Programme

Wednesday, 21 November 2012 (Lausanne, Switzerland)

10:00 Registration starts at Lausanne Palace hotel
11:00 Welcome by Pascal Eichenberger, GreenITGlobe
11:10 Welcome by Raphael Conz, State of Vaud & Showcase Company Presentation & Elevator Pitches
11:30 Announcement of Selected Companies by Hansjoerg Sage, GIMV
11:40 Company Presentations
13:00 Networking Lunch
14:00 Panel "Cloud Computing: The Ups and Downs". Speakers include: Babak Falsafi, Director, EcoCloud, Prof., School of Computer & Communication Sciences at EPFL, Rajas Gokhale, Capgemini, Christophe Lienhard, Lotaris and Matthias Haendly, SAP. Moderated by Pascal Eichenberger

14:40 Company Presentations
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Company Presentations
18:15 Networking break
19:00 Cocktail & Gala Dinner with Entrepreneur of the Year Award Ceremony 2012. Congratulations to Klarna and Enecsys!

Thursday, 22 November 2012 (Rolex Learning Center at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

06:30 Networking Breakfast & check out
07:30 Transfer to EPFL
08:10 Welcome by Babak Falsafi, EcoCloud & Company Presentations
09:50 Coffee Break
10:20 Speech by Bob Jones, Head of CERN Openlab
10:30 Company Presentations
12:00 Networking Lunch
12:50 State of Vaud Elevator Pitches
13:00 Presentation of EPFL Project "Dias, Scientific Discovery through Raw Data Exploration" by Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki
13:10 Keynote Speech by Edouard Bugnion, EcoCloud Scientist, EPFL & VMWare Co-Founder & Interactive Audience Session.
13:40 Company Presentations
15:00 Closing Remarks & Cocktail
15:45 Delegate Bus Transfer to Geneva Aiport
16:00 End of Summit

Hotel & Venue

Lausanne Palace Lausanne
Grand Chene 7-9
Lausanne, 1002, Switzerland
Tel: 41 21 331 31 31
www.lausanne-palace.com

Thursday, November 22, 2012
Rolex Learning Center, EPFL
RLC on Campus
Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
http://rolexlearningcenter.epfl.ch

Built on the campus of EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, The Rolex Learning Center designed by the internationally acclaimed Japanese architectural practice, SANAA, will function as a laboratory for learning, a library with 500,000 volumes and an international cultural hub for EPFL, open to both students and the public. Spread over one single fluid space of 20,000 sq metres, it provides a seamless network of services, libraries, information gathering, social spaces, spaces to study, restaurants, cafes and beautiful outdoor spaces. It is a highly innovative building, with gentle slopes and terraces, undulating around a series of internal patios, with almost invisible supports for its complex curving roof, which required completely new methods of construction.

The Rolex Learning Center, Patrick Aebischer, President of EPFL, said, exemplifies our university as a place where traditional boundaries between disciplines are broken down, where mathematicians and engineers meet with neuroscientists and microtechnicians to envision new technologies that improve lives. We invite the public into this space to convey the message that working in science is working for the advancement of society.