Swiss Leaders Dialog Industry 4.0 connects pioneering CxOs in the fields of corporate strategy, digitalization, technology, R&D, IT and production, as well as scientists and solution providers to discuss ideas and projects on the road to industrial IoT and new digital business models

Leading Industry 4.0 summit in Switzerland. Key players discuss digitization and business models. Smart factories, connected products and intelligent supply chains revolutionize the economies. From product to service? From bulk production to customization and batch size 1? From owned to shared resources? From humans to robots? You'll find answers at Swiss Leaders Dialog. Train yourself and your organisation for Industry 4.0. Swiss Leaders Dialog is not a typical conference. It’s all about personal meetings with peers, consultants and experts. You may select meeting partners in our internal matchmaking platform, or be selected. The matchmaking shows the overleaps between interests and competencies. A very efficient exchange of experiences, ideas, solutions and strategic aspects. Our networking format delivers business knowledge and relevant contacts in the shortest possible amount of time.

Topics

Connecting customer, product, production and supply chain intelligently
Digital business models and future competition
Positioning in the platform economy / Competing or cooperating with startups?
From product to service – what are the implications of this paradigm shift?
Hunt or being hunted – anticipate and implement digital trends quickly
Big Data, Smart Analytics and Machine Learning
Digital Factory
New production methods and decentralization
Intelligent supply chains
Connected products (advantages, business models)
Customer centricity and batch size 1
Efficiency gains in the value chain through Industry 4.0 and IoT
New credit models in the IoT world (also future trends)
HR challenge: Which skills are needed?
Management concepts for more innovation and creativity (design thinking, agile, holacracy etc.)
Integrating IT legacy into the IoT world (existing ERP, MES, BI, DWH etc.)
Product data, standards, interoperability
Blockchains in IoT
Digital twins
Cyber-physical systems / autonomous systems / robotics

Format

Best practices: Selected business cases
Matchmaking: Interests and competencies of all attendees
Networking: Matched and pre-arranged one on one meetings
Workshops: Confidential peer discussions
High level: Colleagues in similar positions
Decision support: Knowledge of an elite network for your projects, strategies and ideas
Ultra efficient: Personal agenda – optimal time invest
Chill out: Informal networking at after-event bar meeting
Online community: Access new contacts and knowledge after the event

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
Using AI to get an overview and facilitate global collaboration inside the company
Automated data collection to connect technolgy platforms to e.g. finance, market, literature and patent data
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

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

Time	Activity	5. November
8:00	Start of registration
8:30	Opening Peer Round Table / Warm up
8:45	Creating new customer values in a transforming industry A transforming industry Adjusting to new challenges and opportunities Creating new customer values Johan Oberg, Head of Digital Marketing, Alpiq
9:15	Digital Business Models and Future Competition Tobias Schlitzke, New Business und Venture Manager, Gardena
9:45	Digital Factory: Opportunities and Challenges Big Data, Smart Analytics and Machine Learning as key components HR Challenge: Which skills do you need? Smart supply chains Florian Wächter, Head of Product Engineering, ABB
10:15	Digital Banking Transformation Anticipating changing needs of „digital“ customers Building a digital organisation Regulatory requirements Examples for agile methods AI as key technology Sabine Schoon, Head of Corporate Strategy & Consulting, comdirekt bank AG
10:45	Coffee Break / Networking
11:00	Networking Session 1 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
11:30	Networking Session 2 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
12:00	Networking Session 3 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
12:30	Networking Session 4 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
13:00	Lunch / Networking
14:00	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 ? Kiran Joseph, Digital Initiatives Lead EAME, Syngenta Crop Protection AG
14:30	Buliding an Innovation Program: Strategy, Best Practices, Learnings Changing culture towards interdisciplinary teams Customer centric development Using Scrum for device management Design thinking methods Dr. Anneke Mühlebach, Director Strategic Initiatives, Agilent
15:00	Networking Session 5 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
15:30	Networking Session 6 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
16:00	Coffee Break / Networking
16:15	Networking Session 7 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
16:45	Networking Session 8 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
17:15	How to Enable an Informed Technology Platform Portfolio Management Challenge: Technology decisions based on „gut feeling“ due to a lack of transparency Using AI to get an overview and facilitate global collaboration inside the company Automated data collection to connect technolgy platforms to e.g. finance, market, literature and patent data 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. Björn Ebeling, Director Corporate Business Technology Platforms, Merck
17:45	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 Dr. Christoph Meier, Geschäftsführer scil, Universität St. Gallen
18:30	Apéro at the Hotel Bar
Time	Activity	6. November
8:00	Start of registration
8:30	Opening Peer Round Table / Warm up
8:45	How Digitalisation is Transforming the Logistics Industry APIs Big Data AI Stefan Viehmann, Senior Vice President Global Customer Solutions, Kuehne + Nagel
9:15	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 Léonard Bouchet, Head of Data and Archives, Radio Télévision Suisse
9:45	Swiss Post‘s Digital Strategy From product to digital service - what does this mean for Swiss Post? Hunting, not being hunted! How we anticipate digital trends Management concepts for more innovation and creativity (Design Thinking, Agile, Scrum, Holacracy etc.) Florian Fiechter, Head of Customer Experience Management and Market Research, Swiss Post
10:15	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 Jens Kaatze, Senior Vice President Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Covestro
10:45	Coffee Break / Networking
11:00	Networking Session 9 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
11:30	Networking Session 10 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
12:00	Networking Session 11 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
12:30	Networking Session 12 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
13:00	Lunch / Networking
14:00	Digineering - The Path to Process Digitization Joint research with 13 companies to develop practical models for process digitization Combining process management methods with the agile approach known from software engineering Result: an easy-to-use toolset to digitize any process Prof. Dr. Arno Müller, Nordakademie
14:30	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 Christophe Gantzer, Regional Controller Zone EMENA, Nestlé
15:00	Wrap-up Discussion
15:15	End of Event

