What does it take for a 130-year-old company to remain at the forefront of pharmaceutical innovation? In this episode of Decoded, Dr. Jurgi Camblong sits down with André Hoffmann, Vice-Chair of Roche and the fourth generation of the Hoffmann family to lead the company since 1896, to discuss how genomics and AI are transforming pharmaceutical innovation and what organizational structures enable long-term thinking in business. André has spent his career at one of the world's largest pharmaceuti...
What if AI's biggest threat is not a smarter machine, but a less curious human? In this episode of Decoded, Dr. Jurgi Camblong sits down with Pr. Joseph Sifakis, Turing Award laureate and inventor of model checking, the mathematical method that taught machines to prove their own correctness. Joseph has spent fifty years building the foundations of systems we can trust. Now he is asking whether we are ready to trust them with our minds. You'll hear: •Why current AI cannot reason and what re...
What if healthcare systems aren't broken — they're just built for the wrong job? In this episode of Decoded, Dr. Jurgi Camblong sits down with Lord David Prior, who spent years running the NHS from the inside, to explore why shifting from sick care to health care — powered by AI and data-driven medicine — may be healthcare's next real leap forward. From investment banking to restructuring British Steel to leading the NHS, David has spent his career inside institutions at moments of change. Fe...
What does it take to ask one question — *how do you free software from hardware?* — and end up reshaping the entire computing industry? In this episode of Decoded, Dr. Jurgi Camblong speaks with Edouard Bugnion, co-founder of VMware and Vice President for Innovation and Impact at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. VMware didn't just build a product. It built the foundation on which the modern cloud was built — and was acquired by Broadcom in 2023 for $69 billion. Fro...
What does it take to turn a two-person startup in Paris into a $6.8 billion exit, and then do it all over again for 200 other founders? In this episode of Decoded, Dr. Jurgi Camblong speaks with Bernard Liautaud, co-founder of BusinessObjects and Managing Partner at Balderton Capital, one of Europe's leading venture capital firms backing category-defining companies like Revolut, Wayve, and Quantum Systems. Bernard didn't just build a company. He built a category. Starting with two people in ...