Technology & science Insights
The distinction between our “real” lives and our virtual and connected lives is blurring; and new science in materials and medicine is giving us longer and better lives. But science can be a wasteful business; and sorting a future Apple from a future Blackberry is a huge challenge.
Entrepreneurship · 27 Oct 2026
Transforming warehouses with robotics and AI
Oana Jinga co-founded Dexory after an experiment to create a home-security robot revealed a much bigger opportunity. A decade and several pivots later, its autonomous robots and AI-powered platform are giving some of the world’s largest logistics companies a real-time view of their warehouses.
Technology & science · 04 Sep 2026
Reclaiming privacy
Professor Carissa Véliz analyses the risks posed to individual freedoms from digitisation.
Technology & science · 23 Aug 2026
How AI is reshaping education
Ed shares how he built Renewed Learning from his first year at university into an international tutoring business working across the UK and Hong Kong.
Technology & science · 28 Jul 2026
What society is getting from drug innovation
For much of the past half century, the social contract underpinning pharmaceutical innovation was clear. New drugs delivered longer lives, fewer hospitalisations and, in some cases, cures. In return, societies accepted steadily rising healthcare spending. That contract held as long as innovation visibly transformed outcomes. It is now being renegotiated.
Technology & science · 08 Jul 2026
Why human judgment still matters in the age of AI
Tracing ivee’s evolution from recruitment technology to AI upskilling and advisory, Amelia Miller, CEO of ivee, explores AI adoption, prompt engineering, governance, automation, and why experience remains a critical asset.
Technology & science · 22 Apr 2026
How AI and Automation are improving NHS GP access
Pete takes us inside the reality of GP practices, from the pressure on front-desk staff to the outdated administrative systems that still shape much of the patient experience.
Technology & science · 05 Feb 2026
Where AI will really be felt
Pictet Asset Management thematic advisory board member Carl Frey looks to the past to understand how AI is likely to transform the global economy.
Technology & science · 17 Nov 2025
Pictet's 31st office officially opens in Lisbon with Pictet Technologies Portugal
On Wednesday 15 April, Pictet Technologies Portugal (PTP) celebrated its official opening, marking a new chapter in our tech development and establishing Pictet's 31st office in Lisbon. This expansion supports the Group’s ongoing digital transformation. Explore insights from our interview with Ricardo Coutinho, Managing Director of PTP, and view images from the celebration, which included Managing Partner Sven Holstenson and Group CTO Peter Wintsch.
Technology & science · 24 Oct 2025
Dialogue-driven development — The human essence of platform engineering
At DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2024, Pictet Tech delivered a session titled ‘Dialogue-driven development — The human essence of platform engineering.’
Technology & science · 01 Oct 2025
We, Robot
In popular imagination, robots have near-unlimited powers: superhuman strength, agility and intelligence. The reality has been much more prosaic, argues Daegal Tsang.
Technology & science · 01 Jul 2025
Chips with everything
The world depends on semiconductors. In this interview, Professor Chris Miller highlights the industry's latest innovations and their implications for our future in a Q&A format with Anjali Bastianpillai, Senior Client Portfolio Manager.
Technology & science · 19 May 2025
Private equity comes to grips with AI
Pictet surveys the private equity industry about what AI means for business.
Technology & science · 13 May 2025
Pictet Team Triumphs at Genev’Hack 2025
At the Genev’Hack 2025 conference, a two-person team from Pictet Tech’s Cybersecurity Engineering department won the ‘Into the Breach’ capture-the-flag (CTF) challenge.
Technology & science · 20 Apr 2025
Platform Perseverance: 1,000 Kubernetes Clusters
The talk described how a team of three platform engineers navigated regulatory requirements, operational constraints and rigorous change management processes in order to operate 1,000 Kubernetes clusters for a Swiss private bank.
Technology & science · 15 Apr 2025
Surveying forecasts of AI’s economic effects
How big will generative AI’s economic footprint be?
Technology & science · 07 Mar 2025
Measuring the impact of anti-obesity drugs
The next wave of GLP-1 treatments will do more than just shrink waistlines.
Technology & science · 11 Feb 2025
Pictet at the EPFL Applied Machine Learning Days
Pictet Tech hosted a session titled “Unlocking the Power of AI and GenAI in Financial Services: Strategies for Maximising Benefits” at the AMLD. The panel included Pictet Tech specialists alongside an external expert from a financial market infrastructure organisation.
