FULL AGENDA 2023

Check in & Welcome breakfast

 08:00 – 08:50

Institutional Welcome

 08:50 – 09:20

Michele Foletti

Mayor

Città di Lugano

Monica Duca Widmer

President

USI – Università della Svizzera Italiana

Stefano Rizzi

Director of the Economics Division

Canton Ticino

Green room/plenary

Moderated by Ana Maria Montero

Disrupting Forces & Models to Innovate the Lifestyle Sector

 09:20 – 09:40

Carlo Terreni

President

Dagorà

Relevance of Digitalization in the sustainability strategy

 09:40 – 10:00

Saskia Günther

Head of Corporate Responsibility

Swisscom

The Future is Here: Using Web3 to Build Authentic Connection with the GenZ

 10:00 – 10:20

Luca Ambrosini

CEO & co-founder

Rubicon Studio SA

Morning Coffee break by Lavazza & Cecchetto

 10:20 – 10:50

Road to Fashion Tech Driven Platform

 10:50 – 11:10

Christopher Koerber

Managing Director Ticino

HUGO BOSS SA

Private equity: Capitals to Innovate

 11:10 – 11:30

Massimiliano Caraffa

Managing Director and Partner

CARLYLE

Finding the right balance – Heritage vs. Innovation

 11:30 – 11:50

Lisa Burnett

Digital Consumer Experience Director

Le Creuset

Ramya Ramasubbu

Strategic Account Executive

Salesforce

Panel discussion: The Minds Behind Innovation: Exploring how to engage and develop Talents to drive innovation and change

 11:50 – 12:30

Barbara Cimmino

Head of CSR & Innovation

Yamamay

Daniela Massaro

Country Manager

Mastercard Switzerland

Edwin Navez

CEO

ASSOS of Switzerland GmbH

Jose A. Gonçalves

Europe Commerce Lead

Accenture

Marc Sondermann – Moderator

CEO

Fashionmag

Networking Lunch

 12:30 – 14:00

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Green room

Fashion & Luxury Transformation

Moderated by Ana Maria Montero

Welcome by Ticino Moda

 14:00 – 14:10

Ugo Boveri

Member of the Board Ticino Moda, VP Finance International Guess, VP LTCC

Ticinomoda

Web 3, Metaverse, and Sustainability: Re-Defining Personal Identities. A brief tale of अवतार * (avatara), abstraction and reinvention.

 14:10 – 14:30

Marco Formento

Global Innovation & ESG Director

Dolce & Gabbana

Building the Digital Content Factory, the MaxMara Fashion Group experience

 14:30 – 14:50

Marco Milioli

CMO

Hyphen Group

Matteo Modenese

Phygital Channels Manager

Max Mara

How to boost unified international customer experience through retail digitalisation

 14:50 – 15:10

Cristian Magagnin

Store Applications Manager

Benetton Group

Mario Davalli

Country Manager

CEGID

How sustainability is shaping e-commerce company choices

 15:10 – 15:30

Marta Pompilio

e-Commerce Director

EssilorLuxottica

Blue room

Retail Innovation

Moderated by Bianca Bonetti

Make Future – Welcome Speech

 14:00 – 14:10

Rupen Nacaroglu

Member of the City Council and the President of the Lugano Merchants’ Association

NFS Group SA / Nacalegal

Mapping out the socio-digital trends and how to navigate them as a brand

 14:10 – 14:30

Nesem Ertan

Creative Strategist

Vanksen, part of Datawords Group

Swiss Online Retail Innovation: Convenient & Fast

 14:30 – 14:50

Tristan Kohler

eCommerce Manager

Nespresso Switzerland

localsearch in the Digital Transformation era

 14:50 – 15:10

Antonio D’Anna

Head of Enterprise Solution

localsearch – Swisscom Directories AG

Gennaro Galdo

Director of Market Development CH

Merkle

Expanding the Palette : Caran d’Ache Digital Journey

 15:10 – 15:30

Isabelle Clerc-Gippet

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

Caran D’Ache

Purple room

Cosmetics, eHealth & Food

Moderated by Julie Arlin

Welcome by Farma Industria Ticino

 14:00 – 14:10

Piero Poli

President

Farma Industria Ticino

Pharma Tech: Antares Vision Group for LIGHT (Lifescience Innovation Good Healthcare Technology)

 14:10 – 14:30

Alberto Albertini

Director of Innovation Center

Antares Vision Group

The Convergence of Health Tech and Lifestyle Brands

 14:30 – 14:50

Rohit Pushparajan

R&D Client Account Lead (CAL) and R&D Operations Lead Europe

Accenture

Caring for carers. The boomers challenge in HealthCare.

