How to Pitch Your Science

Aims

After this course you will be able to:
• Tailor your talk to the audience
• Know how to talk to an investor or other stakeholders
• Know how to communicate your science in a way that really excites your audience

Content

The course is made for people who want to infect people with their idea and make it stuck. The course will teach you the necessary tools to communicate your idea effectively. The course focuses on an entrepreneurial setting, where you learn the do’s and don’ts and how to pitch successfully in front of investors and other stakeholders.
After a theoretical introduction in which you learn how to identify your target audience, what the key points of your speech are and how you can communicate in the most effective way, you will pitch your own idea several times.

Methods

In the first part, the theory will be presented to you. The second part will be hands-on experience. You will be divided into two groups and will go through several rounds of pitches with feedback to improve yourself continuously. At the end, you will present in front of the bigger group and get feedback from peers and the trainers. In addition, if there will be enough time, an investor pitch deck of a known company will be dissected to identify common pitfalls and tips and tricks.

Target Group

All Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

Requirements

You need to bring an idea that is applicable in an entrepreneurial context. It can be your PhD project, a crazy idea, a hobby, etc. The only requirement is that the idea can be turned into a product, a service or that it can be used to make the world a better place.

About the Trainer

After graduating with a PhD in Translational Oncology in the University Hospital of Basel, Arthur worked for around two years in strategy consulting, before joining a marketing agency in the health department.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthurkrause/

Oskari is passionate serial entrepreneur, who founded, built and sold several starts. He has deep experience in the process of founding and building a company from scratch. At the moment, Oskari is following his passion and is advising a medtech startup.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/oskarivinko/

Workload

Course attendance: 2 x 4h
Preparation: 1-2h
Homework: (1-2h)

Feature

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.