CEO Day 2013: a huge and efficient event - updated

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25.10.2013

CTI and CTI Invest are organizing the CEO Day for 10 years now. Last Wednesday 575 entrepreneurs, investors, supporters and representatives of industrial companies met in Bern – a record-breaking number. The CEO Day is a perfect opportunity to get in touch with potential business partners and several elements of the event such as the “Investors on Stage” make it easier to find the right person to talk to. The podcasts are now available on the Website of CEO Day.

At the beginning of this year’s CEO Day organizer Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier showed an impressive growth curve and asked the audience what they think the curve represents. It was not the growth of a successful start-up but the growth of the numbers of participants at the CEO Day. In ten years the number of participants of the event organized by CTI and CTI Invest has risen from 150 to 575. The event has become a convention for the entire Swiss start-up scene where entrepreneurs, investors, supporters and representatives of industrial companies meet.

The CEO Day is a very good opportunity to get in touch with potential partners and there are several elements of the day that facilitate discussions. There are of course the 1to1-meetings which are so popular that their number had to be limited due to the limited space available. Nevertheless during the day there was enough time to meet potential partners. And in addition several organisations had booths at the Stade de Suisse where entrepreneurs could also meet experts, supporters and potential partners.

The podcasts of the event are now online. You can download it on www.ceoday.ch.

The Dragon’s Den competition and the “Investors on Stage” helped to select interesting partners for a discussion at the CEO Day. 20 investors present their organisation during “Investors on Stage” ranging from classic VCs looking for the next billion dollar companies such as Earlybird to corporate VC such as Zühlke Ventures and Swisscom Ventures, banks (ZKB) and business angel organisations such as Go Beyond. Videos of the presentation will soon be online on www.ceoday.ch – we will inform our readers when the videos go online.

The Dragon’s Den competition was this time divided in two groups: Life Sciences and IT. Even though quality level of the pitches was high not every pitch was really good. “You must make your story clear from the first slide”, was the advice Christian Wenger, chairman of CTI Invest, gave.

A jury selected two start-ups from every category for the finals. The selected companies are: Newscron and Visionarity (IT) and Medyria and Numab (Life Sciences). They had to pitch again- this time they should tell the audience something personal. Winners were Elia Palme who pitched for Newscron and Mauro Sette pitching for Medyria. They won CHF 1’500 each. The money can be used for trade fairs or something similar.  

The next CEO Day will be held on 22 October 2014.

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