Collective Gathering

Agenda

The program is dedicated to igniting new ideas, perspectives and connections, for collective impact. You’ll hear from and meet with leading women across various industries.

1:30 – 2:00 pm

Welcome Coffee

2:00 – 2:15 pm

Welcome by Cornelia Gut & Melanie Kovacs, Update from Task Forces

Founding Partner, Lead of Initiative and Task Force Leaders

2:15 – 3:00 pm

Empathy in AI: From Tool to humanized Friend?

Discover the fascinating intersection of technology and empathy during our panel discussion with Marisa Tschopp and Rita Sevastjanova moderated by Isabelle Siegrist. Join us as we delve into how empathy can be infused into AI, to shape the future of innovation.

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Speed Dating

Enhanced Networking with the Female Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Networking Break & Resource Hubs

Resource Hubs by Task Forces for the topics of «Role Models», «Access to Funding» and «Collaboration with Governement Institutions»

4:00 – 4:45 pm

A Life full of Innovation

A personal conversation about a life full of innovation with Ursula Oesterle, Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

4:45 – 5:00 pm

Wrap Up

5:00 – 6:15 pm

Apéro Riche

Speakers

Rita Sevastjanova

Research Associate, IVIA lab at ETH Zurich

Rita is a research associate in the IVIA lab at ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on developing visual analytics approaches that reveal properties encoded in Large Language Models (LLMs), including diverse linguistic aspects and social and gender-related biases.

Marisa Tschopp

Human-AI-Interaction Researcher

Marisa Tschopp is a researcher at scip AG, CRO at Women in AI NPO, and Co-Chair of the IEEE Trust and Agency in AI Systems committee. She researches AI from a psychological perspective and is an international speaker, e.g. TEDx.

Isabelle Siegrist

Founder, Investor and Author

Isabelle Siegrist has been building and investing in companies across Switzerland since 2016 with her company Sandborn, with a special focus on driving diversity. Currently, she conducts research on the use of AI in VC decision making at ETH Zurich.

Ursula Oesterle

Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Ursula Oesterle holds a PhD in physics from EPFL and a Master’s degree in physics and chemistry from ETH Zurich. Before joining the EPFL, she has been for 20 years the Vice President for Innovation at the Swisscom Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley and Asia.