Sep 16 2024
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Healthy bites: interviewing Enrico Perfler, Founder at 1MED

By francescopagano74

Given the relevance of the intersection between health and tech, we decided to speak to Enrico Perfler, Founder at 1 MED, a company born in 2014 and based in Switzerland. Perfler is a serial entrepreneur and a former university professor, who decided to create a different Contract Research Organization (CRO), with a focus on medical devices and now pharmaceuticals. “Our approach wants to be proactive, and it is based on deep tech and a world-class knowledge of global regulations, across the EU and the US. We are a SME, with 150 employees, double digit growth in yearly revenues and we are focused on innovation for big pharma and health-tech scaleups,” says Perfler. The goal of 1 MED is to make pharma supply chains more efficient. 

Sep 05 2024
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Twinning luxury

By francescopagano74

The idea of a digital twin (or, passport,) fits very well with scarcity. As humans, we have always admired the fine craft of a maestro, like a watchmaker, a jeweler and a leather artisan, let alone the creative hand of a couturier. And, yet, gray and counterfeit products infest our marketplaces, with no elasticity to global crises or shocks. Plus, we don’t really know where all the components of an accessory are sourced, and if that happens ethically. If we are buying something unique, can we get access to its supply chain and receive firm confirmation of compliance and excellence, as a default feature for what is probably the purchase of a lifetime, like an engagement ring? It’s time technology came to the rescue, to save artists, as well as consumers, chasing their dream of exclusivity.

Sep 05 2024
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AI teacher, don’t leave those kids alone

By francescopagano74

Pooling, cleaning and making sense of data will make us healthier and will give us longevity. Above all, exponential technologies will broaden access to healthcare, progressively including the entire world population, thanks to new capabilities and dramatically lower costs. The advantages of tech need to be assessed from the margin of the empire, indeed, namely by how much new tools are able to liberate those living at the periphery of society. Their data is valuable, and their markets can be unlocked, at least technologically, as we saw in the previous section. There is another immense industry, which will be disrupted by a Total Marketing approach, and that’s the field of education.

Aug 30 2024
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Twinning supply

By francescopagano74

Virginie Maillard works for Siemens, one of the largest industrial companies on the planet, where she leads the global research for the Simulation and Digital Twin Technology, from her office in New Jersey (US,) while carrying also the responsibility for research in key markets, like Germany, India and China. Before Siemens, she worked in the automotive industry, which is being taken by storm by multiple revolutions, starting from electrification. She is probably the best person to torture about supply chain disruption and the trend of “twinning” what we manufacture, or the factories per se, where everything gets created in the first place. 

Aug 30 2024
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Long live the Indies: report from Geneva Watch Days 2024

By francescopagano74

Fifty something independents met in Geneva, between August 29th and September 2nd, 2024, to celebrate and share the love for Swiss-made watches. The founders of the diffused fair stressed their idea at the kick-off press conference. The initial fire burns stronger than ever, after five years from the first edition, so it seems: “This is a fair to share and give visibility to the artisans of watchmaking, inside the city and in sync with it. We even have many other small brands around us, piggybacking on the official buzz, and that’s totally fine. We don’t compete with other fairs and want to be a complement to them. We create a level playing field, where small watchmakers can get a fair share of the pie, in terms of trading opportunities and awareness. We create an infrastructure where everyone is free to be who they are. We have venues and times where we celebrate the ‘why’ of watches,” says one of the founding fathers.