Door opens at 18:30, the presentation begins 19:00, and is followed by a Q&A.

LakeDiamond was in the news this week because they announced their ICO powered by Swissquote, “the first ICO ever powered by an established banking group”. The ICO should help LakeDiamond “to leapfrog from start-up to industrial scale production capacity.”

We are very happy to welcome Romain Braud, Chief Information Officer of this EPFL spinoff together with Yann Isola, Business Analyst/Project Manager Forex & Cryptocurrencies at Swissquote. They will talk about lab-grown diamond “as the ultimate material for increasingly complex high-value applications in micro-mechanics and robotics, photonics, electronics, and biotech”. And they will answer questions how they managed to convince each other to partner in this ICO.

ROMAIN BRAUD has been at the forefront of the emerging Blockchain industry. Over the last 13 years he has launched and managed successful global operations at the intersection of ICT, business and cryptofinance. Building on his solid IT business acumen, Romain is spearheading the development of LakeDiamond’s token, Blockchain strategy and protocol as well as leading on digital technology and cybersecurity.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/romainbraud/

https://twitter.com/romainbraud

https://gitlab.com/rbraud

YANN ISOLA first joined Swissquote as a Forex software architect before moving to his current role as a Business Analyst for cryptocurrency and blockchain projects, drawing on his experience as an early adopter and blockchain evangelist since 2012.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yann-isola-3150102a/

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LAKE DIAMOND

“LakeDiamond is a Swiss company incorporated in 2015. Building on years of research at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), developing reactors capable of growing ultra-pure diamonds, and exploring potential high-tech industrial applications, the company brings together globally renowned and respected professionals with a proven track record in physics, industry, computer science, marketing and finance. LakeDiamond’s Chemical Micro-Wave Chemical Vapor Deposition (MWCVD) reactors grow the highest quality of diamond on earth, suitable for the most demanding applications, thanks to a perfectly controlled and precise technology. The qualities attained are such that they trigger new exciting applications beyond the high-end jewellery market, such as micro- mechanical parts, laser power beaming, high power transistors and high-precision magnetometers.”

http://www.lakediamond.ch

SWISSQUOTE

Swissquote is a leading provider of online financial services.

http://www.swissquote.com

http://www.swissquote.com/ico

At the event there will be an apéro offered by LakeDiamond and Swissquote.