Tech Inspired

Meet Megha, CEO and co-founder of Metabloqs, as she shares her insights on the transformative power of generative tech, AI, and the web. Discover how anyone, regardless of their industry or role, can thrive in this space with curiosity, passion, and a willingness to learn. Tune in for a thought-provoking discussion on whether Metaverse interactions can replace real-life connections.

Meet Susann Pätschke, an aerospace engineer who found her passion for all things space at a young age. As a Ground Station Modem Engineer with CGI for ESA/ESOC, Susann shares her experience working in the technical aspects of the aerospace and satellite market, and the role it plays in our daily lives. Listen to the episode to explore her journey, future developments in the space industry, and mor...

Sandra Zimmerli, Cloud Engineer at novaCapta, shares her inspiring journey into the world of tech. From a young age, Sandra was fascinated by computers and coding quickly became her hobby. Despite not having any role models in the industry, Sandra pursued her passion for IT and is now a successful Cloud Engineer. In this episode, she discusses the impact of AI, the future of cloud technology, and...

Meet Stephanie Lambert, Head of Global Sales Operations at Wingtra. Despite having no background in tech, Stephanie has found her way into the industry through her passion for disaster relief and her willingness to explore the unknown. Stephanie shares her journey from being a typical ballet-dancing girl to becoming a Head of Global Sales Operations and a member of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Corps...

Meet Khanh, Security Advisor at Splunk. Her interest in numbers led her to study economics and finance. After completing her studies, she landed a job at Microsoft as a business manager, but she soon realized that she wanted more – to explore the sales aspect of the tech industry and talk to customers about the technology and how to use it effectively. However, switching from a numbers-focused rol...

Lerne Marina Petrovic, Data Reporting Specialist bei ewz , kennen. Marina lernte früh in ihrem Leben zwei Bereiche kennen, die auch sie später prägten: die Physik und das Banking. Obwohl sie bereits im Gymnasium mit Computern in Kontakt kam und die ersten IT Erfahrungen sammelte, entschied sie sich trotzdem für ein Physik Studium. Den Schritt in die Finanzwelt wagte sie dann nach dem Studium. Sie...

Meet Cornelia, an executive at Eidgenössische Elektrizitätskommission ElCom and the founder of energy-on! Her journey into technology began in her early childhood. She was a curious child, so she decided to experiment - to put a nail in the socket and see what happened. It was so interesting to know why and how we've electricity in the socket. She never stopped thinking about it, and that was the...

Meet Alessia, Tech Artist in Meta. She works in a team focused on Mixed Reality, combining the real world with the virtual one. She is very close to the tech team, but at the same time, creativity is a very important part of her work. She was lucky enough to be exposed to computers from a young age. When she was a child, her father worked for IBM and her mother studied art. So she was always conne...

Meet Reshma, Group Senior Vice President & Chief Transformation Officer at The Adecco Group. She is originally from India, but has spent 22 years living in 13 countries on 3 different continents. And all these years she has worked in the tech industry. She is a mother who successfully combines her professional life with childcare. Reshma is an engineer by training, but tech was never her child...

Meet Elcin, the Defense Attack Capability Lead at UBS, Chair for Finance and Banking working group, and lecturer at Swiss Cyber Institute. She is one of the few women working and leading in cyber security. However, it was not always obvious that this would become her passion. After her studies in industrial engineering, she got the opportunity to work in cyber security and has not left since. Elci...

Meet Akira Brand, Developer Relations Professional in Bright Security . She had several drastic changes in her career path – started as an opera singer, switched to e-commerce, and is now in software engineer. Before tech, she used to work professionally full-time in the classical music scene. It seems that these are totally different and not connected professions, but the way of approaching work...

Meet Nisha Lehmann, Senior Customer Success Manager at Merkle . Nisha has been working in Tech for 15 years. Her career choice was an accident because she never had an aspiration for the IT area. She studied journalism and had a dream of becoming a writer. But when she finished her education and tried to find a job — she wasn't successful. After that, she accidentally found a job as a technical wr...

