 From Miami Beach, Florida, it's theCUBE, covering Acronis Global Cyber Summit 2019. Brought to you by Acronis. Okay, welcome back everyone. This is theCUBE's coverage here at the Acronis Global Cyber Summit 2019. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We're here at Miami Beach at the Father Blue Hotel for the second day. Excited to have this next guest on Christian Garcia, Vice President of Finance at administration of the Schofenhausen, Schofenhausen Institute of Technology. Did I get it right? Almost right, Schofhausen is a technology. Schofhausen, so welcome back, welcome to theCUBE. Good to see you. Good to see you, thanks for having me here. This is a really cool story because you guys are doing something very entrepreneurial with education, okay? Inspired by the founder of Acronis as well. He's made a lot of money in his day so he's doing some good things with it. But this is an interesting opportunity. Could you take a minute to explain what this institute stands for? It's SIT for short. Yeah, so SIT actually, as a name it says, Schofhausen Institute of Technology. So we are actually starting up a university in Schofhausen. Schofhausen is a beautiful, tiny city in Switzerland. 30 minutes from the Zurich airport, which is the biggest airport in Switzerland, close to Germany at the border with Germany. And so that's kind of, we are in the center of Europe. And that's where we plan to have our main campus. Now, let me tell you the story about the vision, about Sergei's vision on this project. He said that he needs to have skills in 10 to 15 years time that nowadays the institution starts and do not bring. There is the need of computer scientists. There are not enough computer scientists and we are having emerging technologies. And this is something that provides us with tremendous opportunities, which we cannot even imagine nowadays, what type of opportunities. And to be on the forefront there, that's why we want to found this, or we have found it, the Schofhausen Institute of Technology. Schofhausen Institute of Technology just formed, cheer the day, was it just two months ago, a couple months ago? It was two months ago, where we have started up the legal structure and now we are really lying the foundation. We have the funds that are kind of secured for the next 12 to 18 months. And we are defining the Strategic Advisory Board. We are setting up the curriculum for our students. And so it's everything up and running and to be defined. So this is right at the creation, present at creation, we are talking about this. This is the origination story of the Schofhausen Institute of Technology. Exactly. What's the vision? I mean, obviously getting skills for jobs that are century, are time, that haven't been teach in universities before. I get that. But is it about being open and what's the vision? It's just Switzerland is going to be global. Can you just share what you guys are thinking? Sure, absolutely. So basically what we are trying to do is to design a curriculum in computer science and physics because we think that computer science represents the software and physics represents the hardware. And these two things need to be combined in a entrepreneurial mindset or with an entrepreneurial mindset which means that we also want to foster the transformation process and the entire entrepreneurship. Now let me go back to the software part. Our curriculum will cover software engineering, cybersecurity, that's why we are here today. The curriculum will also cover on the physics part, on the hardware part, we'll cover quantum technologies, quantum physics, and also new materials. And this will be kind of the foundation that will build the curriculum for students. Computer scientists to have physics and physics to have computer science in their curriculum. So that at some point in time they can come together and do research together. This is the digital transformation that we're talking about. The intersection and the confluence of physical reality of world that we live in. Whether it's a baseball game or a soccer match to the digital culture, they're not mutually exclusive anymore, they're together. And then the impact is profound. I can only imagine IoT, industrial IoT, airplanes, cars, electricity, electronic batteries, all these things. It's software and digital and physical, material. Exactly. Is that what you guys are thinking? Exactly that. And actually also considering the industry, talking to the industry, talking to chief information technology officers around the world to understand what they need are and what type of, they believe of skills are needed in 10 to 15 years time. And that's what we want to build up now to get ready for that transformation. Guys, we got to go faster because there's jobs now, there's thousands of jobs right now in cybersecurity. There's thousands and thousands of jobs for provisioning, cloud computing, Amazon, educate. We talk to them all the time. They just can't get the word out fast enough that hey, if you're unemployed, there's no excuse for being unemployed right now. There's so many new jobs, but because someone didn't go to the linear school and step by step over the years, now you could level up very quickly. Exactly. But you guys are taking a much more bigger idea around real kind of master's level. Is that what is undergraduate master's level? What's the level of above? Actually we are starting up this university and we have already students that are with our partner universities currently in Singapore with NUS and we'll then move to Carnegie Malley here in the US in order to have a dual degree. So that's a unique opportunity to already start up with some presence in education. And ultimately they will be then acquired, so we hope, by the industry and to a terrific career. So