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Führender Industrie 4.0 Summit der Schweiz. Key Player diskutieren die Digitalisierung der Geschäftsmodelle. Smarte Fabriken, vernetzte Produkte und intelligente Lieferketten revolutionieren die Wirtschaft. Service statt Produkt? Individualisierung statt Massenfertigung? Geteilte Ressourcen statt Eigentum? Roboter statt Menschen? Finden Sie Ihre Antworten beim Swiss Leaders Dialog. Machen Sie sich und Ihr Unternehmen fit für Industrie 4.0
Der Swiss Leaders Dialog ist keine typische Konferenz. Persönliche Gespräche mit Kollegen, Beratern und Experten prägen den Ablauf. Über unsere interne Matchmaking-Plattform selektieren Sie Gesprächspartner oder werden selektiert. Das Matchmaking dokumentiert Schnittmengen zwischen Interessen und Kompetenzen. Der gesteuerte Austausch von Erfahrungen, Ideen, Lösungen und strategischen Aspekten ist enorm effektiv. Unser Networking-Format generiert in kürzester Zeit Praxiswissen und relevante Kontakte.
Themen
- Intelligente Vernetzung von Kunde, Produktentwicklung, Produktion und Lieferkette
- Digitale Geschäftsmodelle und der Wettbewerb der Zukunft
- Positionieren in der Plattformökonomie / mit Startups konkurrieren oder kooperieren?
- Vom Produkt zum Service – welche Implikationen bringt dieser Paradigmenwechsel?
- Treiben statt getrieben werden – digitale Trends schnell antizipieren und umsetzen
- Bedeutung von Big Data, Smart Analytics und Machine Learning
- Die digitale Fabrik
- Neue Produktionsverfahren und der Trend zur Dezentralität
- Intelligente Lieferketten
- Vernetzte Produkte (Vorteile, Geschäftsmodelle)
- Customer Centricity und Losgrösse 1
- Effizientere Wertschöpfungskette durch Industrie 4.0 und IoT
- Neue Finanzierungsmodelle in der 4.0-Welt
- HR Challenge: Welche Skills werden benötigt?
- Managementkonzepte für mehr Innovation und Kreativität (Design Thinking, Agile, Holacracy etc.)
- Bedeutung und Integration der vorhandenen IT-Systeme
- Produktdaten, Normung, Interoperabilität
- Potenziale der Blockchain-Technologie in der IoT-Welt
- Digitale Zwillinge
- Cyberphysische Systeme / Autonome Systeme / Robotik
Format
- Best Practices: Ausgewählte Business Cases
- Matchmaking: Interessen und Erfahrungen aller Teilnehmer
- Networking: Gematchte Einzelgespräche mit passenden Gesprächspartnern
- Kaminrunden: Vertrauliche Diskussionen mit Peers
- Hohes Netzwerk-Niveau: Kollegen in ähnlichen Positionen
- Decision Support: Netzwerkwissen für Ihre Projekte, Strategien und Ideen
- Ultraeffizient: Persönliche Agenda – optimaler Zeiteinsatz
- Chill out: Informelles Networking beim Apéro
- Online Community: Kontakte und Wissen über den Tag hinaus
Tolles Setup und sehr gute Organisation, was ein Networking auf hohem Niveau und offenen Austausch ermöglicht hat. Spannende Vorträge , die neue Perspektiven aufgezeigt haben.
Axel Vogelbruch, Global Head of Digitalization (CDO), BYK-Chemie GmbH
Der Strategiedialog war eine sehr sinnvolle und interessante Veranstaltung, und das sowohl als Präsentierende, als auch als Teilnehmerin. In entspannter Atmosphäre haben sich bei viel Flexibilität sehr interessante Netzwerkkontakte ergeben. Herzlichen Dank!
Katharina Uribe Casillas, VP Global Business Development Automotive & Industrial, Kuehne + Nagel
Herzlichen Dank für die zwei sehr spannenden Tage in Zürich. Es war ein perfekt organisierter Anlass mit einer idealen Teilnehmergrösse, die viele persönliche, inspirierende Gespräche unter Entscheidern ermöglichte.
Dr. Axel Thoma, Lehrbeauftragter, Universität St.Gallen
Hervorragende Möglichkeit zum Networking mit Gleichgesinnten. Exzellente Organisation und sehr interessante Themen.
Domonkos Gaspar, Digital Solutions Leader, Roche
Exzellent organisierte Veranstaltung mit praxisorientierten, relevanten Vorträgen und der Möglichkeit für umfangreichen Austausch.
Thomas Röttinger, CEO, Pewatron AG

