Future of Work
Industry 4.0 and the Pursuit of Social Innovation
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Why exactly does Silicon Valley support an unconditional basic income? Why is that support seconded by ultra-liberal think tanks? And why are trade unions so strongly against the idea?
It is about more than just a basic income. Work and merit are becoming increasingly disassociated. Twenty-year-olds become billionaires overnight, Uber, despite having only 5,000 permanent employees, is worth USD 50 billion, and robots are taking on jobs formerly done by humans. Who will be paying my salary tomorrow – and what for?
Some of the most radical opinions on the subject are set to clash on 4 May 2016 at the GDI, the world’s foremost conference on the future of work. Those present will include:
Researchers and academics
- Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor at MIT (Video-Interview)
- Basic income expert Guy Standing, University of London
- Bruno S. Frey, Universität Basel, pioneer in cultural and industrial economics
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs
- Investor Albert Wenger (Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Etsy, Kickstarter)
- Natalie Foster, former Obama advisor and sharing economy expert (peers.org)
- Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase
Politicians and civil society lawyers
- Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Minister of Finance
- Ville-Veikko Pulkka, representative of the Finnish government
- Daniel Häni and Enno Schmidt, authors of the Swiss basic income initiative
Influential trade unionists
- Andrew L. Stern, “the most important labour boss in America” (CBS)
- Vania Alleva, President of Unia
The event is a cooperation between Neopolis and GDI with a number of other renowned think tanks: the Roosevelt Institute, the CATO Institute, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, The Royal Society of Arts, first world development and the Institute for the Future.
Speakers
Norbert Bolz
Germany
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.
Peter Wippermann
Germany
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.
David Bosshart
Switzerland
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.
Michael Schrage
USA
Stipendiat der MIT Sloan School’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. Michael Schrage erforscht, wie Modelle und Simulationen in Organisationen die Zusammenarbeit bei der Suche nach Innovationen verändern. Daneben ist er Autor verschiedener Fachbücher und als Berater für diverse Unternehmen tätig. Zu seinen Kunden zählen unter anderen Prudential, Microsoft, Amazon, Mars und Google.
Valerie Casey
USA
«Design-Meisterin» (Fast Company), «Heldin der Umwelt» (Times): Casey ist eine global anerkannte Designerin. Nach Stationen bei Agenturen wie Ideo und Frog gründete sie das internationale Netzwerk Designers Accord. Die Expertin berät zu digitalen Markenstrategien und Sustainable Design.
Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts
Finland
Das Forum Virium Helsinki entwickelt digitale Dienstleistungen für private und öffentliche Unternehmen. Niemi-Hugaerts leitet ein Pilotprojekt, in dem die Bürger Helsinkis der Stadt digital Feedback zur Infrastruktur geben – wie zu fehlenden Straßenschildern oder schlecht beleuchteten Fahrradwegen.
Job Spierings
Niederlande
ist Projektmanager bei Waag Society, einem Amsterdamer Think-Tank für soziale Innovation, Design und Nutzerforschung. Er leitet ein Projekt zur Messung und Lenkung von Verkehrsströmen, in dem Verkehrsteilnehmer mit dem System und auch untereinander kommunizieren können.
Suran Goonatilake
Great Britain
Gründer von Bodymetrics, dem Anbieter einer Body-Scanning-Technologie, die das Kleider-Shopping revolutioniert. Mitgründer von Searchspace, einer Big-Data-Firma, die von Warburg Pincus gekauft wurde. Für seine Verdienste um das Unternehmertum wurde Goonatilake von der Queen geehrt.
Michelle Hughes
Great Britain
Expertin für Konsumverhalten und Dozentin für Fashion Communication and Promotion. Als Beraterin erforschte sie für Unilever, was die Interpretation von Userdaten für Markenimage und Konsumentenentscheidungen bedeutet. Zu ihren Kunden gehören Interflora, Headworx und BBC World.
