Zermatt Summit 2017 Participant Handbook 2017

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6th
Zermatt Summit
September 8 to 10, 2017
HUMANIZING INNOVATION

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The Circle Manifesto
Dear friends, Dear partners,
I welcome you to the 6th
edition of the Zermatt Summit. This year’s
theme is humanizing innovation. The meaning of innovation from the
Latin innovare, is to renew or to transform.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterized by a range of new
technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds,
impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging
ideas about what it means to be human. Technological innovation or
disruption are transforming societies with unprecedented speed and in
radically new ways affecting humanity, its self-understanding and it’s
existence. I believe that all forms of innovation not only technology can
be highly beneficial in improving living conditions and enhancing human
life but we should be aware of the risks inherent in their implementation.
The real revolution begins in the human heart. It begins when we allow
ourselves to think that a different kind of economy just might be possible.
The real world always departs from our ideal. It’s time to dream a deeper
dream, where a regenerative economy, is built around ideals such as fairness,
community, sustainability, benefiting the many rather than the few, enabling
the human person and the living planet to nourish.
Our success will ultimately be determined by the degree to which minds
and hearts will be touched and actions are taken as a result. I wish you an
inspiring three day journey, may this be only the beginning…
CHRISTOPHER WASSERMAN
Convenor and President Zermatt Summit Foundation

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What is innovation? Technological prowess, and the vertiginous
nature of the digital economy too often focus attention on this
kind of innovation. But innovation is also economic, ecological,
societal and managerial. It is the totality of these innovations
that we need to take in account if we want to have a chance
to construct a better future for humanity.
It is for this reason that the 2017 Zermatt Summit gather around
the theme ‘Humanizing Innovation’ catalysts of solutions who will
show us the extraordinary potential for innovation present in fields
that often pass unnoticed, from waste recycling to the implemen-
tation of procedures where the most advanced technologies
meet traditional forms of knowledge. Concrete examples will be
given by people who sometimes have extraordinary life stories
which can serve as examples and give hope. Technological and
digital innovation will of course not be forgotten.
Three broad debates are organized on the future of the human
person, the evolution of work and of private life, and even (or
above all) of human rights in this new digital world which is
shaping up to be so different from what has gone before.
JEAN STAUNE
Philosopher and Prospectivist
Programme Director for the Zermatt Summit 2017

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Program
12.00 Common theme
JEAN STAUNE
12.15 Double parallel workshops: Session 1
GÜNTER PAULI,
NAVI RADJOU,
TOMÁŠ SEDLÁČEK,
GUIBERT DEL MARMOL
13.15 Lunch
14.45 Double parallel workshops: Session 2
GÜNTER PAULI,
NAVI RADJOU,
TOMÁŠ SEDLÁČEK,
GUIBERT DEL MARMOL
15.45 Round table
ALEXANDRE GÉRARD,
HICHAM EL HABTI,
JEAN-MICHEL QUEGUINER,
ARNAUD GANGLOFF,
FREDERICK CHAVALIT TSAO,
GUIDO PALAZZO (Moderator)
Managerial innovation
16.45 Format TedX presentation 3:
JEAN-PHILIPPE DESBIOLLES
What is the impact of Artificial
Intelligence on companies?
17.00 Networking break
17.15 Piano concert at Mont Cervin Palace
ELIZABETH SOMBART
Works by Schubert, Schumann,
Brahms and Chopin
19.00 Dinner looking out on Matterhorn
(departure 18.45; return 21.30)
Friday, 8.9.
18.30 Welcome cocktail & Gala dinner
20.30 Welcome address
20.45 Keynote lecture
TOMÁŠ SEDLÁČEK
Selling growth in order to
buy stability
Saturday, 9.9.
08.30 Lecture
GÜNTER PAULI
More & better, speed & skill,
ecological innovation in practice
09.15 Format TedX presentation 1
CHIDO GOVERO
Orphans teach orphans
09.30 Round table
NAVI RADJOU
Frugal innovation:
doing more with less
10.15 Format TedX presentation 2
KELVIN DOE
How I found myself in the lime-
light, and overcoming adversity
11.00 Lecture
GUIBERT DEL MARMOL
The ‘regenerative’ economy:
economy, ecology and meaning
11.45 Short Group Discussion
Turningpoint

