PITCHING SESSIONS

WHY PITCH?
Go one step further: pitch your company’s innovation, plans and objectives to the Swiss Nordic Bio audience and:  
  • Maximise your participation at the number one Swiss-Nordic life science partnering platform
  • Increase your visibility and attract more leads potential partners at the event day and get ad-hoc meeting requests
  • Get feedback and input on your innovation from a broad audience: peers, business developers, investors and pharma
SETUP
Pitching sessions provide a forum for cutting edge companies to present their projects, technologies, partnering opportunities and strategies. Selected candidates will have the opportunity to pitch at Swiss Nordic Bio 2022. The pitches will be held during the morning of the conference, on site in Zurich. There will be two different rooms where the pitching sessions will be moderated by the organisers of the conference. The pitching schedule for both rooms will be published and communicated to the conference participants in advance of the conference.
 
PRICE

Cost for one pitching session is EUR 500. Number of slots are limited and assigned on a first come first served basis. To book a pitching slot please contact Christoffer Bengtsson, Business Sweden, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

SPONSORSHIP

Sponsoring Swiss Nordic Bio 2022 is the perfect opportunity to position your company within the Swiss and Nordic life science industry. By sponsoring SNB 2022 you have the opportunity to:

  • Get in front of your target market and put your business front and centre among Swiss-Nordic life science executives
  • Position your company as a preferred partner to Swiss and Nordic life science industry organisations
  • Engage in customer and market interaction with top life science executives from Swiss-Nordic biotech/medtech SME’s, pharma companies and investor firms
  • Boost your reach and exposure to prospective and existing partners within the Swiss-Nordic life science community
  • Build and strengthen brand awareness and get media exposure among a selected, Swiss-Nordic focused, crowd

Business Sweden offers 2 different sponsorship packages:

  • Main sponsorship (Held exclusively for 1 company)
  • Session sponsorship (Held exclusively for 4 companies)

 For more information about sponsorship please contact Business Sweden

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

 

End of registration
6 March 2025



1-to-1 meeting booking closes
12 March 2025


 Event date
13 March 2025

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About COVID-19

As it is very important for us to ensure the safety and health of our participants, as well as to safeguard that every participant is feeling comfortable during the event, we will make sure to comply with the Swiss and cantonal corona requirements during the physical conference in Zürich.

You will find answers to essential questions in the FAQ section below. Do not hesitate to contact the Swiss Nordic Bio Team if you have additional questions regarding this topic.

WHAT COUNTS AS A VALID COVID CERTIFICATE?

Please find this information on the official website of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health by clicking here.

HOW ARE THE NECESSARY HYGIENE MEASURES ENSURED IN THE PREMISES?

The hygiene measures that are required for the event are being ensured by the hotel where the conference is taking place. All necessary measures will be facilitated.

WHAT HAPPENS IF I HAVE BOOKED MY TRIP TO THE CONFERENCE AND DUE TO LAST MINUTE CHANGES IN TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS I CANNOT ATTEND THE CONFERENCE ANYMORE?

Force majeure is a case that has to be handled between you and the flight company. For participation in the conference please see the general terms of service.

WHAT ARE THE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS TO SWITZERLAND WHEN TRAVELING FROM THE NORDIC COUNTRIES?

There is no entry ban for people traveling from the Nordic countries to Switzerland (status February 2022). For more information about what requirements exist when entering Switzerland from another country and what documents are mandatory for entry, please read through the official Swiss entry and travel requirements here.

FAQ

WHY DO I RECIEVE NONE OR ONLY FEW MEETING REQUESTS?
  • None? Have you activated the B2B meeting checkboxes?
  • Only a few? The better your profile the more meetings requests you will receive.

Oftencompanies want to bypass the registration quickly and do not insert meaningful and qualitative organisation descriptions and collaboration wishes (I am offering ..., I am looking for ...) A low quality profile doesn't animate other companies to get in contact with you ...

WHY PUBLISH A HIGH QUALITY COLLABORATION PROFILE?
  • Cooperation profiles give you the opportunity to publish and promote your collaboration wishes before and after the event.
  • Event participants but also any other web user can find and read your organisation details and your published cooperation wishes.
  • A statistical analysis of 500 matchmaking events showed that high quality profiles are visited about 50 to 150 times.
  • The better your profile the more meetings requests you will receive at the end.
HOW DOES THE MATCHMAKING WORK?

