Speakers
CLTR 2024 will bring together an exciting variety of thought leaders and innovators, who will light up the stage with their knowledge, experience and passion. From renowned experts to up-and-coming visionaries, come along on 5 November and discover the voices inspiring the present and shaping the future.
Alex Meszmer
Image creation panel
Alex Meszmer (born in 1968) is an artist and curator. Since 2005, he has been working with his partner Reto Müller as an artist duo on a digital archive and ever-changing museum of the village of Pfyn. He also occasionally explores the beauty of democracy. From 2007 to 2019, Meszmer was a member of the Central Committee of Visarte. From 2008 to 2011, he was a member of the Executive Committee of IAA Europe and, from 2015 to 2019, he was Vice President of Culture Action Europe. Since 2020, he has been working as Managing Director of Suisseculture and as a part-time artist.
Alexander Cuntz
Panel film
Alexander Cuntz heads up the Creative Economy Section of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. Previously, he worked as a Senior Consultant at the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI) in Berlin and as a Research Fellow at the European Commission in Seville. His research focuses on creativity, the importance of intellectual property rights for the creation and distribution of new works, and studies on the economic impact of digitalisation and technological change on the creative and cultural industries. Recent studies include WIPO Economic Research Working Papers and Creative Economy Notes.
Andreas Wegelin
Panel music
Andreas Wegelin studied musicology, art history and law. Since 1987, he has worked for SUISA, the Swiss Society for the Rights of Authors of Musical Works. He has been its CEO since 2010. In 2017, SUISA co-founded Joint Venture Mint Digital Services together with the US music licensing organisation SESAC to manage copyright in the online distribution of music (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Netflix, etc.). Since then, he has chaired the joint venture. He participates in national and international umbrella organisations and cultural foundations.
Anna Pieri Zuercher
Balthasar Glättli
Music panel
Balthasar Glättli (born in 1972) grew up in the Zurich Oberland and has lived in Zurich since university. He studied philosophy and German linguistics and literature and later worked for seven years in the IT sector and another seven as the managing director of an NGO. He has been a member of the National Council since 2011 and was President of the Swiss Green Party from 2020 to 2024. He has represented the Green Party in the National Council’s Political Institutions Committee since 2011, except in 2022–2023 when was a representative on the Economic Affairs and Taxation Committee. Balthasar Glättli lives in Zurich with his wife and daughter.
Beat Jans
Opening
Beat Jans was born in 1964 in Riehen, Basel-Stadt. After completing an apprenticeship as a farmer, he graduated as an environmental scientist from ETH Zurich and is a certified agrotechnician. From 1987 to 1989, he worked for the independent development organization Helvetas in Haiti and Paraguay. After his graduation in 1994, he worked as an environmental and communications consultant, lectured at the University of Basel, and was involved with the nature conservation organization Pro Natura. Jans served as president of the Basel-Stadt social democratic party and was a member of the cantonal parliament. From 2010 to 2020, he was a member of the National Council and vice president of the Swiss social democratic party, and later the president of Basel-Stadt cantonal council. The United Federal Assembly elected him to the Federal Council on December 13, 2023. Since January 1, 2024, he has headed the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP). (Photo: Béatrice Dévenes / Bundeskanzlei))
Bernard Maissen
Input round
Bernard Maissen has been the Director General of the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) since 1 July 2020. Prior to this, he was the Vice Director General and headed up OFCOM’s Media Division for a good two years. A native speaker of Romansh, Bernard Maissen studied German language and literature, history and journalism at the University of Fribourg and then worked in various roles as a journalist and editor-in-chief. Before moving to OFCOM, he was the editor-in-chief and a member of the management of the Swiss News Agency (sda) for 12 years. He served on the board of the international agency network MINDS International for several years and sat on the programme committee of the Swiss School of Journalism (MAZ) in Lucerne. From 2013 until he joined OFCOM, he was a member of the Federal Media Commission (FMEC).
Bruno Zgraggen
Image creation panel
*1975. As an economic and perceptual psychologist, Zgraggen has been active in qualitative and quantitative market and opinion research for 20 years. He studied psychology at the University of Zurich (lic. Phil. I; main subjects – statistics, neuropsychology and communications). He lectures on market analysis, research methods and visual cognition at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, F+F School of Art and Design, Zurich, and Zurich University of the Arts. He is a member of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA).
