"Homecoming": Back to university

Meet former fellow students? Exchange ideas with professors? Learn more about current research projects? Enjoy a varied flying dinner? All this awaits our alumnae and alumni every other year at the legendary "Homecoming" event of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics UZH and its Alumni Associations.

The event will be held in German.

Program (German)

Wann: Dienstag, 8. April 2025, ab 18:00 Uhr (Welcome Drink ab 17:00 Uhr)

Wo: Aula und Lichthof im Hauptgebäude der Universität Zürich

Wer: Eingeladen sind alle Alumnae und Alumni sowie aktuelle und emeritierte Professorinnen und Professoren der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät.

Ab 17:00 Uhr	Türöffnung & Networking-Apéro	Lichthof
18:00 - 18:30 Uhr	Begrüssung durch Prof. Harald Gall (Dekan) und Prof. Alexander Wagner (Prodekan Weiterbildung und Alumni) Keynote (Thema und Name folgt)	Aula (KOL-G-201)
18:30 - 18:40 Uhr	Raumwechsel
18:40 - 19:10 Uhr	Connect-Sessions mit Professor:innen und Alumnae:i unserer Fakultät zu folgenden Themen (freie Wahl der Session) Runde 1: Behavioral Finance Prof. Thorsten Hens, Professor für Financial Economics, Institut für Finance UZH Carolin Roth, Finanzjournalistin Datenanalyse und -visualisierung Jürgen Bernard, Professor für Interacting with Data, Institut für Informatic UZH n.n. (Alumna:us)	Aula (KOL-G-201) und KOL-G-221
19:10 - 19:20 Uhr	Raumwechsel
19:20 - 19:50 Uhr	Connect-Sessions mit Professor:innen und Alumnae:i unserer Fakultät zu folgenden Themen (freie Wahl der Session) Social Influence and Marketing Prof. René Algesheimer, Professor für Marketing for Social Impact, Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre UZH Dr. Margot Löwenberg, Head of Data Science Delivery at Lufthansa Group Economics Prof. Ronak Jain, Professorin für Ökonomie der Entwicklung und der Kinderwohlfahrt, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre UZH n.n. (Alumna:us)	Aula (KOL-G-201) und KOL-G-221
Ab 19:50 Uhr	Flying Dinner, begleitet von... Professorinnen und Professoren als Sommeliers Barbetrieb	Lichthof

The Homecoming event is organized in cooperation with our partners:

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Homecoming 2022

Recording of keynote speech by Kaspar Villiger

Program

Date/Time: Wednesday, 28 September 2022, from 5:30 p.m. onwards

Place: Aula and Lichthof in the main building of the University of Zurich

Guests: All alumnae and alumni as well as current and emeritus professors of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics UZH are invited.

From 17:30	Connect Sessions: Door opening, admission and welcome drink	Lichthof
18:15 - 19:00	4 Connect Sessions with professors to choose Marketing und Social Networks: «(How) Should Influencers Disclose Sponsorships With Brands?» Andrea Giuffredi-Kähr, Assistant Professor in Marketing in the Digital Economy, Departement of Business Administration UZH Humans and AI: «Deep Learning - Curse and Blessing» (in English) Manuel Günther, Assistant Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Department of Informatics UZH Sustainable Finance: «How Artificial Intelligence helps to identify cheap talk and greenwashing» Markus Leippold, Professor für Financial Engineering, Departement of Banking and Finance UZH Deglobalization: «A Future in Doubt?» (in English) Ralph Ossa, Professor of International Trade, Department of Economics UZH	various rooms
19:00 - 19:15	Break and room change
18:30 - 19:15	Main Program: admission and welcome drink	Aula (KOL-G-201)
19:15 - 19:20	Welcome by Dean Prof. Harald Gall	Aula (KOL-G-201)
19:20 - 19:50	Keynote speech by Kaspar Villiger, former Federal Councillor and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the UBS Center for Economics in Society for Economics in Society	Aula (KOL-G-201)
19:50 - 20:05	Questions and answers with moderation	Aula (KOL-G-201)
20:05 - 20:10	Closing speech and transition by Vice Dean Prof. Alexander Wagner	Aula (KOL-G-201)
From 20:15	Flying Dinner, accompanied by Professors as sommeliers, Bar	Lichthof

Homecoming 2019

Program

Date/Time: Wednesday, 26 September 2019, from 5:30 p.m. onwards

Place: Aula and Lichthof in the main building of the University of Zurich

Guests: All alumnae and alumni as well as current and emeritus professors of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics UZH are invited.

From 5.30 p.m.

Admittance and welcome drinks

6 - 7.15 p.m.

Welcome address by Dean Prof. Harald C. Gall

Key note by Dieter Meier, Swiss Concept Artist, Musician and Entrepreneur (in german)

Expert roundtable «Economy and sustainability – a contradiction?» (in german)

Lorenz Hilty (Professor at the Department of Informatics and Sustainability Delegate of the UZH)
Barbara Dubach (Owner of the consulting firm 'engageability' und Alumna)
Niklaus Traber (CEO Holcim Schweiz and Alumnus)
Daniel Muntwyler (Founder Globalance and Alumnus)

From 7.30 p.m.

flying dinner
science slams
professors as sommeliers
bar services and lounge
information booths from our further education programs and alumni meeting points

* The science slammers are: Ulf Zölitz (Department of Economics), Andrea Bublitz (Department of Business Administration), Florian Heeb (Department of Banking and Finance), Thomas Fritz (Department of Informatics)