 14:50 – 15:10

Orientina Di Giovanni

General Manager

Careapt

L’Oreal Beauty Innovation: services beyond products

 15:10 – 15:30

Stefania Fabiano

Senior Executive Officer

L’Oréal

Red room

Destination Switzerland: Investments and Access to R&D funds

Moderated by Eleonora De Canio

Welcome by UBS, strategic partner LTCC, SIP-TI

 14:00 – 14:10

Remo Crameri

Head of Corporate & Institutional Clients UBS Ticino

UBS

Lifestyle-Tech Competence Center – Behind the scenes of digital twins: a fashion brand’s journey to 3D design

 14:10 – 14:30

Chiara Mangano

Global Pricing and Digital Projects Senior Manager

Guess Europe SAGL

Jelena Tašić Pizzolato

Managing Director

Lifestyle-Tech Competence Center

Accenture’s role in the Ticino ecosystem

 14:30 – 14:50

Giovanna Melillo

Managing Director

Accenture

Innovation in a corporate. Process and ideas.

 14:50 – 15:10

Adriana Matiz

Experience Design Manager

Lavazza

Andrea Bello

Innovation Senior Manager

Lavazza

Innosuisse: How to access public fundings to perform R&D activities in Switzerland

 15:10 – 15:30

Emile Dupont

Knowledge and Technology Team Leader

Innosuisse

Matteo Vanotti

Founder

XFarm Technologies

Afternoon Coffee break by Lavazza & Cecchetto

 15:30 – 15:50

Can e-commerce be personal in the post covid era?

 15:50 – 16:10

Giuseppe Lillo

Senior Account Executive

Salesforce

Yaron Jacobs

Head of Ecommerce and Distance Retail Europe

Triumph

Driving international D2C online sales: The Fold’s cross-border e-commerce growth strategy

 16:10 – 16:30

Joeri Groenewoud

VP of Sales

Global-e

Kelsey Fahy

Commercial Director

The Fold

Turbocharge digital analytics through disruption

 16:30 – 16:50

Filippo Chiari

Director Global Analytics CoE

VF International

Panel discussion: Innovation and distruption as the new normal

 16:50 – 17:30

Andrea Maria Cannata

Technology Innovation director

Accenture

Philippe Guerin

Managing Partner

CHEQUERS CAPITAL SA

Renato Usoni

CEO

Riri

Valentina Visconti Prasca

Managing Director

YOOX

Afternoon Coffee break by Lavazza & Cecchetto

 15:30 – 15:50

5 ways to win with Amazon

 15:50 – 16:10

Rebecca Han

Senior Manager Digital Key Accounts

Movado Group

Mastercard beyond payments: MediaMarkt use case

 16:10 – 16:30

Daniela Massaro

Country Manager

Mastercard Switzerland

Kerstin Stanka

Team Lead Customer Intelligence

MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group GmbH

From the click of a button to home appliance innovation

 16:30 – 16:50

Alessandra Grimoldi

SR Digital & Insight Manager

Whirlpool

Changing the game for local businesses: digital solutions, cryptocurrencies and loyalty program

 16:50 – 17:10

Jan Trautmann

Digital Innovation Lead

Lugano Living Lab

Luca Schenini

Scientific collaborator

Città di Lugano

Afternoon Coffee break by Lavazza & Cecchetto

 15:30 – 15:50

Embracing the power of e-business and emerging technologies for a Thriving Online business in Asia and in the World

 15:50 – 16:10

Luca Buratti

Global Head of eBusiness

Angelini

Research & Innovation govern systemic transformations toward sustainable Food-Industry

 16:10 – 16:30

Alberto Dolci

Global Strategic Health & Science programs mng

Bolton Food

Innovation through Organization and Talent at Campari

 16:30 – 16:50

Sergio Caredda

Global Head of HR Group Functions

Campari Group

Innovating for a Better Future: The Journey of Panino Giusto from Pioneering Italian Cuisine to B Corp Certification

 16:50 – 17:10

Elena Riva

President of the board and co-owner

Panino Giusto

Afternoon Coffee break by Lavazza & Cecchetto

 15:30 – 15:50

Argo Tractors – digital transformation and new business models – collaboration with XFarm

 15:50 – 16:10

Antonio Salvaterra

Marketing Director

Argo Tractors

Federica Riva

Digital Marketing Specialist

Argo Tractors

Teleworking and Video-meetings. Does Fashion fit?

 16:10 – 16:30

Lorenzo Cantoni

Professor

USI – Università della Svizzera Italiana

DesignX: The Ticino scalability enabler for talent

 16:30 – 16:50

Joel Benghiat

Chief Strategy Officer

Nembrini

Raf Fonzo

Fashion designer

Whitepage

Welcome by Israel- Swiss Association

 16:50 – 16:55

Adrian Weiss

President

Israel-Swiss Association

Panel: Israel-Swiss Association Collaboration

 16:55 – 17:30

Davide Guzzetti

Director

Loomish

Oded Chai

Director, industrial relations and strategic development

Shenkar Engineering.Design.Art

Pietro Poretti

Director of the Economic Promotion Division

Città di Lugano

Sacha Weber

Group CFO

Polus Tech

Sim Koevary

Partner

Meitar