WHEN

Networking breakfast starts at 7:30. Make sure to arrive early in order to checkin swiftly.

WHERE

The fifth WORLDWEBFORUM is taking place at StageOne, Elias-Canetti-Strasse 146, 8050 Zurich

DON'T

Please make sure to not forget your badge or ticket and ID.

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

In over 15 years of experience as an Internet company , we have made most of the mistakes one can make.

On this journey we continuously asked ourselves the same question - what makes certain companies so much more successful than others?

Is it leadership, team skills, strategy, or simply being at the right place at the right time?

We have made it our mission to collectively come one step closer to finding the key to the secret of success.

By interacting with experts from around the globe, we enable our community to gain insight into the most important developments and strategies you need to become a digital leader.

This is what WORLDWEBFORUM is about - since 2012.

OVERVIEW

Day 1

JANUARY 24, 2017

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MAIN HALL

Digitization has changed the global economy with more speed and force than any other factor to date.

Entire industries have been and continue to be disrupted, with new innovations and concepts emerging daily.

Companies who do not transform themselves will eventually be replaced by younger, more innovative companies who can keep up with the rapid pace of the digital age.

Transformation occurs on different levels. The combination of self, team, organization and leadership transformation forms highly advanced companies.

Therefore, we annually bring together experts from each field to inspire, motivate, and guide you to becoming a top digital player, and getting one step closer to finding the key to the "secret of success".

Each speaker offers a unique point of view and answers the most relevant questions by helping you understand each dimension of transformation.

09:00

OPENING SPEECH

FABIAN HEDIGER

FOUNDER & CEO WORLDWEBFORUM ZURICH

09:10

SHORT INTRODUCTION

OLE TILLMANN

HOST WORLDWEBFORUM ZURICH

SELF TRANSFORMATION

Self transformation is the first aspect in the transformation process that comes from the inside.
How do you transform your skills, talents, personality, and self-management to become the best version of yourself?
But what does it take for such a transformation to happen?

Do you have a questions for one of our self transformation experts?

Let us know...!

How can you access to your inner strengths and let your creative processes evolve?
How do you solidify your knowledge and skills and apply them to become a great leader?
How do you design the best version of yourself and become a leading player in your field?

09:20

ACT LIKE A LEADER, THINK LIKE A LEADER

HERMINIA IBARRA

PROF. OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

CORA CHAIRED PROF. OF LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INSEAD FONTAINEBLEAU, FR

09:40

FROM TEMPORARY EXPERIENCE TO LASTING CHANGE

MARIAN GOODELL

FOUNDING MEMBER & CEO BURNING MAN SAN FRANCISCO, CA

TEAM TRANSFORMATION

For a long time, the general cosensus was that focus, hierarchy and stability determine the success of a company.

However, the current consensus is that teams are the biggest value to a company and can embrace entrepreneurship, flexibility, and innovation.

Be inspired by the famous Silicon Valley work-ethic and culture and understand how to enforce it in your company or team.

Do you have a questions for one of our team transformation experts?

Let us know...!

How do you recruit, retain, and train your team to achieve the best possible results?
How do you get the A-team and drive your team to become effective?
How can one reinvent a team to become self-proficient and embrace failure?
How can one ensure that creative processes are encouraged and not hindered?

10:00

THE ENDURING MYTH OF HEROIC LEADERSHIP

JEFF EGGERS

PRINCIPAL ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

NAVY SEAL VETERAN WASHINGTON, D.C.

10:20

LEADERSHIP

Michael Wade

Professor of Innovation & Strategy

Director of the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation LAUSANNE

ORGANIZATION TRANSFORMATION

Organizations are complex structures that are interdependent with their surroundings.

Learn how to sense changes in your environment and quickly adapt to these changes by reinventing and transforming your business.

Do you have a questions for one of our organization transformation experts?

Let us know!

How do you break existing structures in order to rebuild a more effective organization?
How do you create an adaptive and loose structure?
How do you digitize your organization?
How do you design a viable organization that responds to environmental change with a flexible, flat, and temporary profile?
How should established organizations react to being disrupted?
Which measures does a disruptor have to take in order to prevent being shut down by 'the old economy?

10:25

FIRESIDE CHAT

KEVIN BANDY

Senior Vice President & Chief Digital Officer CISCO San Francisco, CA

Michael Wade

Professor of Innovation & Strategy

Director of the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation LAUSANNE

10:45

GOOGLE & SWITZERLAND: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

URS HÖLZLE

SENIOR VP FOR TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE Google Mountain View, CA

11:05 - 11:30

BREAK

11:30

EMBRACING INNOVATION

ANITA ROTH

HEAD OF POLICY RESEARCH AIRBNB SAN FRANCISCO, CA

11:50

PEAK CODE

BILL LIAO

Co-Founder Coder Dojer & Xing Cork, Ireland

12:10

DRIVING SUCCESS BY LETTING GO

CAIT O'RIORDAN

CHIEF PRODUCT AND INFORMATION OFFICER LONDON, UK

12:30 - 13:30

LUNCH

(available from 12:00)

Breakout Sessions

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ARENA

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WORLD TRANSFORMATION

"A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

World transformation starts within. It is about mentality, perseverence, team building, strategy, leadership and pulling each part of the company together to form one entity.

Learn from some of the most influential and iconic leaders worldwide and gain insight into the way they think, act, and execute in order to change the world.

Do you have a questions for one of our world transformation experts?

Let us know...!

How do you manage the combination of rapidity and complexity?
Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, & co.: how do they do it?
How do you increase the quality of your employees' work by letting go of your authority?
How do you shift from being a traditional problem-solver to a focalizer, facilitator, synthesizer, and synergizer?
What is the perfect mix of knowledge, skills, attitudes, creativity, and consciousness?

13:30

THE SYNERGY OF TECHNOLOGY AND CREATIVITY

ED CATMULL

CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT PIXAR & DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS SAN FRANCISCO, CA

14:00

FIRESIDE CHAT

ED CATMULL

CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT PIXAR & DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS SAN FRANCISCO, CA

JOHN THORNHILL

INNOVATION EDITOR AT FINANCIAL TIMES LONDON, UK

14:15

TOPIC

Johann Schneider Ammann

Federal Councillor
Minister of Economic Affairs
Education and Research

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BERN

14:30

TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITY MUST WORK TOGETHER AT ALL SCALES

SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE

INVENTOR WORLD WIDE WEB CAMBRIDGE, MA

14:55

FIRESIDE CHAT

SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE

INVENTOR WORLD WIDE WEB CAMBRIDGE, MA

JOHN THORNHILL

INNOVATION EDITOR AT FINANCIAL TIMES LONDON, UK

15:10

CLOSING SPEECH