Webilea Digital Business Event

Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and the likes are ruling the world (at least the digital part of it). A closer look on the screen of our smartphones reveals a somehow different picture: Where do you buy your train ticket, look up the weather forecast or find the next best party? Right. All business is local and this is even more true since concerns about the concentration of data (and power) within few global players rise.

At this webilea event, you will find out more about why there is a reasonable chance that the next wave of digitization will be driven by local heroes and hear from entrepreneurs how they want to make their business case strive.

Programme

18:30 Doors open

18:45 Welcome and Intruduction

19:00 Presentations:

Implementing new digital business models is a complex venture on uncertain grounds, for local companies and multinationals alike. Philipp Bärfuss, the former CTO of Magnolia and founder of «woowai» and his business partner Christian Baechler, a digital marketeer and storyteller, will show why digital business ideas tend to fail and how proven methods can maximize the chances of success.

Jonas Schwarz will talk about his new venture, mask, a free app, which allows users to ask questions and receive answers from verified users. The startup capitalizes on mechanisms and the advantage of human swarm intelligence to allow people to ask and respond to questions anonymously.

Fabrizio Fracassi will present his participatory media and online networking application, Fuel, and tell us what it can do for education and personal training - as well as for fun.

20:00 Q/A and Discussion

20:30 Drinks & Networking

In English. Registration is free of charge but compulsory by 4 September. Online registration is here.

When: 6 September 2017

Where: SUD, Burgweg 7, 4058 Basel