swissICT association: President Thomas Flatt to step down in 2026

The long-standing President of swissICT, Thomas Flatt, has announced his resignation. Flatt shaped Switzerland's largest ICT trade association for more than two decades and transformed swissICT into a broadly networked voice of the digital industry that is visible in politics and business.

Many alliances forged

Since swissICT emerged from the merger of SVD and WIF 25 years ago, Flatt has shaped the development of the association, first as a board member on the strategy committee and since 2004 as its president. From the very beginning, he was committed to bringing the industry associations closer together and was a founding member and Vice President of ICT Switzerland, which was later merged with digitalswitzerland. He forged alliances with associations and organizations such as asut, swico, CH Open, ISSS, the Swiss Informatics Society and many more.

The swissICT specialist groups have become much more important and have developed excellently in terms of both quantity and quality as the Swiss digital landscape has changed. Today, they are probably the largest experience and knowledge exchange platform in Switzerland.

Association also managed operationally

He also played a key role in the development of vocational training in the ICT sector. Under his leadership, the predecessor organization of ICT VET Switzerland (I-CH) was incorporated into the association as a public limited company, stabilized and formed the basis for the newly founded national association. Flatt was also a founding member of this organization. Flatt briefly took over the operational management of swissICT in 2017 when the management was vacant, underlining his commitment even in difficult times.

He is also particularly proud of the development of the Digital Economy Award. This has a long tradition and was developed from the Swiss IT Award in 2004, through the Swiss ICT Award and today as the Digital Economy Award with various partners. swissICT has always been jointly or mainly responsible for its implementation. Throughout his presidency, Flatt has performed this task on a part-time basis while working full-time in the Group Executive Board of Swisscom, the Group Executive Board of Adecco and as an entrepreneur, CEO or member of the Board of Directors of medium-sized companies.

Focus on entrepreneurial activities

Flatt would like to concentrate more on these entrepreneurial activities and board mandates in the future, which is why he would now like to hand over his responsibilities in the association landscape after around 25 years.

„I am delighted that we have found an internal solution for my successor in Claude Honegger. Claude has more than 30 years of experience in the management of global technology organizations and, as a long-standing member of the swissICT Board and President of our Expert Commission and specialist groups, is an ideal candidate and my preferred candidate for this position,“ says Thomas Flatt about this proposal.

Source: swissICT