the next Elon Musk is in there somewhere innovating with who knows what's next out there. And he is around there. The next Sergey is out there too. Exactly, exactly. So just look at our homepage, look at the curriculum which we are currently defining now that will be great on SIT.org. Christian, take me through how it works. I know you're just starting, but as you guys look at the world, I mean, first of all I can see the attractiveness of a dual degree because most kids get bored in college, they're freelancing anyway, they're learning on their own, I get that. But I can, so I want, so as you guys start building it out, what's going on, how's it work? What are you guys doing? Recruiting, take us through the factory of work that needs to get done, if you will. What's the workflows look like? What's happening right now? So currently, I mean, we are talking about the university because we have students and we want to have students and we want to have the best talents globally available and that's why we are building an institution that attracts those talents. And this is kind of the first priority, to have the talents, to get the talents, to get students come to SIT. And obviously the second part is we're talking to the CIOs and CTOs and to understand what are the needs in 10 to 15 years as an outcome of this digital transformation. I mean, the world is computerized. As you just mentioned before, there are not enough computer scientists currently available. So four out of five companies in Switzerland actually and also globally are lacking of computer scientists and they understand what the digital transformation means and that's something that we really try to understand as well to build up the curriculum. What's the timeline of starting with students? Is it right away? Do you have a location? Is there a building? I mean, give us the timeline. When does classes start? When do you start bringing people in? Is it happening now? I mean... Absolutely. So actually, currently we are hunting at some campus locations, looking at some campus locations, inch of housing, where our main campus will be located. At the same time, we are really building a structure. So we are appointing the Strategic Advisory Board, which will direct the curriculum of the university and which is represented already by very great scientists, one of them the president of the Strategic Advisory Board being Professor Dr. Novoselov, which is a Nobel Prize winner and which actually brings in that new material science in our physics curriculum. So that's another thing that we are trying to do to build up the governance, the proper governance. A third element that we are looking at is also to attract industries, companies that sponsor the students and that's actually an attractive ecosystem that we are trying to build up to combine science, education and also entrepreneurship and business in order to foster it, which means that we are looking at the campus, we are setting up a research center and I'm talking about two, three years down the line, the research center and then also a tech park where we can commercialize the innovation that the science brings in. So all in all, we really aim to have a closed ecosystem and self-sustaining ecosystem, hopefully that we are going to establish. It's a really big idea, congratulations. It's bold, it's big and it's relevant. Absolutely. So I got to ask you the question, how do you finance all this? Who's paying for it? Tell us how it gets funded. It's very important otherwise we couldn't start up with such a tremendous pace. Actually, the vision is from Sergei Veluzov, founder and CEO of Acronis. He has actually secured the initial funding of the institution and now really we need to have more partners on board in order to make this self-sustaining educational, top-edge educational system sustainable. Is it going to be tuition-based or scholarship-based? Have you guys thought about that in terms of students? It will be tuition-based. That's a classical model, at least in Switzerland and obviously to get the industry sponsoring students in order to also down the line employ them, they draw on that would be the ideal situation. Nice vision for Sergei and nice gesture but you got to look at what his business is doing. They created a category called cyber protection. Exactly. The benefit to him is more candidates, no physics, edge. So why not? Thank you, Peter. This is a great vision. Absolutely. It's a win-win. Absolutely and we all believe in that. The entire startup team believe in that vision. That's where we are here and building up this institution. Well, when you need to go global, we'll be in Silicon Valley and waiting for you guys to come there and collaborate with us there. I hope that happens because we want to compliment each other. As I mentioned, computer scientists are needed globally and obviously also in the Silicon Valley and why not? I think the collaboration aspect is going to be a big part of the growth as you guys get settled in on the first use case in Schevenhausen. Exactly. You know, and get that built out but I think with digital technologies, I think there'll be a great collaboration. Bring some good talent in as faculty and advisors. Exactly. Get the flywheel going. Exactly. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thanks for having me here. The education game is changing with modernization of a global impact of technology for good, you're seeing the landscape of innovation hit education. This is another great example of it. Super proud of the interview. Thanks for coming on and sharing the insights. The world continues to evolve. Of course theCUBE is there watching every turn. I'm John Furrier here in Miami Beach for the Cronus Global Cyber Summit 2019, back with more coverage after this short break.