48th St. Gallen Symposium: «Beyond the end of work»

On 3 and 4 May 2018, the 48th St. Gallen Symposium will bring together students and decision-makers from business, politics, society and academia on the HSG campus. The conference will deal with issues surrounding the topic of “Beyond the end of work”: what will happen if “classic” work stops and machines take over many fields of activity?

25 April 2018. The student organising committee of the 48th St. Gallen Symposium also invites people to public lectures in the HSG Library Hall. The plenary sessions of the Symposium will be aired in the net via live stream. For the first time, the Symposium will organise the German-language Public Forum in the Einstein Congress Hotel in St.Gallen in order to expand the discussion about new worlds of work. The plenary sessions will be transmitted online at www.symposium.org.

Besides many other personalities, the following speakers will reflect on the topic of “Beyond the end of work” during the Symposium of 2-4 May 2018:

Dirk Ahlborn, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc.
Alain Dehaze, Chief Executive Officer of the Adecco Group
Philippa Malmgren, Founder of the DRPM Group
Jacqueline Poh, Chief Executive Officer of the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech)
Jeremy Rifkin, Chairman of the Foundation on Economic Trends
Kim Sung-Joo, Chairperson & Chief Visionary Officer, MCM Holding AG

Public discussions at the 48th St. Gallen Symposium
Background Session: Internet of Things and its impact on society (in English)
Thursday, 3 May 2018, 1.30-3.00 p.m., HSG Library Hall

Volkhard Bregulla, VP Global Industries Manufacturing and Distribution, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hiroaki Kitano, President & Chief Executive Officer, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
Marianne Janik, General Manager, Microsoft Switzerland
Moderation: Prof. Elgar Fleisch, Director of the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St.Gallen

Background Session: Humanity’s to-do list for a better future (in English)
Friday, 4 May 2018, 1.30-3.00 p.m., HSG Library Hall

Michael Møller, Director-General, Geneva Office, United Nations
Moderation: Prof. Christoph Frei, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Political Science, University of St.Gallen

Public Forum: public discussion about approaches pursued by the 48th St. Gallen Symposium
Monday, 28 May 2018, 5.30-7.00 p.m, Einstein Congress Hotel, St.Gallen

Hermann Arnold, Founder & Chairman, Haufe-umantis AG
Thomas Meyer, CEO, Accenture Schweiz
Marianne Janik, General Manager, Microsoft Schweiz
Dominik Bilgeri, doctoral student and researcher, ETH Zurich
Katrin Eggenberger, Chief of Staff, Office of the Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bieger, President, University of St.Gallen
Prof. Dr. Patrick Emmenegger, Professor of Political Sciences, University of St.Gallen
Prof. Dr. Isabelle Wildhaber, Professor of Private and Business Law, University of St.Gallen
Moderation: Urs Gredig, Editor-in-Chief, CNN Money Switzerland