Tag: Swissnex

  • Gioia Deucher runs the InnHub La Punt

    Gioia Deucher runs the InnHub La Punt

    In the future, the Engadin should be more than an exclusive tourist destination. The InnHub in La Punt wants to enable Swiss and foreign companies to work intensively and creatively with their employees here, on a daily or weekly basis. A mixture of sports, health and educational offers as well as ten second homes should be available for this purpose.

    According to information on the project's website, the initiators expect construction costs of 52 million Swiss francs, half of which they will raise themselves. A quarter of the costs are to be covered by the sale of apartments and parking spaces, with the remainder being financed by banks. Thanks in part to this idea of combining tourism and modern forms of work, the Engadine was voted Digi-Tal 2021/2022 last year.

    With Gioia Deucher, the innovative coworking space has now found an internationally experienced boss, as the innovation diplomat writes on her LinkedIn page . Deucher was previously Head Startup and Innovation Services at Swissnex in San Francisco and thus represented the Swiss innovation landscape in Silicon Valley. She then set up the new Swissnex office in Brazil . Deucher studied international relations at the University of Geneva and at Tufts University in the US state of Massachusetts.

  • Switzerland and UAE discuss city of the future

    Switzerland and UAE discuss city of the future

    On March 21 at the Expo in Dubai , the Swiss pavilion brought together experts from universities in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates, private companies and public actors under the motto “Smart Connected Cities”. It is about intelligent solutions for the management of water, mobility and other challenges in cities that are becoming increasingly dense. Some of these projects have already been implemented in Switzerland and could be imitated in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region.

    The event was organized by the University of Applied Sciences in Western Switzerland ( HES-SO ). It is the Leading House MENA officially commissioned by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation . Its goal is to promote scientific cooperation between Switzerland and the countries of the MENA region.

    During implementation, the HES-SO worked together with Swissnex , the Swiss Embassy in the UAE and the Swiss Business Hub Middle East . “International cross-technology cooperation that offers networked solutions for the exponentially growing demand of a growing population and the associated densification of living spaces are the only way to master the challenges,” says Dante Larini, project manager of Swissnex in the Swiss pavilion, in a press release quoted. “The event showed us how much and how seamlessly technology can transform the way cities are managed and the daily lives of their residents.”

    Josef Spillner from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ( ZHAW ) gave a keynote speech on the opportunities and risks of cyber-physical spaces. The cooperation between the ZHAW and the private university of the Emirate of Sharjah ( Sharjah University ) was also presented at the event.