EHL Innovation Rewind

Last month’s EHL Open Innovation Summit in Lausanne felt less like a conference and more like a living lab: alongside 385 participants from 20-plus countries we sat shoulder-to-shoulder with hospitality, food, and travel visionaries to tackle seven real-world innovation challenges. Over 1.5 intense days, 48 speakers, enterprising students, and 15 tasting-table start-ups showed how AI, sustainability, and human-centered design can—and must—co-exist. From forest walks that slowed our pace to lightning labs that sped it back up, the experience proved that tomorrow’s hospitality is tech AND human, profitable AND purposeful. The spirit of open collaboration ran deep, turning knowledge-sharing into hands-on co-creation and setting a new benchmark for regenerative, systems-level change. We left energized, convinced that this was just the first chapter of a much larger movement catalyzed by EHL’s Innovation Hub.