BioAlps Networking Day 2026
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Get your ticket for the BioAlps Networking Day 2026 on 19 November at Beaulieu Lausanne
The Swiss Health Valley 🇨🇭 community comes together once a year to share, connect and push life sciences forward. In 2026, the BioAlps Networking Day lands in Lausanne on 19 November at Palais Beaulieu. And BioAlps Association is celebrating its 25th anniversary!
The morning will shine a spotlight on Vaud’s thriving life sciences innovation ecosystem. The afternoon takes on a bold theme: Advancing Healthcare Through Digital Innovation — a conversation that couldn’t be more timely!
Whether you’re a researcher, entrepreneur, investor or industry leader, this is where partnerships are forged and ideas find their next chapter.
THE PROGRAMME
INTRODUCTION TO VAUD LIFE SCIENCES INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
8:00 am BADGE COLLECTION
9:00 am WELCOME ADDRESS
- Antoine Geissbühler | President | BioAlps – Swiss Health Valley
- Raphaël Conz | Director | Office for Economic Affairs & Innovation (SPEI) – Canton of Vaud
- Nasri Nahas | Director | Biopôle
9:15 am START | Where Scientific Discovery Begins
Moderation by Laurence Capel | COO | H4
- Nicolas Salamin | Vice-Rector, Research and Innovation | UNIL
- Li Tang | Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences | EPFL
- Mauro Oddo | Director of Innovation and Clinical Research | CHUV
09:50 am UNLOCK | Turning Science into Opportunity
Moderation by Olivier Philippe | Business Development Director | Biopôle
- Pierre-Jean Wipff | Vice-President | BioAlps – Swiss Health Valley & Shanaz Diessler | CEO & Founder | Undae Science
- Laurence Capel | COO | H4 – La Source & Moncef Assa | Co-founder & CEO | Healium
- Federico Amato | Principal Data Scientist & Raphael Matusiak | Senior Data Scientist | Swiss Data Science Center
- Julie Bocquel | Head of Impact | Fondation pour l’Innovation et la Technologie (FIT)
10:35 am NETWORKING BREAK
11:05 am DEPLOY | Scaling Innovation for Impact
Moderation by François Capel | Innovation Advisor, Life Sciences and Nutrition | Innovaud
- Nicola Stephens | General Manager | Incyte
- Stanley Hautdidier | Regional Director Arc Lémanique | Swiss Medical Network / Genolier Innovation Hub
- Sahar Hosseinian | Chief Quality Officer | Prevision Medicine
- Sylvain Gioux | Director of Imaging Research | Intuitive Surgical
11:50 am BIOALPS AWARDS CEREMONY
12:05 pm NETWORKING LUNCH AND EXHIBITION
ADVANCING HEALTHCARE THROUGH DIGITAL INNOVATION
1:30 pm AFTERNOON OPENING REMARKS
- Antoine Geissbühler | President | BioAlps – Swiss Health Valley
- Isabelle Moret | State Councillor | Canton of Vaud
- Claire Charmet | CEO | CHUV
1:45 pm KEYNOTE :
- A moderated conversation with Marcel Salathé | AI Center | EPFL
- Participation and moderation by Antoine Geissbuhler | President | BioAlps – Swiss Health Valley
2:15 pm INNOVATION PITCH
- Raphael Breitschmid | Co-Founder | Healio Technologies
- Ismaël Olivier Rophé | CEO & Co-Founder & Francesco Tommasini CTO & Co-Founder | DOCumenter
2:25 pm DIGITAL INNOVATION IN HEALTHCARE PANORAMA
- Magali Bischof | Secretary General | BioAlps – Swiss Health Valley
- Elsa Torchet | Director – Monitor | Deloitte
2:35 pm SESSION 1 | The Empowered Caregiver
Clinical workflows, decision support, reducing administrative burden
Moderation by Olivier Baly | Associate Professor | HEIG-VD
- Julio Cortes | CEO & Founder | Sof-IA
- Véronique de Goumoens | Director | Haute École de Santé La Source
- Szymon Kostrzewski | CEO | Evidone
3:20 pm INNOVATION PITCH
Sami Perrin | Co-Founder & CEO | Sixtine.Ai
Nour Ghalia Abassi | Co-Founder & CEO | DigeHealth
3:30 pm NETWORKING BREAK
4:15 pm INNOVATION PITCH
Frederik Plourde | CEO | Bewe
Guillaume DuPasquier | CEO & Co-Founder | DomoHealth
4:25 pm SESSION 2 | The Empowered Patient
Home monitoring, personalised care, digital engagement, prevention
Moderation by Maya Burckhardt | Patient Partner | Patient Partner Platform @ HUG
- Béatrice Schaad | Director of the Centre for the Experiences of Patients, Relatives and Healthcare Professionals | CHUV & UNIL
- Corinna Ionta | Project Manager | Hospital@Home Valais
4:55 pm INNOVATION PITCH
5:05 pm SESSION 3 | The Augmented Hospital
AI, automation, interoperability, smart infrastructure
Moderation by Deloitte
- Jean Louis Raisaro | Assistant Professor CHUV – Biomedical Data Science Center
- Dillenn Terumalai | Senior Software Developer | SIB – Oncobench
- Amanda Verpoorte | VP of Product Management | SOPHiA GENETICS
5:45 pm NETWORKING AND DINNER COCKTAIL
🗓 19 November 2026 | 📍 Beaulieu Lausanne | ➡️ Registration
BioAlps Networking Day Partners
Canton of Vaud | BioArk | Biopôle | CHUBB | CSEM | GRIP | H4-La Source | KATZAROV | Microcity | Siemens | SFITS | Socorex | TRB Chemedica
Institutional Members
CHUV | EPFL | HUG | UNIGE | UNIL | CSEM | HEIG-VD | HEPIA | HES-SO Valais Wallis | SIB | UNIFR | UNINE | Idiap | Institut et Haute Ecole de Santé La Source | Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering | HEIA-FR | HE-ARC Ingénierie
