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Jurgi Camblong
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.