ETH Global Lecture Series: On two wheels from France to China
Postponed: ETH Zurich alum Basile Verhulst shares his epic 16-month bicycle journey from Paris to Hong Kong.
Basile Verhulst shares his epic 16-month bicycle journey from Paris to Hong Kong. Learn why he travelled over 18,000 km, crossing 24 countries on two wheels. Verhulst reveals the genuine expressions of humanity, the joys, and the fears he encountered along the way that instilling lessons that will last a lifetime.
An ETH Zurich Alum, Verhulst grew up in France and Switzerland. He has also lived on five different continents. While at ETH, he studied Mechanical Engineering, but he says that if he had to start a second degree, it would have been Anthropology. After finishing his Master’s degree in 2016, he worked as a Machine Learning Engineer in a startup in Tel Aviv. He has long felt a calling to start a new life chapter and his own tech company in Asia.
"Walking would have been too slow. And the car too fast,” he says about his bicycle journey. After arriving in Hong Kong in August 2018, Verhulst co-founded an industrial IOT and Blockchain engineering company in China.
We invite you to join this free, public lecture event at ETH Zurich. Learn how internet technology changes the human condition far away from the tech scene in Zurich.
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“On Two Wheels From France to China”
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