Lan Zuo Gillet has been active in the innovation and start-up ecosystem since 2008. She has worked for the Swiss innovation agency (Innosuisse) as an expert, mentor and entrepreneurship training director for Western Switzerland for the past 12 years. As Consul at the Swiss Consulate in Shanghai, she was instrumental in building swissnex – Switzerland’s outpost for science, technology and innovation in China (2008–2011). She also served as Managing Director of Geneva Creativity Center (2012–2014) and Deputy Managing Director of EPFL Innovation Park (2014–2025), where she launched several innovation initiatives, including Tech4Trust, Tech4Eva, Tech4Growth and Future of Health Grant. Prior to her innovation work, she spent 14 years in the private sector as a research and development project manager at Rolex and as the Head of Operational Planning at a Swiss private bank.

Maike Scherrer is the Head of the Institute for Sustainable Development at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Having completed her doctorate and qualified as a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, she now conducts research that focuses on the sustainable design of global supply chains and logistics. At the centre of her work is the question of how new technologies and data-driven approaches can help make processes and supply chains more sustainable, resilient and circular.

Björn Kälin doesn’t see intellectual property as a legal hurdle, but as a key business enabler. As a Managing Partner at morethentic, he draws on his extensive national and international industry experience -– including his former role leading strategic projects in more than 35 countries – to help companies make their innovations future-proof and investment-ready on a global scale. In his role as an IPI Ambassador, he bridges the gap between ecological vision and economic reality.

His clear goal is for sustainable technologies to gain exactly the market traction they need to drive genuine cross-border transformation by using the right protection.

Luc-E. Amgwerd has built his career within entrepreneurial, innovation, intellectual property and impact-driven ventures. After training as a lawyer and a researcher at the University of Neuchâtel, he spent the first portion of his professional life dealing with hands-on management of IP (mainly copyright, trade marks, patents, collaborations and licensing agreements), while spending a substantial amount of time on the wild slopes and glaciers above Chamonix. This latter experience sparked his commitment to sustainable engagement, firstly as a partner of Creaholic SA (2009–2017) and then as a co-founder and the CEO of Gjosa SA (2017–2024), which delivers unique water-saving solutions and was recently acquired by L’Oréal. During those roles, he developed a heightened awareness of commercial research and development with environmental stewardship and adopted the philosophy that a team with dedication and care doesn’t just act: it creates changes. Besides his current company (Ideality), he acts as an advisor, a board member and/or an investor in local organisations and selected Swiss start-ups that are active mainly in the Greentech domains.