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Alex Adamopoulos
CEO, Emergn

Alex is a hands-on executive with more than 25 years experience and a successful track record in global professional services and technology organizations. Alex founded Emergn Limited in 2009. His work has spanned early stage and startup organizations and also Fortune 1000 companies.  Alex has extensive international experience with a deep understanding of culture, work, and life ethics especially in relation to establishing alignment and crossing cultural barriers.

Alex has served in several key leadership roles in his career with well known organizations always with a distinct focus on leadership  development, change management and international growth and expansion. Emergn‘s education led transformation approach is a culmination of a career centered on learning as a change agent.

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Simone Ahuja
Author and Founder Blood Orange, a global innovation strategy firm

Dr. Simone Bhan Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange, a global innovation and strategy firm. The co-author of the international bestseller, Jugaad Innovation, the author of intrapreneurship playbook Disrupt-It-Yourself, and a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Simone is a keynote speaker and innovation advisor to global organizations including 3M, Procter & Gamble, Stanley Black & Decker, and the World Economic Forum. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Walker Art Center and a practitioner of improvisational comedy. Simone resides in Minneapolis with her family.

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Yury Alasheev
Member of the Board of Directors, VkusVill

Yury Alasheev is a member of Vkusill board of directors and a serial entrepreneur. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the Agama Group, which was founded by Mr. Alasheev in 1998 and has grown from a distributor of frozen products to a group of companies developing its brands and uniting several businesses mainly related to the fish processing industry. Mr. Alasheev is also a co-founder and a managing partner at TealTech Capital venture fund, launched together with Messrs. Krivenko and Ivaschenko in 2016.

Yury is actively engaged in  multiple social projects especially around the development of education and entrepreneurship in Russia. Among others, he was the founder and the Chairperson of the Fish Union (fish industry union in Russia). Mr. Alasheev was also one of the founders and the first Chairperson of the Phystech Union, alumni effort, established to develop the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and support socially significant projects in education.

In 1995, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a Masters degree in applied mathematics and physics.

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Donald Allan
President & Chief Financial Officer, Stanley Black & Decker

Donald Allan JR., President and CFO for Stanley Black & Decker, joined the company in 1999. In his current role, Allan leads the strategy and implementation of Stanley Black & Decker’s operating model, shares oversight of Global Operations and Supply Chain and oversees the STANLEY Security business, the Outdoor Products Group and Asia Tools & Storage. He also leads Finance, Information Technology, Margin Resiliency, Industry 4.0 and Advanced Analytics.

Prior to his promotion to President in 2021, Don served as CFO since 2008. He was appointed an executive officer of the company in 2006 after serving as VP and Controller since 2000. He joined the company as Director of Financial Planning. He has been instrumental in driving the company’s transformation strategy – including more than 100 acquisitions, most notably The Stanley Works merger with Black & Decker in 2010 – to a global diversified industrial with revenues approaching $15 billion in 2020.

Prior to joining The Stanley Works, Don held financial management positions with Loctite Corporation, a leading specialty chemical company from 1995 to 1999. At Loctite, his assignments included Corporate Director of Financial Reporting, Planning & Analysis and Latin American Chief Financial Officer. The Corporate role included finance responsibilities such as SEC reporting, Treasury, Internal Reporting and Audit oversight. As the Latin American Chief Financial Officer, Don had responsibility for the Latin American finance organization which had significant presence in Brazil, Columbia, Chile and Argentina and he has a significant understanding of these regional markets, operating structures and industries.

Don spent nine years at Ernst & Young, where he was promoted several times and held the position of Audit Senior Manager at the end of his tenure. Don’s audit engagements were primarily with publicly traded companies, and he had significant involvement in various SEC filings and offerings.

Don is Lead Director at Anderson Corporation, which manufactures and sells Andersen Windows and Doors. He is Chairman of the Board for United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut. He also serves on the boards of several non-profits, including Junior Achievement of Southwest New England, Boy Scouts Connecticut Rivers Council, The University of Hartford’s Barney School of Business and Hartford Stage. Allan earned his bachelor’s in accounting from the University of Hartford and is a CPA.

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Beatriz Arantes
Senior researcher, Steelcase's WorkSpace Futures group

Beatriz Arantes leads WorkSpace Futures human-centered design research for Steelcase EMEA out of the Learning + Innovation Center in Munich, where she works with teams across the organization to integrate user-centered insights into product and service development. An environmental psychologist by training, Beatriz has spent the last 15 years researching topics such as national culture, neuroscience, wellbeing and biophilia, with the goal of designing meaningful and healthy workplace experiences. A Brazilian national and global citizen, she has enjoyed living in 9 countries.

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Olivier Babeau
President, Institut Sapiens

Olivier is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, he graduate from ESCP-Europe business school, has various degrees in economics and philosophy and a Phd in management. He is full professor at Bordeaux University (France). He has founded and is chairman of the think tank Sapiens Institute, specialized on the impact of technologies on humanity. He wrote several books, including L’Horreur politique (2017), Eloge de l’hypocrisie (2018) and Manifeste du second humanisme (2018), Le nouveau désordre numérique, Comment le digital fait exploser les inégalités (2020). He is regularly invited in the media and gives lectures internationally, defending the need for humanity to fight for its place in the rising world of machines.

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Maud Bailly
CEO South Europe, Accor

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Ashwini Bakshi
Managing Director, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, PMI

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Christian Bason
Public Sector Innovation expert; CEO Danish Design Centre

Christian Bason, CEO, Ph.D. leads the Danish Design Centre (DDC), an independent non-profit foundation. Backed by the Danish government, DDC builds capacity for innovation and sustainable growth by design. By pursuing missions across green, digital and social transitions, the DDC activates ecosystems across sectors and opens new opportunities for business, organizations and designers. Previously, Christian was Director of MindLab, the Danish government’s innovation team, and business manager with Ramboll Management Consulting.

Christian is the author of seven books on innovation, design and leadership, including Leading Public Design (2017) and has published in amongst other Harvard Business Review and Stanford Social Innovation Review. He teaches executives at amongst others the Henley MBA, the European School of Administration and Copenhagen Business School. Christian is M.Sc. in political science and Ph.D. in design leadership.

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Tal Ben-Shahar
Lecturer Harvard University, Author and Co-founder The Happiness Studies Academy & Potentialife

An expert on leadership and the science of happiness, Tal Ben-Shahar combines scientific studies, scholarly research, self-help advice, and spiritual principles to teach people how to optimize their success and wellbeing.

After graduating from Harvard with a BA in Philosophy and Psychology and a PhD in Organizational Behavior, Tal taught two of the  most popular courses in Harvard’s history: Positive Psychology and The Psychology
of Leadership.

He is an international, best-selling author whose books have been translated into more than 25 languages.

Tal is the co-founder of The Happiness Studies Academy and Potentialife.

He is a certified yoga instructor whose work bridges Eastern and Western traditions, ancient wisdom and modern technology, science and art.

Recent book:

Happier, No Matter What: Cultivating Hope, Resilience, and Purpose in Hard Times

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Fernando Benegas
Partner at Bleett, former Secretary Transformation of Buenos Aires City Government

Partner at Bleett. Helping companies and governments on designing, deploying and optimizing conversational channels.

Former Secretary of Innovation and Digital Transformation on City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

MBA, Lawyer and Marketing Technician. Change driven, passionate about what I do. Embrace the new and make it better.

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Amy Bernstein
Editor, Harvard Business Review & VP Harvard Business Publishing

Amy Bernstein is the Editor of Harvard Business Review and Vice President and Executive Editorial Director for Harvard Business Publishing, where she leads the company’s Educational and Learning Content unit. Prior to joining HBR in 2011, she had been VP, Global Thought Leadership, at ManpowerGroup. She has also held senior editorial positions at strategy+business, Business 2.0, The Industry Standard, Brill’s Content, and U.S. News & World Report.

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Mathis Bitton
Student of philosophy and political theory, Yale University

Mathis Bitton is a student of philosophy and political theory at Yale, currently working at the magazine Palladium. Hailing from Rabat, Morocco, he edits the Yale Historical Review and the Yale Herald, writes columns for the Yale Daily News, and serves as the Vice President of the Yale Political Union. A former intern at the American Enterprise Institute, the French National Assembly, and the Tikvah Fund, his work has appeared in National Review.

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Steve Blank
Adjunct Professor at Stanford and Senior Fellow for Innovation at Columbia

Steve Blank is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford and Senior Fellow for Innovation at Columbia. He has been described as the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement the curriculums for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps and Hacking for Defense and Diplomacy he’s changed how startups are built; how entrepreneurship is taught; how science is commercialized, and how companies and the government innovate.

Steve is the author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany and The Startup Owner’s Manual which revolutionized how startups were built-- and his May 2013 Harvard Business Review cover story redefined how large companies can innovate at speed.

Steve's latest class at Stanford is Technology, Innovation and Modern War, which is providing crucial insight on the impact of commercial technology on the future of warfare.
 
Steve blogs at www.steveblank.com.

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Amy Bradley
Professor of Leadership and Management at Hult International Business School

Dr. Amy Bradley is Professor of Leadership and Management at Hult International Business School. Dr. Bradley is an expert on the topics of compassionate leadership and engagement at work. Her research has been published in academic and practitioner publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes Magazine and Management Today and in the press, including BBC online and The Guardian. Dr. Bradley was listed in the 2020 Thinkers50 Radar of global management thinkers and her book, The Human Moment, was longlisted for CMI's Management Book of the year.

Topics focusing on: The Human Moment, which essentially argues for compassion to become central to our leadership and work cultures

Email: amy.bradley@ashridge.hult.edu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-amy-bradley-851255/

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Eduardo P. Braun
Leadership expert, consultant and author

Eduardo Braun is a leadership expert and consultant, keynote speaker, and author. For more than 15 years Eduardo has traveled the globe and interviewed -both on-stage and before cameras- world-renowned management leaders, heads of state, and top academics and entrepreneurs, including personalities such as Pope Francis, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Jack Welch, among others. His new book "People First Leadership" is the result of these many conversations, where he shares intimate stories and practical life lessons of successful leaders who use culture and emotion to drive unprecedented results, and introduces a new vision of leadership where The New CEO -Chief Emotions Officer- establishes stronger connections that get better results and create a culture of inspiration and success. Eduardo is an industrial engineer from the University of Buenos Aires, he has an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He worked in the US, Europe and Latin America for more than two decades in companies such as Booz Allen & Hamilton, Etex Group, and The HSM Group -global multimedia management company and organizer of the World Business Forum. Eduardo lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his 6 children.

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Gonzalo Brujó
Global President, Interbrand Group; Professor, IE Bus. School, LVMH Academy, and author

Gonzalo is Global President at Interbrand Group. He leads the day-to-day operations of the global corporate group, spearheading the growth agenda and supporting marketing and consulting efforts in all the regions.

He has been Global Chief Growth Officer of the Interbrand Group for three years. Prior to that, he spent more than fifteen years scaling the Interbrand business in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Gonzalo is a trusted partner of a diverse array of leading companies, multinationals and public institutions, managing strategic projects across every aspect of branding, marketing and communication. He has worked with well-known prestigious companies across all sectors: banking & financial services, telecommunications, automotive, airlines, transport, fashion, luxury, FMCG, food & beverages and technology, amongst others.

He is passionate about helping companies in all sectors drive growth. He has advised many of the world’s best-known brands, including Santander, The Coca- Cola Company, Iberia, Volkswagen Group, Zara, Renault, Huawei, Uber, LatAm and Axa.

Additionally, Brujó is a professor at several business schools including IE Business School, the University of Navarra and the LVMH Academy, and is the author of a number of top-selling brand books, including: The Secrets of Luxury, Managing Brands in Fashion, The New Generation of Value, and Lanmarq.

Before joining Interbrand, Gonzalo was the Managing Director for Futurebrand and Executive Vice-President and Director of Green Team Advertising in New York.

Gonzalo holds a BA in Communications, Political Science and Sociology from Wheaton College, Norton, MA. He also attended Harvard, MA, the American University of Paris and the College for International Studies in Madrid, in affiliation with Bentley College, Waltham, MA.

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Tiziana Casciaro
Professor of Organizational Behavior and HR Management

Tiziana Casciaro is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Rotman and the holder of the Marcel Desautels Chair in Integrative Thinking at U of T. Her research explores how structural and psychological forces jointly shape behavior in organizations. Her work on organizational networks, power dynamics, change implementation, and professional networking is published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, and Harvard Business Review, and featured in the Economist, Financial Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, USA Today, Forbes, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBC Radio, Fortune and TIME. Professor Casciaro has served as Senior Editor at Organization Science. Her awards include the Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award of the Academy of Management, and Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers in the world most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.

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Ed Catmull
Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, and President of Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disneytoon Studios

Dr. Ed Catmull is co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios. For over twenty-five years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing fourteen consecutive #1 box office hits, which have grossed more than  $8.7 billion at the worldwide box office to date, and won thirty Academy Awards®.

His book Creativity, Inc. – co-written with journalist Amy Wallace and years in the making – is a distillation of the ideas and management principles Ed has used to develop a creative culture. A book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, it also grants readers an all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation Studios – into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history have been made.

Dr. Catmull has been honored with five Academy Awards®, including an Oscar of Lifetime Achievement for his technical contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics for the motion picture industry. Dr. Catmull earned B.S. degrees in computer science and physics and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah.  In 2005, the University of Utah presented him with an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Engineering.

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Nand Kishore Chaudhary
Social entrepreneur; Chairman and Managing Director, Jaipur Rugs

Nand Kishore Chaudhary, a globally acclaimed social entrepreneur, is the founder of Jaipur Rugs, one of India's largest manufacturers of hand knotted rugs and is often referred to as ‘Gandhi of the Carpet Industry’.

With just two looms and nine artisans in 1978, his journey four decades later stands at Jaipur Rugs becoming a global social enterprise exporting to over 60 countries while providing sustainable livelihood to 40,000 artisans in 600 remote villages across five states in India, out of which 80% of them are women.

Management guru, C.K. Prahalad featured his revolutionary business philosophy in his globally acclaimed book - The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Mr Chaudhary has also been termed as ‘father of modern social enterprises’ by Prof. Jagdish N. Sheth from Emory University, USA. Sheth said, “Jaipur Rugs has become a role model, that business can serve society and at the same time ... can be a capitalistic institution”.

In 2019, Raj Sisodia featured Jaipur Rugs and NK Chaudhary in his book, ‘The Healing Organization’ for ‘The Power of innocence’. The book highly celebrated NK Chaudhary’s steps towards healing the customers and transforming the society with love.

He has won awards including E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award, CNBC TV18 Emerging India Award, Social Impact Award conferred by former president Pranav Mukherjee among others.
As a simple man, he is devoted to the Indian hand-knotted rug industry with an aim to position it rightly in the world and to empower its real owner and creator - the Indian weaver.
His philosophy of totality, inclusion and for-profit solutions to society are widely discussed.

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Laurent Choain
Chief People, Education & Culture Officer, Mazars

Laurent currently serves as Chief People, Education & Culture Officer of Mazars, an international, European-originating, integrated and independent organisation in professional services. Mazars can rely on the talent of 40,000 professionals, led by 1000+ partners in 90+ countries over 6 continents. 

Laurent has led a career at the crossroads of leadership in large companies (banking sector, luxury hospitality), consulting, entrepreneurship as well as business schools.  For more than thirty years, his vocation has been to develop executive education through innovative endeavours in both academic and corporate worlds, founding and leading corporate universities, launching post-graduate programmes for executives and chairing think tanks on the future of leadership education. In June 2011, he joined the board of EFMD as well as the EQUIS Awarding Body in 2014, and became in 2013 a member of the board of the Peter Drucker Society Europe. Laurent also sat on the French Regulation Authority of Business Schools (CEFDG) between 2011 and 2017. He is a professor of leadership at the University of Paris Pantheon Assas, and fellow of ESCP Europe.

