BaselHack 2017 Jury member Profiles
This first edition of the BaselHack is supported by a group of volunteers, including 5 professionals serving in
Elizaveta (Liza) Semenova is a Ph.D. candidate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, affiliated at the University of Basel. In her research she develops statistical and mathematical methods to analyse surveillance spatiotemporal data.
Beyond academia, Elizaveta was noticed at a number of hackathons in Switzerland: frequently as a participant and thrice as a winner. This time she is curious to try on the role of a jury member.
Pursuing her passion for community building, Liza has recently joined the board of an organization called “women++” (www.womenplusplus.ch) fostering diversity in tech. The upcoming events, where she will significantly contribute, include a robotics workshop in November 2017 and a Machine Learning session at Applied Machine Learning Days in EPFL in January 2018.
Feel free to contact her via [email protected]
Philipp Bärfuss has a solid technical background and always had passion for creating digital products. At Magnolia International he grew into the CTO and product manager roles and helped to grow the company from 4 to 80 employees.
While working at Magnolia he discovered agile processes and how they improve building valuable software products and online services. Making himself and other people independent and free became his second driver.
In 2016 he founded woowai.com to exploit his experience as a product enthusiast and organisation coach. Today he helps others to succeed with their digital ventures.
Thomas Berger is the head of Zentrale Informatikdienste (ZID) at the Canton of Basel-City.
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Martin Christen is a professor of geoinformatics and computer graphics at the institute of geomatics engineering at the FHNW - university of applied sciences northwestern Switzerland. His main research interests are geospatial virtual- and augmented reality, 3D geoinformation, and interactive 3D maps.
Martin Christen is very active in the Python community. He teaches various Python-related courses and uses Python in most research projects. He organizes the PyBasel meet up - the local Python User Group Northwestern Switzerland. He also organizes the yearly GeoPython conference. He is a board member of the Python Software Verband e.V.
In his opinion the BaselHack is a great opportunity for the tri-national Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg area - to further strengthen our position in information technology.
Hackathons are a great way to experiment with a new programming language or API. Hackathons are also a nice way to learn from other participants with different skills.
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Urs Gehrig is a Senior Consultant at SBB Personenverkehr, Operating, Head of Innovationmanagement and Competence-Center "Predictive Maintenance SBB".
He brings in his involvement in local SME, his profesional background as an Electronics Engineer and as a laywer, and the experience from pioneering related events LOTS (Let's Open The Source) in 2003.
Contact Info: +41 79 772 45 04