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Please join us for an exclusive event on Switzerland’s Digital Foreign Policy Strategy with Benedikt Wechsler, Consul General of Switzerland:

Thursday, Apr 22, 2021
4 PM – 5 PM PDT via Zoom

For the first time, the Swiss government has made digitalization a foreign policy priority.  Digitalization offers new opportunities for diplomacy, poverty reduction, and sustainable development. But there are also risks involved in the processing of vast amounts of data, the spread of fake news, and surveillance. By adopting the Digital Foreign Policy Strategy 2021–2024, the Federal Council is acknowledging digitalization as a thematic priority of Switzerland’s foreign policy.

The remarks by the Consul General will be followed by a moderated Q&A session.

About the speaker:
Benedikt Wechsler, PhD, serves as the Consul General of Switzerland in San Francisco.  He finished his studies in Business Administration and Political Science at the University of St. Gallen and joined the Swiss Foreign Ministry in 1996. He was posted to Swiss Missions at the UN and EU in New York and Brussels. He returned to Bern where he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and advised Swiss Presidents on diplomatic affairs. Under his leadership at the Swiss Embassy in Denmark from 2016-2019, he created the “Open Embassy and Pop-up Embassy” approach and strengthened science diplomacy with Greenland.

Please register here on Eventbrite.

This is an online event. You can access the Zoom event via the Eventbrite page or via the link in your ticket (sent by email after registration).

Town Hall Meeting

with Martin Naville, CEO, Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce

(register for this WEBEX Meeting by emailing events@amcham.ch with Name, Job title, Company, and Email address)

Dear members of the US Chapters,

We are going through interesting times. And we deeply miss physical meetings to discuss this.

For this reason, the Chairs of our US Chapter Boards have come up with the idea to start having a bi-annual town hall meeting across the Atlantic.

Program is simple: I will start laying out the current issues and priorities in the Swiss-US relationship and other issues on our plate.

Then the floor is open to questions and comments.

Goal is to bring the members of the various US Chapters closer together and to create a more intensive dialog with “the Headquarter”.

I am looking forward to meeting many of you on Webex on April 12.

Best wishes and please stay healthy.

Martin
CEO

Event Registration:

MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2021

ONLINE EVENT (WEBEX)
(Login link will be sent only to registered participants a few days prior to the online session)

5:30 P.M. UNTIL 6:30 P.M. CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME (CET)
8:30 A.M. UNTIL 9:30 A.M. PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME (PDT)

Registration to events@amcham.ch

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