Philipp Elkuch, Global Head Digital Strategy & Transformation, Sulzer AG
Using Analytics to Complement Business Models in Industrial Services
- Proposing a digital transformation strategy in a diversified group
- Reference framework for industrial digital twins
- BlueBox – from sensors readings to outcome based business models

Astrid Borgmann, Chief Procurement Officer, Swiss Post
Digitalization of Procurement – Make the Right Choices
- One suite or best of breed?
- Speedboats and backend
- How to avoid pitfalls

Stephan Dietrich, Project Director, Stadler Rail AG
Rolling Stock 3.9 – Road to Digitalization in the Railway Vehicles Industry
- How to use AI to improve reliability & maintainability predictions with learnings from field data
- Analysis of patterns from specific driving behavior and whether there is a connection to specific faults
- Servitization: From selling vehicles to selling transport capacities

Winfried Rockensteiner, Vice President Divisional Logistics (PS/LO), Robert Bosch GmbH
Strategy and Implementation of an Industry 4.0 Concept
- Supply chain network design

Camilla Valeria Cavaliere, Development Lead Blockchain Based Services, Bühler AG
Blockchains in IoT and Intelligent Supply Chains
- Track and trace along supply chains
- Industrial producers’ need evolution: pre- and post-Covid-19
- Blockchain-based industrial applications and the role of IoT
- An example for food/feed at Bühler AG

Hermann Schweizer, Managing Director / CTO, sonnen GmbH
Decentralized Energy Management as Business Model and Backbone for the Future Grid
- IoT vs. VPP
- Value creation
- Value stacking

Dr. Martin Freundt, Technical Director Business Unit Electronic Devices, Manz AG
Product Configuration for Industry 4.0
- Pragmatic digitalization of the product definition and the generation of platforms and building block systems
- Implementing an assisted product configuration (BOM, Cost, Software, Visualisation etc.)
- Backbone to collect product and processing data for upcoming big data, IoT and digital twin applications

Vincenzo De Rosa, Group Head of Data Science, Adecco Group AG
AI Enabled Pricing

Jean-Paul Duperron, VP Corporate Internal Audi & Risk Management, Swiss Steel Holding AG
Digitalization of Internal Audit Processes

Pascal Hulalka, CTO, Protectas SA
Digital Transformation in the Security Industry
- From product to service – what are the implications of this paradigm shift?
- Cyber-physical systems / autonomous systems / robotics / IoT

Prof. Dimitri Konstantas, Director Information Science Institute, University of Geneva
Autonomous Vehicles: So Close Yet Still Not Really Here
- How far is the technology?
- Regulatory and social barriers for real life deployment
- New opportunities in the AV ecosystem business

Thierry Muller, Director Digital Change and Communications, DSM
Digital Transformation of DSM

Jürg Meierhofer, Koordinator Plattform Industrie 4.0, ZHAW
The Digital Twin as a Service Enabler: From Service Ecosystem to Simulation Model
- Derivation of appropriate simulation models
- Service value proposition as analytic starting point
- Digital twin as service enabler in a multi-layer architecture
- Hybrid simulation models
- End-to-end development approach

Corrado Iorizzo, Domain Architect OPS Manufacturing, Philip Morris International
How Industrial IoT and Cloud Technologies are Accelerating Philip Morris International Manufacturing Transformation
- Challenges and Lessons learned in Transitioning from OT and legacy technology to Industrial IoT
- Seamless Cloud Computing: From IoT Gateway to Public Cloud via Edge Computing
- How PMI’s Industrial Cloud is underpinning Manufacturing Use Cases for Machine-Learning, Real-Time Process Control and Paperless Factory

