
BioAlps Networking Day 2023

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Join us on 9 November 2023 at Campus Biotech for the BioAlps Networking Day 2023. This year’s event will last a full day! The morning is dedicated to Canton of Geneva life sciences innovations, whereas the afternoon focuses on « Personalised Medicine and Digital Health ».
BioAlps’ annual meeting attracts each year about 300 key players from the Swiss Health Valley🇨🇭 region: representatives from academia, startups, government, and media gather to share the latest trends in life sciences and connect with each other.
PROGRAMME
9 am – Badge Collection and Café Croissant
GENEVA LIFE SCIENCES STARTUPS SHOWCASE – Translating Research to Impact Lives
Organised together with FONGIT and Wyss Center for Neuro and Bio Engineering
9.30 am – PRESENTATIONS – two early-stage startups from UNIGE/HUG (research stage) and FONGIT (pre-seed)
9.50 am – PRESENTATIONS – Wyss Center for Bio and Neuro Engineering and FONGIT
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- Prof. Dr. med. Erwin Böttinger | CEO | Wyss Center for Neuro and Bio Engineering
- Mr. Antonio Gambardella | Director | FONGIT
9.50 am – FIRESIDE CHAT between Wyss Center for Bio and Neuro Engineering and FONGIT, moderated by Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler
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- Prof. Dr. med. Erwin Böttinger | CEO | Wyss Center for Neuro and Bio Engineering
- Mr. Antonio Gambardella | Director | FONGIT
- Prof Antoine Geissbuhler | Dean of the Faculty of Medicine – University of Geneva | Head of the Division of e-Health and Telemedicine – HUG
11.30 am – Presentations from 2 FONGIT and Wyss Center later-stage startups
12 pm – 1 pm – NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION
PERSONALISED MEDICINE AND DIGITAL HEALTH
1 pm – WELCOME ADDRESS
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- Prof Antoine Geissbuhler | President | BioAlps
- Mrs. Delphine Bachmann | State Councilor | State of Geneva
1.15 pm – KEYNOTE
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- Prof. Urs Frey | President of the National Steering Committee Swiss Personalized Network (SPHN)
Q&A from the audience
1.45 pm – BIO BREAK
2 pm – SESSION 1 | Personalised Therapy – Perspectives on personalised medicine from research to patient: challenges and opportunities
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- Prof. Dr. George Coukos | Head of the Department of Oncology – UNIL- CHUV | Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne
- Dr. Luc Henry | CEO | Limula
- Dr. Julia Djonova | Head of the Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products | Swissmedic
- Dr. Julien Camisani | Director of Global Research and Development Equipment, Cell and Gene Therapy | Cytiva
3 pm – BREAK | Networking and Exhibition
4 pm – SESSION 2 | Startup pitch – Presentations from 4 startups with innovations at the crossroads between personalised medicine and digital health
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- Dr. Christopher Rudolf | CEO | Volv Global
- Dr Franck Zanow | CEO | Braincredible
- TBA – 2 other startups to be announced
Q&A – questions collected via Slido
4.45 pm – BIO BREAK
5 pm – SESSION 3 | Digital Health – Experts from research, industry, and innovation are invited to share their experience in the use of AI applied to patient-related data and VR-generated data, and in data management in clinical settings to support healthcare and early diagnosis.
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- Prof. Christian Lovis | Academic Director, Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics | HUG
- Dr. Stavros Skouras | Innovation Management | machineMD
- Dr. Patrick Pestalozzi | Vice-President – Global Strategic Accounts | MindMaze
Q&A – questions collected via Slido
5.45 pm – BIOALPS AWARD CEREMONY
6 pm – NETWORKING AND COCKTAIL RECEPTION
Ticket Price
Full day ticket: CHF 100 (including networking breaks)
Thanks to the support of FONGIT and Wyss Center for Neuro and Bio Engineering, who are sponsoring the morning event, as well as the contribution from our sponsors for the whole day, we are able to keep a flat rate of CHF 100.
Why attend?
- A special morning session at Campus Biotech with Wyss Center for Neuro and Bio Engineering and FONGIT
- An introductory Keynote by the President of the Swiss Personalized Health Network
- Two sessions, focusing on Precision Medicine and Digital Health
- Startups pitches
- Innosquare with breakthrough life sciences innovation
- A brand new networking app Networking opportunities
- BioAlps Awards: Industry and Academy
Profile of participants
- CEO, CMO, CSO, CBO, COO, CTO
- University and University of Applied Sciences professors
- Biologist
- Software Engineer
- R&D Director
- Startup Founder
- Project Manager
- Innovation Manager
- Communication and Marketing Manager
- Master and PhD Students from local Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences
Partners
Alliance Consulting Switzerland | Biopôle | CHUBB | Debiotech | FONGIT | GGBa | Katzarov | République et Canton de Genève | Socorex | Swiss Global Enterprise | TRB Chemedica | Voisin Consulting Life Sciences | Wyss Center
Institutional Members
CHUV | CSEM | EPFL | HEIG-VD | HES-SO Valais Wallis | HEPIA | HUG | Institut et Haute Ecole de Santé La Source | Idiap | UNIFR | UNIGE | UNIL | UNINE | SIB | Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering