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Conference
We are currently in the research phase of the 2012 Conference Programme. If you would like to contribute then please email the Conference Manager Victoria Coles who would be delighted to hear from you.
Please click here to download the Event Brochure for 2012
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From Global to Fragmented: a Competitive Outlook for 2012 and beyond
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| Prof. Stéphane Garelli, Director of the World Competitiveness Centre, IMD & Associate Professor, University of Lausanne |
Stéphane Garelli - a world authority on competitiveness - has pioneered research in this field for 25 years. Professor at IMD (Institute of Management Development) Lausanne, where he heads the World Competitiveness Centre, he is also associate professor at the University of Lausanne. Formerly Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and director of the Davos Annual Meetings, he has also worked closely with several large global enterprises, including Hewlett-Packard Europe, SGS and Nestlé. He was chairman of the FF Sandoz Financial Holding. He is a member of numerous international institutions and several boards and is currently chairman of the Swiss newspaper Le Temps. Stéphane Garelli reads today's global economic picture better than anyone else – he is an exciting speaker who combines content with an entertaining approach to complex issues supported by his trademark graphics. His presentations on competitiveness provoke companies and individuals to think “outside the box”, and to confront their strategies with recent market trends and new competitive pressures. His best-selling book is:Top Class Competitors - How Nations, Firms and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness" with Wiley.
Further information to follow in due course.
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| Lukas Gähwiler, CEO, UBS Switzerland |
Lukas Gähwiler was made member of the GEB in April 2010 and was appointed CEO of UBS Switzerland and co-CEO of Wealth Management & Swiss Bank. In his role as CEO of UBS Switzerland he is responsible for all businesses – retail and wealth management; corporate and institutional; and investment banking and asset management in UBS’s home market. Before joining UBS he held the position of Chief Credit Officer with Credit Suisse since 2003 and was accountable for the worldwide credit business of Private Banking. In 1998 Lukas Gähwiler was made Chief of Staff to the CEO of the Credit Suisse Private and Corporate Business Unit. Previously, he held various front-office positions in Switzerland and North America. Lukas Gähwiler earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Applied Sciences in St. Gallen. He completed an MBA program in corporate finance at the International Bankers School in New York as well as the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Lukas Gähwiler was born on 4 May 1965 and is a Swiss citizen.
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The Power of the Pride
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| Ian Thomas, Motivational Speaker & African Game Ranger |
Ian Thomas presents a riveting and informative account of how lions, the only cats that hunt in teams, can be compared with how businesses operate as teams.
Lions formed teams in order to hunt the vast herds of antelope that evolved onto Africa’s savannahs. The strategy of using teams to ambush these herds was extremely successful.
Individual lions and lionesses benefited from this association and the prides became extremely powerful. The presentation is based around this point – that the success of the team is because of the individual and the success of the individual is because of the team.
This “win-win situation” is the basis for successful lion prides and business teams.
The talk is in three parts.
1. Hunting
2. Raising the Cubs
3. Security
Ian then concludes the session by explaning how "“The strength of the pride is the lion and the strength of the lion is the pride.”
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Regulatory Changes and Impacts – Advantages of new treaties and the consequences for Swiss banks
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| Industry Focused Session |
| Dr Renate Schwob, Member of the Executive Board, Head - Financial Market Switzerland Division & Deputy CEO, Swiss Bankers Association |
Renate Schwob studied law at the University of Basel and qualified as a notary and attorney-at-law in the canton of Solothurn. In 1980 she took her doctorate at the University of Basel. Following many years practising law in government service she changed to the private sector and worked during fifteen years in banking. There she headed the Legal and Compliance Unit for the Trading and Sales and also Investment Management divisions at Credit Suisse from 1999 until March 2004.
Renate Schwob joined the Swiss Bankers Association in April 2004. She is a member of the Executive Board and heads the Financial Market Switzerland division.
Further information to follow in due course.
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Outsourcing – has the time arrived?
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| Industry Focused Panel Session |
| Panel Chairman: Peter Gubler, former Head of Operations, Vontobel Group, Panellists TBC |
Peter Gubler has 20 years experience as member of the executive committee of Swiss private and investment banks with responsibility for operations, most recently as Head of Operations of the Vontobel Group. He transformed and implemented new and more efficient Core Banking Application Systems many times. Peter Gubler has been responsible for the whole set up, the implementation and operation of the outsourcing of Raiffeisen securities sourcing solutions to Vontobel.For over 25 years, he was involved in shared sourcing and interconnectivity solutions in the Banking
Industry.
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There's an App For That: the ten best financial and ten best practical smartphone apps
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| Dr. Graeme Codrington, Co-Founder, TomorrowToday |
The mobile app market will be worth $25 billion by 2015, with hundreds of thousands of these smartphone based programmes available on any and every type of device.
This session will review the most popular and most important smartphone apps that can make a real difference to your every day life and your work in the financial sector. |
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The Spoor of Success
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| Out of the Box Seminar Session |
| Ian Thomas, Motivational Speaker & African Game Ranger |
It is widely accepted that the best way to cement such principles in people's minds is via the skillful telling of relevant stories; Ian has a proven track record in this regard.
While working as a guide at Londolozi, a game lodge in South Africa, Ian and his tracker Phineas faced a life threatening situation when they were tasked with tracking an extremely aggressive lion on a daily basis. Initially they were in crisis mode, but then made some crucial decisions that were rapidly implemented. This changed everything and Ian, Phineas, and the lodge went from strength to strength. He also has a business degree and believes that within this story are many powerful lessons that businesses caught in difficult times could learn and thrive on. This has resulted in a presentation that is content driven, but also contains humour, stunning photographs, threatening growls, and a story telling style that is so physical that he is forced to warm up before he starts.
