Mars Habitat Challenge 2022
Hagerbach Test Gallery is looking for pioneering startups to develop solutions for the visionary idea of living on Mars or other planets. Solutions include those that offer products/services that could make life on Mars possible. Be it solutions for constructing buildings/caverns, energy, air or water management, health & safety, transportation, food production, or communication. The ultimate goal is a self-sustaining habitat based on the principles of a circular economy. The Mars Habitat Challenge is supervised by Venturelab.
Ten selected startups have pitched their startup project in front of a jury of high-ranking industry experts from Hagerbach Test Gallery, AMBERG, IMPLENIA, SIKA, ACO, ELKUCH, ROWA, Mission Earth First (ITACUS, SCAUT, THE HUS, VSH).
The five top ranks (SOHHytec, Mixteresting, LYS Technologies, Open ATS, Swoxid) will present and showcase their startup on July 5, 2022 in a Hybrid Event live-streamed out of the Hagerbach Test Gallery including public voting for the winner. After the live-stream they will present their products in a small exhibition, where you have the chance to get more information and do some networking with the startups and our jury/sponsors.
Interested in learning more about the startup scene? Keynote speaker Nanja Strecker and the experts from Venturelab will be happy to tell you more. Take the unique opportunity to learn more about startups in Switzerland directly from the professionals and be part of the physical event.
Hybrid Event Programme
| Physical programme | Online programme (CEST) |
| 13:30 Door opening | - |
| 14:00 Opening speech Venturelab, Hagerbach Test Gallery, Mission Earth First | 14:00 Opening speech Venturelab, Hagerbach Test Gallery, Mission Earth First |
| 14:15 Startup pitches incl. Q&A | 14:15 Startup pitches |
| 15:05 Start public voting | 15:05 Start public voting |
| 15:15 Keynote speech by Nanja Strecker, ESA Business Incubation Centre " The ESA BIC Switzerland experience - from Earth to Space and back" | 15:15 Keynote speech by Nanja Strecker, ESA Business Incubation Centre " The ESA BIC Switzerland experience - from Earth to Space and back" |
| 15:25 End public voting | 15:25 End public voting |
| 15:30 Award ceremony | 15:30 Award ceromony |
| 15:45 Aperitif with exhibition of the startups | 15:45 End |
| 17:00 Tour and live show explosion | |
| 18:00 End |
How to attend?
The event will take place as a hybrid event and will be live-streamed out of the Hagerbach Test Gallery. The event language is English.
Physical participation | Online participation | |
| Where: Hagerbach Test Gallery, Polistrasse 1, 8893 Flums-Hochwiese, Switzerland | Where: Live-Stream on this Eventpage | |
| Fee: CHF 25.00 incl. showcase, exhibition, aperitif, tour and live show explosion. For Students to event is for free. | Fee: For free | |
| Registration: Please register till July 3, via the following Eventfrog Ticketing Link, there is no cash desk on site! | Registration: No, just jump into the live-stream |
Registration closed
Live-Stream
The stream will be directly her on the page available.
Start broadcasting 15 min before. Eventstart: 2 pm CEST
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Key Note Speaker
Nanja Strecker is an innovation expert by training and professional experience: She graduated from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as an industrial engineer and earned her doctorate in innovation management in Graz. From 1998 to 2007, she worked at Monitor, a management consultancy founded by Michael Porter of Harvard University. For Monitor, she worked mainly on innovation-related topics, in various industries and in 13 countries worldwide. She then became head of the innovation unit "Innovation Cells" at Constellium (formerly Alcan and Alusuisse), a manufacturer of semi-finished aluminum products. In 2015, she took over the project management for the Innovation Park Zurich at ETH Zurich and has been Managing Director of ESA BIC Switzerland since 2016. ESA BIC Switzerland quickly achieved an excellent reputation all over Europe, and Nanja and her team are passionate about supporting startups with a "Space Connection" throughout Switzerland. In addition, Nanja taught the "Corporate Strategy" course at Master level at EPFL for 7 years and received a teaching award for this.
Startups
| Timeslot Pitch / Presenter | Company | |
 | 14:15 Presented by Saurabh Tembhurne | SoHHytec SA, Lausanne, Switzerland SoHHytec provides onsite renewable Fuel (Hydrogen), Electricity and Heat production and storage systems which is cost-effective, cleaner and greener. |
 | 14:25 Presented by Endre Horvath | Swoxid, Lausanne, Switzerland SWOXID developed a gravitational solar-thermal water purifier, which filters and sterilizes contaminated water with sunlight. It does not require electricity, nor dosage of chemical agents to provide the sterilization effect. |
 | 14:35 Presented by Lukas Pfitscher | Open-ATS, Zurich, Switzerland Efficient autonomous local transport solutions by offering a scalable 3D printed ground vehicle |
 | 14:45 Presented by Franz Haller | Mixteresting GmbH, Leonding, Austria Mixteresting AI designs and optimizes concrete mixtures for special use cases. Through their discoveries you can develop better mixtures in a fast and simple way. |
 | 14:55 Presented by Hugo Starrsjo and Nikolaj Bomann | LYS Technologies, Copenhagen, Denmark Enabling healthier living with light and making it available for everyone |
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