Next lunchtime seminar – Mastering your Internet Strategy, Thursday 23 April 2015
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Next lunchtime seminar – 23 January 2015 on the laws of online communication
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We hope 2015 started off well for you and are to announce our first event for this year:
Lunchtime seminar – complying with the laws of online communication in 2015: is it possible and does it matter?
Date: Friday 23 January 2015
Time: 12h30 to 14h00
Location: The Swiss Press Club, Route de Ferney 106, La Pastorale, 1202 Geneva.
Fee: CHF 20.- per person includes drinks and snacks – payable at the door.
Online contracting, data protection and privacy, hacking, unfair marketing and targeted advertising, consumer laws and cookies, copyright infringement, social media: the online world is crowded with obscure, sometimes obsolete and complex regulations. Are such regulations efficient ? Is it even possible to do business online today without breaching the law ?
Michel Jaccard will speak about the difficult task of assessing and managing the legal risks associated with online activities, and share his substantial experience in supporting fast growing businesses and global brands navigate with the rules of law in an ever changing environment.
Places are limited due to the venue size, so please register early for the event.
About the speaker: Michel Jaccard, founder and partner at id est avocats, a corporate and technology law firm, has been practicing as a lawyer in the field of online communications, intellectual property, unfair competition and data protection and security for more than fifteen years in Switzerland and in the United States. He founded his own boutique law firm three years ago to assist entrepreneurs, startups, global brands and leading SMEs better understand the legal landscape in advanced technologies and support the growth of innovative business models. He has taught corporate, IP and IT law at several Swiss universities for several years and regularly gives lectures in Switzerland and abroad in the field.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Next GCN lunchtime event – Friday 31 October
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GCN lunchtime seminar wrap-up
Thanks to everyone who came out to the GCN lunchtime seminar last Thursday.
We would also like to thank Vincent Lusser for his interesting presentation about the challenges of communicating for urban planning Geneva. For those of you who weren’t able to make it to Acacias, you should have a look at the Pavillon Sicli. There’s a lot of information about what is being planned for Geneva, particularly the Acacias area and it’s a great venue for an event.
A few photos are also up on our Flickr page.
Please look out for our next event at the end of October on internet security.
Genevacom special lunchtime seminar – 18 September 2014
We are pleased to announce our next lunchtime seminar, Three Challenges of Communication for Urban Planning in Geneva, which will be held on 18 September at a special location, the newly designed Pavillon Sicli on Route des Acacias in Geneva.
Date: Thursday 18 September 2014
Time: 12h30 to 14h00
Location:
Pavillon Sicli, route des acacias 45, 1227 acacias, Geneva
Transport: Tram 15 from Nations & Cornavin, tram stop Jacques Pictet-Thellusson, closest parking: P+R Etoile
Fee: CHF 20*.- per person includes drinks and snacks – payable at the door.
With the construction of the CEVA rail link and ten priority development projects, Geneva is undergoing a process of major urban change with the aim of developing housing and transport infrastructure while preserving its natural environment and quality of life.
Our fellow GCN member Vincent Lusser, who is in charge of communication of urban projects for the Department of Town and Country Planning, Housing and Energy of the Canton of Geneva, will present what he sees as the three main communication challenges of urban planning.
This GCN lunch-time conference, takes place within the framework of the “Quinzaine de l’urbanisme – les grands projets pour Genève”, presented by the Department of Town and Country Planning, Housing and Energy of the Canton of Geneva, the School of Engineering, Landscape and Architecture – Geneva (hepia), as well as professional associations and institutions active in the field of architecture, urban planning and construction (FAI, FAS, FBA, FMB, FSU, MA, SIA).
This will also give members an opportunity to visit the exhibition, which will open to the public from 16 to 25 September 2014. A detailed programme of public conferences and round table discussions will be available early September on www.pavillonsicli.ch.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Wrap up – lunchtime seminar – 31 January 2014
Many thanks to the some 50 persons who participated in today’s lunch for a very interesting discussion on design and communications from Yona Lee. We look forward to seeing you at our next event!
