Swissnex in Boston and New York

?? ???? How does sound shape the way we experience space? Join us on Thursday, April 3, at 5:30pm for Beyond the Alps: Music in Shifting Spaces as Jessie Cox, a Swiss composer and Associate Professor of Music at Harvard University, presents his piece Black/blackness, which incorporates virtual and augmented acoustics to challenge our notions of space and sound. The evening will include a performance of Black/blackness by musicians Joshua Rubin and Rebekah Heller of the International Contemporary Ensemble, and a conversation between Cox and Nicole Sütterlin, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard, followed by an apéro. ??? Find out more and request a free ticket: https://lnkd.in/ek54sY3V #music #newmusic #concert #virtualacoustics

?????? Join us next Wednesday, March 26, at 12:00pm to hear how Massachusetts researchers and a Swiss startup are using drones and AI to improve street safety in the Boston area. ?? For the March edition of Broadway Bites, we’re joined by Eleni Christofa, Professor of Transportation Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Nikolas Geroliminis, Full Professor in the Urban Transport Systems Lab at EPFL and co-founder of MobiLysis. With the help of MobiLysis’s AI-powered software, Dr. Christofa and her team are analyzing drone footage of Somerville, MA, streets to detect conflicts between road users, and improve safety and efficiency of traffic flows. Want to learn more about their research? ??? Request a ticket: https://lnkd.in/eDPcfq_c #traffic #safestreets #bikesafety #visionzero #AI #drones #BroadwayBites #SwissStartups #SwissImpact

Happy Pi Day (3/14)! ???? Do you know about the surprisingly Swiss history of pi? ?? Since antiquity, scholars have been approximating the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle. But it was 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler who popularized the use of the Greek letter ?? to refer to the mathematical constant. ?? In 1768, another Swiss mathematician, Johann Lambert, was the first to prove that pi is an irrational number – its decimal sequence is infinite and non-repeating. ?? And in 2021, researchers at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons in Chur, Switzerland, set a record by calculating 62.8 trillion digits of pi, the calculation taking more than 108 days. ?? Do you know what else is irrational and infinite? Our love of pie! #PiDay #?? #SwissScience #math #pie

Join us at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn on March 22 for In Our Decline, a research symposium on the creative embrace of aging, decay, and ruin. Bringing together researchers, artists, and performers in Switzerland and the US, the symposium was initiated by award-winning Swiss dancer and choreographer Simone Aughterlony and Guggenheim Fellow Jennifer Rosenblit as part of The Dumps, a research and performance project exploring our love and fear of decay. ??? Find out more and register: https://lnkd.in/e9wunqXv Presenters: Simone Aughterlony | Artist Jen Rosenblit | Artist Jack Halberstam | Columbia University Caroline Dionne | Parsons School of Design Felipe Ribeiro | HKB - Bern Academy of Arts & Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Avgi Saketopoulou | New York University A.K. Burns | Artist Ryan McNamara| Artist In Our Decline is presented in collaboration with CPR – Center for Performance Research, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Imbricated Real, the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, Pro Helvetia, and Presence Switzerland. #Arts #PerformanceArt #NewYork

????????? How can fashion and the arts help us reshape narratives of the past? Join us in New York on March 19 for Lens of Impact: Tailoring Freedom, exploring the intersections of self-fashioning, visual culture, and historical accountability. This edition, we're joined by Sasha Huber, Swiss-Haitian visual artist and researcher, and Jonathan Square, Assistant Professor of Black Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design - The New School. Together, they will reflect on how historical narratives are woven into identity and artistic expression. ??? Register: https://lnkd.in/eF5zM3h5 Lens of Impact is a joint initiative between Swissnex and Parsons’ School of Art and Design History and Theory (ADHT) at The New School, exploring the cross-cultural spaces of art and design discourse. ?? Learn more about the series: https://lnkd.in/eEH8WqqS #LensofImpact

??? AI is giving brands new insights into their customers and creating opportunities for more direct consumer-brand engagement. What does this mean for the future of commerce? Join Swissnex on Tuesday, March 25 to hear from entrepreneurs and industry leaders on how these dynamics are changing the landscape of the consumer packaged goods industry. Thank you to Vontobel Swiss Financial Advisors for hosting us for this event. Panelists: Albert Baladi | Former CEO, Beam Suntory Jaime Halprin - Oesch | Senior Director Consumer Experience, Kellanova Vala Dormiani | CEO & Co-founder, Ludis Analytics Karim Choueiri | CEO& Co-founder, WECHEER Crystelle Desnoyer | Board Member, La French Tech New York ???Register now: https://lnkd.in/efTJXdbZ ?? This is the latest edition of Swiss Startup Dialogues, our event series connecting Swiss entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators in the New York metropolitan area. Find out about past events and stay up to date: https://lnkd.in/eYpPPqhS #SwissStartups #startups #AI #CPG #NewYork

On International Women’s Day, we recognize the many remarkable women that are part of the Swissnex community, whether in education, research, innovation, or the arts. Thank you for the work you do and the impact that you make. Today and every day, we celebrate your achievements and continue to support inclusion in every field. #IWD2025 #Innovation #Research #Education #Arts #Swissnex

The March edition of our newsletter is out! From #fashion and #performanceart to #AI for consumer brands and traffic safety, see what we’re up to this month in Boston and New York! ?? Read now: https://zc.vg/EbhoL?m=0? ?? Subscribe: https://lnkd.in/e5jQiseF #Newsletter #Swissnex #Boston #NewYork

?????????? What’s the connection between wildfires, Earth systems, and individual and community health outcomes? Last week, we were joined by a distinguished panel of Swiss and US researchers for Climate Extremes: Planetary and Human Health Under Stress, featuring Sonia I. Seneviratne (ETH Zürich), Mary Rice (Harvard C-CHANGE), and Maria Ivanova (Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs ) in a conversation moderated by Justin Worland (TIME). From droughts and fires to plastic and particulate pollution, the conversation illuminated the complex connections between fossil fuels, extreme weather events, and human health and wellbeing. Thank you to the guests for sharing their expertise, and to ETH Zürich, the Science and Technology Office of the Embassy of Switzerland in the United States of America, and Presence Switzerland for their collaboration on this event. ?? Want to learn more? Find key takeaways and watch the full event video here: https://lnkd.in/eFNWzEWk Marianne Lucien Olivia Gachoud #climatechange #climateextremes #planetary #health

Congratulations to our current #StartupCamp participants Precious Sound for this amazing collaboration with the iconic rock band KISS! ?? ??