Sarah Lewington
Great Britain
Dozentin für Fashion Communication and Promotion. Sie ist Expertin für Empathic Design, eine userzentrierte Designmethode, die das Userverhalten als Ausgangspunkt für die Designentwicklung nimmt. Sie ist Mitglied der Future Factory. Zu ihren Kunden gehören Paul Smith, L’Oréal und die Sunday Times Style.
Suresh Pillai
Germany
ist zuständig für Strategie, Innovationsdesign und digitale Kommunikation bei Secondmuse, einem Beratungsbüro für Kollaboration in Unternehmen. Zu den Kunden des Büros gehören Google, NASA und Microsoft, zu seinen Unterstützern UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki-moon und US-Aussenministerin Hillary Clinton.
Ruha Reyhani
Irland
leitet bei eBay das europäische Analytics-Team für Webmarketing. Sein Arbeitsfeld umfasst Strategien wie Paid Search, Display Advertising und Social Marketing. Pillai ist ein Experte für die Analyse von Kundendaten und ihre Nutzung.
Karin Vey
Schweiz
ist Executive Briefing Manager für Führung und Hochschulbildung am Industry Solutions Lab (ISL) der IBM in Rüschlikon. Das ISL ist das Interface für IBM Research und dessen Experten auf der ganzen Welt. Vey unterrichtet Wissensmanagement an der Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen.
Michael Wexler
USA
Wexler arbeitet seit 15 Jahren als Web-Daten-Analyst für Kunden wie Microsoft, Yahoo oder Start-ups wie e-Dialog. Der Sozialpsychologe weiss, wie Unternehmen digitale Daten gewinnbringend nutzen können. Bei der Citibank verantwortet Wexler heute das US-Geschäft im Bereich Global Digital Insights.
Programme
Welcome Coffee
09.00
Welcome
David Bosshart (CH), CEO, GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute
Introduction into the Topic – Swiss Perspective
09.50
Introduction
Albert Wenger (USA), Union Square Ventures
Armin Steuernagel (DE), Neopolis Network/ Purpose Foundation
Social Policy 4.0 – International Perspective
10.15
Keynote
Bruno S. Frey (CH), Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Universität Basel
Direct Democracy as a Society Tool
10.30
Keynote
Robert Johnson (USA), Institute for New Economic Thinking
Responses to the Technology Revolution – Basic Income as a Fundamental Paradigm Shift
10.50
Networking Break
11.20
Conference Room
Panel: Basic Income Experiments – an Overview
Guy Standing (UK), London University
Michael Faye (USA), GiveDirectly
Ville-Veikko Pulkka (FI), Kela, Social Insurance Institution of Finland
Amira Yehia (DE), Mein Grundeinkommen
Moderator: John Thornhill (UK), Financial Times
Bibliothek
Keynote
Enno Schmidt (DE/CH), Author and Initiator of the Popular Petition for a Basic Income in Switzerland
Unconditionality - the Cultural Dimension of Basic Income (German)
Keynote
Rick Wartzmann (USA), Drucker Institute
History of Guaranteed Annual Wage and Income
11.20
Conference Room
Panel: Basic Income Experiments – an Overview
Michael Tanner (USA), CATO Institute
Daniel J. Mitchell (USA), CATO Institute
Robert B. Reich (USA), University of California, Berkeley
Reiner Eichenberger (CH), Ökonom
Moderator: Alexandra Borchardt (D), Süddeutsche Zeitung
Bibliothek
Podium: Die Zukunft der Arbeit (deutsch)
Daniel Häni (CH), Unternehmer und Mitinitiant der Schweizer Volksinitiative für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen
Dirk Helbing (CH), Professor ETH
Albert Wenger (USA), Union Square Ventures
Myke Näf (CH), Doodle
Moderator: Börries Hornemann (DE), Neopolis
13.00
Networking Lunch
14.30
Entrepreneurs Panel: Disrupting Work
Albert Wenger (USA), Union Square Ventures
Natalie Foster (USA), peers.org
Robin Chase (USA), Zipcar
Betsy Masiello (USA), Uber
Moderator: John Thornhill (UK), Financial Times
15.30
Keynote
Robert B. Reich (USA) University of California, Berkeley
Technological Change and the Inevitability of UBI
15.55
Panel with Keynote: Labor Panel – Future of Trade Unions and Social Security
Andrew Stern (USA), SEIU Trade Union
Nell Abernathy (USA), Roosevelt Institute
Vania Alleva (CH), Unia Trade Union
Dorian Warren (USA), Center for Community Change
Moderator: Alexandra Borchardt (DE), Süddeutsche Zeitung
16.50
Networking Break
17.20
Live transmission
Erik Brynjolfsson (USA), Professor MIT
17.35
Trailer
What’s Wrong with a Free Lunch?