Carine Bachmann
Input round
Carine Bachmann holds a Master’s degree in social psychology, film studies and international law from the University of Zurich. She began her professional career at the international film and video festival VIPER in Lucerne. She later worked as a communications manager and project manager in social work, while simultaneously conducting academic research. In 2001, she co-founded CIMERA, a development cooperation and conflict prevention organisation in the Caucasus and Central Asia, which she also headed until 2009. In 2009, Carine Bachmann started working for the City of Geneva and became head of its culture department in 2011. She has been Director of the Federal Office of Culture since 1 February 2022. (Photo: KEYSTONE/Alessandro della Valle)
Catherine Chammartin
Input round
Catherine Chammartin is the Director General of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI). At international level, she is a member of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg) in Munich. She obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Zurich in 2009. Before joining the IPI in 2015, she worked as a research assistant to the Chair for Private and Commercial Law at the University of Zurich, as a legal adviser at the Federal Finance Administration (FFA) and at the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters (SIF), most recently as the Head of the Exchange of Information and Individual Taxation Section. (Photo: Remo Eisner)
Daniel Neururer
Design panel (architecture, gaming, software)
Daniel Neururer currently works as a software engineer at the company MCS in Landquart. He trained as a computer scientist, completed a Bachelor’s degree in mechatronics and then opted for a Master’s degree in data science, which enabled him to pursue his passion for artificial intelligence. In his spare time, he enjoys tinkering with the latest AI technologies, designing and creating 3D printed models, and playing the piano.
Denis Masmejan
Linguistic works panel
Denis Masmejan is the Secretary General of the Swiss section of the NGO Reporters Without Borders, which advocates press freedom. Previously, he worked for a long time as a journalist, first at Le Nouveau Quotidien and later at Le Temps. He is a member of the Swiss Press Council and the Federal Media Commission. As a doctor of law, he also lectures on media law at the Academy for Journalism and Media (AJM) at the University of Neuchâtel. (Photo: Lucie Poirier)
Don Schmocker
Design panel (architecture, gaming, software)
With FAR: Lone Sails and FAR: Changing Tides, the Swiss development studio Okomotive has gained international renown and won numerous critics’ awards. Don Schmocker co-founded Okomotive in 2017 after completing his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Zurich University of the Arts. He worked on the two games and the latest title as both creative director and artist.
Dorothea Baur
Input
Dr Dorothea Baur is an adviser, speaker and lecturer on ethics and sustainability. One focus of her work is ethics and artificial intelligence. She aims to present ethical concepts in a way that is clear for different target audiences. Dr Baur earned her academic spurs with a doctorate at the University of St Gallen and research and lecturing experience at various universities in Switzerland and elsewhere.
Eva Pauline Bossow
Moderation
Eva Pauline Bossow is a businesswoman and adviser with long-standing experience in the areas of the creative industry, digitalisation, innovation and entrepreneurship. She has worked as the Managing Director of the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies, a member of the Digital Council at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste art school, and as Head of Communications and Marketing at the Zentrum Paul Klee and at the IT service provider adesso. Today, she supports organisations and start-ups with the focus ‘future of work’ as a strategist and member of various committees.
Felix Addor
Impressions from the conference and takeaways
Prof. Felix Addor is Deputy Director General and General Counsel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. Since 1999, he has headed the Legal & International Affairs Division, which is responsible for all legal and political matters relating to intellectual property law. Prof. Addor has also been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bern since 2008 and a lecturer at the University of Zurich since 2020, where he teaches international intellectual property law, negotiations and conflict resolution. He has published numerous articles, and he lectures regularly at home and abroad. (Photo: Remo Eisner)
Filip Wolfensberger
Example from practice
Filip Wolfensberger has worked in the creative industry for the last five years at the agency CRK. Since 2022, he has been the Executive Creative Director and a member of the Executive Board. In recent years, he has examined ways of using AI in advertising and design and has successfully implemented them in client projects. He also works part-time as an artist and musician and has participated in numerous festivals and art exhibitions.
Florent Thouvenin
Study "Generative AI"
Florent Thouvenin is Professor of Information and Communications Law and Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Centre for Information Technology, Society and Law (ITSL) at the University of Zurich. In his research, he examines legal issues relating to digitalisation, with a focus on copyright and data protection law.
Frank Hovenbitzer
Design panel
Frank Hovenbitzer is a Professor of Architecture at the DHBW and also the owner of the architecture firm wilhelm und hovenbitzer, Freie Architekten BDA, Lörrach. He studied architecture and urban planning as well as art history, philosophy and media theory in Cologne, Aachen, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. He has been involved in award-winning building designs in Germany and Switzerland, he acts as a competition judge and design advisor, and he has published numerous works on the theory and practice of architecture.
