Constituent meeting of EAER and DETEC Advisory Council on Digital Transformation

Bern, 12.06.2017 - On 12 June the Advisory Council on Digital Transformation met for its constituent meeting. The Council was set up and will be jointly chaired by President Doris Leuthard and Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann. Its purpose is to promote exchanges between actors from the fields of politics, business and science on key issues regarding digitalisation and will meet several times a year. The Council’s members include representatives from leading businesses, educational institutions and professional associations.

The digital transformation process offers great opportunities for our country – as well as fresh challenges. The Federal Council adopted the ‘Digital Switzerland’ strategy in April 2016 and work is in progress in many areas. The strategy places emphasis on the need to foster close dialogue between government actors and players from business, science and society.

As no suitable entity existed at the political level to identify and discuss developments in digital transformation and take up ideas, President Doris Leuthard, the head of the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications, and Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann, the head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research, took the decision to set up and jointly chair the EAER and DETEC Advisory Council on Digital Transformation.

At the Council’s first meeting the members put forward the key aspects they feel need to be addressed to harness the opportunities of digitalisation. The board then defined the issues to be focused on in the meetings to follow. In particular these include: attracting talent, establishing clusters, infrastructure and data issues, cyber security and regulatory policy.

The members of the Advisory Council on Digital Transformation are:

Jurgi Camblong Sophia Genetics, Lino Guzzella ETH Zurich, Christina Kehl Swiss Finance Startups, Andreas Kubli UBS, André Kudelski Innosuisse, Moritz Lechner Sensirion, Andreas Meyer SBB, Ruedi Noser Noser Management, Monika Rühl economiesuisse, Susanne Ruoff Post, Urs Schaeppi Swisscom, Roman Schafer ABB, Jürgen Schmidhuber IDSIA, Jean-Philippe Tripet Aravis, Martin Vetterli EPFL, Marc Walder Digital Switzerland, Patrick Warnking Google


Address for enquiries

Noé Blancpain,
Head of Information EAER
Tel. 078 748 61 63,
noe.blancpain@gs-wbf.admin.ch

Dominique Bugnon,
Head of Information DETEC
Tel. 079 367 08 43,
dominique.bugnon@gs-uvek.admin.ch


Publisher

Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research
http://www.wbf.admin.ch

Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications
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