The first Ada Lovelace Festival Switzerland was made as a unique plattform to meet, share knowledge, expand your network, especially for women in technology. This video is giving some expressions of the festival, we want to thank everyone, the participants, the speakers, our partners and the team for being a part of it. We hope you all enjoyed it. 🙂

“In computer science the majority of students and researchers is obviously male.”

We spoke with Esther Hänggi, Lecturer & Researcher, HSLU, about quantum information, how and where it can be applied, Continue reading

“The challenge will be to find the right ballance that the consumer still feel that he is in controll of the payment, while it is very easy for him to do the payment.”

We spoke with Martina Forster, Senior Product Manager Payment Security, Netcetera, about the newest trends in payment security, Continue reading

“Conferences like Ada are important to bring women together, to share their skill sets, to share their competencies and to share their network.”

In this interview we asked Lizan Kuster, Moderator, Speaker, Entrepreneur, why events like Ada Switzerland are important for women in technology,Continue reading

“It´s a core thing to not take a machine answer as absolutely perfect, we need to switch on our brains and not take everything for granted.”

We spoke with Heike Riel, IBM Fellow, Department Head Science & Technology, IBM Research about what machine learing is, how we spend our time in future, Continue reading

“With Quantum Computing we can do things that wo can not do with classic computing.”

With Heike Riel, IBM Fellow, Department Head Science & Technology, IBM Research we talked about what are the most exciting things in technology,Continue reading

“We are all change makers deep down inside, it´s a matter of liberating this creative power that we have.”

We spoke with Cristina Riesen, Founder We Are Play Lab Foundation, about how to become a change maker, what skills we need Continue reading

“My key kessage is don´t give up. It´s to easy to walk away.”

We talked with Monique Morrow President & Co-Founder The Humanized Internet, former CTO at Cisco about persistence and why it is important to succeed in Continue reading

Jasmin Deniz Karatas, Gamification Chapter Lead / Manager Accenture Interactive Delivery, talked with us about Gamification, how this can be applied in “real life” and equal payment between men an women.

1. Jasmim, you are working in the Gamification Chapter Lead for Accenture Digital Interactive. What is gamification?

The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as: The practice of making activities of making more like games in order to make them more interesting or enjoyable. There is not a lot more, which makes us more human than play or games and we use game mechanics, rules of play, the game engines to transform behaviors, create experiences and develop new ways of interactions.

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