Hanspeter Kellermüller
Image creation panel
Hanspeter Kellermüller has been the CEO of the Keystone-SDA news agency since September 2023. A qualified attorney-at-law, he was the Secretary General of the NZZ and a member of the extended Executive Board from 2009 to 2023. From 2014 to spring 2022, he was also a member of Keystone-SDA’s Board of Directors . Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of the Swiss Press Association (now the Swiss Media Association) and a member of the association’s Executive Committee from 2017 to 2023. (Photo: KEYSTONE/Gaetan Bally)
Kai-Peter Uhlig
Panel film
Kai-Peter Uhlig has been a lawyer in Zurich since 2005 and a partner at Werder Viganò since 2010. He advises on copyright law, the film industry, media and audiovisual culture. He began his career in 1996 in Berlin, where he worked as a lawyer and general counsel for a global film production company. Uhlig holds a doctorate from the University of St. Gallen and he has spent time studying in Paris and Moscow. He is the co-author of a commentary on copyright law and has written articles on copyright contracts and film production and financing.
Ladina Caduff
Laura Melusine Baudenbacher
Keynote Economy & AI
Partner, Baudenbacher Law AG (Zurich | Oslo | Stavanger | Brussels). She specialises in European and international commercial law, class actions, investment law, energy law and fundamental economic rights. President of the Swiss Competition Commission COMCO. Schools in Switzerland, the USA and Luxembourg. Master of Law at the University of Bern. Bernese bar exam. Dr iur. summa cum laude, University of Zurich (2015). Court clerk at the Federal Administrative Court (2011–2016). Lawyer at Linklaters LLP in Brussels and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in Brussels and Cologne (2016–21).
Lionel Baldenweg
Music panel
Lionel Baldenweg is a film music producer and publisher. He has been a member of the internationally renowned team of composers ‘DIEGO BALDENWEG with NORA BALDENWEG & LIONEL BALDENWEG’ for over 20 years. Lionel Baldenweg is a co-founder GREAT GARBO, an international music production company that provides custom music compositions for feature films, TV series, advertising and branding. He is a voting member of the World Soundtrack Academy and the Australian, Swiss and European film academies. He is a founding member and the long-standing Vice President of the Swiss Film Composers Association (SMECA) and, since the merger with SONART, a member of the Advisory Board for Film and Media Music. (Photo: Thomas Buchwalder)
Manuel Gagneux
Markus Gertsch
Example from practice
Markus Gertsch, known as Bobby (born 1969), is an experienced music composer and music producer with over 27 years of experience in the audio industry. From 1993 to 2005, he was active as a composer and producer. In 1997, he founded the production studio PROMOTON, which specialises in audio for advertising and cultural projects. In 2022, he rebranded PROMOTON as nice noise ag, expanding the portfolio to include video and orchestral recordings for advertising and film projects. Passion: Bobby is just as enthusiastic about his work in the audio industry as he was when he first started. He sees working with music and being creative as an irreplaceable gift in his life.
Martina Clavadetscher
Linguistic works panel
Martina Clavadetscher studied German philology and philosophy and has been working as an author and playwright since 2009. Her play ‘Frau Ada denkt Unerhörtes’ (Ms Ada Thinks the Unthinkable) was premiered at Schauspiel Leipzig theatre in September 2019. It was invited to both the Heidelberg Stückemarkt and the Autorentheatertage Berlin theatre festivals in 2020. Her novel ‘Die Erfindung des Ungehorsams’ (The Invention of Disobedience) was published in February 2021 and won the Swiss Book Prize.
Matthias Wyss
Michaela Nicolosi-Hüsler
Example from practice and Panel language works
Michaela Nicolosi Hüsler is a certified Italian translator at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property and a freelance literary editor. She lectures on creative writing and storytelling at UNITRE, an Italian-language adult education centre in Bern, and holds online courses for writers. In 2018, she founded the agency Storia Scrivendo. Nicolosi Hüsler translates Joanna Penn’s works into Italian and writes her own novels under a pseudonym. One of these novels is an Amazon bestseller.
Moritz Zumbühl
Design panel (architecture, gaming, software)
Nadine Adler Spiegel
Film panel
Patrick Karpiczenko
Music panel and example from practice
Patrick Karpiczenko works as a writer, director, and comedian for film, television, and the stage, and is a columnist for print media (Tagesanzeiger, NZZ, Beobachter). He is the creator and showrunner of various television formats and performs stand-up comedy on stage. He is the founder of the production company Apéro Film with Natascha Beller, and is a lecturer and speaker on generative artificial intelligence.
Peter Picht
Study "Generative AI"
Peter Georg Picht obtained a Master’s and a PhD from the LMU Munich / Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and completed an LL.M. programme at Yale Law School. He has worked at the European Commission and is currently a professor at the University of Zurich, where he heads the Center for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (CIPCO). Picht is an affiliated research fellow at the Max Planck Institute and a visiting professor at King’s College, Kyoto University and the European University Institute in Florence. He is also an of counsel at the law firm Schellenberg Wittmer and regularly advises the OECD, the European Commission and Swiss and German authorities. He is a board member of ASCOLA, AIDE and the Munich IP Dispute Resolution Forum.
