From Mars exploration to fighting the C-word to building digital platforms for the next generation: Our speakers are some of the the world’s most respected voices on multi-dimensional fronts. The common thread that unites these radical change agents, is their courageous leadership, the topic of our 8th annual meeting in 2020.
Lars Ulrich
Co-Founder & Drummer, Metallica, San Francisco, USA
Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer, Amazon, Seattle, USA
Joschka Fischer
Former-German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor, Hessen, Germany
Brittany Kaiser
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower & subject of Netflix Documentary “The Great Hack”, New York, USA
Roger Hallam
Co-Founder, Extinction Rebellion, London, United Kingdom
Sepp Blatter
Former-President, FIFA, Zurich, Switzerland
Ann Cairns
Executive Vice Chairman, Mastercard, London, UK
Charles A. O’Reilly
Frank E. Buck Professor of Management Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Dante Disparte
Vice Chairman, Head of Policy and Communications, Libra Association, Washington D.C., USA
Blair Christie
Board Member, Optiv & BMC Software, Washington DC, USA
Rashik Parmar
IBM Fellow & Vice President Technology – Europe, London, UK
Pamela Munster
Professor, Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), UCSF, San Francisco, USA
Jan Fleischhauer
Journalist, Focus, Berlin, Germany
LD Sergi
CEO, Pax, San Francisco, USA
Janina Kugel
Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
Raj Kapoor
Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Business, Self-Driving, Lyft
San Francisco, USA
Charity Wanjiku
Co-Founder & COO, Strauss Energy Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya
Bruce Gibney
Writer & Venture Capitalist, San Francisco, USA
Bodil Eriksson
CEO, Volvo Car Mobility Stockholm, Sweden
Brian Spears
Founder & CEO, New Age Meats, San Francisco, USA
Andy Schuon
Co-Founder & CEO, SPKR., Los Angeles, USA
Amy Wilkinson
CEO & Founder, Ingenuity, San Francisco, USA
Jordan Noone
Co-Founder & CTO, Relativity, Playa Del Rey, USA
Mike Hemphill
Director for Academic Programming, Clinton Foundation, Little Rock, USA
Stefan Schwab
CEO, Enlighted Inc., Sunnyvale, USA
Giuseppe Bonina
CEO, Yallo, Zurich, Switzerland
Billie Whitehouse
CEO, Wearable X, New York, USA
Victor Luo
Principal Product Manager, Amazon Smart Home, Seattle, USA
Carol Kauffman
President: Coaching Psych; Harvard Faculty, Founder, Institute of Coaching, Lincoln, USA
Michele Molon
Executive Vice President, Omni Channel and Commercial Operations,
Swarovski, Zurich, Switzerland
Ole Tillmann
Founder & CEO, Peak Creative Leadership, Berlin, Germany
Helena Samsioe
CEO & Founder, Globhe Drones, Stockholm, Sweden
Leanne Kemp
Founder & CEO, Everledger, London, UK
Arif Khan
CEO and CO-founder, Alethea AI, Washington DC, USA
Steve Elliott
Head of Jira Align, Atlassian, Austin, USA
Sophie Proust
CTO, Atos, Paris, France
Peter Riering-Czekalla
VP Product and Design, Molekule, San Francisco, USA
Andreas Bernhardt
Executive Advisor & Lead Coach, ESMT Berlin, Germany; Executive Coach INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
Ulrike Schaede
Professor of Japanese Business, University of California, San Diego, USA
Larry Sanger
Co-Founder, Wikipedia & Executive Director, Knowledge Standards Foundation, Ohio, USA
Michael Green
CEO, Canada Health Infoway, Toronto, Canada
Ioannis Tarnanas
Chief Science Officer, Altoida, Zurich, Switzerland
Hannah Wise
News Anchor & Journalist, CNN Money Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland
Bjørn Johansson
Chairman & CEO, Dr. Bjørn Johansson Associates, Zurich, Switzerland
Pal Erik Sjatil
Managing Partner Europe, McKinsey , Paris, France
Marco Tempest
Creative Technologist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA
Guy Janssens
Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investments, BNP Paribas Fortis Private Banking, Antwerpen, Belgium
German Ramirez
Co-Founder & Chief Relevance Officer, The Relevance House, Zug, Switzerland
