Workshop Series: Building Impactful Partnerships Between Start-ups – Corporates – Academia
NEXT SESSION – May 31, June 3, 7, 10, 14 and July 2 – 2021
Tech4Growth Health is part of the “TFV – Networking Events Series 2021-2024” empowered by Innosuisse and will cover 4 verticals: Health, Industry 4.0, Energy and Finance. Networking Event Series – Tech4Growth Health will be the 1ˢᵗ in this series and will take place from May 31 – July 2, 2021.
Given the speed of innovation and the shorter technology lifecycles, both large companies and start-ups have a vested interest in partnering. A strong, win-win partnership between start-ups – corporates – academia is the key for success. Successful alliances can significantly speed up time to market and scaling up, amongst others.
EPFL Innovation Park created a series of 6 workshops with dozens of company executives as speakers, to talk about their best practices and lessons learned from their own experiences and to network. There will be case studies as well as group discussions. Start-up CEO/CTOs, Academic Professors, and Corporate innovation managers will have the possibility to work side by side to help each other, to achieve better understanding and to build a powerful business and personal network, and to leverage each other’s strengths to achieve disruptive innovation and to scale up.
The program consists of 5x online sessions that easily fit into one’s schedule and a final workshop in presence to amplify networking opportunities. Participants who cannot attend workshop days can invite a colleague from his/her team to attend, in order to ensure the continuity and the quality of exchange with other participating companies.
PROGRAM
May 31 – Online Session 1 (13h30-17h10) — Why collaborate? Key benefits & challenges and understanding each other
- State of the art: an overview of various forms of partnering between start-ups, academia and corporates
- Key benefits & challenges: real examples of success and failures
- Understanding each other: comparison of organizations, operating modes, and decision processes between start-ups, academia, and corporates
- Research and Collaboration with Universities
Speakers: Lan Zuo Gillet (EPFL Innovation Park), Nathalie Virag (Medtronic), Hervé Lebret (INRIA), Nicolas Loeillot (Group Mutuel), Massimo Lucchina (Cytec), Raphael Rollier (Swisstopo).
June 3 – Online Session 2 (11h00-13h00) — How to collaborate — Commercial Partnership
- Building relationship supplier <=> customer: how to approach each other
- Commercial partnership: leveraging each other’s commercial network
Speakers: Haide Alleg (Ferring), Jeroen van den Oever (Sun Bioscience), Massimo Lucchina (Cytec), Robert Scott (Novartis).
June 7 – Online Session 3 (11h00-13h00) – Technology Co-development
- Technology co-development: Corporate-Start-up-Academic
- Goal of co-development: key issues and tips
- IP issues, project management, governance and R&D
- Point of view from start-up, Corporate, Academic
Speakers: Prof. Jürgen Burger (University of Bern), Brigitte Bellone (Merck), Nicolas Loeillot (Group Mutuel).
June 10 – Online Session 4 (11h00-13h00) – How to collaborate — Corporate Venture Fund and M&A
- Corporate venture fund: why and how, goals, investment process, governance
- Start-up acquisition by corporates: key issues and tips
- Testimonials and experience sharing from leaders of corporates and start-ups
Speakers: Torsten Butz (CSS), Angelo de Rosa (Boston Scientific), Michael Friedrich (Distalmotion), Lan Zuo Gillet (EPFL Innovation Park), Rana Lonnen (Novartis/dRx capital), Giovanni Leo (Eba Med).
June 14 – Online Session 5 (11h00-13h00) – Life Science & Health Start-ups: How to partner to achieve growth?
- Multi-channels collaboration with start-ups for digital transformation
- Playground for Corporate-Start-up-Academic Partnerships
- Types of collaborations? Framework of analysis
Speakers: Julia Hepp (Molecular Partners), Ata Tuna Ciftlik (Lunaphore), Nicolas Loeillot (Groupe Mutuel), Massimo Lucchina (Cytec), Riad Sherif (Oculis)
July 2 (TBC) – Final Day in-presence (10h00-15h15 followed by closing drinks) – Networking Event — Rules of the game for fruitful collaboration & summary of key learnings with action plan
*Held at Bois Chamblard
- Rules of the game for start-ups and for corporates
- Group work: peer-to-peer discussion to improve respective plan of partnering
- Presentation of your roadmap, get direct feedback from trainers and peers
Speakers: Nicolas Loeillot (Groupe Mutuel), Massimo Lucchina (Cytec), Raphael Rollier (Swisstopo), Lan Zuo Gillet (EPFL Innovation Park), Tanja Dowe, Debiopharm.
*Agenda subject to changes (depending on the Covid-19 situation and restrictions and we will hold the final session when sanitary conditions allow)
SPEAKERS
Haider Alleg – Brigitte Bellone – Jürgen Burger – Torsten Butz – Ata Tuna Ciftlik – Angelo de Rosa – Tanja Dowe
Michael Friedrich – Martha Gehring – Julia Hepp – Herve Lebret – Giovanni Leo-Nicolas Loeillot – Rana Lonnen
Massimo Lucchina – Raphael Rollier – Robert Scott – Riad Sherif – Jeroen van den Oever – Nathalie Virag – Lan Zuo Gillet
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Lan Zuo
Deputy managing Director EPFL Innovation Park
Program leader
Massimo Lucchina
Member of Innovation Council
Innosuisse
Nicolas Loeillot
Chief Innovation Officer
Groupe Mutuel
Raphael Rollier
Head of Innovation and Product Management
SwissTopo
Marta Gehring
Swiss Biotech Association
Lead Western Switzerland
Simone Theiss
EPFL Innovation Park
Program manager
PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION
This workshops series is for high tech start-up founders, corporate senior executives and university professors / and senior scientists active in the Health sector to ensure relevant collaboration and exchanges (no service providers). Seats are limited and priority access will be given to the mentioned profiles, as we would like the exchanges and collaborations during the workshops to be as meaningful as possible to all participants.
Please pre-register as a participant. After approval, we will send you a link to complete your registration. The 5 online workshops are free and we will ask for payment to confirm your participation in the physical event on July 2nd.
5 Online Workshop Participation
- Corporations and partners should contact us directly for special group discounts to apply. Please contact: theiss@epfl-innovationpark.ch
- Should you not be able to attend a particular session – substitution within same company is possible.
Start-up in Health sector & Academic participation
- Includes last session’s physical meeting (July 2 TBC) and catering (when sanitory condition allows)
- Start-ups that are incorporated since less than 7 years and have no more than 20 employees
- Should you not be able to attend a particular session – substitution within same company is possible.
Corporate in Health sector Participation
- Includes last session’s physical meeting (July 2 TBC) and catering (when sanitory condition allows)
- Should you not be able to attend a particular session – substitution within same company is possible.