Tech Inspired
Episodes
Tech Inspired with Sonja Angehrn
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone’s talking about AI. But how many actually understand what’s behind it? In this episode of Tech Inspired, Priska Burkard sits down with S...
Tech Inspired - Episode with Fabienne Lorenz
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI isn’t just for tech teams anymore. So why are so many people still on the sidelines? In this episode of Tech Inspired, Priska Burkard sits down ...
Tech Inspired with Chantelle Larsen
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI upskilling is broken.Too much tool talk, not enough human design.In this episode of Tech Inspired, Priska Burkard sits down with Chantelle Larsen...
Tech Inspired with Yeliz Obrist
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes the biggest breakthroughs start with someone simply taking a chance on you.When no one would hire her without experience, Yeliz Obrist didn’...
Tech Inspired with Intissar Ghozlani
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Turning Imposter Syndrome into a Tech Superpower What happens when the path you planned doesn't pan out - yet leads you somewhere better?In this ep...
Tech Inspired with Afke Schouten
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You don’t need to code to lead in AI. You need to translate.And Afke Schouten is building the bridges where others see barriers. In this episode of...
Tech Inspired with Catherine Kosten
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tech wasn’t on her radar - until she discovered how it connects with the things she already loved.Catherine Kosten started out painting, drawing and...
Tech Inspired with Alexandra Grozea
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tech Inspired with Alexandra Grozea On this episode of Tech Inspired, the Managing Director of TechFace, Priska, sits down with Alexandra Grozea, P...
Tech Inspired with Dona Smith
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering the Future: Dona’s Journey in Robotics How do you go from dreaming of teleportation as a child to leading a robotics team building the ...
Tech Inspired with Kateryna Portmann
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shaping Robotics, Building Communities, and Thriving in Tech In this Tech Inspired episode, Priska sits down with Kateryna Portmann, Senior Product Ma...
Tech Inspired with Ravina Mutha
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bridging Business and Tech: Ravina’s Story In this exciting episode of Tech Inspired, host Priska sits down with Ravina Mutha, co-founder of En...
Tech Inspired on Allyship
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's Talk About Allyship! In this special episode of Tech Inspired, we bring you the thought-provoking closing panel from the #wetechtogether c...
Tech Inspired with Martina Niggli
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on the latest episode of Tech Inspired as Priska sits down with Martina Niggli, a passionate advocate for diversity in tech and builder of an ...
Tech Inspired with Marion Schleifer
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of "Tech Inspired," we sit down with Marion Schleifer, the Head of Developer Education at HASURA and founder of Code Blossom. Marion’...
Tech Inspired with Sinja Christiani
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to get inspired? Join us for an electrifying episode of Tech Inspired where Priska sits down with the familiar to us Sinja Christiani, winner ...
Tech Inspired with Emmanuelle David
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on this episode of the "Tech Inspired" as we catch up with Emmanuelle David, one of the first Hidden Figures Award winners from 2020...
Tech Inspired with Anais Salson
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on a new episode of the Tech Inspired podcast where we catch up with Anais Salson, the vibrant Head of Partnerships at 42 Lausanne and last ye...
Tech Inspired with Viola Sini
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Viola Sini on the latest episode of the Tech Inspired podcast - Information Security Officer at the Swiss Post and a passionate volunteer for ISA...
Tech Inspired Follow up with Akira Brand
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode of "Tech Inspired," welcomes back Akira Brand for an insightful discussion on her continued evolution in the tech industry...
Tech Inspired with Solveig Helland
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest podcast episode, we had a fascinating conversation with Solveig, a dynamic software engineer and AI enthusiast based in Switzerland. We ...
Tech Inspired with Simona Todesco (DE)
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lerne Simona kennen, Chief Operation Officer bei Textshuttle in Zürich, ein schweizerischer Unternehmen für maschinelle Sprachübersetzung. Obwohl S...
Tech Inspired with Kristin Umbach
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Kristin Umbrach, Head of Development at Swiss IC Security Group, a cybersecurity company. Kristin started her career in a very non-technical wa...
Tech Inspired with Megha Shrestha
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Megha, CEO and co-founder of Metabloqs, as she shares her insights on the transformative power of generative tech, AI, and the web. Discover how ...
Tech Inspired with Susann Pätschke
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Susann Pätschke, an aerospace engineer who found her passion for all things space at a young age. As a Ground Station Modem Engineer with CGI f...
