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I run strategic development at iart, a studio for media architectures based in Basel and known for seamlessly integrating the digital with physical spaces, thus engaging innovations like sustainable media facades and mixed reality platforms to create smart city interfaces, for example, visitor experiences such as Novartis Pavillon which houses the “Wonders of Medicine" multimedia exhibit; the urban mobility themed Schindler Visitor Center; and the Hyundai Pavillon showcasing hydrogen power at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, to name a few. Starting out at Publicis (Zurich) early in my career, I soon became a Swiss transplant to New York, cutting my teeth at agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather. The rise of digital technology found me working with the pioneering streaming entertainment platform, MCI Music World, a gig that prepared me for my expansion into the realm of public diplomacy, working with Presence Switzerland (an arm of Swiss Foreign Ministry), where I brokered partnerships with local NY institutions, created platforms to showcase Swiss science, politics, art, design, architecture and produced one of the earliest social media platforms in use by a govermental agency, Swiss Roots, targeted at Swiss living abroad and aficionados of Swiss culture.Beyond Presence Switzerland, I continued to work in nation branding, culture marketing, producing business, cultural, and tech initiatives. Clients ranged from the fields of architecture, art, tech, and academia: raumlaborBerlin, Storefront for Art & Architecture, City of Berlin, ETH Zurich New York Outpost, and Basel Area are a few notables.In 2018, I joined iart, a studio for media architectures where my role in strategic development in many respects it can be described as using my network skills to create the optimum conditions for innovation to happen. iart is at the cutting edge of digital technology, working with architects, developers, urban planners, museums, and brands to realise distinct creative visions, applying a combo of emergent practices and traditional tech to tackle complex engineering and scenographic challenges. In my role, I “midwife” these projects into being by bringing the right resources and people together at the right time.
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Strategic DevelopmentIart Ag Oct 2017 - PresentMünchenstein / Basel, Bl, Chiart, a studio for media architectures known for seamlessly integrating the digital with physical spaces, thus engaging with innovations like mixed reality platforms to create smart city interfaces, for example, visitor experiences.
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Producer / Eth Studio New YorkEth Zurich (The Swiss Federal Institute Of Technology) 2013 - PresentZürich, ChWith New York City fast becoming a leading science and technology hub, ETH Zurich, one of the world's premier technology institutes, is invested in being a part of this cutting edge current of industry. As New York consultant, I not only produce programs and events to promote awareness of ETH, I also scout, develop, and broker potential partnerships with people, institutions, and brands. In 2018, I produced a cyber security event "Security Technologies Enabling the Future" at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, featuring speakers at the cutting edge of the cyber-security discourse, including: Lorenz Breidenbach (System Security Group, ETH Zurich); Daniel Dobrygowski, Head of Governance and Policy for the Global Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum; and Dan Guido, Co-Founder & CEO, Trail of Bits.Other ETH NY Studio Highlights:2017 - "The Future is Cognitive" a Blockchain / AI symposium at National Sawdust, Brooklyn. The event was sold out and featured some of the foremost thinkers and innovators in the fields of AI, machine learning, and cryptocurrency, including: Joseph Lubin (ConsenSys / Ethereum), Pascal Kaufmann (Mindfire); Chris Luebkemann (Arup Foresight), Kevin Schawinski (ETH Zurich), Chris Wiggins (New York Times / Columbia University), amongst others. 