ETH at the WORLDWEBFORUM

ETH Zurich is pleased to announce its engagement as Black Diamond Academic partner with the WORLDWEBFORUM on 18/19 January 2018.

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Thursday, 18 January 2018

Building Tomorrow, Today.

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Fireside Chat

Lino Guzzella, President of ETH Zurich

external page Susan Kish, Fellow, Connection Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Transformers Workshop Powered by ETH Zurich

Transformer

A workshop for invited CEOs about strategic leadership in times of radical transformation. The discussion will be conducted by globally recognized academics and thought leaders.

 


Speakers

Georg von Krogh, ETH Zurich

Gerd Folkers, ETH Zurich

external page David J. Teece, UC Berkeley

external page Charles A. O’Reilly, Stanford University

external page Carissa Carter, Stanford University

external page Jerome S. Engel, UC Berkeley

Friday, 19 January 2018

Vertical Session "Responsive City"

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Responsive Cities allow citizens to engage directly in the future planning and management of their environment. Good governance and advancements in information and communication technology enable responsive cities. Through dynamic planning and citizen integration cities first become smart and then responsive. 

Speakers

Stephen Cairns, Singapore ETH Center

Christoph H?lscher, ETH Zurich

Ulf Blanke, ETH Zurich and antavi

external page Chris Luebkeman, Arup

external page Alastair MacLeod, Teralytics

external page Markus Wissmann, CISCO

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AR Is More Than Just Games

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The biggest advantage of Augmented Reality is the bridge that is gapped between the digital and real worlds. This opens completely new opportunities for applications for digital transformation but many of them are still beyond our imagination. It is not a question of whether these platforms will become relevant, just when.

Speakers

external page Bob Sumner, Associate Director of Disney Research Zurich, Founder of the ETH Zurich Game Technology Center

external page Martin Splitt, Code on Archilogic, Zurich

external page Michael Zawrel, Senior Product Manager Mixed Reality & HoloLens at Microsoft

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Impressions of the WORLDWEBFORUM 2018

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