By Karolin Wiezel. Today, on the second-to-last day of the very interesting and intensive Digital Food Business week, Kauf Peter from Prognosix was our guest speaker. They are a leading Swiss company for scientific, mathematically based forecasting systems, which want to bring more security into complex decision-making processes. Prognosix offers prediction models in the following…

By Michel Benoît. The third day of the module started with Dr. Marcel Blattner, a physicist working for a media company as a data scientist. I knew that the morning would be devoted to quantum computing and artificial intelligence. Two areas that for me are part of IT. But why is a physicist coming to…

By Aysenur Yaylaci. The term digital is often used in a very subjective manner. It can be described as merely the numbers 0 and 1 or something which is not tangible, untouchable, or only applications and social media platforms all we use on our mobile. However, what it is clearly known is that the digital…

By Felix Stöppelmann. On a snowy Thursday morning, we had the opportunity to learn something about predictive analytics, a topic that was presented by Peter Kauf, who is the CEO of the ZHAW spin-off Prognosix. The aim of his company is to separate systematics from randomness, for example consumer’s buyer behavior, by applying AI and…

By anonymous author. Today in the afternoon we were talking about the negative aspects of digitization, the impacts of industrial malfunction and how we could protect us and manufactures of its cyber-attacks. Or more shortly: The probability of a World War 3.0. Before that, we heard already how the blockchain technology could change the business…

By Geiger Philippe. How a Space Monkey, Marshmallow, Spaghetti and an IT School for refugees are related when it comes to Digital Transformation Digital Transformation was the title of the first morning at the Master Module “Digital Food Business” at the ZHAW. I thought, that sounds like it could be pretty much everything. I expected…

By Yves Feusi. The Beginning At the end of the 20th century the presence of computers started to increase and the internet became popular. This marked the starting point for a digital environment and a mobile society. The 21th century was the beginning of the digital era. Mobile devices became a central point of interaction…

By Dilara Inanir. Different perspectives on tokenization in farming We had a chance to learn about a tokenization business by discovering the Swiss company Livingstone Greentec AG (“Livingstone”), in our Digital Food Business Model. Livingstone offers solutions for food business like plant propagation, the integrating communication technologies such as GrowLab and FoodHub systems. But how…

By Sandra Hambach. Today we started talking about Lack of Loyalty (LoL), Save our Society (S.O.S.) and later on about the start-up Livingstone. The company is willing to take the challenge and opportunity to enter the market with a disruptive food system to provide food to people all over the world. They combine urban horticulture,…

By Manuel Nüesch. Artificial Intelligence (AI) the solution of all our problems, at least in relation to the mass media. According to current news articles AI is conquering research fields one by one, leading to ever new solutions. AI can learn from data and come to solutions that are not reproduceable by humans. How long…