On December 2 at 11.00 am the 10th jubilee edition of the Polish-Swiss Forum for Health Dialogue began. After the welcome by the Swiss Ambassador to Poland, Mr. Jürg Burri and the President of the Polish-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Michał Stępień, the conference participants had the opportunity to listen to the speakers from Poland and Switzerland:
We invite you to read the substantive summary of the event available at this link (in Polish).
The agenda of the event included the following points:
11:00 – 11:15
10th Anniversary Opening Ceremony
H.E. Mr Jürg Burri, Ambassador of Switzerland to Poland
Michał Stępień, President of the Polish-Swiss Chamber of Commerce
Anniversary Video: 10 years of Polish-Swiss Health Dialogue
11:15 – 11:45
Keynote Speech: Lessons learnt – Which gaps in the Polish and Swiss healthcare systems has COVID-19 helped identify?
Dr Lukas Engelberger, President of Switzerland’s Conference of Cantonal Health Directors
11:45 – 12:30
Panel discussion: Using the fast pace of digitalisation and the learnings from the pandemic for a more effective healthcare system
Dr Radosław Sierpiński, Head of Poland’s Medical Research Agency
Dr Regina Grossmann, Director of the Clinical Trials Center, Zurich University Hospital
Dr Marcin Kraska, Vice-President for Research and Development, Łukasiewicz Research Network
Prof. Adam Maciejczyk, Director of the Lower Silesian Oncology Center
Marta Wielondek, General Manager, Novartis Oncology Poland
Wiktor Janicki, General Manager, Roche Poland
12:30 – 12:40
Wrapping Up & Conclusions
Agnieszka Sznyk, Innowo
We would like to thank the Partners of the event:
Economic Outlook 2021 is behind us! On December 3, 2020, at 11.00, the 9th edition of the conference began.
At this year’s edition, we could listen to experts from mBank, Boyden Polska and Grant Thornton. The topic was the forecasts for 2021. both from a macroeconomic, regulatory and labor market perspective.
Their knowledge and experiences shared with us:
– Marcin Mazurek, Chief Economist, mBank – Keynote: Economic Outlook for 2021
– Zbigniew Płaza, Managing Partner, Boyden Poland – Reality after Covid-19 – New challenges on the labor market in Poland
– Marcin Diakonowicz, Partner, Head of Warsaw Audit, Grant Thornton – “Regulatory perspectives. What legal and institutional changes could rock your business in 2021. “
* You can see presentations prepared by experts by clicking on the title of the presentation.
After the official part, discussion sessions were held, during which participants could talk to experts. At the end, each participant could take part in networking and thus get to know and exchange contacts with other conference participants. Once again, we would like to thank all the Partners and Participants of Economic Outlook 2021 for being with us!
On November 19, the webinar Are Sustainable Solutions in Construction a Good Investment? was organized in cooperation with the member companies of the Polish-Swiss Chamber of Commerce: Geberit, Sika, WPIP and Zehnder. The event took the form of a discussion moderated by Mr. Janusz Starościk, President of the Association of Heating Appliances Producers and Importers in Poland, member of the expert group of the Swiss government agency Switzerland Global Enterprise, as well as co-creator of the TVN METEO program “Dobre Klimaty”.
Agenda:
Presentations (in Polish only):
Konrad Grabarek, Geberit – “Zrównoważone budownictwo a rozwiązania Geberit”
Paweł Marczyński, SIKA – “Niskoemisyjne żywice SIKA – posadzki, czy dzieło sztuki?” (video)
Janusz Signetzki, WPIP – “Od certyfikacji wielokryterialnej dla Smart Building Center po nowy, przejrzysty system certyfikacji ekologicznej Planet Friendly” (video)
Adam Świętochowski, Zehnder – “Produkty i Systemy Zehnder dla komfortowego, zdrowego i energooszczędnego klimatu wnętrz”
Moderated discussion
Q&A
The 5th edition of the Polish-Swiss Innovation Day took place on 3 November 2020.
