On 5 November 2019, the Institute of Technology Management will host the first St. Gallen Blockchain Roundtable in Zurich. The one-day event will offer its participants the opportunity to deeply immerse into the topic of decentralized platforms and their profound implications for various industries and business models. In the future, companies will engage in cross-industry platform ecosystems in order to offer a superior value proposition. However, these ecosystems must be orchestrated in a decentralized, democratized manner – or otherwise risk dependencies on central platform players such as Google, Amazon and Uber. Success will be determined by whether companies a) understand new, enabling technologies (i.e. DLTs) and b) add new inventive mechanisms to the long-standing ones (e.g. coopetition). 

 

Numerous high-profile speakers will offer their take on the topic. Among others, there will be keynote speeches by: 

 

 

Interested? Visit our website and register today for an intense and thought-provoking day!