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12.30 Double parallel workshops Session 1
GILLES BABINET,
JEAN-PHILIPPE DESBIOLLES,
PIERRE GIORGINI,
BERTRAND VERGELY
13.15 Double parallel workshops Session 2
GILLES BABINET,
PIERRE GIORGINI,
BERTRAND VERGELY
14.00 End of conference.
Lunch (optional)
15.30 Walking in Zermatt and
surrounding area
Sunday, 10.9.
08.30 Round table
ALAIN BENSOUSSAN,
LAURENCE DEVILLIERS,
PIERRE GIORGINI,
BERTRAND VERGELY,
JEAN STAUNE (Moderator)
What future for the
human person?
09.30 Round table
MICHAEL BAERISWYL,
ANNA UKHANOVA,
ELIZABETH MORENO,
ERIC SALOBIR
JEAN STAUNE (Moderator)
The social impact of
artificial intelligence
11.00 Round table
ANDY MÜLLER-MAGUHN,
GILLES BABINET,
CARLOS MOREIRA,
SÉBASTIEN FANTI,
NICOLAS BUTTET,
EMMANUELLE DANCOURT (Mod.)
The human person faced by big
data: what new human rights?
12.00 Short group discussion
Turningpoint
12.15 Conclusion
PÈRE NICOLAS BUTTET,
BERTRAND VERGELY,
What humanity do we want?

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GUIBERT DEL MARMOL
A former business director, he is currently an adviser, author and
speaker on the subject of positive economy. He is active in the fields
of innovation, sustainability and responsible investment.
Keynote Speakers
GÜNTER PAULI
The «Steve Jobs of sustainable development»; he tirelessly promotes
a great number of solutions throughout the planet connected not
only with circular economics but also ‘positive ecology’, which he calls
the ‘blue economy’. Here it is not about being less bad, producing
less waste, but being good from the start, conceiving products
capable of de-polluting nature through their functioning, and
not simply polluting it less.
NAVI RADJOU
Author of Frugal Innovation: How to do better with less, showing
how innovation is not only technological or digital but can occur
thanks to the daily ingenuity of millions of people, including above
all those in the planet’s most disadvantaged countries. International
conference speaker having participated many times in the World
Economic Forum and other large events at a similar level.
TOMÁŠ SEDLÁČEK
Economist, former adviser to Vaclav Havel, author of the international
bestseller The Economy of Good and Evil, showing that the economy
– today transformed into a series of equations and rationalizations
based on individual interest, if not egoism – is in fact a moral choice
between this egoism and the common good. He has also theorized
the way in which the economy could be reoriented towards a
different form of growth, not quantitative but qualitative.

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JEAN-PHILIPPE DESBIOLLES
Vice-president for Cognitive Solutions with the IBM Watson Group.
Benefiting from 20 years’ experience leading innovative, cross-industry
and breakthrough projects, Jean-Philippe focuses on driving the
reinvention of business institutions leveraging digital, artificial intelli-
gence (AI), advanced analytics & Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities.
TEDx Format Presentations
KELVIN DOE
At the age of 14 he succeeded in electrifying his village in Sierra
Leone thanks to a grid of batteries made of metallic waste material.
He also constructed a radio station for his village out of electronic
waste. Invited to MIT at the age of 16, he embodies frugal or
«jugaad» innovation and will thus illustrate the presentation
of Navi Radjou by his personal example.
CHIDO GOVERO
As an orphan born in Zimbabwe, she met Günter Pauli at the age
of 12, who reveals to her the possibilities for eating thanks to the
rapid growth of mushrooms. She contributes to the development
of mushroom cultivation using coffee waste. Today she travels
throughout the world to set up mushroom farms based on the
technique that she invented.

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GILLES BABINET
The first president of the French Digital Council (Conseil National du
Numérique), he is currently France’s ‘digital champion’ and contributes
to promoting the benefits of a digital society in France.
Round Table Participants
MICHAEL BAERISWYL
He leads the Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Group at
Swisscom Enterprise Customers, where he and his team are applying
artificial intelligence to increase individual potential and automatize
processes.
ALAIN BENSOUSSAN
A lawyer who since 1978 has been helping his clients regarding
law with respect to computing and telecommunications as well
as digital and advanced technologies more generally.
FREDERICK CHAVALIT TSAO
President of IMC Holdings (Singapore), he closely follows the
special challenges faced by family businesses and the latter’s
role in economic development.
FATHER NICOLAS BUTTET
Founder, Philanthropos European Institute. After studying law, he was
elected as deputy in Valais and Secretary of the Christian Democrat
parliamentary group in the Swiss parliament. He worked in the Vatican
in the Ministry of Justice and Peace. He was the initiator of the
European Institute of Anthropological Studies, Philanthropos. He is
also Deputy Chairman of the Ecophilos foundation. He, as a catholic
priest, is responsible for a religious community: Eucharistein.

