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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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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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

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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