Theme: No Time But Now

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Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
Route de Cojonnex, 18
Lausanne, Vaud (fr), 1000
Switzerland

Aradhana Khowala

Chair I Board Member I CEO I Non-Executive Director I Keynote Speaker I

Aradhana Khowala is a global hospitality sector expert and CEO of a consultancy company, specializing in strategy management and regenerative tourism. She also serves on boards such as the World Tourism Forum Lucerne, the Elaf Group, and the Advisory Board of the Red Sea Project. Awarded as the 21st Century Icon as an Inspirational Game Changer, she was featured as one of the 50 most Influential Next Generation leaders who will likely define the future of luxury tourism. As an ardent proponent of sustainable and disruptive growth models, Aradhana has the rare ability to drive transformational change and steer management with strategic thinking.

Birgit Pestalozzi

Impact entrepreneur & NPO founder

Birgit is an expert in Marketing and Communications with a Masters degree in Social Science and Business Administration. During her professional career, she led big-scale projects for global corporations. Until 2015 she was the Head of Marketing and Communications for Ernst & Young. She is co-founder and board member of the NPO Swiss Initiative - culture projects. In 2015 she left EY to become a location independent onlinepreneuer. Being a digitisation enthusiast, she joined Digitalswitzerland in February 2018 as Head of Public Dialogue and overall project lead Digital Day.

Fritz Dickamp

Keynote Speaker & MD @ Studio 49

As a Managing Director of an award-winning Online Marketing Agency for the hospitality industry, Fritz Dickamp specializes in Digital Marketing. He has an enthusiastic approach to e-commerce and digitization of the hospitality industry. He knows how to transform his passions into an entertaining format, making the audience of entire generations enjoy his ideas. A keynote speaker at several tourism fairs, events, and hospitality conventions, as well as a guest lecturer at several European hospitality management schools, Fritz Dickamp will tell you everything about "The Power of Modern Communication”, bringing you on an incredible journey through the modern world of digital influencing.

Maria Haggo

Human Mastery, Women In-POWERment, Conscious Leadership and D&I Consultant, Neuroscience, Executive Leadership Coaching, Strategic Well-being, Mental Health Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Founder & CEO at Transform8

Maria Haggo, the founder and CEO of Transform8, is a conscious leader who believes in the need for a profound positive transformation in global work cultures. In her own words, "a thriving individual leads to thriving teams, thriving communities, and a thriving world". An MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience from King’s College London combined with Maria's heartfelt and holistic approach makes her work impactful and truly unique. Her work involves supporting teams and leaders in self-development, gender diversity and well-being, and in her speech titled " How To Be the Leader You Want to Work For – it’s easier than you think”, she will show us what it means to lead from the heart for a brighter future.

Schuyler Weiss

Chief Executive Officer at Alpian

As CEO of Alpian, a digital private banking app, Schuyler is passionate about making investing easier and more user-friendly. Schuyler also previously worked for Morgan Stanley and IBM. In his talk “The Life-Changing Nature of Investing”, he will show us how investing changed his life, and why there is no time but now to begin an investment journey of your own.

Vlad Gheorghiu

Making mental well-being a superpower at Kyan Health | Co-Founder | Ex-McKinsey | INSEAD MBA

Vlad grew up in a household where psychotherapists would gather around the dinner table to discuss the latest trends in cognitive and behavioural research. For him, mental health was never a taboo topic. Vlad changed his career track after burning out and focused his efforts on building and scaling mental health initiatives that make a real difference in people’s lives. Before co-founding his own company, Vlad worked for eight years at McKinsey, where he focused on strategy and organisational work for healthcare clients and on building digital businesses for retail clients. His talk will be focused on “How to Stop Living for Tomorrow” and the importance of well-being at work.

Yannick Hutmacher

Student Speaker

A hardworking BOSC 3 student, Yannick doesn’t shy away from leadership. He believes that struggle, both mental and physical, is the key to harnessing opportunity and success. In his talk titled “Lieutenant At 19, Would You Accept My Authority?”, Yannick will walk you through a lifetime of important lessons which he learnt during his experience as a Lieutenant of the Swiss Armed Forces.