Speakers and Chairs Bios

Magnus Penker is an entrepreneur and Internationally-renowned expert on innovation, digitization, and business transformation. He has been engaged as a speaker by international business schools, a variety of associations and some of the world's largest companies. Additionally, he has also launched 10 start-ups as well as acquired, turned around, and sold +30 SMEs all over Europe.

For the past 8 years, he has used his practical and theoretical insights to develop InnoSurvey™, a leading methodology and global innovation database used to analyze and provide advice to companies, business leaders, and scientists around the world. Today, Mr. Penker is the CEO and Founder of the Innovation360 Group, which is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Innovation360 Group Licensed Practitioners for InnoSurvey™ are currently present in an ever-increasing number of countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Dubai, and Qatar. Through his best-selling American books on digitization and IT engineering and his more than 20 years of experience as a management consultant and business leader, Mr. Penker inspires leaders to find a new way of thinking and organizing to stay on top.
 
Mr. Penker has a B.Sc. in Computer Science (CTH, Sweden) and an MBA from the Henley Business School, England.