14th South Tyrolean Economic Forum on March 16, 2018 in Brixen: early bird discount available until February 9, 2018

The 14th South Tyrolean Economic Forum on “Excellence and innovation: the challenges faced by tomorrow’s smart companies” is expected to attract 400 decision makers from the worlds of business, politics, and society: the high-ranking speakers include President of the European Policy Centre, President Emeritus of the European Council and former Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy

Since its initiation 14 years ago, the annual South Tyrolean Economic Forum has become a popular venue for the gathering of entrepreneurs, executives, and decision makers of South Tyrol and adjacent regions.

400 guests, many of whom have participated regularly for years, use the South Tyrolean Economic Forum as a platform to establish new contacts and exchange ideas. This year’s high-quality program is dedicated to the excellence and innovation required from tomorrow’s smart businesses:

• The first person to speak at the 2018 South Tyrolean Economic Forum will be Federica Fasoli. As head of human resources for the southern European division of Siemens, she has been in charge of about 8,000 employees in Italy and Greece since the beginning of 2016.
• Herman Van Rompuy will provide interesting insights into possible strategies for a successful European future. He is one of the most renowned politicians operating on a European level. His prominence is mainly due to his former position as the Prime Minister of Belgium and first President of the European Council. Since 2015, he has been the president of the European Policy Centre (EPC), and thus reached the climax of an impressive career in national and European politics.
• Andreas König, since May 2015 CEO of the international engineering company TeamViewer, is an expert on cloud-based applications. He enables people to connect globally and together develop new ideas as well as master new challenges. At present, TeamViewer is installed on more than 1.5 billion electronic devices. 750,000 new users are registered daily.
• As the global vice president of human resources at the AVL List GmbH engineering company, Markus Tomaschitz has been responsible for 10,000 employees since 2015. He ensures that the demand for international excellence, continuous innovation, and outstanding performance is met every day.
• Dominik Schiener, born in South Tyrol, is a successful young entrepreneur. He has won several prestigious prizes and co-founded the Berlin start-up IOTA. The distributed ledger technology provides a blockchain-like solution for payment between machines by enabling micro transactions on the Internet of Things.

The annual South Tyrolean Economic Forum is organized by the South Tyrolean entrepreneurs association Unternehmerverband Südtirol (UVS), the Südtiroler Wirtschaftszeitung weekly newspaper, the publishing company business bestseller, the Südstern network for South Tyroleans abroad, and Management Center Innsbruck (MCI).

Further details and registration:
www.wirtschaftsforum.it
Early bird discount available until February 9, 2018