Yan Beynon
Digital Health Entrepreneur & Investor
Giovanni Giuliani
Group Head of Strategy, Innovation & Business Development, Zurich Insurance, Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Iorio
Co-Founder & CEO, Augmenta, Toronto, Canada
Benoit Henry
CEO, BlockFactory, Zurich, Switzerland
Ana Rold
CEO & Publisher, The Diplomatic Courier, Washington, USA
Sunnie J. Groeneveld
Managing Partner Inspire 925, Zurich, Switzerland
Tama Vakeesan
Reporter, Nau, Zurich, Switzerland
Adil Nasri
Partner, Seibert Media, Wiesbaden, Germany
Heiko Hutmacher
Chief Human Resources Officer & Labor Director, Member of the Management Board, Metro AG, Dusseldorf, Germany
Jens Greve
CEO & Founder, YUVEDO, Berlin, Germany
Gerhard Andrey
Co-Founder, Liip, Fribourg, Switzerland
Walter Oberhänsli
CEO, Zur Rose Group, Steckborn, Switzerland
Tony Franco
CEO and Co-Founder, A Beautiful Constraint, London, UK
Barbara Josef
Co-Founder, 5to9, Brütten, Switzerland
Stephen Neff
CEO, myclimate, Zürich, Switzerland
Vasily Suvorov
VP Technology Strategy, Luxoft, Zug, Switzerland
Philippe Meyer
Head of Blockchain Solutions, Avaloq, Zurich, Switzerland
Stephen Herold
Customer Experience & Design Leader, IBM iX, Zurich, Switzerland
Markus Schaefer
Owner, Hosoya Schaefer Architects, Zurich, Switzerland
Vicki Walia
Chief Talent & Capability Officer, Prudential Financial, New York, USA
Günther Dobrauz
Partner & Leader, PwC Legal, Zurich, Switzerland
Chinedu Echeuro
Co-Founder, Love & Magic Company, New York, USA
Valentin Spiess
CEO, iArt, Basel, Switzerland
Arne Bläsing
Owner, Elbwild, Hamburg, Germany
Stefan Klauser
Department of Humanities, Social & Political Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Emmanuel Viale
Managing Director, Accenture Technology Labs-Europe, Sophia Antipolis, France
Gianluca Carnabuci
Associate Professor, ESMT, Berlin, Germany
James Wolfensberger
Executive Producer, Burning Man, Zurich, Switzerland
André Wolke
CEO & Co-founder, Validity Labs, Zurich, Switzerland
Mike Butcher
Editor-at-Large, TechCrunch, London, UK
Deborah Peel
Founder & President, Patient Privacy Rights, Austin, USA
Jochen Schlick
Senior Partner & Co-Founder, Staufen.Digital Neonex, Stuttgart, Germany
Chris Luebkeman
Advisor to the President and Board, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Adrian Lobsiger
Commissioner, Federal Data Protection and Information, Bern, Switzerland
Karen Silverman
Partner, Latham & Watkins, LLP, San Francisco, USA
Paolo Tasca
Executive Director, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technology, London, UK
Andreas Glarner
Partner, MME, Zurich, Switzerland
Oshoke Pamela Abalu
Co-Founder, Love & Magic Company, New York, USA
Angela Nicoara
Head of IoT Innovation Lab, Leading IoT Systems & Software Research, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences (HSLU), Department Informatik, Switzerland
Jessica Barrett
Director of Programmatic & Commercial Automation., Financial Times, London, UK
Florian von Wangenheim
Professor-Technology Marketing, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Elian Kool
CEO, Netcentric, Zurich, Switzerland
Sandra Hinni
Team Lead Ecology Food, Migros, Zürich, Switzerland
Alain Bützberger
Founder & Chairman of the Board IoT & Smart City Expert Innovation, SWISSTRAFFIC AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Luca Finelli
VP, Head Insights Strategy & Design, Data Science & AI, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland
Christian Aepli
Director of Global Brand, AVA Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Jessica Bridger
Principal Consultant, Bridger Consulting, Berlin, Germany
Daniel Bormann
CEO, REALACE GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Jan Berger
CEO, 2b AHEAD ThinkTank, Leipzig, Germany
Keith Brewis
Managing Partner - International Operations, Grimshaw Architects, London, UK
Daniel Staub
Co-Founder, Intrinsic, Zurich, Switzerland
Hubert Kut
Atlassian Solution Architect, eBay, Berlin, Germany
Edgar Kussberg
