2023 Schedule
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| Lecture (18h) | Workshop (11h) | Panel (8h) | Social (14h) |
Mon 17 April 2023
| Time | Content | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | (optional) Drinks at Café ApoTHEKE (not BQM) 📍 location Café ApoTHEKE | |
Tue 18 April 2023 (Day 1/4)
| Time | Content: 📍 location ETH Main Building room HG F 26.3 | Speakers |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Introduction to Summer School |
Prof. Hans Gersbach, Arnout Devos, Julia Wagner |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Introduction to Sciencepreneurship | PD Dr. Alexander Ilic |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Opportunity Identification | Anil Sethi |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | ☕ break | |
| 11:45 - 12:45 | Vision | PD Dr. Alexander Ilic |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | 🥪 lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:45 | Projects pitching preparation (& hotel check-in for some) |
Arnout Devos, Julia Wagner |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | ☕ break | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | How to build your team | Antonia Albert |
| 16:30 - 17:45 | Projects pitching & team formation | Isabelle Siegrist |
| 18:00 - 18:45 | (travel time) | |
| 18:45 - 21:00 | ⛵ Boat trip on Lake Zurich with apero 📍 location Bürkliplatz | |
Wed 19 April 2023 (Day 2/4)
| Time | Content: 📍 location ETH Main Building room HG F 26.3 | Speakers |
| 09:00 - 10:45 | Technology Commercialization | Dr. Jana Thiel |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | ☕ break | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Legal Insights | Umberto Milano |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Business Models / Canvas | Réginald Bien-Aimé |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | 🥪 lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Market Identification & Validation | Réginald Bien-Aimé |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Pitch Design | Isabelle Siegrist |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | ☕ break | |
| 16:00 - 17:45 | Sciencepreneurs Panel 1: from Idea to Exit | Murielle Schreck, Pascal Weinberger, Herbert Bay Moderator: Réginald Bien-Aimé |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Dinner 📍 location restaurant Luigia | |
Thu 20 April 2023 (Day 3/4)
| Time | Content: 📍 location ETH Main Building room HG F 26.3 | Speakers |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Go-to-market strategies | Dr. William Cockayne |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Roadmap | Dr. William Cockayne |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | ☕ Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Venture Financing (FFF, Public, VC, Debt, ...) | Cynthia Jurytko |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | IP & equity | PD Dr. Alexander Ilic & Dr. Claudia Scheckel |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | 🥪 Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:45 | Pitch Finetuning | Stephan Seyboth |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | ☕ Break | |
| 16:00 - 17:45 | Funding Panel: the Landscape of Opportunities and Risks | Antonia Albert, Karim Maizar, Georges Khneysser, Dr. Gabriele Schwarz Moderator: Réginald Bien-Aimé |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | 🥂 apero at ETH AI Center 📍 location ETH AI Center (Zurich Oerlikon) | |
Fri 21 April 2023 (Day 4/4)
| Time | Content: 📍 location ETH Main Building room HG F 26.3 | Speakers |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Selling (your product) to customers | Georges Khneysser |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Selling (your equity) to VCs | Thomas Meier |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | ☕ Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:45 | Science, society, and diversity | Prof. Nettra Pan |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | 🥪 Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Sciencepreneurs Panel 2: Angles of Impact |
Prof. Roland Siegwart, Prof. Christophe Moser, Dr. Hervé Lebret |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Final Pitches & Prizes | Dr. Thomas Brenner, Prof. Christophe Moser, Dr. Hervé Lebret |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | 🥂 Apero | |