2014 - ETH Pavilion for IDEAS CITY FESTIVAL (New Museum). Described as “a cutting edge artifact from the future”, the ETH Zurich Pavilion, designed and engineered by a team of ETH architects, was created from repurposed waste materials. 2013 - Zurich Meets New York Festival, which canvassed the realms of science and technology, with a nod to New York-centric issues: urban planning, risk and resilience, big data, and augmented reality. Partners included: The New Museum/IDEAS CITY, The New York Academy of Science , AIANY Center for Architecture, Explorers Club, Neue House, Columbia University, Center for Urban Science & Progress, IBM, Disney Research, The W.I.R.E (CH). -
Producer: "We Like America" (Raumlaborberlin / Storefront For Art & Architecture)Visitberlin – Berlin Convention Office Aug 2017 - Dec 2017Berlin, Berlin, De"We Like America" was created by VisitBerlin's maverick culture agency, Uebermut Project. Uebermut sends out Berlin brightest and best creatives around the globe as cultural partnerships with various cultural and civic institutions such as Store Front for Architecture, Fort Greene Park Conservancy, Myrtle Avenue BID, amongst others.Road trip highlights involved: a Chicago residency during the Chicago Architectural Biennial, with Nicholas Bussman & Der Automat; Spacebuster@ Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis; SB @University Circle’s Wade Oval, Cleveland Ohio; a talk by writer / culture critic, Niklas Maak at the Clemente on NY's Lower East Side, a screening of "Brooklyn Boheme" in Fort Greene Park, and a final appearance at the NY Public Art Fair in Central."We Like America" was presented by raumlaborberlin in partnership with Storefront for Art & Architecture, and encouraged by Übermut Project, an initiative of visitBerlin and Hamburg Marketing, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. -
ProducerFuturezoo 2009 - Jan 2017Brooklyn, New York, UsFeaturezoo is a digital media boutique I co-founded, focused on creating unique content for a diverse array of clients ranging from culture/ lifestyle brands, financial institutions, universities, NGOs, festivals and governmental agencies. Clients include: Architecture & Design Film Festival, Artport – Making Waves, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brown University, Cambridge University, Carl Hancock Rux, CASA – NY, Hariri & Hariri Architecture / Atelier Swarovski, South Street Seaport Festival, ETH Zurich, Extremely Hungary Festival NY, Leo Burnett Atelier, Mondaine Watches, Nasdaq OMX, National Sawdust, Pen World Voice Festival, Swiss Consulate General of New York, Swiss Mission to the United Nations and UCLA. -
Consulting ProducerRobert Frank – Don’T Blink / Assemblage Films 2014 - 2016As Consulting Producer, I leveraged fundraising for the production, bringing entities such as the City of Zurich into the fray to lend financial support for the film. Set for commercial release internationally spring/summer 2016.
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Head Of Marketing And Business DevelopmentWorld-Architects.Com | Psa Publishers Ltd. 2012 - Mar 2015Zürich, Zürich, ChMandate with World- Architects as Business Development & Marketing Director. World-Architects is a premium online network of outstanding architects, landscape designers, engineers, interior designers, lighting consultants and architectural photographers—brought together with the goal of advancing quality in architecture.Responsibilities include: sales, business development, event marketing, digital and social media, strategic partnerships and trade show representation. -
Head Of Sponsorship & MarketingPen World Voices Festival 2010 - 2013The PEN World Voices Festival, founded by Salman Rushdie, has distinguished itself as one of New York City’s premiere cultural events, showcasing various facets of the literary arts: from the written word to film, theater and experimental performance. I assisted the festival in developing long term fundraising strategies as well as expanding advertising and sponsoring revenues.
