13th European Trend Day
SOLD OUT – Reinventing Places: Life between Cloud and Location
Speakers
Tom Vanderbilt
USA
US-American journalist and blogger who writes for publications such as Wired, The New York Times Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. His bestselling book "Traffic" examines the psychology and culture behind today's drivers. His current book is "You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice".
Mike Lanza
USA
Founder of Streetography, a map-based photo sharing app, and author of "Playborhood", a guide to create a rich neighborhood play life for kids. Prior to Lanza's writing career, he was a five-time software and Internet entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.
Robin Hanson
Great Britain
Associate professor of economics at George Mason University and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Hanson has pioneered prediction markets, also known as information markets and idea futures, since 1988. His first book "The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth" was published in 2016.
Allison Crank
Switzerland / USA
American designer and filmmaker based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Crank works at the intersection of technology, media and architecture. For her Master’s thesis at the Design Academy Eindhoven, she created a virtual reality shopping center, called The Reality Theatre, that was presented at the Dutch Design Week 2015 and awarded the Gijs Bakker Award and the Keep An Eye Grant.
Mario Sixtus
Germany
Journalist, author and filmmaker. The focus of his works are current developments on the Internet, in net-culture and net-politics. His articles appear in the German newspapers "Die Zeit", "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung", "Handelsblatt", and in the "Focus" magazine. Sixtus received the Grimme Online Award and the Lead Award for his web video series "The Electric Reporter".
Stephen Graham
Great Britain
Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University and author of «Vertical» and «Cities Under Siege». Graham’s research centres on vertical aspects of cities and urban life, links between cities, technology and infrastructure, and on the mediation of urban life by digital technologies. His works have been translated into eighteen languages.
Cornelius Kistler
Switzerland
Investor and managing partner at ClickOn, an IT agency specialising in the development of apps, ecommerce and VR/AR solutions. ClickOn operates its own Mixed Reality Lab with a team of more than 30 3D artists, developers and game designers. C Kistler is a serial entrepreneur in the IT and yachting sectors, and also runs a real estate startup in Hong Kong.
Miguel Rodriguez
Switzerland
Founder of Weavr.space, a company with a mission to change the way we tell stories using virtual reality. A trained engineer, Mexico-born Rodriguez came to the Institute for Robotics at ETH Zurich 20 years ago.
Stephan Nebiker
Switzerland
Professor for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics and Head of the Institute of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. Nebiker is the co-founder of spin-off firm iNovitas AG, and a member of its Board of Directors.
Thomas Koller
Switzerland
Professor at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, specialising in image processing and computer vision, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and machine learning. Professor Koller is a member of the Board of Directors of the Software Engineering Network (SWEN).
Norbert Bolz
Germany
Professor of Media Studies at the Technical University of Berlin, zeitgeistphilosopher and trend analyst. Bolz is an important thinker on cultural development and author of numerous publications on media, marketing and communication.
Peter Wippermann
Germany
Founder of Trendbüro, Hamburg. Peter Wippermann was a Professor of Communication Design at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, he is a specialist in trend-based brand management, and the author of numerous publications.
David Bosshart
Switzerland
Dr. David Bosshart was CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for consumption, economic and social studies from 1999 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been President of the G. and A. Duttweiler Foundation.
Moderator
Julian Thorner
Switzerland
Moderator. Until 2015 Thorner hosted his daily news show "Noiz" on the youth channel Joiz. From 2016 until 2022, Thorner could be listened to on Radio SRF 3 in his own show "De Samstig – mitem Julian Thorner".
Über den Europäischen Trendtag
Der Europäische Trendtag ist eine Konferenz zu Digitalisierung und Gesellschaft. Mit wechselndem Fokus-Thema werden technologische Innovationen und ihre Auswirkungen auf Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft diskutiert. Die Referenten erkunden neue Möglichkeitsräume des heute noch Undenkbaren und Unvorstellbaren. Teilnehmende sind Führungskräfte aus Marketing, Handel und Beratung sowie Unternehmer, Akademiker und Journalisten von Qualitätsmedien.
Teilnehmende
Führungskräfte
Referenten
Vergangene Konferenzen
Advisory Board
Peter Wippermann
Gründer des Trendbüros in Hamburg. Wippermann war Professor für Kommunikationsdesign an der Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, Spezialist für trendgestützte Markenführung und ist Autor zahlreicher Publikationen.
Norbert Bolz
Professor für Medienwissenschaft an der Technischen Universität Berlin, Zeitgeistphilosoph und Trendanalytiker. Bolz ist ein wichtiger Denker über die kulturelle Entwicklung und Autor zahlreicher Publikationen zu Medien, Marketing und Kommunikation.
Karin Frick
Karin Frick ist Leiterin Research und Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung. Die Ökonomin analysiert Trends und Gegentrends in Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Konsum und referiert zu diesen Themen regelmässig auf Tagungen und Kongressen.
Dominique von Matt
Gründer und Präsident des Verwaltungsrates der Kommunikationsagentur Jung von Matt/Limmat. Von Matt ist Honorarprofessor für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität St. Gallen.
David Bosshart
Dr. David Bosshart war von 1999 bis 2020 CEO des Gottlieb Duttweiler Instituts in Rüschlikon, Zürich. Seit 2020 ist er Präsident der G. und A. Duttweiler-Stiftung.