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10.30 – Doors open, registration, coffee

11.00 – Opening remarks & Intro to Tri-National Healthech Days
Speakers: Christian E. Schneider, Head of the Innovation Office, University of Basel ;  Bodo Brückner, Startup Advisor
Coordinator Life Science Accelerator Baden-Wuerttemberg ; Malaika Lauk, Managing Director, BadenCampus ; Guillaume Vetter-Genoud, Head of health department, SEMIA/Quest for change

11.15 – 12.15 – Session 1: The Upper Rhine Life Science Innovation Ecosystem – Leading in Europe

• Keynote: A tri-national startup success story
  Speaker: Simon Ittig, CEO & Co-Founder, T3 Pharmaceuticals

• • Panel discussion: The best place to do life science innovation in Europe
    Moderator: Felix Früh, Entrepreneur, investor
    Speakers: Jean-Luc Dimarcq, Managing Director, IHU Strasbourg ; Gabriela Güntherodt, Director, Biotech Sector Lead, Switzerland, EY ; Philipp Marchand, Managing Director, Vossius & Partner

13.30 – 15.00 – Session 2: Collaboration with industry – invest (growth of startup)

• Session A (for medtech startups) – On the journey with MedTech entrepreneurs: pitfalls, learnings and what does it take to be successful
  Moderator: Angélie Pham, Innovation Office University of Basel
  Speakers: Elmar Zurbriggen, CEO, AOT ; Tobias Wilken, CPO, AOT ; Melanie Schäpers, COO, Sefunda ; Christian Zwicky, Deep Breath Intelligence 
  

• Session B (for biotech startups) – Dealing with BigPharma or VC from a start-up perspective – When and how? Discussion around hidden challenges, risks and key success factors for a proper partnering readiness – in partnership with Swiss HLG
  Moderator: Zaki Sellam, Serial biotech entrepreneur, Swiss HLG start-up initiative
  Speakers: Sarah Holland, President of Swiss HLG ;  Samantha Brandler, Head of Research Innovation Europe, CSL Behring ; Sara Nunez-Garcia, Co-Founder, Forty51 Ventures, Michael Huebner, Director Early Innovation Partnering, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
  

• Session C (for digital health startups) – The digital transition: How startups can help established corporations and established corporations help startups?
  Speakers: Greg Nelson, Project Manager Aesculap M&A/external Innovation, Innovation Hub, B. Braun ; Murat Akturk, Global Growth Director, Edison for Enterprise, GE HealthCare ; Christoph Wagner, CEO WBG Holding & Karsten Sternberg, Senior Advisor Medipee ; Bastian Deck, CEO & Founder NOVAZOON & Steffen Bäumler, CPO MAEX

15.00 – 15.15 – Closing, learnings & Call to Action

15.15 – 17.00 – Networking & Apero