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Speaker David Bosshart is CEO of GDI(Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute), which specializes in practical issues. The institution hones in on retail, economic, and social issues with ideas to advance your organization.
His background showcases his passion. Speaker David Bosshart has been involved in scientific research, retailing, communications, and marketing consulting. Today, he uses his area of expertise joined with his expert knowledge to fuel organizations.
Speaker David Bosshart is CEO of The GDI; The GDI is an independent European think tank, founded by European retail pioneer Gottlieb Duttweiler. This institute specializes in trend research, retail, economic, and social issues. It also offers strategic workshops, lectures, and conferences like the International Retail Summit, the European Foodservice Summit, and the European Trend Day. Some of the popular topics are changes in consumption patterns and behavior, innovation in retailing, and the service industry. It revolves around the simple advancements of an organization. The Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize is Switzerland’s most prestigious award for outstanding personalities, dedicated only every couple of years.
Bosshart completed his studies with a Ph.d. from the University of Zurich in philosophy and political theory. He has held many positions, including: head of the department of consumer research and social change at the GDI, head of strategic development, and director of the cultural and social section of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives. Speaker David Bosshart has been in his current for over 20 years and he gains continuous educational updates from Stanford University and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Speaker David Bosshart is the author of numerous publications and a speaker at international events in Europe, America, and Asia. His expertise focuses on consumption and consumerism, retail and supply chain, artificial and human intelligence, data wealth and data scarcity, globalization contradictions and political philosophy, management, and social change.
Keynotes
Keynoye by speaker David Bosshart:
Megatrends, Change, Globalization, and Politics
Economic and societal megatrends and countertrends
The future of trust. Don’t lose the most precious resource
The future of success: How management is going to change
Polarization shocks and the future of power: Experts, elites, populism, plutocracy
The Age of Less: Redefining wealth and wellbeing
Tribes: How social media are changing politics and society
Keynote by speaker David Bosshart:
Technology and Humans Man in the Digital Age
We are not running out of work – but digitization is changing learning, jobs and society
Data wealth between human and machine: How we stay productive in the future
High tech and high touch: How human needs are going to change in the digital age
Simplexity: Making things simpler in a complex world
Big data – deep emotions: How Amazon, Google, Facebook and Alibaba et al. are creating a new ecosystem for
businesses, consumers, and all of us
Digital ageing: How technology can help us to improve our life and age well
Smart home und smart living: New dimensions of living better with new technologies
Keynote by speaker David Bosshart:
Consumer Trends and Consumer Behavior, Retailing, Brands and Communication
The future of retail: We need retailing, not retailers
The future of communication: From information to participation to immersion
Redefinition of land use: Commercial space, working space and residential space
The future of brands, media, and communication
Food 2025: food trends between science and romance
The future of luxury: seduction, style, and individual differentiation
The slower you move, the faster you die: what the acceleration of just about everything means for retail and shopping
Keynote by speaker David Bosshart:
Society, Work and Leisure
Society in the 21 st century: tribal, segmented, fragmented?
Workstyle and lifestyle between IQ, AIQ and EIQ
Wellness and health 2030: the new techniques of happiness
Mobility 2025: more mobility, less traffic
Demography as our fate? Why an ageing society is good for us