Amazee at Venture Summit 2009
July 6, 2009
Unique in it’s kind, the Venture Summit brings together the Swiss high-tech venture community for 24 hours of intense networking and exchange. Amazee was represented by me, Dania, and here are some impressions.
The Venture Summit 2009 event started last Friday at 12h00 in Interlaken Ost, where about 70 participants gathered to spend the following 24 hours together. The program was a surprise: no keynote, no round table. Innovation and entrepreneurship through networking, action and fun!
We were welcomed by the organizing team with drinks and sandwiches and learned about the program. After a bus ride to Grindelwald we continued the way up to the summit via the Kleine Scheidegg (where our basecamp was) and further on to the Jungfraujoch. There we did a snowshoe-walk on the Glacier, which was great fun, but unfortunately quite gray and really cold. Arnaud didn’t seem to mind the cold too much and was in a great mood – even in his short pants.
The evening program was simple: Apéro, Dinner and Blues Party until the early morning hours with lots of talking and networking.
The following day started about 2 hours after the party: wake-up call at 4am to start our sunrise hike to Lauberhorn! The weather was gorgeous and the views fantastic.
On the top we enjoyed the mood and views. Here you see representatives of Doodle, Wuala, Streamforge, Arktis Radiation Detectors, Minsh, Neuropie, startwerk.ch.
Another few minutes walk down the hill and we were served coffee and a small breakfast at the start of the famous Lauberhorn ski race.
Shortly before the end of the event the”Networking Cup” was given to the best networker of the event. And the winner is Alexandre “Sandy” Wayenberg!
It was a great event, I met lots of friends and interesting new people and hopefully made some contacts that will support Amazee in the journey of becoming the best social collaboration platform! Thanks a lot to the organizers Jordi and Beat from venturelab and IFJ and especially to the sponsors Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Gebert Rüf Stiftung.
I’ll be back at Venture Summit 2010!
2 Responses to “Amazee at Venture Summit 2009”
I think it’s alex wayenbErg not bUrg :)
looks like it was a totally cool event up there, lucky you!
Looks like someone must have been pretty cold up there ;-)