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Claudia Crummenerl
VP People & Organization practice, Capgemini Invent

Claudia is an expert in the people perspective of digital, automation and AI. She collaborates and support clients in how leadership in the digital age is evolving, how workforce and organizations transform through automation and AI, how the HR function is composed and how to engage with employees during the process. Her particular project expertise lies in the rollout of large transformation programs in an international context.

Claudia combines Industry and Consulting expertise. She started and spend half of her career in the automotive industry in various positions in Germany, US and Japan driving change and HR projects. Since joining Capgemini Invent for their reputation in organizational transformation and change management, Claudia has been part of the German consulting team and now is Managing Director for the global People and Organization capability.

With Capgemini Invent’s strategic focus on Digital Transformation, Claudia has focused her thought leadership on how digital is transforming leadership, workforce and organizations. She regularly authors studies with the reputed Capgemini Research Institute and speaks at conference and client events.

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Tom Davenport
Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, Babson College; Senior Advisor to Deloitte U.S.

Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, a Visiting Professor at Oxford University’s Saïd School of Business, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and Senior Advisor to Deloitte’s Analytics and AI practice. His most recent book is The AI Advantage from MIT Press, and he’s written twenty books and over 300 articles for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and many other publications. He has been named one of the world’s Top 25 Consultants by Consulting magazine, one of the 100 most influential people in IT by Ziff-Davis magazines, and one of the world’s top fifty business school professors by Fortune magazine.

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Michael DePrisco
Chief Operating Officer, PMI

As PMI Chief Operating Officer, Michael (Mike) DePrisco provides executive leadership to the Global Operations Group, supporting more than 1.2M active certification holders, 650,000 members and 300 chapters from over 200 countries. He is responsible for the Product Portfolio, Lean Portfolio & Product Integration, Customer Care, and Digital Groups. His team's focus is on digital product delivery and management, and the successful execution of all major initiatives.

Mike joined PMI in 2013 and has held several roles within the organization including Vice President, Global Membership & Chapters, and Vice President, Academic and Educational Programs.

Prior to PMI, Mike served in executive positions in higher education. There, he executed university strategic plans to ensure integration and alignment of key initiatives and priorities. He provided executive oversight to campus development and growth, including student acquisition and retention, program development, financial management and stakeholder relationships.

He has a Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from West Chester University of Pennsylvania and holds a Certificate in Company Direction (International) from the Institute of Directors. Mike is active in youth and educational programs in his community.

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Emmanuelle Duez
CEO, The Boson Project

On completing her pluralistic studies (Law,  Sciences Po Paris, ESSEC, Bocconi), Emmanuelle founded WoMen'Up in 2011: the 1st association to interweave the themes of gender and generation.

In 2012 she launched 'The Boson Project'  (named after the Boson of Higgs,' the elementary particle of the universe, infinitely small but indispensable to the whole): an atypical and committed consulting firm and research center, which carries and offers with every mission the response to the following question: what if human capital were a treasure and the only lever worthy enough to transform organizations in a sustainable way? The Boson Project focuses on creating within organizations, may they be public or private, the conditions for the full expression  of human potential, individual and collective. In 2016, the consulting firm used its expertise to set foot in the real estate sector hence creating yet another vector for human excellence.

In 2014, Emmanuelle put her energy and convictions to the service of the French Navy. Upon becoming a Navy Reserve Captain, she worked on building bridges between civil society and the military to make the most of the managerial and organizational teachings from both universes. She thus created in 2017, with the War College, the annual event 'À la Croisée des Mondes,' which brings together civilian and military perspectives to inspire leaders and commanders on the notion of leadership.

The power to grasp contemporary issues  is what she wants to give to organizations as well as to collaborators and citizens on the whole. So, in 2018, she ventured outside the company's walls with an original concept: 'Tchatche', a festive and crazy free-fight oratorical show whose ambition is social and civic: to rehabilitate complex thinking, present information in all its nuances, and provide informed debate. In 2019, the civil citizen component was extended upon by opening 'Belleville by Boson', a Parisian agora for people to question  their commitment, their companies, their city. She also joined 'Bugali', a project of non-invasive edutech at the service of toddlers to awaken them to the humanities.

In 2019, Emmanuelle appeared in "Thinkers  50 Radar Class", which lists 30 prominent people to follow for their revolutionary ideas in terms of leadership, business, and management.

Speaker, author of numerous articles and  surveys, she has made it her mission to disseminate information on the opportunities for this new world.

In short, what are the core themes she takes  to heart? New relationships in the workplace, resilience through human excellence, the responsibility of organizations and leaders, managerial transformations, the role of space in transformations, management, the alignment of organizations, and the leadership  of tomorrow.

“The future, you don't have to foresee it, but allow it. "
– Antoine de St Exupéry

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Juan Enríquez
Author, academic, life sciences venture capitalist; Research affiliate at MIT’s synthetic neurobiology lab; Co-Founder Excel Venture Management;

Juan Enriquez author and teacher on the economic impact of life sciences and brain research on business and society. Business leader and entrepreneur.  He is a bestselling author, a life sciences venture capitalist and a research affiliate at MIT’s synthetic neurobiology lab. He co-founded Excel Venture Management. Author and co-author of multiple bestsellers including As the Future Catches You: How Genomics Will Change Your Life, Work, Health, and Wealth (1999), The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing and Our Future (2005), Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning Humanity One Gene at a Time (2015), and RIGHT/WRONG: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics (2020). Works with the CEOs of a number of Fortune 50 global companies, as well as heads of state, on how to adapt to a world where the dominant language is shifting from the digital towards the language of life. A TED All-Star with ten TED talks on a variety of subjects, as well as dozens of TEDx talks. Serves on multiple for profit boards as well as a variety of non-profits including The National Academy of Sciences, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, GBH, The Boston Science Museum, Harvard Medical School, and  Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center. He was the founding Director of the Harvard Business School's Life Sciences Project. He sailed around the world on an expedition that increased the number of know genes a hundredfold and was part of the peace commission that negotiated the cease fire with the Zapatistas. Graduated from Harvard with a B.A. and an M.B.A., both with honors.

Recent publication (2020): Right/Wrong-How Technology Transforms Our Ethics

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Daniel Erasmus

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Tamara J. Erickson
Leadership Advisor; top ranked management thinker, T50

Tamara J. Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author and a widely-respected authority on new approaches to leadership, the changing workforce, collaboration and innovation, and the nature of work in intelligent organizations.  At London Business School, Erickson has designed and directs the school’s leadership programme for senior-most executives, Leading Businesses into the Future, works with executives in a number of custom programmes, and teaches in the School’s Masters programmes.

She has five times been named one of the 50 most influential living management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, the respected ranking of global business thinkers. Her leading-edge work is consistently showcased in the prestigious Global Drucker Forum, an international conference of prominent business leaders. She has authored five books and numerous widely-cited articles.

An experienced executive and global advisor, Erickson has also served on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 corporations, where she served on Governance, Audit, and Compensation Committees and as the Lead Independent Director.

Erickson holds a BA degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, where she was the recipient of the James Thomas Chirurg Fellowship.

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Mark Esposito
Professor at Hult International Business School,
Co-Founder & CLO, Nexus Frontier, Author, and Advisor

Mark Esposito is recognized internationally as a top global thought leader in matters relating to The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the changes and opportunities that technology will bring to a variety of industries. He is Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale-up venture. He was inducted in 2016 in the radar of Thinkers50 as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers in the world.

He is a global expert of the World Economic Forum and advisor to national governments. In his academic career, Mark has held academic appointments for some of the world’s leading institutions such as Hult International Business School, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Arizona State University’s Thunderbird and IE Business School.

He has developed executive courses for Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education and served as Institutes Council Co-Leader, at the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program (MOC) at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, at Harvard Business School under the mentorship of Professor Michael E. Porter.

He is a nonresident Fellow at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai as well as Research Associate for the University College London, Blockchain Technologies. He serves as Senior Advisor at Cambrian Futures a global advisory deep tech thinktank. Since 2020, he is a Subject Matter Expert for the National Program on Artificial Intelligence at the Prime Minister Office of the UAE.

In his career he has written hundreds of op-eds and professional publications, over 150 peer review articles, several book chapters, over 40 case studies and 11 books, including two bestsellers. Mark is indeed the co-author of the best seller “Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using DRIVE to Harness the Power of Today's Megatrends”. The framework contained therein was nominated for the CK Prahalad Breakthrough Idea Award by Thinkers50, the most prestigious award in business thought leadership. In 2019, Mark's book on AI, The AI Republic, became #1 bestseller in the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy and received global accolades.

He holds a BA and MA in Social Sciences from the University of Turin, a PhD in Business and Economics from the International School of Management in Paris/New York and an Executive DBA from Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, one of France's most prestigious Grande Ecole.

He is fluent in 6 languages and in his nonacademic life, he holds the rank of Master Instructor, Black Belt IV Dan, at the International Budo Institute in Canada

Twitter: Exp_Mark

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Claudio Fernández Aráoz
Executive Fellow for Executive Education, Harvard Business School

Claudio Fernández-Aráoz is a top global expert on leadership and talent, family businesses, and personal growth. He was ranked by Bloomberg as one ofthe most influential executive search consultants in the world and selected by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s leading thinkers on talent.

An Executive Fellow for Executive Education at Harvard Business School, Claudio teaches at the school’s comprehensive leadership executive programs for company owners, CEOs, senior executives and general managers.

Upon graduation at Stanford’s GSB he worked initially for McKinsey & Company in Europe, and then for over three decades for Egon Zehnder, where as a partner he was a member of its global executive committee for more than ten years. He founded the firm’s assessment and development practice, and served as global leader of its professional development, people processes, and intellectual capital development.

Claudio is an acclaimed keynote speaker in all continents.

He selectively advises and coaches global CEOs, company owners, next generation family leaders, and managing partners of professional service firms.

His latest book, It's Not the How or the What but the Who, was the winner of the Axiom Gold Award for the best HR book in English in the whole world. His previous book, Great People Decisions, has 15 international editions inall major languages.

He is also the author of several bestselling Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and talent, family businesses, and personal growth, including “21st Century Talent Spotting”,“Leadership Lessons from Great family Businesses”,“Turning Potential into Success: The Missing Link in Leadership Development”, and “The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad”.

Claudio earned a master’s in science in Industrial Engineering from the Argentine Catholic University (Gold Medal, highest GPA everin that university) and an MBA from Stanford University, where he also graduated with honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar.

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Erhard Friedberg
Professor emeritus of Sociology at Sciences Po Paris

Born in 1942, Erhard Friedberg is Austrian by birth and upbringing. He has made his entire academic career in France and in Germany, first at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), then in Germany at the Science Center Berlin (WZB) and lastly at SciencesPo Paris. He obtained a first doctorate in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1979, and, in 1997, a second doctorate in Sociology from the University of Paris.

He has led numerous consulting projects both in the private and the public sector. From 1998 onwards, he has directed the multimedia project “The Living Archives of Organization Theory”, a project which documents the history of the discipline in filmed interviews with its “founding fathers” in France and in the world.

He is presently Professor emeritus of Sociology at SciencesPo Paris.

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Marcos Eduardo Galperin
Founder and CEO, MercadoLibre

Marcos Galperin founder and CEO of Mercado Libre, the leading e-commerce and fintech company in Latin America.

Marcos graduated with honors from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (1994) and an MBA from Stanford University (1999). He worked at YPF, the main energy company of Argentina, where he directed the areas of Capital Markets and Futures and Options (1994–1997).

He is a Board member of Endeavor Argentina (www.endeavor.org.ar, NGO dedicated to encouraging and accelerating entrepreneurship). In November 2010, Fortune magazine included him in the ranking of the 40 most successful entrepreneurs under 40 and, in 2012, he won the Entrepreneur of the Year award in Argentina, a distinction awarded by the consulting firm Ernst & Young.

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Arne Gast
Leader Organization Practice Asia, McKinsey

Arne Gast is the leader of McKinsey & Company’s Asia Pacific Organization Practice. His work focuses on creating organizations for the future, and making change happen in large transformations.  As one of McKinsey’s most experienced leadership experts, he has worked across many industries, including telecom, banks, insurance companies, healthcare, oil and gas, consumer goods and public sector. Over his nearly 20 years in McKinsey, he has worked and lived 8 years in Asia, and his client work stretches across Malaysia, India, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Korea, Japan and Australia.

Moreover, Arne is the co-founder and CEO of Aberkyn (www.aberkyn.com) , McKinsey’s special group of transformation facilitators. He is one of the lead facilitators of our Talent Leaders Forums and Change Leader Forums. He has written multiple McKinsey Quarterly articles, most recently on purpose – and was part of the teams writing the books Blue Ocean Strategy, Beyond Performance, Reorg and Leadership at Scale.

Selected examples of his work include:

• Developing the “organization of the future” for leading Asian insurance company, including simplifying the base structure and processes, and going agile in focused areas, all linked to new CX experience.  Developing change management, including Top 400 leadership development programs.
• Helping the shift to agile operating model in multiple Asian companies, including telecom, banking and oil and gas – including design of new people processes, organization structures, strategy mechanisms and leadership development.
• Developing a new operational model for the two leading SE Asian utilities. Developing new org structure, key new processes, and critical talent to value roles and leadership development programs.
• Redesigning the talent system and leadership development for the Asia-Pacific part of a global med-tech company.
• Future of Work planning for leading National Oil Company, working business-back to identify the most critical skill shifts, assessing the impact of new technologies, assessing impact potential.
• Developing the People Strategy for a leading Asian Bank, in a shared business/people strategy project, Assessing the Future of Work imperatives, critical HR initiatives, demands for the HR function. 

Beyond McKinsey, Arne studied Liberal Arts in the U.S., and holds a MSc in Economics from Erasmus University and an MBA from INSEAD. He is a Dutch national, and lives in Kuala Lumpur with his wife Lidewij and children Floris, Olivia, Tessel and Lotte. His passion is in Leica photography, building on a student career in photojournalism. His social impact focuses on education, co-founding Leerkracht Foundation that has helped to improve >500 Dutch schools, working with the Dutch-Moroccan Leadership Institute, Young Leaders Malaysia, a network of schools for highly gifted children, and multiple universities.

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Gerd Gigerenzer
Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg and partner of Simply Rational - The Institute for Decisions. He is former Director of the Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) Center at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and John M. Olin Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Law at the University of Virginia. In addition, he is Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences and Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Basel and the Open University of the Netherlands, and is Batten Fellow at the Darden Business School, University of Virginia. Awards for his work include the AAAS Prize for the best article in the behavioral sciences, the Association of American Publishers Prize for the best book in the social and behavioral sciences, the German Psychology Award, and the Communicator Award of the German Research Foundation. His award-winning popular books Calculated Risks, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, and Risk Savvy: How to make good decisions have been translated into 21 languages. His academic books include Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart, Rationality for Mortals, Simply Rational, and Bounded Rationality (with Reinhard Selten, a Nobel Laureate in economics). In Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions (with Sir Muir Gray) he shows how better informed doctors and patients can improve healthcare while reducing costs. Together with the Bank of England, he is working on the project “Simple heuristics for a safer world.” Gigerenzer has trained U.S. federal judges, German physicians, and top managers in decision making and understanding risks and uncertainties. The Swiss Duttweiler Institute has distinguished Gigerenzer as one of the top-100 Global Thought Leaders worldwide.

