Mother Teresa, born in 1910 in Skopje in what is now North Macedonia, became world-famous for her selfless work in India, where she founded the Missionaries of Charity order. She dedicated her life to the poor, the sick and the dying by advocating love and care. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. She died in 1997 and was canonized in 2016. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been with Julinda Gllavata throughout her career. From her PhD in image recognition to ...
Apr 10, 2024•18 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Hiro Protagonist is – as his name suggests – the main character in the cyberpunk novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. In a dystopian Los Angeles, he delivers pizzas. But he is also a swordsman and “hacker.” In the latter role, he helped to program the so-called Metaverse – Facebook comes to mind – a parallel world in which people can immerse themselves as avatars thanks to virtual reality goggles. When Snow Crash was released in 1992, the Internet was still far from what it is today. Nevertheles...
Dec 14, 2022•19 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Shelley Zalis is the founder and CEO of The Female Quotient. That makes her one of the best-known fighters for gender equality in the workplace. Her Equality Lounge at the World Economic Forum in Davos has been one of the places to be for years. As founder of OTX, she became a pioneer in online research and the first female executive in the top 25 in the industry. Dr. Mara C. Harvey has 21 years of experience in wealth management at UBS. Her work also led to the publication of the book “Women an...
Oct 06, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Finnish Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas has been driving for the Swiss racing team Alfa Romeo F1 Team Orlen since 2022. However, he achieved his greatest successes at Mercedes, where he drove alongside Lewis Hamilton from 2017 to 2021. In 2019 and 2020, he finished runner-up behind him in the Drivers’ Championship. Bottas has won 10 Grand Prix and achieved 67 podiums so far. Sven Siat, Head Connectivity at SIX, is not a die-hard Formula 1 fan. He got to know Valtteri Bottas through the Netflix ...
Jul 13, 2022•18 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Ansel Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist. He is famed for the clarity and depth of his black-and-white images. He achieved the unique expression found in these photographs through deep technical understanding of all the production steps involved in film-based photography: lighting, developing negatives, and printing. Adams wrote books on each of these processing steps, volumes that Adrian Perrig devoured as a teen. Now a professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich,...
May 24, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Christiana Figueres was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for six years, including in 2015, when the United Nations adopted the Paris Climate Agreement – a historic milestone in the fight against climate change. To achieve this goal, Figueres had to overcome plenty of skepticism and build many bridges. In doing so, she exuded values such as perseverance, empathy, stubbornness, and optimism. Sabine Döbeli also reflects on these values. She is CEO of ...
Feb 15, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Daniela Ryf is the most successful Swiss triathlete of all time. She has won the Ironman World Championship five times over the middle distance and four times over the long distance in Hawaii - one of the toughest races in the world. In triathlon, you need stamina, a positive mindset and the will to overcome any obstacle. As an ex-triathlete, Alexander Verbeck knows this very well. These qualities also help him as Head Cash Ecosystem in the Banking Services business unit of SIX. As far as the fu...
Nov 10, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Sheryl Sandberg is COO of Facebook, one of the richest women in the world, and a mother of two. Around the world, she is considered a role model for women from all generations. With her 2015 book “Lean in,” she dedicated herself to a matter close to her heart and showed women how they can overcome the barriers on the road to success. Swiss Angela Mygind is attempting something similar with her blog “Miss Finance.” With it, she wants to encourage women to take their financial planning into their ...
Oct 05, 2021•18 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Football coach Thomas Tuchel has recently amazed the sports world. Within a few months, he has transformed the fallen Chelsea F.C. into a winning team, climbed up the English Premier League table and, to top it all off, won the UEFA Champions League. Part of the introverted German’s recipe for success is his meticulous attention to detail. Christian Bahr recognizes himself in his fellow countryman. The Head Index Services at SIX explains to host Hannah Wise why every detail also matters when it ...
Sep 01, 2021•19 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Margaret Hamilton has succeeded in a man’s world. Although in her case, there might even be talk of space. She was involved as a software engineer in several of NASA’s Apollo missions, including Apollo 11, in which Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. She also blazed a trail at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for all the women who came after her. And by making the term “software engineering” respectable in the first place, all her male peers today also benefit f...
Jun 02, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 6
John Law was perhaps the only economist who could actually put his theories into practice. With dubious success; the bubble he created in 18th century France, in part with the help of his Mississippi Company, burst spectacularly. Jürg Müller, Senior Fellow and Head of Research “Infrastructure & Markets” at the think tank Avenir Suisse, is nevertheless fascinated by the mathematical talent and analytical skills of the Scotsman, who notably also succeeded as a gambler and made it into the high...
Apr 28, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In a way, Albert Einstein could see into the future. That fascinated Sita Mazumder even before she started kindergarten. For the Swiss IT economist and entrepreneur, he still embodies the ability to leave the beaten path. As a professor of business and IT at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Sita Mazumder conducts research on artificial intelligence at the interface of business and society and develops sustainable business models for the digital age. She explains to host Hanna...
Mar 23, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Who isn’t familiar with the button in the ear of teddy bears and other cuddly plush animals? Margarete Steiff founded a stuffed-animal company known the world over. For a girl born in the mid-19th century, such a career was anything but predestined, all the more so since she was diagnosed with polio in her infancy. But her disability never deterred her from fighting for her education and achieving true mastery as a seamstress. Andrea Weidemann, the director of the Swiss Finance Museum in the SIX...
Feb 11, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Jeff Bezos has repeatedly succeeded in branching out into adjacent sectors. The online bookseller Amazon was transformed into a media store, and from that into a marketplace for everything imaginable and later even into a supplier of cloud hosting services. Amazon accomplished that by constantly building on what it already had in place. The Financial Information business at SIX is in a similar position. Sam Sundera, the Head Future Business in the respective business unit tells host Hannah Wise ...
Dec 11, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Aspects of the way Johan Cruyff played and coached are still visible today on many club and national soccer teams. He was a technically gifted player who did things with his feet that nobody else could. But what really set him apart was his understanding of teamwork and his leadership skills. His abilities found expression in his conceptualization of “total football”, a system under which any outfield player can adopt the role of any other player. Under this philosophy, defenders, for example, a...
Dec 11, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 1