Tech Inspired with Sandra Zimmerli
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sandra Zimmerli, Cloud Engineer at novaCapta, shares her inspiring journey into the world of tech. From a young age, Sandra was fascinated by comput...
Tech Inspired with Stephanie Lambert
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Stephanie Lambert, Head of Global Sales Operations at Wingtra. Despite having no background in tech, Stephanie has found her way into the indus...
Tech Inspired with Khanh Au
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Khanh, Security Advisor at Splunk. Her interest in numbers led her to study economics and finance. After completing her studies, she landed a job...
Tech Inspired mit Marina Petrovic
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lerne Marina Petrovic, Data Reporting Specialist bei ewz, kennen. Marina lernte früh in ihrem Leben zwei Bereiche kennen, die auch sie später prägt...
Tech Inspired with Cornelia Kawann
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Cornelia, an executive at Eidgenössische Elektrizitätskommission ElCom and the founder of energy-on! Her journey into technology began in her e...
Tech Inspired with Alessia Marra
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Alessia, Tech Artist in Meta. She works in a team focused on Mixed Reality, combining the real world with the virtual one. She is very close to t...
Tech Inspired with Reshma Ramachandran
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Reshma, Group Senior Vice President & Chief Transformation Officer at The Adecco Group. She is originally from India, but has spent 22 years ...
Tech Inspired with Elcin Biren
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Elcin, the Defense Attack Capability Lead at UBS, Chair for Finance and Banking working group, and lecturer at Swiss Cyber Institute. She is one ...
Tech Inspired with Akira Brand
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Akira Brand, Developer Relations Professional in Bright Security. She had several drastic changes in her career path – started as an opera sing...
Tech Inspired with Nisha Lehmann
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Nisha Lehmann, Senior Customer Success Manager at Merkle. Nisha has been working in Tech for 15 years. Her career choice was an accident because ...
Tech Inspired with Rosemary Lockhorst
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Rosemary Lockhorst, Founder and CEO of StoryByte Studio, which specialized in digital storytelling, using the latest technologies in gam...
Tech Inspired with Anna Maria Blengino
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Anna Maria, who is a Senior Director in IT Strategy and Innovation at Sunrise. As a child she followed her curiosity to take things apar...
Tech Inspired with Sibel Atasoy Würsch
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Sibel, Head of Data at Frontify and a global citizen. Sibel lived most of her life outside Turkey, where she has been born and raised. Today she ...
Tech Inspired with Karina Stump
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Karina Stump, who is the Leader Category Management Supermarket at Digitec Galaxus. Previously, she worked for almost a decade in the luxury and ...
Tech Inspired with Maryia Kayser
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Maryia Kayser, Head of Software Development at Nexxiot, an IoT company. She studied Physics and Mathematics, then Economics and currently she is ...
Tech Inspired with Leonie Flueckiger
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Leonie Flückiger, co-founder and CTO of Adresta and a former ETH Juniors team member. Leonie grew up in an environment without an immediate conn...
Tech Inspired with Stefany Barker
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Stefany Barker, Software Engineer Team Lead and co-founder of many interesting initiatives and organizations. Besides being a co-founder with ent...
Tech Inspired with Nicole Becker
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Nicole Becker, who is responsible for marketing, sales and partner management at BSI and embraces live as a mom and wife. She started her career ...
Tech Inspired with Roxanne Derhodge on Authentic Leadership
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Roxanne Derhodge, a Forbes Executive Council Member and Resiliency Keynote Speaker. We had the pleasure to invite her to our podcast and talk abo...
Tech Inspired with Petra Donka
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Petra Donka, a Software Development Team Lead and Software Engineer at Scandit in Zurich. She is going to be a speaker at the #wetechtogether con...
Tech Inspired with Claudia Bruce-Quartey
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Claudia, a Key Account Manager at Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions. She never wanted to work &nb...
Tech Inspired with Andrea Tribelhorn
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Andrea, who is a Cyber Security Consultant at Detecon. Without a technological background or role models in her family, she discovered her fascin...
Tech Inspired with Sofia Martinez Gomez
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Sofia, who works as a Cyber Security Specialist at Roche Diagnostics Europe. Do you wonder what a day in the life of a cyber security speci...
Tech Inspired - Knowing your Worth
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet this group of inspiring women talking about the important topic of "Knowing your worth". Listen to this episode if you enjoy hearing diverse ways...
