Innovation in action for the future of health

The BioAlps Networking Day will take place on Thursday 24 November 2022 at the Théâtre du Passage in Neuchâtel, from 1 PM to 7 PM.

BioAlps’ annual meeting attracts each year around 300 key players from the Swiss Health Valley: representatives from academia, startups, industry, government, and media gather to share the latest trends in Life Sciences. The 2022 event will focus on the innovations in the BioAlps’ community that are shaping the future in medtech, biotech, digital health and pharma.

PROGRAMME

12h00 -  WELCOME AND BADGE COLLECTION | Networking and Exhibition

13h00 - WELCOME ADDRESS

Prof Antoine Geissbuhler | President | BioAlps

Mrs Caroline Choulat | Deputy Head | Economic Promotion of the Canton of Neuchâtel

13h15 - KEYNOTE | Western Switzerland’s Innovation Ecosystem

Dr. Nicole Schaad | Deputy Director of Division Research and Innovation | State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation

Q&A from audience

13h45 - BIO PAUSE

14h00 - SESSION 1 | Roundtable 

Diagnostics | Factors that accelerate or hinder diagnostic innovation and technology development

Presentation of ender diagnostics, followed by a roundtable discussion with key innovation experts who will share their experiences in relation to the accelerating and hindering factors encountered during the development of diagnostic innovation.

Presentation : Dr. Matthias Peterhans | COO & Co-Founder | ender diagnostics

Roundtable speakers

Dr. Antony Croxatto | Director of the Microbiology Department | admed

Dr. Samantha Paoletti | Head Research & Business Development, Life Science Technologies | CSEM

Dr. Matthias Peterhans | COO & Co-Founder | ender diagnostics AG

Dr. Goranka Tanackovic Abbas-Terki | CEO | Gene Predictis SA

Dr. Dominique Truchot-Cardot | HES Ordinary Professor, Head of the Source Innovation Lab (SILAB) |  Institut et Haute Ecole de Santé La Source

Moderator: Prof Antoine Geissbuhler | President | BioAlps

Q&A from audience

15h00 - NETWORKING BREAK | Networking and Exhibition

15h45 - SESSION 2 | Presentations

From research to market | Digital innovation applied to the biopharma production value chain

Presentations from industry, startups and research organisations with regards to digital technologies being developed or already in place supporting the optimisation of the biopharma production value chain.

Speakers

Virtual Reality| Dr. Michael Mödler | Head of Training OE & Strategic Projects | Lonza | Virtual Reality Training Concept

Artificial Intelligence | Dr. Joël Dumoulin | Technology Transfer Officer | Idiap Research Institute | AI: The winning solution for the biopharma value chain. Why and how?

Computational method | M. Vincent Zoete | Group Leader at SIB and Associate Prof at UNIL | SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | Deciphering the mode of action of a developmental drug using CADD. A collaboration between SIB and Cellestia

Deep Learning | Dr. Frank Bonnet | CEO & CO-Founder | Bionomous Automating the sorting and pipetting of miniature entities

Q&A from audience

16h45 - BIOALPS AWARDS 2022

17h30 - COCKTAIL RECEPTION | Networking and Exhibition

PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS

• CEO, CMO, CSO, CBO, COO, CTO
• University and HES professorsBiologistSoftware Engineer
• R&D Director
• Founder
• Project Manager
• Communication and Marketing Manager
• Innovation Manager
• Students

The BioAlps Networking Day covers a very broad spectrum and is very representative of the Swiss Health Valley ecosystem. These participants come from different sectors related to life sciences (biotech, medtech, pharma, digital health, cosmetics, nutrition).