{"id":4654,"date":"2019-10-03T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2019-10-02T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T14:48:45","slug":"interview-with-ivo-furrer-president-of-digitalswitzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/interview-with-ivo-furrer-president-of-digitalswitzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Ivo Furrer, president of digitalswitzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

digitalswitzerland wants to forge ahead with digitisation in Switzerland.\nMore than 130 prominent members, such as ABB, BMW, Google, IBM, the Swiss Post\nor Swisscom, now belong to the landmark initiative. At the end of 2018, Ivo\nFurrer assumed the post as president of digitalswitzerland. We talked with him\nabout digitalswitzerland and the digitisation.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The landmark initiative, digitalswitzerland, was founded in 2015 and\nconsists of more than 130 prominent members from industry, the public sector,\nand science, which have made it their goal to form Switzerland into a leading\nglobal digital innovation hub. Now, Ivo Furrer took over the post of president\nof digitalswitzerland and is therefore replacing his predecessor, Christian\nWenger. Between 2008 and 2017, Ivo Furrer led Swiss Life Schweiz as CEO. Prior\nto that, he worked at the Zurich and Winterthur Insurance Group as well as at Credit\nSuisse. He is still active on the supervisory board of Liechtenstein Financial\nMarket Supervisory Authority and sits on the administrative board of Julius\nB\u00e4r, Helvetia, responsibility, and Inventx. We met with him for an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Furrer, what fascinates you about this job?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am fascinated by the fact that with digitalswitzerland as the actual\nlandmark initiative \u2013 with supporters from industry, universities and colleges,\nthe federal government and cantons, as well as various interest groups \u2013 we\nwant to improve the requirements and framework conditions in Switzerland and\nsupport the various players in the digital environment \u2013 from startups to large\ncompanies \u2013 with targeted initiatives. Ultimately, the citizens of this\ncountry, whether as companies, managers or employees, should recognise\ndigitisation as an opportunity in order to benefit from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you become interested in the position as president of digitalswitzerland?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was a founding member of digitalswitzerland and have always advocated\nthe objectives and mission of the organisation to develop Switzerland into a\nhub for digital innovation with global significance. In addition, it is\nfascinating to follow \u2013 indeed to shape to some extent \u2013 the latest\ntechnologies, social and political trends surrounding digitisation and to\nsupport the cause of large, medium-sized, and small businesses with young\npeople through the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would you like to achieve in this position in the next three years?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a team, we want to continue to strengthen the position of the\nassociation all around digitalswitzerland \u2013 through the growth of the members,\nin large corporations, but also in the area of small and medium-sized\nbusinesses, as well as through the support of startups and \u201coccupation\u201d of\nrelevant topics in diverse industry groups, from finance to technology. The\nDigital Day as an absolute \u201cflagship project\u201d should be able to be expanded far\nbeyond the whole of Switzerland and relevantly appreciated by the general\npublic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your favourite app?              <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a few favourites apps \u2013 as a \u201cweather freak\u201d, I like Weather Pro and\nthe Landi app, but I really can no longer imagine by life without Netflix or\nSpotify as well. I communicate frequently and extensively with Whatsapp (in various\ndefined groups), and finally, I think Google Maps is a great invention when I\nwant to run or drive a route or towards a destination somewhere. But these are\njust a few examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for the interview, Mr Furrer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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digitalswitzerland wants to forge ahead with digitisation in Switzerland. More than 130 prominent members, such as ABB, BMW, Google, IBM, the Swiss Post or Swisscom, now belong to the landmark initiative. At the end of 2018, Ivo Furrer assumed the post as president of digitalswitzerland. We talked with him about digitalswitzerland and the digitisation. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Interview with Ivo Furrer, president of digitalswitzerland #interview #ivofurrer #digitalswitzerland #startupsch","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":928,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54Pb1-1d4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4656,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}