Events

Please join us for a night with member, Walter Niederberger, Journalist in San Francisco

 

Date:             December 6, at 7:30 p.m.

 

Location:      Spring Lake Village Auditorium

                        5555 Montgomery Drive

                        Santa Rosa, CA  95409

 

Parking:        At Spring Lake Village, the front parking lot is for visitors.  Overflow parking is available on Montgomery Drive itself.

 

Event:     https://wacsc.org/

 

 

 

 

 

The Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce would like to thank everyone who attended our annual Holiday Party.

The Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce in connections with many great partners presents
Holiday party with Fundraiser – November 29, 2018
4 PM – 8 PM

Swissnex, Pier 17, San Francisco, CA 94111

We are planning an after-work party with drinks, music and a multi course sit-down dinner. Enjoy Scott Cardel’s catering with a variety of great, fresh food.
Our wine sponsors this year are, Bucher wine, Muller wine and Vina Robles.
​Don’t miss this great event.

The Christmas auction is our only fundraising event of the year.  We would like to invite you to join in our holiday festivities and encourage you to actively show your support for the Chamber’s efforts by donating prizes.
It would indeed be a pleasure to see your name on our donors’ list. Great prizes are up for grabs at the silent auction. We have the ever so popular Swiss Rail passes, iPad and many more wonderful items. 

For the silent auction, we are looking for gifts/vouchers such as restaurants, spas, airport lounge passes, airline upgrades that are transferable, hotels, vacation homes, services from startups, electronics, coffee makers, wine and more.

We are also pursuing sponsorship for the event.
You may sponsor a table that seats 10 guests for $ 1500.
Ticket prices are: $ 110 members/$ 120 for non-members.

Featured auction prize from Switzerland Tourism

Swiss Travel Passes for 2 people

Including:

• 2 Nights at Sunstar Saas Fee ****
• For two people in a double room
• Daily breakfast buffet
• Dinner for two in one of their restaurants
• Valid until Dec 2019 – Not Valid over Christmas/New Year’s

Additional silent auction prize

2 Nights at Hotel Castell in Zuoz, Switzerland

For two people in a double room with a splendid view, breakfast buffet, free access to the Hamam and outdoor mountain sauna, and free access to the kids club. Value of the voucher CHF600. This offer excludes dates from December 26 to January 4. Hotel Castell is unique in the display of its contemporary art throughout the hotel, amazing location in the mountains of the Engadine Valley.

Institute for Digital Business

Please join us for a reception and meet the HWZ University delegation with executives from leading Swiss companies. The Founder & Director of Switzerland’s first university institute dedicated to the digital business revolution will be present.

GET TOGETHER AFTER WORK – MEET, ENJOY, GET CONNECTED

Wednesday November 7, 2018 -5:30 PM

W HOTEL SAN FRANCISCO, UPSTAIRS BAR, 2ND FLOOR 181 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Come and join us for a drink, meet decision makers from Swiss companies both in Switzerland and in the Bay Area and learn about the latest trends in digital business.
Would you like to meet our board at SACCSF? Are you interested in getting involved with the Swiss business community? This is your chance to get connected.
Let’s network and have a drink together in San Francisco.
Reception sponsored by HWZ University.

For more information on the event or HWZ University please contact Gert Christen, Head of HWZ Silicon Valley Outpost (gert.christen@fh-hwz.ch).

 

For more information and to buy tickets use

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swisscom-startup-night-tickets-49173563452

Description

Join us at Pier 17 for the 2018 Swisscom Startup Night! Expect an evening filled with pitches, networking and a chance to gain insights into Switzerland’s digital nation in the heart of Europe.

As part of this event, swissnex San Francisco welcomes the winners of Swisscom’s annual StartUp Challenge. The 5 winners pitch at the Swisscom Startup Night event, organized by event partners Swisscom and venturelab.

The 5 startups have been chosen by a jury consisting of members of the Swisscom Group Executive Board, Swisscom Ventures and external business angels and investors from over 230 applicants.

The entrepreneurs fly to the Bay Area for a one-week roadshow in October to accelerate their expansion into the U.S. market and build an exceptional business network through meeting investors and industry leaders in Silicon Valley, showcasing Switzerland as a deep tech nation.

The Startups

AAAccell (Link)

New very sophisticated quant engine, maybe better than Blackrock’s Aladdin, developed from 2 former bank CEO’s and 11 professors from ETH, University of Zurich, Columbia University New York and others.

Dotphoton (Link)

Dotphoton is an image compression solution for professional applications: it makes RAW images up to 10 times smaller with a strong guarantee that quality is preserved, saving a corresponding amount of time and money and enabling the next generation of high quality imaging solutions in photography, cinema, AI, biomedical and aerospace.

Sentifi (Link)

Sentifi is a leading provider of financially financial information based on Collective Intelligence. Our solutions are used by the world’s leading financial services organizations to gain unique insights on over 50 thousand traded companies, currencies and commodities and the events that impact them. Sentifi uses machine learning and big data to rank and listening to over 14 million financial influencers and connect them with events impacting global assets. Our customers use this insight to make better investment decisions, often ahead of the markets. Our solutions are also used by over 50 of the world’s leading financial publications to attract new customers, retain them and drive additional revenue.
Sentifi is headquartered in Switzerland with 60 employees and offices in Zurich, London, Mumbai and Ho Chi Minh City. The company was awarded the Swiss FinTech Award in 2016 and the Swisscom StartUp Award 2018.

Rovenso (Link)

ROVENSO designs, manufactures and markets agile robots for security monitoring in any environment. The robot is ideal to perform autonomous patrolling for security monitoring both outside AND inside big industrial sites. Its embedded AI performs anomaly detection with the help of its multimodal sensor fusion (3D mapping, night vision, sound analysis, gas sensing, etc.)

Exeon Analytics (Link)

Our ExeonTrace security analytics software analyzes specific network data. ExeonTrace’s big data algorithms and machine learning extract hidden information from millions of network records. This enables the quick detection and containment of data breaches caused by sophisticated cyber-attackers as well as browser plugins and other software that put sensitive data at risk.

Agenda

6.00pm – Reception

7.00pm – Pitches

8.00pm – Networking

9.00pm – Close

Presented by Swisscom in partnership with venturelab, Zurich meets San Francisco and Swissnex SF

 

 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swisscom-startup-night-tickets-49173563452