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Hal Gregersen
Executive Director, MIT Leadership Center, MIT Sloan School of Management

Hal Gregersen is executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management. A Thinkers50 globally ranked management thinker, he is the author of the Harvard Business Review article “Bursting the CEO Bubble” and co-author of The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Gregersen is also the founder of the 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skill onto the next generation. Putting his insight into practice, he is co-creator (with Sam Abell) of Leadership and the Lens: Learning at the Intersection of Innovation and Image-Making, an executive education experience through MIT Sloan Executive Education in association with Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.

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Liz Grennan
Associate Partner, Global Co-Leader of Digital Trust at McKinsey & Company

Liz is co-founder of Digital Trust by McKinsey, which helps organizations de-risk emerging technology by taking a cross-functional approach to legal, regulatory and ethical issues around topics including digital and analytics, core technology, cloud infrastructure, digital design, quantum computing, and the Internet of Things.

Previously Liz served as Global Managing Counsel for McKinsey Digital and brings a wealth of legal, risk and regulatory expertise to her work, as well as deep interest in the intersection of law and technology. She specializes in emerging technologies, ethical AI, intellectual property, data privacy, cybersecurity and SaaS. In addition to her client and firm work, Liz frequently writes on topics regarding digital trust, AI, and data governance and ethics, including for the World Economic Forum.  

Liz is a leader of McKinsey’s initiatives related to technology and risk. In addition to her Digital Trust work, she is also a member of several firm leadership committees, including the McKinsey Digital Risk Committee, where she has played a global convening role.

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Alice Guilhon
Dean & Executive President, SKEMA Business School

Dr. Alice Guilhon, Dean and Executive President of SKEMA Business School, is Head of one of the major Business Schools in France.

SKEMA (born in November 2009 from the merger of CERAM - Sophia Antipolis and ESC-Lille). Alice Guilhon began her career in 1994 as a University Professor and joined CERAM in 2000 as Dean of Research.

Dr. Alice Guilhon holds a PhD in Management (1993), University of Montpellier I and is graduate of Masters in International Economy from University of Aix-Marseille II. She holds also postgraduate degree in Engineering Economic Organisations from Montpellier I (1998) and she is graduate of Institut National des Hautes Etudes de Sécurité and Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale.

She was awarded by the French Governement: « Chevalier dans l'ordre national du Mérite » in January 2011 and « Officier dans l’ordre national du Mérite » in December 2019.

Médaille de Bronze (bronze medal) de la Jeunesse et des Sports.

Dr. Alice Guilhon has 25 years of experience in academic administration. She had several administrative responsibilities at the University of Aix-Marseille between 1994 and 2000. She was CERAM Associate Dean for research, between 2000 and 2003, then Faculty Dean from 2003 to 2005. Between 2005 and 2007, she was Deputy Director of CERAM Business School. Between 2007 and 2009, she was Dean of CERAM Business School.

Dr. Alice Guilhon is Advisor in Competitive intelligence for Ministry of Internal Affair. Member of the prime minister competitive intelligence Council, CI Expert for regional Council, Consultant on CI. In 2016, she has co-authored a manual of reference on economic intelligence: “Intelligence économique: s’informer, se protéger, influencer”.

She was/is:

• Member of Economic Security Council, French Government.
• Member of the EQUIS Committee (since 2015).
• President of the Group “Higher education, research and health” for
• the Development Council of the Metropole Côte d’Azur (2015-2018).
• Member of the FDC’s International Advisory Council (since 2016).
• Member of the LUISS Business school’s International Advisory Board (since 2014).
• Member of the board of trustees, IRD Group (Nord-pas-de-Calais) (since 2013).
• Advisor of Committee of Strategy of Xi’an Jiatong University Suzhou Research Institute Science & Education Development Co, Ltd (since 2015).
• Member of the Initial Accreditation Subcommittee Y of AACSB (2017-2020).
• Member of AFDESRI Association (“Association pour les femmes dirigeantes de l’enseignement supérieur, de la recherche et de l’innovation”), since 2017.
• Member of the Board of Trustees, EFMD (since 2018).
• Member of the Executive Board of FNEGE – “Fondation Nationale pour l'Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises » (“Chapitre Management de la CGE”), since 2018.
• President of « Chapitre des écoles de management » - CGE (2018-2021).
• Vice President of CGE - “Conférence des Grandes Ecoles” (since June 2019).
• Member of “Commission d’évaluation des formations et diplômes de gestion » - CEFDG since October 2019.
• Founder and President of CDEFM - « Conférence des Directeurs d’Ecoles Françaises de Management », since March 2021.
• Member of the development council in the college of qualified persons of the Metropole Nice Côte d’Azur, since April 2021.
• Member of the Ethics and Professional Conduct Committee of the BCE – “Banque Commune d’Epreuves”, since April 2021.

She is also Police Officer, Reservist.

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Rita Gunther McGrath
Professor of strategy, Columbia Business School

Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, and a longtime professor at Columbia Business School. She is widely recognized as a premier expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. Rita has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s Top 10 management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking. As a consultant to CEOs, her work has had a lasting impact on the strategy and growth programs of Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

Rita is the author of the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). Her new book is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). She has written three other books, including Discovery Driven Growth, cited by Clayton Christensen as creating one of the most important management ideas ever developed. She is a highly sought-after speaker at exclusive corporate events around the globe, such as the Global Peter Drucker Forum.

She received her Ph.D. from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and has degrees with honors from Barnard College and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs.

Follow Rita on Twitter @rgmcgrath. For more information, visit RitaMcGrath.com.

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Ping Guo
Huawei rotating chairman

Mr. Guo joined Huawei in 1988 and has served as R&D Project Manager, General Manager of Supply Chain, Director of Huawei Executive Office, Chief Legal Officer, President of the Business Process & IT Mgmt Dept, President of the Corporate Development Dept, Chairman and President of Huawei Device, Rotating CEO of Huawei, and Chairman of the FC. Currently, Mr. Guo serves as Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating Chairman of Huawei.

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Jyoti Guptara
Business Storytelling expert, novelist, and executive coach

A consultant, coach and international speaker, Jyoti Guptara is the author of ‘Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack: Unlock the Software of the Mind’.

When Jyoti dropped out of school at the age of 15 to become a full-time writer, teachers couldn’t imagine they’d be inviting him back three years later to speak as a bestselling novelist.

Despite his profession, Jyoti did not appreciate the value of storytelling in business until he was a Fellow at the GCSP, a United Nations partner organisation. There, he realised that some of the best content came after and between presentations, informally – when people told stories. Jyoti was quickly able to apply his decade of experience with fiction to executive education, helping business leaders find and tell stories to give better talks, pitch ideas and influence meetings, and improve internal communications, government relations, and investor relations. He also helps companies use narrative techniques to research, formulate and implement company strategy.

Of British and Indian descent, Jyoti lives in Switzerland with his wife and consults internationally. He has spoken on four continents.

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Valerie Hackl
Managing Director of Austro Control GmbH, Vienna

Dr. Valerie Hackl has been Managing Director of Austro Control since January 2019, except for the short-term appointment as Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology as part of the transitional government in Austria in May/June 2019.

Austro Control is a public, privately organized Austrian company responsible for the safe air traffic management in Austrian airspace. The company spectrum ranges from of the passenger aviation up to the approval of drones.

Before she became Member of the Board of ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG in 2015, Austria's largest mobility service provider, she was Head of Group Strategy at ÖBB-Holding AG and worked as a consultant for Bain & Company, one of the world’s leading management consulting companies.

Valerie is a native Austrian and studied Business Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of British Columbia / Vancouver. She obtained her doctoral degree at the Swiss Research Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Gallen.

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John Hagel III
Author; Faculty Member, Singularity University; Member Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute

John Hagel III has more than 40 years’ experience as a management consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur. After recently retiring as a partner from Deloitte, McGraw Hill will be publishing in May his new book, The Journey Beyond Fear, that addresses the psychology of change and he is developing a series of programs to help people navigate through change at many levels. John has founded a new company, Beyond Our Edge, LLC, that works with companies and people who are seeking to anticipate the future and achieve much greater impact.

While at Deloitte, John was the founder and chairman of the Silicon Valley-based Deloitte Center for the Edge, focusing on identifying emerging business opportunities that are not yet on the CEO’s agenda.  Before joining Deloitte, John was an independent consultant and writer and prior to that was a principal at McKinsey & Company and a leader of their Strategy Practice as well as the founder of their E-Commerce Practice.  John has served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., and is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups.

John is also a faculty member at Singularity University where he gives frequent talks on the mounting performance pressure created by digital technology and promising approaches to help traditional companies make the transition from a linear to an exponential world. He is also on the Board of Trustees at the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts leading edge research on complex adaptive systems. He has also led a number of initiatives regarding business transformation with the World Economic Forum.

John is the author of The Power of Pull, published by Basic Books in April 2010.  He is also the author of a series of best-selling business books, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box, and The Only Sustainable Edge. He is widely published and quoted in major business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, as well as general media like the New York Times, NBC and BBC. He has won two awards from Harvard Business Review for best articles in that publication and has been recognized as an industry thought leader by a variety of publications and institutions, including the World Economic Forum and Business Week.

John has his own website at www.johnhagel.com, and for many years wrote personal blogs at www.edgeperspectives.typepad.com as well as contributing postings on the Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Techonomy websites. He is active in social media and can be followed on Twitter at @jhagel and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhagel/

John holds a BA from Wesleyan University, a B.Phil. from Oxford University, and a JD and MBA from Harvard University.

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Gary Hamel
Director, Management Lab; Visiting professor, London Business School;

Gary Hamel is one of the world’s most influential and iconoclastic business thinkers. He has worked with leading companies across the globe and is a dynamic and sought-after management speaker. Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School for more than 30 years and is the director of the Management Lab.

Hamel has written 17 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history. His landmark books have been translated into more than 25 languages. His most recent bestsellers are The Future of Management and What Matters Now. In these volumes, Hamel presents an impassioned plea for reinventing management and lays out a practical blueprint for building organizations that are “fit for the future.”

Fortune magazine describes Hamel as “the world’s leading expert on business strategy,” and the Financial Times calls him a “management innovator without peer.” Hamel has been ranked by The Wall Street Journal as the world’s most influential business thinker and is a fellow of the Strategic Management Society and of the World Economic Forum.
Hamel’s groundbreaking concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution,” and “management innovation,” have changed the language and practice of management in organizations around the globe. 

Hamel’s work inside of organizations has been equally pioneering. Highlights include:

• Building one of the world’s first “idea markets” inside a global energy leader.
• Using crowdsourcing to help a European high tech company build a game-changing strategy.
• Orchestrating a comprehensive effort to turn a venerable durable goods manufacturer into one of the world’s most innovative companies.
• Helping a leading Korean company re-engineer its management practices around the principles of openness, community and meritocracy.
• Designing and deploying an online platform that allowed the employees of a top fashion house to share and develop ideas for strengthening their company’s core values.
• Developing innovation tools and platforms that have helped companies around the world de-commoditize mature industries and accelerate growth.
• Running an online “hackathon” in which more than 1,700 senior executives collaborated to reinvent the HR function.

In his work, Hamel has led transformational efforts in some of the world’s most notable companies and has helped to create billions of dollars in shareholder value.

Hamel is one of the world’s most sought-after management speakers on the topics of strategy, leadership, innovation and change.

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Charles Handy
Social Philosopher and author

Charles Handy is a social philosopher and a writer and lecturer. He regularly features among the top names in Thinkers Fifty. His books on the changing shape of work and its effects on our lives and organizations have sold almost two million copies around the world - his most recent book is ”The Second Curve“, published in 2015.

With Elizabeth Handy, a photographer, he has collaborated on a number of books including ”The New Alchemists“ and ”A Journey through Tea“.

In his career, he has been an oil executive with Shell, a business economist, a professor at the London Business School, the Warden of St. George’s House in Windsor Castle (a study centre for social and ethical issues) and the Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts in London. He was appointed a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List in 2000 in recognition of his contribution to the human Resource profession.

Charles is an Honorary member of the Peter Drucker Society Europe.

He is Irish and grew up in Kildare, but now lives in UK with his family.

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Rahaf Harfoush
Digital Anthropologist; Visiting Policy Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute

Rahaf Harfoush is a Strategist, Digital Anthropologist, and Best-Selling Author who focuses on the intersections of emerging technology, innovation, and digital culture. Her research centres on the human impacts of artificial intelligence, algorithms, social networks, and big data. Her latest book, entitled “Hustle & Float” (February 2019) reveals how the collision of disruptive technologies and centuries-old beliefs about work, is creating an untenable tension for workers in the idea economy, and what organizations need to do to help their creatives thrive.

Rahaf is a member of France’s National Digital Council. She is also a Visiting Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. She was named a Young Global Changer at the G20 Think Tank Summit. She teaches “Innovation & Emerging Business Models,” at SciencePo’s school of Management & Innovation in Paris. Rahaf is the Executive Director of the Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture, a think-tank and consultancy that focuses on helping organizations translate innovation trends into strategic opportunities.

Rahaf sits on the Steering Committee for the Peter Drucker Forum as well as the Peer Reviewing Committee for the Association of Internet Researchers. In 2014, Rahaf was named as a Rising Talent by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society and a Young Global Changer by the G20 Think Tank Summit. She was also selected as one of the Top 30 future thinkers by the prestigious Hay Literary Festival. Rahaf’s has been featured in TED, Harvard Business Review, Wired Magazine, MIT Technology Review, The Globe & Mail, The CBC, Bloomberg, Monocle, France24, The Guardian, The LA Times, Fast Company, Forbes, and more.

Formerly, Rahaf was the Associate Director of the Technology Pioneer Programme at the World Economic Forum in Geneva. She was the Research Coordinator on Don Tapscott’s best-selling “Wikinomics: how Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.”

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Hermann Hauser
Co-founder and Venture Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners

In 2015 Hermann was awarded an KBE for services to Engineering and Industry.

Serial Entrepreneur and Co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, Dr Hermann Hauser KBE has wide experience in developing and financing companies in the information technology sector. He co-founded a number of high-tech companies including Acorn Computers which spun out ARM, E-trade UK, Virata and Cambridge Network. Subsequently Hermann became vice president of research at Olivetti. During his tenure at Olivetti, he established a global network of research laboratories. Since leaving Olivetti, Hermann has founded over 20 technology companies. In 1997, he co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners. At Amadeus he invested in CSR, Solexa, Icera, Xmos and Cambridge Broadband.

Hermann is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, as well as an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. In 2001 he was awarded an Honorary CBE for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector’. In 2004 he was made a member of the Government’s Council for Science and Technology and in 2013 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.

Hermann has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Loughborough, Bath, Anglia Ruskin, Strathclyde, Glasgow and York.

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Margaret Heffernan
Entrepreneur; Professor, University of Bath School of Management England

Dr. Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years.  She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard&Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, was named one of the “Top 25” by Streaming Media magazine and one of the “Top 100 Media Executives” by The Hollywood Reporter.  

The author of six books, Margaret’s third book, Willful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn’t Everything and How We Do Better, described as "meticulously researched... engagingly written... universally relevant and hard to fault." Her TED talks have been seen by over twelve million people and in 2015 TED published Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes. Her most recent book, Uncharted: How to map the future was published in 2020. It  quickly became a bestseller and was nominated for the Financial Times Best Business Book award, the CMI Best Business Book and was chosen as the “Medium Best of the Best” business book. She is a Professor of Practice at the University of Bath, Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute’s Responsible Leadership Programme and, through Merryck & Co., mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organizations. She chairs the boards of DACS and FilmBath and is a Trustee of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.

www.mheffernan.com

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Hervé Helias
CEO Mazars Group

Hervé Helias is the Chairman & CEO of Mazars Group. A graduate of HEC, he joined Mazars in 1986. Over his more than 30-year tenure with the firm, he has occupied some of the most demanding leadership positions in the fast growing, integrated partnership. As a partner of the audit service, he signed some of Mazars’ largest clients including BNP Paribas.

