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CAI launches “Live Impact Series” of events for personal growth of students

With a first afternoon on entrepreneurship, the CAI started a series of events on personal growth for its students and staff. It took off on May 4 at CAI premises with two invited speakers: Maurice Gonzenbach, successful founder of Caplena, and Matthias Rosenthal from the School of Engineering’s entrepreneurial initiative.

The ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) has started a series of events to further the personal growth of its students (and, by extension: its staff). Its purpose is to help everyone realize their potential and have respective impact in life. To this end, the “Life Impact Series” will offer workshops and tutorials to improve non-technical skills and develop one’s career, e.g., by focusing on topics such as self-management, leadership, personality etc. The first event now focused on the topic of creating socio-economic impact as an entrepreneur: what it’s like to found a company, what it takes to be an entrepreneur, and where to find support.

The first presentation was given by Maurice Gonzenbach, co-founder and machine learning engineer at Caplena, a Swiss company for AI-powered user feedback analysis. The company was founded almost 5 years ago and is now successfully established in the market, with large and important customers worldwide. Maurice gave valuable insights into his personal lessons learned and what to focus on when joining the endeavor of an own company.

The second speaker was Matthias Rosenthal, co-founder and former CTO of sonic emotion ag and now one of the leaders behind the entrepreneurship initiative at the ZHAW School of Engineering. He explained the roadmap of the initiative and how it is embedded into the existing landscape of funding and supportive instruments for young entrepreneurs.

The Life Impact Series will continue with a roughly quarterly schedule.  Specific events might be open also to external participants. The next event will take place on July 05 (later afternoon / evening) and shed light on the topic of personality types and their impact on one’s work and life.