Programme Participants
Meet the experts driving this programme forward
Speakers
Manuel Bento
Group COO & CIO | Member of the Managing Board
Euronext
Edouard Bugnion
Vice-president for Innovation and Impact
EPFL
Raphaël Conz
Managing Director
Office for Economic Affairs and Innovation (SPEI), State of Vaud
Fabrizio Del Maffeo
CEO & Co-Founder
Axelera AI
Soeren Fehrmann
Investment Manager
Swisscom
Shira Kaplan
Founding CEO
Cyverse Capital
Pascal Marmier
Director
unlimitrust campus
Pascal Mazure
CEO France & EMEA Sales Director
Multiverse Computing
Jennifer McCloskey
Investment Director
Swisscom Ventures
Lennig Pedron
CEO / Program Director
Trust Valley initiative / EPFL Innovation Park
Aldo Podestà
Co-Founder and CEO
Giotto.ai
Galina Sagan
Investment Partner
Hitachi Ventures
Florian Schutz
Director
Federal Office for Cyber Security
William Stevens
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Tech Tour Europe
President
François Carlot
Tech M&A banker - Associé Gérant
Rothschild & Co
Vice President
Carlos Alberto Silva
Founder & Managing Partner
33N Ventures
Selection Panel
Samir Ahmad
Managing Partner
SA Capital
Marcelo Alé
Limited Partner
Antler
Silviu Apostu
Principal
Matterwave Ventures
Lars Bohnisch
Investment Manager
Evonik Venture Capital
Philipp Bolliger
Partner
Direttissima Growth Partner
Duran Cesur
Founding Partner
Atlas Ventures
Eltonjohn Dsouza
VC
Redstone VC
Thomas Heurung
Technical Director EMEA
Siemens Digital Industries Software
Ayano Kase
Investor
Woven Capital
Kristjan Laanemaa
Founding Partner
Karma Ventures
Petri Laine
Managing Partner
Innovestor Ventures
Philippe Laval
CTO
Jolt Capital
Simone Lavizzari
Principal
Join Capital
Axel Nitsch
Principal
High-Tech Gründerfonds
Alberto Pintado
Senior Manager
Indra Ventures
Roel Reijnen
Partner
TIN Capital | European Cybersecurity Investors
Pedro Ribeiro Santos
Partner
Armilar Venture Partners
Brian Snelling
Partner
Acuity Advisors
Hans Sohngen
Managing Director
KPN Ventures
Beate Stecher
Investment Manager
Round2 Capital Partners
Dimitris Triantafyllidis
Senior Investment Director
Aramco Ventures
Florian Wilfinger
Investment Team
Redstone VC
Torsten Wipiejewski
Director PME Lab; Business Development Manager - Hardware Engineering
Huawei
Mehran Zaker
Partner, AI/Automation/Industrial IT
Emerald Technology Ventures
Expert Jury
Labinot Brahimi
Tech Investor
Forestay
Sofia Bravo
Start-ups and Deep Tech Innovation Manager
ANI | Agência Nacional de Inovação
Gabriel Champrenaud
CFO
Fusion Partners
Nicolas Chauvin
Innovation & Technology Lead
Logitech
Sergiu Chirca
Founder & CEO
Crescendo Ventures
Roland Dennert
Managing Partner
Cipio Partners
Marcel Egger
Board Member, Director Investors Romandy, Investor
Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC)
Louis Fauchier-Magnan
Responsable Suisse Romande - Equity Partner
Mirabaud Group
Leo Fernandes
Deeptech VC Investor
SuperNova Invest
Anton Freda
Member of the Investment Committee TT Venture
Indaco Venture Partners
Alexander Galitsky
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Almaz Capital
Caroline Gueissaz
Investor
Business Angels Switzerland
Youri Hazanov
Managing Director, Digital
SICPA
Christian Hoffmann
Director of the AI Startup Center
TECHNOPARK Zurich
Erhan Kilicozlu
Managing Partner
ACT Venture Partners
Patrick Kim
Head of Office
Samsung Venture Investment Corporation Israel Office (+covering Europe)
Bernard Kirsch
Head of Data Privacy
L'oreal
Simone Less
Investment Principal
Aramco Ventures
Jean-Christophe Makuch
Head of Digital Research and Innovation
SICPA
Willi Mannheims
Managing Partner
eCapital Entrepreneurial Partners
Bertrand Mueller
Founding Partner
DAA Capital Partners SA
Guillaume Pahud
Head of Digital Strategy
SGS
Cyril Petit
VC Investor
Wille Finance
Dominique Pitteloud
Managing Director
Climb Ventures
Rick Pizzoli
Founder & CEO
Sales Force Europe
Shivani Raghav
Director, Corporate Strategy
Cisco
Igor Ryabenkiy
Managing Partner
AltaIR Capital
Bruno Trivelli
VC
Vi Partners
Mathieu Viallard
General Partner
Axeleo Capital
Antoine Trannoy
Managing Partner
Jolt Capital
Presenting Companies
Jack Corbett
Founder & CEO
HonestID
Nicolas Corod
CEO
Skilder
Julie Delamarre
CCO
Weeteq
Bob Dubois
Co-founder & CEO
Wodan AI
Jules Eggli
COO
Ai.Qimia
Walid Elabed
Founder & CEO
Global Data Excellence
Anat Goldstein
Co-Founder
FinOptima Solutions
Hlynur Oskar Gudmundsson
CEO & Co-founder
Reykur
Benjamin Guyot
CEO
Spacetalk
Lauren Hawker Zafer
Chief Operating Officer (COO) Enterprise AI
Squirro
Wim Kees Janssen
Co-founder & CEO
Syntho
Roman Korkikian
Hardware Security Expert
Blue Edge Network
Victor Kristof
DemoSquare
CEO
Rob Leslie
Founder & CEO
Sedicii
Frank Lyonnet
Founder & CEO
EDAMAME Technologies
Youri Markevitch
Director Business Development & Investor Relations - Western Europe
GemaTEG
Paola Mejia
Co-Founder & CTO
Scholé AI
Maoiliosa O'Culachain
CEO
eID Easy
Angie Qarry
Founder CEO/CTO
Shama AI
Kevin Schawinski
Founder & CEO
Modulos AG
Marc Schieder
CEO
emproof
Luca Venza
CEO
Distinkt
Oscar Villanueva Cañizares
Co-founder & CEO
Nymiz
Arnaud Vincent
Co-founder & CTO | AI & Bitcoin
swiss6022
Dionis Teshler
Founder & CEO
TruLux AI
Stefan Wenig
CEO
SignPath GmbH
Pietro Giola
Founder & CEO
Machiavelli Music
Antonio Munoz
CEO & Co-Founder
Zepo Intelligence
Kabir Veitas
Co-Founder, CEO&CTO
NuNet
Coaches
Riccardo Aimerito
Chairman
Era Kapital