2nd generation cellulosic bio-fuels

When: 29 June, 6 PM

Where: Executive Center, USI

Guest Speaker: Dr. Marco Romani

Content:

The speech will be about a program that involves China and the initiative 16+1 countries.
The 16+1 format is an initiative by the People’s Republic of China aimed at intensifying and expanding cooperation with 11 EU Member States and 5 Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia) in the fields of investments, transport, finance, science, education, and culture.

Dr. Marco ROMANI is Senior Advisor in Industrial Complex Development and Business Originator/Facilitator.

Dr. Romani possess professional experience covering design and calculation of process plant up to Contract development assistance & risk evaluation, Negotiations support, Claims analysis and Dispute resolution in uncomfortable law environment like as Middle East, Russian and Balkan Peninsula. Appointed as External Executive Director for Strategic Business Implementation, he is in charge to support the innovation and diversification in business processes and related infrastructure support network.
He is currently Advisor for world-class Oil & GAS and EPC Company.
Dr. Romani has also been strongly experienced into “Private Commercial diplomacy” assisting many Ambassadors based in Rome (Italy) during their mandate. Such specialized new type of diplomacy plays a significant role in global trade, investments and R&D activities.

For reservations: emba@usi.ch

According to the Financial Times Global Master Ranking, the USI Master in Finance is among the top 40 in its field. Outperforming other prestigious universities, USI ranks 38th globally, and is third in Switzerland after St. Gallen and Lausanne.

The evaluation is based every year on multiple criteria collected by the Financial Times from the graduates of the various programmes. The USI Master stood out for the career advancements of its graduates, the percentage of students who found an occupation in the field 3 months from graduation, the international mobility of students, and the price-quality ratio.

According to the director of the USI Institute of Finance, Prof. Francesco Franzoni: “The positive outcome is also thanks to the role of scientific research carried out by the faculty who teaches in the Master. Thanks to the cooperation with the Swiss Finance Institute, they are able to provide high quality teaching in the classrooms”.

According to Master director Prof. Alberto Plazzi “The three new tracks within our Master (Quantitative Finance, Banking and Finance, Digital Finance) keep the course offering cutting edge and up-to-date at the pulse of the financial system. All this in a very dynamic university environment, with a student-teacher ratio among the lowest in Europe”.

USI EMBA is proud to be part of this exceptional university!

More information on our Master in Finance:
www.usi.ch/mfin

The Financial Times Global Masters Ranking:
http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/masters-in-finance-pre-experience-2018

When: Saturday 16.06

Where: Executive Center, Blue Room

Guest Speaker: Francesco Dell’Endice

Content:

A journey through the steps of creating QualySense AG, a  Swiss startup that is reinventing the quality inspection and processing paradigms of agricultural commodities: focus on customer, product, investor, financing and people.

QualySense develops high-end solutions for grains, seeds and beans sorting. The unique and proprietary devices enable sorting of every single grain, seed or bean reliably by biochemical and geometrical properties at a very high speed. The QSorter series, generate outstanding benefits in quality control, process optimization, and risk management. Inspection agencies, traders, food processors, breeders, and seed producers, worldwide, benefit from high-speed non-destructive individual kernel analysis and sorting by increasing value of their lots, improving the quality and safety of food, developing new products, breeding new varieties and receiving reliable quality reports.

Francesco Dell’Endice

Francesco is the founder and CEO of QualySense, a Swiss company that is reinventing the global soft commodity market by pioneering the proprietary QSorter® technology, a sophisticated high speed single kernel robot, which measures the compositional quality of each grain, bean or seed and sorts it accordingly.

Francesco is a rocket scientist and holds a PhD in Natural Sciences and Spectroscopy. He has studied in Switzerland, Italy, France and Australia and speaks fluently 4 languages.
He’s a passionate entrepreneur, loves working in multicultural environments and bringing impossible ideas to the marketplace with the help of brilliant teammates. He firmly believes that the only keys to success are human capital and passion.

