2. Agro-Food Innovation Forum

4 network organization join forces to bring together the best of Switzerland’s Agro-Food Innovation Ecosystem:

Swiss Food Research, Kompetenznetzwerk Ernährungswirtschaft, Cluster Foods & Nutrition and FoodHack.

The "Agro Food Innovation Forum" offers a professional exchange platform for the further development of ideas and to exploit potentials, with companies, research institutes, organizations and start-ups.

Around a start-up exhibition and a pitching session, participants will hear and learn from innovation-driving professionals, about value adding science, benefit from failures and find tools to better protect and use key values.

Program

9:00

Doors opening and welcome coffee

10:00

Opening Agro-Food Innovation Forum 2019

10:10

Welcome & Opening Session
Promoters of the Agro-Food Innovation Ecosystem

10:30

How science drives value boosting innovation
Prof. Erich Windhab, ETHZ

11:00

Why to fail in an innovative environment?
Fireside chat – Insights from 2 Food Entrepreneurs
Réginald Bien-Aimé, FuckUp Nights Coordinator in Switzerland and Serial Entrepreneur

11:40

Start-ups Pitching Session – Part 1

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Start-ups Pitching Session – Part 2

15:15

Start-ups Exhibition Zone – 1 to 1 contact

16:45

How to use Intellectual property rights intelligently, Traps, Dos & Don’ts
Ute-Christine Konopka, thinksafe

17:15

Wrap-up & Closing
Peter Braun, CEO Swiss Food Research

17:30

Apéro & Networking

Conditions

• Exhibiting start-up, incl. exhibition booth, pitching session, access for 3 - CHF 180
• Single acces for members of organising networks - CHF 180
• Single access for non members - CHF 480

See also factsheet for exhibiting start-ups.