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Join HotTopics and Shure for the Festival's 60th year
Greatness rarely emerges fully formed—it is shaped through iteration, disciplined systems, and decisive leadership. Join HotTopics and Shure for an exclusive, invite-only event at the 60th edition of the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival. Together with IT leaders responsible for the global digital workplace, we will explore how modern organisations can achieve the same level of sustained excellence as the legendary artists who graced Montreux's time-honoured stages.
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Join HotTopics and Shure for an invite-only leaders event like no other: at the 60th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, 6th - 8th July 2026, the event world famous for unmissable performances and legendary artists.
Today’s business and technology leaders have a mandate to build and sustain high-performing teams and functions. Broadly, that involves aligning people, process, and technology. But today, the incredible pace of innovation, high demands from corporate boards, and an often irrationally dynamic market backdrop, complicate that mandate. Leaders need clarity in their vision and confidence in their talent and technology.
With this in mind, and a focus on workplace collaboration: How do organisations develop excellence through people and technology to become legendary?
Why attend
The Montreux Jazz Festival celebrates music and artistic legends of every genre amongst the gorgeous alpine region around Lake Geneva.
Using the Festival’s musicians and their dedication to their craft as a guiding principle, this executive gathering applies that same lens to modern organisations: exploring how leaders build teams and institutions capable of sustained excellence in an era of rapid technological and organisational change; because in music and business, greatness rarely emerges fully formed. It begins unstructured, shaped through iteration, and refined through disciplined systems, collaborative tension, and decisive leadership.
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Together, IT leaders responsible for the global digital workplace will explore what they can do, build, sustain, and develop to ensure their functions continually outperform in today’s climate, alongside standout evening performances, an exclusive backstage tour, and a private visit to the historic and storied home of the Festival’s late founder, Claude Nobs.
Event details
Venue:
Mona Hotel, Montreux; and Grand Suisse Majestic Hotel, Montreux; Claude Nobs Chalet.
Date:
6th – 8th July 2026
Who can attend:
Senior business and technology leaders responsible for the global digital workplace, collaboration, technology products, and communication.
Highlights
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Backstage tour
A deep dive into festival history and a look at how Shure technology powers every stage.
Claude Nobs Foundation chalet
An exclusive evening at the storied mountain retreat of the festival's founder.
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Peer roundtables
A session dedicated to articulating the specific changes needed for your organisation to endure.
Arrivals
Backstage tour
Welcome drinks and networking
Welcome address and Fireside Chat
Networking dinner and drinks
Concert and free time
Breakfast and networking
Welcome from Peter Stojanovic
Keynote + Audience QA
The moment we changed direction
How leaders recognise inflection points—and act on them:
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How leaders detect that something is wrong or changing
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What signals (data, intuition, market feedback) matter
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How technology influences: visibility, decision, speed, confidence
- What actually enables a pivot to stick
Roundtables
Leading within limits: Designing for clarity and cohesion
If constraint enhances creativity, collaboration requires coherence, and technology shapes both, how can executives confront the trade-off between freedom and clarity?
Roundtables’ moderator reviews
Networking break
Panel discussion
How technology shapes continual performance
Technology is not a layer; it is the system through which work is created, decisions are made, and performance scales. How then does it shape how organisations think, decide, and perform?
Lunch
Guided forum debate
Wrap-up and networking
Evening at Claude Nobs Foundation Chalet
Thanks to our partner
