2:00 p.m. | Opening of the Forum

2:10 p.m. | Inspiration

With:

Florian Schweer, organic farmer and entrepreneur, Domaine Outremont (Parc du Doubs, Jura)

2:30 p.m. | Debate: Is innovation possible in mountain farming?

With:

• Florian Schweer
• Jérôme Groebli, managing director of the L’Etivaz AOP cooperative (Château d’Oex)
• Mikael Henchoz, Director, Le Sapalet cheese dairy (Rossinière)
• Elise Lanoue, MOA (wood ash-based cleaning products), Aigle
• Roland Müller, farmer and cheese maker, Glüringen (Conches Valley)
• Daniel Wismer, yak farmer in Embd (Upper Valais)
• Holger Schmid, biologist, director of ReVerde, a start-up supporting farmers in promoting biodiversity.

Moderator: Camille Andrès, author of ‘L’Etivaz, le génie fromager’ (Heidi.News) and director of the film ‘Le pari d’Esther’.

3.30pm | The Musée des Ormonts wants to become the MECOL, a cultural museum for Ormonts-Leysin

With: Philippe Nicollier, co-founder and president of the VD3209 Foundation Council, member of the museum committee

3.50pm | Isenau, where are we now?

With:

Stéphane Bise, Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Isenau 360 Cooperative.

4.10pm | Break

4:40 p.m. | Mohair wool from the hills of South Africa under the soles of alpine hikers: the story of Pomoca.

With:

• Josep Castellet, CEO, Pomoca SA, Chavornay, world leader in ski touring skins
• Followed by a discussion with Ruth Oberauch, President of the Oberalp Group, Bolzano (I).

5:30 p.m. | What incentives for mountain farming?

With Valérie Dittli, State Councillor, responsible for agriculture, Vaud.

6:15 p.m. | End of discussions

7 p.m. | Aperitif followed by dinner at the Chalet des Sources

From 8 a.m. | Mountain breakfast

Provided by:

Esther Mottier, Votre Cercle de Vie (Château d’Oex)

9 a.m. | Mountain products, short supply chains and high-end positioning: a winning combination? The example of the Arpin brand

With:

Pascal Imbs, Managing Director, and the Head of the Weaving Unit at Arpin (woollen fabrics), Séez, Savoie

9.20 a.m. | Discussion

With:

• Pascal Imps
• Anne Chenevard, President of the FaireSwiss cooperative (fair trade milk)
• David Delarive, CEO Delarive Groupe, Whitepod Original – Les Giettes s/Monthey

10:00 a.m. | Mountain farming as a solution to social and environmental challenges.

With:

• Benoît Stadelmann, Head of Communities and Projects for Nature, WWF Switzerland
• Aude Jarabo, Director of AgroImpact
• Martin Pidoux, Director of Prométerre.

10:30 a.m. | Break

11:00 a.m. | Moving Mountains Destination White Paper: an update on future solutions being considered by winter sports resorts

With:

• Anne Sophie Fioretto, Professor at HES-SO Valais
• Cléo Tarashev, author appointed by the Moving Mountains Forum
• Martin Deburaux, Director of Télé Villars-Gryon-Les Diablerets.

11:30 a.m. | Can digital technology help educate mountain users, both in winter and summer?

With:

• Dominique Perret, extreme skier, We Mountain project
• Alexandra Bersier-Balz, scientific collaborator, School and Family, Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (BPA)
• Christian Wittwer, president of the Association romande des guides de montagne (Romandy Mountain Guides Association), and a representative of a private insurer (to be confirmed).

12:00 p.m. Post-Blatten: living with the threat of rockfalls.

Testimonies and discussion with several regional stakeholders from the Swiss Alps, including Daniel Ritler, an organic sheep farmer in Blatten, and Christian Reber, Mayor of Ormont-Dessus and former President of the Romand Alpine Rescue.

1pm | MMF 2026: what will the theme be?

1.15pm | Country lunch.