He was the global head of banking from 2005 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012, he served as head of the Global Business Unit “Public Interest Entities". Managing Partner of Mazars in France and Group co-CEO from 2012 to 2016, he was elected the fourth Chairman. A founding father of Mazars University, consistently committed to the development of Mazars’ talent strategy, Hervé remains focused on making Mazars a great and diverse place to work.

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Pierre Hessler
Senior Adviser, Capgemini

Pierre Hessler is a Capgemini Fellow and Chairman’s delegate. He focuses on technology business and new business behaviors.

He is also head of Actideas.

Pierre Hessler started his career in 1965 in IBM Switzerland, holding executive positions in Europe and in the United States, notably as corporate vice-president for marketing, and general manager for marketing, services and operations of IBM Europe.

In 1993, he joined Cap Gemini, where he served in several executive positions, notably as a member of the Directoire and as chairman and CEO of Gemini Consulting. He was on the Board of directors between 2000 and 2012.

Between 2003 and 2019, he was first chairman, then member, of the Board of Bureau Veritas and also chairing its Compensation and Appointments Committee.

Swiss and French citizen, married with 2 children, graduate of the University of Lausanne with degrees in law and economics, author of “Media and Corporate Scandals”.

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Andrew Hill
Management Editor, Financial Times

Andrew Hill is an award-winning columnist and senior journalist at the Financial Times. As Associate Editor and Management Editor, he writes a weekly column on business, strategy and management, as well as contributing longer features and taking part in video discussions and podcasts. He is a regular public speaker and chair of panels on leadership and management.

Since joining the FT in 1988, Andrew has worked in various roles, including editor of the daily Lombard column on British business and finance, Financial Editor, Comment & Analysis Editor, New York Bureau Chief, Foreign News Editor, and correspondent in Brussels and Milan. He is a member of the FT’s Editorial Board.

Andrew was named Business Commentator of the Year 2016 in the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards and Best Commentator at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received the Decade of Excellence award for sustained achievement in business and financial journalism.

His latest book is Ruskinland (Pallas Athene, 2019), a personal exploration of John Ruskin’s life, work and enduring influence on our world, published to coincide with the bicentenary of the great thinker’s birth. He is also the author of Leadership in the Headlines (FT Publishing, 2016), a selection of his FT columns and insights about how leaders lead.

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Xavier Huillard
Chairman and CEO, Vinci SA

Born in 1954, Xavier Huillard is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He has spent most of his working life in the construction industry in France and abroad. Mr Huillard joined Sogea in December 1996 as Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of international activities and specific projects, and then became its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1998. He was appointed Deputy General Manager of VINCI in March 1998 and was Chairman of VINCI Construction from 2000 to 2002. He was appointed Co-Chief Operating Officer of VINCI and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI Energies from 2002 to 2004, then Chairman of VINCI Energies from 2004 to 2005. Mr Huillard became Director and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI in 2006 and was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI on 6 May 2010. He served as Chairman of the Institut de l’Entreprise from January 2011 until January 2017. He was appointed Chairman of VINCI Concessions SAS on 20 June 2016.

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Herminia Ibarra
Professor for Organizational Behaviour, London Business School

Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School. Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEAD and Harvard Business School faculties.

An authority on leadership and career development, Thinkers 50 ranks Ibarra among the top management thinkers in the world. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, a judge for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and one of the 100 most influential people in gender policy around the world, according to Apolitical.

Ibarra is the author of the best-selling Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader (Harvard Business, 2015), which explains how managers step up to bigger leadership roles, and Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career, which describes the process of reinventing one’s career. Her current research investigates enablers and barriers in the adoption and implementation of cognitive technologies in established organizations.

Author of numerous articles in the Harvard Business Review and leading academic journals, she also writes for business publications including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times, and speaks internationally on leadership and organizational transformation.

Ibarra received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where she was a National Science Fellow.

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Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño
President, IE University

Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño is the President of IE University and a recognized influencer in global higher education. He was the first recipient (2019) of the Founders Award by Thinkers50, the prestigious global ranking of thoughtful leaders in Management.

Iñiguez serves on the boards of Headspring, a joint venture between IE Business School and the Financial Times, offering custom programs for companies, as well as on the boards of EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development), Renmin University Business School (China), Antai Business School (Jiao Tong University, China), LUISS Business School (Italy), Mazars University (France), the Russian Presidential Academy (RANEPA, Russia), and FGV-EASP Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Brazil). He is a past Chair of the Board of AACSB, the global association of business schools.

Iniguez is the former Dean of IE Business School and has played a leading role in business education. He was portrayed by the Financial Times as “one of the most significant figures in promoting European business schools internationally”. He was the first European appointed as “Dean of the Year” by Poets & Quants (2017).

He is the author of “The Learning Curve: How Business Schools Are Reinventing Education” (2011), “Cosmopolitan Managers: Executive Education That Works” (2016), and “In An Ideal Business: How the Ideas of 10 Female Philosophers bring value to the Workplace” (2020), as well as co-editor of “Business Despite Borders: Companies in the Age of Populist Anti-Globalization” (2018), all published by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer).

Iniguez is a regular speaker at international conferences and frequently contributes in different journals and media on higher education and executive development. He is one of the 500 Global LinkedIn Influencers and in 2019 has been recognized as the leading Spanish influencer in Management by the Mexican magazine Entrepreneur.

Iniguez is Professor of Strategic Management. He holds a Degree in Law, a Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy and Jurisprudence (Complutense University, Spain) and an MBA from IE Business School. He was a Recognized Student at the University of Oxford, UK.

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Michael Jacobides
Chair of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, London Business School

Michael G Jacobides is the Sir Donald Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Professor of Strategy at London Business School. He is Academic Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group, Visiting Scholar at the New York Fed, and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge. In 2019 he was selected as one of the Thinkers50, the top 50 management thinkers worldwide, and is a leading expert on business ecosystems, and how firms navigate shifting, digital environments. A frequent keynote speaker, he engages in corporate, industry, and broad-appeal events such as TEDx and the Global Drucker Forum. A winner of the 2018 Theory to Practice Award from the StrategieForum, he advises disruptive start-ups and Fortune500 firms alike in Europe, the US and Asia. He works on thought leadership with consultants such as McKinsey, IDEO, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, Keystone and ECSi, and on strategy with corporates such as Haier, Huawei, Spotify, MasMovil, Vodafone, Nokia, SAP, Enel, Santander, Helvetia, Zurich, CS, Airbus, DeBeers, Burberry, MerckSerono and the NHS.  He has visited Harvard, NYU, Cambridge, Imperial, Bocconi and Wharton, where he obtained his PhD, after studying at Athens, Cambridge and Stanford. His work, which has received the Sloan Foundation Award, has appeared in the top academic journals such as SMJ, AMJ, AMR, OrgSci and Industrial & Corporate Change, where he is a co-Editor, as well as HBR and FT. He appears on CNN and BBC. On policy, he has worked with the UK parliament (on the future of financial services), the European Council (on innovation in Europe) and has spearheaded RedesignGreece. He served on the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, he is a co-author of the WEF’s White Paper on Digital Platforms and Ecosystems, and has presented in the Davos Annual meetings.

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Elsbeth Johnson
Senior Lecturer MIT's Sloan School of Management, Managing Director, SystemShift

Dr. Elsbeth Johnson is a Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining MIT, she taught at London Business School for five years, having previously worked as an equity analyst and a corporate strategist.

She is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and the Sloan Management Review, as well as the author of the book, “Step Up, Step Back: How to Really Deliver Strategic Change in Your Organization” (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Elsbeth is the founder of the consulting firm, SystemShift, which works with organizations and their leaders on issues of leadership, strategy and change. She is based in London.

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Hubert Joly
Senior Lecturer Harvard Business School; former CEO, Best Buy

Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy.

He is also a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a Trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Joly has been recognized as one of the top 100 CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barron’s and one of the top 10 CEOs in the U.S. by Glassdoor.

He is the author of the highly acclaimed book “The Heart of Business – Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism.”

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Luc Julia
Chief Scientific Officer, Renault Group

Dr. Luc Julia, Chief Scientific Officer for Renault, was CTO and Senior Vice President of Innovation for Samsung Electronics, directed Siri at Apple, was Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard and cofounded a number of start-ups in the Silicon Valley. While conducting research at SRI International, he was involved in the creation of Nuance Communications, now the world leader in speech recognition.

Recipient of Légion d’Honneur, the highest order of France, and member of its National Academy ofTechnologies, he holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris.

He is the bestselling author of the book “There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence”, holds dozens of patents and is recognized as one of the top 100 most influential French developers in the digital world.

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David J. Kappos
Partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

David J. Kappos is a partner at Cravath. He is a leader in the field of intellectual property, including IP management and strategy, the development of global IP norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation-based assets.

From 2009 to 2013, Mr. Kappos served as Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In that role, he advised the President, the Secretary of Commerce and the Administration on IP policy matters and was instrumental in achieving the greatest legislative reform of the U.S. patent system in generations through passage and implementation of the 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.

Prior to leading the USPTO, Mr. Kappos held several executive posts in the legal department of IBM. From 2003 to 2009, he served as the company’s chief intellectual property lawyer. In that capacity, he managed global IP activities for IBM. During his more than 25 years at IBM, he also served in a variety of other roles including litigation counsel and Asia Pacific IP counsel.

Mr. Kappos has received numerous accolades for his contributions to the field of IP, including being named one of the “Top 25 Icons of IP” by Law360, one of the “50 Most Influential People in IP” and the “Outstanding Practitioner of the Year in IP Transactions” by Managing IP, one of the “Top 50 IP Trailblazers & Pioneers” and one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” by The National Law Journal, “IP Professional of the Year” by the Intellectual Property Owners Association and being inducted into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame by Intellectual Asset Management Magazine in 2012.

Mr. Kappos serves on the Boards of Directors of the Partnership for Public Service, the Center for Global Enterprise and the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation. He is the Chair of the Advisory Council of the Naples Roundtable, and the U.S. Chair of the U.S.-China IP Cooperation Dialogue. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School, where he teaches copyright litigation, and Cornell Law School, where he teaches legal advising for the start-up general counsel.

Mr. Kappos received a B.S. summa cum laude in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 1983 and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.

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Veronica Kaup-Hasler
Executive City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science, Vienna

Veronica Kaup-Hasler (*1968) is a cultural and theatre scholar, dramaturge, cultural manager, politician and, since 2018, Executive City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science of the City of Vienna. Previous positions include the Basel Theatre, the Wiener Festwochen and the artistic directorship of the Theaterformen festival in Hanover and Brunswick (2001-2004). Before entering the political stage, she has been the director of contemporary arts festival steirischer herbst in Graz/Austria from 2006 to 2017. Her biggest project during that time was the first film adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek‘s novel “The Children of the Dead”.

In addition, Kaup-Hasler promoted the cross-genre nature of the festival – discursive focal points such as “Truth is Concrete”, a week-long “24/7 marathon camp” that analyzed artistic strategies in politics and political strategies in art.

Since her inauguration as City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science, she has also brought her spirit to the political level and into the administration. Not only was the cultural budget massively increased, but Kaup-Hasler also initiated the discussion on fair pay in Austria and immediately took the first steps, e.g. through work grants and sponsored studios in the city. During the corona crisis, she initiated the Kultursommer, a summer festival with music, dance and performances for the Viennese to have access to culture after such a long lockdown and give artists an opportunity to perform and get adequately paid. Several cities have already adopted the concept.

The continuous support for research in the field of Digital Humanism is one of her main political goals in the realm of science: new calls and funding programs have been the first steps in order to strengthen this
interdisciplinary approach.

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John Kay
Economist; Editorial contributor to FT; former Chair at LSE, LBS and Oxford; Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to economics

John Kay is an economist whose career has spanned the academic world, business and finance, and public affairs. He has held chairs at the London Business School, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, where he began his academic career in 1970. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

John is a director of several public companies and a contributing editor of the Financial Times. He chaired the Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-Term Decision-Making which reported to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in July 2012. He is the author of many books, including The Truth about Markets (2003), The Long and the Short of It (2009, new revised edition 2016) and Obliquity (2010). Other People’s Money was published by Profile Books and (in North America) by PublicAffairs in September 2015, was a book of the year for Bloomberg, The Economist and the Financial Times, winner of the Saltire Literary Prize for non-fiction, and was short-listed for the Orwell Prize for political writing. Radical Uncertainty, jointly written with Mervyn King, was published in March 2020. His latest book, Greed is Dead, co-authored with Paul Collier, was published in July 2020.

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Julia Kirby
Senior Editor, Harvard University Press

Julia Kirby has been with Harvard Business Review for over a decade and in that time worked with hundreds of expert authors to bring their ideas to the magazine’s managerial audience. Marketing management and strategy are particular areas of interest; she stays on top of the issues facing marketers in leading firms and seeks out new academic research with important managerial implications. She is also the author of a book (with Christopher Meyer) on how the rules of capitalism will change as the center of gravity of global commerce shifts to emerging economies: “Standing on the Sun: How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere“ and Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines (with Thomas H. Davenport)

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Peter G. Kirchschläger
Professor of theological ethics, University of Lucerne, director, Institute of Social Ethics ISE

Peter G. Kirchschlaeger is Full Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Lucerne. He is Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (South Africa).

He is Founder and Director of the «Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE» under the patronage of UNESCO, and since 2018 Founder and Director of the «Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics LGSE».

2011-2015, he was member of the Board of the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights, 2013 Visiting Scholar at the University of Technology Sydney (Australia), 2013-2014 Guest-Professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), 2013-2017 Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden), 2015-2019 Guest-Lecturer at the Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany), and 2015-2017 Visiting Fellow at Yale University (USA).

One of his research focuses is Ethics of Digital Transformation and of Artificial Intelligence. His last book “Digital Transformation and Ethics” (2021) identifies ethical opportunities and challenges and offers concrete solutions for the path forward.

He is a consultative expert in Ethics of national and international institutions and organizations (companies, NGOs, …), member of the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH), Associate Editor of the Journal «AI Perspectives», and member of the working-group Mobility 4.0 of the Swiss Federal Roads Office.

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Eric Kohlmann
Principal Arc Ventures

Eric Kohlmann, Principal at Arc Ventures, joined in 2020 to build its profile as a leading venture firm. Eric sits on the investment committee.

Prior to his role at Arc, Eric was the Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Trinnacle Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund, applying machine learning to unique datasets for algorithmic trading. In 2019, Trinnacle announced the acquisition of its IP in alternative data and machine learning by a large, international hedge fund.

Through his Switzerland-based family holding Kohlmann & Co AG, which he co-founded in 2013, Eric has been an active angel investor in leading technology companies. Most recently, he was an investor in the New York-based neuroscience startup CTRL-Labs, which announced its sale to Facebook in October 2019 in one of its largest acquisitions to date.

A classical music enthusiast (and hobby pianist), Eric is a regular at many concert halls and loves discovering new composers, venues and festivals.

Eric holds a Masters in Finance from IE Business School in Madrid and started his academic career at Eton College in the UK, going on to study at ETH Zurich and TU Munich where he successfully completed his Bachelor in Physics, researching the electrochemical properties of titanium oxy carbide nanotubes in 2011.

Eric speaks English, German, Portuguese and some Japanese.

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Noboru Konno
President Japan Innovation Network

Noboru Konno is Professor of Tama Graduate School, Guest Professor of Graduate School (SDM) of Keio University, He also serves as Representative Executive of Japan Innovation Network and President of EcosyX Lab, Inc. He has been involved in numerous projects for knowledge industries, design strategy projects. His recent studies are around “knowledge ecology”. It includes knowledge creation and its place (concept of “ba”) and “Purpose Engineering”. His books include “Design Thinking For Business” and co-authored books with Ikujiro Nonaka “The Principles of Knowledge Creation Management”, “Conceptualizing Capability—Drawing a Big Picture” and others.

