LGBT Diversity Economic Forum at Europride in Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland takes center stage in the world of LGBT diversity and gay marketing this week.


Ian Johnson, Out Now
May 30, 2009

TOPICS:egma - European Gay Managers Association. IGLCC - International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Network. Zurich, Switzerland. LGBT Diversity issues. Out Now. Gay marketing. International LGBT Economic Forum.

Next week the city of Zurich takes center stage in the gay universe with the annual Europride celebrations taking place there.

Europride culminates next week on June 6 with a huge street parade and gay community party.

Before that there are many and varied cultural and community events taking place all across the wonderful Swiss city of Zurich.

One event that I have been privileged to be invited to speak at is being hosted by the Swiss Network organization for gay managers and professionals, in conjunction with egma - European Gay and Lesbian Managers Association.

International LGBT Economic Forum

This is part of the Zurich Europride 2009 series of cultural events.

The focus of this forum is very interesting, and brings together a powerhouse of lesbian and gay managerial decision-making talent.

LGBT Diversity & Inclusion: Friend or Foe? -- is the theme for the event, and it promises to be an action-packed collection of high-level plenary sessions and in-depth workshops running over two days in Zurich on June 4 and 5.

There are so many impressive speakers: including Angelo Caltagirone, President of egma and member of the board of Network; David Pollard, board member of the International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce IGLCC; Andreas Citeck, Global Business Development Executive, IBM Diversity Solutions; Erika Karp, Head of Global Sector Research, UBS Investment Bank; and Urs Eberhard of Switzerland Tourism.

The sessions are thought-provoking and promise to stimulate a lot of discussion, and probably some energizing debate too.

As well as the various plenary sessions, there are workshops and round-table discussions - all with some of Europe's leading management talent.

I am particularly looking forward to a presentation being given by Andreas Citack of IBM Diversity Solutions: Competitive Edge From Diversity and Inclusion: Real or Imagined? That is a topic that seems likely to focus delegates' minds on the overall LGBT Diversity and Inclusion theme of the forum as a whole.

If you are amongst those lucky enough to be attending this event, please do be sure to come up and say hello.

The International LGBT Economic Forum runs June 4 - 5, 2009 at Technopark, Zurich, Switzerland.

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