CERN Alumni Weekly News | First round of CERN Alumni Engagement Badges awarded, Virtual Relay Race, Regional group meetings, CERN Alumni Sustainability Group webminar, Virtual Company Showroom with Open Systems, CERN Alumni Online Escape Game
We’re excited to announce that the first round of CERN Alumni engagement badges has been awarded—starting with “communications”! https://alumni.cern/news/2618260 Check your profile to see if you’ve received one. While you’re there, take a moment to update your details: add your latest education and professional experience (including your industry), update your location and profile photo. A more complete profile helps the community connect—and earns you a badge in the next round: https://alumni.cern/me/show
It’s your last chance to register for the CERN Alumni Virtual Relay Race! Whether you're jogging solo or assembling a team, join alumni around the world for this fun annual tradition—no matter where you are: https://alumni.cern/events/176097
When the Office for CERN Alumni Relations travels, we always try to reconnect with our global community. During Rachel’s recent visit to Los Angeles, she caught up with several alumni—including Tony Burrus. Check out the first “Look Who I Bumped Into” video to see where life took Tony after CERN https://alumni.cern/news/2618596. And if you’re travelling and want to meet fellow alumni, why not post on the platform to connect?
Don’t miss our upcoming regional events in Costa Rica – 4 May, Eindhoven – 16 May, and Munich – 25 May. All events details and registration can be found here: https://alumni.cern/events?categories_or_fulltext=%5B5117%5D
The CERN Alumni Sustainability Group invites you to the next webinar in the #SustainabilityAtWork series. On 29 April, CERN alumnus André Schneider will present “Triple Bottom Line 2.0: Impact-driven Profitability,” exploring how businesses can evolve beyond traditional reporting and actively reshape systems for long-term sustainability: https://alumni.cern/events/176799
Ready to put your problem-solving skills to the test? Join the CERN Alumni Online Escape Game organised by our 2024 summer students on Saturday, 10 May! You will team up in groups of four to take on a virtual escape room challenge, with sessions running between 15:00 and 16:30 CET via Discord. The top three teams will win a special prize from the CERN Alumni Network: https://alumni.cern/events/178946.
Save the date: June 12 at 11:00 CET for a hybrid Virtual Company Showroom with Open Systems —a leading provider of native, managed SASE solutions. Their platform empowers organisations to securely connect and manage hybrid environments through a unified approach combining SD-WAN, firewall, secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), and zero trust network access (ZTNA). Learn about the company, explore job opportunities, and join a live Q&A with their team: https://alumni.cern/events/178942
On 13 May, join us for a joint KT seminar hosted with CERN Venture Connect, spotlighting CERN alumni-turned-entrepreneurs. Andrea Apollonio and Tiago Neves will share how they launched Reshape and Fibersight, transforming scientific research into thriving businesses: https://alumni.cern/events/178351
The ATLAS collaboration has detected longitudinally polarised W boson production—offering crucial insight into how the Higgs mechanism broke electroweak symmetry in the early universe: https://home.cern/news/news/physics/atlas-gets-under-hood-higgs-mechanism
Finally, see how the AEgIS collaboration has turned smartphone camera sensors into an ultra-high resolution antimatter camera: https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/aegis-transforms-smartphone-sensors-antimatter-camera-unprecedented