Geneva – UN Designers Lunch – Monday 5 October 2015
For those working in the UN and design, the next UN Designers Lunch has been announced for Monday 5 October – see full details below.
Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 September, Lausanne – Visual language and graphic facilitation workshop
An interesting forthcoming workshop in Lausanne:
Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 September, Lausanne – Visual language and graphic facilitation workshop – with Sarah Clark
An introduction to the techniques of using hand-drawn visuals in a range of professional contexts, including group facilitation, coaching and training. You will learn the basics of visual language and how to use a mix of simple drawings, colour, words and metaphors to develop and share ideas, record presentations and meetings, and engage and energize groups.
Thinking that you can draw is absolutely not a prerequisite— if the techniques interest you and you’re prepared to experiment, please join us. We will spend a large proportion of the day practising and sharing within the group. Engage both your right and your left brain and have fun!
The deadline for registration is 24 August.
Digital Transformation conference Lausanne – 22 June 215
Digital Transformation – Women in Digital Switzerland is organising a conference on Digital Transformation in Lausanne on Monday 22 June from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM featuring Aurore Gailing, Digital Marketing and E-Commerce Manager at Nespresso Switzerland.
The event will be held at the Worknshare space, rue du liseron 7, in Lausanne and promises to provide participants with an opportunity to learn more about a key topic for all marketers. As Altimeter defines it, the Digital Transformation is the “realignment of, or new investment in, technology and business models to more effectively engage digital customers at every touchpoint in the customer experience lifecycle” Brian Solis adds that companies need to think of Digital Transformation as a “formal effort to renovate business vision, models, and investments for a new digital economy”.
About the speaker:
After several years working as an account manager at McCann Worldgroup, Aurore Gailing joined Nestlé as a marketing manager for the Swiss customer loyalty program MONDO. While working at Nestlé, she developed the e-commerce website and digital content strategy and operations. After another position held at the prestigious Digital Accelaration Team, Aurore continued specialising with digital among other brands of the Nestlé Group, such as Cailler, Nescafé, Buitoni until she was appointed as Nespresso Switzerland’s Digital Marketing and E-Commerce Manager.
UX Lausanne – Creating delightful User Experiences 4-5 June 2015
UX Lausanne – Creating delightful User Experiences (2 days – 8 talks – 8 workshops)
Date: June 4–5, 2015
Location: Palais de Rumine – Place de la Riponne 6, Lausanne
UX Lausanne is the first Western Switzerland event dedicated to user experience design: how to design delightful user experiences. The annual conference gathers major actors and specialists in the field of communication and design. The two day program (conference and workshops) provides a platform with opportunities to develop local and international connections, as well as sharing new ideas.
Speakers and topics include:
Stephen P. Anderson – ” Hooked on a feeling”
Elizabeth Buie – “We are all stakeholders”
Johanna Kollmann – “Sense-making for digital products”
Sarah Horton and David Sloan – “Empathy, education and excellence in inclusive design”
Antonio De Pasquale – “Fading money”
Donna Lichaw – “A narrative approach to building successful products and services”
Zahida Huber – “The risks and benefits of building trust”
Cennydd Bowles – “The ethical designer”
Benoit Pointet – “From Analytics Data to User Insights: how to get beyond Google analytics”
Andrea Resmini – Keynote Speech “When information bleeds everywhere and our digital and physical spaces become one and the same, how do we behave as designers and architects”
TEDxLausanneWomen – 28 May 2015
TEDxLausanneWomen will be held on Thursday 28 May 2015 from 18h00 to 22h00 at the Casino de Montbenon in Lausanne. This is the first event for TEDxLausanneWomen
and has been planned to coincide with TEDWomen 2015, which will be streamed live from Monterey, California. The three hour programme on the theme of Momentum will blend local and international talks with an opportunity to meet challenging and interesting women from around the world.
