
Join Us
Don’t miss the chance to connect with students from the Swiss university HEIG-VD on the evening of February 13, 2025 at Pier 17.
This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with experts and new talents alike, explore emerging technologies, and gain insights into experimentation, sustainability, and industry transformation. Designed to challenge conventional thinking and inspire new perspectives, the event fosters meaningful discussions at the intersection of technology, sustainability and global exchange.
Through a direct exchange with professionals, students will gain a deeper understanding of how innovation shapes the future and how to apply these insights to their own ideas and projects. Join the conversation, expand your network, and rethink the future of innovation.
Swissnex and HEIG-VD’s International Innovation Management Program are collaborating to give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in Silicon Valley’s dynamic innovation ecosystem. Through a series of online and on-site events, this initiative explores how technology is driving sustainability and shaping the future of the industry.
Speakers
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Susan Cholette
Professor of Decision Sciences & YF Chang Endowed Professor in International Business at the Lam Family College of Business at the San Francisco State UniversitySusan Cholette is a Professor of Decision Sciences and the YF Chang Endowed Professor in International Business at the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Operations Research at Stanford University and her B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Her research focuses on supply chain efficiency and sustainability, especially for the food and beverage sectors.
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Chloé F. Smith
Climate Change Research Fellow & Swiss Lawyer at UC Berkeley, School of Law, Center for Law, Energy and the EnvironmentFascinated by the crossovers between climate change, sustainability and human rights, Chloé is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at UC Berkeley. Chloé has a background as a Swiss litigator in the cantons of Geneva and Vaud. In this role she represented individuals, companies and local governments before the courts, including advising start-ups. This followed a short period in the sustainability legal team of a large Swiss multinational company. Chloé’s most recent legal work has involved working on an environmental health and human rights project regarding toxic contaminated sites on indigenous land in Alaska. Chloé’s current research at Berkeley focuses on climate change issues and solutions, with an emphasis on heavy-duty truck zero-emission truck policy and policy on scaling the production of e-fuels powered by renewable energy for aviation and/or maritime sectors in California.
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Brogan Miller
Founder, Engineering Doula, and member of the informal collective E2E EngineeringEngineering doula for early stage hardware start-ups. Folks come to me with just an idea and I help them birth their company. Product management to design to manufacturing.
A start-up junkie, I’ve been employee # 2, 5, 9, 12, and 40. During which time, I shipped 2 products, 8 accessories, designed 2 large electromechanical cooking appliances, a year in Asia sourcing and manufacturing, and brought up a factory in San Francisco. Consumer, medical, food, green tech.
I also lecture at Stanford, assisting senior product design engineering students take their product from concept to market. In my house, I have a full metal and wood shop, a digital fabrication lab, and an electrical engineering lab… my wife is very patient.