Christian Tod (AT), Golden Girls
17.45
Anthony Painter (UK), The Royal Society of Art
Creative Citizen, Creative State: The Principle and Pragmatic Case for a Basic Income
18.05
Keynote
Yanis Varoufakis (GRE), former Greek Minister of Finance
When Does a Society Become Social?
Apéritif
Speakers
Robert Reich
USA
Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1993 until 1997, Reich was U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton. The bestselling author is a global thought leader on the future of work.
Natalie Foster
USA
Founder of peers.org. Foster has transformed and run some of the largest digital teams in the country, including President Obama’s successful effort of pass health reform, and built two organizations from scratch, i.a. "Peers.org", the world’s largest independent sharing economy community.
Yanis Varoufakis
Greece
Greek Minister of Finance in 2015. He is a leading participant in the current debates on the global and European crisis. Further he is Professor at the University of Athens and in Texas and Stockholm.
Erik Brynjolfsson
USA
Professor of Management at the MIT and the Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. He is known for his contributions to the world of IT Productivity research and work on the economics of information more generally. Author of "The Second Maschine Age".
Robin Chase
USA
Co-Founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the world’s largest car-sharing company. She is also the Founder and former CEO of Buzzcar and others. She authored the book, Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism.
Albert Wenger
USA
Partner at Union Square Ventures (USV), a New York-based early stage VC firm focused on investing in disruptive networks. USV portfolio companies include: Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Etsy, Kickstarter and Shapeways.
Nell Abernathy
USA
Director of Programs at the Roosevelt Institute. Abernathy focuses her own work on economic issues, including financial regulation and the gig economy. Nell developed and managed the Inequality Project and coauthored “Rewriting the Rules” with Joseph Stiglitz.
Michael D. Tanner
USA
Cato Institute Senior Fellow Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on poverty and social welfare policy, health care reform, and social security. Tanner is the author of numerous books on public policy.
Daniel Häni
Switzerland
Entrepreneur, Co-founder of "unternehmen mitte", the largest coffee-house in Switzerland. Co-initiator of the popular petition for a basic income in Switzerland. In 2013, the petition was successfully submitted with 126,000 signatures. It triggered worldwide media attention.
Myke Näf
Switzerland
Co-founder and former CEO of "Doodle", one of the most succesful Start-Ups in Switzerland and the world's most used event scheduling-plattform. The website counts 15 million user per day. Since 2014 he supports several start-ups as early-stage investor and sparring partner.
Armin Steuernagel
Germany
is economist and co-founder of several start-ups in e-commerce and food sector, active in 20 countries. He is member of the Think Tank 30 of the Club of Rome and president of Purpose Foundation that researches ownership and investment forms fitting for the 21st century economy.
Betsy Masiello
USA
Director of Public Policy & Economics at Uber. Prior she spent seven years at Google where she led public policy strategies. Before Google, Betsy was a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Guy Standing
Great Britain
Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath. He has written widely in the areas of labor economics, labor market policy, unemployment and social protection. He is Co-Founder of the Basic Income Earth Network.
