Tech Inspired

Meet this group of inspiring women talking about the important topic of "Knowing your worth". Listen to this episode if you enjoy hearing diverse ways to handle (work and life) situations where you doubt your worth. Meet... ... Lisa – Software Developer at Esri with a passion for sustainability and future cities ... Yanira – Head of Customer Experience at Migros Online, UX expert and team lead ......

Meet Taisha Fabricius, who is originally from Australia and now based in Switzerland for the last 10 years. She works as a 3D Technology Evangelist at Esri. Taisha is also a board member of Girls in Tech Switzerland since September 2020. Taisha has not a straightforward way into tech. Early during her undergrad degree, she realized that the so-called soft skills are one of her biggest strengths an...

Meet Anna Thumann, who is currently studying Mechanical Engineering in her third year at ETH Zurich and building an electric aircraft. Concurrently, she is the president of LIMES – Ladies in Mechanical and Electrical Studies at ETH Zurich. The main goal of LIMES is to connect female students with industry partners and help them grow their peer network. Additionally, they are educating and motivati...

Meet Leïla Haegel, who is equal parts researcher and entrepreneur. Are you curious, how she combines her research about black holes with her ideas how to combine learning and AI? Leïla is a physicist and her research focuses on signals from gravitational radiation that are emitted by black holes. It is a rather new and very exciting field. During her PhD thesis she first got in touch with machine...

Meet Tanja Koch, Zurich Ambassador for Women in 3D Printing , a global association to meet and exchange experiences about working in the 3D printing industry. Tanja works at 9T Labs , a startup from ETH Zurich that manufactures carbon composite 3D printers. Her job allows Tanja to combine her technical background with the business aspects of a startup company. She works closely with the sales and...

Meet Asra Nadeem, who has 15 years of experience in various tech start-ups predominantly in the early stages and venture capital investment in Silicon Valley. Do you want to know, why she got her first job? It was because she was able to speak good English. However, she has proven herself very useful and shortly afterwards she was hired full-time as a product manager. Asra has a non-traditional wa...

Meet Kim Dressendoerfer, who works as a Technical Specialist and Cognitive Solution Architect for AI and Data at IBM. In this function she gets to use her creativity to build new solutions for clients daily. Already as a young girl, Kim was curious about technology and computers. She learned by doing and tried to figure out how systems or games work. Do you know, what her first ever played game wa...

Meet Dorothea Baur, self-described independent ethics expert. Five years ago, she started her own consulting business Baur Consulting, where she advises companies in the financial industry about ethical questions. More recently, she has immersed herself into the field of artificial intelligence and ethics. In her daily work, she helps to define the necessary vocabulary to tackle the ethical questi...

Meet Sandra Tobler, the Co-Founder and CEO of Futurae Technologies AG an ETH Zurich spin-off that specializes in cyber security. Her company strives to set new standards in authentication security without compromising on user experience. She is convinced that IT is the most powerful and creative industry with all the positive and negative aspects known. She points out that IT security is not just...

Meet Alex Sokolowska, who shares her experience about the empowerment of women in STEM while working in the academic environment and the start-up world. Follow her journey from a PhD in Computational Science at the University of Zurich, to a San Francisco start-up and her current position as a post-doc researcher at TU Delft. For her, technology is the tool to explore the world in a more scientifi...

Meet Dalith Steiger! Get to know her journey from Software Engineer at UBS to Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SwissCognitive, a network to discuss the opportunities, impacts and development of Artificial Intelligence. She chose to study Mathematics and Information Technology because numbers are easy to understand. Moreover, programming languages are international and spoken worldwide. That is o...

Meet Maja Schreiner! Maja has been in the Tech industry for a very long time and has recently decided to start her own venture. She grew up in Serbia and was already interested in programming since she was a kid. Although she wasn't looking for a job in Switzerland, she ended up in a Startup in Lausanne.  Later in her career she became aware of how important it is to be able to work part-time. Thi...

