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1 NEXT (working title)

2 NEXT Project leads Impact Hub Zürich Impact Hub Zürich A leading innovation, start-up and sustainability space in Zürich Part of the largest network of innovation labs across the globe (i.e., members in 55 Impact Hubs in cities like Berlin, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Dubai, Johannesburg & Singapore) Opened in 2011, 15 team members (11 FTEs), break even with one million annual revenue and all debt repaid 380 members, event visitors annually, virtual followers High-level board with, amongst others, Joachim Schoss, Thomas Vellacott, Nick Beglinger, and Renat Heuberger Partnerships with Swisscom, AXA, Novartis, Swiss Re, Credit Suisse, Postfinance, WWF Schweiz, Bundesamt für Energie, Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen, Kanton Zürich, Jacobs Foundation, Mercator Stiftung Schweiz and UBS Stiftung

3 Project leads Colab Zurich Colab Zurich Opened in May 2013 Initiated by Panter AG and Grafik2 450% FTE Community Manager to curate the program of Colab Zurich Offering for entrepreneurs, startups, and freelancer from the ditgital- and creative industries 60 Coworkers from 30 companies working on 500m2 inspiring space Colab Zurich is financially profitable, yet non-profit Free space for events from exciting communities First expansion to Colab Fribourg and Colab Athens

4 Supporters and potential founding partners of NEXT Stadt Zürich (Anna Schindler, Leiterin Stadtentwicklung) Swisscom (Roger Wüthrich-Hasenböhler, Member of the Swisscom Group Executive Board) WWF Schweiz (Thomas Vellacott, CEO) AVINA STIFTUNG (Sibylle Feltrin, Managing Director) Volkart Stiftung (Marc Reinhart, President) Michael Wehrli (Zürcher Unternehmerfamilie) Impact Hub San Francisco

5 Planned for 2015 Enter NEXT A unique space in Zürich and Switzerland Partnership of Impact Hub Zürich and Colab Zürich m2 innovation lab to prototype the future of business Cross-sector partnering (entrepreneurs, hackers, designers, social innovators, artists, corporate managers, NGO professionals) Collaborative culture: Hosting, facilitation and curation Powered by Impact Hub Zürich and Colab Zürich

6 Opportunities arise. But what is happening? The way we do business is shifting: We innovate differently We seek purpose Business is changing Networked organizations, freelance labor forces, open innovation Gen Y, Intrapreneurship, purposeful careers Sharing economy, corporates tackling societal issues, full transparency of supply chains These brings risks and opportunities for Zurich and Switzerland as a economic and innovation hub.

7 Others have started. However, there s nothing like NEXT. Building new forms of collaboration for innovation. Several large companies initiated projects to collaborate with startups beyond corporate venturing: A shared office with startups has only limited potential for learning and innovation It requires curated spaces with a true culture of collaboration NEXT is the first ever cross-sector innovation and collaboration lab.

8 We have already done it. and there isn t anyone else like us. Co-creating an entrepreneurial culture Cross-sector collaboration Global platform of 60+ Impact Hubs Purpose and shared value creation as a business opportunity

9 Reaching the NEXT level. How founding partners can benefit? 1. Experiencing innovation through collaboration 2. Building an entrepreneurial culture 3. Developing a holistic innovation and entrepreneurship landscape

10 NEXT STEPS Q4-2015: Inviting founding partners for NEXT project Sponsors, donors and investors to help realize the project Communities, programs and incubators to become part of NEXT Large corporate clients to leverage NEXT for innovation to scale Q1-2015: Prototyping NEXT in m2 across three locations in Zurich West Contact Christoph Birkholz Christoph.Birkholz@impacthub.net