SFA-AM - Strategic Focus Area Advanced Manufacturing
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Launch Event

Industry - the Basis for Prosperity
What can politics, science and industry do to avoid a de-industrialization in Switzerland and in Europe?
Monday, 13 November 2017, Eventforum Bern
Topic
Industry is an important factor for the prosperity in Europe and beyond, which creates an enormous value, about 28% of the Swiss GDP. However, the number of employees working in industry in Europe has dropped by 16% since 2000.

In addition, manufacturing is currently undergoing a revolution, which in a few words can be summarized as a new level of linkage between computers, data, and things, which, in turn, is driving radical innovations in how things are made. These developments are critical to Swiss industry.

The Strategic Focus Area “Advanced Manufacturing” of the ETH Domain aims at enabling Switzerland’s scientific and technical community to contribute at the most advanced level to these developments. However, the topic of this event goes far beyond this research program. We will discuss what politics, science and industry can do to avoid a de-industrialization in Switzerland and in Europe.
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Launch Event Invitation
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List of Participants
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Press Release
Impressions
130 executives from politics, science and industry attended the SFA-AM launch event in Berne and followed the exciting and diversified program of speeches, panel discussions, poster sessions and networking opportunities. The photos below will give you some impressions of the event.
Program
13:00
Registration and get together
14:00
Welcome and introduction
  • Opening Speech: Federal Councilor Johann Schneider-Ammann
  • Strategic Focus Areas: Dr. Fritz Schiesser, President ETH Board
  • SFA Advanced Manufacturing: Dr. Lars Sommerhäuser, Program Manager SFA-AM
14:30
Talks and Presentations
  • Politics and Science Perspective: Prof. Dr. Gerd Folkers, President SSIC
  • Swiss Industry Perspective: Jean-Pascal Bobst, CEO Bobst
  • International Perspective: Peter Pirklbauer, Innovation Manager Airbus
15:30
Coffee break
15:45
Panel Discussion
  • Jean-Pascal Bobst, CEO Bobst
  • Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona, Director Empa
  • Prof. Dr. Lino Guzzella, President ETH Zürich
  • Hans Hess, President SWISSMEM
  • Peter Pirklbauer, Innovation Manager Airbus
  • Prof. Dr. Martin Vetterli, President EPFL
16:30
Apéro and Networking
17:30
End of the event
Presentations / Information
sfa-am-launch_03_schiesser.pdf
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sfa-am-launch_06_bobst.pdf
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airbus-3d-printing.pdf
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Speakers
Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann
Dr. Fritz Schiesser President ETH Board
Dr. Lars Sommerhäuser, Program Manager SFA-AM
Prof. Dr. Gerd Folkers, President SSIC
Jean-Pascal Bobst, CEO Bobst
Peter Pirklbauer, Innovation Manager Airbus
Panelists
Jean-Pascal Bobst, CEO Bobst
Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona, Director Empa
Prof. Dr. Lino Guzzella, President ETH Zürich
Hans Hess, President SWISSMEM
Peter Pirklbauer, Innovation Manager Airbus
Prof. Dr. Martin Vetterli, President EPFL
Moderation
Gill Parker, former Editor and Producer at BBC, ABC News and CNBC
An initiative of the ETH Board
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  • Home
  • Focus Areas
    • Focus Areas 2017-2020 >
      • Precision Free-Form Manufacturing
      • Printed Electronics
      • Sustainable Digital Manufacturing and Design
      • Sensing Technologies
      • Intelligent Systems and Advanced Automation
    • Focus Areas 2021-2024 >
      • Manufacturing Technologies
      • Functionality Integration
      • Sensing Technologies
      • Intelligent Systems and Advanced Automation
  • Projects
    • Projects Initial Program 2017-2020 >
      • Ceramic X.0
      • FUORCLAM
      • Powder Focusing
      • PREAMPA
      • FOXIP
      • CFRP-AM
      • SD4D
    • Projects Expansion Program 2017-2020 >
      • D-SENSE
      • MOCONT
      • Nano Assembly
      • SOL4BAT
    • Projects Program 2021-2024 >
      • AMYS
      • ClosedLoop-LM
      • DiPrintProtect
      • MANUFHAPTICS
      • Microfluidics
      • Multi-Mat
      • SCALAR
      • SMARTAM
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      • Workshop 13 July 2020
      • Launch Event 13 Nov 2017
      • Workshop 6 July 2017
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