SWISS UMEF organises regularly conferences with high level keynote speakers to allow students to balance theory and practice.
He gave a conference on January 25, 2022. His presentation was on the unpredictable critical threshold in the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. He stressed that when predictions are virtually impossible, we have to be capable of detecting in advance the patterns and qualitative features of the natural systems behaviour. He covered the uncertainty of present and future situations such as pandemics and global warming.