14th European Trend Day
Super You: The Growing Self-Optimisation Market
Speakers
Steven Kotler
USA
Author, award-winning journalist and Co-Founder and Director for Research of the Flow Genome Project. He is one of the world's leading experts on ultimate human performance and lectures to companies such as Google, JP Morgan and Omnicon Media. Author of “Stealing Fire” and the New York Times bestseller “The Rise of Superman”.
Neil Harbisson
Spain
Contemporary artist focusing on cyborgism, co-founder of the Cyborg Foundation and best known for having an antenna implanted in his skull. His artwork investigates the relationship between colour and sound and examines the boundaries of human perception. He is the first human being officially recognised as a cyborg by a government.
Jo Marchant
Great Britain
Award-winning science journalist with a PhD in medical microbiology and author of the New York Times Best Seller “Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body”. As Former senior editor at New Scientist and Nature, Marchant has written on topics from the future of genetic engineering to underwater archaeology.<
Paul Austin
USA
Founder of The Third Wave, an online platform to educate people about the intersection of science, self-optimization, and psychedelics. Austin is a world-traveling entrepreneur with extensive experience in building online audiences and has focused much of his public efforts on the relevance of micro-dosing to a changing business world.
Stefano Mancuso
Italy
Internationally renowned plant scientist, professor of plant physiology and behavior and head of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology at the University of Florence. Founding member of the International Society for Plant Signaling and Behavior and author of Spiegel Best Seller “Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence”. His latest book is “Plant Revolution”.
Anna Bjurstam
Sweden
Vice president of Six Senses Spas at Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas. Co-founder of the wellness consulting company Raison d’Etre, which developed spa brands for hotel chains such as Taj Hotels Resorts, Kempinski Hotels and Capella Hotels. Strategic Advisor Pegasus Capital Advisors. Bjurstam is a also a founding board member of the Global Spa Summit.
Will Storr
Great Britain
Award winning writer, journalist and photographer. His features have appeared in various publications, including Guardian Weekend, The Times Magazine, Observer Magazine, and GQ. Storr has been named New Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year. His latest book “Selfie“ discusses our self-obsession.
Verena Buchinger-Kähler
Germany
Senior physician and associate of the Buchinger Klinik in Bad Pyrmont. The plastic surgeon continues the tradition of Buchinger therapeutic fasting in the 4th family generation and focuses on the principles of mind-body medicine: self-efficacy and attentiveness.
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.
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".
Media partners
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.