​Meet Rosemary Lockhorst, Founder and CEO of   StoryByte Studio , which specialized in digital storytelling, using the latest technologies in gamification and entertainment. Rosemary, or Rosy as she introduces herself, was already interested in tech at a very early age. However, even though she had a computer at the age of 9, she decided later to pursue a career in the hospitality industry. W...

​Meet Anna Maria, who is a Senior Director in IT Strategy and Innovation at Sunrise .  As a child she followed her curiosity to take things apart and put them back together. Inspired by her father and by her mathematics and physics teacher, she fell in love with technology. Consequently, she graduated as one of three women with an engineering degree and worked for the first couple years in co...

Meet Sibel, Head of Data at Frontify and a global citizen. Sibel lived most of her life outside Turkey, where she has been born and raised. Today she is responsible for all the data analytics tasks at Frontify. She joined a small and young team and built up a team of six today including data analysts and engineers. Sibel started her career in economics with the goal to be a professor, teacher or r...

Meet Karina Stump, who is the Leader Category Management Supermarket at Digitec Galaxus. Previously, she worked for almost a decade in the luxury and fashion industry. There she had various roles from finance to marketing to management. In many of these jobs she had touch points with the tech world. Be it building a cv platform at university or leading a new pricing system at a well-known jeweller...

Meet Maryia Kayser, Head of Software Development at Nexxiot , an IoT company. She studied Physics and Mathematics, then Economics and currently she is working in Software Development. Maryia became a Web Developer by fixing one thing on a website and continued coding the whole website. By chance she got into the Tech industry, but she does not want to change a bit of her journey so far. Maryia’s d...

Meet Leonie Flückiger, co-founder and CTO of Adresta and a former ETH Juniors team member. Leonie grew up in an environment without an immediate connection to the areas of MINT. She never saw herself as very intelligent and was struggling to get into the gymnasium. Soon enough however she discovered her motivation and passion to learn new things that opened up many potential career opportunities....

Meet Stefany Barker, Software Engineer Team Lead and co-founder of many interesting initiatives and organizations. Besides being a co-founder with entrepreneurial skills, she has been an inspiring role model herself for me. Stefany and Priska have meet 5 years ago at a Female Founder event in Zurich and connected on the same experience - being a woman in the male-dominated world of tech! This expe...

Meet Nicole Becker, who is responsible for marketing, sales and partner management at BSI and embraces live as a mom and wife. She started her career in tech during the dot-com phase after finishing her studies in international economy. In her first job she realised that tech is her passion. However, her interest for tech started much earlier. Born and raised in eastern Germany, accessing a comput...

Meet Roxanne Derhodge, a Forbes Executive Council Member and Resiliency Keynote Speaker. We had the pleasure to invite her to our podcast and talk about authentic leadership. Roxanne has experienced authentic leadership when she was just a kid. She was watching her father leading a corporation looking after their employees first. Impressed by what she saw, she wanted to pursue a career doing exact...

Meet Petra Donka, a Software Development Team Lead and Software Engineer at Scandit in Zurich. She is going to be a speaker at the #wetechtogether conference 2021 and will talk about augmented reality solutions for modern enterprises. But before that, she shares with us, why she has switched from English Literature studies to Computer Science. Petra always considered herself as a geek person and h...

Meet Claudia, a Key Account Manager at Red Hat, the world’s leading  provider of enterprise open source solutions. She never wanted to work  in Tech nor Sales, and this is exactly what she does today! Her dream was to become a doctor, so she absorbed everything that had  to do with doctors. However, over time she realised that she had an  affinity for languages, society, cultur...

Meet Andrea, who is a Cyber Security Consultant at Detecon . Without a technological background or role models in her family, she discovered her fascination for technology during her studies.  What is it about Cyber Security that hooked her from the beginning? The main goal of Cyber Security is to reduce the risks to have a profitable business case. There is always the question to ponder: wha...

Meet Sofia, who works as a Cyber Security Specialist at Roche Diagnostics Europe.  Do you wonder what a day in the life of a cyber security specialist looks like? Well, Sofia shares some questions and concepts she deals with on a daily base. For example, did you ever think about the security of medical devices used by your doctor to diagnose a health issue? My guess is, not many of us do that...