adesso Executive Dinner 2025

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30.01.2025 (17:00 - 22:00 hrs) - Widder Hotel

adesso New Year’s Executive Dinner

"disruption ahead"

On Thursday, 30th January 2025, the adesso New Year’s Executive Dinner will take place in the beautiful Widder Hotel in Zurich. Our event is themed ”disruption ahead” and will offer an attractive agenda.

We are living in a time of unprecedented technological and social change. Disruptive innovations are changing entire industries, business models and the labor market faster than ever before. But what does it mean when established structures are broken up and replaced by new solutions?

From digitalization and Artificial Intelligence to new mobility concepts – companies and individuals need to adapt in order to be successful in an increasingly volatile world. The solution is not only to survive it, but to shape it. We need to know, what disruption means in the context of business, technology and society and what impact it has on various industries.

This will precisely be the topic of our upcoming New Year‘s Executive Dinner. Two distinguished representatives from the Swiss economy will provide valuable insights into their wealth of experience from different perspectives and different industries. Following their short impulse speak, they will be available for a Q&A session moderated by Hansjörg Süess.

We kindly invite you to take part as the current challenges of the digital world are discussed in a sophisticated setting. We look forward to an interesting, high-caliber evening and to your valued presence.

Participation is possible by personal invitation only. The seats are very limited – thank you for your prompt and binding registration.

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Program:

17:00 Uhr

Arriving of the guests

Welcome drink & live jazz

17:30 Uhr

Hansjörg Süess, CEO adesso Schweiz AG

Welcome address

17:45 Uhr

Serving of the starting course

18:30 Uhr

Ladina Heimgartner, Head Media Ringier AG & CEO Ringier Media Switzerland

“From the digital transformation to the transformation of the digital” / Q&A

19:00 Uhr

Serving of the main course

19:45 Uhr

Vidor Kapy, CIO Bühler AG

“Between Deglobalization and AI” / Q&A

20:20 Uhr

Dessert buffet, drinks & live jazz

Ladina Heimgartner will open the speaker series with a very tangible presentation of the current challenges of the media industry. Digital transformation has truly gained momentum – but driven by AI, the next stage is already upon the market: the transformation of digital. As always, the media are fully in the wind. How are they handling it? How is Ringier handling it? Ladina Heimgartner will provide a nurturing insight.

Ladina Heimgartner has been a member of the Group Executive Board of Ringier AG since February 2020. As Head Media, she is responsible for Ringier's media business at group level and is also CEO of Ringier Medien Schweiz. Prior to this, she was CEO of the Blick Group and directly responsible for the Ringier Group's Eastern European media markets. Ladina Heimgartner is among other functions also president of the worldwide association of newspaper and media companies WAN-IFRA.

Ladina Heimgartner

Vidor Kapy will follow by thematizing the trend in the food industry, that many global companies are grappling with the economic challenges and thusreacting with deglobalization. Where is the journey going with the achievements in global processes, IT applications and data? On the other hand, technological innovations are poised to significantly enhance employee efficiency. How can a good balance be achieved between reaping these benefits and managing the enormous costs? Vidor Kapy will show the strategy they have defined to keep the balance in a potential sweet spot.

Vidor Kapy works in IT at Bühler since 2000. He has been in the role of CIO since the end of 2022. He has played a key role in ensuring that Bühler now has a very good, tidy basis for harvesting further benefits from digitalization initiatives within the company. He studied Business Administration (HWZ, Zürich) and just recently finished his Executive Master in Business Engineering (HSG, St. Gallen).

Vidor Kapy

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