Cyril is a Digital Interaction Artist, Coder and Professor at ECAL, where he is also Head of Media & Interaction Design. After graduating from Les Gobelins in 2008, Cyril co-­founded the award­-winning collective LAB212 along with 5 other artists. With a sensible and poetic approach, their interactive installations cast a new light on technology that surrounds us. Since March 2015, Cyril is also in a long-term residency at the Google Cultural Institute Lab in Paris. Together with a few other artists, engineers and content teams, they leverage the power of modern and experimental technologies to find new connections between millions of cultural assets, institutions, and people.

Steve is a Gray Area Creative Code Immersive alum and designer of mobility and transportation related products and systems. He applies design thinking to complex problems and information experience design throughout the process. The best parts of his design are invisible, but he also has a great eye for visual and UI design. Currently, Steve is a Principal User Experience and User Interface designer at MobileIron. He works on enterprise, software-as-a-service, web-based software platform, desktop applications, and mobile applications on platforms including Android, iOS, Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Kevin Byrd is Director of Curation & Visual Experience at Dolby Laboratories, overseeing artist collaborations and brand design for the San Francisco-based technology company.  Born in Charleston, SC, Kevin holds a BA in architecture and works at the intersection of design and art. He was recently spotlighted on Sight Unseen and in Fast Company’s feature,  "The Spectacular Tech-Inspired Art Of Dolby's New Headquarters.

swissnex San Francisco is an initiative of Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), managed in cooperation with the Department of Foreign Affairs as an annex of the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco. A public-private venture, we are part of a network of outposts in Bangalore, Boston, Shanghai, and Singapore. Along with individual science and technology counselors around the world, we work on behalf of Switzerland to expand education, research, and innovation. Vital financial support is provided by donors and sponsors sharing swissnex San Francisco’s commitment to connecting the dots. swissnex San Francisco is a platform for the exchange of knowledge and ideas in science, education, art, and innovation. Through our public events and study tours, we highlight the best of Swiss and North American ingenuity and create opportunities for networking among our diverse group of professional contacts in the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and beyond. We offer workspace in the heart of downtown San Francisco and the resources to help international guests, start-ups, university outposts, entrepreneurs-in-residence, and other visitors succeed. Our global perspective and local expertise allow swissnex San Francisco to anticipate and nurture fruitful collaborations and align the best academics, researchers, entrepreneurs, artists, and thought leaders so that relationships and partnerships can flourish. Working under several mandates, we also help build the presence of Swiss innovators on the world stage. We believe that unexpected outcomes can lead to the brightest achievements, and we encourage the cross-pollination of ideas through the many connections made at swissnex San Francisco.