The sponsors of the current and previous Colloquia are the The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) of the Swiss Government, IBM Research Zürich, Nestlé, The University of Washington, Seattle USA, Hewlett Packard Corp. in California, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in California, the National Science Foundation (NSF), in the US, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas, , the University of Geneva, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR), the Board of the (Swiss) Federal Institute of Technology (EPF) and the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and in Lausanne (EPFL), the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the University of Geneva, Rio Tinto Alcan, Canada, UC Sans Diego and UC Davis, California, Jubilant Life Science, the Avina Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, the Fondazione San Paolo di Torino, in Italy, the Fondation Leenaards in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Academic society of the University of Geneva, Credit Suisse and IMD Business School.
