Events

How do we manage to set up the entire production chain in the process industry in such a smart and networked way that manufacturing processes are optimized in an automated, efficient and resource-saving way? How do we gain external impetus for our innovations?  

Creating & promoting innovations together: 5-HT X-linker SMART PRODUCTION

Find answers to these questions at the 5-HT X-linker Smart Production: Ten startups from all over the world virtually present their groundbreaking solutions in the field of smart production. These include process optimization, energy efficiency and predictive maintenance. The startups have been carefully selected and coached by us.  

The event is free of charge and will be held in English.

• When: June 3, 2022, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
• Where: Online via event platform
• How: Please register here
• Program: 
• Welcome speech by Dr.-Ing. Gunther Kegel, CEO Pepperl+Fuchs Group
• Ten startups from Japan to France pitch their solutions 
• Two jury members from GTAI and SAP will ask questions
• Inspiration for your Smart Production solutions

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The topics

In various panels, industry experts discuss topics such as healthcare trends that will shape the healthcare system, opportunities for new diagnostics and treatment options or the status of digitalization.

Meet the Pfizer Healthcare Hub team

Torsten Mintel, Director Customer Operations at Pfizer, will discuss innovation models and the trends of the coming years with Eckhardt Weber, Managing Partner HealthTech VC Heal Capital and Maks Giordano, Futurist.

The event is aimed at employees from pharmaceutical and medtech companies and will take place live in Berlin.

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The program is designed specifically for startups within the digital health area, focusing on solutions for the pharma industry who are looking for an individual intro to pharmaceutical corporates.

These are the focus areas:

• Digital Therapeutics
• Real-World Evidence Data
• Digital Diagnostics
• Neurotech

The startups will receive professional pitch training. They will pitch in front of our community and can look forward to an exclusive speed dating with relevant players – both Peter Neske from our Healthcare Hub in Freiburg and Ekaterina Alipiev from our Hub in Berlin will be present and are looking forward to meet promising startups. The event will take place online.

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Inspiring plenary sessions, impactful workshops and targeted one-to-one meetings for technology and knowledge transfer: The Innovation Day Upper Rhine will bring together researchers, startups, companies and technology transfer offices from the Upper Rhine valley and beyond for a whole day of exchanges, knowledge sharing and meetings on technology transfer.

These topics will be addressed:

• Deeptech
• Industrial transition
• Digital transition
• Sustainable development
• Health innovation
• Social innovation

The event will focus on major drivers of knowledge and technological transfer, fundings and collaborations: Expect three plenary sessions, more than 15 workshops, a "Walk of the Best" to highlight innovative startups from the Upper Rhine and more than 500 business meetings.

Why participate as a startup: 

• find new business and markets for your cutting-edge technology
• generate fresh leads and meet new contacts in a time and cost-efficient way
• initiate and arrange promising pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings at the event

Why participate as a company as a founder:

• come and find the start-ups of tomorrow
• initiate and arrange promising pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings at the event
• find partners to discuss new technology and innovative solutions

Why participate as a company:

• publish and showcase your products, projects, services, or business needs to event participants
• stay ahead of your competitors by using innovations developed by university research units
• initiate and arrange promising pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings at the event

Get in contact with the Pfizer Healthcare Hub Team

Peter Neske, Innovation Lead at the Pfizer Healthcare Hub Freiburg will participate at  the plenary session about Health Innovation:

• Health Innovation: How academic research creates disruptive innovations in health
• Time : 18:00 - 18:45
• Room : Aula - Palais Universitaire de Strasbourg (9, Place de l'Université 67000 Strasbourg)

Other participants of the plenary will be:
•    Thomas Baumert - Director of the Institute for Research on Viral and Hepatic Diseases / of the Inserm UMR_S1110 unit in Strasbourg / of the HepSYS Excellence Laboratory at the University of Strasbourg and University Professor-Practitioner at the Hepatodigestive Pole of the Hepatogastroenterology Department of the University Hospitals of Strasbourg
•    Prof. Dr. h.c. Andrea Schenker-Wicki - President at EUCOR and Rector at University of Basel
•    Prof. Dr. Katja Schenke-Layland - Director at The Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI), Professor of Medical Technologies and Regenerative Medicine in the Department for Women's Health at the University Women's Hospital Tubingen and Dean of the Medical Technology program at the University of Tubingen
•    Severine Sigrist - CEO at Defymed

The plenary will be moderated by Annette Gerlach, Journalist at ARTE.

Participation is free of charge but registration is mandatory since the number of participants is limited.

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