Peter Reichenbach
Phillipp Rosenauer
Study "Generative AI"
Philipp Rosenauer is a partner at PwC Switzerland. He holds a Master’s degree in Law and in Economics. At PwC, he specialises in particular in topics relating to the regulation of AI and the impact it has on individual companies, the economy and society. He is also a permanent lecturer at the University of Liechtenstein.
Reinhard Oertli
Presentation: Image creation panel
Reinhard Oertli advises clients on the legal implementation of their solutions in the field of future-oriented technologies, on software projects and on the management of their data. Oertli is considered an expert in copyright law. He also has a wealth of experience in art law. University of Pennsylvania Law School, LL.M.; New York Bar; University of Zurich, Dr iur.; (1988), Judge at the Court of Cassation of the Canton of Zurich (until 2010); International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) – a long-standing board member of AIPPI Switzerland; various functions at AIPPI International and the Swiss Association for Intellectual Property Law (INGRES).
Robbert Baruch
Music panel
Robbert Baruch (born: 1967 in Amsterdam) joined Universal Music Group in 2021 and currently works as Senior Vice President Public Affairs – Europe and Multilateral Relations. Before UMG, Baruch worked at Buma/Stemra, the Dutch collective management society for composers and music publishers as Manager Public Affairs, and the National Association of Insurers as a senior lobbyist. Before that he served as Deputy Mayor of the Rotterdam Borough of Feijenoord and a member of the Regional Assembly of the Province of South Holland. Robbert studied Political Science (graduating in Political Philosophy) and Public Administration at Leiden University and Religious Studies in Jerusalem and Amsterdam.
Sabine Himmelsbach
Image creation panel
Since 2012, Sabine Himmelsbach has been the director of HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel. After studying art history in Munich, she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna from 1993 to 1996 and later became project manager for exhibitions and conferences for the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. In 1999 she became the Exhibition Director at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. From 2005 to 2011 she was the artistic director of the Edith-Russ-House for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. As a writer and lecturer, she is dedicated to topics related to media art and digital culture. (Photo: Ivana Kresic)
Sebastian Singler
Study on "Generative AI"
Sebastian Singler is a Director at PwC Switzerland and has been advising the Swiss administration on digital transformation at the interface of politics, technology and specialist fields for many years. He also conducts research in the University of St Gallen’s Smart Government Lab on the topic of ‘Technology in politics and administration’.
Steffi Neubert
Design panel (architecture, gaming, software)
Thomas Häussler
Linguistic works panel
Thomas Häussler has been working as a media specialist at the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) since 2020 and is a member of the research group there. His work focuses on various aspects of the digital public sphere, both in the context of various research projects and in regulatory projects. Previously, he was a senior assistant at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bern, where he specialised in digital political communication and conducted research on topics such as online disinformation, polarisation and mobilisation.
Tommaso Valletti
Keynote platform economy
Tommaso Valletti is Professor of Economics at Imperial College London and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics. He is a Non-Executive Director to the board of the UK’s Payment Systems Regulator. He is the Director of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on Competition Policy. He was the Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission between 2016 and 2019. Tommaso has a magna cum laude degree in engineering and a flute diploma from Turin, and holds an MSc and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Valentin Huber
Film panel and example from practice
Valentin Karl Huber, born in 1992 in Stuttgart, studied media technology and design at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria / Hagenberg Campus, film at the Zurich University of the Arts, and arts administration at the University of Zurich. In 2017, he co-founded the collective ‘Das alte Lager’ with two university friends in Zurich, which is active in the areas of visual effects, 3D animation, colour grading and visuals. Since 2018, Valentin Huber has been working as a research associate at the Zurich University of the Arts in the field of film and in the Immersive Arts Space.
Verena Vonarburg
Linguistic works panel
Since 2016, Verena Vonarburg has been the head of Public Affairs and a member of the extended Executive Board at Ringier Group, as well as the head of Ringier’s MediaLab. She was previously the director of the Swiss Media Association. Vonarburg studied history, constitutional and international law and political science at the University of Bern. She began her career in journalism as a reporter for the SRF news programme ‘10 vor 10’. From the mid-1990s, she worked as a parliamentary correspondent and co-host of major live political events for SRF and later as a parliamentary editor for the Tagesanzeiger newspaper. After her career as a journalist, she joined the agency Furrerhugi as a political expert.
