Kickstart Innovation
David C. Lottenbach is a seasoned entrepreneur and strategy expert, serving as the Founder, Owner, and CEO of BEARSONS CONSULT since November 2011, providing strategic advisory services at the executive level. As a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at VALRESULT, Lottenbach focuses on business model transformation in the digital age. Active in academia, Lottenbach is an Adjunct Professor at ESADE Business & Law School, educating future leaders on data-driven business solutions. Furthermore, Lottenbach holds positions as Senior Industrial Adviser at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and as a member and angel investor at the Swiss ICT Investor Club. Additional engagements include advising roles at advaisor AG and involvement in companies like PromoRepublic and Edtech Foundry, displaying a commitment to innovation across sectors. Lottenbach has extensive experience in teaching dynamic business modeling and transformation at various universities globally, underpinned by a robust educational background including degrees from the University of Bern, London Business School, and The Wharton School.
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Kickstart Innovation
Kickstart is one of Europe's largest zero equity, multi-corporate ecosystem innovation platforms that runs a scale-up program for later-stage startups with a goal to accelerate deep tech innovation. Science and engineering driven technologies have the potential to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They require unprecedented collaboration between established organizations and the most audacious entrepreneurs out there. Thereby, Kickstart is committed to building an innovation ecosystem that brings high-growth startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities together. Each year Kickstart brings around 100 startups to Switzerland to collaborate with key players for proofs-of-concept, pilot projects and other innovation partnerships. The program provides exceptional access to the executives and decision-makers of Kickstart’s partners. Being an initiative of Impact Hub Zürich and launched by digitalswitzerland in 2015, Kickstart runs 5 verticals (New Work & Learning, Finance & Insurance, Food & Retail, Smart Cities and Health & Wellbeing), an Intrapreneurship Academy and the Circular Economy Initiative.