Entrepreneurship in times of AI
Details
Date: Thursday, 13 November 2025
Time: 18:30
Venue: University of Zurich, Room KOL-H-317
The event is free of charge and no registration is required.
After the talk, a Chinese apéro with food provided by Wesley’s Kitchen will be served.
Entrepreneurship in Times of AI – Talk with Ian Charles Stewart 司马岩
Together with the China Switzerland Connection, the Chinese Studies Student Association invites you to an evening on entrepreneurship in the age of AI. Ian Charles Stewart will discuss how recent developments in artificial intelligence are changing entrepreneurship, what new opportunities are emerging and which challenges founders are likely to face.
About the speaker
Ian Charles Stewart is co-founder of WIRED magazine, adviser to the China Switzerland Connection and Executive in Residence at IMD Business School in Lausanne. He is Director of TMA Labs at the Toledo Museum of Art, and formerly Managing Director of a venture capital company at Rothschild London and a venture fund manager at Lazard. From 2008 to 2011 he served as Team Principal of China’s America’s Cup Sailing Team. He has taught Venture Capital and Social Entrepreneurship at London Business School and is a Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London.