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Zurich drone hub establishes itself on the world stage
Nature to help inspire thinking
Glarus – The Glarus Nord tourism region is offering an innovative concept to seminar tourists with its DenkWerkstatt centre. In addition to hotels, guests are offered seminar rooms in the great outdoors. DenkWerkstatt is now to be complemented with a new DenkWeg trail opening in June.
Manulife Asset Management expands in Switzerland
Zurich/Toronto – Global asset management company Manulife Asset Management is strengthening its Swiss office. It has hired Christos Tsaravas to head up its Zurich location, where he will be responsible for helping to build the business and grow the local team.
Heart valves startup celebrates first operation
Zurich/Bern – CoreMedic has developed a minimally invasive repair technology to treat heart valve diseases. The method has now proved successful in a first operation on a human.
AMZ showcases new e-racing cars
Zurich – The Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) has developed two new electric racing cars. The ‘eiger’ four-wheel drive and the ‘gotthard driverless’ are set to face international competition this summer.
DeepCode wins investors
Zurich – DeepCode has raised around 1 million Swiss francs in a financing round. The spin-off from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich is innovating a smart assistant for software developers.
GenTwo revolutionizes structured products
Zurich – The fintech startup GenTwo has launched a platform for the issuance of structured products. It offers financial intermediaries individual securitization of different assets.
Scientists develop electronic rescue dog
Zurich – Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have developed equipment that could be used to detect people by smell after an earthquake. It is the smallest and cheapest equipment of this kind ever made.
Mindfire inspiring research into AI
Zurich – Switzerland is to become a centre for research into artificial intelligence. To this end, the Mindfire Foundation is now bringing the world’s top talent together in Davos. A blockchain solution will be protecting the intellectual property of the experts.
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