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  Antoinette Weibel

  Professor of HRM & Director of the Research Institute for Work and Workplaces UNSGH

  Antoinette Weibel is Professor of Human Resources Management and Director of the Research Institute for Work and Workplaces at the University of St. Gallen. Previously, she researched and taught at the Universities of Konstanz and Speyer as well as at the Hochschule Liechtenstein. She completed her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Zurich. Her research areas are the influence of institutions on employee motivation, trust in the company, stakeholder trust and well-being at work. She is President of the First International Network of Trust Researchers, a member of the Steering Committee of the European Group for Organizational Studies and…

  Antoinette Weibel is Professor of Human Resources Management and Director of the Research Institute for Work and Workplaces at the University of St. Gallen. Previously, she researched and taught at the Universities of Konstanz and Speyer as well as at the Hochschule Liechtenstein. She completed her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Zurich. Her research areas are the influence of institutions on employee motivation, trust in the company, stakeholder trust and well-being at work. She is President of the First International Network of Trust Researchers, a member of the Steering Committee of the European Group for Organizational Studies and on the Board of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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  Dominika Blonski

  Data Protection Officer des Kantons Zürich

  Dr. Dominika Blonski has been Data Protection Commissioner of the Canton of Zurich since May 2020. She graduated in Law at the University of Fribourg with a focus on State, Constitution and Public Administration as well as European and International Affairs. She obtained her PhD from the University of Berne on the subject of "Biometric data as an object of informational self-determination". She broadened her interdisciplinary skills in the areas of information security management and technology with the CAS in Information Security at the University of Lucerne. She is a member of the privatim office, the conference of Swiss data…

  Dr. Dominika Blonski has been Data Protection Commissioner of the Canton of Zurich since May 2020. She graduated in Law at the University of Fribourg with a focus on State, Constitution and Public Administration as well as European and International Affairs. She obtained her PhD from the University of Berne on the subject of "Biometric data as an object of informational self-determination". She broadened her interdisciplinary skills in the areas of information security management and technology with the CAS in Information Security at the University of Lucerne. She is a member of the privatim office, the conference of Swiss data protection officers.

  Event Language: GER

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  Markus Christen

  Managing Director Digital Society Initiative UZH

  Dr. Markus Christen is Managing Director of the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich (UZH) and heads the "Neuro-Ethics Technology" research group at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME) at UZH. He is also a member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the Human Brain Project. He studied philosophy, physics, mathematics and biology at the University of Berne and received his doctorate in neuroinformatics from the ETH Zurich. After working as a project manager and science journalist, he was a predoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin,…

  Dr. Markus Christen is Managing Director of the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich (UZH) and heads the "Neuro-Ethics Technology" research group at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME) at UZH. He is also a member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the Human Brain Project. He studied philosophy, physics, mathematics and biology at the University of Berne and received his doctorate in neuroinformatics from the ETH Zurich. After working as a project manager and science journalist, he was a predoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, a postdoctoral fellow in the graduate program of the University's Ethics Research Program and a visiting scholar at the University of Notre Dame. Since 2013 he is Senior Research Fellow at IBME, where he habilitated in 2016.

  Event Language: GER

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  Kurt Stockinger

  Professor for Informatics ZHAW

  Prof. Kurt Stockinger is a Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Data Science programme at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and Deputy Head of the ZHAW Datalab. His main research interests are data science with a focus on Big Data, Natural Language Query Processing, Query Optimization und Quantum Computing (Quantum Machine Learning). He is also a member of the advisory board of Callista Group AG. Previously Kurt Stockinger worked at Credit Suisse in Zurich, in the USA at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley and at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena as well…

  Prof. Kurt Stockinger is a Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Data Science programme at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and Deputy Head of the ZHAW Datalab. His main research interests are data science with a focus on Big Data, Natural Language Query Processing, Query Optimization und Quantum Computing (Quantum Machine Learning). He is also a member of the advisory board of Callista Group AG. Previously Kurt Stockinger worked at Credit Suisse in Zurich, in the USA at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley and at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena as well as at CERN in Geneva. He received his doctorate in computer science from CERN and the University of Vienna.

  Event Language: GER

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  Daniella Lützelschwab

  Head of Labour Market & Labour Law at Schweizerischer Arbeitgeberverband

  Daniella Lützelschwab has been Head of the Labour Market and Labour Law Department at the Swiss Employers' Association, which represents around 90 industry and regional associations, since 2014. As a member of the Executive Board, she is responsible for employer and CLA policy and relations with the social partners. This currently includes the support of members in the Corona crisis. She is a member of several federal advisory commissions, including the Federal Labour Commission. Prior to this, she spent 14 years at Swissmem as Head of Employer Policy, where she was responsible for advising member companies on employment law and…

  Daniella Lützelschwab has been Head of the Labour Market and Labour Law Department at the Swiss Employers' Association, which represents around 90 industry and regional associations, since 2014. As a member of the Executive Board, she is responsible for employer and CLA policy and relations with the social partners. This currently includes the support of members in the Corona crisis. She is a member of several federal advisory commissions, including the Federal Labour Commission. Prior to this, she spent 14 years at Swissmem as Head of Employer Policy, where she was responsible for advising member companies on employment law and implementing the collective labor agreement for the MEM industries. She studied law at the University of Basel.

  Event language: GER

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  Karin Frei

  Journalist and Presenter

  The journalist and presenter Karin Frei looks back on a long career with SRF. Starting at Radio DRS3, she later moved to DRS1 and was, among other things, host of the programme «Persönlich» and produced the background programme «Doppelpunkt». After switching to TV, she directed and presented the SRF programme "Club" for six years. She graduated in European Ethnology, Social and Economic History and International Law at the University of Zurich and worked behind the scenes for the knowledge magazine "Einstein". She is the founder and owner of the company CommonGround Communications GmbH and is now a freelance moderator, consultant…

  The journalist and presenter Karin Frei looks back on a long career with SRF. Starting at Radio DRS3, she later moved to DRS1 and was, among other things, host of the programme «Persönlich» and produced the background programme «Doppelpunkt». After switching to TV, she directed and presented the SRF programme "Club" for six years. She graduated in European Ethnology, Social and Economic History and International Law at the University of Zurich and worked behind the scenes for the knowledge magazine "Einstein". She is the founder and owner of the company CommonGround Communications GmbH and is now a freelance moderator, consultant and media workshop.

  Event language: EN

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