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SUMMARY:IMAGINE IF! Local Finals
DTSTART:20190221T171000
DTEND:20190221T200000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Marc Gruber - Vice President for Innovation at EPFL Diego Dup
 ouy - Co-founder and CTO of Lunaphore Serge Gander - CEO of CombaGroup 
  \nIMAGINE IF! is a fantastic opportunity to accelerate a scientific ide
 a towards a business and unlike other competitions\, it is the first truly
  global competition for healthcare science ventures.\n\nOn December 12th w
 e had announced the Swiss 10 finalists who entered the accelerator program
 . Since then\, they have been working with their mentors to go forward wit
 h their project. On February 21st they will prove themselves with their f
 irst IMAGINE IF! pitching competition at the Swiss Local Finals. The Top 
 10 startups will compete to win:\n\n	3500CHF in diluted-cash to the best 
 startup\n	desk space in San Francisco by Swissnex\n	lab space at the Biop
 ôle by Startlab\n	access to the Global IMAGINE IF! Finals in London for 
 the best biotech startup\n	surprise audience prize\n\n\nJoin us at EPFL 
 on Thursday 21st Februrary to discover these amazing projects. REGISTER HE
 RE. Warming up before the pitching\, Marc Gruber\, Vice President for In
 novation at EPFL\, will be the keynote speaker on startup development for 
 innovation. Lunaphore and CombaGroup will be joining as well\, to pres
 ent their work and the journey that brought them to it. We hope this will
  be an inspiration to our all early-stage startups and all the scientists-
 entrepreneurs in the crowd.\n\nThe pitching competition will host: \n\n	C
 apAgain\n	Vesta Biosciences\n	Neurosoft\n	Aesyra\n	SenSwiss\n	Maratona Tec
 hnologies *\n	Endotelix\n	Swoxid\n	Annaida Technologies\n	hiLyte\n\n\nAnd 
 to the confirmed jury committee the hard final decision: \n \n\n	Alison 
 Michan\, Data Scientist at EPFL Innovation Satellite - Buhler Group\n	Pa
 trick Biro\, Innovation Program Director - Venture Kick\n	Olivier Philipp
 e\, Head of Business Development - Biopôle\n	Sandra Sulser\, Chief Proje
 ct Officer at Seerave Foundation and Co-founder and Partner of Arven Pa
 rtners LLC\n	Nicolas Charton\, Managing Director - E-CUBE  Strategy Consu
 ltants SA\, Lausanne office\n\n\nGood luck to the participants and don’t
  miss the chance to meet our speakers and all the guests at the event.\n 
 \n*note: ALAnostics Technologies has been replaced by Maratona Technologie
 s due to reasons unrelated to the Innovation Forum association\n\n--------
 ------------------------\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n-----------------------------
 ---\n\n\nSchedule\n\n17.10 - Registration\n17.20 - Innovation Forum intr
 oduction\n17.30 - Marc Gruber\, Vice President for Innovation at EPFL\n18
 .00 - Diego Dupouy\, Lunaphore\n18.15 - Serge Gander\, CombaGroup \n18.
 40 - IMAGINE IF! Accelerator\n18.45 - Pitching Competition\n19.45 - Win
 ners Announcement\n20.00 - Networking Apero\n\n\nSponsors\n\nBiocity\nBü
 hler\nSeed Up\nCatalyze\nVenturelab\nSwissnex\nStartlab\nEPFL\nCabinet Pri
 vé de Conseils\nKellerhals Carrard\n 
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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