On Thursday, 27 May 2021 the Chamber organized a C-Forum in form of a discussion panel during which we had the pleasure to host Mr. Daniel Wocial, CEO The Adecco Group in Poland, Czech Republic and Mr. Paweł Panczyj, Strategy & Business Development Director in ABSL.
The discussion was inspired by the report ‘Year of Critical Changes to the Business Services Sector’.
It was a perfect occasion to exchange experiences connected with the pandemic and discuss expectations and perspectives of our member companies.
We would like to thank our guest speakers and participants for the inspiring discussion!
On Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 10:00 AM the webinar “Nearshoring to Poland as a way of increasing market competitiveness of your company” started, organized in English together with the member company Sii. The event, divided into 3 panels, was opened by Michał Stępień, President of the Polish-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, and the moderator was the Chamber’s Director, Ulrich Schwendimann.
EVENT’S RECORDING
The first panel panel was about “Poland as a nearshoring location. What are the factors you should take into consideration before choosing between different European destinations?”, and was discussed by Katarzyna Józefowicz (Credit Suisse), Paweł Fabryczewski (ABB) and Martin Geyer (SIX ).
In the second panel – “Benefits of building own SSC / ITO in Poland for a big and medium company – case study” – Peter Mitchell (ABB), Maciej Kulbat (Barry Callebaut) and Tomasz Leśniewski (Clariant) had the floor.
In the last panel “Nearshoring cooperation with Polish suppliers or external entities. What you should pay attention to when starting such cooperation?” Luis Pachas Pardo (Holcim Schweiz AG), Ben Grech (KPMG) and Ryszard Pytko (Sii) presented their insights.
336 participants, representing as many as 209 companies, signed up for the conference. The majority was from Poland – 193, and Switzerland – 119, for which we thank you.
We also thank the participants, speakers and institutional partners.
Institutional partners:
On Monday, March 8, at 1.00 p.m. the International Women’s Day began, organized jointly by 10 chambers of commerce, including the Polish-Swiss Chamber of Commerce.
As part of the event, as many as 4 discussion panels were held, during which topics such as work-life balance in times of a pandemic, the role of women in the technology industry, caring for our relations in the time of a pandemic, and networking, seen from an international perspective, were discussed. The panelists included representatives of the business, government sector and non-governmental organizations.
Over 100 participants accompanied us for 2 hours of the event, for which we would like to thank you.
We hope that the event fulfilled its role and was a great inspiration for women and not only women!
We would like to thank all the speakers, panelists, moderators and, of course, our sponsors.
People interested in the agenda are invited to the website of our calendar, and everyone to see photos from the event.
Thank you!
On January 14-17 we had the pleasure to take part in Swissbau fair in Basel, organized every two years. In the course of this fair, which is one of the biggest in the construction industry, more or less 100 000 attendees visited the stands of over 1 000 exhibitors. Polish presence was noticeable, including the presence of the Polish Construction Cluster., which organized the mission.
For members of the Cluster and other enterprises interested in the Swiss market, the Chamber, together with member companies present in Basel, organized workshops with the support of the Cluster and the Polish Investment & Trade Agency, which goal was to present the possibilities of operating on the Swiss market.
Below you will find the workshops program.
Partners:
On Thursday, January 28, at 6.00 p.m., the traditional, but first online New Year’s Meeting of members of the Polish-Swiss Chamber of Commerce began.
The recently established IMD Alumni Club Poland was partner of this year’s meeting.
The event started with a welcome by the President of the Chamber, Mr. Michał Stępień, and by the Guest of Honor, Mr. Juerg Burri, Swiss Ambassador to Poland.
Thanks to the cooperation with IMD Alumni Club Poland, we had the pleasure to listen to an extremely energetic and inspiring keynote performed by professor Susan Goldsworthy from IMD Business School “Leadership Myths and Hope in an Uncertain World”.
After a joint toast and voting, incl. on the slogan of the year and the likely winner of EURO 2021, participants had the opportunity to talk to each other in the networking part, as well as take part in games and quizzes.
Thank you very much to everyone who joined us.
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.
