5. INNOVATIONSTAG 2025

CREATE THE FUTURE 16.09.2025

on the Gurten near Bern




Goals of the Innovation Day

The STA Board of Directors welcomes you to the 5th Innovation Day 2025. Startups, companies, and universities working on security-relevant technologies will have easy access to the current challenges facing the military.


Proposals for solutions are to come from all areas, including outside of defense technology. For this purpose, the STA has launched the Innovation Day.

Your STA Board

Flyer Innovationstag 2025

Innovations for the Army

The Army presents its innovation needs in the fields


  • Field-ready and highly secure login procedure for the troops
  • Monitoring of logistics infrastructure

The framework will be announced on Innovation Day. Selected participants with their innovation proposals will be able to gather feedback and experience through field trials with the troops.

The STA Innovation Day offers you:

Insight into current innovation projects from the army, procurement, science and business.

A competition in which you can submit innovative solutions to current challenges facing the army.

The opportunity to network with high-tech companies and thus form valuable partnerships between innovators and integrators.

A pre-networking session in the morning to bring together large companies, SMEs and startups and build strong teams.

Networking program in the morning

  • On the Gurten 08:30 - 10:00: Check-in from 07:30 valley station

    Networking in the morning - innovators and integrators come together.

    Please arrive at the top of the Gurten in good time.


    The goal is for interested innovators and integrators to arrange a meeting in advance and meet for networking the morning before the official start to discuss and form partnerships. This personal exchange provides an opportunity to formulate questions and plan joint paths. After presenting the innovation needs, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Register and share your contact details, including LinkedIn, a brief profile, and a description of your planned contribution.

    Contact details and profiles will be published here starting in early July:

    Networking 2025

Programm Create The Future 2025

9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Coffee & croissants at the top of the Gurten for all participants
(Check-in from 08:30 at the Gurten valley station)
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Welcome and official start
Unit Innovation V - Rules of the game, successes of 2024
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Presentation of the Army's innovation needs and Q&A
11:30 – 13:30 Flying Lunch und Networking
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Report of the Board of Directors

We look forward to your participation in Innovation Day.

Would you like to actively participate in the morning networking event for innovators and integrators?

Then please send us the details for innovators and integrators "NETWORKING IN THE TOMORROW"

Important dates and schedule

  • June 23, 2025

    Details on the STA Challenges 2025 will be posted here.

  • 31. August 2025

    Registration deadline for Innovation Day and networking appointment in the morning.

  • October 17, 2025

    Deadline for submitting suggested solutions via form on the STA website.

  • October 27, 2025

    Invitation of selected solution proposals to pitch to the customer.

  • 18. 19. November 2025

    Pitch days and judging at the client

  • 28. November 2025

    Communication Winner STA Challenges 2025