Enabling Innovation For Smart Cities - Pitch Event with Web 3 / AI Focus
Enabling Innovation For Smart Cities - Pitch Event with Web 3 / AI Focus
Matching: W3 Projects (Innovators) + Angels (Investors) + Smart City Adoption
Lets enable Communities and Citizens to Thrive in the Future with new technologies
Come to Crypto Valley in Zug for partnerships, ideas, financing and smart city market adoption
Hosted by: Bitangels • Angel AI • Smart Cities Council
Date: 23 January 2026
Location: The SHED, Zug, Switzerland (Crypto Valley)
Event Overview
Cities are facing significant transformation as a result of demographic shifts, new technology and alignment to smart objectives like health span. WEB 3 is enabling democratised access to financing, enhanced data governance and community orchestration.
JOIN our EXPERT community in Finance, Healthcare, AI, Data Centres for an exciting afternoon & evening. Leading Innovations & investment.
‘Learn about leading edge applications of technology in financial services, healthcare, smart cities, AI & related infrastructure.’
PROJECTS AND PITCH EVENT
An exciting blend of ideas + money + market adoption brought together in a novel format.
Bitangels and SCC want to empower innovative projects which enable cities to move towards smart outcomes, adopt transformative capability and thrive sustainably in the future.
We are looking at solutions for cities across domains: finance, healthcare, governance, planning and critical infrastructure.
The event brings together a carefully curated group of innovators, angels, global investors, city leaders, policymakers, and ecosystem partners to address one of the most persistent challenges in innovation today: Untrapping valuable ideas with capital and pathway to adoption
IF YOU ARE LEADING A PROJECT AND LOOKING TO PITCH - Click Here for Pitch Applications
We are accepting a maximum of 10.
You will have exposure throughout Smart Cities Council and Bitangels networks. Winning project(s) will have a curated audience to target adoption clients with cities.
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WHERE : The Shed 📍 Dammstrasse 16, 6300 Zug
CORE AGENDA:
13:00 – 14:00 | Arrival & Registration
14:00 – 15:00 | Pitch Session – First 5 Projects
15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break & Sponsor Insights
15:30 – 16:30 | Pitch Session – Next 5 Projects
17:00 - 17:30 | Judging & Priority Project Announcements
17:30 – 19:00 | Networking Social / Apero (Included) - Join Executives and leaders for informal time
NOTE & COMMENTS
Following our event the Shed will open up to host a dinner and music evening.
Our SCC and Bitangels community will plan to stay after the pitch event.
You are invited to join the dinner hosted by the Shed - there is small fee of Chf. 39
Please see the attached link for attending the dinner. Link
Confirmed VIP event attendees - panelists and attendees
Joyce Chow - BitAngels Director & Hollywood Lead
Andrew Cote - Deep Tech Week & Technology Investor
Jimmy Cunningham - Bitangel and Agricultural Investor
Dr. Adel ElMessiry - Founder AI DCT & Alphafin
Jakub P. Molski - Clean Valley Capital - Partner
Indu Navar - Everything ALS - Founder & Silicon Valley Game Changer
Dr. Melissa Grill-Peterson - Founder, Human Longevity Institute & Peptide University
Johannes Hammerstein - CEO, SpHHere & VC Investor
Pitch Format and Eligible Projects / Innovation Topics
Each pitch will be 10 minutes (not a typical 3 minute format)
We want meaningful conversations and decisions with Angels and Practitioners
Eligible PItch Domains: :
AI & Web3–enabled finance and blended finance models
AI adoption and AI capacity / data center infrastructure
Healthspan and wellbeing outcomes enabled by AI & Web3
Sustainability modeling and regenerative (net-positive) systems
AI-enabled Age in Place and ageing resilience
AI-enabled mental health and community care
AI literacy, education, and citizen-led adoption
Future-ready data governance & AI governance
Web3 Commons — IP & data sharing for social good
Natural capital, voice-for-nature registries, and markets