Antonio Mosca, Head of Digital Transformation, Fabio Perini S.p.A.
Digital Business Models in Machine Building
- Pay per use and pay per performance models
- Open innovation program including collaboration with startups
- Smart customer services proactively increasing OEE of customer lines
Time | Activity | November 17, 2020 | |
8:30 | Start of registration | ![]() |
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9:00 | Digitalization of Procurement – Make the Right Choices![]() Astrid Borgmann, Head of Methods, Processes and Systems, Deputy CPO, Swiss Post | ||
9:30 | AI Enabled Pricing![]() Vincenzo De Rosa, Group Head of Data Science, Adecco Group AG | ||
10:00 | Coffee Break / Networking | ![]() |
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10:15 | Networking Session 1 (parallel activities) | ![]() |
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10:45 | Networking Session 2 (parallel activities) | ![]() |
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11:15 | Networking Session 3 (parallel activities) | ![]() |
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11:45 | Networking Session 4 (parallel activities) | ![]() |
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12:15 | Networking Session 5 (parallel activities) | ![]() |
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12:45 | Lunch / Networking | ![]() |
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13:45 | The Digital Twin as a Service Enabler: From Service Ecosystem to Simulation Model![]() Jürg Meierhofer, Koordinator Plattform Industrie 4.0, ZHAW | ||
14:10 | Using Analytics to Complement Business Models in Industrial Services![]() Philipp Elkuch, Global Head Digital Strategy & Transformation, Sulzer AG | ||
14:35 | Blockchains in IoT and Intelligent Supply Chains![]() Camilla Valeria Cavaliere, Development Lead Blockchain Based Services, Bühler AG | ||
15:00 | Coffee Break / Networking | ![]() |
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15:15 | How Industrial IoT and Cloud Technologies are Accelerating Philip Morris International Manufacturing Transformation![]() Corrado Iorizzo, Domain Architect OPS Manufacturing, Philip Morris International | ||
15:40 | Digitalization of Internal Audit Processes![]() Jean-Paul Duperron, VP Internal Audit & Risk Management, Swiss Steel Holding AG | ||
16:05 | Digital Transformation in the Security Industry![]() Pascal Hulalka, CTO, Protectas SA | ||
16:30 | Product Configuration for Industry 4.0![]() Dr. Martin Freundt, Technical Director Business Unit Electronic Devices, Manz AG | ||
17:00 | Strategy and Implementation of an Industry 4.0 Supply Chain Concept in SCM at Bosch ![]() Winfried Rockensteiner, Vice President Divisional Logistics (PS/LO), Robert Bosch GmbH | ||
17:25 | Wrap-up Discussion | ![]() | |
17:30 | Apéro an der Hotelbar | ![]() |
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Time | Activity | November 17, 2020 | |
8:30 | Start of registration | ![]() |
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9:00 | Digitalization of Procurement – Make the Right Choices![]() Astrid Borgmann, Head of Methods, Processes and Systems, Deputy CPO, Swiss Post | ||
9:30 | AI Enabled Pricing![]() Vincenzo De Rosa, Group Head of Data Science, Adecco Group AG | ||
10:00 | Coffee Break / Networking | ![]() |
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10:15 | Networking Session 1 (parallel activities) | ![]() |
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10:45 | Networking Session 2 (parallel activities) | ![]() |
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11:15 | Networking Session 3 (parallel activities) | ![]() |
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11:45 | Networking Session 4 (parallel activities) | ![]() |
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12:15 | Networking Session 5 (parallel activities) | ![]() |
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12:45 | Lunch / Networking | ![]() |
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13:45 | The Digital Twin as a Service Enabler: From Service Ecosystem to Simulation Model![]() Jürg Meierhofer, Koordinator Plattform Industrie 4.0, ZHAW | ||
14:10 | Using Analytics to Complement Business Models in Industrial Services![]() Philipp Elkuch, Global Head Digital Strategy & Transformation, Sulzer AG | ||
14:35 | Blockchains in IoT and Intelligent Supply Chains![]() Camilla Valeria Cavaliere, Development Lead Blockchain Based Services, Bühler AG | ||
15:00 | Coffee Break / Networking | ![]() |
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15:15 | How Industrial IoT and Cloud Technologies are Accelerating Philip Morris International Manufacturing Transformation![]() Corrado Iorizzo, Domain Architect OPS Manufacturing, Philip Morris International | ||
15:40 | Digitalization of Internal Audit Processes![]() Jean-Paul Duperron, VP Internal Audit & Risk Management, Swiss Steel Holding AG | ||
16:05 | Digital Transformation in the Security Industry![]() Pascal Hulalka, CTO, Protectas SA | ||
16:30 | Product Configuration for Industry 4.0![]() Dr. Martin Freundt, Technical Director Business Unit Electronic Devices, Manz AG | ||
17:00 | Strategy and Implementation of an Industry 4.0 Supply Chain Concept in SCM at Bosch ![]() Winfried Rockensteiner, Vice President Divisional Logistics (PS/LO), Robert Bosch GmbH | ||
17:25 | Wrap-up Discussion | ![]() | |
17:30 | Apéro an der Hotelbar | ![]() |
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