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Director Of Marketing & CommunicationsPresence Switzerland / Consulate General Of Switzerland 2005 - 2012Bern, Bern, ChAs a direct result of the Swiss Peaks Festival, I was offered to position of Director of Marketing and Communications for the Swiss Consulate in New York. One immediate aim was to continue to promote contemporary Swiss culture. Another was to provide a public diplomacy channel for the Swiss Consulates, and the Embassy in Washington DC. Drawing upon my digital entertainment past, I conceptualized an online community targeted at North Americans of Swiss descent—and an extended audience of people interested in Swiss culture. The result was Swiss Roots, notable for being one of the earliest online community platforms: a lively dialogue of grassroots and online interaction. A novel direction in nation branding, no country had undertaken outreach of this nature before. With Swiss Roots, Switzerland was the first.Initially hosted by online travel agency, IGOUGO, with Swiss Roots 2.0, aided by LA based IT firm, Headwire, we switched to the open-source CMS platform, Magnolia. The pay off was extensive user experience and content / design flexibility. Fairly new at the time, sites like Swiss Roots helped to evolve Magnolia into a robust system. Conversely, the new format, expanded Swiss Roots— Helvetica Bold became its lifestyle spinoff.The site generated traffic via online marketing promotions: Swiss International Air Lines, a t-shirt merchandising line, a spokesperson campaign featuring— folk singer Jewel, NFL star Ben Roethlisberger, and NBA star and Thabo Sefolosha. Key to the job was the task of fundraising. I brokered numerous sponsorship and partnership deals, among them: UBS, Credit Suisse, Swiss International Airlines, American Airllines, Jet Aviation, Swiss Re, Nespresso, Rolex, USM / Modular Furniture, Vitra and Tag Heuer, and Swiss governmental agencies: Switzerland Tourism, Pro Helvetia, and the Swiss Foreign Ministry. After five years of robust activity, Presence Switzerland changed its strategic focus, and Swiss Roots was phased out in 2010. -
Head Of Marketing And CommunicationsExtremely Hungary Festival New York 2008 - 2010Extremely Hungary was a yearlong festival showcasing over 200 events of contemporary Hungarian visual, performing and literary arts in New York and Washington, D.C throughout 2009 and early 2010 in a diverse range of prestigious cultural venues in New York and Washington DC. Conceived by the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York, the festival was funded by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture, corporate sponsors and private donors. George Soros and Kati Marton acted as chairpersons for the festival.
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Head Of Business Development North AmericaBasel Area Business & Innovation 2004 - 2010Basel, Basel-Stadt, ChBasel Area’s mandate is to market Basel as a business hub. As Basel Area’s U.S. representative, I created and produced unique event platforms to attract top business and corporate executives in the U.S. I also represented Basel Area in numerous business conventions and trade shows across the U.S. Produced the BASEL MIAMI CEO Forum during Art Basel Miami Beach which used the art fair as a backdrop, bringing together a mélange of top corporate governance, politicians, elected officials, art world personnel and visiting Swiss officials.Organized meetings, roundtables, and VIP receptions for Swiss US Ambassador, Urs Ziswiller, Florida Governors Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist as well as international CEOs and the top brass of the Miami Herald, Scripps Research Institute and Miami University.Developing marketing / promotional materials targeted towards C-level executives. -
Development And Sponsoring ConsultantVolta Art Fair 2005 - 2007Basel, Basel-Stadt, ChActed as a liaison for the fledgling VOLTA art fair, in their inaugural outings during Art Basel. As a consultant to the founders of VOLTA art fair, I assisted in developing sponsor relations and strategic partnerships—from local event agencies to governmental agencies and art collectors. -
Head Of Marketing & CommunicationsConsulate General Of Switzerland / Swiss Peaks Festival 2003 - 2004Bern, Bern, ChSwiss Peaks, a 3 month festival showcasing the best of contemporary Switzerland via a 100+ events in the arts, design, lifestyle, business, and education. The festival featured cutting-edge visual and performing arts; virtual classrooms and real-time student exchange trips to Switzerland; political panels on Swiss direct democracy and foreign policy; business forums; film screenings, and culinary extravaganzas...The primary goal was to enhance the dialogue between Swiss and American culture, with an eye to entrepreneurs, students, artists, designers, and politicians. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive: the festival resonated with partners, media and the general public alike—capturing the attention of the intelligentsia and the business world.The following key elements were my main focus for the festival:1) Creating the award winning "+" marketing campaign, developed with local design agency, Ahoy Studio NY, which played out in print advertising, outdoor posting, direct marketing, promotions, merchandising and grassroots marketing.2) Develop strategic partnerships with event partners such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, Van Allen Institute, Cooper Union, Columbia University, New York University, Department of Education of NYC, Film Society Lincoln Center, The Fresh Air Fund, The Swiss Institute, The Goethe Institute, Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, 3) Fundraising: the festival was funded by corporate and governmental sponsors. I co-fundraised and supervised the festival marketing budget.Due to its success Swiss Peaks Festival was followed up with the Swiss Roots program for several years.
