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Alexander Lichter

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Developer relations engineer at VoidZero and a Nuxt and Vue.js ecosystem contributor, known for his web development teaching and open-source tooling work in JavaScript and TypeScript. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Arnau Gómez Farell

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Senior full stack engineer at Tiptap, building the headless rich-text editor framework used across modern JavaScript and web applications. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Atila Fassina

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Software engineer and developer advocate, lead of the SolidStart project and a core contributor to the Solid.js JavaScript framework, working as a fullstack engineer in the developer-tools space. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf.

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Carmen Huidobro

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Chief Technology Officer at Incredible Holding GmbH and a web development educator active in the JavaScript and frontend community. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Christoph Jenny

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Planted, the Zurich-based food technology company he co-founded in 2019 as an ETH Zurich spin-out. Jenny led Planted through a CHF 70 million Series B in 2021 and expanded the company's plant-based meat products across Swiss supermarkets, Germany, and European food service channels. Planted's wet extrusion technology, developed from ETH Zurich research, produces fibrous plant-based textures that closely mimic animal protein.

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Cristian Grossmann

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Beekeeper, the Zurich-based frontline workforce platform he co-founded in 2012 with Flavio Pfaffhauser. Grossmann led Beekeeper through a Series C in 2021 backed by Atomico, Alpana Ventures, and Swiss Post, bringing total funding to over $100 million. The platform scales to over 1,000 enterprise customers including Marriott, Hilton, and Heathrow Airport, serving workers in manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and logistics without corporate email addresses.

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Daniel Afonso

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Senior developer advocate at PagerDuty and a JavaScript and React engineer focused on state management and developer experience across the web platform. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Daniel Noel-Davies

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Founder of Pokélink and a JavaScript developer building real-time web and streaming tools for online communities. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Daniel Roe

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Open-source software engineer at Vercel and lead of the Nuxt core team, the Vue.js meta-framework, focused on the modern JavaScript and TypeScript web development ecosystem. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf.

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Debbie O'Brien

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Platform engineer working on applied AI at Zephyr Cloud, a long-time developer advocate and web testing and tooling specialist in the JavaScript ecosystem. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Dominik Dorfmeister

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Software engineer at Sentry and maintainer of TanStack Query, a widely used data-fetching and state-management library for the React and JavaScript ecosystem. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Geneva, Switzerland · Person

Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, leading global efforts on digital connectivity and AI governance. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.

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Emelie Emanuelsson

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Sustainability Project Manager in Smart Infrastructure at Siemens Switzerland, working on sustainability initiatives within the industrial and building-technology business. She is an announced speaker in the Hidden Figures Awards program at the 2026 #wetechtogether Conference in Zurich.

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Eric Stirnemann

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder of Planted, the Zurich-based food technology company he co-founded in 2019 from ETH Zurich research. Stirnemann's background in food engineering contributed to the development of Planted's proprietary wet extrusion platform for plant-based meat. The company raised CHF 70 million in 2021 and distributes products across Switzerland, Germany, and broader European markets.

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Fabien Jordan

Lausanne, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Astrocast, the Lausanne-based satellite IoT company he co-founded in 2017 as an EPFL spin-out and ESA BIC Switzerland resident. Jordan led Astrocast from a nanosatellite concept to a publicly listed company on Euronext Growth Oslo, building a LEO constellation that provides two-way IoT connectivity to remote locations across agriculture, maritime, and infrastructure sectors.

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Flavio Pfaffhauser

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder of Beekeeper, the Zurich-based frontline workforce platform he co-founded in 2012 with Cristian Grossmann. Pfaffhauser contributed to Beekeeper's technical architecture and product development, helping build the platform now used by over 1,000 enterprise clients globally. The company raised over $100 million and became one of Zurich's leading enterprise SaaS success stories.

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Giuseppe Zocco

Geneva, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder of Index Ventures alongside Neil and David Rimer in 1996. Over more than two decades he helped build Index into one of the world's most successful venture firms before transitioning to an emeritus advisory role.

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Joëlle Barral

Geneva, Switzerland · Person

Senior Director of Research and Engineering at Google DeepMind, leading research teams working on foundational machine learning and applied AI. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.

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Jörg Sandrock

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder of Neon, the Zurich-based Swiss challenger bank he co-founded in 2018 with Julius Krieg. Sandrock previously held roles in banking and payments before launching Neon, which grew to over 200,000 customers. Neon operates as Switzerland's leading mobile-first bank, running on a banking-as-a-service partnership with Hypothekarbank Lenzburg.

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Julius Krieg

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder of Neon, the Zurich-based Swiss challenger bank he co-founded in 2018 with Jörg Sandrock. Krieg led product and growth for Neon, helping the app reach over 200,000 Swiss customers with free everyday banking accounts and integrated savings products. Neon operates through a banking-as-a-service partnership with Hypothekarbank Lenzburg.

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Jurgi Camblong

Lausanne, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder and CEO of SOPHiA GENETICS, the Lausanne-based clinical AI company he co-founded in 2011 as an EPFL spin-out. Camblong led SOPHiA GENETICS for over a decade from a university genomics project to a Nasdaq IPO in July 2021, raising $228M and building a federated clinical AI network used by over 780 healthcare institutions in 70 countries for genomic analysis in oncology and rare disease diagnostics.

