Campus Lectures
Past events
“Printing soft and living matter in three dimensions“
Jennifer Lewis, Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Conference held on December 4th, 2023 | Forum Rolex
“From Scientist to Entrepreneur: Bridging the Gap to Bring Vaccines to the Clinic”
Madiha Derouazi, CEO of Speransa Therapeutics
Conference held on November 27th, 2023 | Forum Rolex
Conversation with Giuliano da Empoli
Political advisor, author of the novel “The Wizard of the Kremlin”
Conference held on October 9th, 2023 | Forum Rolex
“Unlocking Morocco’s Digital Potential: Towards an Innovative and Inclusive Growth”
Ghita Mezzour, Morocco’s Minister Delegate in Charge of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform, Alumni Award 2023 and EPFL alumna
“Des doutes d’Einstein et du théorème de Bell aux technologies quantiques: la seconde révolution quantique“
Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
Conference held on October 2nd, 2023 | Forum Rolex
“Using AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery”
Demis Hassabis, Founder and CEO of DeepMind
Conference held on May 26th, 2023 | Forum Rolex
“Ensuring Swiss Tech Leadership”
Christoph Aeschlimann, CEO of Swisscom and Alumni Award 2022
Conference held on May 22nd, 2023 | Forum Rolex
Nathalie Brandenberg and Sylke Hoehnel, Co-CEO & Founders, SUN bioscience
Conference held on November 3rd, 2022 | Forum Rolex
Merritt Moore, Ballerina and quantum physicist. She studied at both the University of Oxford and Harvard University
Conference held on September 30, 2022 | Forum Rolex
Raquel Urtasun, Founder & CEO, Waabi and Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Conference held on September 30, 2022 | Forum Rolex
Lorraine Daston, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin
Conference held on May 30, 2022 | Forum Rolex and online
Kim Stanley Robinson, writer
Conference held on May 19, 2022 | Forum Rolex
Claudia Clopath, Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Imperial College London
Conference held on May 9, 2022 | Forum Rolex
John Doerr, Chairman of Kleiner Perkins and Ryan Panchadsaram, Advisor to the Chairman
Conference held on April 21, 2022 | Forum Rolex and online
Chelsea Manning, Hardware and security advisor at Nym Technologies
Conference held on March 7, 2022 | Forum Rolex and online
Sonia Seneviratne, Climate scientist and Professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science of the ETH Zurich
Conference held on March 3, 2022 | Forum Rolex and online
Carl Zimmer, Author and columnist for the New York Times
Conference held on December 6, 2021 Online
Katie Mack, Astrophysicist, North Carolina State University, USA
Conference held on November 23, 2021 | Online
Frank Wilczek, Physician (Nobel Prize for physics, 2004)
Conference held on November 16, 2021 | Online
Marietje Schaake, President of the Cyber Peace Institute
Conference held on November 10, 2021 | EPFL Campus
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Shoshana Zuboff, Author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Harvard Business School Professor Emerita
Conference held on September 27, 2021 | Online
Rob Greenfield, Activist
Conference held on May 19, 2021 | Online
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Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University
Conference held on May 17 2021 | Online
Andre– Andrea Wulf, historian and author
Conference held on March 8, 2021
– Steven Strogatz
Cornell University, New York
Conference held on December 8, 2020
Guest speakers :
– Mariana Mazzucato Economist
– Klaus Hommels, Venture capitalist
Conference held on October 1, 2020 co-organized by digitalswitzerland, EPFL and IMD.
– George Church, Harvard synthetic biologist
– Christian Frei, Swiss movie director
Conference held on September 25, 2020
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– Ada Yonath
2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 
Conference held on December 17, 2019.
– Ed Winters
Educator, public speaker and entrepreneur
Conference held on December 16, 2019.
– Giulia Galli
University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
Conference held on November 13, 2019.
– Alessio Figalli
2018 Fields Medal 
Conference held on November 11, 2019.
– Hiroshi Amano
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
Conference held on October 14, 2019.
– Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Conference held on October 7, 2019.
– Fiona Watt
King’s College London
Conference held on September 27, 2019.
– Yuval Noah Harari
Historian, philosopher and writer
Conference held on July 10, 2019.
– Richard Baldwin
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement in Geneva
Campus Lecture held on May 15, 2019.
– Klaus von Klitzing
1985 Nobel Prize in Physics
Campus Lecture held on April 15, 2019.
– Saul Perlmutter
2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Campus Lecture held on April 8, 2019.
– Elizabeth H. Blackburn
2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Campus Lecture held on March 6th, 2019.