01. August 2007
Forecasting the Crisis! Flexibility in Changing Conditions
Theme of the fifth Entrepreneurial Day Zurich, November 2007.
- Host: Young Chamber Zurich
- Organisation committee: Philipp Buis; Philip Müller; Gordon Wollgam; Roeland Nollen, Evert Ypma (Chairman)
- Cooperation partners: City of Zurich, Economic department; Park Hyatt Zurich; H+M Media; Virtual Lab; Hürlimann Druck; Verlagsgruppe Handelszeitung
- Funders: AMAG Audi Zurich; EKZ Energy; Kaleidos Fachhochschule Wirtschaft; Swiss Life Switzerland; KPMG Switzerland; Greater Zurich Area
- Year: 2007
Speakers
Dr. David Bosshart, CEO Gottlieb Duttweiler Institut, Zürich
Ahmed Larouz, Founder/ Partner Mexit B.V., Amsterdam
Achim Feige, Executive Brand Consultant, Brand:Trust, Nürnberg
Stefan Baldenweg, Partner & Mitglied der Gruppenleitung, Management Consulting & Education, Malik Management Zentrum St.Gallen
Esther-Mirjam de Boer, UR-Design Management, Zürich
Carlos Friedrich, Marketingleiter IKEA Schweiz, Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung, Zürich
Martin Lötscher, Art Director, soDA, magazin für visuelle kultur, Zürich
Alfons Cortéz, Advisor to the Board, LGT Capital Management, Lichtenstein
Stefan Buser, KPMG, Director, Internal Audit Services, Leiter Risk & Sustainability, Zürich
Thomas Vellacott, Programmdirektor und Mitglied der Direktion, WWF Schweiz, Zürich
Olivia Kühni, Journalistin, Moderatorin, Luzern
Abt Martin Werlen, Kloster Einsiedeln, Einsiedeln
Paul Müller, CEO Swiss Life Schweiz, Zürich
Hugo Bigi, M.A., Journalist BR und Mediendozent Chef Moderation, Tele Züri, Zürich
Yohan Bräunling, Gründer und Geschäftsführer b&m management, Zürich
Markus Mettler, BrainStore Ltd. Empowering Innovation, Biel
Paul Staartjes, Waysis BV, Holdingdirector, Amsterdam/ Bussum (NL)
Daniel Frei, Selbständiger Moderator, ZürichRoland J. Stulz, Geschäftsführer ,2000-Watt-Gesellschaft‘, Dübendorf
Regina Schwegler, INrate AG for sustainable investments, Zürich
Stefan Meyre, Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung / Leiter Geschäftsbereich Marketing und Verkauf, Elektrizitätswerke des Kantons Zürich, Zürich
Manuel Demetz, Research for Corporate Social Responsibility/ Free University Bozen- Bolzano, School of Economics & Management, Bozen
Brigit Wehrli-Schindler, Direktorin Fachstelle Stadtentwicklung Zürich, Präsidialdepartement
Martin Dvorak, Dvorak Consulting/ Präsident, Junge Wirtschaftskammer Zürich, Aarau
Dr. Jakob Limacher, Präsident Kalaidos Fachhochschule, ZürichDaniel Rüthemann, Country General Manager, IBM Schweiz, Zürich
Margarete von Lupin, Journalistin, Redaktionsleiterin, Moderatorin. Design2context, ZHdK, Zürich
Conference opening speech
By Evert Ypma, chairman and curator Entrepreneurial Day Zurich 2007:
Difference as Potential
'Due changing conditions entrepreneurs from all over the world pose the question how cultures, disciplines and business fields can be amalgamated and how this can generate new chances. Really good and useful ideas are not easy to find. This is the reason for our leitmotiv 'Flexibility in Changing Conditions' of this year’s Entrepreneurial Day Zurich. The three dimensions ‘The human being’, ‘Business’, ‘Society’ shape our programme and the choice of speakers during this venue.
We aim to reflect the various issues and questions from multiple vantage points, which enables us to gain more perspectives on certain problematic. As practical approach we commit ourselves to the dialogue. This allows through direct and confronting debate to sense the different positions towards a subject. How more arguments are being differentiated and versatile the more challenging the process will be to make decisions.
But if one engages him or herself with these kind of complex processes, one will be surprised that the unexpected and the extraordinary will happen and which would benefit business and corporation dramatically. Our aim is therefore to sensitize you for the selected themes from other disciplines. These interdisciplinary blends are places of difference and we acknowledge them as undiscovered potentials. We hope that this conference will inspire you and we will be very pleased if further ideas will emerge from it.'
Translation from German
Conference booklet
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Flexibility
Change: To give something a different appearance or to transform something into another entity. Here visualized is the transformation of a Switzerland that is open, realistic and world reality connected.
Conference room signage
Values vs Economy. A dialogue between Abbot M. Werlen of monastery Einsiedeln (CH) and P. Müller, CEO of Swiss Life Switzerland moderated by H. Bigi, Tele Züri.
Panel discussion with Mr. D. Rüthemann, Country Regional Manager IBM Switzerland; Mrs. B. Wehrli-Schindler, Director city planning Zurich municipality; Dr. J. Limacher, President Kalaidos Applied University, Zurich, moderated by Mrs. M. Lupin, journalist and design researcher, Zurich.
Exchange between guests and speakers during the conference.
Organizing committee (from left to right) Philipp Buis (Sponsoring); Philip Müller (Financial affairs); Gordon Wollgam (Curator and speaker management); Roeland Nollen (Event management); Evert Ypma (Chairman committee and curator).
Acknowledgement
This conference has been generously supported by the speakers and moderators; the Zurich government; corporate sponsors; media partners and many volunteers.