Programme 2024

The SSF25 programme provides well-founded food for thought and highlights specific opportunities for action.

Participants can choose an individual focus and delve into either ‘Circular Economy’, ‘Reporting & Communication’ or ‘AI & Energy Management’ in three thematic streams.

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08.15 am

Guest Arrival & Networking Coffee

09.00 am

Welcome & opening – Three focus topics in parallel

Block 1

Circular economy

Room

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Moderation

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Supply chain tensions

Room

None

Moderation

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AI & Energy management

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None

Moderation

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10.15 am

Break 45'

11.00 am

Three focus topics in parallel - continued

Block 2

Circular economy

Room

None

Moderation

None

Supply chain tensions

Room

None

Moderation

None

AI & Energy management

Room

None

Moderation

None

12.00 pm

Lunch 90’

01.30 pm

Welcome & Opening

Carolin Roth

Main Stage Plenary

How can we do justice to the interests of future generations?

Keynote

Werner Sobek (Werner Sobek AG)

German

How can we do justice to the interests of future generations?

Keynote

How to decouple sales from emissions (as a manufacturing company)?

Keynote

Antje von Dewitz (VAUDE)

German

How to decouple sales from emissions (as a manufacturing company)?

Keynote

How do you create a business model that is sustainable and economically successful? Antje von Dewitz, CEO of VAUDE, will talk about how VAUDE became a pioneer for sustainable and fairly produced outdoor products. What are the possibilities, opportunities and challenges that arise for a company through a responsible approach?

Carbon neutrality through financing climate project - indulgence or part of the solution?

Paneldiscussion

Antoinette Hunziker-Ebneter (Forma Futura), Bastien Girod (Deloitte & Member of the National Council), Simon Michel (Ypsomed & Member of the National Council))

German

Carbon neutrality through financing climate project - indulgence or part of the solution?

Paneldiscussion

03.00 pm

Pause 30’

Hauptbühne Plenum

The crisis of the liberal project - or: what good is sustainability without democracy?

Keynote

Philipp Blom (Historian & author)

German

The crisis of the liberal project - or: what good is sustainability without democracy?

Keynote

Many visions of a sustainable economy focus on technological, scientific and economic issues, but forget the historical context. How can a green turnaround be possible in authoritarian states or "illiberal" democracies? The global triumph of liberalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory, and Western democracies are now in a deep crisis that threatens their very existence. How did this happen, and what strategies could be used to overcome this existential crisis?

Entrepreneurial Discussion – Various Approaches to Sustainability

Paneldiscussion

Sarah Model (Model AG), Andreas Christen (Lantal Textiles AG), Urs Wullschleger (Wilhelm Schmidlin AG)

Entrepreneurial Discussion – Various Approaches to Sustainability

Paneldiscussion

Creating wealth worth having (EN)

Keynote

James Cameron (Trusted Advisor & Social Entrepreneur)

Creating wealth worth having (EN)

Keynote

05.00 pm

Networking Apero


Carmen Metzger

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