Main Jury
An expert main jury is responsible for selecting the winners, under the leadership of jury chairman Prof. Dr. Florian von Wangenheim.
Maria Anselmi
Head of Start-ups and Next-Generation Innovators Division, Innosuisse
Dr. Silvio Bonaccio
Head Strategic Projects, ETH
Sibilla Delorenzi
Patent expert, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Dominik Escher
Managing Partner Pureos Bioventures, Chairman CDR-Life
Dominique Gruhl-Bégin
Director, Innosuisse
Lorenz Herrmann
Head of Department "Advanced Materials and Surfaces", Empa
Thomas Hodel
Head of Business Unit Ideation, Helbling
John Millard
Head of Technology Transfer, Paul Scherrer Institute
Prof. Dr. Falko Schlottig
Direktor, Hochschule für Life Sciences, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz
Dominic Sturm
Product Designer MAS and President, Swiss Design Association
Prof. Dr. Florian v. Wangenheim
Chairman of the jury, Head of Chair of Technology Marketing, ETH Zürich
Dr. Michael Wacker
Managing Partner, BiomedVC
Expert jury
An expert jury will analyse and evaluate all received applications in a multi-stage process.
Hanna Brahme
Curator AI-House
Gerd Bühler
Head of Business Development Services, Helbling
Dr. Oliver Gröning
Deputy Head of nanotech@surfaces, Laboratory & Group Leader Functional Surfaces
Markus Frei-Hardt
Technologietransfer-Manager, Paul Scherrer Institut
Mark Illi
Director of Operations, sitem-insel AG
Dr. Helmut F. Knapp
Deputy VP Industry 4.0 & Life Sciences, CSEM SA
Robert Rudolph
CEO, Switzerland Innovation Park Innovaare