Date of competition: 7 June to 2 July 2021. Location: online. These are the key data for the "Grümpelturnier 2.0", the Home Office Challenge by Trivadis and Microsoft Switzerland. 100 teams from all over Switzerland will get the chance to break out of their daily home office routine together with entertaining tasks and even profit from it in the long run.

The perfect line-up – this is the subject of heated debate in every sports studio before a football game. And rightly so. Filling the individual positions correctly is a key success factor. In other words, if you don't have the right players in your squad for the challenge ahead, you're at a disadvantage. This also applies to companies and their IT infrastructure.

Mixed reality devices like the HoloLens will make our lives and work easier in a few years. Be it through holograms projected directly into the world in front of our eyes or the ability to easily meet with others in virtual space – live and in 3D. This next generation of computers, which we wear as glasses on our noses, is being further developed by Marc Pollefeys in the Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Zurich. In the interview, he tells us where it is already in use and how long it will be before it is suitable for everyday use.

Today the most well-known countdown in the world starts again. It is counted down over 24 days, door by door, until Christmas. Trivadis has come up with something special this year: a multimedia, digital Advent calendar with 24 surprises. In this blog post, you can take a peek through the keyhole to see what awaits in the coming days...