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Philip Kotler
S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Philip Kotler is the S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg™ School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Kellogg was voted the “Best Business School” for six years in Business Week’s survey of U.S. business schools. It is also rated as the “Best Business School for the Teaching of Marketing.” Professor Kotler has significantly contributed to Kellogg’s success through his many years of research and teaching there.

He received his Master’s Degree at the University of Chicago and his PhD Degree at MIT, both in economics. He did post-doctoral work in mathematics at Harvard University and in behavioral science at the University of Chicago.

Professor Kotler is the author of 57 books including: Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation and Control, the most widely used marketing book in graduate business schools worldwide; Principles of Marketing; Marketing Models; Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations; The New Competition; High Visibility; Social Marketing; Marketing Places; Marketing for Congregations; Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism; The Marketing of Nations; Kotler on Marketing, Building Global Biobrands, Attracting Investors, Ten Deadly Marketing Sins, Marketing Moves, Market Your Way to Growth, Winning Global Markets, and Confrontiing Capitalism. He has published over one hundred and fifty articles in leading journals, several of which have received best-article awards.

Professor Kotler was the first recipient of the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) “Distinguished Marketing Educator Award” (1985). The European Association of Marketing Consultants and Sales Trainers awarded Kotler their prize for “Marketing Excellence”. He was chosen as the “Leader in Marketing Thought” by the Academic Members of the AMA in a 1975 survey. He also received the 1978 “Paul Converse Award” of the AMA, honoring his original contribution to marketing. In 1989, he received the Annual Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award. In 1995, the Sales and Marketing Executives International (SMEI) named him “Marketer of the Year.” In 2011, he was given the title of being a Legend in Marketing; in 2012, he was #1 on the Management A-List of Academics; in 2013 he became the first recipient of the William L. Wilkie American Marketing Association Foundation’s “Marketing for a Better World” Award for significant contributions to marketing theory and practice; also in 2013, he was inducted in the Management Hall of Fame; also in 2013, he became the first recipient of the Sheth Foundation Medal for Exceptional Contribution to Marketing Scholarship and Practice.

Professor Kotler has consulted for such companies as IBM, General Electric, AT&T, Honeywell, Bank of America, Merck and others in the areas of marketing strategy and planning, marketing organization and international marketing.

He has been Chairman of the College of Marketing of the Institute of Management Sciences, a Director of the American Marketing Association, a Trustee of the Marketing Science Institute, a Director of the MAC Group, a former member of the Yankelovich Advisory Board, and a member of the Copernicus Advisory Board. He is a Member of the Board of Governors of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Drucker Foundation. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from the Stockholm University, University of Zurich, Athens University of Economics and Business, DePaul University, the Cracow School of Business and Economics, Groupe H.E.C. in Paris, the University of Economics and Business Admininstration in Vienna, Budapest University of Economic Science and Public Administration, and the Catholic University of Santo Domingo.

He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and South America, advising and lecturing to many companies about how to apply sound economic and marketing science principles to increase their competitiveness. He has also advised governments on how to develop and position the skill sets and resources of their companies for global competition.

Education
PhD, 1956, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MA, 1953, Economics, University of Chicago

Academic Positions
S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1988-present
Harold T. Martin Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1973-1987
Montgomery Ward Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1969-1972
Associate Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1965-1968
Assistant Professor of Market, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1962-1964

Honors and Awards
Honorary Doctorate, Plekhanov Russian Academyu of Economics
16th Place in Ratings of Top Global Management Gurus, Global Gurus Organization and Management Gurus.Net
Marketing for a Better World, American Marketing Association
Wroe Alderson Distinguished Lecturer, Wharton School
Schaffner Award, Kellogg School of Management
Sheth Foundation Medal for Exceptional Contribution to Markeitng Scholarship and Practice, Sheth Foundation
Badge of Honor of Officer of the Order of Academic Palms, Order of the Academic Palms
Management Hall of Fame, www.thinkers50.com
Honorary Doctorate Degree, HHL, Leipzig, Germany, 2012
Ranked first on the A-List of Management Academics, 2011
Kellogg Alumni Professor of the Year Award, Kellogg School of Management, 1991

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Ashok Krish
Global Head, Digital Workplace Practice, Tata Consultancy Services

Ashok Krish is the Global Head of Digital Workplace for Tata Consultancy Services, heading an interdisciplinary group of behaviour scientists, designers, application architects, full stack developers and workplace infrastructure engineers who help large organizations reimagine their workplace. Outside of work, he is an author, columnist and amateur musician who plays the violin, cello and guitar.

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Karim R. Lakhani
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Karim R. Lakhani is the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He is founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, the principal investigator of the NASA Tournament Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, faculty co-founder of the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative, and co-founder and co-chair of the Harvard Business Analytics Program.

He specializes in technology management and innovation. His research examines crowd-based innovation models and the role of analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) in the digital transformation of business and operating models. Karim is known for his pioneering scholarship on how communities and contests can be designed and managed to achieve innovative outcomes. He has partnered with NASA, Topcoder, Harvard Medical School, the Broad Institute and Linux Foundation to conduct field experiments on the design of crowd innovation programs. He serves on the Board of Directors of Mozilla Corporation, Local Motors and advisor to several AI-based startups including StormForge and VideaHealth.

Karim was awarded a Ph.D. in management and an SM degree in technology and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Management from McMaster University. Prior to coming to HBS he served as a Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Karim has published over 150 papers and teaching cases, is the co-editor of Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities and Open Innovation (2016) and Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (2005). He is the co-author of the book Competing in the Age of AI (2020).

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Erik J. Larson
Computer scientist and tech entrepreneur whose writings help to shape society’s discourse about artificial intelligence

Erik J. Larson is a computer scientist and tech entrepreneur whose writings help to shape society’s discourse about artificial intelligence. His new book, with Harvard University Press, is The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do. The founder of two DARPA-funded AI startups, Larson is currently working on core issues in natural language processing and machine learning. He has also written for The Atlantic and for professional journals, and been able to test the technical boundaries of artificial intelligence in work with the IC2 tech incubator at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Wolfgang Lechner
Professor at the University of Innsbruck, CEO/co-founder of Parity Quantum Computing

Wolfgang Lechner studied physics at the University of Vienna, where he received his PhD in the field of theoretical physics in 2009. After a PostDoc at the University of Amsterdam, he moved to the IQOQI of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck (2012) where he worked in the group of Prof. Peter Zoller. In 2016, he became an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck. With his habilitation at the University of Innsbruck in 2019, he became a tenured professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics. Prof. Lechner develops novel methods for quantum simulation and quantum computing and is best known for the invention of the LHZ (Lechner-Hauke-Zoller) quantum computing architecture. 

Wolfgang Lechner founded ParityQC GmbH in 2019 together with Magdalena Hauser, the University of Innsbruck and the Academy of Sciences and Hermann Hauser as investor. The company develops blueprints for quantum computers with a focus on disruptive applications such as solving optimization problems and machine learning. 

He has received numerous awards for his research, including the Loschmidt Prize (2011), Wallnöfer Prize (2015), Thirring Prize (2017), START Prize (2017), the Houska Prize (2019) and the Research Faculty Award by Google (2020). ParityQC recently received the Phönix Award and was named one of the most promising spin-offs by Nature. Wolfgang Lechner was among the 32 inventors who are building a better future as named by the magazine Wired. Prof. Lechner has published more than 40 papers, is frequently an invited speaker at international conferences and has filed 7 patents in the field of quantum computing.

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Maurice Lévy
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Publicis Groupe

Maurice Lévy is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Publicis Groupe, the leader in business, marketing and communications transformation. He joined Publicis in 1971 as IT Director, and was appointed CEO of Publicis Conseil, the Groupe’s flagship agency, in 1981. He was named CEO of Publicis Groupe in 1987, a role that he fulfilled for 30 years until being named Chairman of the Supervisory Board as of June 1, 2017. He was responsible for transforming Publicis from a great, French creative agency into a global leader, covering all segments of the advertising industry. With spectacular acquisitions such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Bcom3 (Leo Burnett, Starcom, Mediavest) Zenith or in the digital space with Digitas, Performics, Razorfish, Rosetta and Sapient, today Publicis represents more than 80,000 talents, $10 billion in revenue and is present in more than 104 countries.

In 2016, to celebrate Publicis Groupe’s 90th anniversary, Maurice Lévy was determined to look to the future rather than the past, keeping in line with Publicis’ pioneering spirit. The result was two initiatives – Publicis90, through which Publicis Groupe invested in 90 promising startups and Viva Technology Paris, a global event dedicated to the collaboration between large companies and startups.

Widely recognized as a leading figure in the communications industry, Mr. Lévy also co-founded the French Brain Institute (ICM) in 2005, and serves as the Chairman of the board for several entities, including the International Board of Governors for the Peres Center for Peace. In 2015, he was appointed Chairman of the Pasteur-Weizmann Institute. Mr. Lévy has been honored with numerous distinctions and accolades for his contributions to media, business leadership, tolerance and peace. Mr. Lévy holds the distinctions of Commandeur of the French Légion d’Honneur and Grand Officier of the Ordre National du Mérite.

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Mickael Locoh
VP Southern Europe & Africa, Steelcase

Passionate about people, leadership and change management, Mickael Locoh, Vice President Southern Europe & Africa,  is with his team, helping companies all around the globe to have a workplace supporting their company’s strategic ambitions.

With a finance mathematics engineer background, he began his career in the financial sector at BNP Paribas as business continuity & crisis manager all around the world. Coordinating and dealing with the major crisis with the executive committee of the bank, he was in front line during key events like the subprime, Lehman Brother and all main ones impacting the business and image of the bank.

In 2011, to use his scientific background combined with more “soft skills”, he joined Steelcase. Part of the the EMEA leadership team, he is now in charge of the Southern Europe including countries like France, Luxembourg, Italy and also the African coutinent. He is also leading the team called “Clients without borders” working with fast growing companies expanding in Europe.

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James M. Loree
CEO, Stanley, Black & Decker

Jim Loree is Chief Executive Officer of Stanley Black & Decker, a leading $14.5 billion global diversified industrial. He leads more than 53,000 employees across 60 countries who make the tools, products and solutions to deliver on the company’s Purpose, For Those Who Make The World. The company operates the world’s largest tools and storage company; the world’s second largest commercial electronic security company; and is a global industrial leader of highly engineered solutions within its engineered fastening and infrastructure businesses.

Under Jim’s leadership, the company continues to gain recognition for industry leadership in advanced manufacturing, operational excellence, responsible business practices, and as a best workplace for innovators and diversity and equality.

To win in the 2020s, Jim is accelerating an ambitious 2025 growth strategy to deliver sustainable profit and societal good though its innovations and business model approach. To deliver on these goals, the company is focused on three priorities: continue delivering top-quartile performance, become known as one of the world’s leading innovators and elevate its commitment to corporate social responsibility.

Jim joined the company, then Stanley Works, as CFO in 1999 when the company generated just over $2 billion in revenue. In that role, he led a massive restructuring of the business and began a re-architecting of the company’s portfolio. Since that time, he was promoted to COO, President and then CEO in 2016.

Jim is a director of Whirlpool Corporation, and serves as a trustee of his alma mater, Union College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics. He lives with his wife Rebecca in Connecticut and is the proud father to four young women.

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Dana Maor
Senior Partner, McKinsey

Dana is the global cohead and European leader of our People & Organizational Performance Practice. She first joined McKinsey in New York in 1998. After 10 years in the United States, she transferred to the Israel office, where she was our office Managing Partner from 2011 to 2021.

From 2015 to 2017, Dana led our work on transformational change across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Most recently, she led our work on talent around the globe. Passionate about talent and leadership, Dana has guided many organizations through the process of establishing leadership-development platforms for top executives and has helped architect capability-building programs to reskill employees for changing workforce needs.

Whether working in aerospace, financial services, pharmaceuticals, or telecommunications, she has helped clients pursue successful large-scale operational and organizational transformations and successful M&A integrations.

Dana is active in knowledge creation and publishing, and took a major role in the research the firm undertook to build an effective understanding of talent management around McKinsey’s 2018 book, Talent Wins.

In her current leadership role, Dana is focused on ensuring holistic impact for our clients. This work includes helping leaders define a clear purpose and design a fast and flexible operating model to deliver it. Taking talent as a source of value, she sets people strategies so that organizations have the right skills for now and for the future. And she supports initiatives to shape healthy cultures, shift mindsets, and motivate new behaviors. The end goal is organizational transformations that are both successful and sustainable

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Roger L. Martin
Strategy advisor; former Dean, Rotman School of Management

In 2017, Roger Martin was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. He was ranked 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th in the other ranking years over the past decade.

Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Ford.

Roger Martin is a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto where he served as Dean from 1998-2013, Academic Director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship from 2004-2019 and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute from 2013-2019. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants.

Prior to his time at Rotman, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he served as co-head of the firm for two years.

His research work is in Strategy, Democratic Capitalism, Integrative Thinking, Design of Business, Incentives & Governance, and Social Innovation. His extensive writing includes 12 books and 28 Harvard Business Review articles. His newest book is When More is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020). His previous 11 books include: Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel (HBRP, 2017), Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg (HBRP, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (HBRP, 2013); Fixing the Game (HBRP, 2011); The Design of Business (HBRP, 2009); The Opposable Mind (HBRP, 2007); and The Responsibility Virus (Basic Books, 2002). Both Getting Beyond Better and Playing to Win won best book awards at Thinkers 50.

In 2010, he was named one of the 27 most influential designers in the world by Business Week. In 2007 he was named a Business Week 'B-School All-Star' for being one of the 10 most influential business professors in the world. Business Week also named him one of seven 'Innovation Gurus' in 2005.

He serves as Chair of The Good Jobs Institute and the I-Think Initiative, and on the Board of The Nine Dots Prize.

Roger received his BA from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981. in 2018, he was awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) by the Royal Military College of Canada. He lives in South Florida with his wife Marie-Louise Skafte.

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Sara Mathew
Chair of the Board, Freddie Mac

Ms. Mathew is the Former Chairman and CEO of D&B.  She joined D&B in August 2001 as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), after 18 years at Procter and Gamble.  At D&B she was appointed CFO and SVP of International in 2005, CFO and President of the U.S. business in 2006, and President and Chief Operating Officer in 2007. She was named Chief Executive Officer in January 2010 and assumed the role of Chairman of the Board in July of that year, a position she held until her retirement in 2013. Ms. Mathew was a member of D&B’s Board of Directors from 2008 to 2013.

During her tenure at D&B, Ms. Mathew was instrumental in transforming D&B from a data company to a more innovative, digital enterprise, leveraging technological advances to expand its reach to new customers and structural changes to transform the underperforming International business. She led the re-build of D&B’s core technology platform and data assets, introducing Data-as-a service (DaaS) to access new customers and accelerating Big Data Analytics to create new insights for its existing customer base.

Ms. Mathew has received numerous accolades during her tenure at D&B. In 2012, she was named to FT’s 50 Women at the top; in 2013, Top value creator in the S&P500 by Chief Executive magazine; in 2015 NACD’s Directorship 100 list; in 2017, FWA’s Woman of the Year; in 2018 Ascend/Deloitte’s Pan Asian Director of the year. In 2019, Sara was awarded NACD Director of the Year for the New Jersey Chapter will be the recipient of P&G’s John G Smale Award for outstanding alumni in October 2019.  Prior to D&B, Ms. Mathew spent 18 years at Procter of & Gamble.