PhD in Remote Sensing from University of Zurich (Prof. Klaus Itten) (Switzerland)
Master in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Certificate of Applied Science for Space Studies from University of South Australia (Australia)
Bachelor in Spacecrafts and Vehicles from Supaero – Toulouse (France)
Best Paper from Young Author 2008 at ISPRS, Beijing 2008
2012 Finalist at Ernst & Young Swiss Entrepreneur of the Year (Emerging Entrepreneur)

Join us for the opportunity to attend one of our EMBA courses!
Two courses are offered this session: Marketing and Accounting

Marketing

• Learn to understand the critical issues in marketing in the context of a business organization
• Improve the ability to carry out analysis of market behaviour for both consumers and business buyers
• Improve familiarity with developing a market strategy for a business
• Understand the impact of marketing decisions on the economic and financial performance of the company

When

Thursday, 14 June  10:00 – 12.30
Friday, 15 June / 13.30 – 18:00
Saturday 16 July / 13:30 – 18:00
Sunday, 17 July / 8.30 – 12.30

Albert Caruana

Ph.D. is Professor of Marketing at the University of Malta, and at the University of Bologna, Italy. He continues to be actively involved in
doctoral, master’s and staff development programmes and has lectured in Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom, France, United States, Australia, Singapore and China. His work includes papers published in the Journal of Advertising; Journal of Advertising Research; Journal of Business Research; Industrial Marketing Management; Journal of Marketing Education and European Journal of Marketing. A number of his papers have received awards.

Accounting

• Learn the “language of accounting”
• Learn to examine financial accounting information
• Gain expertise in cost accounting system design
• Acquire ability to prepare accounting information to support managerial decision

When
Thursday, June 14 13.30 – 18.00
Friday, June 15 8:30-12:30
Saturday, July 16 8:30 – 12:30

Prof. Laura Zoni

Ph.D. in Accountancy, Bocconi University. She he is currently Full Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Senior Professor at SDA Bocconi, and MISB Bocconi. She has been Associate Visiting Professor at STERN School of Business, New York University
(1995-1998 and 2008-2012) and at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1999 -2000). Sometimes consultant to the United Nation Development Program and the European Union for management training projects in Eastern Europe, Russia, Kirghizstan and Kazakhstan. She has been consulting to the industry on performance measurement systems design and implementation.

Space is limited, book now at: emba@usi.ch

Boldbrain challenge

Ever think to turn into a reality your great idea?

Take the opportunity! Participate at Boldbrain Startup Challenge and win a USI EMBA scholarship!

Boldbrain Startup Challenge: a new Swiss accelerator for innovative projects which born from the evolution of the StartCup Ticino.
Organized by Agire Foundation and the Start-Up Promotion Center, it is aimed as a support to 20 start-up companies, with a three-month training course that allows them to assume an identity and to continue with their business plans.

Strongly wanted by the Division of the Economy and supported by the bank EFG, the program starts in September and ends on December 4 at USI in Lugano, where the five most innovative ideas will be awarded. The program is for the first time open to applications from outside the Canton Ticino.
Prizes consist in a total of 120,000 CHF and other benefits for 50,000 CHF.

Official Boldbrain website: http://boldbrain.ch/

Official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BoldbrainCH/

Lugano: Press conference. In the picture from right:  Stefano Rizzi (Director of Department of Finance and Economy) Barbara Vannin (Project Manager Fondazione Agire), Alcide Barberis (Director Centro Promozione Start-up CP Start-UP ), e Fiorenza Trento ( Fondazione Agire, coordinator of communication). © Ti-Press / Francesca Agosta

Dicronis wins the Young Entreprenuer 2018

On 5 June 2018 there was the deliberation by the grand jury to select the Young Entrepreneur out of the projects presented by the school winners.
The winner for this 2018 edition is Patrizia Marshalkova, EMBA candidate, with her start up Dicronis.
The objective of the competition, submitted to students, is to award the best entrepreneurial project in connection with France or Switzerland, whatever the field of specialization: service, product or trademark.

About Dicronis

The first product of Dicroni’s pipeline, Lymphit, measures patient’s lymphatic function in a safe, home-based and highly scalable manner. The initial indication of Lymphit is the earliest possible diagnosis of secondary lymphedema, a serious side effect of many cancer therapies.

By remotely monitoring the lymphatic function, the physician is enabled for the first time to perform an early diagnosis, before the swelling has occurred, and evaluate the best conservative treatment for the patient.
This leads to a great improvement of the prognosis and quality of life of the patient and important savings for the healthcare system and society.

In the picture, Patrizia Marschalkova with the Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France and the French Ambassador.