At a matchmaking event people meet and greet at high speed. Bilateral meetings take usually 20 or 30 minutes, which is usually enough to forge business/research/technological connections. Then the bell rings and the next meeting starts. Each participant registers with a cooperation profile which will be displayed at the event website. Each participant can online select meetings with other participants they would like to personally talk to. A few days before the event, each participant will receive a meeting schedule, showing WHO he will meet WHEN and WHERE. What are the benefits of participating in the matchmaking event? All participants can present their expertise/projects/technologies online already BEFORE the event. The cooperation profiles will be extensively promoted. Participants can get in contact with each other already before the event and know exactly who they will meet at the event. A matchmaking event therefore presents a very efficient and focused way of finding new collaboration partners.

HOW CAN I REGISTER TO THE EVENT?

Click on the green button "Register" on the startpage to start the registration process.

WHAT TYPE OF INFORMATION DO I NEED TO FILL IN THE REGISTRATION FORM?
  • Form 1: Event sessions, Payment options (if available), Remarks for the event organizers
  • Form 2: Contact data (Person and Company) - Give some information about the organisation you are working for, its focus and areas of activity.
  • Form 3: Collaboration profile (if you attend the matchmaking sessions)

VERY IMPORTANT to receive many and high qualified meeting requests Properly fill in the cooperation profile and give details on e.g. technology/product/project, innovative aspects, current stage of development and the target partner sought. The cooperation profile is your virtual business card - the higher the quality, the more participants will select you for bilateral meetings!!!

WHO IS THE PARTICIPANT?

The Participant is the person who will participate in the matchmaking event and who is responsible for the inserted profiles. Participants should indicate their contact details (especially e-mail and mobile phone number) to be directly informed about registration, agendas, changes in the event set-up.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF "SUPPORT OFFICE"?

"Support Office" are in most cases Enterprise Europe Network offices (Chamber of Commerces, Technology agencies, etc.) who support Companies in doing international business free of charge. If your region is not listed in the drop-down menue, please select "Other".

PASSWORD?

You can choose a password during the registration.

Password forgotten? Click on the Login button. There you will find a link "Forgot password?". Use this link to receive a email with further instructions. PS: The registration mails contains a so called "Autologin Link". Via this link you can directly sign-in to your personal Dashboard without entering your email address and password.

How to change the password? Please log in with your Autologin link (you will find it in the mail you received after your registration) and go to Change Password

COLLABORATION PROFILES - IS IT POSSIBLE TO INSERT MORE THAN ONE PROFILE?
Yes, it is. Every participant has the possibility to insert several profiles. Please note that profiles are associated with participants. The same organisation can be registered several times with different participants (contact persons).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO MODIFY MY PROFILE?

Yes, it is. Log in via the Login button or the Autologin link you have received with your registration mail. In your personal Dashboard you can use the tabs to modify any of the content you have already inserted.

When will my profile be available online? Every profile will be quality checked by the event organizer. If it meets the quality criteria it will be put online, if not, you will be contacted by the event organizer to adapt your profile.

HOW CAN I BOOK MEETINGS?

Booking is opened about 2-3 weeks before the event after most of the participants have registered. You will be informed by email about the start of the booking.

1. Select the link "Participants" from the main menue.
2. Use the green button "Book meetings" which you can find on each participants profile

CAN I REFUSE A MEETING REQUEST?

Yes of course.

1. In your Dashboard select the Tab "Meetings" to list all meeting requests (Own bookings and Guest bookings).
2.Use the button "Reject" to refuse a meeting request.

In case this event is operated in Opt-Out booking mode (meeting requests are by default accepeted, but can be rejected) - What is the reason behind?

Experiences have shown that less than 10% of the meeting requests are usually rejected. Therefore the booking mode "Opt-Out" keeps the burdon low for the majority (90%) of participants, by not asking them to confirm a request they are going to accept anyway. Results: less email traffic; less pending meeting requests waiting for approval.

WHEN WILL I GET MY PERSONAL MEETING SCHEDULE?

1. One week before the event you will receive a preliminary meeting schedule by email (contains most of the meetings)
2. 2-3 days before the event you get your (more or less) final meeting schedule by email
3. At the event day you get the very final schedule (taking into account last minute changes and cancellations)

WHAT IF, DUE TO UNFORESEEN REASONS, I CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN THE MATCHMAKING EVENT?

Please inform the event organiser immediately.
If you have booked meetings/you have been booked for meetings, please get directly in contact with your meeting partners and tell them that you cannot keep the appointment.

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