On Friday I did my annual (well, it’s actually only the second time, but I get the feeling it’s becoming annual) trip to Winterthur for the Friday-night kick-off of this year’s AEC Hackathon Zürich.
The focus of the first set of Friday afternoon talks was on the wood industry and its challenges – a fascinating topic to hear about first-hand.
I was actually more interested by the second set of talks, which were focused on digitalization challenges, including a really nice session by Michael Drobnik from Herzog & de Meuron.
As last year there were lots of hackers present, and the organization was typically “Swiss” (i.e. everything worked).
It was once again at the ZHAW building near the railway station in Winterthur. This time I spotted a handmade model of the Watchmaking Museum in la Chaux-de-Fonds (near where we live).
Someone was showing off some construction exo-skeleton research that had come out of ETH Zürich. Looked cool!
I was mainly there to say Hi to some…