The theme of the conference was “Sustainable Mobility”. Based on examples from Switzerland and Poland, mobility experts and policy makers discussed the key role of railways for sustainable transport of people and goods and for the economic development of metropolitan areas.
Content partners were companies: Hupac, Schindler, Stadler, Value Quest.
We would like to thank our partners for the cooperation and the numerous participants who attended the event online.
On the event homepage, you can now watch the conference recording as well as exclusive interviews with the speakers.
Together with the Embassy of Switzerland in Poland we organized a webinar as part of the conference cycle Polish-Swiss Forum for Health Dialogue on Successes and challenges during COVID-19 in Switzerland and Poland. Experience gained for future potential pandemics.
During the meeting we discussed:
– What are the lessons learned? Successes and challenges during COVID-19 Crisis from a health perspective.
– What might be the consequences for pharmaceutical industry dealing with future pandemic risks?
– International and multilateral: Strategic Health Policy Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis.
We would like to thank partners of the webinar: Roche and Novartis for the cooperation and participants of this event.
Please take a look at the history of the cycle, previous editions and press articles from the last webinar: https://forumdialogu.swisschamber.pl
On 15-17 September in Bielsko-Biała we had an opportunity to participate in the Energetab fair. Swiss Pavilion was organized for the eleventh time. The Pavilion is a joint initiative of Polish-Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Swiss Business Hub Central Europe within Swiss Embassy.
The Pavilion (Hall A, Stand 42) included stands of the following companies:
– Delta Electronics (Poland) Sp. z o.o.
– EMC-FORTO dystrybutor Ametek CTS
– EnerSys Sp. z o.o.
– EP&M
– Explosion Power
– Franz Elkuch AG
– Helmar Jacek A. Dobrowiecki dystrybutor Haefely Test AG
– Pfiffner
– TAT
– Wamtechnik
Coffee at the stand was served by Jura.
We would like to thank all exhibitors and visitors and invite you to the next edition of Energetab which will take place on 14-16 September 2021!
The New Year’s Meeting for the affiliated companies and friends of the Chamber was held on January, 23rd. This year’s meeting took place at Bristol Hotel in Warsaw.
We would like to thank the Ambassador Jürg Burri and the President of the Chamber Marek Szymański for opening the meeting.
Special thanks go to our partner of the event Bendura Bank AG.
It was a pleasure to spend this evening with our member companies- thank you all for coming!
On 28 November 2019 the next edition of Economic Outlook 2020 took place. Traditionally, the event was organised with Advantage Austria.
The conference was opened by Ernest Pytlarczyk, Chief Economist from mBank that told us what to expect in 2020.
The keynote was followed by a panel discussion with experts from different lines of business.
The following experts took part in the discussion: Anna Grosiak (Siemens), Dr Ewa Łabno-Falęcka (Mercedes-Benz), Zbigniew Płaza (Boyden), Marek Łuczak (Syngenta) and Jan Jarmul (Deloitte). During the discussion we were talking about ecology, renewable sources of energy, economic cars and their impact on environment and employee market.
After the panel discussion we organised a networking cocktail.
We would like to thank all experts for participation and interesting discussion. Special thanks go to partners of the conference: Boyden, Deloitte and mBank as well as to guests of the meeting.
On 28 November 2019 the next edition of Economic Outlook 2020 took place. Traditionally, the event was organised with Advantage Austria.
The conference was opened by Ernest Pytlarczyk, Chief Economist from mBank that told us what to expect in 2020.
The keynote was followed by a panel discussion with experts from different lines of business.
The following experts took part in the discussion: Anna Grosiak (Siemens), Dr Ewa Łabno-Falęcka (Mercedes-Benz), Zbigniew Płaza (Boyden), Marek Łuczak (Syngenta) and Jan Jarmul (Deloitte). During the discussion we were talking about ecology, renewable sources of energy, economic cars and their impact on environment and employee market.
After the panel discussion we organised a networking cocktail.
We would like to thank all experts for participation and interesting discussion. Special thanks go to partners of the conference: Boyden, Deloitte and mBank as well as to guests of the meeting.
