Pascal Kaufmann

Pascal Kaufmann is a neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur. The renowned US business journal “Inc.” named Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Pascal Kaufmann some of the leading voices in a new understanding of intelligence.

After receiving his Master’s Degree in Neuroscience and Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Northwestern University in Evanston, IL (USA), Pascal has worked at the prestigious Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His work has been focused on numerous projects that explore the interface between brains and machines, aiming to unravel the secrets of neural networks and brain activity.

In 2010, Kaufmann founded the company Starmind for self-learning knowledge networks together with the business IT specialist Marc Vontobel. In 2017, he launched the Mindfire group that aims to decipher the principles of intelligence and make this knowledge available to cutting-edge research to empower humans. Since June 2022, Mindfire unites thousands of talents at its AI lab in Davos called Lab42 to develop human-level AI for humankind. in Summer 2023, Kaufmann cofounded AlpineAI with the mission to provide sovereign AI tech to Europe’s most critical institutions. SwissGPT is in use today in major European cities, governments and other public authorities, universities and leading healthcare providers. Pascal Kaufmann is a public speaker and serves on numerous boards and institutions.