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Kevin Powell

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Web development educator behind Embrace the Cascade, widely known for teaching CSS and modern frontend techniques to developers worldwide. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Klaus Hommels

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Founder and Chairman of Lakestar, the Zurich-based venture capital firm he founded in 2012, which manages over 2 billion euros across early- and growth-stage funds. A German venture capitalist, he was an early backer of Skype, Facebook, Spotify, Airbnb, Revolut, Klarna and Coinbase, and also founded the NATO Innovation Fund.

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Lars Mangelsdorf

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Yokoy, the Zurich-based AI-powered spend management platform founded in 2019. Mangelsdorf led Yokoy through a CHF 80 million Series B in 2022 led by Sequoia Capital, one of the largest Swiss fintech rounds of that year, and expanded the company from DACH into the UK and the Netherlands, building deep integrations with SAP and Oracle for enterprise finance automation.

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Liz Theophille

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Chief Digital and Information Officer at Sandoz, a global generics and biosimilars company, with a career leading large-scale digital transformation across pharmaceutical and technology organizations. She is an announced keynote speaker at the 2026 #wetechtogether Conference in Zurich.

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Marc Benioff

Geneva, Switzerland · Person

Chair and CEO of Salesforce, the enterprise cloud-software company he co-founded in 1999, and a prominent advocate for stakeholder capitalism and ethical technology. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.

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Mark Erikson

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Senior engineer at Replay.io and a maintainer of Redux, the widely used state-management library for JavaScript and React applications. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Markus Pflitsch

St. Gallen, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Terra Quantum, the St. Gallen-based quantum-as-a-service company he co-founded in 2019. Pflitsch built Terra Quantum to bridge near-term quantum hardware with practical enterprise problem-solving in finance, pharma, logistics, and energy using hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. He previously worked in finance and technology entrepreneurship. Terra Quantum raised a Series A backed by Lakestar and Investcorp and has established research partnerships across European academic institutions.

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Matheus Albuquerque

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Staff software engineer at Medallia focused on web performance and the React and JavaScript ecosystem, and an active conference speaker on frontend engineering. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Neil Rimer

Geneva, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder of Index Ventures, which he started in Geneva in 1996. A foundational figure in European venture capital, he backed early successes including Skype, MySQL, Last.fm and Supercell, and shaped Index's evolution into a transatlantic firm before stepping back from active partnership.

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Pascal Bieri

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder of Planted, the Zurich-based alternative protein company he co-founded in 2019 as an ETH Zurich spin-out. Bieri contributed the food science foundation that underpins Planted's wet extrusion platform. Planted's products — planted.chicken, planted.pulled, planted.kebab — are sold in leading Swiss and German retailers and food service chains.

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Pedro Bados

Lausanne, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Nexthink, the Lausanne-based Digital Employee Experience platform he co-founded in 2004 as an EPFL spin-out. Bados led Nexthink for two decades from a university research project to a Nasdaq-listed company, raising hundreds of millions from Lightspeed Growth and Permira before the February 2024 IPO. The platform scaled to over 1,000 enterprise customers across 190 countries, processing data from more than 15 million endpoints.

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Philippe Sahli

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder and CTO of Yokoy, the Zurich-based AI-powered spend management platform founded in 2019. Sahli led the technical architecture of Yokoy's AI engine for expense reports and invoice automation, helping scale the platform to enterprise customers across Europe after the company's CHF 80 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital.

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Philippe Serhal

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Staff software engineer at Netlify working on web platform and developer tooling for the modern JavaScript ecosystem. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Ramona Schwering

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Developer advocate at Auth0 with a background in frontend engineering, testing and developer experience across the JavaScript and web development ecosystem. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Ray Kurzweil

Geneva, Switzerland · Person

Inventor, futurist and best-selling author known for his work on artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and predictions about technological singularity, and a principal researcher at Google. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.

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Salih Güler

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Senior developer advocate at AWS focused on frontend, cross-platform and web development across the JavaScript ecosystem. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Samuel Mueller

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Scandit, the Zurich-based enterprise computer vision company he co-founded in 2009 as an ETH Zurich spin-out. Mueller led Scandit from a research project into a global B2B platform used by DHL, Sephora, and the NHS, raising over $150M from investors including Atomico, G2VP, and Swisscom Ventures. He holds a PhD in computer science from ETH Zurich, where he worked on mobile augmented reality before commercialising barcode-scanning technology for enterprise use.

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Scott Tolinski

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Software engineer at Sentry, co-host of the Syntax.fm web development podcast and founder of the Level Up Tutorials education platform for JavaScript and frontend developers. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Tony Edwards

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

Lead mobile developer at Sapphire Holidays, building cross-platform mobile applications with JavaScript and web technologies. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Tracy Lee

Zurich, Switzerland · Person

CEO of This Dot Labs, a Google Developer Expert and RxJS core team member, and a prominent figure in the JavaScript and open-source web development community. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.

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Yoshua Bengio

Geneva, Switzerland · Person

Professor at the Université de Montréal, Turing Award laureate and a founding pioneer of deep learning, and Co-President of the LawZero AI-safety initiative. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.

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