Time	Activity	5. November
8:00	Start of registration
8:30	Opening Peer Round Table / Warm up
8:45	Creating new customer values in a transforming industry A transforming industry Adjusting to new challenges and opportunities Creating new customer values Johan Oberg, Head of Digital Marketing, Alpiq
9:15	Digital Business Models and Future Competition Tobias Schlitzke, New Business und Venture Manager, Gardena
9:45	Digital Factory: Opportunities and Challenges Big Data, Smart Analytics and Machine Learning as key components HR Challenge: Which skills do you need? Smart supply chains Florian Wächter, Head of Product Engineering, ABB
10:15	Digital Banking Transformation Anticipating changing needs of „digital“ customers Building a digital organisation Regulatory requirements Examples for agile methods AI as key technology Sabine Schoon, Head of Corporate Strategy & Consulting, comdirekt bank AG
10:45	Coffee Break / Networking
11:00	Networking Session 1 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
11:30	Networking Session 2 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
12:00	Networking Session 3 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
12:30	Networking Session 4 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
13:00	Lunch / Networking
14:00	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 ? Kiran Joseph, Digital Initiatives Lead EAME, Syngenta Crop Protection AG
14:30	Buliding an Innovation Program: Strategy, Best Practices, Learnings Changing culture towards interdisciplinary teams Customer centric development Using Scrum for device management Design thinking methods Dr. Anneke Mühlebach, Director Strategic Initiatives, Agilent
15:00	Networking Session 5 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
15:30	Networking Session 6 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
16:00	Coffee Break / Networking
16:15	Networking Session 7 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
16:45	Networking Session 8 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
17:15	How to Enable an Informed Technology Platform Portfolio Management Challenge: Technology decisions based on „gut feeling“ due to a lack of transparency Using AI to get an overview and facilitate global collaboration inside the company Automated data collection to connect technolgy platforms to e.g. finance, market, literature and patent data 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. Björn Ebeling, Director Corporate Business Technology Platforms, Merck
17:45	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 Dr. Christoph Meier, Geschäftsführer scil, Universität St. Gallen
18:30	Apéro at the Hotel Bar
Time	Activity	6. November
8:00	Start of registration
8:30	Opening Peer Round Table / Warm up
8:45	How Digitalisation is Transforming the Logistics Industry APIs Big Data AI Stefan Viehmann, Senior Vice President Global Customer Solutions, Kuehne + Nagel
9:15	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 Léonard Bouchet, Head of Data and Archives, Radio Télévision Suisse
9:45	Swiss Post‘s Digital Strategy From product to digital service - what does this mean for Swiss Post? Hunting, not being hunted! How we anticipate digital trends Management concepts for more innovation and creativity (Design Thinking, Agile, Scrum, Holacracy etc.) Florian Fiechter, Head of Customer Experience Management and Market Research, Swiss Post
10:15	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 Jens Kaatze, Senior Vice President Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Covestro
10:45	Coffee Break / Networking
11:00	Networking Session 9 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
11:30	Networking Session 10 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
12:00	Networking Session 11 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
12:30	Networking Session 12 (parallel activities) Meetings with peers, experts and solution providers Workshop Open roundtable discussions
13:00	Lunch / Networking
14:00	Digineering - The Path to Process Digitization Joint research with 13 companies to develop practical models for process digitization Combining process management methods with the agile approach known from software engineering Result: an easy-to-use toolset to digitize any process Prof. Dr. Arno Müller, Nordakademie
14:30	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 Christophe Gantzer, Regional Controller Zone EMENA, Nestlé
15:00	Wrap-up Discussion
15:15	End of Event

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