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 holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, and Cryptography from the French university ENSIMAG. He is a former CISO at SEBA Bank, one of the first licensed crypto banks. In 2020, Nagib founded DuoKey, a cybersecurity startup focused on encryption and key management using SEPIOR MPC technology. It enables customers to confidently move sensitive workloads to the cloud, where they can benefit from strong security controls that help meet internal and external compliance requirements. Nagib has more than 20 years of experience in digital identity and smartcards and has proven experience implementing complex technical projects. Previously, he held key positions in several large companies specialising in digital security, such as Gemalto, Thales Security, and Accenture. Nagib has worked with national governments on large-scale ID projects in Europe, North Africa, and the USA.

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

Partenaire en Assurance Numérique et Cybersécurité • PwC Switzerland

Chief of Strategy • Cyber Peace Institute

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

Digital shaker in the Swiss healthtech and insurtech, web3 and crypto-enthousiast

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

CEO & Founder • E-XPERT SOLUTIONS

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 est le CEO de DFI Service, la filiale suisse de Cheops Technology Group, leader française spécialisée dans le Cloud et la Cybersécurité. Avant de rejoindre DFI Service, Franck a été le CEO de plusieurs start-ups œuvrant dans le domaine de la Cybersécurité et de la Monétisation de Contenu. Il a également occupé des postes de direction chez Thales et Vivendi, et a été le RSSI adjoint du Groupe Orange pendant 10 ans. Il est titulaire d'un MBA de l'ESCP et de Masters en Traitement du Signal et en Intelligence Artificielle.

Vice-recteur • UNIGE

Chef du Centre régional de compétences cybernétiques de Suisse occidentale • Republic and State of Geneva

Chef de la Section criminalistique de la Police cantonale genevoise ; Chef du Centre régional de compétences cybernétiques de Suisse occidentale ; Directeur adjoint du Réseau national de soutien aux enquêtes dans la lutte contre la criminalité informatique. Le Capitaine Patrick GHION dirige la Section criminalistique de la Police cantonale genevoise. Cette section est composée de six brigades, dont les cyber-enquêtes, le renseignement criminel et la criminalité informatique. Il dirige également le Centre de compétences cybernétiques de Suisse occidentale et est le directeur adjoint du Réseau national de soutien aux enquêtes dans la lutte contre la criminalité informatique. Après avoir travaillé pendant cinq ans dans des banques suisses, il a travaillé en Asie comme instructeur de plongée avant de rejoindre la police criminelle en 1997. Ses nombreuses passions sont la plongée sous-marine et l'aviation.

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 Technologies • SICPA

Senior Member of the Research Staff • Idiap Research Institute

Prof Sébastien Marcel (IEEE Senior member) is a senior researcher at the Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland), he heads the Biometrics Security and Privacy group and conducts research on face recognition, speaker recognition, vein recognition, attack detection (presentation attacks, morphing attacks, deepfakes) and template protection. He is also Professor at the University de Lausanne (UNIL) at the School of Criminal Justice and lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He received his Ph.D. degree in signal processing from Université de Rennes I in France (2000) at CNET, the research center of France Telecom (now Orange Labs). He is also the Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing, which conducts certifications of biometric products. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics and Identity Science. He was Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security Special Issue on “Biometric Spoofing and Countermeasures”, and Co-editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on “Biometric Security and Privacy”. He is also the lead Editor of the Springer Handbook of Biometrics Anti-Spoofing (Editions 1, 2 and 3).

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

Professeur en sécurité informatique • HEIG-VD

Depuis 2011, Sylvain Pasini est professeur à la Haute école d'ingénierie et de gestion du canton de Vaud (HEIG-VD), qui fait partie de la Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO). Il dirige le groupe de recherche en cybersécurité et le centre de compétences (https://y-security.heig-vd.ch). Ses principales activités se situent dans la recherche appliquée et l'enseignement, tous deux dans le domaine de la sécurité informatique. Il est également le fondateur et président de Black Alps, la célèbre Conférence sur la Cybersécurité (https://blackalps.ch). Entre 2009 et 2011, il a travaillé en tant qu'expert en cryptographie et architecte de sécurité pour Nagravision (groupe Kudelski), leader mondial dans l'industrie de la télévision numérique payante. Il détient un doctorat en cryptographie de l'EPFL (2009), un master en systèmes de communication de l'EPFL (2005) et un bachelor en électronique de l'HEPIA (2001).

CEO • Trust Valley

Lennig Pedron a une expertise en cybersécurité et technologies émergentes appliquée à l’économie de confiance numérique. Elle travaille notamment pour la Fondation EPFL Innovation Park et est CEO de l’initiative suisse Trust Valley, le pôle d’excellence lémanique dans la confiance numérique et la cybersécurité. Elle est cofondatrice et présidente de l’ONG iCON, représentant une communauté internationale de plus de 100 experts en confiance numérique. Lennig Pedron représente iCON au Conseil de l’Europe. Elle a été experte en matière de protection des données pour la Confédération suisse. Elle fournit conseils et formations à différents publics comme la police, des procureurs ou des banques. Elle est juge depuis 4 ans du challenge de géopolitique 9/12 du GCSP et est intervenue au forum du Sommet mondial sur la société de l’in- formation (SMSI). Lennig Pedron est la co-auteure du livre «Les Fondamentaux de la gestion de crise cyber» sorti aux éditions Ellipses en juin 2022.

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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.

Responsable des risques mondiaux et émergents • Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

Le Dr Jean-Marc Rickli est le responsable des risques mondiaux et émergents au Centre de politique de sécurité de Genève (GCSP) à Genève, en Suisse. Il est également le co-président du Groupe de travail sur les défis émergents en matière de sécurité du Consortium Partenariat pour la Paix de l'OTAN et conseiller principal de l'Initiative sur l'intelligence artificielle à la Future Society. Avant ces nominations, le Dr Rickli était professeur adjoint au Département des études de défense du King's College de Londres. Le Dr Rickli a obtenu son doctorat en relations internationales à l'Université d'Oxford. Son dernier livre, publié par l'Université de Georgetown, s'intitule "Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-first Century" (La Guerre par procuration : la transformation de la guerre au XXIe siècle).

International Advisor • -

CEO • Swiss Post Cybersecurity

Responsable FinTech & Digital Trust • Swisscom

Andreas Tölke a rejoint Swisscom en 2020 et est responsable du secteur des FinTech et de la confiance numérique. Avant cela, il a occupé divers postes de direction chez Credit Suisse. Il a débuté sa carrière professionnelle en tant que polytechnicien au sein de l'entreprise industrielle Georg Fischer à Schaffhouse et est co-fondateur d'une start-up dans le domaine des médias. Il est titulaire d'un diplôme en administration des affaires de l'École de gestion et de droit de la ZHAW (Haute école de Zurich en sciences appliquées) ainsi que d'un Executive MBA de l'Université de Saint-Gall.

Head of Architecture • ELCA