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LEAD27 Zurich 2026

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EAD27 is a leadership conference bringing together over 500 senior leaders at The Circle in Zurich, Switzerland on November 19, 2026. The event focuses on helping leaders navigate the complex tensions in modern organizations, exploring themes such as innovation versus control, transformation versus fatigue, and human versus machine. With international speak…

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89Voices
12Underwriters
0Exhibitors
28On the bill · sessions
67Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at LEAD27, in alphabetical order.
Albin Kurti
Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosova
Alessandro de Giulii
Head of AI & Cloud Enablement · Sunrise
Alexander Senn
Head of People & Organization · Siemens
Anabel Fall
Group Chief People Officer · Haniel
Andrea Nardone
Customer Engineer · Google Cloud
Andreas Biehl
Head of MBUX Virtual Assistant · Mercedes-Benz
Andreas Giesa
Business Unit Head Digital Business Consulting · Xebia
Andre Helfenstein
Chairman of the Board · SIX Group
Anja Hauser
Head Culture & Talent · Xebia
Aslam Cader
Head of Enterprise Strategy and Planning Practice, EMEA · Valiantys
Barbara Agoba
Chief Human Resources Officer and member of the Executive Board · la Mobilière
Benjamin Durieux
CIO · ICRC
Bobby Leu
Managing Director and Board Chairman · Xebia
Boris Scholl
General Manager and Architect in Cloud & AI Engineering · Microsoft
Bruno Schenk
Senior Director Platforms and Delivery Hubs · Sunrise
Carsten Stolz
Group CFO · Baloise
Charles Doiron
Agile Unit Leader · ABB
Christian Nobs
Director, Agile COE · Julius Bär
Christophe Makni
Head of Data, Automation & AI · Migros Bank
Claus Mitterlehner
Head of Smart Automation
Daniela Dollinger
Founder and Co-CEO · Team Factory
Daniela Fischer
Head HR and Member of the Executive Board · AXA

— and 67 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
UBSPlatinum
ValiantysPlatinum
XebiaPlatinum
CX GoalkeeperCommunity Partner
eighty20Community Partner
FinewsMedia Partner
HandelszeitungMedia Partner
persoenlichMedia Partner
rreadyStart-up Partner
SwissCognitiveCommunity Partner
SwissDevJobsCommunity Partner
weltwocheMedia Partner
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The Programme

Selected from 28 sessions on the bill.
  • 08:20 - 08:50

    Business Collaboration Points For PI Objectives

    Morning Session
  • 08:20 - 08:50

    CERN talk - soon to be revealed!

    Morning Session
  • 08:20 - 08:50

    Culture Club in Action- They Said, We Did

    Morning Session
  • 09:15 - 09:30

    Leading a Nation Through Transformation: Digitalization and the IT Sector in Kosova

  • 09:30 - 10:15

    Keynote - Transforming Tomorrow: The Ripple Effect of Generative AI

    Opening Keynote
  • 10:45 - 11:15

    Beyond The Books: The End of Agile at JTI

    Session 1
  • 10:45 - 11:15

    “Fail @agile – Fail @AI”

    Session 1
  • 10:45 - 11:15

    Failing Fast: A Strategic Tool for Building a Resilient Value Chain Organization

    Session 1
  • 10:45 - 11:15

    Pioneers in a Corporate World - New Leadership at MAN Energy Solutions Switzerland

    Session 1
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 67 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

67 companies. three are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
3All threespeak · spons · exh
9Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
55Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

UBS·Xebia·Valiantys

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

53% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1517%
  • Founder / Owner44%
  • VP-level33%
  • Director / Head of2528%
  • Manager / Lead1112%
  • Engineer · IC33%
  • Marketing / Brand11%
  • Advisor / Investor11%
  • Other roles2629%

Of 89 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01UBSSp·P4V
  2. 02XebiaSp·P4V
  3. 03ValiantysSp·P2V
  4. 04Julius Bär4V
  5. 05Sunrise4V
  6. 06CX GoalkeeperSp·C
  7. 07eighty20Sp·C
  8. 08finewsSp·M
  9. 09HandelszeitungSp·M
  10. 10persoenlichSp·M
  11. 11rreadySp·S
  12. 12SwissCognitiveSp·C
  13. 13SwissDevJobsSp·C
  14. 14weltwocheSp·M
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum3
25% of 12
community partner4
33% of 12
media partner4
33% of 12
start-up partner1
8% of 12