Swissnex Day '23

Date

24.05.2023 12:00 - 16:00

Location

Lugano Arte e Cultura, Piazza Bernardino Luini 6, 6900 Lugano

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For this year’s topic, “Pushing the boundaries in health innovation,” the Swissnex network invited eminent international and Swiss speakers to share their perspectives and activities in the frontiers of health, as well as exciting startups and academic spin-offs to showcase their innovations.

The Swissnex signature yearly event brings together its Swissnex staff worldwide and relevant Swiss stakeholders to exchange the latest trends internationally and explore potential collaborations with Switzerland. This year’s event topic is “Pushing the boundaries in health innovation.”

Program

12:00pm Start of the event

12:15am Welcome by Stefano Rizzi, Cantone Ticino

12:20pm Introduction by Martina Hirayama, State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation

Speaker 1
12:30am – Dr. Katrin Crameri, MPH, Director, Personalized Health Informatics Group and SPHN Data Coordination Center, Chair BioMedIT Board, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Switzerland)

Speaker 2
12:40am – Dr. Princess Nono Simelela, M.D. Specialist Obstetrician, University of Pretoria, prior Assistant Director-General for the strategic priorities cervical cancer elimination, women’s health, youth and health rights at the WHO (South Africa)

Speaker 3
1:00pm – Dr. Marc Gitzinger, CEO and Co-Founder, BioVersys (Switzerland)

Speaker 4
1:15pm – Dr. Anand Anandkumar, CEO and Co-Founder, Bugworks Research Inc (India)

1:30pm Panel discussion and Q&A

2:00pm Networking apéro

Interactive showcases from Startups: aiEndoscopic, breathe, DAAV, Lighthouse Tech, machineMD, Maven Health, MY-SENSATION, Nanoleq, NeuroPAT, SmartVNS, Spirecut

Principal

Directory of active investors

Our directory of active investors includes more than 200 VCs and other institutional investors who invested in Swiss start-ups in the last years. Each profile has links to the news mentioning the investors, so that it is possible to check which companies received the money and what they are doing, how often the VC invests and who are the preferred co-investors.

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