A roundtable taking place in Geneva that may be of interest to readers:

Roundtable: The Future of Business: Focus on China

Tuesday 20 March 2007, 6 p.m.

Ramada Park Hotel, Avenue Louis-Casaï 75-77, Genève-Cointrin 1216

As part of the Future Series, the International University in Geneva, Geneva Women in International Trade and the Swiss-Chinese Chamber of Commerce present a roundtable:

With over one billion residents, China is the world’s biggest market. What are the cultural, political and economic challenges of doing business in China? What opportunities exist and “lessons learnt” that can be drawn from successful businesses in China?

Panel members:

– Phyllis Koessler, International Marketing Consultant, China and Asia Pacific Specialist

– Yuefen Li, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

– Hans J. Roth, Consul General, Consulate General of Switzerland in Hong Kong

Entry fee: 25 CHF (15 CHF for GWIT & SCCC members and IUN Alumni)

Register online:

http://www.iun.ch/index.cfm/en/iun/news_events/registrationform?id=45

Glenn

Arvetica, the Geneva business strategy consultants are offering an “Arveticast” (presentation and apero) on the evening of Thursday 1 March  2007 on the subject of “Second Life” – the new internet-based virtual world.

The agenda will be the following:

1. understand Second Life:

• what is it?
• who uses it?
• why is it so popular?

2. explore the Second Life business space:

• what are big companies doing there?
• what business opportunities can we imagine?
• what are the benefits and risks of being there as a company?

3. design a Second Life presence:

• how do you approach building a SL presence?
• what are some of the pitfalls

4. implement your Second Life presence:

• what resources do you need?
• which process could you use to establish a Second Life presence?

 Learn more about the event and register online here>>>

For those of you who couldn’t make it to LIFT07, catch up with the conference on the flow blog.

If you are interested in the area of evaluation, I presented a workshop at LIFT07 on “Do-It-Yourself Monitoring & Evaluation” – you can see the presentation slides here (pdf-690 kb).

Glenn

“Towards a new world governance: what role for Geneva?”In the context of its programme entitled “The Observatory”, the Fondation pour Genève is running a conference/debate together with the “Hebdo” in Zurich on 7 February 2007.The subject will be “Towards a new world governance: what role for Geneva?”. This first event of the Fondation pour Genève 2007 programme is to expose the people in Zurich to the new international paradigm shift in Geneva and to discuss the repositioning of Switzerland in the concert of nations.For further information, contact: info@fondationpourgeneve.ch

Patricia

LIFT 07,  a conference about the communications, new media, 7-9 February is nearly full. If you want to to the conference, highly recommended by the Geneva Communicators Blog, you might want to register now (only CHF 395).

Some of our favourite speakers:

 Sister Judith Zoebelein
Editorial director, Internet Office of the Holy See

Jaewoong Lee
Founder of Daum Communications Corp., Asia’s largest Internet platform

Check out the complete program here >>

Glenn
 

Arvetica, the Geneva business strategy consultants are offering an “Arveticast” (presentation and apero) on the evening of Thursday 15 February 2007 on the subject of the very popular business book “The long tail –  why the future of business is selling less of more”:

Alex (of Arvetica) will briefly explain the concept of the long tail and focus on its implications for executives and the businesses they manage. In a nutshell, the Long Tail explains that profits are increasingly made in a mass of niche markets as opposed to markets dominated by blockbuster products for mass markets.

Learn more about the event and register online here >>