Thomas Stadler, Head Digital Energy Solutions Switzerland, Alpiq Digital AG
AI as Key to Energy Transition
- Challenge: Volatile energy producting and pricing, overloaded grids
- Large-scale battery storage and e-mobility
- AI based load manegement: Industrial use cases
Florian Wächter, Head of Product Engineering, ABB
Digital Factory: Opportunities and Challenges
- Big Data, Smart Analytics and Machine Learning as key components
- Which skills do you need?
- Smart supply chains
Sabine Schoon, Head of Corporate Strategy & Consulting, comdirekt bank AG
Digital Banking Transformation
- Anticipating changing needs of „digital“ customers
- Building a digital organisation
- Regulatory requirements
- Examples for agile methods
- AI as key technology
Kiran Joseph, Digital Initiatives Lead EAME, Syngenta Crop Protection AG
Rescripting the Most Conservative Customers‘ Behavior through Digital Products
- How we grew from 50 to 300K growers in 6 months on our digital asset
- Strategic: Who are your customers? What do you have to offer? How do you win together?
- Tactical: How to validate if there is a demand? Is it worth it and can we do it?
Dr. Anneke Mühlebach, Director Strategic Initiatives, Agilent
Buliding an Innovation Program: Strategy, Best Practices, Learnings
- Changing culture towards interdisciplinary teams
- Customer centric development
- Using Scrum for device management
- Design thinking methods
Björn Ebeling, Director Corporate Business Technology Platforms, Merck
How to Enable an Informed Technology Platform Portfolio Management
- Challenge: Technology decisions based on „gut feeling“ due to a lack of transparency
- Automated data collection using AI /ML to connect technolgy platforms to e.g. finance, market, literature and patent data
- Community building based on a Knowledge Graph to facilitate global collaboration inside the company
- Merck showcase: enabling R&D to better and faster deliver on projects, scouts to find the right experts to evaluate technologies and strategists to make data driven technology decisions
Andrea Kocsis, Head of Digital Transformation and eBusiness Development, Nestlé
Digital Transformation Journey at Nestlé
- Consumer Centricity
- Working with start ups
- Which skills are needed?
- How to develop these in a 150 year old organization
Stefan Viehmann, Senior Vice President Global Customer Solutions, Kuehne + Nagel
How Digitalisation is Transforming the Logistics Industry
- APIs
- Big Data
- AI
Léonard Bouchet, Head of Data and Archives, Radio Télévision Suisse
Digitalisation at Radio Télévision Suisse
- How AI meets the Archives at RTS (Machine Learning examples)
- The power of agile organization models (holacracy and scrum)
- Tackling digital and heritage challenges
- Lessons learned
Giacomo Benvenuti, CTO, 3D-Oxides
A glimpse on the next 4.0 Era Internet (of Everything)
- Era4.0 and Internet of Everything vision
- Next opportunities and challenges
- Business impact?
Jens Kaatze, Senior Vice President Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Covestro
Digital Transformation in a Conservative Industrial Corporation
- Why should a chemical company go digital?
- What are the key barriers?
- Actual steps in strategy, governance, capability building and implementation
- Our lighthouse projects in the area of digital readiness, digital operations, digital customer experience and digital business models
Klemens Berger, Director, Fabasoft
Innovative new business models - successful with digital transformation
- Digitization of project management processes
- New business models by expanded service offers
- How does your company profit from digitization?
- How to integrate external partners actively and securely
Christophe Gantzer, Regional Controller Zone EMENA, Nestlé
The Corporate Data Challenge: Key to Unlock Decision-Making and Gain Competitive Advantage
- Corporate data is a strategic asset: how to maximize the benefits you can get from your data and unlock machine learning opportunities?
- The path towards better, smarter, quicker decision making
- One source of truth: create a central data repository with clear data quality standards
- Build scale: aggregate data consistently to unlock benchmarking possibilities and allow centrally driven decisions
- Best-in-class tools: embrace and leverage new software solutions for data analysis, including predictive analytics
- Cultural change: shift focus from ‘what’ to ‘why’ to make real-time informed decisions
Dr. Clemente Minonne, Head of Research Group for Digital Business Engineering (DBE), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts School of Engineering and Architecture
Digital Transformation: learn faster and act smarter
Achim Dohl, Global OR Integration and Digital Services, Storz
Hunting Instead of Being Hunted – Anticipating and Applicating Digital Trendsin Medical Technology
- Racing strategy: from pit lane back to pole position
- I almost died after 6 months (organisation, team spirit, mandate)
- Stop the bleeding program
- Portfolio change in development and product management
- Conflict management is a prerequisite for necessary and partly radical change
- Success is the best motivator – the spirit is back
Christian Muck, Manager, Fabasoft
Innovative new business models - successful with digital transformation
- Digitization of project management processes
- New business models by expanded service offers
- How does your company profit from digitization?
- How to integrate external partners actively and securely
Dr. Christoph Meier, Geschäftsführer scil, Universität St. Gallen
Work 4.0 and Smart Machines: Augmentation Strategies as a Challenge for HR Development
- Cooperation of humans and smart machines
- Strategies for change management
- HR development 4.0: Step in, step up, step forward, step aside, step narrow
| Time | Activity | November 17, 2020 | |
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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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