Some of the principles that are highlighted in this presentation:
- Make the difficult choices, doing nothing is dangerous.
- The goal must be crystal clear and the method of achieving it completely understood.
- You need people who are exceptional at what they do; everyone involved must be highly skilled, involved, and motivated: no passengers: no pretenders.
- Vastly improved results must be rapidly achieved with the same or less costs: work smarter, work harder.
- New sources of competitive advantage must be actively sought.
The presentation will illustrate that a crisis can be a powerful motivator and has the potential to lift the performance of both the individual and the business.
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Mind the Gap: understanding different generations of staff and clients and their attitude to the financial industry
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| Industry Focused Session |
| Dr. Graeme Codrington, Co-Founder, Tomorrowtoday |
It is more important now than it ever has been to understand the differences in worldview and attitude between young and old. Today's young people are not just younger versions of us: they have different expectations of work, life and finances.
But the same is true for today's older generation: they're unlikely to retire and are going to live longer than they expected to. This session will provide insights into why younger and older staff and clients see the world in such different ways, and what the financial sector can do to connect more effectively with them. |
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Gala Dinner Night Entertainment
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| Live Band |
| The Radio Kings |
The Radio Kings have over 50 years of musical history between them and have played over 2000 concerts together.
From 1950s Rock n’ Roll, Soul, R & B, to the modern equivalents, this band plays it all as well as a couple of original pieces of their own.
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Highlights from Past Conference Programmes
Highlights from the 2011 Conference Programme
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| Keynotes, Industry Seminars, Panel Debates & Professional Development Sessions |
| Speakers & Chairs |
Keynote Addresses:
Opening Address: Rendez-vous” with Dr. Urs Rüegsegger about future opportunities and threats for the SIX Group
Dr. Urs Rüegsegger, Group CEO, SIX Group AG
Chairman: Reto Brennwald, Senior Correspondent, Swiss National Radio and TV, SRF
Keynote Address: At the eve of a paradigm change - Challenges & Opportunities for the Swiss Private Banking industry
Dr. Alfredo Gysi, CEO BSI SA and Chairman Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland
Keynote Panel Session: Swiss Wealth Management: Challenges and opportunities for the next 24 months
Eric G. Sarasin, Head Private Banking Division, Bank Sarasin & Cie AG
Walter P. Arnold, Head Private Banking Zurich, EFG Bank AG
Urs Zeltner, CEO Wealth Management International Germany & Austria, UBS AG
Gerhard Pfister, Nationalrat CVP Kanton Zug
Chairman: Reto Brennwald, Senior Correspondent, Swiss National Radio and TV, SRF
Closing Address: The Coming Revolution - Disruptive technology trends and what they mean for the future of banking
Dr. Graeme Codrington, Co-Founder, TomorrowToday
Industry Seminars:
European economy - will Germany's consumers come to the party?
Mark S. Berrisford-Smith, Senior Economist, HSBC Bank Plc
What really matters to private banking clients after the crisis?
Prof. Teodoro D. Cocca, Chair for Asset Management at the University of Linz
Who should be on your supervisory board?
Prof. Paul Strebel, Sandoz Family Foundation Professor & Director High Performance Boards Program, IMD
A Shifting World: The trends that will shape the world in the next decade and the implications for your investment strategy
Dr. Graeme Codrington, Co-Founder, TomorrowToday
Client Facing / Marketing Strategies at Swiss Life and the impact on their Front Office Solutions
Herbert Brunner, Partner Management Consulting, Enterprise Services AG
The future role of online and mobile banking
George H. Schmidt, Partner Financial Services, Accenture
Dr. Kyriakos Voutsas, Manager Financial Services, Accenture Banking Innovation
Innovations through customer focused banking architectures
Session moderators: Thomas Zerndt, CEO Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen
Dr. Thomas Puschmann, Leader CC Sourcing, University St. Gallen
Panel Sessions:
Securities information distribution and post-trade services: trends, drivers and challenges
Thomas Zeeb, CEO Division Securities Services, SIX Group AG
Thomas Gross, CEO Division Financial Information, SIX Group AG
Chairman: Reto Brennwald, Senior Correspondent, Swiss National Radio and TV, SRF
What’s next in the global world of sourcing?
Mr Vipul Khanna, Global Head of BPO, Cognizant
Mr Bikash Mathur, Partner & Head - Europe, Polaris Software
Mr Santu Mandal, Regional Head Banking & Financial Services DACH, TCS
Chairman: Mr Jörg Weber, Entrepreneur
Supplier Presentations:
Wolken über dem Bankenmarkt: Beendet die Cloud Technologie das klassische Bankenmodell?
Gregor Stücheli, Inventx AG
Banks: How to differentiate in client advisory
Christian Knechtle, SAP
Managing Client Profitability
Michael Stöckli, Bernet & Partner
The supertrends of the coming decades and how investors can benefit from them
Lars Tvede, CarryQuote AG
Banking for generations Y, Z and beyond
Mike Franz, Netcetera
Out of the Box – Professional Development Sessions:
Simplify your life
Werner Tiki Küstenmacher, Freelance Writer and Cartoonist
Setting and achieving personal goals: why, & how to climb your own 4,000 meter peak
Art Furrer, Father of Ski Acrobatics, Mountain Guide, Hotelier Riederalp
Test the current JAGUAR model range
JAGUAR Switzerland
Gala Dinner Entertainment:
Philipp Fankhauser band
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CEO
LGT Financial Services AG
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Global Head TBP Managed Services & Strategy Office
Credit Suisse
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CFO
Coutts & Co
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COO
NBAD Private Bank (Suisse) SA
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COO
QNB Private Bank (Suisse) SA
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