Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley: EP3 Connected through Innovation
Season 3 Episode 3
In this episode, SWI swissinfo.ch sat down with Claude Zellweger, Google's in-house design guru. We discussed the role of designers in tech innovatio…
2 years, 1 month ago
What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley: EP2 Swiss start-ups in California
Season 3 Episode 2
More than 150 Swiss start-ups have received a boost from California entrepreneurship, and three of them are already worth $1 billion. This is a sourc…
2 years, 1 month ago
What Switzerland can learn from Silicon Valley and Hippies: EP1 The potential of human beings
Season 3 Episode 1
In his 50 years in the USA, St. Gallen psychologist and consultant Herman Gyr has never lost faith in human ingenuity, the ability to learn and adapt…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Are leading Swiss Pharmaceutical Companies Investing in Slovenia?
Season 2 Episode 6
Pharmaceutical giant Novartis invested billions in Slovenia, helping turn the country into a global player in generic drug production. Now, as cheap…
2 years, 4 months ago
Swiss training for forensic scientists in Africa and Mexico
Season 2 Episode 5
Forensic science is critical in the search for justice and the fight against impunity. Africa suffers from a dearth of forensic pathologists and Swit…
2 years, 4 months ago
Swiss Roman battle site reveals hidden secrets of historic clash
Season 2 Episode 4
Over the past two years, experts have unearthed thousands of Roman military artefacts littering a hillside in southeast Switzerland. The first Roman …
2 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Aviation: Hypersonic plane powered Hydrogen designed in Switzerland
Season 2 Episode 3
It’s 20 years since Concorde made its final commercial flight, ending the first era of supersonic travel. A Swiss start-up is part of a new generatio…
2 years, 5 months ago
Drones capture eDNA in cutting-edge biodiversity research in Zurich, Switzerland
Season 2 Episode 2
Researchers in Zurich are using drones to collect environmental DNA (eDNA) in a technique combining robotics and genetics that could change our under…
2 years, 5 months ago
What CERN’s next-generation particle collider could look like?
Season 2 Episode 1
Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva are taking the next steps towards creating a huge particle collider. …
2 years, 5 months ago
Exploring Science in Davos: EP6 Lab 42 AI lab decoding the human brain
Episode 6
Artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT generate remarkably human-like results. But how intelligent is it really? SWI swissinfo.ch visits Lab42…
2 years, 8 months ago