🔔 Alumni EMBA UNIGE Networking Event
📅 Thursday 13 November 2025
🕡 6:45 PM – 10 PM
📍  Campus Biotech Geneva
✍🏻 Register HERE

This event will take place at Campus Biotech, the world-class center for innovation in biotechnology, neuroscience, and digital technologies. Known as a hub where academia, industry, and entrepreneurs meet, Campus Biotech provides an inspiring setting to explore how robotics is shaping the future of leadership and human intelligence.

Two experts will share their insights on how robotics and emerging technologies are redefining human potential:

Simón Contreras, Industry Principal for Retail & Consumer Goods at Snowflake and former senior leader at Amazon, AWS and Procter & Gamble
With more than 25 years of experience driving digital transformation across Fortune 500 companies, Simón has spearheaded AI, IoT and data-driven initiatives that optimized manufacturing, supply chains and customer engagement. He’s been at the forefront of deploying cloud, analytics and robotics solutions that accelerate innovation and operational excellence. He’ll share how emerging technologies — from AI to robotics — are reshaping industrial operations and creating new competitive advantages.

Mario di Castro, Leader of the Mechatronics, Robotics and Operations at CERN. With more than 20 years of experience in robotics, control systems and mechatronics, Mario will share how CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, navigates a uniquely demanding scientific and technical environment. Home to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, CERN pushes the limits of technology to enable groundbreaking discoveries in particle physics. Its extreme operating conditions – where equipment must function with remarkable precision and reliability amid high radiation, strong magnetic fields and restricted-access accelerator tunnels – demand robotic systems capable of performing tasks impossible for humans. These robots act as extensions of human intelligence and ingenuity, protecting people while driving innovation and opening new frontiers of possibility far beyond particle physics.

After the presentations, we will continue the conversations over a cocktail and light snacks – a perfect opportunity to connect with the speakers and fellow alumni in a relaxed and convivial atmosphere

The event is open to all, not only EMBA students – feel free to invite your friends and colleagues who share an interest in robotics and innovation.
We hope to see you soon!

Association Alumni EMBA UNIGE
Your organising team :
Zeng Zhou, Marzena Lapka, Lone Le-Floch, Joelle Morlet, Jaqueline Papo, Yousri El Antri, Alain Sigrist

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With the support of:
Geneva School of Economics and Management