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Thirty D-MTEC students and alumni attended an MAS+ workshop on “Building a Business with Impact” on 2 and 3 July. The workshop, held on the ETH campus and at the Trust Square co-working space, was organised by MAS student Christine Szczepanski and Morgan Altman of Programme Operations. The workshop provided practical insight into “Driving Transformation Through Technology and Finance”.

D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentary. The unemployment rate in the hospitality industry is 7%. At the same time, many restaurants complain that they can hardly find enough staff. Daniel Kopp, labour specialist at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, says this is because the labour market needs time to adjust to the rise in demand after the sudden easing of lockdown measures.

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how crucial the availability of accurate information is for large-scale, real-time disease monitoring and management. In a recent post at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Professor Stefan Feuerriegel and doctoral candidate Joel Persson of the Chair of Information Management Systems at D-MTEC argue for increased investment in digital technology in order to better manage the current and future pandemics.

D-MTEC experts engage with issues that affect society, the economy and business. The D-MTEC Media Update provides links to recent articles, interviews and commentary. 65 percent of respondents in the transport, logistics and security sectors think it will be very difficult for apprenticeship graduates to find jobs, says Ursula Renold, Professor of Education Systems. Apprenticeship graduates from the hotel and catering industries, which are currently looking for skilled workers, have better chances.