Get your business ready for this new and increasingly complex environment by optimizing your own value chain!
Global market conditions have changed enormously this year, and while this has certainly posed challenges, it also has created opportunities. Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE) provides support in assessing the current situation in your target markets by optimizing your value chain and expanding your international business to trade successfully around the world.
That’s why S-GE is hosting the GoGlobal Days 2020, a digital event that is free-of-charge, to be held from 8–11 September 2020.
This virtual conference program includes:
- Inspiring keynote speech from Dr. Burkhard P. Varnholt, CIO of Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd., including a global overview of current challenges and opportunities
- Lively panel discussions with expert Christoph Wilhelm, CEO of Global Sourcing Services, as well as e-commerce trailblazer Urs Haeusler, Managing Director of valantic CEC Schweiz AG and Ambassador Eric Jakob, Dr. phil., Head of the Promotion Activities Directorate and Member of the Executive Board of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO
- Three region days with S-GE experts and partners from 31 countries, offering individual speed consulting sessions
- Informative webinars on the following topics: optimizing your international value chain, boosting your business through e-commerce, and much more
- Networking opportunities
Register now for the GoGlobal Days 2020 to find out how you can help your business emerge from the COVID-19 crisis and exploit the opportunities offered by the situation. Use our experts’ know-how to drive your international business projects forward and accelerate your international business know-how.
Access the conference via our digital platform. Once you have registered, you will be granted access to the conference for all four days. You will also be able to view the individual program elements as recordings and retrieve the relevant information on demand.
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| Target audience | Swiss and Liechtenstein companies |
| Organizer | Switzerland Global Enterprise |
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Digital conference |
| Cost of participating | Free-of-charge |
Tutorial
Tutorial
For more information on accessing and navigating on our event platform, please see our tutorial. If you have any problems, please contact us at goglobal@s-ge.com, or call us on 0844 811 812.
Program
Individual speed consulting sessions
You will have the possibility to make individual speed consulting sessions with our experts and partners from all over the world. Each slot lasts 20 minutes and takes place digitally on the platform. Book your appointment on the digital platform via the virtual reception area during the GoGlobal Days.
Webinar overview
Details about each webinar during the region days from September 9-11, 2020.
How to utilize e-commerce and TV Shopping for your business
September 9, 2020 from 08:00-09:00 (CET/MEZ)
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The COVID-pandemic has painfully exposed the risks of a single-country dependency or globally dispersed manufacturing and supply chains
September 9, 2020 from 10:00–11:15 (CET/MEZ)
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Benefit from expert know-how and learn how to use e-commerce to your advantage
September 09, 2020 from 13:00–14:15 (CET/MEZ)
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Growth in the online shopping market
September 10, 2020 from 13:30–14:45 (CET/MEZ)
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Learn how to maintain business relationships virtually during the pandemic and beyond
September 10, 2020 from 15:00–16:00 (CET/MEZ)
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Learn about the key facts in e-commerce
September 10, 2020 from 16:30–17:40 (CET/MEZ)
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Challenges and opportunities of digital distribution models in the EU
September 11, 2020 from 09:00–10:00 (CET/MEZ)
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Keep or optimize your competitiveness, even in challenging business environments
September 11, 2020 from 11:00–12:00 (CET/MEZ)
Understand the context in those countries and identify business opportunities
September 11, 2020 from 13:00–14:15 (CET/MEZ)
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Networking
The platform offers an easy access to speakers, experts and other participants. Use the chat function of the digital platform to exchange ideas and benefit from the combined know-how from the export community.
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Speakers of Inspiration day September 8
Simone Wyss Fedele
Host of Inspiration Day
Simone Wyss Fedele has been CEO of Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE), the official Swiss organization for export and investment promotion, since October 2019. With a PhD in economics, she has worked as a management consultant for internationalization issues, developed new business models for the international market and accompanied companies such as Helvetia Insurance, Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Novartis through macroeconomic and political challenges.
Dr. Burkhard P. Varnholt
Keynote Speaker
Burkhard was born in 1968 in Germany and he received his first doctorate at University of St. Gallen – HSG in 1994. He joined Credit Suisse in 1998 and spent his entire career in structuring and managing investments for private as well as institutional investors. He has served as Chief Investment Officer for Credit Suisse (Switzerland) since 2016. In 2003 Burkhard founded a Swiss charity, Kids of Africa, which operates a children’s-village for orphaned or abandoned children in Uganda as well as multiple schools. In 2006 he was awarded the SwissRe Civilian-Service-award and in 2012 an honorary doctorate in International Relations from the Geneva School of Diplomacy for the developmentwork Burkhard has pursued for almost twenty years besides his professional career. Burkhard lives with his wife and two sons in Zurich. He is an avid runner, cyclist and reader.
Urs Haeusler
Urs Haeusler is Managing Director of valantic CEC Schweiz - a «high-end» consulting & solution partner for digital end-to-end transformation with focus on consulting, development and implementation of eBusiness solutions (from strategy, UI/UX, design to full integration into existing ERP/CRM systems). The valantic group has more than 850 consultants and developers for digital solutions at 16 locations in DACH in the competence centers SAP Solutions, ERP, Big Data & Analytics, eBusiness Solutions, Customer Experience, Digital Marketing & Supply Chain & Logistics.
Prior to valantic he did build up DealMarket - a global platform for fundraising and deal flow management serving professional investment firms. In Dec 2016 he sold the company to Drooms.com, a leading virtual data room provider.
Urs is also the co-founder and CEO of Swiss Finance Startups (SFS) the association of all Swiss FinTech startups. Moreover Urs is in the board of DigitalSwitzerland as well as co-founder and president of the Swiss Startup Association (SSA) to give Swiss startups a strong & important (political) voice and strengthen the startup ecosystem in Switzerland.
Urs has more than 15 years of experience in digital transformation, eCommerce and building international startups such as DealMarket (selling to Drooms), amiando (selling to XING) and Jamba! (sold to VeriSign).
He holds an MBA from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), is an eBusiness, FinTech and Startup expert, runs his own Internet management consultancy and has invested in various Internet startups as a Business Angel.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urshaeusler/
Eric Jakob
Ambassador Eric Jakob, (*1962), Dr. phil., Head of the Promotion Activities Directorate and Member of the Executive Board of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO since 01.12.2012. Responsible for SME, Regional and Tourism Policy as well as for Export and Location Promotion. Previously General Manager of Regio Basiliensis and the Intercantonal Coordination Office at Regio Basiliensis in Basel. 1995 to 2003 Assistant General Manager of this organisation. From 1993 to 1995 Swiss Adviser to Infobest Palmrain, an information and advisory body for cross-border matters in Village-Neuf (France). Prior to that Senior Project Leader within the framework of the PTT Initiative at that time «Communication and Model Community Basel», also worked as a journalist.