Daniel J. Mitchell
USA
Senior fellow who specializes in fiscal policy, particularly tax reform. Prior to joining Cato, Mitchell was a senior fellow with the Heritage Foundation. Dan earned a PhD in economics from George Mason University.
Michael Faye
USA
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of GiveDirectly and Co-Founder and President of Segovia Technology. Michael has worked in a variety of contexts including the United Nations and McKinsey. In 2013, Foreign Policy named him one of its 100 leading global thinkers.
Robert Johnson
USA
Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Senior Fellow at Roosevelt Institute. He was previously a managing director at Soros Fund Management and served on the UN's Commission on International Monetary Reform.
Dorian T. Warren
USA
Fellow am Roosevelt-Institute und Vorstandsvorsitzender des Center for Community Change. Er ist Host und Produzent von «Nerding Out», der digitalen Plattform von MSNBC. Er lehrt an der University of Chicago und der Columbia University und arbeitet als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institute for Research in African-American Studies.
Ville-Veikko Pulkka
Finland
Social and public policy researcher, Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA), Helsinki, Finland. He does basic income research at KELA and a dissertation research on digital working life at University of Helsinki.
Bruno S. Frey
Switzerland
ranked to be one of the most influencial economicts globally and most highly cited Researchers. He is known as a pioneer of economic policy theory,happiness economics and cultural economics.
Dirk Helbing
Switzerland
Professor of Computational Social Science at ETH Zurich, who specialises in issues of decision-making in complex systems.
Enno Schmidt
Germany
Artist. He studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany and lives and works in Basel. In 2006 he founded and authored the initiative for Basic Income in Switzerland. Therefore on June 5th 2016, a referendum on the introduction of an Unconditional Basic Income in Switzerland will be held.
Rick Wartzman
USA
Journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, where he helped shape “The Wal-Mart Effect,” which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. As Executive Director at the Drucker Institute, Rick has written about management and leadership.
Amira Yehia
Germany
Managing Director of the German initiative Mein Grundeinkommen. The team around her fundraises money via different channels and tools, in order to raffle it out in the form of actual basic incomes. Already 37 times someone received 1.000 € per month for a year.
Andrew L. Stern
USA
Former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He is currently a Senior Fellow at Columbia University and has been described by CBS News as the "most important labor boss in America."
Vania Alleva
Switzerland
Vice President of the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions and President of Unia, the largest trade union in Switzerland. Alleva is co-author of the 2012 book Verkannte Arbeit. Dienstleistungsangestellte in der Schweiz (Unrecognised work: service employees in Switzerland).
Anthony Painter
Great Britain
Director of Policy and Strategy at the RSA. In his work on policy development, he focuses on a range of policy issues including the impact of new technology on the economy and society. He previously worked with Google, BBC and the Metropolitan Police.
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 Gottlieb and Adele Duttweiler Foundation.
Information
Date
4 May 2016
Price
Full price: 970 CHF
The conference fee includes all food and beverages. Participants registering less than two weeks before the event can pay by credit card only.
Event Location
GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute
Langhaldenstrasse 21
8803 Rüschlikon
Language
German/English (simultaneous interpretation)
Program modification
The program is not legally binding and is subject to change.
Cancellation
If you are unable to attend, please let us have your cancellation in writing. The fee will be reimbursed until 15 April. After this term and until five full working days prior to the event we will charge 75% of the fee. In the event of later cancellations we will charge the full participation fee. Substitute participants welcome, please announce to: futureofwork@gdi.ch).
Hotel reservation
To benefit from special rates, please use the following email adresses and refer to the following code: FOW2016
Hotel Sedartis, Thalwil: info@sedartis.ch
Transport
There will be a free shuttle service between the GDI and the Hotel Sedartis Thalwil and Thalwil train station.
Fees
Normalpreis: 1'200.- CHF / Person
Documentation
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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.
Location
GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute
8803 Rüschlikon
Switzerland