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Director Business Development & Project ManagementMcy Music World 2001 - 2003MCY Music World was a pioneering digital media entertainment company. An internet start-up with a vision of cornering the niche in online music/entertainment platform for the mass-market, it was on of the early adopters of e-commerce in the entertainment business, showcasing premier talents ranging from Pete Townshend to Luciano Pavarotti.- Managed large in-house teams: IT, content development, A&R, designers, legal department and external web agency, Namics.- Developed Pete Townshend’s online version of “Lifehouse” —filmed and performed (one time only) at the Royal Opera House as an immersive rock experience. - Negotiated and implemented exclusive sponsorship deal with open air festival Rock am Ring and it’s media partner, MTV Germany.- Created strategic collaborations with music label partners, web technology vendors and media companies.- Developed content for pay-per-view, streaming and other digital distribution channels, as well as handling digital rights management.
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Assistant Media Director - Ibm AccountOgilvy & Mather Advertising 1998 - 2001New York, Ny, UsIn charge of IBM Hardware Business (PC and Server divisions) media planning budgets for the US, Latin America, Asia/Pacific and EMEA (40 countries), supervising a global budget of 175 million.- Negotiated and leveraged IBM’s brand exposure on network television (NBC) as a sponsor of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.- Allocated advertising budgets by medium and by country based on Share-of-Market / Share-of-Voice goals. - Created market analysis: “Competitor Reviews” and market trends with the in-house market research team.- Wrote media briefs to guide the regional / local country teams in media planning. - Developed media plans and recommendations for print, outdoor, TV, radio and digital. - Supervised 8 media planners in New York as well as 4 supervisors in other global regions. -
Media Planning AssistantPublicis 1997 - 1998New York, New York, UsHandled buying and budget control for clients such as NCR, Lucent Technologies and Jamaica Tourism Board in North America. Developed media plans for TV, print, radio and outdoor campaigns. -
Event Planner / Communications AssistantBenetton Group 1996 - 1997Ponzano Veneto, Treviso, ItAs part of the marketing and promotional team responsible for introducing fledgling Benetton brands to the U.S, namely Benetton, Killerloop, Rollerblade, Nordika and Sisley, the task at hand was to create unique event platforms to position these brands while generating noteworthy exposure and excitement around them. Among various press / VIP events, highlights included tie-ins with sports celebrities such as F1 Pilot Jean Alesi and boxing star Muhammad Ali. -
Assistant Media PlannerFarner Publicis (Fcb) 1993 - 1996New York, New York, UsIn the media planning department of FCB, I gained experience buying for Swiss and European markets. Clients included: Swatch, Omega, NZZ, Ringier, Renault, UBS and Warner Bros.
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Marketing And Sales AssistantBolero Magazine (Jean Frey Publishing) 1993 - 1993Worked together with publisher on the launch of Bolero Magazine (1990). Development of marketing campaign, promotions, development of media kit and media sales.
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Private Banking / Portfolio ManagerUbs Investment Bank 1991 - 1993Zurich, Ch
Lukas Fitze Skills
Lukas Fitze Education Details
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Columbia University - Graduate School Of JournalismSocial Media Seminars / Social Media Week -
Columbia UniversityInformation Technology Management Program
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Nyu Program For Continuing EducationMarketing And Sponsorship
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International Advertising AssociationInternational Advertising Diploma
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Sawi, Biel (Swiss Institute Of Advertising)General
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Alliance FrançaiseDiplôme D’Alliance De Française
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Business School BaselGeneral
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Lukas Fitze attended Columbia University - Graduate School Of Journalism, Columbia University, Nyu Program For Continuing Education, International Advertising Association, Sawi, Biel (Swiss Institute Of Advertising), Alliance Française, Business School Basel.
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