Ms. Mathew currently Chairs the Board of Freddie Mac and serves on the Boards of State Street and Reckitt Benckiser. She has previously served on the Boards of Campbell Soup, Avon and Shire and has about 35 years of cumulative Board service. Sara holds a bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry and mathematics from the Women's Christian College in Madras, India, and a master’s degree in business administration from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Moderator

Ade McCormack
Digital leadership expert with focus on creating super-resilient organizations

Ade McCormack is a former technologist who today is focused on leadership and creating super-resilient organisations. Such organisations are more akin to living organisms than inert factories His work focuses on empowering organisations to harness the cognitive capital lying dormant in their people. Thus transforming the organisation requires transforming the talent from ‘cogs in the machine’ to cognitive athletes.

Ade studied astrophysics and worked for over a decade as a software engineer. This included working with the European Space agency, but also included a variety of sectors ranging from defence to finance.

• He is a former Financial Times opinion columnist, whose column focused on guiding leaders on digital leadership matters.
• Ade has lectured at MIT Sloan School of management on digital leadership.
• Ade works with the University of Cambridge on executive education programmes.
• He has written 6 books on digital matters.
• Ade has global experience, having worked in 40 countries.
• He has worked with many global brands across multiple sectors.
   

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ademccormack/
Ade’s perspectives: https://www.ademccormack.com/digital-strategy-blog/

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Laura Morgan Roberts
Professor of Practice, Darden School of Business

 Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts is an innovative global scholar, speaker and consultant on the science of maximizing human potential in diverse organizations and communities. Her thought leadership in diversity, authenticity and leadership development has been recognized by LinkedIn (Top 10 Voice in Equity; 2020); Thinkers50 (On the Radar, 2021); ThinkList #Amplify (2020), and the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Award for Societal Impact (2020). Laura has published over fifty research articles, teaching cases, and practitioner-oriented tools for strategically activating best selves through strength-based development, workplace equity and inclusion. Laura has co-edited three books: Race, Work and Leadership (2019 Axiom Business Book Award winner); Positive Organizing in a Global Society; and Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations. She has also self-published The Alignment Quest™ Toolkit for Activating Best Selves and several poetry collections. Laura is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and the Academy of Management Review, and is regularly quoted in global media outlets.

Laura currently serves as Professor of Practice at her alma mater, the University of Virginia, in the Darden School of Business. She earned a BA in Psychology (highest distinction & Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Virginia, and an MA and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. She has served on the faculties of Harvard Business School, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, and Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change. She has also taught organizational behavior, psychology, negotiations, group dynamics, diversity, leadership and career development at the University of Michigan, the Wharton School of Finance, Tuck, Georgia State University, UCLA Anderson, Simmons School of Management, and AVT (Copenhagen). Laura’s family roots are in Gary, Indiana and Washington, DC, and she is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

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Katharina Moser
Founder, MOSAIK - Designing European Experiences; Co-Founder, Creative Cooperation

Katharina Moser designs and moderates events that connect people. She is driven by the vision to inspire a feeling of togetherness as the basis for successful cooperation. Having worked for the Foreign Ministry, the British Council or the European Forum Alpbach, she founded MOSAIK in 2015. MOSAIK’s projects were awarded with the State Prize on Europe, the European Citizens' Award or the Innovation Award by Corps Touristique Austria. Katharina designed, organised and moderated around 200 events and also works as a speaker and workshop host. In 2020 she put her focus on how to create meaningful online and hybrid events. For the Global Peter Drucker Forum she took care of designing the online experience of the event 2020.

She is on the board of Bürgerforum Europa; Austrian Society for European Politics, founding member of Alliance4Europe and member of the BMW Responsible Leaders Network.

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Alan Mulally
Former President & CEO, Ford Motors Company; former CEO, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Alan Mulally served as president and chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Company and as a member of Ford’s board of directors  from September 2006 - June 2014.
Mulally led Ford’s transformation into one of the world’s leading automobile companies and the #1 automobile brand in the United  States. He guided Ford in working together on a compelling vision, comprehensive strategy, and implementation of the One Ford  plan to deliver profitable growth for all of the company’s stakeholders.

Prior to joining Ford, Mulally served as executive vice president of the Boeing Company, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial  Airplanes, and president of Boeing information, Space and Defense Systems.

Throughout his career, Mulally has been recognized for his contributions, industry leadership, and service, including being named #3 on Fortune’s “World’s  Greatest Leaders,” one of the 30 “World’s Best CEO’s” by Barrons’ magazine, one of “The World’s Most influential People” by Time magazine, and “Chief  Executive of the Year” by Chief Executive magazine.
He was also honored with the American Society for Quality’s medal for excellence in executive leadership, the Automotive Executive of the Year, and the Thomas  Edison Achievement Award. Mulally is a Museum of Flight Pathfinder and a member of the Automobile Hall of Fame.

Mulally previously served on President Obama’s United States Export Council. He served as co-chairman of the Washington Competitiveness Council and has  served on the advisory boards of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the University of Washington, the University of Kansas, the Massachusetts  Institute of Technology, and the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. Mulally has also served as President of the American Institute of Aeronautics and  Astronautics and as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Aerospace Industries Association. Mulally is a member of the United States National Academy of  Engineering and a fellow of England’s Royal Academy of Engineering.

Mulally currently serves on the board of directors of Google, Carbon 3D, and the Mayo Clinic.

Mulally holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Kansas, and a  Masters in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.

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Julian Nida-Rümelin
Professor for Philosophy and Political Theory, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

Julian Nida-Rümelin is a German philosopher, born in Munich. He belongs to Germany’s most influential living philosophers alongside Jürgen Habermas and Peter Sloterdjik.
He teaches Philosophy and Political Theory an the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. Nida-Rümelin is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences as well as the Academy for Ethics in Medicine.

Nida-Rümelin spent five years in politics. First as Head of the Municipal Department of Arts and Culture of the Bavaria State capital Munich (1998-2000) and then as cultural minister for the Federal Republic of Germany under chancellor Schröder (2000-2002).

Since 2017 Nida-Rümelin is one of the directors of bidt (Bavarian Insitute for Research in digital transformation) He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Faculty of Philosophy in Triest, Italy and is Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In 2017 the Bavarian Government awarded him with the Medal for special services to Bavaria in a United Europe and in 2019 he received the Bavarian Distinguished Service Award. In 2020 JNR was appointed deputy chairman of the German Ethics Commission.

Nida-Rümelin publishes inside and outside academia on topics including economics, democracy, education, ethics as well as the digitalisation of our society. His latest publications include Digitaler Humanismus (Piper, 2018) which received the Bruno Kreisky prize for the best political book of the year, Ethik des Risikos (Piper, 2021) and  Eine Theorie praktischer Vernunft (DeGruyter, 2021).

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Kevin Nolan
President & Chief Executive Officer, GE Appliances

Kevin Nolan is the President & Chief Executive Officer of GE Appliances, a Haier company, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. GE Appliances is the fastest growing appliances company in the U.S.

Mr. Nolan is a seasoned engineer and a passionate maker with 29 patent awards and a 30-year career at GE, including 10 years as GE Appliances’ Chief Technology Officer.

He took innovation to a new level when he conceived and co-founded FirstBuild, the first Corporate maker’s space in the world and global co-creation community that harnesses the power of the maker movement to change the way home appliances are conceived, designed and manufactured.

Originally from Connecticut, Mr. Nolan is an active voice in Louisville, KY, working directly and through several organizations to attract new investments to the area; promoting STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) programs in schools and community centers; mobilizing resources to close the digital and educational gap in the city and personally participating in several community development organizations, including Metro United Way.

Currently as CEO of GE Appliances, Mr. Nolan is successfully leading the company’s transformation, redefining structures, promoting a new culture and shaping the future of an organization founded more than 100 years ago.

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Ikujirō Nonaka
Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University

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Helga Nowotny
Former President, European Research Council; Professor emerita of Science &Tech Studies, ETH Zurich

Helga Nowotny is Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich, and a founding member of the European Research Council. In 2007 she was elected ERC Vice President and was ERC President from March 2010 until December 2013. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University, New York, after having obtained a doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Vienna. She has held teaching and research positions at the University of Vienna; King’s College, Cambridge; University of Bielefeld; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; Collegium Budapest/Institute of Advanced Study, Budapest and others. Throughout her career she has been engaged in science policy at EU level and in various advisory roles.

Helga Nowotny has published widely in science and technology studies and on social time. Her latest books are The Cunning of Uncertainty (Polity, 2015) and An Orderly Mess (CEU Press, 2017). Currently she is a member of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development and Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Falling Walls Foundation, Berlin; Vice-President of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings; Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna; and active in other advisory boards in Europe. She is a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of Academies of Science in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA. She has been honoured by the rarely awarded Gold Medal of the Academia Europaea, the Leibniz-Medaille of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and the British Academy President's Medal.

She has received honorary doctorates from universities and academic institutions in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Norway, Singapore and the United Kingdom. 

http://helga-nowotny.eu/

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Michael Ong
Founder & Chairman Innovative Business Foundation Limited

Mr. Ong holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Leicester. Mr. Ong has been involved in private equity and corporate finance over 20 years. He assisted large organizations on PRC issues; fund-raising, legal structuring, negotiation, documentation and external counsel management of several large-scale investments/joint-venture.

Mr. Ong is a co-founder and CEO of MiLOC Group Limited which is a public listed company on AQUIS Exchange in London. Mr. Ong is Ambassador of Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings for Hong Kong and China Bay Area, Director of Nanjing Sinar Mas & ZiJin Venture Capital Management Co., Ltd., Consultant of Red Carpet Culture Fund, Honorary President of Hong Kong Society of Economists, Think Tank Member of Dashun Foundation and Board Advisory Chairman of Science.Now GmbH.

Previously, he was CEO/Directors for a number of investment, technology, construction and project management companies. He also sat as directors on numerous public listed companies of different jurisdictions.

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Alexander Osterwalder
Entrepreneur and Business Model Innovator, Co-Founder Strategyzer

Dr. Alexander (Alex) Osterwalder is one of the world’s most influential strategy and innovation experts, a leading author, entrepreneur, and in-demand speaker whose work has changed the way established companies do business and how new ventures get started.

Ranked No. 4 of the top 50 management thinkers worldwide, Osterwalder is known for simplifying the strategy development process and turning complex concepts into digestible visual models. Together with Yves Pigneur, he invented the Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, and Business Portfolio Map – practical tools that are trusted by millions of business practitioners from leading global companies including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, MasterCard, Sony, Fujitsu, 3M, Intel, Roche, Colgate-Palmolive, and many more.

Strategyzer, the company Osterwalder co-founded in 2010, is an innovation powerhouse, providing online courses, applications, and technology-enabled services to help organizations effectively and systematically manage strategy, growth, and transformation.

Osterwalder’s books include the international bestseller Business Model Generation, Value Proposition Design, Testing Business Ideas, and his newest one, The Invincible Company.

He holds the Strategy Award from Thinkers50 and the European Union’s inaugural Innovation Luminary Award. In 2019, Osterwalder successfully chaired the prestigious Drucker Forum for the first time, the premier annual business management conference. A frequent and popular keynote speaker, Osterwalder travels the world discussing his ideas and strategies at Fortune 500 companies, premiere innovation conferences, and leading universities.

He holds a doctorate from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, and is a founding member of The Constellation, a global not-for-profit organization connecting local responses to global issues around the world.

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Peter Paschek
Management Consultant

Peter Paschek (born October 1949, Homberg/Lower Rhine , Germany), Studies in Social Sciences and Economics in Germany , UK and USA (Dipl. soc oec.).

Management Consultant since 1979. From 1976 to 1979, scientific staff member, Chair of Sociology I (Prof. Dr. J. Papalekas), Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

In 2015 Paschek continued his work as Management and Executive Search Consultant as free lancer , after operating as Managing Partner and Co-Owner of Delta Management Consultants GmbH for more than 20 years.

His academic teaching activities (St. Gallen Iniversity till 2013, and particularly at Technical University Munich) kept him constantly connected with academia.

Paschek is a disciple of Prof. Dr. Peter F. Drucker , who was friend and advisor to him for nearly 30 years. In 2004 both edited a book, titled „Kardinaltugenden effektiver Führung“ which was translated in Chinese, Korean and Portuguese.

Paschek‘s newest book , titled „Peter F. Drucker- memories of a conservative christian Anarchist“, will be published end of 2019.

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Delphine Paulet
Head of Faculty, Mazars University

Delphine Paulet is the Dean of TheNextMBA and head of faculty for Mazars University.

Veterinary doctor by education, she founded and managed several veterinary practices. Her medical PhD research was focused on neurology, and as a veterinarian she specialized in behavioral pathology. In 2002, she started changed the focus of her career from animals to humankind, receiving her first degree in social psychology and neuroscience before completing her MBA at IAE Aix and training certifications in Emotional intelligence, NLP, Belbin and Stakeholders Centered Coaching.

She formally started her second career in higher education in Aix-Marseille Business School, where she was a member of the Executive Committee and professor in Emotional Intelligence & Leadership.

She specialized in leadership development, through teaching, executive coaching, consulting, and public appearances in conferences. She is the founder and curator of TEDxAix.

Her second Ph.D.  explored the topic of talent selection “Rational vs. Irrational, how companies select their future leaders.” She is currently focusing her activities on applying neurosciences findings in the business environment.

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Daniel H. Pink
Author

Daniel H. Pink is the author of six provocative books about business and human behavior. His books include the long-running New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books have won multiple awards, have been translated into 41 languages, and have sold more than three million copies. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family.

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Patricia Pomies
Chief Operating Officer, Globant

Patricia is a rising star at Globant as she takes on new and diverse leadership roles. Her mission is to ensure key elements of the business: the speed, quality and services of product delivery. As Globant’s operative leader, she oversees the revenue and margin for company-wide operations so that Globant can smartly execute its strategy with maximum value for clients and stakeholders.

Recognizing the importance of Globers’ wellbeing, training and skill development, her responsibilities have recently expanded to include oversight of the People department. Bridging the gap between the People and Delivery areas is a pillar of Globant’s strategy to provide greater value to its clients. To execute her duties efficiently, Patricia regularly takes the pulse of the global company, whether it be consulting with regional management across Globant’s markets, or joining happy hours with software developers to hear their stories.

Her role has become ever more complex as the company has grown to what is today a publicly traded company of 12,000 people working in seventeen countries worldwide. To rapidly scale up the company from startup to multinational, Patricia and her team were the architects of Globant’s secret sauce of agile pods. This industry-disruptive approach gave more autonomy and resources to company teams, putting them at the center of the organizational framework.

Shaped by her experience as a working mother, Patricia is an advocate for having more women in management positions, recognizing the gender gap in the tech industry.  She was one of the architects behind Globant’s Be Kind initiative, encompassing development areas in gender equality, technology ethics and renewable energy, among others.

Patricia came to Globant with a background in education and communications, having taught at four universities. For four years, she was a general manager at Educ.ar, an initiative of the Argentine Ministry of Education to enable digital education access throughout the country, regardless of any student’s geographical or socio-economic disadvantages. Despite moving into the private sector, she continues her passion for women in business and inclusive education by participating in the Women Corporate Directors organization, as well as the advising council of Generación Única, UNICEF’s digital education project in Argentina.

With her husband, Pedro, Patricia enjoys spending time with their daughter Filippa. In her free time, she enjoys painting, water skiing, alpine skiing. She enjoys making cocktails for her guests at home, and also spends time learning from Buenos Aires’ most renowned mixologists.

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Dan Pontefract
Leadership Strategist; Founder and CEO, The Pontefract Group; Adjunct Professor, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria

Dan Pontefract is the founder and CEO of Pontefract Group, a firm that improves the state of leadership and organizational culture. Furthermore, he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business.

