For the 49th St Gallen Symposium we have introduced our new format – the Interactive Sessions – to foster more interaction and ideation space among our participants. Each session focussed on a central issue related to this year’s symposium topic “Capital for Purpose” to develop solutions within a short time. In a specific design thinking setting our participants produced different approaches to solve the challenge they had been facing. 

We have prepared the completed results of four Interactive Sessions to give you some insights. Each of the concept posters consists of a solution to the issue or a way to foster and enable impact. After seeing several of our communities’ outstanding ideas coming into action in the last years, we look forward to inspiring many more in the future. Become part of this initiative by sharing your brilliant ideas.

#earnthehashtag

The name already suggests how the idea works. The hashtag needs to be earned by a good deed. It enables to show a dedication towards sustainability in form of an earned hashtag for corporates, consumers, farmers, suppliers, the public and of course influencer. More than a service or product the idea makes use of a self-evolving movement. It has a gamification aspect to it, which makes people want to use/earn it from an intrinsic motivation.

Local solution distribution

The essence of this idea is to collect individual, sustainable knowledge and help to distribute it to the people, companies that need it. For example, a farmer has a great idea how to make the parasite disappear from a certain plant. She is very happy about it but has no tools to share this great idea with other people in need of an inexpensive, sustainable solution. Local Solution Distribution makes sure that great, simple ideas are shared with the people in need of them. A grassroot-attempt that allows important ideas to be spread. 

Accelerator network

The goal is to build an Accelerator Network that allows to identify, promote, fund and scale innovative ideas helping local businesses.