Hannes Gassert

Hannes Gassert

  • Co-Founder

Striving to convert the progress we make in tech into true, human progress for all. At Liip, we call this "Digital Progress".
I build businesses that flourish, partnerships that last, and bridges between society, technology and culture. I have been called an "accelerator for Switzerland" — and I try to live up to that day by day.

For more, see gassert.ch/person.

Articles by Hannes

Zurich Office featured in TEC21

Liip's Zürich offices recently got featured in TEC21 , a renowned Swiss architecture journal, under the title of “Atmosphäre des Digitalen”. Apart from discussing some special features of ou …

Programmers in Paris: DrupalCon 2009

Anybody who is anybody in the world of Drupal is in Paris this week. With over 900 participants, DrupalCon 2009 is the largest Drupal Conference in Europe to date. Besides the …

Spotlight on: Tweetr

We should use this blog more often to showcase the crazy nerdy fun stuff Liipers are building every day. Like Penny with Mahara , Silvan with etoy , Lukas with PHP , and so on – with n …

Best of Swiss Web 2009: The Aftermath

As you might have heard, Liip won quite a bunch of awards at this year's Best of Swiss Web contest, including the night's awesome-sounding overall prize “Master of Swiss Web”. Con …

Best of Swiss Web 2009 – looks good so far

2009 promises to be a fun year again in terms of Best of Swiss Web awards: both Gottago and RAIweb 2.0 are nominated for the jackpot, the most awesome title of “Master of Swiss Web”. Wha …

Hannes at LIFT09: Day 1. “Where did the future go?”

Hi. I'm currently at LIFT09 in Geneva, and after the workshop I moderated yesterday, I could start enjoying – if only the whole thing wouldn't be slightly disappointing overall. Well, t …

Hannes’ USA Trip I: NYC

Spent the last couple of days in the US, in New York, Palo Alto and San Francisco and had a blast indeed. Over the next days I'll be summarizing the most important events of that …

Event Fever Spring 08

We're currently preparing for (or already recovering from) a whole lot of cool/funny/interesting events, hoping you join us for at least one of them: 2008-03-11: Best of Swiss Web 2008 …

Lift08 – Day 3 – The New Frontiers Track

So.. back for the “ New Frontiers ” track. We had: Kevin Warwick (cybernetics professor) The one man with a microchip in his nervous system, working on neural implants and linking neu …
Hannes Gassert
Co-Founder