CEO, Swiss Startup Tech AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Bernd Gleixner
Executive Vice President Operations, Bruker Biospin, Zurich, Switzerland
Alex Gertschen
Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons, Chur, Switzerland
Christopher Choa
Vice President, AECOM, London, UK
Joël Meier
Director Media, Webrepublic, Zurich, Switzerland
Robbie Tilleard
Partner Experience, HUMU, London, UK
Laure-Anne Ventouras
Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, Zurich, Switzerland
Kris Paasila
CEO, Inside Labs, Laax, Switzerland
Christian Fischer
CEO, Bcomp, Fribourg, Switzerland
Roxylene Rahel
Architect & Design Analyst Specialist Modelling Group, Foster + Partner, London, UK
Lisa Christen
Executive Leadership Development Coach, Christen Coaching & Consulting GmbH, Zug, Switzerland
Julia Atlygina
QA Lead & Product Manager, ALM Works
Britta Pukall
Founder & Co-Owner, Milani Design & Consulting AG, Thalwil, Switzerland
Elli Androulaki
Research Manager, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Federico Soldati
The Swiss Mentalist, Lugano, Switzerland
Hendrik Haase
Food-Aktivist, Berlin, Germany
Gottfried Ludewig
Director General „Digitalization and Innovation” Federal Ministry of Health (Germany), Berlin, Germany
Stéphane Piqué
Digital Transformation Senior Manager, Accenture, Zurich, Switzerland
Mirko Meboldt
Full Professor for Product Development and Engineering Design, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Roger Altorfer
Head of Customer Success Unit, Microsoft, Zurich, Switzerland
Alexander Haldemann
CEO, MetaDesign, Zurich, Switzerland
Renato Piffaretti
Head Real Estate Switzerland, Swiss Life, Zurich, Switzerland
Dominik Frei
CEO, Livit FM Services AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Martin Burgherr
CCO, Sygnum, Zurich, Switzerland
Nathaly Tschanz
Lecturer Digital Business Management, FHGR, Chur, Switzerland
Enzo Diliberto
Global Insights Director, Financial Times, London, UK
Raphael Buck
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Zurich, Switzerland
Madeleine Bernhardt
Professor of Organizational Development and Leadership, Brandenburg University of Applied Police Sciences, Member of the Executive Faculty, Bucerius Law School Center on the Legal Profession (CLP), Hamburg, Germany
Carolin Gabor
CEO Joonko, Berlin, Germany
Thomas D. Meyer
Senior Managing Director, Accenture, Zurich, Switzerland
Kate McCourt
Organizational Performance and Leadership Transformation Executive, Berlin, Germany
Martin Seibert
CEO, Seibert Media, Wiesbaden, Germany
Kathrin Amacker
Head of Communication, Politics, Sustainability, SBB, Bern, Switzerland
Meera F. Sommer
Founder, Sommer, Zurich, Switzerland
Natalie Robyn
Managing Director, Volvo Car Switzerland AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Simon Krappl
Director Marketing Communication, Volvo Car Switzerland AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Alex Gertschen
Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons, Chur, Switzerland
Vanessa Müller
Key Account Manager, Too Good To Go, Zurich, Switzerland
Cyrus Makarechian
CEO & President, Lend Me It, Los Angeles, USA
Damiano Casella
Senior Project Leader, Hinderling Volkart, Zurich, Switzerland
Sven Lehmann
Resort Manager, a-ja Resort, Zurich, Switzerland
Jan Krans
Group Director Enterprise Collaboration, Atos, Den Hague, Netherlands
Sudhir Seyboth
Management Coach, Synet Group, Illes Balears, Spain
Ulrich Schimpel
CTO Europe Team IBM Research, Cognitive Industry Solutions, IBM, Zurich, Switzerland
Peter Weingärtner
Sales Consultant, Seibert Media, Wiesbaden, Germany
Simon Youssef
Co-Founder & CTO, neon, Munich, Germany
Jose Morales
Head of Global Field Operations, Atlassian, San Francisco, USA
Dominic Dillier
Moderator, SRF, Zurich, Switzerland
Gregory Ouillon
CTO, New Relic, Geneva, Switzerland
Cameron Deatsch
Head of Server Business, Atlassian, San Francisco, USA
Reto Gurtner
President VR & CEO, Weisse Arena Gruppe, LAAX, Switzerland
Dr. Lewin Boehnke
Head of Research, Crypto Finance AG, Zug, Switzerland