Swiss SME Day to be postponed until 2021
The Swiss SME Day, planned for October 23, will be postponed by one year. It will now take place on October 22, 2021. All tickets sold will remain valid for the new date.
The Swiss SME Day in St.Gallen planned for October 23, 2020 will be postponed to next year. It will now take place on October 22, 2021. The reason for the postponement is the covid protection measures tightened at short notice by the Federal Council in the new ordinance. They have now proved to be too great an obstacle to keep the mixture of technical input in presentations and discussions and the cultivation and expansion of the personal network still reasonably feasible. It seems that the conference motto "SMEs and surprises - bang on!" is once again proving to be truer than one could wish.
Swiss SME Day focuses on health protection
"We were prepared to hold this important SME networking event with a comprehensive protection concept," explains Tobias Wolf, member of the organizing committee: "Although some guests rebooked for the streaming option, there would still have been over 800 participants on site." For Swiss SME Day, however, the focus is on protecting health - just as it is in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) themselves - and thus helping to contain the pandemic. And this includes a complete implementation of the measures prescribed by the authorities: Admittedly, RFID tracing on SME Day would have gone much further than prescribed. However, the 100-second sectors ordered at short notice in the lecture room and correspondingly also in the catering cannot be implemented at the Swiss SME Day with justifiable effort.
Hope for understanding
Although the organizers regret the postponement, they are certain that the Swiss SME scene will understand and remain loyal to the event next year. In any case, the tickets sold will retain their validity. New details about the program will be announced later.
