union suisse winter :: celebration of collaborations

Celebration of Collaboration3rd of December 2015Impact Hub Geneva

#UnionGVA

The Union Suisse2May 2, 2023

The Union Suisse

Give / Get

May 2, 2023

Lets look back at 10Thanks to IKEA, Bacardi, DuPont, P&G, Accenture,

Impact Hub, UNITEC, IATA, CERN…

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Survey

May 2, 2023

Innovators and Connectors

May 2, 2023

100% of you come to the Union to hear new ideas from different sectors, 94% come to network.

Social Butterflies

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Over 60% of you have made 5 or more useful

new contacts at the Union

Phone a friend

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Over 95% of you would recommend the Union to

a friend

Golden Union

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Almost 50% of you have had 1 or more

commercial activities as a result of the Union

Ker-ching

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With over 30% of these being turned into measurable

business worth 1.5m CHF! (from this survey alone)

That’s an average deal of 200k CHF!

Not plugged in

May 2, 2023

But…as yet the Union Online has not been

adopted.

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David OttICRC

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Paul BristowPangloss Lab

P A N G L O S S L A B S . O R G

Open Innovation Center: Innovation, Fabrication, Learning, Sharing, Entrepreneurism

Union Suisse @ Impact Hub Geneva3 December 2015

P A N G L O S S L A B S . O R G

P A N G L O S S L A B S . O R G

We are both a Tilios & an eco-FabLab

tiers_lieu{x}Open

Source Fabrication Laboratory

(digital & ecological)

P A N G L O S S L A B S . O R G

Fablab

P A N G L O S S L A B S . O R G

My Give• A creative space• Innovation Labs• Sharing between entrepreneurs • Individual Projects• Collaboratif Projects• New Business Models• Join in - the future is in our hands

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Benjamin KrempelPumpTire

May 2015Union Event (03.12.15)

PumpTire Founded to Solve This Problem

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Compelling Market • 690 - 920 million inner tubes produced annually!• Exactly 100% of bicycle tires suffer from the problem• If you can sell it, you can build it – not the other way around

Description Quantity (units)

New bicycles (115 million units)

Inner tubes sold with new bicycles 230 million

Aftermarket Replacement market is 2-3 times the new bicycle market

460-690 million

TOTAL PRODUCTION / YR 690-920 million

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…Many Iterations later

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Where Are We Today?• Working prototype

• Full team in place and developing product

• Team has specialized pneumatic valve experience

• Manufacturing discussions with top bicycle tire manufacturers

• Material selection discussion with DuPont

• Production and process development with manufacturing groups

• Sales discussions with Specialized, Accell Group, Cycleurope, Decathlon

• Velib / JC Decaux early-adopterNext 18 months• Online marketing: Attract investors, industrial partners, user

• Close $2.5M series A round

• Launch Kickstarter campaign

• Achieve first $1M sales

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Philip BoydellDuPont

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Innovation with Startups at the

DuPont European Technical Centre

Philip BoydellSenior Scientist

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The European Technical CentreWhere DuPont brings Science to Market

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What ETC does

. Test. Age Test . ConvertFormulate

TroubleshootEnd Use DataPredictive EngineeringAP

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Prototype Demonstrates Function

Cost Effective Scalable Manufacture

Design Process Access to Market Supply Chain

Development ChallengeMaterials/Engineering

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Examples

Presto Park

Pumptire

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Application development experienceHow can we access more innovative applications and how can ETC best help startups?

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Matthias KuhnUnitec

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University of Geneva and CERN

Fostering research, innovation and entrepreneurship

By Matthias KuhnUnitec

UNIVERSITY OF GENEVAGeneralist research University, member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). Founded 1559.3 missions: Research, Education, Service to society.Fostering the transfer of technologies to the industry, innovation and entrepreneurship

CERNEuropean Organisation for Nuclear Research. Founded 1954.Performing fundammental and applied research. Fostering the transfer of technologies to the industry, innovation and entrepreneurship.

UNIVERSITY OF GENEVACERNLongstanding relations

- Department of Solid State Physics (DQMP).- Department of Particle Physics- Technology Transfer- Other

Global Entrepreneurship Week2014 + 2015

MeetUps and PresentationsBy Vetle Nilsen & team

UNION SUISSEOpen, multidisciplinary platformDiscussion ForumNetworking springboard

… the beginning of something else

GIVEWe are available to provide you with all the information you need with regard to outsourcing R&D and Services (industry liaison).We are also a technology provider:http://bit.ly/11trdjj (www.switt.ch)

GETInitiate collaborations with the University of Geneva for Research and Services.

Contact:Unitec, Technology Transfer Office

Matthias.kuhn@unige.ch022 379 03 54

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Vesna HajnsekP&G

No smelly food on the tour busCollaboration lessons learned from music

1+1=5 / SYNERGYNo “I” in performance

Do what the song/brand requires

Play your role

Be mindful of your bandmates

EXCHANGE

Give space to everyone who wants to contribute

Anyone can be a source of inspiration

Keep an open mind & be ready for changes

FLOWHave fun

Find solutions, not problems

Doing your best will encourage others to do the same

Give/Get

• GIVE: tips on where to see music collaborations in action (esp. improv)

– Chat Noir– Moulin Rouge– Mr. Pickwick– AMRBDG/BAG

• GET: What could musicians learn from business collaborations?

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Ines KnaepperTHE Port association

&Tarun Sarwal

ICRC

Open Collaboration for Humanity

Ines Knäpper, THE Port Association Tarun Sarwal, ICRC

ICRC – Innovation Initiative and RED Innovation

Innovation Initiative Creating a space for Collaboration

RED Innovation – ICRC’s open innovation platform

• Ambition to become a Movement-wide platform• 5 new crowdsourced ideas to improve humanitarian action• Next round: Healthcare challenges

Needs Ideas Prototypes

THE Port Hackathon at CERN -The power of hackathons

• 3-day problem solving hackathon devoted to humanitarian, social and public interest topics.

• Interdisciplinary teams of hand selected participants working together in the fields of: communication – transport – health – science – education – work – culture – data

CERN minds + Humanitarian challenges = Technological Opportunities

THE Port Association at CERN

Evolution of a Collaboration - 2014

Ad Hoc• ICRC and THE Port Hackathon Ad hoc collaboration

• From an Inflatable Fridge to a Better Body Bag

• From Kool & The Gang to SSRA!

Today – Structured collaboration• Ongoing Better Body Bag prototyping with ICRC Forensics team

• Further developments: Body tags

Evolution of a Collaboration - 2015

A more structured approach to collaboration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZqVgcldZQ

Thank You

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Peter CunninghamGeneva Centre for Security Polic

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Advancing Leadership in Peace and Security

Our challenge is threefold:

1. Take the best leadership training available today, adapt for relevance and make it available in a cost effective way

2. Conduct research into the ‘discipline’ of leadership (or the ‘art’ of leading) and evolve this field of study for the express benefit of current and future leaders addressing complex (inter)national security issues

3. Make world-class leadership education accessible to a far greater global audience than the 800 we reach today and build a connected community of leaders

Advancing Leadership in Peace and Security

Thank you

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Felix StähliThe Impact Hub Geneva

Save the date:Spring ‘SkiUnion’ Suisse – we are looking for hosts.