Highlights from HTW 2026
PROGRAM
HealthTech Week is an intensive, hands‑on summer school where students from Life Sciences/Medicine, Engineering, and Business/Economics collaborate to turn real clinical and industry problems into validated solutions, prototypes, and investor‑ready pitches -- in five days.
Vision: Building the Next Generation of HealthTech Entrepreneurs
Competition structure: Cases are tackled by mixed teams; winners are selected based on evidence quality, commercial viability, and stakeholder commitments.
This is not theory. It’s a needs‑driven, evidence‑based sprint guided by coaches from entrepreneurship, clinics, engineering, and regulation.
Vision: Building the Next Generation of HealthTech Entrepreneurs
Competition structure: Cases are tackled by mixed teams; winners are selected based on evidence quality, commercial viability, and stakeholder commitments.
This is not theory. It’s a needs‑driven, evidence‑based sprint guided by coaches from entrepreneurship, clinics, engineering, and regulation.
Coaches/Speakers
- Nebal Abu-Hussei, Yale School of Medicine
- Stefan Bertschi, Wyss Zurich
- Alessandro Blasimme, ETH Health Ethics & Policy Lab
- Stephan Bodis, IT'IS Foundation
- Hafida Boufraioua, ETH Transfer
- Noé Brasier, ETH Translational Science Lab
- Sebastiano Caprara, Universitätsklinik Balgrist
- Andrea Cossettini, ETH Integrated Systems Lab and EFCL
- Andreaa Cretu, UZH BEI
- Zoë Despature, CSEM
- Stephan Fox, ETH Exploration Lab
- Jens Haarmann, ZHAW Product Management
- Anna Hanzl, UZH TMA
- Josef Hayoz, CSEM
- Lukas Jäger USZ, Health Innovation Hub
- Markus Kalousek, Biogenerationventures.com
- Rolf Kaufmann, ZHAW Safety-Critical Systems Lab
- Thomas Kiefer, Wyss Zurich
- Lev Kogon, Caelum BioSolutions GmbH
- Jens Krauss, CSEM
- Juan Lahera Perez, CSEM
- Oleg Lavrovsky, Apertus EPFL ETH CSCS
- Alia Lemkaddem, CSEM
- Samy Liechti, SamyLiechti GMBH
- Yanick Lukic, ZHAW
- Cathriona McIntyre, CSEM
- Sabra Melamed, CDHI
- Mirco Müller, UZH TMA
- Diego Paez-Granados, ETH SCAI Lab
- Fenja Persello, Santé24 by SWICA
- Christian Riesen, AlpineAI
- Ella Ritter, Wyss Zurich
- Josephine Ritzel, USZ Health Innovation Hub
- Dietmar Schaffarczyk, ETH Regulatory Thinking
- Stefan Tuchschmid, Scanvio Medical
Moderation
- Diana Hardie, CEO Swiss Healthcare Startups
- Katrien de Bock, ETH Head of Department of Health Sciences and Technology
SPONSORS
PARTNERS
JURY
- Aline Bütikofer, ETH D-MTEC, Empirical Health Economics
- Roger Gassert, ETH D-HEST, Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory
- Andreas Goeldi, b2 venture
- Urs Hilber, ZHAW Life Sciences und Facility Management
- Adrian Hunn, Swiss Medtech
- Joao Magalhaes, Swiss Medical Network
- Michio Painter, UZH, Translational Medicine Accelerator (TMA)
- Ralph Schiess, UZH Zurich Hub for Drug and Device Development
- Penelope Timpert, EUPATI Switzerland
- Effy Vayena, ETH VP Knowledge Transfer and Corporate Relations
- Nici Wenderoth, ETH D-HEST, Neural Control of Movement Lab
- Dirk Wilhelm, ZHAW School of Engineering