Recently our partner community, Girls in Tech Switzerland, has recorded a podcast introducing themselves and sharing their advice, insights and tips about tech and the current situation. We are happy to share this podcast with you as well. Listen to their team members talking about their favorite apps, why they believe in tech for good and how they cope with the lockdown.

Meet Marisa Tschopp! She is a researcher at scip ag (www.scip.ch), a cybersecurity and tech company in Zurich. She is conducting research about AI and technology from a psychological perspective, with a wide range of questions related to psychological phenomena, governance and ethical implications. Her research areas are about trust (What does it take to trust AI?), behavioral performance measurem...

Meet Bettina Wolko! She is a software engineer at Namics with an interesting background! Having started out with an apprenticeship as a chemical lab assistant in Dusseldorf she soon realized that software engineering was a way cooler option - discover why she made that switch in this podcast episode. We also discuss how she must start mornings with coffee, what a typical day is like for her at wor...

Alice studied Game Design at ZHdK, a degree she discovered at an introductory evening and straight away she was hooked as it combined everything she loved: programming, engineering, gaming, writing, narrative, art and design. Today she’s Game Developer at Air Console, and works on a cloud-based console which uses phones as controllers and in her spare time she runs The Mane Quest, where she review...

Sara “slipped into the tech world” after studying a Master’s in multilingual text analysis and loves that she’s managed to combine her passion in linguistics with tech! ⁠⁠ Sara applied to jobs everywhere using advice she got from her role models, which led her to interesting interviews and possibilities until she scored a job at Turicode, a tech start-up that transforms unstructured data from PDF...

Arijana Walcott didn’t start off as a techie. She started out in a call centre before becoming Head of Trends and Technology at Swisscom and later becoming CEO and Co-Founder of Dart Labs - an incubator based in Silicon Valley and Zurich focused on early stage start-ups. This fascinating woman has had a couple of pivots in her career. In this episode, we discuss these changes, her fascination with...

Meet Noemi, a digital consultant at Zuehlke, who studied engineering at ETH, after changing her mind 2 weeks before her law study started. Today she knows that a deep understanding of technology is necessary to build bridges to the people using it. She is always looking to be part of something bigger and meaningful, therefore she reached out to a person she admired and didn't even know. What to kn...

How is it to work as Venture Capitalist and support young tech entrepreneurs? Meet Adriana Collini, working as part of the investment team at Seedstars finding startups in the tech space and supporting their founder. Although she does not call herself a techie, the tech world fascinates her and she takes every opportunity to learn about. She shares lots of information about what inspires her to wo...

Have you ever wondered what DevOps is about? Then you came to the right place; meet Damla Simsek who is currently working at Accenture as DevOps Specialist. Listen to her story how she started in DevOps, why she sees herself in Tech in the future and why she thinks that it is never to too late to start a career in Tech. Would you have guessed who is her favorite role model? Listen to this podcast...

Did you ever think, you can't get into tech because you didn't study any related topic? Then don't miss this podcast with Chanel Greco! She is an educated office clerk, always driven by her curiosity with computers which lead her to the job she loves so passionately today. Want to hear her story and why the Indian Jones jump and run game played a vital role? Listen to her story now!

Meet Olga Skurativska, a software engineer at Homegate. She gets inspired by building solutions, which help others to make their life better, faster, prettier or just easier. Therefore she chose a career in tech, where she is able to apply her most important skill. Curious to know what it is and how she applies what she learned in yoga to her work life? Find out with this podcast!

Meet Andreea, a Product Manager for Data Analytics and AI at Swisscom and working for Swisscom ventures to assess AI startups worldwide. She studies in many countries, such as Romania, France, the US and Switzerland. Listen to this episode of our podcast to find out how learning many languages helped her to find a passion for AI.

Meet Anita in this podcast episode. Anita works as a Data Scientist for a Swiss retailer and shares her insights about the tasks and skills required. Anita has started her career in academia but the theoretical world wasn't her passion, she needed more hands-on experience. Find out about her way into tech and why she believes that you don't need to be afraid of failing and try over and over again....