Unlocking industry knowledge for SMEs in the jewellery industry | INHORGENTA 2026

Presenter: Dr. Laurent Cartier, Head of Special Initiatives, SSEF, Switzerland Speakers: - Dr. Gaetano Cavalieri, President, CIBJO, Italy - Dr. Guido Grohmann, Managing Director, Bundesverband Schmuck, Uhren, Silberwaren und verwandte Industrien e.V., Germany - Iris Van Der Veken, Executive Director, Watch & Jewellery Initiative 2030, Switzerland Laurent Cartier is Head of Special Initiatives at the Swiss Gemmological Institute SSEF and a lecturer in gemmology at University of Lausanne & ELSTE, as well as being an affiliated associate professor at the University of Delaware (USA). He holds a PhD from the University of Basel (Switzerland). Laurent is co-founder of the Sustainable Pearls project. His PhD research explored sustainability and traceability issues in pearl farming. He also co-founded The Gemstones and Sustainable Development Knowledge Hub. His work has been reported by National Geographic, BBC, FastCoExist, Financial Times, Vogue and Tages Anzeiger. Guido Grohmann holds a degree in business administration from Saarland University. After completing his Master, he remained at Saarland University for a further four years and worked as a research project manager at the Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He completed his work in 2006 with a doctorate in economics. Before joining the watch and jewellery industry, he worked as a management consultant and product manager in the automotive and software indus