Dan is the best-selling author of four books: LEAD. CARE. WIN. How to Become a Leader Who Matters (2020), OPEN TO THINK: Slow Down, Think Creatively, and Make Better Decisions (2018), THE PURPOSE EFFECT: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization (2016) and FLAT ARMY: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization (2013).

His third book, OPEN TO THINK, won the 2019 getAbstract International Book of the Year and the Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal. His fourth book, LEAD. CARE. WIN. has been shortlisted for the 2021 getAbstract Book of the Year. He is on the Thinkers50 Radar list, HR Weekly’s 100 Most Influential People in HR,  Engagedly’s Top 100 HR Leaders, PeopleHum’s Top 200 Thought Leaders and Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 leadership speakers.

While as Chief Learning Officer and Chief Envisioner at TELUS, Dan was responsible for the overarching leadership, collaboration & learning strategy for the company. Dan championed the introduction of the TELUS Leadership Philosophy (TLP), a collaborative-based leadership framework for 50,000+ team members. In parallel to these actions, he drove a philosophical and cultural shift in the way TELUS views and experiences learning called “Pervasive Learning” the shift to a social, informal and formal learning model. He further championed the use and deployment of collaborative technologies to complement both the leadership and learning frameworks. Between 2008 and 2018, employee engagement at TELUS soared from 53% to nearly 90%. Dan’s innovation also led to the introduction of the TELUS MBA—run in partnership with the University of Victoria—which allows TELUS team members the opportunity to garner an MBA over two years. The program has won three international awards and delivered new revenues and savings in excess of $300m. He also founded the Transformation Office, an external consulting arm that helped TELUS clients improve their internal culture and leadership practices.

His career is interwoven with corporate and academic experience, coupled with an MBA, B.Ed and multiple industry certifications. Dan is a renowned speaker, invited to deliver over 600 external keynotes and presentations, including four TED Talks. Dan also writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review.

Previous to his ten years at TELUS, he held senior positions over twelve years with SAP, Business Objects, Crystal Decisions and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).

Dan and his wife, Denise, have three children and live in Victoria, Canada.

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Deepa Prahalad
Design strategist and Social Innovator

Deepa Prahalad is an author, business strategist and consultant specializing in opportunities at the intersection of consumer experience, technology and strategy. Passionate about emerging markets and innovation, she began her career searching how to improve efficiency in UN procurement and later moved to Singapore to become a commodities trader with Cargill. Deepa has worked as a management consultant with firms from start-ups to large multinationals. In 2008, she researched and co-authored the book, “Predictable Magic: Unleash The Power of Design Strategy To Transform Your Business” (Wharton School Publishing). Deepa speaks at business schools such as USC and Harvard on design strategy using the EMPOWER framework she developed and conducts workshops for executives. A frequent blogger on the Huffington Post and Harvard Business Review, she has also written about the business case for design in Bloomberg Businessweek and other magazines.

She currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Lappeeranta University of Technology (Finland) and the Challenge: Future global youth think tank and student competition. Deepa also works with several initiatives that support the work of her late father, CK Prahalad, such as the Prahalad Center for Emerging India in Chennai and the Prahalad Initiative at the University of Michigan. Deepa is a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and is on twitter at @deepaprahalad.

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Martin Reeves
Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute

Martin Reeves leads the BCG Henderson Institute worldwide, BCG’s think tank on new approaches to strategy and management. Martin is also a member of the BCG Henderson Institute's Innovation Sounding Board, which is dedicated to supporting, inspiring, and guiding upstream innovation at BCG.

Martin is a regular contributor to HBR, MIT SMR, Fortune and other management journals on business strategy and management.

A regular public speaker and a repeat TED@BCG presenter, Martin is also coauthor of Your Strategy Needs a Strategy, which proposes the “strategy palette” as a tool to enable business leaders to tune their approach to strategy to the strategic environment of each business.

Since joining BCG in 1989, Martin has led a broad range of strategy assignments in the Financial Institutions, Consumer Goods, Industrial Goods and Health Care sectors. He has particular expertise in the areas of adaptive strategy, strategy for multi-business systems, sustainability strategies, ecosystem strategies, collective learning and innovation, corporate vitality, and trust.

Prior to joining BCG, Martin worked for Zeneca in Japan and the United Kingdom, where he focused on marketing and strategic planning.

To see the BCG Henderson Institute’s latest research, please visit bcghendersoninstitute.com and follow on Twitter at @BCGHenderson and at @MartinKReeves.

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Helmut Reisinger
CEO Orange Business Services

Dr. Helmut Reisinger was appointed CEO of Orange Business Services in May 2018 and serves on the Executive Committee for the Orange Group. Helmut is responsible for the company strategy to support the digital transformation of our enterprise customers across France and international markets. His particular focus will be on the key business growth areas that enable multinational enterprises to leverage their entire data value chain, resulting in new business models and further success.

Helmut has over 20 years of experience in enterprise markets and solutions. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he was executive vice president, International, in charge of business activities outside the home market France, including Europe, the Americas, APAC, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Indirect business. He joined Orange in July 2007 as senior vice president, Europe.

Before joining Orange Business Services, Helmut was vice president Western Europe at Avaya Inc. Previously, Helmut was CEO of private equity owned NextiraOne Germany and a member of their European Executive Committee. Helmut also held several leadership positions during his nine-year tenure with Alcatel Austria, with his last position being managing director of Alcatel’s enterprise activities in Austria.

A native of Austria, Helmut is a graduate of Vienna University for Economics and Business, CEMS Masters Program at WU Wien with international studies at Hochschule St Gallen (Switzerland) and ESCCA Angers (France).

Helmut speaks English, French, German and Spanish.

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Carlota Ribeiro Ferreira
Founder and Executive Board Member at WIN World

Carlota has over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of business, knowledge, communication, media and education, committed above all to projects that have a positive impact in our societies and the world.

On December 4, 2008, Carlota founded WIN World with a mission to inspire leaders and organizations for the future. She saw an audience of curious, ambitious and bold people, thirsty for great stories and ideas, and ready to act. WIN World has evolved to become a complete media company focused on concept, content and multi-format storytelling, event production and other multi-platform projects. Together with the rest of the WIN World team, Carlota works on the creation of inspiring and transformative live and digital experiences that can touch millions of people across the globe.

On November 19, 2020, Carlota moved on and founded The Collection of Inspiring Businesses, which is a group of companies and investments in creativity, content, communication, human development and technology. WIN World, The Expression Studio, The Content Studio and The Self-Expansion Studio are part of the group.

Carlota holds a Business Administration degree from Instituto Superior de Gestão, a degree of Special Studies in General Management from Harvard University and an Advanced Management Program with Jack Welch. Carlota is also part of the board of directors of Harvard Club in Portugal. She also belongs to the global communities Voyagers.io and Abundance Digital. Carlota is a global content curator and a gifted writer who regularly publishes in Dinheiro Vivo, a Portuguese business newspaper, and LinkedIn.

Beyond business, Carlota loves travelling, the outdoors and practicing sports (waterski in particular). She is the proud mother of two sons: Vasco, 17, and Sebastião, 8 - undoubtedly her biggest sources of inspiration.

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Stéphane Richard
CEO & Chairman, Orange Group

Stéphane Richard, born in 1961, has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orange since March 1, 2011.

He joined the Orange Group in September 2009 and has successively occupied the positions of Deputy CEO in charge of French Operations, CEO Delegate, and CEO. Between 1992 and 2003, Stéphane Richard was successively deputy to the CFO of Compagnie Générale des Eaux, Chief Executive Officer of Compagnie Immobilière Phénix, and Chairman of CGIS (Compagnie Générale d’Immobilier et de Services), now Nexity. From 2003 to 2007, he was Deputy CEO of Veolia Environnement and CEO of Veolia Transport, as well as being a director of Orange.

From 2007 to 2009, Stéphane Richard was Chief of Staff to the French Minister for the Economy, Industry, and Employment.

He is a graduate of École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) and École Nationale d’Administration. He is a French national.

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Marie Ringler
Ashoka Europe Leader

Marie Ringler is leading Ashoka's work in Europe. She founded Ashoka's Austrian office in 2011 and soon took over Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe. In 2015 she became one of Ashoka's Europe Directors, in 2018 she was appointed European Leader of Ashoka. She was born in Vienna, studied Sociology, Political Science and Women`s Studies at the University of Vienna, and holds a degree from ESADE Business School, Spain and an MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

In the late 90`s she helped build Public Netbase, an art institution dedicated to exploring the social implications of the internet and new technologies through the lens of art, and later became its managing director. She was elected into office as a Member of the Regional Parliament and City Council of Vienna in 2001, making her the youngest member.  During her time in office, she focused on developing policy to drive innovations in society, and served on the Vienna Department of Commerce Advisory Board, initiated the city’s Open Source Software Strategy and developed a federal policy program for Innovation.

After two successful terms in office, she decided against a life-long career in politics and established Ashoka`s Austrian office in Vienna.

In her role as Director of Ashoka in Central and Eastern Europe she led Ashoka’s relaunch efforts in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Israel. As Europe Leader Ringler is advancing Ashoka’s work in over 26 country offices who support more than 570 Social Entrepreneurs (“Ashoka Fellows”). Ringler serves as a 2nd Opinion Interviewer in Ashoka’s Global Fellow Selection process and has led the global selection process for more than 50 Fellows in countries such as Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico, Colombia, and the US.  Her work has been featured extensively in international media and she is a frequent speaker at conferences and events focusing on social entrepreneurship, social innovation, cross-sectoral collaboration and policy.

She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Broadcasting Agency (ORF), and serves on several award juries.

Ashoka is the world`s largest network of 3.600 Social Entrepreneurs, spanning across more than 90 countries, who are solving some of the world`s toughest social problems. Ashoka works to identify, elect and support leading social entrepreneurs financially and professionally. We bring communities of social entrepreneurs together to help leverage their impact, scale their ideas, and disseminate their practices. And we help to build the infrastructure, financial systems and mindsets needed to facilitate the global growth of social innovation and an Everyone a Changemaker world.

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Andreas Rosenfelder
Head of feature section, Die Welt/Welt am Sonntag

Andreas Rosenfelder is a leading culture journalist in Germany. He studied Literature, Philosophy and Theatre in Cologne and started his career at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where he wrote from 2001 to 2007. He was a Culture reporter for German „Vanity Fair“ between 2007 and 2009. Since 2010 he works in Berlin at „Die Welt“ and „Welt am Sonntag“, where he is Head of Culture since 2014. His main subjects are Philosophy, Society and Cultural Change.

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Alexander Schallenberg
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Austria

Profile upcoming soon.

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Paul J.H. Schoemaker
Author, educator, researcher and entrepreneur in strategic management, decision making, innovation and leadership

Dr Schoemaker is an author, educator, researcher and entrepreneur in strategic management, decision making, innovation and leadership. He was among the first to combine the practical ideas of decision theory, behavioral economics, scenario planning and risk analysis into a set strategic tools and methods for managers.  Paul was the founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies International, a decades old strategy consulting and training firm, as well as the Chairman of two other companies in Europe and the USA. Paul served for many years as the research director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School, where he was also a professor teaching strategy and decision making. He is internationally known for his 115+ articles and twelve books on decision making, leadership, innovation and strategy, including the landmark book Winning Decisions.  Paul also writes a periodic column for Inc.com which has attracted up to 2 million page views. Earlier, Paul was a professor at the University of Chicago for 12 years, where he conducted academic studies in its Center for Decision Research and became a highly cited scholar (top 1% globally). Paul recently started a new company (Q2 Tech) to develop behavioral digital tools for managers steering teams in intelligent enterprises. He also published a new book with George Day, See Sooner - Act Faster (MIT Press, 2019) examining how leaders and organizations can thrive in an age of digital turbulence (MIT Press).

Paul’s hobbies include tennis, golf, and piano. He lives with his wife on the east coast of the US, while retaining roots in the Netherlands, where he was born and raised. 

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Rosanna Sibora
Director IT Innovation, Universal Music Entertainment GmbH

Profile upcoming soon.

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Philippe Silberzahn
Associate Professor, EMLYON

Philippe Silberzahn is associate professor at EMLYON Business School in France and a recognized expert in innovation and entrepreneurship. As a consultant, keynote speaker and management educator, he works with large organizations engaged in transformation efforts when confronted to uncertainty and disruptions in their markets. His latest book in English, “A Manager’s Guide to Disruptive Innovation” was published in January, 2018.

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Michael Skapinker
Associate Editor, Financial Times & columnist

Profile upcoming soon.

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Christian Stadler
Professor of Strategic Management Warwick Business School

Christian is a professor of strategic management at Warwick Business School and Forbes Contributor. He previously held visiting positions at Dartmouth College, Universita’ Cattolica, and Université Toulouse. 

Christian addresses fundamental strategic questions that enable companies to grow, adapt, and consistently beat their competitors . In his new book “Open Strategy. Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite” he explains how companies can craft strategy in a new unconventional way, one tailor-made for today's faster, more volatile business environment. His previous book “Enduring Success: What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding Corporations” was the first one with a non-U.S. perspective on long-range success.

His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg Business Week, Fast Company, Fortune/CNN, and the BBC, and has been translated into 11 languages.

Christian has been listed by Thinkers50 as a future thinker in 2013 and shortlisted for its strategy award in 2021. He regularly appears in the media, and has been quoted in over 7,000 media outlets including CNN, BBC, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

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Richard Straub
Founder and President, Global Peter Drucker Forum

Richard Straub has drawn his ample experience of leadership and management from a 32-year career at IBM during which, among other things, he was instrumental in developing IBM’s PC business in Austria and Europe. As IBM Chief Learning Officer he oversaw the initial drive toward e-learning to enhance traditional education programs. Over the past decade, he and his wife Ilse have built up the Global Peter Drucker Forum. Its aim is the continuous improvement of the practice of management in business and in society. Today, the Drucker Forum is recognized globally as a leading management conference, as reflected in strategic partnerships with the likes of the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times and the City of Vienna.

In 2012 Richard Straub was awarded the Heinz von Foerster Prize for Organizational Cybernetics and in 2019 he received the Grand Decoration of Honor for the Republic of Austria in recognition of the impact and reputation of the Drucker Forum.

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Giulio Superti-Furga
CeMM Scientific Director, Professor for Medical Systems Biology, Medical University of Vienna

Profile upcoming soon.

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Robert I. Sutton
Professor of Management Science, Stanford University of Engineering

Robert Sutton is an organizational psychologist and Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He co-founded the Center for Work, Technology and Organization, Stanford Technology Ventures Program and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (“the d school”). Sutton studies organizational change, leadership, innovation, and workplace dynamics. He has written over 200 academic and applied articles and chapters, and written seven books, including national bestsellers “The No Asshole Rule, Good Boss, Bad Boss, and Scaling Up Excellence” (with Huggy Rao).

Sutton’s current focus is in on the causes, drawbacks, and virtues of organizational friction.

His web site is www.bobsutton.net and he tweets @work_matters

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Behnam N. Tabrizi
Transformation expert, Senior Fellow Stanford University

Behnam Tabrizi has been teaching Leading Organizational Transformation at Stanford University and executive programs for more than 25 years.   He has written six books on leading innovation and change. Dr. Tabrizi coined the phrases “Rapid Transformation” that debunked the previous linear lengthy model of transformation and “Inside-Out Effect” which accentuated the critical role of personal transformation in organizational transformation. Further, in the early 90's his award-winning doctoral thesis at Stanford University was the research underpinning of design thinking and agile development.

