Swiss SME Day 2022: SMEs and Relationships - Constantly Changing

Once a year, St.Gallen becomes the meeting place for Swiss SMEs - this year for the 19th time. The Swiss SME Day 2022 will once again focus on the current challenges facing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Inflation, starting a business at 16 and smallness as a business model

After the introduction to this year's SME Day by host Tobias Wolf, HSG professor Reto Föllmi will talk about "Inflation and SMEs", and tattoo and piercing entrepreneur Giada Ilardo will tell participants more about "Starting a business at 16, then it went fast". In the now well-established "Inspiration Session", startups with their business models inspire participants to come up with ideas for their own business. Afterwards, Reto Schmid, who bakes the smallest Grisons nut cake, will talk about "Smallness as a business model" and Internet entrepreneur and National Councilor Jacqueline Badran will say: "I already know what I want to say.

Swiss SMEs exchange ideas at SME Day 2022

The Swiss SME Day is a sought-after platform for the exchange of entrepreneurs and executives from Swiss SMEs. Patronages for the Swiss SME Day 2022 have been taken over by important institutions: The Swiss Trade Association (SGV), economiesuisse, the St.Gallen-Appenzell Chamber of Industry and Commerce, and the Cantonal Trade Association of St.Gallen. The event is supported by a number of co-sponsors and long-standing main sponsors to whom SME concerns are very important: Raiffeisen, Helvetia, ABACUS, OBT and Swisscom, as well as numerous SMEs from the industrial and service sectors.

The Swiss SME Day is organized by the Swiss Institute for SMEs and Entrepreneurship at the University of St.Gallen (KMU-HSG) and the agency alea iacta ag. Registration for the conference is now open via www.kmu-tag.ch/registration possible. Early registration is worthwhile, in previous years the SME Day was sold out quickly.

A review of the Event from last year you can find here.