5 Swissnex

Swissnex San Francisco

The company is part of a knowledge network with nodes in the world's most innovative hubs - Bangalore, Boston, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore and Rio de Janeiro - where the future is being shaped. Swissnex SF has over 10 years experience connecting Switzerland and North Cammer, making a stronger world every day through knowledge sharing.

Swissnex is an initiative of Switzerland's State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), managed in cooperation with the Department of Foreign Affairs and in San Francisco as an annex of the Consulate General of Switzerland. A public-private venture, vital financial support is provided by partners, sponsors and donors sharing swissnex San Francisco's commitment to connecting the dots.

What do they do?

Swissnex San Francisco is a platform the the exchange of knowledge and ideas in science, education, art, and innovation. They highlight the best of Swiss and North American ingenuity and create opportunities for the networking among their diverse group of professional contacts in the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and beyond.

They take an active role in strengthening Switzerland's leadership as a world-class location for science, education and innovation.

Project

Swissnex San Francisco has started their business 14 years ago. Bach then, there were only two founders. Over the years the company has grown and today they have 18 employees. At this time a simple Google Calendar and an Excel Spreadsheet were enough for the schedule. Through the expanding the calendar became more and more crowded and unclear. Therefore, they didn't really receive the information they wanted from the calendar or the spreadsheet. They use two different tools for scheduling. The Excel spreadsheet shows a global view over one year but the employees do not recognize at what time which event is. For this view they have to go into the Google Calendar. In both of these Tools are the dates like absences of all the employees listed, so there is a redundancy. That is why the whole schedule system has to be renewed which represents our project scope.

Team

The project team includes three Business IT students from the University of Lucerne.