Dr Quentin Ladetto

Started in 2013, Quentin Ladetto is the creator and director of the armasuisse Science and Technology foresight program - https://deftech.ch, part of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports (DDPS). The objective of the program is to anticipate, inspire, inform and instruct the Swiss armed forces and its various stakeholders about the opportunities and threats brought about by the use of technology.

Before joining armasuisse, Quentin worked with Safran Vectronix AG to market the pedestrian navigation system developed during his thesis. The product was successfully selected to be part of the US Land Warrior military program. He has also developed hardware and software solutions with various start-ups in the fields of Internet mapping, vehicle management and asset tracking.

Quentin holds a PhD in geomatics from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), an Executive MBA in Finance from HEC Lausanne and a degree in Technology Management from IMD. He is the co-founder of atelierdesfuturs.org and a founding member of the association Futurs.