ESSAY COMPETITION

Your gateway to St. Gallen, and much
more.

Compete for the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award
and qualify for participation as a « Leader of Tomorrow »
in the world’s premier opportunity for intergenerational
debates: The St. Gallen Symposium.
- Join the debate with 600 top global leaders and
decision makers
- Share your thoughts, ideas and visions with the
global elite
- Expenses for travel, board and lodging covered,
travel service provided
- Meet 200 of the world’s brightest young minds
- Celebrate the symposium's 30 competition since
1989
- CHF 30,000.– prize money

shared by the three
winners
- Small and intimate gatherings with world leaders,
exclusively for the Leaders of Tomorrow
- Broad media coverage
- Become member of a truly unique and strong global
community
Qualify with an excellent essay.
We expect a professional, creative and thought-provoking
essay. Be bold, unconventional, and distinctive on the
following competition question:
Robots are coming for your job. How do you augment
yourself to stay economically relevant?
Author Yuval Noah Harari claims that the rapid progress
of artificial intelligence technology will render the human
species economically useless within decades. Imagine a
world in which humans fight back, harnessing AI and
other technologies to stay economically indispensable –
and, ultimately, competitive against the computers.
Describe the job you aspire to in the future, how it will
potentially be influenced by AI, and how you would
augment yourself technologically if necessary to prevail
in your chosen career.
The following criteria must be met:
Form
Essay (max. 2,100 words)
Language
English
Deadline
1 February 2018, 11:59 p.m. last time zone (UTC-12)
Anonymity
Your name must not be mentioned anywhere in the
contribution file
Individuality
Individual work expected, no group work allowed. The
essay must be written exclusively for this contest. The
idea must be the author's own.
Citation
All sources must be cited and referred to the respective
part in the essay. All contributions will be tested for
plagiarism.
Check your eligibility and prepare
documents.
To be eligible, you must fulfil all of the following criteria:
- Enrolled in a graduate or postgraduate program
(master level or higher) in any field of study at a
regular university
- Born in 1988 or later
Make sure you can provide the following documents:
- Copy of passport or other identification (in English
for non-Roman languages)
- Confirmation of matriculation/enrolment from your
university which proves your enrollment in a
graduate/postgraduate level programme as of
1 February 2018 (download sample document here )
- Your contribution file with no indication of your name
in the file name, the file metadata or the file itself
Impress the Jury.
All contributions will be evaluated equally according to a
specific set of criteria by an independent jury composed
of professors, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs.
The authors of the best 100 contributions qualify
as Leaders of Tomorrow and will be invited by the ISC to
the next St. Gallen Symposium. The very best
competitors will have the chance to present and discuss
their ideas on the symposium's big stage and also in
other conferencing formats. The award will be bestowed
to the three best competitors, the selection will be based
upon the quality of the essays only.
Apply now.
Register now and apply via the following form:
(click here if the form does not appear below)