How Finance Enables Positive Change

Date06 Oct 2022
Temps13:00 - 17:50
LieuLake Side, Zurich & online

Hybrid Event

  • Online participants: Please use the following link to join the conference virtually: 
    https://slidesync.com/21BNPeQk3y
  • On site participants: Door Opening: 12:15h, Lake Side, Bellerivestrasse 170, 8008 Zurich.

The past three years have seen a pandemic, war in Europe, a surge in inflation, and a record for greenhouse gas emissions and concentrations. These overwhelming events reveal that the need for positive change is more acute than ever. And the Swiss financial sector is increasingly looking for sustainable solutions—from regulation to investing to financing—to speed up the positive trends that have been developing over the last decade. In partnership with Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF) and in association with Building Bridges (BB), the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) is holding a high-profile conference on 6 October 2022 in Zurich to examine the new challenges we face and to explore what solutions need to be developed and what actions need to be undertaken to achieve a more sustainable society.

 

You can find the SFI Public Discussion Note here: 
English I French I German I Italian.

Program

12:15

Doors Open, Registration, and Sandwiches

13:00 Welcome Note
Hannah Wise, Moderator
13:05

Short Interview with Representatives of SFI and of SSF
Prof. François Degeorge, Managing Director, SFI, and
Sabine Döbeli, CEO, SSF,
moderated by Hannah Wise

Thematic Session "Governance and Regulation"

13:10

Presentation of the SFI Public Discussion Note on "Sustainable Finance in a Shifting World Order"
SFI Prof. Alexander F. Wagner, Senior Chair, SFI, and Professor of Finance, University of Zurich

13:25

Presentation II: Regulation and the Customer―A Bank's Reality Check
Alexandra Lau, Member of the Management Board, Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank 

13:40

Presentation III: Sustainability in Talent Management
Dr. Stefan Seiler, Group Head Human Resources, UBS AG

13:55

Joint Q&A

14:10

Break and Refreshments

Thematic Session "Sustainable Investing"

14:35

Presentation I: Should Finance Really Be Sustainable?
SFI Prof. Laurent Frésard, Senior Chair, SFI, and Professor of Finance, Università della Svizzera italiana

14:50

Presentation II: Leveraging Catalytic Capital for Sustainable Investing and Development
Jaffer Machano/Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary, United Nations Capital Development Fund

15:05

Presentation III: Navigating the Net Zero Transition from an Investor’s Perspective
Dr. Mirjam Staub-Bisang, Country Head of BlackRock Switzerland and Senior Advisor to BlackRock Sustainable Investing

15:20

Joint Q&A

15:35

Break (B.R.A.I.N. Up Vital Session) and Refreshments

Thematic Session "Sustainable Financing"

16:00

Presentation I: Sustainable Lending―Where Do We Stand?
Dr. Julia Meyer, Senior Lecturer and Researcher, ZHAW and UZH

16:15

Presentation II: Energy Efficiency and Mortgage Lending
Oliver Buschan, Head of Retail Banking & Capital Markets and Member of the Executive Board, Swiss Bankers Association

16:30

Presentation III: How We Can Contribute to Positive Change
Oliver Führes, Head of Institutional Clients, Zürcher Kantonalbank

16:45

Joint Q&A

Panel
17:00

Panel Discussion
Urs Baumann, CEO, Zürcher Kantonalbank,
Jos Dijsselhof, CEO, SIX,
Patrick Odier, Senior Managing Partner, Lombard Odier Group, and
Prof. Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR, 
moderated by Hannah Wise

17:45

Closing Remarks
Hannah Wise, Moderator

17:50 Aperitif

 

The event will be moderated by Hannah Wise, business journalist.

Registration

Register now for the conference and join us either in person at the Lake Side in Zurich or in the live stream. The conference will be held in English and participation is free of charge (on site and online). If you are considering physical attendance on site, please note that we only have a limited number of seats available. Seats will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Please note that this is a public event and photographs will be taken.

Conference Organized in Partnership with Swiss Sustainable Finance and in Association with Building Bridges

 

Lake Side Zurich

Lake Side, Bellerivestrasse 170, 8008 Zürich

From Zurich main station take tram line 4 to the stop "Fröhlichstrasse". From Paradeplatz take tram line 2 to the stop "Fröhlichstrasse".

The nearest car park is Zurichhorn, Dufourstrasse 142, 8008 Zurich.