Week 16, Theme: Countdown to Cool & Jazz Up Your July!

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Content Highlights

1. Week's Theme: Announcement of Switzerland's largest annual music event
2. Highlights of Content Shared: ReFi & Web3 in Meta Horizon Workrooms
3. Post from my Network: Miro's Principal Product Evangelist shares 4 steps to execute innovation
4. Awards: Time's Best Inventions of 2023, Featuring Sightful Spacetop

Week's Theme

On April 18th, Switzerland's largest annual music event was announced: The 58th Montreux Jazz Festival. This event boasts an eclectic lineup featuring veterans like Alice Cooper and Sting alongside rising stars like Raye and André 3000. Find eye-catching facts and figures of the event at Swissinfo.ch. Watch a video of the event on YouTube.

A GenAI summary says: "The festival, running from July 5-20, offers diverse acts from electronic giants Kraftwerk to jazz icons Diana Krall and Trombone Shorty. With venues including the 5,500-capacity Lake Stage and historic Montreux Casino, the festival attracts around 250,000 attendees annually, generating significant economic income. Deep Purple's iconic "Smoke on the Water" will rock the Lake Stage, echoing the band's history with the festival. The event's rich heritage, preserved through 5,000 recorded concerts, has earned UNESCO heritage status, reflecting its cultural significance." Find further details & tickets here.

Highlights of Content Shared

• Invitation to the next event of the Zürcher Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft (ZVG) — View Post

• Invitation to a discussion on ReFi & Web3 in Meta Horizon Workrooms. ??— View Post

Posts from my Network

• European Commission : This week, EU leaders met in Brussels to discuss how to make the EU more competitive and further strengthen the Single Market — View Post

• FRZ Flughafenregion Zürich - Wirtschaftsnetzwerk & Standortentwicklung invites for the 10. Real State Summit on June 12, 2024, the leading event in the industry in Switzerland — View Post

• Switzerland Innovation invites the public to join The Soft Landing Program, designed for globally focused companies, providing personalized guidance and access to Western Switzerland's vibrant innovation ecosystem. — View Post

• Miro 's Principal Product Evangelist, Peter Bradd, shares 4 steps to execute innovation — View Post

• Corine Blesi shares highlights of 20 SEF.NextGens gathering, summarizing:

"A successful entrepreneurial career requires courage, creativity, determination, and adaptability."

— View Post

• Miro invites to the webinar: "Failure as a strategy for success: what managers need to know when it comes to a culture of failure." — View Post

• DIGITALEUROPE gathered CEOs from its network in Budapest to design a path toward a competitive, innovative, digitally skilled Europe, to make it #aDigitalPowerhouse — View Post

• Christian Lundsgaard-Hansen shares the #SwissFinTechAwards top 10 #fintech #startups of 2024 — View Post

• Dr. Benjamin Lange & team share their latest article: ???The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants — View Post
• Sparkassen Innovation Hub presented notes from a #ProductDiscovery workshop on the topic of #CommunityBuying! ?? — View Post

• Aline L. Y. shared insights from a gathering hosted at Baur au Lac Zurich, discussing "performances of Bitcoin and crypto-assets, exploring what lies ahead, followed by a thorough examination of primary and secondary #privatecredit" — View Post

• The British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce invites to the Sustainable Business Summit — View Post
• Regula Bleuler shared highlights of the Swiss Startup Association Founders Day at Google Campus, learning and networking with over 200 startup founders! — View Post

• maurice moitroux : IWC Schaffhausen ?? Pantone with the 2024 Portugieser collection, IWC Schaffhausen introduces four new signature colors created in collaboration with Pantone — View Post

• The New Yorker : evidence clearly implicates social-media apps for a decline in mental health among young people — View Post

• Emma Hovhannisyan, PhD will be a speaker at GenAI Zürich with a presentation titled: Elevating Brand Strategy & Customer Experience with GenAI — View Post

• Marc Baumann shares what happened this week in Dubai for TOKEN2049 — View Post

• Reuters : Dubai police rescued a cat from floodwaters after the United Arab Emirates was hit by a rare torrential storm. The rains were the?heaviest?experienced by the United Arab Emirates in the 75 years that records have been kept. — View Post

• 麦肯锡 shares 7 practices of top-performing product managers — View Post

• Claudia Bienentreu shares how innovation is performed at AXA Switzerland — View Post

• The Consulate General of Switzerland in New York : The ???? Federal Council has committed CHF 135 million over the next 4 years to the #GreenClimateFund, which aids developing nations in #ClimateAction. — View Post
• The Embassy of Switzerland in the United States of America : The largest 3D map of the universe to date has been released. — View Post

• CryptoMondays Zurich celebrates Bitcoin Halving — View Post
• Christian Moser & UX Schweiz team celebrate a general meeting to review progress over the last year — View Post

• The Open Forest Protocol shares how the Voluntary Carbon Market #VCM can help to mobilize finance and people — View Post

• Bhaskar Ghosh : Julie Sweet on being recognized by TIME as one of the #TIME100 Most Influential People. — View Post

• Environmental Carbon Offset Alliance (ECOTA) on the impact of Carbon Debits on global sustainability — View Post

• HSG Alumni Sustainability Club in collaboration event with?WISF - Women in Sustainable Finance invites to a dialogue about the importance of personal impact in shaping one's life — View Post
• Zurich Art Weekend invites to discover “More Than Gold” at Museum Rietberg! ? — View Post

• Innovation Zurich opens the call to participate in the AI sandbox project — View Post
• TWINT unites Switzerland, a new#campaign on display in the country since 15 April. ? — View Post

• economiesuisse looks for ambassadors of the economy — View Post

• Bj?rn Rosengren : After a record year in 2023, ABB has made a strong start in 2024 with one of the best quarters we’ve ever had. — View Post

• Applications for the Digital Economy Award are still open — View Post

• Harvard Business School Online launches its new course: AI Essentials for Business — View Post
• Invest in Switzerland shares the ??Swiss Cleantech Report 2024?? — View Post
• Rahel Kindermann Leuthard celebrates the yearly gathering of the Flughafenregion Zürich - Wirtschaftsnetzwerk & Standortentwicklung in the Gemeinde Volketswil. — View Post

• SAMBA - Swiss Association of MBAs celebrates another great gathering of SwissMBAs in Geneva from across Romandie. — View Post

• The Ministry of Foreign Relations from the Dominican Republic ( Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores República Dominicana ) and #PROPAGAS put into circulation the gastronomic book “Flavor, Color, and Heat for the World”. — View Post

Awards: TIME's Best Inventions of 2023 — Featuring Sightful Spacetop

"Israeli entrepreneurs Berliner and Kahan left Magic Leap to launch Sightful, democratizing AR with their Spacetop AR laptop. Users wear lightweight glasses for a 100-inch virtual screen, maintaining a private workspace anywhere. CEO Berliner anticipates a full 2024 release. AR revolutionizes productivity on the go." TIME.

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