Program 2020 | START Summit 2021

Main Stage

START Circus

START Arena

09:30 10:00 – 10:45

Opening Ceremony

Progressive or Oppressive - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 10:00 – 11:40

START Summiteer Semifinal

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - START Circus 10:15 – 10:35

Challenges for the cities of tomorrow

Smart Cities - Thursday 19.03 - START Arena 10:00 – 10:30

Collaboration Wins in the Cities of the Future

Smart Cities - Friday 20.03 - START Arena

10:30 10:45 – 11:30

Zero to IPO - André Street / Florian Schweitzer

FinTech - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 10:30 – 10:45

Drones - Opportunities and Threats with Barbara Stelzner (DJI)

Progressive or Oppressive - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 11:00 – 11:45

Swiss Born Globals

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 10:35 – 11:05

Paradigm Shifts in HealthTech

Healthtech - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 11:10 – 11:25

Journalism 5.0: Can publishing still be profitable?

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 11:00 – 11:30

Startup Valuations and why Legal Aspects matter.

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - START Arena 10:35 – 10:55

Shaping the future of healthcare with AI

Healthtech - Friday 20.03 - START Arena 11:00 – 11:25

Unfucking Venture Capital - From Founder to VC

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - START Arena

11:30 11:35 – 11:50

Key factors of success for a startup: Summary of the learnings from 22 years of VC investing

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 12:20 – 12:35

A New Way to Define Self-Worth

Working World 4.0 - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 11:35 – 11:50

How to make Greta successful

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 11:30 – 11:50

Where to Play? The Market Opportunity Navigator as the latest addition to the Lean Startup Toolset

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 11:55 – 12:10

Do you trust Artificial Intelligence?

Working World 4.0 - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 12:10 – 12:40

Investors on Stage

Investors on Stage - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 11:45 – 12:05

A Legal Perspective on FinTech an AI

FinTech - Friday 20.03 - START Circus 12:15 – 12:30

The Future Depends on Diversity

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - START Circus 11:35 – 11:50

Keynote: Noel Bollmann

FinTech - Thursday 19.03 - START Arena 11:55 – 12:10

Building the fastest growing startup in Switzerland

Working World 4.0 - Thursday 19.03 - START Arena 12:15 – 12:45

Agile teams: long term solution or quick fix?

Working World 4.0 - Thursday 19.03 - START Arena 11:30 – 11:45

Digital Health - ready for takeoff

Healthtech - Friday 20.03 - START Arena

12:30 12:40 – 13:00

The Founding Story of FinTech Unicorn Transferwise

FinTech - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 13:05 – 13:35

Microsoft

Working World 4.0 - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 12:30 – 12:45

How NASA Builds Teams

Working World 4.0 - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 12:50 – 13:05

Working in diverse and empowering environments to foster entrepreneurship

Working World 4.0 - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 13:10 – 13:40

How to Get Empowered, Not Overpowered, by Artifical Intelligence

Progressive or Oppressive - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 13:20 – 13:35

Building feedback & learning DNA to successfully scale your team

Working World 4.0 - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 13:00 – 13:15

Health Data – How Interoperability can Save your Life

Healthtech - Friday 20.03 - START Circus 13:15 – 13:45

How a Serial Failure sells Sextoys today

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - START Circus 13:25 – 14:40

START Factor

START Factor - Thursday 19.03 - START Arena

13:30 13:45 – 14:00

M&A of growth Startups in Europe

FinTech - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 14:00 – 14:30

Keynote: Sigmar Gabriel

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 13:50 – 14:10

Startup@HSG Founder of the Year Award

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 14:15 – 14:35

SC: The Fintech Revolution within

FinTech - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 13:40 – 13:55

Keynote: Myke Näf

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 14:00 – 14:25

FoodTech: Fireside Chat with Gil Horsky

Smart Cities - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 13:45 – 14:00

How will disruptive technologies change business models of the future? Industry examples of Process Mining by Celonis.

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - START Circus 14:20 – 14:40

Fireside Chat: Caen Contee

Smart Cities - Friday 20.03 - START Circus 14:05 – 14:35

The future of nutrition: are lab grown products solving the pressing questions in the food industry?

Smart Cities - Friday 20.03 - START Arena

14:30 14:40 – 15:10

Made in Switzerland: The Swiss Startup Ecosystem

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 15:15 – 15:35

Culture? Trivago.

Working World 4.0 - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 14:40 – 14:55

Keynote: Julian Teicke

FinTech - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 15:00 – 16:00

START Hack Final

START Hack - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 14:35 – 15:10

Asia and Europe in a Macro Perspective

Smart Cities - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 15:15 – 15:45

Entrepreneurial Impact: Sustainibility and Impact of Investments

FinTech - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 14:45 – 15:00

What is on the Horizon of Payment?

FinTech - Friday 20.03 - START Circus 15:05 – 15:20

Women in Tech

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - START Circus 14:30 – 14:45

Fireside Chat: Siegfried Markus and Sunnie Groeneveld

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - START Arena 14:50 – 15:05

How can you change the world by investing?

FinTech - Thursday 19.03 - START Arena 15:00 – 15:20

What’s behind your Food Print?

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - START Arena 15:25 – 15:40

The Value of transferrable Skills

Working World 4.0 - Friday 20.03 - START Arena

15:30 15:40 – 15:55

Building a Continental Asset Class

FinTech - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 16:00 – 16:15

Keynote: Marco Börries

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 16:15 – 17:00

The Growing European Ecosystem - Entrepreneurial Spirit in Europe

Entrepreneurship - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 15:50 – 16:15

AI in the consumer sector

FinTech - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 16:20 – 17:05

Students on Stage

Students on Stage - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 15:30 – 16:50

START Factor

START Factor - Friday 20.03 - START Circus 15:45 – 16:10

AI – A new Era in Healthcare?

Healthtech - Friday 20.03 - START Arena

16:30 16:45 – 17:00

What Does Your Brand Sound Like?

Smart Cities - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 17:10 – 17:25

How to keep the startup culture when growing into a relevant market player

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 17:00 – 18:00

START Summiteer Final

START Summiteer - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 17:15 – 17:40

The Go-To-Market Approach for Disruptive HealthTech Startups

Healthtech - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 16:45 – 17:00

Keynote: John Leary

Smart Cities - Thursday 19.03 - START Arena

17:30 17:45 – 18:00

Volvo

Smart Cities - Thursday 19.03 - Main Stage 18:00 – 18:30

Closing Ceremony

Progressive or Oppressive - Friday 20.03 - Main Stage 17:45 – 18:00

Millenial Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 18:05 – 18:30

Fireside Chat: SAP.iO

Smart Cities - Thursday 19.03 - START Circus 18:10 – 18:30

Know yourself, think big and succeed - an honest Q&A reality check for future founders

Entrepreneurship - Thursday 19.03 - START Arena