The Digital Food Business Week from the 5th to the 11th of January 2019 gathered a series of speakers around the topic of Digitalization and Food at the ZHAW Wädenswil as part of the consecutive MSc Life Science Specialization Food & Beverage Innovation. Figure 1. Lecture program of the Digital Food Business Week 2019 The program…

By Agent D.T. Rethinking sustainability. Online shopping another step toward a digitalized future and a step backward to less healthy wellbeing. The shift toward more and more digitalized food businesses has become a fact. More and more people are shifting their shopping behavior toward online-shopping experiences, especially the young generations (who are the future). Online-shopping…

By anonymous author When consumers can no longer trust food If you ask different people for a definition of quality, you will get just as many different answers. The student will say quality is a cheap and tasty product. For him, the origin or the manufacturing conditions will be less important than for an urban…

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…