FHS Alumni presents "Networking Talk
This year, the Networking Day at FHS St.Gallen is transforming into a Networking Talk: an adapted, digital format of the 700-person event. The topic is "the new normal". Is the current situation with home offices, masks, and online events the new normal? Four familiar faces make appearances.
Everything would be different. Without the corona virus, more than 700 people would flock to the Networking Day in the Olma Hallen on September 4, 2020. "We can't justify the usual execution this year," says Michael Federer, alumni director of the University of Applied Sciences St.Gallen (FHS). "This time we have to be 'abnormal'." Under the motto "The New Normal," he and his team of FHS Alumni are offering the Networking Talk as an alternative. A lunchtime format of about an hour, online, with four well-known speakers from previous runs. They talk about the changes that directly affect them and venture predictions about what scenarios are conceivable in the future for politics, business and social affairs. The free format seems to have found an open ear: Before the program was announced, around 300 people had registered so far.
The speakers
Nicola Forster takes the political perspective at the Networking Talk. He is co-founder of the think tank "foraus" (Forum on Foreign Policy), the State Laboratory as well as Operation Libero and co-president of the Green Liberals of the Canton of Zurich. Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, honorary professor emerita of the University of Bern, gets to the bottom of social corona trends. As an expert in age research, she wonders: where do people over 65 stand who have suddenly been labeled a "risk group"? Stefan Scheiber speaks for the business community. The CEO of the Bühler Group and FHS alumnus provides insights into how the global corporation is holding its own against the corona virus. Fourth speaker, Dominik Tarolli, Director of Smart City Esri and also FHS alumnus, joins live from California. The virtual world expert knows a thing or two about smart city planning, Pixar and Disney. He talks about how his company, Esri, is on the front lines of fighting the corona virus. Sonja Hasler, known from the SRF Arena, moderates the talk.
With the speakers in the same chat room
Afterwards, participants can get in touch with the Talk guests directly by entering the corresponding virtual room. "Our claim for the Talk is definitely the same as that of the Networking Day. A socially relevant discourse is to be illuminated and discussed from different perspectives," says Michael Federer, who is responsible for the event.
The next Networking Day in its usual form will take place on September 10, 2021, on the topic "How much earth does man need? In the area of tension between economy and ecology".
For free registration and more information: www.networkingtag.ch.
