Main partners

With revenue of CHF 7.2 billion for the first three quarters of 2006 and a workforce of 16'875 full-time employees, the Swisscom Group is Switzerland's leading telecoms company. Swisscom is present nationwide, delivering all services and products for mobile, fixed and IP-based voice and data communications.

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The charter of GEBERT RÜF STIFTUNG founded in 1997 states the foundation’s purpose as “driving Switzerland as a site for economic activities and as an attractive place to live“. It has an annual grant budget of around 10 million Swiss francs. The foundation supports projects at Swiss universities and other institutions of higher learning by promoting innovation through funding new approaches and thus fostering the development of promising next-generation academics. The focus and criteria are on effective, high quality initiatives. Although the foundation is not running the projects, it takes an active part in the project design and implementation.

1875 Is one of Geneva's major independent financial institutions specialized in private wealth management and multi-family office services.

1875 can help you:
• coordinate your banking matters efficiently through a single contact point
• ensure the proper management of your private assets without conflict of interest thanks to our open architecture strategies and network

1875 has been founded by five portfolio management professionals who share the same philosophy and many years of past banking experience at the same financial institution

Partners

The Pour-cent culturel is a voluntary engagement by Migros in domains like culture, society, education, leisure and economy. With it's institutions, projects and activities, the Pour-cent culturel allows a large part of the population to access cultural and social activities.

BCCC is an independent Swiss law firm with offices in the two major business centers of Western Switzerland: Geneva and Lausanne. BCCC brings together qualified professionals with an international background and complementary expertise. BCCC has been recommended for its Technology, Media & Telecoms practice in the Global 2007 edition of the Chambers Guide, an authoritative legal guide of lawyers and law firms worldwide. Click here to read more.

A universal bank, Banque Cantonale de Genève aims to contribute to the development of the Canton of Geneva and the surrounding area by offering competitive banking services to all residents and to all businesses and institutions. It has the most tightly-knit banking network in the area with 25 branches and 67 ATM. BCGE offers corporate banking services, wealth management, financial market and international trading services, as well as Internet banking (www.bcge.ch).

Zurich provides investments, protection and pensions and is part of one the world's leading financial services organisations

Rezonance is the leading social network for business, people and knowledge in Switzerland since 1998 and organiser of First Tuesday in the French speaking Switzerland gathering more than 20'000 entrepreneurs.

Nearly 35 conferences are organized each year in collaboration with the Institutes of higher formation such as FPSL, IMD and the 4 French Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Freiburg, Neuchâtel and in Wallis, with an average audience of 250 people on themes such as innovation, technology, SME, sustainable development and culture.

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.

No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. We offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers' specific needs.

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Media partners

GenevaLunch is the Lake Geneva region's new online "daily" with news and information in English. GL was born at the Lift06 conference. It is a blog-based community service site.

Swiss daily newspaper edited in Geneva, founded in march 1998. The first number was edited on March 18, 1998. Le Temps is the reference newspaper in Suisse romande.

Academic partners

EPFL is one of the two Ecoles Polytechniques fédérales in Switzerland. Like its sister institution, ETHZ, it has three missions: education, research and technology transfer at the highest international level. Associated with several specialised research institutes, the two EPFs form the EPF domain, which is directly dependent on the Federal Department of Home Affairs.

EPFL, in its idyllic location on the shores of Lake Geneva, brings together a campus of more than 10,000 people. By its novel structure, the school stimulates collaboration between students, professors, researchers and entrepreneurs. These daily interactions give rise to new and groundbreaking work in science, technology and architecture.

At the dawn of the 21st century business schools are facing immense challenges in all their various areas of competence which encompass teaching, research, and the handing-on of knowledge, links with other institutions and the globalization of economic and social phenomena. In these fields, HEC Lausanne is determined to make a significant contribution to extending the frontiers of knowledge and expertise in our economy and in our world, and to do so with a firmly international perspective.

Lausanne is at the heart of Europe - a crossroads of different cultures and new ideas - where HEC Lausanne sees itself as an avant-garde faculty of the University of Lausanne and the Swiss university network. HEC has an excellent academic reputation, delivers high-quality teaching, carries out creative and innovative research, develops partnerships with prestigious institutions and is firmly oriented towards the future in linking theoretical knowledge to practical skills. HEC applies all of these to each of itsprincipal areas of competence, namely Actuarial Science, Economics, Finance, Management and Information Systems.

From the time of its creation in 1559 by Jean Calvin, right up to the recent discovery by University astrophysicists of extrasolar planets, the University of Geneva has continued to grow and develop while maintaining its longstanding tradition of excellence with an international angle.

The University of Geneva is the second largest university in Switzerland and is a public institution of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. It pursues three missions: Teaching (classes are, in general, taught in French), research, and service to the wider community.

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Benchpoint offers full consultancy services on every aspect of internet-based surveys and polling.

Our unique system carries out beautiful surveys, with real time results, plus more intricate measurements in the corporate and Government sectors: organisation effectiveness; communications effectiveness, HR , safety and compliance audits; 360 degree feedback.

Our teams are expert in HR, corporate communication, management consultancy, international marketing, marketing communications and statistical analysis.