Program

Patrick Hertzog is the Co-Founder and User Experience Officer of Nexthink, the global leader in digital employee experience management software. Founded in 2004, Nexthink enables its 1.1k+ customers to make their 15 million employees happier at work. In 2021, Nexthink had a valuation of $1.1B and has today around 900 employees worldwide. He is an expert in product design, user experience and data visualization. He’s the author of several papers published in well-known conferences and has been awarded several patents in these domains. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Computer Science graduate (2001)

Oana Balmau is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University, where she leads the DISCS Lab. Her research focuses on storage systems and data management systems, with an emphasis on workloads in Machine Learning, Data Science, and Edge Computing. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Sydney, advised by Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel. Before her PhD, Oana earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from EPFL, Switzerland. Oana won the CORE John Makepeace Bennet Award 2021 for the best computer science dissertation in Australia and New Zealand, an Honorable Mention for the ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award 2021, as well as a Best Paper Award in the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC) 2019. Before joining McGill, Oana worked with Nutanix, ABB Research, and HP Vertica. She is also a part of MLCommons, an open engineering consortium that aims to accelerate machine learning innovation, where she is leading the effort for storage benchmarking.

Computer Science graduate (2015)

Hông-Ân Sandlin is a senior scientific project manager in data science at armasuisse Science and Technology. Her work focuses on developing end-to-end Machine Learning solutions through resilient and scalable architectures. She graduated from EPFL with an MSc in Communication Systems in 2012 and earned a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2017.

Communication Systems graduate (2012)

Mark has been President at Vimeo since 2017. Founded in 2004, Vimeo is the world’s leading all-in-one video software solution, serving a growing community of over 260 million users worldwide. Mark was previously the CEO and co-founder at Livestream, the leading live video platform that powered over ten million streams a year, which Vimeo acquired. Prior to Livestream, Mark was one of the developers of the popular peer-to-peer app LimeWire. Mark earned his Masters of Science in computer science from EPFL in Switzerland, and received an Executive MBA from the London Business School. Mark also serves on the board of directors of Korab International, a global pulp and paper trading company, and as an advisor to humbition, a private investment firm that provides venture capital to early stage, founder-led companies in New York.

Computer Science graduate (2005)

Computer Science graduate (2011)