Launch

Bringing the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem together

Location

Stage One, Oerlikon

Date

October 14th, 2022

Time

10:00 to 22:00

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Keynotes

Keynotes

Launch features multiple talks and keynotes from founders, investors, companies all about entrepreneurship.

Workshops

Workshops

Sign up for many workshops where you can expand your knowledge and make meaningful connections.

Booths

Booths

There will be a wide array of booths with tech demos and industry professionals ranging from ETH competence centers to cooperate partners, startups and NGOs.

About Launch

Celebrating the ETH Entrepreneur Club 10-year anniversary, Launch was created in 2021 to embrace all three of the clubs foundational pillars: inspire, educate and accelerate in a single flagship event. Through Launch, it is our vision put away the exclusivity and make entrepreneurial resources accessible so that those who dream it, can do it.After its big success in 2022 Launch will be co-hosted with the AI-X summit by the ETH AI Center for the second time. Launch | AI+X Summit is an all-day event that will take place on October 13, 2023 at StageOne Oerlikon. Our joint event last year attracted more than 2000 attendees, collaborating with 33 partners and showcasing 16 workshops and 36 research projects making it the biggest entrepreneurial event in Zurich.This year, ZHAW will join as a presenting academic partner and will contribute to the content of the event through workshops and activities. The event is a joint effort between the ETH AI center and the ETH Entrepreneur Club. This collaboration enables us to join forces and offer a larger event where our passions align: that being Artificial Intelligence and entrepreneurship. In addition Launch will feature the grand finale of the InCube Challenge 2023, a live pitching competition. Join us for this exciting event and discover how you can bring your ideas to orbit

Main Stage Program

08:25 - 08:55 Founding a startup 101

09:00 - 09:20 Challenges of a climate-tech startup

09:30 - 10:00 Does your idea matter?

10:00 - 10:10 What to expect from a VC and what does that mean for you as a founder?

11:30 - 12:00 Women in Entrepreneurship

12:00 - 12:30 Intelligence Augmentation

12:40 - 13:10 What does it take to be a founder?

13:15 - 13:35 Machine Learning in the cloud

13:40 - 14:10 Entrepreneurship & Sustainability: is it possible to do both?

14:20 - 14:50 Being an Entrepreneur

15:00 - 15:20 Building a global AI-first company out of Switzerland

15:25 - 16:10 The Future of AI

17:15 - 18:00 Dandelion Award 2022

18:00 - 20:00 InCube Challenge 2022

Workshops

08:30 - 10:00
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Speakers

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Alan Frei

Founder Amorana

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Alexander Diehl

Entrepreneur & Advisor CyberValley

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Alexander Ilic

Executive Director ETH AI Center

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Alexis Guanella

Department Head at Supercomputing Systems AG

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Anil Sethi

Serial entrepreneur & teacher

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Arlind Nocaj

Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services

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Christian Wilk

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Aequitec AG

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Eva Wolfangel

tech author & journalist

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Gian-Mattia Schucan

Founder & CEO FAIRTIQ

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Gianluca Ambrosetti

Co-founder Synhelion

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Igor Susmelj

Co-founder Lightly

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Inge Herrmann

Professor at ETH

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James Miners

Head of startup & innovation programs at Fongit

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Jeannette Morath

founder reCIRCLE

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Liliane Ableitner

Co-founder & CEO Exnaton

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Léa Miggiano

Co-founder & CMO Carvolution

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Markus Witte

Babbel Founder, Chairman of the Supervisory Board

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Melanie Zeilinger

Professor for Intelligent Control Systems at ETH Zürich

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Menna El-Assady

AI researcher passionate about interactive AI-human collaboration

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Nicole Büttner

Co-founder & CEO MerantixMomentum

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Oliver Pabst

General Partner Redalpine

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Pascal Mathis

Founder GetYourGuid & Wingman Ventures

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Paulina Grnarova

Co-Founder & CEO DeepJudge

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Silvan Krähenbühl

Serial entrepreneur

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Simon Hofer

Co-founder Career Lunch

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Séverine Gisin

Co-founder IDUN Technologies

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Tamir Berliner

Co-Founder & CEO Multinarity

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Vanessa Wood

Professor & VP of Knowledge Transfer at ETH

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Willy Bischofberger

Serial entrepreneur & business angel

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Yannic Kilcher

Co-Founder & CTO DeepJudge

Launch 2023 will feature

Participants
2000+
Booths
60+
Workshops & Panels
30+
Hosting
the AI+X Summit by ETH AI Center
Innovation Competition
InCube Challenge 2023

Responsible Entrepreneurship

In light of present and future challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and socioeconomic inequality, it is paramount for our projects and collective endeavors to consider social, environmental and economic aspects from the beginning, not just as an afterthought. Launch is about helping students “bring their idea to orbit”, but it is essential to do so diligently and question how we get there. We need to make sure the world we are leaving behind is a place we want to come back to. Launch will host the Better Future Space, a space for participants to interact with key actors in the field. Additionally, keynotes and workshops will be held on related topics for participants to fully dive into learning how entrepreneurship can be used to promote lasting positive change.

Sponsors

AVENIQ
IQVIA
Microsoft
Pheonix Mecano
Roche
Siemens
Swiss Post
smARTec
StageOne

Partners

Arosa
Companjon
Databooster
Design++
D One
ESA BIC
ETH Entrepreneurship
ETH Juniors
EY
First Momentum
FoodLabs
Greater Zurich Area
Impact Hub
Innosuisse
Innovation Zurich
Kellerhals Carrard
Lakestar
Latticeflow
Markant
Masschallenge
Modulos
Nautilus
Nucleate
Numeus
Patagonia
Plug and Play
Quantum Computer Center der ETH
Redalpine
Rose Framework
S2S Ventures
SAP
SDSC
Serpentine Ventures
SICTIC
Swisscom Ventures
Swiss Data Innovation Alliance
Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Swiss Finance and Technology Association
Swisspreneur
Swisstech
Technopark
UBS
Unicorn labs
Unique
Venture
Venture Lab
Verve Ventures
Viseca
Walden Catalyst
Walder Wyss
Wenger Vieli
Wenger Vielli
Wingman
Witty Works & Rockstar Recruiting

Startups

A-metal
Aegis Rider
AI Retailer Systems
Biosimo Chemicals
CareerFairy
Career Lunch
Daura
Decentriq
Deepjudge
Dynesis
Ethon AI
Exeon
Fountain
Goold AG
Grape
iniVation
Kaiko
Lakera
McomTech
Mindmetrix
PayGreen
Rimon
Robin
Seismoheath
Syntheticus
Veezoo
Visium
VU Engineering

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