The wonderful success of the World Web Forum in Zurich Oerlikon with its two thousand participants over two days shows that Zurich, Switzerland, has arrived in the top league of digital evolution. Founder Fabian Hediger can be proud: the timing (directly after the World Economic Forum) and the list of speakers (including the man who started it all: Tim Berners-Lee. When will he finally get the Nobel Prize?) were fabulous, the processes are getting better and better, and communication between "established" forces and the young visitors is stimulated in many ways.
The broad-based Digital Switzerland initiative, which europe rcs data includes everyone who is anyone in the domestic market, confirms the impression that a European Silicon Valley can or has already emerged here. The fact that Google, still the benchmark of the digital world, will soon employ five thousand people in Zurich shows the direction Silicon Swiss is heading. For several months now, two Swiss wide-body aircraft have been flying to San Francisco every day. Anyone who flies on one of these and overhears the conversations of the passengers will immediately hear that there are hardly any tourists on board, but rather techies, Snapchats and Instagrams.