New Year's resolutions like eating less meat, exercising more or spending more time with friends have a poor track record of creating lasting change. Research…
Joel Blom14. January 2019
Insights into all things digital, our initiatives and projects.
Ageism in the workplace? Remember lifelong education at all ages! The latest data from the outplacement agency von Rundstedt shows that in Switzerland 33% of…
Danièle Castle, digitalswitzerland11. January 2019
2018 is already history… and what a year it has been! Let me take a step back to reflect on last year’s achievements and give…
Nicolas Bürer, Managing Director digitalswitzerland10. January 2019
Swiss Startup Radar, a data analysis of 4,000 technology-based start-up companies with growth potential, paints an unvarnished picture of the Swiss start-up scene. One result…
Stefan Kyora, startupticker.ch11. December 2018
Author’s note The success of Silicon Valley as the world’s most successful digital innovation ecosystem is largely due to a perfect storm. This storm has…
Joel Blom7. December 2018
Keynote speaker, Dr. Solomon Darwin, known as “The Father of the Smart Village Movement” stepped onto the Kraftwerk stage, fiddled with his two Macbooks and beamed…
Joel Blom6. December 2018
The Swiss 2014 law called WeBIG, which came into effect in 2017, defined lifelong learning as a personal responsibility and set the framework to finance…
Danièle Castle, digitalswitzerland6. December 2018
In addition to a clear value proposition that organisations must develop to attract and retain the best employees, the digitalswitzerland Top Talent study also identified…
Danièle Castle, digitalswitzerland29. November 2018
All the companies in digitalswitzerland’s Top Talent interviews and survey believe that lifelong learning is a critical success factor. According to the interviewees, as skills…
Danièle Castle, digitalswitzerland29. November 2018
Mondays could always start like this: with a croissant and café at the beautiful Hôtel de Ville in Paris, talking about digital innovation and technology…
Niniane Paeffgen, digitalswitzerland23. November 2018
Victims and perpetrators Riva Digital’s bet, emerging from digitalswitzerland's Challenges, is a noble attempt to save lives by exposing a cunning killer, hypertension – the leading…
Joel Blom21. November 2018
In parallel to the Digital Summit Switzerland (Digital Gipfel Schweiz), the Websummit took place in Lisbon on the first week of November. Over 70,000 participants…
Guillaume Gabus, digitalswitzerland20. November 2018
Play, talk, exercise – what does a playground 4.0 look like? For the second year running digitalswitzerland ran a video competition for all Swiss schools,…
Danièle Castle, digitalswitzerland19. November 2018
Where do good ideas come from? With today’s innovation imperative for all organisations, it’s important to understand where good ideas come from, and how to…
Daniel Ginter, digitalswitzerland14. November 2018
With the increasing application of digital technologies, talented employees are expected to become an even more important component of successful business models. According to digitalswitzerland's…
Danièle Castle, digitalswitzerland14. November 2018
A cross-sectoral survey Attracting and retaining top talent is a major concern for companies based in Switzerland, particularly in the areas of STEM and ICT,…
Danièle Castle, digitalswitzerland12. November 2018
How to create successful partnerships between high-growth start-ups and established organisations? We address this topic in a handbook we published in collaboration with Kickstart and…
Nicolas Bürer, Managing Director digitalswitzerland9. November 2018
Following a successful Swiss Digital Day where we opened the dialogue with the Swiss public on technology and innovation, our first Digital Gipfel Schweiz (Digital…
Stéphanie Schenk, digitalswitzerland8. November 2018
The Matterhorn Programme has been launched! During the Digital Day on 25 October, the first three Matterhorn Programmes were presented on the main stage in Zurich.…
Guillaume Gabus, digitalswitzerland2. November 2018
On 25 October we hosted Digital Day in Switzerland. Isn't every day a digital day, with smartphones, laptops, tablets, etc...? Yes and no – it…
Birgit Pestalozzi, digitalswitzerland25. October 2018