Tech Inspired with Taisha Fabricius
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Taisha Fabricius, who is originally from Australia and now based in Switzerland for the last 10 years. She works as a 3D Technology Evangelist at...
Tech Inspired with Anna Thumann
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Anna Thumann, who is currently studying Mechanical Engineering in her third year at ETH Zurich and building an electric aircraft. Concurrently, s...
Tech Inspired with Leïla Haegel
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Leïla Haegel, who is equal parts researcher and entrepreneur. Are you curious, how she combines her research about black holes with her ideas ho...
Tech Inspired with Tanja Koch
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Tanja Koch, Zurich Ambassador for Women in 3D Printing, a global association to meet and exchange experiences about working in the 3D printing in...
Tech Inspired with Asra Nadeem
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Asra Nadeem, who has 15 years of experience in various tech start-ups predominantly in the early stages and venture capital investment in Silicon...
Tech Inspired with Kim Dressendoerfer
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Kim Dressendoerfer, who works as a Technical Specialist and Cognitive Solution Architect for AI and Data at IBM. In this function she gets to use...
Tech Inspired with Dorothea Baur
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Dorothea Baur, self-described independent ethics expert. Five years ago, she started her own consulting business Baur Consulting, where she advis...
Tech Inspired with Sandra Tobler
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Sandra Tobler, the Co-Founder and CEO of Futurae Technologies AG an ETH Zurich spin-off that specializes in cyber security. Her company strives t...
Tech Inspired with Aleksandra Sokolowska
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Alex Sokolowska, who shares her experience about the empowerment of women in STEM while working in the academic environment and the start-up worl...
Tech Inspired with Dalith Steiger
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Dalith Steiger! Get to know her journey from Software Engineer at UBS to Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SwissCognitive, a network to discuss ...
Tech Inspired with Maja Schreiner
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Maja Schreiner! Maja has been in the Tech industry for a very long time and has recently decided to start her own venture. She grew up in Serbia ...
Tech Inspired with Girls in Tech Switzerland
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recently our partner community, Girls in Tech Switzerland, has recorded a podcast introducing themselves and sharing their advice, insights and tips a...
Tech Inspired with Marisa Tschopp
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Marisa Tschopp! She is a researcher at scip ag (www.scip.ch), a cybersecurity and tech company in Zurich. She is conducting research about AI an...
Tech Inspired with Bettina Wolko
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Bettina Wolko! She is a software engineer at Namics with an interesting background! Having started out with an apprenticeship as a chemical lab a...
Tech Inspired with Alice Ruppert
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alice studied Game Design at ZHdK, a degree she discovered at an introductory evening and straight away she was hooked as it combined everything she l...
Tech Inspired with Sara Wick
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sara “slipped into the tech world” after studying a Master’s in multilingual text analysis and loves that she’s managed to combine her passion...
Tech Inspired with Arijana Walcott
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Arijana Walcott didn’t start off as a techie. She started out in a call centre before becoming Head of Trends and Technology at Swisscom and later b...
Tech Inspired with Noemi Rom
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Noemi, a digital consultant at Zuehlke, who studied engineering at ETH, after changing her mind 2 weeks before her law study started. Today she k...
Tech Inspired with Adriana Collini
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How is it to work as Venture Capitalist and support young tech entrepreneurs? Meet Adriana Collini, working as part of the investment team at Seedstar...
Tech Inspired with Damla Simsek
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what DevOps is about? Then you came to the right place; meet Damla Simsek who is currently working at Accenture as DevOps Speci...
Tech Inspired with Chanel Greco
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Did you ever think, you can't get into tech because you didn't study any related topic? Then don't miss this podcast with Chanel Greco! She is an educ...
Tech Inspired with Olga Skurativska
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Olga Skurativska, a software engineer at Homegate. She gets inspired by building solutions, which help others to make their life better, faster, ...
Tech Inspired with Andreea Hossmann
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Andreea, a Product Manager for Data Analytics and AI at Swisscom and working for Swisscom ventures to assess AI startups worldwide. She studies i...
Tech Inspired with Anita Schmid
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Anita in this podcast episode. Anita works as a Data Scientist for a Swiss retailer and shares her insights about the tasks and skills required. ...
Tech Inspired with Karina Battaglia
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Karina in this podcast episode. Karina works as a Customer Success Manager at Microsoft. In her career, she was always looking for opportunities ...
Tech Inspired with Bibiana Bucher
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Bibiana in this podcast episode. Bibiana works as a Server Sales Specialist/Solutions Account Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. But she wasn...