Agenda

1. AMERICAN SWISS FOUNDATION
YOUNG LEADERS ALUMNI COUNCIL
YOUNG LEADERS ALUMNI FOUNDATION
Building Bridges Roundtable Conference
on Vocational and Entrepreneurship Education
April 10 – 11, 2017
Program and Participants

2. #AmSwiss www.americanswiss.org/roundtable2017
Program
Monday, April 10
Vocational Education and Training
9 am Roundtable I: Educating the 21st
Century Workforce: Apprenticeship and Vocational
Education in Switzerland
Introduction: Bettina Schaller (YL ’11), Group Public Affairs Director, The Adecco
Group and Member of the Board, Young Leaders Alumni Foundation
10:15 am Coffee Break
10:45 am Roundtable II: Public-Private Partnership: The Role of Government and Private
Industry in Vocational Education
12 noon Lunch
Entrepreneurship Education
1 pm Keynote: Entrepreneurship in Our Time
Gabriela Lippe-Holst (YL ’05), Founder, Acqupart, and President, Young Leaders
Alumni Foundation
1:30 pm Roundtable III: Developing Entrepreneurial Capacity: The Role of Universities,
Incubators and Accelerators
Introduction: Michael Stucky (YL ’03), Coach & Mentor, ETH Zurich
and Member of the Board, Young Leaders Alumni Foundation
2:45 pm Coffee Break
3:15 pm Roundtable IV: Entrepreneurship Education as a Path to Success
4:45 pm Break & Registration for Evening Session
5:30 pm Panel Discussion: The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration
Welcome: Markus U. Diethelm, Chairman, Swiss Advisory Council
Moderator: Robert J. Giuffra, Jr. (YL ’96), Chairman, American Swiss Foundation
Panelists:
- Anthony Svanascini (YL ’10), Founder and CEO, americaneagle.com
and Member of the Board, American Swiss Foundation
- Derek Wallbank (YL ’14), Journalist, Bloomberg News, Washington, DC
7 pm Cocktail Reception and Dinner
Tuesday, April 11
9 am Departure for Schindler (Ebikon)
10 am Visit to the Schindler Vocational Training Center and tour of manufacturing facilities
hosted by Bruno Wicki, meetings with apprentices
12 noon Lunch with Schindler alumni of the Young Leaders Conference
1 pm Depart for Rüschlikon
2 pm End of Program