Exploring new trends in communication design – lunchtime seminar, Friday 31 January 2014
We are pleased to announce our first event for 2014:
Lunchtime seminar – Exploring new trends in communication design
Date: Friday 31 January 2014
Time: 12h30 to 14h00
Location: The Swiss Press Club, Route de Ferney 106, La Pastorale, 1202 Geneva.
Fee: CHF 20*.- per person includes drinks and snacks – payable at the door.
What are the most recent developments in communication design? Are they seismic shifts or as transient as a hot meme? Yona Lee will explore these developments and the relationship between communication and design in her presentation.
Places are limited due to the venue size, so please register early for the event.
About the speaker:
Yona Lee, owner and art director at Yona Lee SA, a Lausanne based creative studio, has developed communication designs for amongst others Nestlé, Canal+ and The Mava Foundation. Prior to establishing her own company she gained recognition as the designer behind the visual identity for Lausanne Metro. Passionate about design, she is also an adjunct professor at the International University in Geneva and participated as a jury member for GRAND 2013 (formerly Grand Prix Romand de la Création).
*Entry price in 2014 has been raised due to increased costs of hiring the venue.
We look forward to seeing you there.
GCN lunchtime seminar – Friday 1 November 2013
We are pleased to announce our next Lunchtime seminar – Communicating public-private partnerships.
Date: Friday 1 November 2013
Time: 12h30 to 14h00
Location: The Swiss Press Club, Route de Ferney 106, La Pastorale, 1202 Geneva
Fee: CHF 15.- per person includes drinks and snacks – payable at the door
Corporate engagement is a subject creating a lot of buzz from both sides of the fence – companies and NGOs. Today, it has evolved from being a “cost” to more sophisticated forms of engagement such as public-private partnerships (PPPs). The management of communications becomes therefore more complex and demands skills beyond traditional communications toolkits. This presentation will focus on the processes and new skills needed to develop and implement effective communications strategies around the partnerships involving actors from both the private and public sectors. It will be presented by two speakers from the the Advocacy & International Affairs Executive Certificate offered by the Graduate Institute in Geneva.
Places are limited due to the venue size, so please register early for the event.
About the speakers:
Christophe Lecureuil has 20 years of public affairs and communications experience at corporate, institutional, agency and NGO level. Before joining Leidar, he served a Corporate Communications Manager for the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, as well as held European and International Public Affairs functions at McDonald’s and Yum! Brands. He is a French national and holds Master’s Degrees in Political Science and International Affairs. He sits on the Advisory Boards of the African Press Organization and is the Director of European Centre for Public Affairs in Geneva.
Lukasz Bochenek is a consultant at Leidar and leads Leidar Insights. He works on strategic client consultancy projects and analysis at an international level. In addition, he is Programme Manager of the Executive Certificate Advocacy in International Affairs. He is also teaching in the programme on social media in advocacy strategies. Lukasz has a PhD in management studies. His research focuses on the role of organizational learning and Corporate Social Responsibility in corporate communication strategic management. He holds also M.A degree in communication from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Lunchtime seminar wrap-up
Thanks to the 50+ communicators who attended our lunchtime seminar last Friday on Storytelling: tool or trend? by Kami Lamakan, from The Loop Agency.
Kami opened by talking about the power of stories; how they can explain why we do what we do, give people purpose, make sense of complexity and bring strategy to life.
He went on to explain how stories can bridge the gap between the communications function and the general communications taking place across the organization.
Perhaps most powerfully, he demonstrated the role of storytelling by including several of his own within his presentation and showing us a stunning example storytelling in practice through a video kindly shared with permission from one of his clients.
Some photos of the event are also available on our Flickr stream, accessible on the right side bar of this page.
Stay tuned for upcoming workshops and another lunch event before the summer break.
Patricia, Melitta, and Glenn
Sold out – Lunchtime seminar 19 April 2013
Our lunchtime seminar “Storytelling – trend or tool”, 19 April 2013 with Kami Lamakan is now sold out – we’ve reached the capacity for our venue.
If you missed out on this one, we look forward to seeing you at our next event!