PODIUM Zurich

📅 15 May 2025 (13:45-19:00)
📍Baur au Lac Zurich

Since 2016, SPHERE has connected the Swiss financial community, offering professionals a platform through newsletters, a website, a magazine, and events covering key financial topics. Over 3,000 wealth management professionals have participated in its Geneva and Zurich events, solidifying SPHERE as a leading media platform and event organizer for wealth managers.

In 2025, SPHERE unveils PODIUM, an innovative afternoon event culminating in a networking cocktail. Investment services/products providers will present impactful pitches on diverse themes in a plenary session, followed by focused roundtables fostering meaningful connections with investors. Original conferences will explore practical challenges faced by investors, enriching the program.

PODIUM’s dynamic format combines engaging presentations with tailored networking opportunities, addressing the needs of asset managers and investors in a focused, collaborative setting.

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION

This event is exclusively dedicated to qualified investment professionals: independent wealth managers (EAM), single and multi family offices, investment decision makers in banks, pension funds and institutional consultants.

PARTNERS

PROGRAMME

13:45 ☕ Welcome guests and coffee

14:15🎤 Round n°1 / Power Talks Private Equity

(Salon Petit Palais)

From complexity to clarity: unlocking the full potential of private market investments through technology
Sener Arslan, Regional Director Switzerland, QPLIX

Why are Private Markets going Evergreen?
Vai Rajan, Managing Director, Head of EMEA Private Wealth, EQT Group

Why investing in European breakthrough innovation defies short-term market turbulence
Steffen Wagner, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Verve Ventures

14:40 🔎 Go further with the experts

(rotate in three breakout rooms)

• Unlocking Private Market potential through technology (Sener Arslan)
• Understanding the shift to evergreen private market (Vai Rajan)
• How European innovation resists short-term market turbulence (Steffen Wagner)

15:25 🫖 Break

15:55 🎤 Round n°2 / Power Talks Alternative Investments

(Salon Petit Palais)

Contemporary art as a strategic asset
Hugo Rouast, Head of Art Investment Advisory – Switzerland, Matis

Investment challenges and trends in DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
Gonzague de La Tournelle, General Partner at w3i & Associate Partner at Belem Capital

Investing in Defense and Security: Building a Resilient Future
Amir Weitmann, Managing Partner, Champel Capital

16:20 🔎 Go further with the experts

(rotate in three breakout rooms)

• Leveraging contemporary art for portfolio diversification (Hugo Rouast)
• Navigating investment challenges in DeFi (Gonzague de La Tournelle)
• Investing in Defense and Security: Building a Resilient Future (Amir Weitmann)

17:05 🥂 Networking cocktail