Location: Casino de Montbenon, Allée Ernest-Ansermet 3,1003 Lausanne
Time: 18h00 to 22h00
Language: English and French (without interpretation)
Program
- 18:00 – 18:30 Registration
- 18:30 – 19:30 Five live speakers
- 19:30 – 20:00 Break – networking with drinks & nibbles
- 20:00 – 21:30 Live streaming of TEDWomen session 2 from California
- 21:30 – 22:00 Closing
Crowdsourcing Week Summit Geneva – 26 May 2015
The Crowdsourcing Week Summit will take place in Geneva on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM at the Uptown Geneva (Rue de la Servette 29). Swiss and international speakers will gather in Geneva for this one-day conference to share how crowdsourcing is shaping their industries and is transforming organizations today. Hear from 15+ crowdsourcing industry experts and client side advocates proving how crowdsourcing can truly reinvent the way you do business.
What to Expect:
–The summit will be an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas and knowledge with Switzerland’s innovators and change makers.
–There will be prizes, competitions and plenty of tools and techniques to ensure your networking is as targeted and beneficial as possible.
— A live scribe will capture the ideas flowing through the day in real time.
–CSW Summit Geneva will beam via multiple social media channels all captured beautifully on Brandwatch’s Vizia platform.
–Everything you would expect from a Crowdsourcing Week Conference!
“Reputation is not something you manage, t’s the result of what you do”.
Dr Anne Gregory is Professor of Corporate Communication at the University of Huddersfield and current Chair of the Global Alliance, the world-wide body of over 60 national and international public relations associations which is a recognised NGO by the UN. During a recent visit to Switzerland, Dr Gregory addressed Swiss PR professional at the AGM of Prsuisse in Zurich. During her visit, Dr Gregory was interviewed by Marion Starck of Starck Public Relations. Below is an excerpt of the interview, with a link to the full article.
According to Anne Gregory, the PR profession is facing nothing less than a paradigm shift. In her presentation, Dr Gregory showed how over 80% of their organisations’ value is comprised of the sum-total of their intangible assets and how communicators should see it as their primary role to interpret and redefine the issues that surround them, thus enabling effective communication throughout their organisations.
Next Geneva UN designers group meeting
The next lunch meeting of the UN Geneva designers community is planned for 20 May 2015 hosted by OCHA. The meeting is an informal gathering open to graphic designers and visual experts working in the UN to discuss opportunities and challenges.
For more info, contact: jesus.vicente@itu.int or visit the Facebook page.
Different approaches to design in response to crisis situations – international organizations
As part of the Certificate of advanced Studies « Visible or invisible: design in international organizations », Ruedi Baur, and the University of Art of Geneva (HEAD – Genève) in partnership with The Graduate Institute Geneva (IHEID) have organised a series of lectures on the issues of representation and design of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations; a series of 10 seminars to better understand issues of images and communication at a global level and to decode interactions between citizens and organizations.
Next one will be the sixth seminar:
Different approaches to design in response to crisis situations
16-17 April 2015, UNHCR, Rue de Montbrillant, Geneva.
This seminar will bring together and analyse the various exemplary projects carried out by designers for humanitarian organizations and other NGOs, and will present the places where research and other experiments are being conducted around the world. Various approaches will be considered, not in order to contrast them, but to assess their relevance in response to the various issues. Analysis of work commissioned, or not commissioned, from designers will allow needs to be assessed and, perhaps, the reasons for certain failures to be understood. The first day of the seminar will consist of a succession of case studies, each lasting 20-30 minutes. The examples will be chosen to show a broad range of approaches and issues. Designers will present their projects in dialogue with their clients, to reveal both the benefits and the drawbacks of each experience. These examples will be enriched by others that concern social sectors but are not actually work commissioned by NGOs. The second day will be devoted to analysis of these cases. Guest observers will endeavour to draw conclusions.
Registration and further information:
Salon eCom Geneva 21 & 22 April 2015
The annual Salon eCom will be held at Palexpo in Geneva on 21 & 22 April.
eCom is the largest professional gathering dedicated to web, eCommerce , mobile and digital marketing in Suisse Romande. The 4th edition was held on April 29 , 2014. 2,600 trade visitors were able to come to the meeting with 160 companies (75% in Switzerland , 25% foreign), attending 60 thematic conferences.
IT’s a meeting for leaders, digital managers, web and mobile managers , eCommerce , eBusiness , marketing and communication , IT managers and more.