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LAURENCE DEVILLERS
Professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University and researcher at the CNRS
computer laboratory for mechanics and engineering sciences (Limsi).
HICHAM EL HABTI
Bio of Hicham: He began his professional career with Ernst & Young.
After seven years directing Maroccan small businesses, in 2013
he joined the OCP group, Marocco’s leading company, for whom
he is currently co-ordinator of the energy liberation process. He is
responsible for the implementation of collective intelligence within
the company’s management.
SÉBASTIEN FANTI
A lawyer specializing in the field of advanced technologies
(cloud computing), he works within the international Lexing
network composed of lawyers focusing on technology. He is the
data protection and transparency officer for the Canton de Valais.
ARNAUD GANGLOFF
President of Kea & Partners, a leading top-management consulting
firm. Over the past fifteen years, he has led the R&D on organisational
transformation. Working side by side with his clients, he is particularly
involved in the field of managerial innovation, through concepts
such as «the Alert Company», the development of autonomy within
organisations, the corporate’s personality, the “strategic dialog”.
ALEXANDRE GÉRARD
CEO of inov-On, he is currently one of the best-known French leaders
in the field of «freed businesses».

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CARLOS MOREIRA
A former UN expert in the area of computer technology and digital
security, in 1999 he founded WISeKey in Geneva, a business providing
database security.
ELISABETH MORENO
Qualified in business and commercial law, since January 2017 she
has been at the head of Lenovo France. For her, business has a duty
to serve its collaborators.
ANDY MÜLLER-MAGUHN
Spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club, one of the principal
international associations of hackers. He is the co-author together
with Julian Assange of Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future
of the Internet.
JEAN MICHEL QUÉGUINER
A former teacher, he founded and for 31 years directed Bretagne
Ateliers, a business employing 500 works including 380 handicapped,
where he developed an exemplary managerial model.
PIERRE GIORGINI
Former research director for Orange, currently president-rector of
Lille Catholic University, he is the author of several books including
La Transformation fulgurante (The lightning transformation).

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ERIC SALOBIR
A Dominican priest and president of the Optic (Dominicans for
technology, information and communication) network, he is a
consultor to the Vatican Secretariat for communications.
ANNA UKHANOVA
She is one of the chief researchers at the Google research centre
in Zurich, devoted to the development of machine learning.
BERTRAND VERGELY
Philosopher and theologian. He recently published La Tentation de
l’Homme-Dieu (The Temptation of the Man-God), a caution against
the Promethean side of certain advocates of new technologies.

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EMMANUELLE DANCOURT
Journalist and television presenter.
Moderators
GUIDO PALAZZO
Professor of business ethics on the HEC
faculty of Lausanne University.
JEAN STAUNE
Zermatt Summit programme director,
prospectivist, philosopher of science.
Holder of an MBA from the University of New York, he is the
co-founder and president of the Ecophilos Foundation as well as the
Zermatt Summit Foundation. He is also the founder and president
of the TeroLab Surface Group business based in Lausanne.
Convener

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ELIZABETH SOMBART
She completed her training with great masters and she furthered
a study on the use of breathing in piano at Mainz University where
she attended courses in musical phenomenology. Founder and
President of the Résonnance Foundation, she has devoted herself
to the training of pianists in «Résonnance pedagogy» during
master-classes. Her innovating teaching is the result of
30 years of research and experience.
Special guests

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Best practices, projects, tools developed
between 2010 and 2017 with the support
of the Zermatt Summit foundation.
The Zermatt Summit aims at offering more
than a purely theoretical approach thus
providing best practices, testimonials, projects
and tools that can be used within business
corporations or other types of organizations.
The following organizations was supported
by Zermatt Summit foundation.
The European social and
business co-creation interna-
tional competition
In 2014, Ashoka and its partners launched an
unprecedented online collaborative competition
– the Social & Business Co-creation:
ashoka.org/en/story/european-social-business-
co-creation-competition
Sparknews
The Zermatt Summit hosted a rountable and
workshop moderated by C. de Boisredon on
how to communicate the new economy in a
positive way: sparknews.com
50+20 Project
50+20 is a collaborative initiative that seeks to
learn of new ways and opportunities for man-
agement education to transform and reinvent
itself: 50plus20.org
World Future Council
worldfuturecouncil.org
Foundation for a New Ethical
Business
WeDreamBusiness.org is a website which ranks
the best CSR firms and practices, showing that
other forms of business are possible:
wedreambusiness.org

