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The Shapers Awards
The Shapers Award, the result of an in-depth investigation in French-speaking Switzerland, highlights the impetus of our local industry in adopting disruptive innovations and celebrates the men and women who are driving this transformation.
The Shapers 2024 | Valais, Geneva & Neuchâtel
AI Shapers 2025
Discover the AI Shapers 2025, a first edition dedicated to those for whom AI has become a natural ally in their daily lives. Entrepreneurs, creators, and visionaries, they are all developing an AI Agent project—an intelligence with which they collaborate in symbiosis to manage their businesses, design projects, or imagine new uses. We are honoring them this year for their pioneering achievements, which are bold, concrete, and deeply inspiring.
The Shapers 2024 | Valais, Geneva & Neuchâtel
Photographs by Dimitri Känel
The Shapers 2023 | Sottas, Friborg
Photographs by Dimitri Känel
The Shapers 2022 | Techno-Pôle Sierre, Valais
André Borschberg, Sébastien Demont & Gregory Blatt , co-founders of H55 SA (VS)
Raphaël Broye , founder and CEO of Panatere SA (JU)
Pierre Falbriard , R&D manager at Louis Belet SA (JU)
Ramzi Bouzerda , founder and CEO of Droople SA (VD)
Javier Bello Ruiz & Robin Mange , co-founders of Imverse SA (GE)
Germain Kolly & Dominique Kolly , respectively founder and director of G. Kolly SA (FR)
Christopher Bouzas , director and co-founder of Objectis SA (VD)
Rafic HANBALI , CEO of SwissINSO (FR)
Raja Yazigi & Philippe Koller, co-founders of Netsensing Technology Sàrl (NE)
Inès Hamaguchi , enameller (NE)
Cécile Münch-Alligné , professor at HES and head of the "Hydroelectricity" research group at HES-SO Valais/Wallis
The Shapers 2021 | Switzerland Innovation Park - Biel
Martin Boeni , CEO of BBN Mécanique SA (NE) and its spin-off S4T Technologies SA
Dr. Nicola Tomatis , CEO of Bluebotics SA (VD)
Andrea De Luca , CEO of DM surfaces SA (JU/BE)
Thierry Melly , Vice President, Wireless IC's and Systems at Semtech (NE)
Loïc Baboulaz , co-founder and CTO of Artmyn (VD)
Florent Plé , Managing Director of Symbios Orthopédie SA (VD)
Kenneth Funes Mora , director and co-founder of Eyeware Tech SA (VS)
Thomas Estier , co-founder and CEO of Rovenso SA (FR)
Iris Desforges , director and co-founder of Forimtech SA (GE)
Philippe Lambinet , director and co-founder of Cogito Instruments SA (GE)
Nuria Pazos , professor at the Haute École Arc (NE)
The Shapers 2020 | Geneva
Agnes Petit , from the company Mobbot (FR)
Pierre-Yves Bonvin , from the company Steiger Participations SA (VS)
Thierry Vialenc , from the company Sogetri (GE)
Anne Tayac, from the company Givaudan (GE)
Stéphane Poggi , from the company Felco Motion
Nathalie Nyffeler , from HEIG-VD
Christophe Taramarcaz , from the company HoroSys (NE)
Denis Piquerez , Soprod (VS)
Steve Tanner, from the company ecoRobotix (VD)
Philippe Crevoisier , from the company Crevoisier (JU)
Jean-Marie Hotz , Hot's Design Communication (BE/Bienne)
The Shapers 2019 | Montreux, Vaud
Dr. Sarah Degallier Rochat , Professor, HES (BE/Bienne)
Patrick Neuenschwander , Tornos (Ju BE)
Christophe Fragnière , Le Vivier & CPAutomation (FR)
Dominique Beuchat , 3D Précisio (JU)
José Demetrio , Geosatis (JU)
Alexandre Pauchard , Bobst (VD)
Hugues-Vincent Roy , AISA (VS)
Bernat Palou , ARCM (BE/St-Imier)
Grégoire Ramuz , TPF (FR)
Sonja Betschart , WeRobotics (GE)
Magali Fröhlich , HE-Arc (NE)
The Shapers 2018 | Neuchâtel
Reto Wyss , Vidi-System, Cognex
Philippe Menoud , IEM
Aude Pugin , Apco Technologies SA
Denis Jeannerat , Willemin-Macodel
Samuel Vuadens & Jonas Hügli , Factory 5
Marc Thurner , regenHu
Peter Stas , MMT
Claude Jeannerat , Micro5
Christophe Nicolet , Felco
Philippe Menoud , IEM