HES-SO joins forces with 5 of its engineering schools in Western Switzerland to create the Centre Suisse d'Intelligence Artificielle pour les PME (CSIA). AI is coming into our societies and is already widely adopted by large organizations, while SMEs don't always know how to integrate it according to their needs. The CSIA's aim is to support SMEs in this digital transition, so that they remain competitive.
Following the revision of the law, a number of Innosuisse's support services will be modified. The financing of innovation projects will be more flexible, Innosuisse will be able to finance SMEs and start-ups for international projects, and a new promotion offer for start-ups will be introduced.
The Alliance Association is launching Les Brainstormings d'Alliance, a series of events designed to encourage reflection between peers and academic institutions on cross-cutting issues affecting technology, innovation and industrialization. The first Brainstorming will focus on an issue raised by Medtronic SA: the automation of final product aesthetic quality control, followed by presentations by Vahid Fakhfouri and Laurent Brulport from qmt, and Professor Yuri Lopez de Meneses from HE-Arc's Metrology and Machine Vision Laboratory.