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
Soeren Fehrmann
Investment Manager
Swisscom
Alexander Galitsky
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Almaz Capital
Shira Kaplan
Founding CEO
Cyverse Capital
Simone Less
Investment Principal
Aramco Ventures
Willi Mannheims
Managing Partner
eCapital Entrepreneurial Partners
Pascal Marmier
Director
unlimitrust campus
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
Shivani Raghav
Director, Corporate Strategy
Cisco
Galina Sagan
Investment Partner
Hitachi Ventures
Florian Schutz
Director
Federal Office for Cyber Security
Antoine Trannoy
Managing Partner
Jolt Capital
Nicolas Cudre Mauroux
CTO
SICPA
Andrzej Nowak
Head of Open Innovation
SICPA
Alain Mermoud
Head of Technology and Solutions of the Sovereign Technology Center
SICPA
Iohannes Bry
Head of Innovation and Economic Intelligence
Office for Economic Affairs and Innovation (SPEI), Canton de Vaud
Christoph Schrills
Strategic Account Executive
Multiverse Computing
Emmanuelle Simon
Program Manager
EPFL Innovation Park
Eric Babecoff
Head of Investors Relations
infomaniak | The Ethical Cloud
Bahaa Roustom
Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer
CSEM
Nicolette Komitska
Innovation Programmes
Tech Tour
Maya Filadska
Business Development & Communications
Tech Tour
Jean Vieville
Head of Business Development - Defense & Aerospace
Axelera AI
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
Silviu Apostu
Principal
Matterwave Ventures
Lars Bohnisch
Investment Manager
Evonik Venture Capital
Duran Cesur
Founding Partner
Atlas Ventures
Roland Dennert
Managing Partner
Cipio Partners
Eltonjohn Dsouza
VC
Redstone VC
Thomas Heurung
Technical Director EMEA
Siemens Digital Industries Software
Ayano Kase
Investor
Woven Capital
Patrick Kim
Head of Office
Samsung Venture Investment Corporation Israel Office (+covering Europe)
Kristjan Laanemaa
Founding Partner
Karma Ventures
Petri Laine
Managing Partner
Innovestor Ventures
Philippe Laval
CTO
Jolt Capital
Simone Lavizzari
Principal
Join Capital
Alberto Pintado
Senior Manager
Indra Ventures
Pedro Ribeiro Santos
Partner
Armilar Venture Partners
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
Mehran Zaker
Partner, AI/Automation/Industrial IT
Emerald Technology Ventures
Expert Jury
Marcelo Alé
Limited Partner
Antler
Philipp Bolliger
Partner
Direttissima Growth Partner
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
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
Youri Hazanov
Managing Director, Digital
SICPA
Christian Hoffmann
Director of the AI Startup Center
TECHNOPARK Zurich
Erhan Kilicozlu
Managing Partner
ACT Venture Partners
Bernard Kirsch
Head of Data Privacy
L'oreal
Jean-Christophe Makuch
Head of Digital Research and Innovation
SICPA
Bertrand Mueller
Founding Partner
DAA Capital Partners SA
Axel Nitsch
Partner
High-Tech Gründerfonds
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
Roel Reijnen
Partner
TIN Capital | European Cybersecurity Investors
Igor Ryabenkiy
Managing Partner
AltaIR Capital
Brian Snelling
Partner
Acuity Advisors
Mathieu Viallard
General Partner
Axeleo Capital
Torsten Wipiejewski
Director PME Lab; Business Development Manager - Hardware Engineering
Huawei
Claudia Bonaccorsi
Deep Tech Investor
Join Capital
Jan Honoré
Managing Partner
Zaz Ventures
Jess McCreadie
Principal & Head of Technology
Aviva Investors
Orestis Trasanidis
Strategic and International Synergies
28 Digital
Alberto Perez
Investment Principal
Giesecke+Devrient
Jack Cruise
Investment Analyst
Kompas VC
Desmond Cheung
Investment Manager
Foresight Group
Axel Badalian
Principal
Alpha Intelligence Capital
Nastaran Asadi
Venture Partner
Momenta VC
Stephane Mojon
Team Lead
Adnovum
William Lecat
Partner
Auriga Cyber Ventures
Krzysztof Szubert
Member of the Board of Directors
European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO)
Albert Font
Principal
Walter Ventures
Paul Maurens
Venture Capital Principal
Omnes Capital
Dirk Schmuecking
Managing Director and Founding Partner
Yttrium
Samy Vielhuber
Deep Tech VC
Visionaries Tomorrow
Jaafar Chbili
Director, Technology & Transformation - Cyber Risk Services
Deloitte
Emmett Ulian
Associate Director
Trinity Capital
Gem Kua
Principal
Rockstart
Jacopo Drudi
Partner
United Ventures
Nagib Aouini
CEO & Founder
DuoKey
Andrei Villarroel
Founder | Chief AI Officer
innoverse.AI
Michele Mondini
Open Innovation Manager - Technology Sourcing
Samsung
Paul Pietrangelo
Managing Partner
Lira
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