2 May 2017. Questions around the topic "The dilemma of disruption" will be discussed. The following contributors (in addition to many more personalities) will examine different facets of the topic:
- Santiago Calatrava, Architect and Artist
- Ong Ye Kung, Singapore’s Minister for Education
- Susanne Ruoff, Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Post
- Anders Samuelsen, Denmark’s Foreign Minister
- Deb Roy, MIT Professor and Chief Media Scientist, Twitter
The plenary sessions will be broadcast online at www.symposium.org. Two public background sessions will take place at the university’s library:
Background Session 1: "Diverse Equality – Is a Global Standard Possible?"
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 1:30-2.45pm, HSG Library Hall (public, English-language)
- Marcela Escobari, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution
- Roberta Francis, Co-founder, The Lucy Foundation
- Kuniko Inoguchi, Member, House of Councillors, National Diet of Japan
- Moderator: Stephen Chambers, Director, The Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship, London School of Economics
Background Session 2: "Predicting Psychological Traits from Digital Footprints"
Friday, 5 May 2017, 1:30-3pm, HSG Library Hall (public, English-language)
- Prof. Michal Kosinki, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Stanford University
- Prof. Deb Roy, Director, Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM) – MIT Lab, and Chief Media Scientist, Twitter
- Moderator: Prof. Dr. Miriam Meckel, Editor of WirtschaftsWoche