Boyd Cohen, Ph.D., is an urban strategist focused on the areas of urban innovation, entrepreneurship, smart cities and urban mobility. He has published 3 books (Climate Capitalism, 2011; The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur, 2016; Post-capitalist Entrepreneurship, 2017).

In 2017, he co-founded Iomob (iomob.net) which has built an open, decentralized, interoperable Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform.

Previously, Boyd created the Smart Cities Wheel as a framework for developing and implementing smart city strategies and for benchmarking cities around the globe. His smart cities and smart mobility work has been profiled in TEDx, CNBC, Fast Company, Forbes and more.

Since 2018 Armin Eberle is lecturer and head of the Institute of Sustainable Development at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (School of Engineering). His research topics are energy management and policy, sustainability, energy-efficiency-networks and he is teaching “clean-tech” and “business-administration” among others.

Between 2009 and 2018 he was managing director of the Energy Agency of the Swiss Private Sector (EnAW) and in that function responsible for the implementation of the Swiss CO2 bill in the economic sector. Guiding more than 3000 companies towards energy management and reduction of energy consumption the EnAW plays an important role in CO2-abatement in Switzerland.

Before he was responsible in a Swiss energy utility for the development of renewable energies and between 1998 and 2003 he was head of sustainability at Migros, the largest retailer in the country. After his studies he worked as a consultant in the fields of infrastructure, environment and economics.

Furthermore Armin Eberle is engaged in several boards like “ZHAW Energy Research Board” , “Energy moves Winterthur (ebw)”; “foundation fair recycling”, Zurich-Brazil; “Institute for Resource Efficiency and Energy Strategies”. Karlsruhe. He was also board member of innovative companies/startups such as Kompogas (Fermentation plant) and Mobility (former ShareCom, Car-Sharing, Zurich/ Lucerne) and board member of the Swiss SCCER-EIP –research program “Efficiency of Industrial Processes”.

Armin holds a M.A. HSG in economics (University of St. Gallen) and a MSc ETH in Civil Engineering (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich). He wrote his PhD thesis on “least-cost principle (Minimalkostenprinzip) in public infrastructure” University of Oldenburg, Germany. He lives with his family in Zurich, Switzerland.

Michel Guillaume is leading the Centre for Aviation at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Winterthur since 2012. In 2016 he became Full Professor of System Integration and Structural Integrity.

He studied physics at ETH in Zurich and got a PhD in Physics in 1994 from ETH Zurich. He spent 18 years in the Aerospace Industry involved in many projects for fatigue and damage tolerance analysis for the Swiss F/A-18 fighter, and in low speed wind tunnel testing at RUAG Aviation in Emmen. Since 2005 he is given lectures in Fatigue and Damage Tolerances at ETH in Zurich. He gives lectures in aerodynamics, structures, systems engineering, and unmanned aviation at ZHAW in Winterthur.

At the Centre for Aviation Michel Guillaume is involved in many projects for unmanned air vehicules. He had the lead of the TA-SWISS study for Remote-controlled Flying Machines which was published in March 2018 and got a lot of attention. Since 2017 he is the chairman and organizer of the Swiss UTM Forum which is held every year in Winterthur with great success. He was involved in different studies and provides several presentations in the field of future aviation including Urban Air Mobility.

Publisher of Elektroauto-News.net - News Portal about E-Mobility, electric cars and a greener future

After 8 years at Google and co-founding Daedalean, Jasmine brings her broad software engineering expertise and training in DO-178C and safety critical software development to Dufour.

She is responsible for design evaluations, simulation, control systems, software and automation.

Alex Kiltz is an early-stage technology investor at UVC Partners focused on enterprise software, mobility and industrial technology businesses in Europe. At UVC Partners, he sourced and/or helped lead investments in Blickfeld (automotive LiDAR technology), ELISE (generative engineering software), FAZUA (drive system for e-bikes), HQS Quantum Simulations (quantum computing software), Innoactive (immersive work enterprise software), shyftplan (workforce management software), TWAICE Technologies (battery analytics software for e-mobility), and in one undisclosed company. Alex serves as an observer on four boards of directors. He opened and leads the fund’s Berlin office.

Prior to UVC Partners, Alex worked in private equity and IT consulting. He also co-founded one and worked at two other startups in business development and operations roles. Alex graduated from the Technical University of Munich specializing in Finance and Electrical Engineering.

German-based automotive industry analyst with over ten years of experience delivering key and incisive trends and developments in the global automotive industry, to the automotive industry and its stakeholders.

Served as an analyst and later as Editor, at the industry-wide, AID Market Intelligence Report B2B publication, with a demographic including a number of the world’s most influential strategic product planners and CEOs.

My work has led me to feature as an industry commentator in key publications such as:

• The Financial Times
• Handelsblatt
• Bloomberg
• Politico
• Forbes
• LA Times
• Fortune
• Automotive News
• Les Échos
• Yahoo Finance
• Stern

I also operate as an Industry Consultant: Recent jobs included a consultancy role for Hyundai Motor Company at their world HQ in South Korea. The project revolved around future plans and direction of Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV) in Europe.

I have been bringing ideas to life for more than 25 years in varying roles such as marketing, project management, and business development. With a focus on I.T., I specialize in helping companies develop products and bring them to market using proven marketing and business development strategies.

I have local and global business development experience, and bring depth to any project that I work on.

I am passionate about bringing together new ideas, high tech, and entrepreneurship. This has led me to teach "Global Innovation Ecosystems" at universities, where we explore how high-tech can breed new ideas in today's world and how it can be marketed globally. It has also led to me create, and head as President, the non-profit "High-Tech Connect Suisse" association, which encourages high-tech business development. I have organized 150+ high-tech business events in Switzerland and organized 15+ trips to Silicon Valley.

If you are interested in what I do and wish to connect with me for business or other opportunities, let's connect.