Dr. Tabrizi served as an advisor to many large global companies, the U.S. President, and governmental agencies. He has helped thousands of CEOs and leaders in high-tech (Including Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft), banking and finance, retail, healthcare, etc. plan, mobilize, and implement transformational initiatives that have elevated organizational performance and created unprecedented results. His latest book, “The Inside-Out Effect: A Practical Guide to Transformational Leadership”, is an international bestseller and was featured in 2014 on The Washington Post website as Leadership Book of the Week reaching 10.4 million readers. His “Rapid Transformation” book, published by Harvard Business Review Press, was picked by Business Insider as the #1 book on leadership.

Tabrizi’s research with McKinsey & Co. on more than 100 global companies on “Accelerating Agile Innovation & Transformation” was featured in Forbes, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, and the San Jose Mercury News as “pioneering work.” He has also been interviewed by the BBC, CNN, Economist and C-SPAN regarding his work on transformation. Dr. Tabrizi has served on the boards of Clever Sense (recently sold to Google), WebMBO (merged with Realm Corp.), Catapult Ventures, and has held positions at the Harvard Business School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Dr. Tabrizi received a B.S. in computer science, summa cum laude, and then earned a master’s degree in computer science at the University of Illinois-Urbana. He earned an M.S. degree in engineering management and a doctorate in strategy, organizations and digital transformation from Stanford University.

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Yoshikuni Takashige
Executive Director and Chief Strategist, Fujitsu Limited

Yoshikuni Takashige joined Fujitsu in 1984. He was engaged in international business, taking strong leadership in developing Fujitsu’s important strategic partnerships and joint ventures with global companies. Throughout his career, he has been exposed to many different people, businesses and cultures around the world, which has helped him shape his thought about transformation of business and society. Since 2012, Yoshikuni has been leading the creation of the Fujitsu Technology and Service Vision, which sets out Fujitsu’s human-centric vision and its thinking on how organizations can innovate by leveraging digital technology. It was first launched in 2013, and has been updated annually. He speaks about innovation and digital transformation internationally.

He received an MBA degree from the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Tokyo.

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Don Tapscott
Digital theorist and author; Exec. Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute; Adjunct Professor, INSEAD; Chancellor Emeritus,, Trent University

Don Tapscott, Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology on business and society. He has authored 16 books, including Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, which has been translated into over 25 languages.

In 2016, with his son Alex, he co-authored the global best seller Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies is Changing the World, now translated into 20 languages. According to the late, great Clay Christensen of Harvard Business School it is “the book, literally, on how to survive and thrive in this next wave of technology-driven disruption.” The paperback version of the book, updated with new material covering recent developments about digital assets, sovereign identity and Central Bank Digital Currencies was published in June 2018.

In 2017, Don and Alex co-founded the Blockchain Research Institute, whose 100+ projects are the definitive investigation into blockchain strategy, use-cases, implementation challenges and organizational transformations. Since then Don produced a new book entitled Supply Chain Revolution: How Blockchain Technology Is Transforming the Digital Flow of Assets. The book debuted in June 2020 as the “#1 New Release” in the commerce category on Amazon.com.

Don is a member of the Order of Canada and in 2019, then ranked as the 2nd most influential Management Thinker by Thinkers50, joined Professor Christensen, Michael Porter, Peter Drucker and others in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame. He is an Adjunct Professor at INSEAD and Chancellor Emeritus of Trent University in Ontario where he served as Chancellor 2013-2019.

It is hard to imagine anyone who has been more prolific, profound, and influential in explaining today’s technological revolutions and their impact on the world.

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Johnny C. Taylor Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer of SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, is President and CEO of SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management. With over 300,000 members in 165 countries, SHRM is the largest HR professional association in the world, impacting the lives of 115 million workers. A nationally bestselling author, Mr. Taylor is a sought-after voice on all matters affecting work. He is frequently asked to testify before Congress and authors the weekly USA Today column "Ask HR."

He is the author of RESET: A Leader’s Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval. Immediately upon its release in September 2021, RESET was in the top three of the Wall Street Journal’s list of best-selling hardcover business books. All author proceeds benefit the SHRM Foundation, which is committed to empowering HR as a social force for change.

He was appointed chairman of the President’s Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and served as a member of the White House American Workforce Policy Advisory Board during the Trump Administration. He is a Trustee of the University of Miami, Governor of the American Red Cross, and member of the corporate boards of Guild Education, iCIMS, and XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO).

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Takahito Tokita
CEO and CDXO Fujitsu Limited

Mr. Tokita is currently the CEO and Chief DX Officer for Fujitsu Limited.  

He joined Fujitsu in 1988, with over 30 years of experience as a systems engineer mainly in the financial services sector covering banks, life insurance and other financial institutions.  He has held various leadership positions in systems integration group leading its application development and delivery of large-scale, mission critical systems.

Prior to his current role as a CEO, Mr. Tokita was based in London for two years, responsible for the Global Delivery Group which provides service desk and offshore development capabilities across 8 countries with over 14,000 staffs.  

Mr. Tokita earned a Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. 

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Michael Watkins
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at the Institute of Management Development and Co-Founder of Genesis Advisers

Michael Watkins is the co-founder of Genesis Advisers, an Inc. 5000-ranked, global leadership development consultancy based in Boston, MA (USA), specializing in transition acceleration for leaders, teams, and organizations, where he coaches C-level executives of global organizations. He is also Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at the IMD Business School, and a Thinkers 50-listed global management influencer, who has spent the last two decades helping executives — both corporate and public — craft their legacies as leaders.

Prior to joining IMD, Watkins was an adjunct professor at INSEAD, and an associate professor at the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. While on the faculty of these institutions, he designed and taught world-class programs for high-potential leader development, corporate diplomacy, and strategic negotiation.

Watkins is the international best-selling author of eleven books, and is best known for The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, which The Economist named “The Onboarding Bible.” With over 1.5 million copies sold in English and translations in 27+ languages, The First 90 Days is the classic reference for leaders in transition and a standard resource for leading change. Amazon named it one of its top 100 business books to read in a lifetime. Other works in the field of leadership include Master Your Next Move: The Essential Companion to The First 90 Days (HBR Press 2019), Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating (HBS Press 2006) and Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Avoid Them (HBS Press 2004). Predictable Surprises was named one of the best business books of 2004 by Strategy + Business and won the 2006 annual Kulp-Wright ARIA Award.

Watkins is a regular contributor to leading business journals, including MIT Sloan Management Review and Harvard Business Review. Among his Harvard Business Review feature articles are: “How Insider CEOs Succeed” (2020), "Initiative Overload" (2018), "Onboarding Isn't Enough" (2017), "Leading the Team You Inherit" (2016), "It's All About Day One" (2013), "How Managers Become Leaders" (2012), "Picking the Right Transition Strategy" (2009), "The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas" (2007), and "The Successor's Dilemma" (2000). A number of these articles have been selected for inclusion in the following guides: HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People, Vol. 2 (2020), HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership, Vol. 2 (2020), HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives (2020), and the HBR Guide to Collaborative Teams (2021). He has also contributed numerous digital articles to HBR.org over the years, including: “How New CEOs Can Balance Strategy and Execution” (2021), “The Surprising Power of Peer Coaching” (2021), “When Do We Really Need Face-to-Face Interactions” (2021), “Onboarding a New Leader – Remotely” (2020), “How to Onboard New Hires at Every Level” (2019), “7 Ways to Set Up a New Hire for Success” (2019), “Five Questions to Ask When Starting a New Job” (2019), “When is Teamwork Really Necessary” (2018), and “Internal Hires Need Just as Much Support as External” (2016).

Originally from Canada, Michael Watkins received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, did graduate work in law and business at the University of Western Ontario, and completed his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences at Harvard University.

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Amy Webb
Founder, Future Today Institute

Amy Webb is founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm that helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures. Webb pioneered the Institute’s data-driven, technology-led foresight methodology that is now used within hundreds of organizations globally. She and her team advise the CEOs of the world’s most-admired companies, as well as three-star admirals and generals, and the senior leadership of central banks and intergovernmental organizations. Webb is a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she developed and teaches the MBA course on strategic foresight. She is the author of several popular, award-winning books about technology, science and the future including The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity which is about the race to build and control artificial intelligence. Her new book, The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology, will be published in February 2022. A lifelong science fiction fan, she collaborates closely with Hollywood writers and producers on films, TV shows and commercials about science, technology and the futures. Webb was named by Forbes as one of the five women changing the world, listed as the BBC’s 100 Women of 2020, and the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.

Moderator

Kirsten Weerda
Partner Organization Practice, McKinsey

Profile upcoming soon.

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Bart Weetjens
Social entrepreneur; Zen priest

Bart is a Zen priest and celebrated social entrepreneur. In 1995 he founded the organisation APOPO, which saves human lives from disaster and disease by training HeroRATs. Based on the shared vision that inner wellbeing is a prerequisite to do sustainably well in society, he joined The Wellbeing Project in 2015, to shift the culture in the field of social change to a more caring and compassionate one.  In 2017 he co-founded lagrandeterre.org, a permaculture/wellbeing center in the French Ardennes. Bart has been elected an ASHOKA fellow and a SCHWAB fellow to the World Economic Forum. He won the Skoll Award for social Entrepreneurship in 2009.  Bart holds a Masters in Product Design from Antwerp University, Belgium.

www.bartweetjens.be
Mail: hello@bartweetjens.be

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Falco Weidemeyer
Partner, Head of EYParthenon EMEIA

Profile

• Partner, Head of EYParthenon EMEIA
• Previously at Roland Berger GmbH as a Member of the European Board and Head of Corporate Performance & Transformation
• Special situations ranging from performance improvement to restructuring and turnaround
• CRO experience
• stakeholder communication and negotiation, esp. in the case of large scale hr measures
• Relevant experience in Consumer Goods, Retail, Automotive, Advanced Manufacturing
• Covering medium sized, family owned businesses as well as listed companies
• Leading EY Parthenon in EMEIA (> 220 Partners, 2.500 professionals)

Relevant experience

• Performance programs for large scale family owned businesses
• Refinancing programs
• Distressed M&A transactions
• Efficiency and transformation programs for various listed companies
• CRO assignments
• Management buy ins

Education and memberships

• European Business School (EBS)
• Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE)
• San Diego State University (SDSU)
• Guest Lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance

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David Weinberger
Senior Researcher, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

In books, articles, posts, classes, and talks, David Weinberger, Ph.D. explores the effect of technology on ideas. He is a senior researcher  at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and is currently serving as writer-in-residence at Google PAIR (People + AI Research). His latest book, Everyday Chaos (HBR Press) was named Best Business Commentary of 2020 by Axiom, among other international awards. He also edits the open access Strong Ideas book series for MIT Press.

In his varied career, he has been a marketing communications VP and consultant to hi-tech companies, co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab,  a journalism fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, an adviser to presidential campaigns, a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department, and a philosophy professor.

Beginning with the best-seller Cluetrain Manifesto, in five books he has explored the effect of technology on knowledge, on how we organize our ideas, on business, and on the core concepts by which we understand our world.

Dr. Weinberger has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto and lives in the Boston area.

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Hannes Werthner
Professor Technical University Vienna and Expert for Digital Humanism

Hannes Werthner is a retired Professor for E-Commerce at the TU Wien. From 2016 to 2019 he served also as the dean of the Faculty Prior to joining TU Wien, he had professorships at Austrian and international Universities. His research is in E-Commerce and E-Tourism, Recommender Systems, and in Network Analysis. Besides research and teaching he was and is active in starting new initiatives, such as the Vienna PhD School of Informatics. the i2c (Informatics Innovation Center), the initiative to support refugees welcome.TU.code, and recently, the Digital Humanism Initiative. Since 2011 the International Federation for IT and Tourism (IFITT) grants the “Hannes Werthner Tourism and Technology Lifetime Achievement Award” to outstanding academics and/or professionals in the field.

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Ania G. Wieckowski
Executive Editor, Harvard Business Review

Ania G. Wieckowski is an Executive Editor at Harvard Business Review, where she focuses on organizational behavior, people management, and psychology. In previous roles, including Managing Editor of HBR Press, she led efforts around HBR’s content curation and digital transformation. She is an avid hiker and choral singer.

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Judith Wiese
CHRO, Member of the Managing Board, Siemens AG and Labor Director

Born on January 30, 1971 in Lüdenscheid, Germany
LinkedIn: Judith Wiese

Special responsibilities
– Human Resources
– Global Business Services
– Sustainability

Education
– Master of Business Administration Int’l School of Economics (NL) / University of Duisburg (D)
– Mars Leadership – Exec. education at Harvard Business School

Professional history
2013
– Mars Inc., Brussels/Mount Olive, Belgium/USA
− Vice President OD Chocolate

2014
– Mars Inc., Brussels/McLean, Belgium/USA
− Vice President Talent

2015
– Mars Inc., McLean, USA
− Vice President Corporate

October 2017
– DSM N.V., Heerten, Netherlands
− Chief Human Resources Officer

October 2020
– CHRO, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and Labor Director

Memberships of other boards or committees
– Gartner Global CHRO Advisory Board

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
Founder and CEO, 20-first

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is CEO of 20-first, a leading international gender-balance consultancy. 20-first works with top management at some of the world’s best-known companies to identify the business opportunities of gender balance and how to achieve them. She has written a number of best-sellers in the field, including One Key to Gender Balance, Four Phases to Women’s Careers, Seven Steps to Leading Gender-Balanced Businesses, How Women Mean Business, and Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution, which won the Manpower Business Book of the Year award. Her most recent book is a more personal take on the consequences of gender balance at home: Late Love: Mating in Maturity.

Avivah speaks on leadership, marketing and talent management, and dual career issues across the globe, writes for FORBES and Harvard Business Review and lectures at HEC Business School. She is Founder and Honorary President of GlobalPWN.net, an international professional women’s network. Canadian, French and Swiss, she has been recognized by ELLE Magazine as one of the TOP 40 Women Leading Change. She lives in London with her sculptor husband and is occasionally visited by her two, globe-trotting, gender-balanced children, a son and daughter.

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Adrian Wooldridge
Political editor and 'Bagehot' columnist, The Economist

Adrian Wooldridge is The Economist’s political editor and writes the Bagehof column. He was previously based in Washington, DC, as the Washington bureau chief where he also wrote the Lexington column. Previously he has been The Economist’s West Coast correspondent, management correspondent and Britain correspondent.

He is the co-author of “The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea”, “A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation”, “Witch Doctors”, a critical examination of management theory, “The Right Nation”, a study of conservatism in America and “Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and their Ideas have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse”. His most recent book is “The Fourth Revolution - The Race to Reinvent the State”

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Michele Zanini
Co-founder, Management Lab

Michele Zanini is the co-founder of the Management Lab. Together with Gary Hamel, Zanini helps forward-thinking organizations become more resilient, innovative and engaging places to work. Zanini was previously an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company and a leader in the firm’s organization, strategy and financial services practices. Zanini also spent five years as a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, where he conducted pioneering research on how terrorist and other insurgent groups were harnessing information-age technologies to operate as nimble networks. Zanini’s work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Zanini holds degrees from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Ruimin Zhang
Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO, Haier Group

Zhang Ruimin, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Haier Group, is the creator of the Rendanheyi model and ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s top 50 management thinkers.

Over the past 33 years, Mr. Zhang has consistently helmed Haier with an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit and forward-looking strategies, transforming Haier from an insolvent collectively-owned factory into a world-renowned brand and multinational group of companies. In 2017, Haier achieved a global revenue of RMB 241.9 billion, ranking top among the world’s white goods brands for the ninth consecutive year.

Mr. Zhang has always believed in putting people first as a source of value. He has created Rendanheyi, a management model that draws inspiration from both traditional Chinese culture and modern business management practices. This new way of management thinking with Chinese characteristics represents a breakthrough for Chinese companies as they transform from followers into pioneers in management innovation. For his contribution to management thinking, Mr. Zhang has been ranked twice by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s top 50 leadership and management thinkers.