurship and Innovation • UNIL

Vice President Director Investors Romandie • SICTIC

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Global Head of Data Privacy • L'Oréal BeautyTech

Bernard Kirsch is currently global head of Data Privacy at L'Oréal BeautyTech. He got a master's degree from Telecom ParisTech, completed the general management cursus at Essec and graduated from HEC on private equity. He spent most of his career around technology and data and held different management roles at L'Oréal in EMEA. He is angel investor since more than 10 years, international jury member and mentor, board member for several startups in digital trust, health and deeptech domains

Head of Cyber-Defence Campus • Cyber-Defence Campus

Group CIO • ARYZTA

Head of Data, Security & Network, Deputy MD • Switch

Head of Digital Research and Innovation • SICPA

Jean-Christophe Makuch is Head of Digital Research & Innovation at SICPA, where he leads strategic work on digital trust, advanced security technologies and innovation. With a background in software engineering, DevOps and digital transformation, he has held senior technical and managerial roles across the finance, engineering and digital-security sectors. He is particularly active on topics such as AI, post-quantum security and digital identity, helping bridge cutting-edge research with real-world applications.

Professor and senior researcher in biometrics security and privacy • Idiap Research Institute & UNIL

Prof. Sébastien Marcel (IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow) received his Ph.D. in signal processing from Université de Rennes I in 2000. His work focuses on signal processing, pattern recognition, and machine/deep learning, with a strong emphasis on biometric security and privacy. Since June 2025, he has been part of the Interim Management Team at the Idiap Research Institute. He is a senior researcher and head of the Biometrics Security and Privacy group, leading research on face, speaker, and vein recognition, attack detection (including presentation attacks, morphing, and deepfakes), and template protection. His group is strongly committed to reproducible research and open-source tools. He is also a Professor at the Université de Lausanne, where he teaches biometrics at the School of Criminal Justice. Previously, he lectured at EPFL on statistical pattern recognition at the Doctoral School. Prof. Marcel has served in several editorial and leadership roles, including VP Conferences of the IEEE Biometrics Council and Associate Editor for multiple IEEE journals. He has been Guest Editor and Co-editor for special issues on biometric security and is the lead co-editor of the Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing (Editions 1–3). He has led major international research projects such as MOBIO, TABULA RASA, and BEAT, and serves as Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing.

Unlimitrust Campus Director • SICPA

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Chief Product Officer • SwissSign

Group Chief Information Officer • Kudelski

CSO • Touchless Biometric Systems

Passionate Business Development and Sales Executive for more than 11 years in technology Start-Ups, from early stage to successful maturity. Over the last 20 years I have acquired a deep knowledge of the Access Control market and Biometrics, in Europe, Middle East and Asia. My atypical education degree in Finance and Marketing helps me to invest the resources where they are most effective and where they generate best value for the customers. Biometric solutions are changing the security landscape. They are becoming more popular due to their accuracy and they offer a higher level of security. The use of biometric solutions is taking off throughout the world.

Global Head of Digital Hub • SGS

Professor in Information Security • HEIG-VD

Since 2011, Sylvain Pasini has been a Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Vaud), more precisely at the HEIG-VD. He is leading the cybersecurity research group and the competence center (https://y-security.heig-vd.ch). His main activities are applied research and teaching, both in computer security. He is also Founder and President of Black Alps, the famous Cybersecurity Conference (https://blackalps.ch). Between 2009 and 2011, he was working as cryptography expert and security architect for Nagravision (Kudelski Group), world leader in digital pay-TV industry. He has a Ph.D. in cryptography from EPFL (2009), a Master degree in Communication Systems from EPFL (2005), and a Bachelor degree in Electronics from HEPIA (2001).

CEO • Trust Valley

Lennig Pedron has expertise in cybersecurity and emerging technologies applied to the digital trust economy. She works in particular for the EPFL Innovation Park Foundation and is CEO of the Swiss initiative Trust Valley, the center of excellence in digital trust and cybersecurity. She is co-founder and president of the NGO iCON, representing an international community of over 100 digital trust experts. Lennig Pedron represents iCON at the Council of Europe. She has been Data Protection expert for the Swiss Confederation. She provides advice and training to different audiences such as the police, prosecutors or banks. She has been a judge for the 9/12 geopolitical challenge of the GCSP for 4 years and she has spoken at the Forum of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Lennig Pedron is the co-author of the book "The Fundamentals of Cyber ​​Crisis Management" published by Ellipses in June 2022.

CEO & Board member • Turini & Mimecast

Patrice Perche is a senior cybersecurity executive with more than 20 years of global leadership experience. Formerly a key executive at Fortinet, where he helped scale the company’s growth over nearly two decades, he now serves on the Board of Directors of Mimecast and is the founder & CEO of Turini AG. A graduate of INSA Lyon, he advises organisations on cybersecurity strategy, innovation and go-to-market execution.

Innovation Advisor • Innovaud

Head Research Institute Entrepreneurship & Management • HES-SO Valais-Wallis

Line Pillet is a professor in entrepreneurship at HES-SO Valais-Wallis and director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship & Management. With a robust academic foundation, she has dedicated her career to advancing the field of entrepreneurship through innovative teaching, research, and community engagement. Her commitment to fostering entrepreneurial ecosystems is underscored by her leadership role within the institute, where she cultivates a new generation of entrepreneurs equipped to navigate the complexities of today’s dynamic business landscape. Beyond her academic pursuits, Line Pillet is an active member of the corporate governance community, serving as an independent board member on several boards. Her governance expertise is complemented by her profound dedication to promoting diversity within leadership roles. As the co-founder and president of the Association Femmes PME Suisse romande, she champions the inclusion of women in business and entrepreneurship, striving to create equitable opportunities for all. She is also a founding member of the Cercle suisse des administratrices, a network that encourages women's advancement in governance roles across various sectors, and a member of the European Women on Boards Association, further underscoring her commitment to gender equality in leadership.

Head of Global and Emerging Risks • Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

Dr. Jean-Marc Rickli is the head of global and emerging risks at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also the co-chair of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium's Emerging Security Challenges Working Groupa and a senior advisor for the Artificial Intelligence Initiative at the Future Society. Prior to these appointments, Dr. Rickli was an assistant professor at the Department of Defence Studies of King’s College London. Dr. Rickli received his PhD in International Relations from Oxford University. His latest book published by Georgetown University is entitled Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-first Century.

International Advisor • -

CEO • Swiss Post Cybersecurity

Head FinTech & Digital Trust • Swisscom

Andreas Tölke has worked at Swisscom since 2020, where he is responsible for FinTech & Digital Trust. He previously held various management positions at Credit Suisse. Tölke began his career at the industrial company Georg Fischer in Schaffhausen and is the co-founder of a media start-up. He studied business administration at the ZHAW School of Management and Law and holds an Executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen.

Head of Architecture • ELCA