Date: Wednesday 29 March 2017
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Location / Room: Exhibition Theatre

Organiser:
Marisa Lopez-Vallejo, UPM, ES

Moderator:
Marisa Lopez-Vallejo, UPM, ES

Panelists:
Paul Andres, Legal Consultant, CH
Karim Kanoun, Mobile and Embedded Development Manager at Gait Up S.A., CH
Paul Keenan, Director of the IT Development Center Lausanne at Credit Suisse S.A., CH
Gian Paolo Perrucci, Mobility and Apps Solution Manager at Nestlé, CH
Amin Shokrollahi, Founder and CEO of Kandou Bus, CH

Technology entrepreneurship implicates taking a technology idea and finding a high-potential commercial opportunity, gathering resources such as talent and capital, considering how to market the idea, and managing rapid growth. It is a very high-potential path with a chance of both high earnings and large direct impact. However, it is also a really difficult path, and only small number of people are successful.

Success in this kind of business requires strong technical skills, capacity to deal with high risk of failure, and extremely hard work. In this panel we will discuss which are the challenges, opportunities and risks of creating technology startups.

18:30	End of session