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      CRISTINA RIESEN

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      • Hello, I am Cristina

         

        My inner fire is fuelled by creativity and an insatiable interest in

        education, innovation, entrepreneurship and emerging technologies.

         

        Enthusiast by nature and lifelong learner by design,

        I am a transformational leader and social entrepreneur on a mission

        to support positive change in the world.

      • Cristina Riesen is a transformational leader and creative strategist. Her wide range of expertise and skills ranges from strategic innovation and foresight to stakeholder management and strategic communications.

         

        Cristina founded the impact network Educreators Foundation in 2017 and became an Independent Board Member of the European Innovation Council in 2021, supporting startups, SMEs and research teams developing high-risk, high-impact breakthrough innovations.

         

        Previously, Cristina was General Manager EMEA at Evernote,

        managed the launch of the Swiss Edtech Collider at EPFL Lausanne,

        and worked with the Strategic Development team at ETH Zurich.

         

        A lifelong learner, she is an EMScom graduate,

        a certified IFTF strategic foresight practitioner,

        a Hasso Plattner Institute design thinking professional,

        a Reputation Institute alumna

        and holds an IMD Certificate in Mastering Board Governance.

         

        Cristina was named Digital Shaper by the leading Swiss economic

        magazine Bilanz in 2019 and 2020.

         

        Top skills: strategic innovation and foresight, strategic communications,

        transformational leadership, strategic partnerships and stakeholder management.

         

      • Current Flagship Projects

        Educreators Foundation

        Founder, CEO

        An impact network on a mission to support systemic change in education through participatory design, innovation and entrepreneurship. Informed by research and working closely with strategic partners, we create initiatives aiming to support innovation in primary and secondary education in Switzerland and beyond.

        European Innovation Council (EIC)

        Independent Board Member

        EIC, the flagship innovation programme under Horizon Europe, is set to become Europe’s largest deep tech investor. With a budget of EUR 10 billion, it identifies and supports game changing deep tech innovations throughout their lifecycle: from early stage research, to proof of concept and technology transfer, and scale up.

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      • UPCOMING AND PAST EVENTS

         

        Speaking on #innovation #education #entrepreneurship

        October 27, 2022 - CyFy 2022 Startups and the Quest for the Next Million

        September 15, 2022 - European Innovation Campus Fostering DeepTech Innovations

        September 13, 2022 - University of Lausanne EdTech Revisited

        June 23, 2022 - Education and Innovation Summit European Commission

        May 26-27, 2022 - Wolves Summit European Innovation Council Fireside Chat

         

        November 10, 2021 - PH Bern Schule braucht Persönlichkeit

        November 9, 2021 - ResetEdu Education Innovation through Hackathons

        November 9 - DigiEduHack Main Event Digital Education - Human by Design

        November 4, 2021 - ACA, swissuniversities and movetia Innovation through Internationalisation

        October 18, 2021 - DigiEduHack Podcast Social and Emotional Skills Online

        May 18, 2021 - Movetia Conference Acquérir aujourd’hui les compétences de demain

        March 31, 2021 - Ludovia Comment créer l'école du futur

        January 26, 2021 - Next Gen Enterprise How the Next Gen Enterprise Uses Adaptive Learning to Thrive

         

        November 8, 2020 - NexHack EdTech Swissnex India and Movetia

        October 13, 2020 - CAETS Seoul Education for Smart Society

        June 24, 2020 - BPW Zurich Designing Change

         

        November 28, 2019 - Didacta Digital Swiss Digital Transformation at School

        November 27, 2019 - We Shape Tech Role Models

        November 21, 2019 - WISE Summit Doha Computational Thinking Unplugged

        November 7, 2019 - Swiss Embassy, New Dehli Women in AI and Technology

        October 2, 2019 - Digi Edu Hack Helsinki Innovative Pedagogies and Learning Spaces

        September 19, 2019 - TEDx Lausanne Creating the School of the Future

        September 6, 2019 - Ada Lovelace Festival Switzerland Satellite Becoming a Change Maker

         

        July 1, 2019 - World Conference of Science Journalism Lausanne Jacobs Foundation pre-conference event Workshop on Storytelling in Science Journalism

        June 25, 2019 - Tamedia TX Transforming Everyday Spaces in Learning Opportunities

        June 12, 2019 - The Ark InnoVibes Making Space for Creativity in SMEs Workshop

        May 21, 2019 - Council of the European Union Developing Digital and Entrepreneurship Competences in Early Childhood Education

        April 3, 2019 - Intrinsic Lab Zurich The Future of Education

        March 29, 2019 - Elternlobby Bern Bildung Im Wandel

         

        June 20, 2018 - Gotham Lausanne The Future of Work

        May 25, 2018 - Cross- MBA Alumni Event The Future of Work

        May 8, 2018 - Swiss Tech Talks The Future of Edtech

        April 19, 2018 - Startup Grind Zurich Fireside Chat Entrepreneurship

        February 5, 2018 - MassChallenge Switzerland High Impact Entrepreneurship

         

        May 18, 2017 - Switzerland Global Enterprise Forum SME Business Models in a Digital Age

        May 9, 2017 - HEG Geneva The Power of Communities in the Digital Age

        April 28, 2017 - Plan International @ Google Zurich International Day Girls in ICT

        April 27, 2017 - Swiss EdTech Collider official opening at EPFL Lausanne

        March 10-11, 2017 - STRIDE Zurich Future and Emerging Technologies Compass

        February 2, 2017 - The Swiss Fintech Convention Geneva Social Impact in Fintech

         

        November 18-19, 2016 - STRIDE Lab Zurich Future and Emerging Technologies Lab

        November 11, 2016 - TEDx Zurich People First - Plea for a Daily Creative Act

        November 7, 2016 - Impact Hub Zurich How Future and Emerging Technologies Shape Our World

        October 28, 2016 - Keynote "Global Digital Trends" at Forum cinfo 2016 Bern A Journey in International Cooperation

         

         

      • TEDx Lausanne 2019

        Creating the School of the Future

        How Radical Collaboration is Shaping the Future of Schools

        At TEDxLausanne 2019 Cristina Riesen challenged you to open your hearts and minds to a revolution in education.

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