Advisory Board Exchange

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.

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.

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.

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.