Inartis, Swiss HLG, in collaboration with Agire and CP Start-up, are excited to present their joint Start-ups conference, to be held in Lugano, Ticino from 9.30am – 16.00pm, on the 24th of November, 2016.

This conference and workshop is the expression of a collective desire by organisers to promote Life Science Start-ups in Ticino. Each organisation is bringing its expertise and knowledge to share with and support entrepreneurs.

The venue for the conference is the beautiful LAC (Lugano Arte e Cultura), the new home of the Lugano Theatre, Opera and Museum, situated right on Lugano Lake.

Registration Information:
Registration is mandatory, as spaces are limited. Please register here.

The conference fee is CHF 50.- and includes lunch.

For full programme details and a list of speakers, download the brochure.

We are very pleased to announce that registration for the Swiss HLG Winter Conference 2016 is now open!
This year the conference title is «PATIENT CENTRICITY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT?» Opportunity or Threat? and we warmly invite you to join us from January 31^st to February 2^nd 2016 at the Jugendstilhotel Paxmontana, near Lucerne. You will have the opportunity to establish and foster personal contacts in a completely privatized location. We have a fantastic program including personal development and plenty of opportunities to network in an inspiring environment.

The event brings together leading executives from the healthcare industry, patients and patient advocacies to discuss, debate and explore how patient centricity affects business development and deal-making.

Come join us! You will have the opportunity during 2½ days to establish and foster personal contacts in a completely privatized location. We have a fantastic program including a pre-conference workshop, personal development and plenty of opportunities to network in an inspiring environment.

The conference will start on Sunday afternoon with the opening keynote, delivered by the CEO of Nestlé Skin Health SA, Humberto C. Antunes, followed by the personal development session «Improve Your Personal Branding» or «ow to make your presence shine» with Gabriela Müller Mendoza, professional speaker & coach.

Conference website

Under the main conference title we will examine and discuss how patient centricity affects BD&L within healthcare organizations and how such organizations are handling it from various perspectives.

You will experience speakers who will discuss the topic from various angles: What is patient centricity? Where does it come from? What is or should be the definition of patient centricity? Patient centricity: Hype or Hope?

We will get new insights and tools for our business development activities and deal-making and we warmly invite you to join us from Sunday January 31^st to Tuesday February 2^nd 2016 at the Jugendstil-Hotel Paxmontana, near Lucerne. You will have the opportunity to establish and foster personal contacts in a completely privatized location.

Discover an updated and exciting Conference Program

• Keynote Speeches and Speakers details
• Swiss HLG «Good Partnering Practices» (GPP) Event
• Preconference Workshop: «Business case evaluations made easy» or «From your valuation to your assets, or from your assets to your valuation?». It aims not only at using a simplified and elaborated rNPV model but also at understanding various asset features which are frequently underestimated for a valuation.
• Personal Development Course: «Allow your Presence to shine or How to improve your Personal Branding»

Please find further information about the program, speakers and topics on the >>Conference Website.

Programme Highlights will be Keynotes by:               

• Humberto C. Antunes, CEO, Nestlé Skin Health
• Dominique Limet, CEO, ViiV Healthcare

As well as a patient point of view of patient centricity by:

Michael was diagnosed aged 12 with the incurable bowel condition Crohn’s Disease. In late 2011 he became the 11th person to undergo a small bowel transplant in the UK at The Churchill Hospital in Oxford. More recently he is a two time cancer survivor.
He started blogging about his journey through Bowel Transplant and his blog has over 100,000 followers. Michael uses social media to develop global on line peer to peer communities.
He is the co-chair of the NHS England Digital Services user council and helped implement the first skype clinics in UK. In 2013 Michael founded connected device startup 11Health having developed sensor technology for ostomy patients. In 2015 he was announced as Stanford Medicine X first Patient-in-Residence.

Other confirmed speakers are:

• Mark Krueger, MPH, Founder and President of MK&A
• Matthias Bünte & Frank Kumli, Partner & Executive Director, E&Y
• Serge Braun, Chief Scientific Officer, AFMTelethon
• Riccardo Cortese, Chief Executive Officer, Okairos
• Marc Ceulemans, Head Strategic Venture Capital & Pharma Equities, Novartis Pharma AG
• Paul Craddy & Graham Foxon, Managing Directors & Founders,
• Chris Springer, Deputy CEO Vifor FMC Renal Pharma
• Jean Pierre Paccaud, BD Director, DnDi

>>> Discover the Speaker of the day

Registration

Conference Package incl. personal development, dinners and outdoor activity: Swiss HLG Members CHF 990.- // Non-members CHF 1440.-

You may also want to take the opportunity to become a member or renew your membership for 2016: The Swiss HLG membership entitles you to a CHF 450.- discount applied to the full conference fee, almost entirely compensating the individual membership fee.

>>> Direct link to registration

Take advantage from the optional pre-conference workshop «From your valuation to your assets, or from your assets to your valuation?» which aims not only at using a simplified and elaborated rNPV model but also at understanding various asset features which are frequently underestimated for a valuation.

Be part of a circle of passionate BD&L professionals!

We look forward to welcoming you at our annual Winter Conference!

Gabrielle Gache
President, Swiss Healthcare Licensing Group
Swiss HLG
St.-Jakobs-Strasse 7 | CH-4002 Basel
info@swisshlg.com