Special visit with Professor Liora Katzenstein

On Saturday, June 19th, we are lucky enough to be joined by renowned investor, educator, mentor, and lecturer, Professor Liora Katzenstein. We invite you to join us from 12PM until 2PM at Restaurant Gnüsserei in Zurich. Presentation and talk will be free of charge. Please sign up quickly, as space is limited!

In today's unforgiving new venture environment, investors and analysts have little tolerance for poor product concepts, weak management teams and empty value propositions. The rules of the startup game have changed, and in order to win the entrepreneur must manage within a focused, disciplined framework of critical success factors.

Professor Katzenstein will give an introductory presentation ... revealing the secrets of establishing a successful start-up and discussing the following:

The entrepreneurial lifestyle
Finding business opportunities
Raising funds for you business Conducting a winning business plan
Practical tips & examples

And much much more.

Professor Katzenstein's involvement with early-stage technology enterprises spans more than two decades, and includes roles as an investor, advisor, active board member, and founder of a number of successful ventures. As founder of Forum International (an Israeli business development consultancy), she was actively involved in establishing strategic partnerships between Israeli companies and firms in Asia and the US and provision of strategic advice and fund raising support for Israeli technology start-ups. As a partner in Consulta Associates, an international consulting firm with an active network of affiliates in
North America, Europe and the Far East, she assisted foregn companies in evaluating and entering the Israeli market.

Prof. Katzenstein's main focus in her academic endeavors has been entrepreneurship education. In addition to numerous publications, she has lectured widely this topic at most of Israel's universities and management training institutions, leading public enterprises and major technology based corporations. Since 1996, she has served as the founding president of ISEMI – The Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship and Management of Innovation. As head of ISEMI’s founding team, Liora led the initiative of bringing to Israel the unique Masters of Enterpreneurship and Innovation (MEI) program that had been developed at Swinburne University of Technology. Prior to founding ISEMI,
Liora served as Associate Dean of the Tel Aviv International School of Management (a privategraduate management school).

Prof. Katzenstein holds a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University, and a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva. She was awarded a visiting doctoral scholarship to the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Prof. Katzenstein has served as a director of several public and private companies, including Clal Industries & Investments (one of Israel's largest holding companies), Discount Issuers Ltd. (Israel's third largest bank), Amanet (one of the largest consulting companies), Bezeq Globe (a subsidiary of Israel's largest telecommunications company), Degem Ltd (a leading Israeli high tech company) as well as RIT, RadWare and RadVision (NASDAQ traded high tech firms) and Clal Insurance (Israel's largest insurance company) .