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CJD International
Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants d’entreprise is a
75000 member strong network dedicated to
developing and training managers in innova-
tive techniques to promote «the economy at
the service of the human person and life»:
jeunesdirigeants.fr
Union de Comunidades
Indigenas de la Region del
Istmo, R.I. (UCIRI)
Uciri is a Union of small Indian farmers of
64 communities in the mountain region of
southern Oaxaca, Mexico: fairtrade.net
Global Responsibility and
Leadership Initiative (GRLI)
grli.org
Seven Fund
sevenfund.org
Résonnance Foundation
resonnance.org
Aconcagua Summit – Humani-
zando la Globalización
aconcaguasummit.org
Ethicability Moral DNA profile
An online tool which objectively analyses your
moral character designed by Prof. Roger Steare:
ethicability.org
Vertical
vertical.cl
Human technology foundation,
OPTIC network
Participation and financial support to interdis-
ciplinary research team focused on disruptive
technologies, evaluation of the ethical and
social impact of the blockchain and develop-
ment working group: optictechnology.org
Blueprint for Better Business
blueprintforbusiness.org

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Affirm that the dignity of the human
person and the inviolability of his/her rights
must be the foundation for relations between
the citizens of the world and that respect for
these two principles must prompt States, other
national and international public authorities,
civil society and economic operators to govern
decisions and actions resolutely towards the
Common Good;
Point out that human dignity is the principle
from which all Human Rights stem, and that
this principle is invoked by many Conventions
and Universal or Multilateral Declarations, as
well as by many national Constitutions;
Support the values of freedom, equality,
solidarity, subsidiarity and respect for creation,
and affirm the necessity of protecting the
cultural diversity of humankind;
Are convinced that the resolution of the
present crisis depends on greater acceptance
of responsibility and determined commitment
by each individual to promote the Common
Good in a spirit of service and love. This appeal
is all the more urgent in that the great challenges
facing humanity are becoming more threatening;
Note that social market economy as well as
free enterprise have enabled humanity to make
real progress and have made goods and services
available to an ever greater number of people;
Would like to see an economy driven by
the concern for the Common Good supported
by financial mechanisms at the service of
the real economy which are keen to foster
development that respects the human person,
in particular those who are most vulnerable,
and that cares for the natural world and the
ecosystem;
Reaffirm that the exercise of power is
legitimized by seeking the Common Good, by
the humanization of social life and by respect
for fundamental freedom, in particular freedom
of conscience and freedom of worship;
Deplore that exclusive desire for profit
and thirst for power, which is at the root of so
much human drama, hinders the development
of the whole man and of all men to the full;
Encourage, consequently, each and every
person, particularly those who exercise economic
or political power and who are actively involved
in all levels of society in both the public and
private sectors, to serve the Common Good of
the whole human family with courage and bold-
ness and to actively promote peace in the world;
Declaration on the Common Good
to Humanize Globalization

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Recommend that firm and effective
reference be made as widely and constantly as
possible to the Common Good as the guiding
principle for humanity to commit to regulating
its activities with greater solidarity while
considering each person as an end and
not as a means;
Propose to share with all women and men
of good will our reflections on the importance
of the Common Good by virtue of which each
one is called to see his or her own good in
the good of others; and our conviction that,
by making the Common Good the guide for
our actions and the criterion for our decisions,
we can individually and collectively work for
civilization and progress while respecting our
human nature and nature generally, with a view
to achieving shared prosperity, sustainable
development, peaceful coexistence and,
ultimately, the realization of our natural and
universal aspiration to happiness;
Invite all women and men of good will to
commit themselves to the Common Good and
to the signing of this Declaration.

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The Zermatt Summit
Created in 2010 as a primary international platform to promote
a constructive, action-oriented dialogue between the various
actors of society, ranging from business to civil society, academy,
religion, arts and politics.
Designed for business leaders, Zermatt Summit programs are
catalysts to spark inspiration, share innovation and translate into
action new business development models that promote human
dignity in our globalized world.
Run by the Zermatt Summit Foundation, an independent
non-profit organization recognized of public interest by the
Swiss Government.
The Zermatt Summit is not about finding the «silver bullet», or
THE new model that will make all the difference.
Its role is to be a catalyst for several interventions anchored in
the culture of the Common Good, that will in turn inspire other
actions, which combined, will have an overall strong impact.
We, at Zermatt, are convinced that today more than yesterday
business & technologies need humanities to achieve a positive
growth.
Past Summits
2010 «The Courage to Dare I»
2011 «Servant Leaders»
2012 «The Common Good»
2013 «Business & NGOs: Building partnerships of winners»
2014 «The Courage to Dare II»
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Sponsors and Partners
Lunt
Foundation

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