Meet a sample of investment-ready Zambian SMEs (including from ITC’s FastTrackTech programme) who have been rigorously selected to pitch at The Village. This offers an opportunity to meet these SMEs while helping Prospero improve its understanding of how Swiss Investors could deploy their impact capital into Zambian (tech) impact enterprises.
Check out their pitch at the Village stage during the afternoon coffee break.
Meet the Geneva Foundation for Technology Innovation (Fongit) supporting technology startups in the canton of Geneva. In 2021 the Fongit Innovation Fund (FIF), a mechanism that provides up to 400 000 CHF in loans or convertibles to technology startups with an SDG impact was launched.
Check out their pitch at the Village during lunch.
Accelerate2030 – the world’s leading program for scaling entrepreneurial solutions towards the SDGs, is pleased to invite you to meet with a select group of entrepreneurs from the Global South that are tackling global challenges from health and energy to food systems.
Join us in the Restaurant (above Village on Level 1) at lunchtime for this facilitated networking session designed to maximize real-life connections.
Join us for the screening of the documentary “The Territory” that follows the indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau community and their fight to protect their land in the Amazon rainforest. A discussion with the film director Alex Pritz, and activists Neidhinha Bandeira and Walelasoeikigh Paiter Surui will take place after the screening.
The Sustainable Finance Hack, organized by Open Geneva and the Geneva School of Economics and Management, is a 24h hour event to tackle concrete sustainable finance challenges. Participants come together with experts and professionals of the finance industry, as well as students and citizens to practice open innovation in the field of sustainable finance. The 4th edition of the SFH will kick off at Building Bridges 2022. This event is supported by UBS, Credit Suisse, CA Indosuez, Lombard Odier, Actares, RAM Active Investments, Banque Alternative Suisse, the Global Fund and UNITAR.
Check out their pitch at the Village stage during the morning coffee break.
Celebrate all we have achieved together during the 2023 edition of Building Bridges.
Join us in the Building Bridges Village for refreshments and networking after our closing event.
Sponsored by Pictet and UBS.
Join us in the Village for lunch and networking.
The Gender Lens Initiative for Switzerland aims to mobilize more capital from Swiss-based institutions for gender lens investing through industry standards, market research, awareness raising, and promotion of financial innovation with a gender lens.
Join partners of the initiative, SFG, Canton de Genève, and AlphaMundi, in the Village for refreshments and networking after the I4N cocktail.