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# 2024 Schedule

# Legend

| **Lecture (6h)** | **Workshop (17h)** | **Panel (4h)** | **Social (17h)** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |

 

# Mon 29 April 2024 (Day 1/5)

| **Time** | **Content · 📍[location: ODY -1 0020](https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=ODY%20-1%200020)** | **Speakers** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome & registration, get to know each other | Jaques Schmidt, Maximilian Krödel |
| 9:30 -10:30 | Introduction to Sciencepreneurship | Daniel Naeff |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | ☕ break |  |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Science, society, and diversity | Prof. Nettra Pan |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | 🥪 Lunch ·**📍**[location "L'Ornithorynque"](https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201511) |  |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Opportunity identification & team formation, & core skill workshop | Anil Sethi, Maximilian Krödel, Gregor von Dulong |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | ☕ break |  |
| 16:00 - 17:45 | Team matchmaking session | Maximilian Krödel, Gregor von Dulong |
| 17:45 - 18:30 | City tour |  |
| 18:30 - ... |  🍕 Dinner 📍 [Luigia pizza restaurant](https://maps.app.goo.gl/aNokVEWQvL2xwKWs6) |  |

# Tue 30 April 2024 (Day 2/5)

| **Time** | **Content ·** [📍location: CH B3 30](https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=CH%20B3%2030) | **Speakers** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Trends panel: AI, Climate Tech, Sustainability | Dr. Sébastien Le Fouest, Dr. William Cockayne, Dr. Julia Wagner, Maximilian Krödel, Roman Schweizer |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | ☕ break |  |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Business Models / Canvas | Gregor von Dulong |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | 🥪 Lunch ·**📍**[location "L'Ornithorynque"](https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201511) |  |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Market Identification & Validation & Mom test | Dr. William Cockayne, Gregor von Dulong |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | ☕ break |  |
| 16:00 - 17:15 | Team building/working session |  |
| 17:15 - ... | 🥂 Apero |  |

# Wed 1 May 2024 (Day 3/5)

| **Time** | **Content ·📍[location: ODY -1 0020](https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=ODY%20-1%200020)** | **Speakers** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 09:30 - 10:45 | Go-to-market strategies | Dr. William Cockayne |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | ☕ Break |  |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Selling your product to customers | Luis Huber |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | 🥪 Lunch ·**📍**[location "L'Ornithorynque"](https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201511) |  |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Pitch design | Jaques Schmidt |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | ☕ Break |  |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Teambuilding session: Walk to Lausanne from EPFL |  |
| 18:00 - ... | 🌮 Dinner **📍** [Lucha Libre Mexican restaurant](https://maps.app.goo.gl/L8bVjv7drnJPrn3n8) |  |

# Thu 2 May 2024 (Day 4/5)

| **Time** | **Content** ·📍[location: CM 1 3](https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=CM%201%203) | **Speakers** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Check-in |  |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Funding panel | Michelle Tschumi, Max-André Haas, Luis Huber, Eva Lüthi |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | ☕ Break |  |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Engaging with VCs, Incubators, Accelerators, etc. | Jaques Schmidt |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | 🥪 Lunch ·**📍**[location "L'Ornithorynque"](https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201511) |  |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Pitch fine-tuning 2 | Michelle Tschumi, Nicola Leuenberger, Aziz Belkhiria, Michael Linder |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | ☕ Break |  |
| 16:00 - 17:15 | Working session |  |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Pitch Practice |  |
| 18:00 - ... | 🥂 Apero at **📍** [La Forge](https://maps.app.goo.gl/tTtuHPHg59yCLbvv7) |  |

# Fri 3 May 2024 (Day 5/5)

| **Time** | **Content** ·**📍[location ODY -1 0020](https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=ODY%20-1%200020)** | **Speakers** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Check-in |  |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Panel: you are not alone: early-stage startups | Patrick Hertzog, Patrizio Bonzani, Dr. Orly Tarun, Dr. Til Schlotter |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | ☕ Break |  |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Legal lecture | Alexandre Gachet |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | 🥪 Lunch ·**📍**[location "L'Ornithorynque"](https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201511) |  |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Fine-tuning pitches 2 | Jaques Schmidt |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | ☕ Break |  |
| 16:00 - 17:15 | Final Pitches & Prizes | Prof. Christophe Moser, Prof. Paul Dyson, Dr. Til Schlotter |
| 17:15 - ... | 🥂 Apero |  |

"*Sciencepreneurship Summer School*" is officially recognized by ETH Zurich & EPFL, Switzerland:  
[https://web.archive.org/web/20240226114124/https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/sciencepreneurship-sustainability-al-MGT-650](https://web.archive.org/web/20240226114124/https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/sciencepreneurship-sustainability-al-MGT-650)