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Economy and digitalisation: challenges for Switzerland

Digitalisation results in new challenges for the economy and for society. A three-part lecture series will shed light on challenges for the health service, for the digital markets and for Switzerland as a financial centre. Each event will be opened with a keynote speech, which will be followed by a panel discussion with guests and the audience. The public series will start on 19 February.
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13 February 2019. Competitively organised markets are subject to permanent change. Progressing digitalisation results in new challenges for the economy and for society such as are still hardly conceivable. The first evening, 19 February, will focus on artificial intelligence in healthcare and its opportunities and challenges. The keynote speech will be made by Marcel Salathé, Associate Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Subsequently, the panel guests will try to answer the question as to what opportunities and risks will result from digitalisation and automation in healthcare.

On 12 March the price watchdog, Dr. Stefan Meierhans, will talk about the economic and legal characteristics of digital markets. How will digital markets work in the future? What role can and should be played by government? Such and similar questions will be discussed by the panel guests after the keynote speech.

On the third and last evening, on 26 March, Aymo Brunetti, Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Berne, will home in on the question of where Switzerland as a financial centre is heading. The subsequent discussion will deal with questions like “How can Switzerland as a financial centre fund change and ensure stability?” and “How will Switzerland still be able to create welfare and jobs in the future?”

After the keynote speeches, experts from business, politics and academia will debate the topic. The panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Jürg Ackermann, Deputy Editor of the St.Galler Tagblatt daily newspaper.

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Dates
Tuesdays, 6.15-7.45 p.m., Room HSG 09-011 (Room HSG 09-011 on 26 March)
19 February Artificial intelligence in the health service: opportunities and challenges
Keynote speech: Prof. Dr. Marcel Salathé, Associate Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Marcel Salathé, Prof. Dr. Ludewig Burkhard (St.Gallen Cantonal Hospital), Dr. Simone Wyss Fedele (Novartis) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Epper (University of St.Gallen)
12 March
The economic and legal characteristics of digital markets from the price watchdog’s perspective
Keynote speech: Dr. Stefan Meierhans, Price Watchdog, Berne
Panel discussion with Dr. Stefan Meierhans, Markus Näf (SwissSign), Prof. Dr. Stefan Bühler (University of St.Gallen) and guests
26 March
Switzerland as a financial centre: what road ahead?
Keynote speech: Prof. Dr. Aymo Brunetti, Professor of Economic Policy, University of Berne
Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Aymo Brunetti, Prof. Dr. Pascal Gantenbein (University of Basel), Dr. Sabine Keller-Busse (UBS AG), Prof. Dr. Christian Keuschnigg (University of St.Gallen) and guests
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