EISC European Institute for Safe Communication

COUNTLESS HOURS OF PREPARATION.
ONE REMARKABLE DAY.

We have now published the full recap of the inaugural SAFETY 360° Summit, including videos of all keynote talks and the SAFETY 360° Roundtable discussion.

👉 https://www.eiscom.eu/en/news/reflections-from-the-safety-360-summit

We hope you enjoy revisiting the conversations as much as we enjoyed hosting them.

Our heartfelt thanks go to our speakers, partners, sponsors, volunteers, and participants for making this Summit possible.

As we now head into our summer break, we look forward to sharing exciting news about the next SAFETY 360° initiatives in August!

“ON A GOOD DAY, YOU OPTIMISE PERFORMANCE. BUT SOMETIMES, YOU HAVE TO SHUT THE SYSTEM DOWN.”

📽️ Marco Zgraggen, CEO Sisag AG, at the Safety 360° Summit

Safe communication is not just critical in normal operations. It becomes decisive when the system has to be shut down.

🚨 In those moments, communication must work — not just from A to B, but across roles and levels.

Road safety. Emergency response. Environmental disasters. The expectation to live in peace.

“SAFETY IS A BASIC HUMAN NEED.”

📽️ Sebastian Züst, President of the Municipality of Altdorf Kanton Uri, at the Safety 360° Summit

In the uncertain times we live in, meeting that human need is becoming more difficult.

🎯 The work ahead is not to bring back a false sense of safety — but to strengthen people and the systems they rely on to hold under strain.

WE BUILD SYSTEMS TO CREATE SAFETY.
BUT SYSTEMS DON’T CARRY CONVERSATIONS.

“There are structures everywhere. Protocols. Procedures. But in the end, it comes down to people — to communication. And each of us carries that capacity within us.”

📽️ Dominic Gisler, Kanton Uri, at the Safety 360° Summit

“IF COMMUNICATION FAILS, LIVES ARE AT RISK.”

📽️ Michael Wilkening, Dräger, at the Safety 360° Summit

In intensive care and the operating room, we deal with highly complex systems.

We keep improving the technology.
🚨But that’s not where things go wrong.
💡In the end, safety is decided by how people communicate.

“When it comes to cybersecurity, safe communication is key.”

📽️ Marc Henauer, Swiss Federal Office for Cyber Security, at the Safety 360° Summit.

In cybersecurity, the focus has shifted from trying to achieve absolute security to building resilience in high-risk environments.
💡 We can’t achieve resilience in silos.

🔒 COMMUNICATION IS THE PATHWAY TO SAFETY.

Politics. Media. Healthcare. Crisis response. Public trust.

At the Safety 360° Summit, communication repeatedly surfaced not simply as the exchange of information — but as the decisive process through which societies navigate uncertainty, conflict and safety.

🎥 Professor of Journalism Vinzenz Wyss on why this dialogue can no longer happen in silos. 👇

WHAT LEADERS TOOK AWAY FROM THE SAFETY 360° SUMMIT

🎥 “Safety and communication have taken on a completely new dimension.”

Swiss Council of States member Josef Dittli on why the conversations at the Safety 360° Summit matter now more than ever.
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Kanton Uri

No single field can solve today’s safety challenges alone.

The Safety 360° Summit brought together experts from healthcare, aviation, cyber, journalism, risk and crisis management, and geopolitics — all exploring one shared question:

💡 How do we stay safe in an increasingly complex and uncertain world?

This short trailer gives a glimpse into the atmosphere of the summit.

We’ll be sharing insights and voices from the summit in the coming days.