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PIONEERS’N’
LEGENDS
«THE SPIRIT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP».
A PIONEERING SPIRIT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND INNOVATION
"Pioneers’n’Legends – The Spirit of Entrepreneurial Leadership" is an exclusive series of events initiated by the Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Zurich University of Applied Sciences in partnership with the Büro Züri of Zürcher Kantonalbank. Driven by entrepreneurial spirit and passion, we are turning the old fire station at Dübendorf air base into a place of inspired exchange for entrepreneurial innovators and founders.
OUR PIONEERS’N’LEGENDS
Pioneers’n’Legends
The keynote speakers are pioneers and legends in their respective fields. They are prepared to share their wealth of experience and provide new impulses and ways of thinking with people interested in founding a company, entrepreneurial innovators, and start-up founders.
THE EVENT
The topic of each evening event is related to the overall theme, "Entrepreneurial Leadership." In a keynote speech, the speakers talk about their insights and experiences concerning a specific focus topic. This is followed by a Q&A session.
UPCOMING SPEAKERS
TOBIAS
REIN (Fall 2020 - TBA)
Tobias Rein is one of the founders of the travel platform GetYourGuide. Born in Uster, he attended school at the cantonal school in Wetzikon before he started studying electrical engineering at the ETH. He broke off his subsequent PhD under Professor Lothar Thiele after a year and plunged into the adventure of young enterprise. Together with ETH students Johannes Reck, Tao Tao, Martin Sieber and Pascal Mathis, Tobias founded the start-up GetYourGuide.
Since 2009, GetYourGuide has grown into one of the world's largest platforms for booking tours and activities. Over 30 million tickets have already been sold. Today GetYourGuide is headquartered in Berlin and employs more than 600 people worldwide, 50 of them in Zurich. Over 650 million dollars have already been invested in GetYourGuide. The last round was one of the largest financial injections into a European startup in the travel industry with almost 500 million dollars. It also pushed the Swiss startup into the Olympus of the rare Unicorns.
Tobias Rein on LinkedIn
Focus topic: My point of no return
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PAST SPEAKERS
GIAN
SIMMEN (13.12.2019)
Gian Simmen became the first Olympic snowboarding champion in the halfpipe on 12 February 1998. In the pouring rain of Nagano, Japan, he surprisingly won the gold medal for Switzerland. When he travelled to Japan, he was still an unknown athlete, but in the following years he went on to influence halfpipe snowboarding considerably.
It was also thanks to him that snowboarding became socially acceptable. Gian Simmen won several World Cups during his career and was crowned World Champion in 2001 and 2002.
Despite various injuries, he fought his way back to the top again and again.
Today, he is a father of four working in marketing at Jungfrau Railways. In addition, he is a brand ambassador of various products and can be seen on Swiss TV as a snowboarding expert during competitions - and he still loves snowboarding as he did on the first day.
Gian Simmen on LinkedIn
Focus topic: What means success
KERSTIN
HUMBERG (30.10.2019)
Dr. Kerstin Humberg is the founder of Yunel, a start-up in Berlin. Since 2015, Yunel combines findings from happiness and brain research with strategic consulting to unleash human potential for positive social change.
At the same time, Kerstin leads the Positive & Social Business section at the German Society for Positive Psychology (the science of happiness and wellbeing)
Previously, Kerstin worked with McKinsey & Company, developing transformation strategies for clients in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East (2006-2014).
The former journalist is a renowned expert in social entrepreneurship and positive psychology. For her publications she has been awarded numerous prizes.
Dr. Kerstin Humberg on LinkedIn
Focus topic: Make happiness work
CHRISTIAN
REBERNIK (18.09.2019)
