Zurich, 5th January 2010 – How will be the development of the global village after the financial meltdown? What will change and what will remain constant? What clings economy and society together during the next decade? The first MIND THE FUTURE meeting of the year of W.I.R.E., think tank of the Bank Sarasin and the Collegium Helveticum, is dealing with these questions. Looking at the brave new, old world gannaca founder and managing partner Christopher Patrick Peterka as thought leader and cosmopolite talks about the unbelievable story of the collapse of Iceland and analyzes trends from the new world of emerging markets. Next to this the retired Swiss Federal Counci Pascal Couchepin discusses which roll will play the Swiss in the area of conflict between global and regional world. The foresight will be adjusted and thwarted by the slam poets Lara Stoll, Simon Libsig and Ivo Engeler. With this event MIND THE FUTURE lays the foundation for a spectacular but also reflective start into the new year.