While exchange platforms for clothes, flats or tools are booming in private, Lieke van Kerkhoven's idea for companies is new. On her B2B sharing platform Floow2, companies swap excavators, medicines or shop items. Lieke van Kerkhoven will explain how her platform works at the 18th European Trend Day on 9 March 2022.

Seit sechs Jahren zeichnet das Schweizer Wirtschaftsmagazin «Bilanz» die 100 führenden Personen der Schweiz aus, die die Digitalisierung voranbringen. Zum dritten Mal unter ihnen ist Marcel Salathé, Podiumsgast an der GDI-Konferenz «Zukunftsmedizin».

Megatrends wie Digitalisierung, Globalisierung, oder Individualisierung haben bereits einige Branchen in ihren Grundfesten erschüttert. Auch Apotheken müssen ihr Geschäftsmodell überdenken, das zeigt eine GDI-Studie.

Wie bereitet man junge Menschen darauf vor, die Gesellschaft mitzu­gestalten? Was braucht es in unsicheren Zeiten, um Herausforderungen gewachsen zu sein? Darüber sprach GDI-Forscher Jakub Samochowiec mit dem Magazin «ZHAW-Impact».

Unsere Daten sind im Internet heiss gehandelte Ware. So auch die sensibelsten: Die Gesundheitsdaten. Doch wie sollen wir damit umgehen? Die Bioethikerin Nikola Biller-Andorno beschäftigt sich mit dieser wichtigen Frage. Am 25. November 2021 spricht sie am GDI.

The last 18 month have undoubtedly left their mark on retail. But which trends have emerged as a result? And will they remain with us? How has the pandemic changed corporate culture and management concepts? What are the consequences for the West's relations with China? These and other questions were the focus of the International Retail Summit 2021. A summary.

With every passing day, behavioural data will increasingly become the linchpin of medicine. This data will form the basis for the development of new, personalised treatments. It can also be used to create new tools to control and manage individual health.

Chesran Glidden, Leiterin B2B beim Arbeitgeberbewertungsportal Kununu, weiss, wie wichtig das Image eines Unternehmens bei der Gewinnung von MitarbeiterInnen ist und was Angestellte heute von ihrer Arbeitgeberin erwarten.  Mehr dazu hier in einem Podcast – und in Kürze am European Foodservice Summit.

What makes a country’s armed forces reject robot missions as inhumane? Why do we feel compassion for vacuum cleaners, and how are robots designed to elicit these emotions? Answers were provided by MIT researcher Kate Darling in a Ted Talk and at the GDI Retail Summit on 9 and 10 September 2021.

In December 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, Francesco Farinetti opened Green Pea, the world's first completely sustainable shopping centre, in Turin. Here, and at the GDI Retail Summit in September, he explained how shopping and sustainability can go together.

“We don’t have much consensus on what online privacy actually means, and most of what’s on the table conflicts fundamentally with competition,” writes tech thought leader and GDI speaker Benedict Evans in a blog post.

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in Asia over the past decade. Thought leader and GDI Research Partner Parag Khanna talks about the most exciting AI developments emerging in this dynamic region in a video interview.