Speakers and Chairs Bios
- Alex Adamopoulos
- Vanessa Gamboa Adams
- Philip Aminoff
- Sara Armbruster
- Gianpaolo Barozzi
- Julian Birkinshaw
- Tim Brown
- Curtis Carlson
- Niclas Carlsson
- Yogesh Chauhan
- Laurent Choain
- Clayton Christensen
- Mary Beth Christie
- Judith Clegg
- Sarah Cliffe
- Nicolas Colin
- Peter Day
- Steve Denning
- Tamara J. Erickson
- Mark Esposito
- Bill Fischer
- Debra France
- Maëlle Gavet
- Sarah Green Carmichael
- Robert Grüneis
- James Guild
- Rita Gunther McGrath
- Anil K. Gupta
- Prabhu Guptara
- John Hagel III
- Guy Halfteck
- Gary Hamel
- Boma Harahap
- Michael Harte
- Lisa Hershman
- Andrew Hill
- Tawfik Jelassi
- Eyal Kaplan
- Annie Koh
- Angelica Kohlmann
- Philip Kotler
- Ralf Köster
- Bill Liao
- Andreas Ludwig
- Christian Lüdtke
- Isabella Mader
- Fredmund Malik
- Roger L. Martin
- Mariana Mazzucato
- Milena Milicevic
- Thanigai Muthusamy
- Annu Nieminen
- Efosa Ojomo
- Sally Osberg
- Alexander Osterwalder
- Sarah O`Connor
- Will Peachey
- Magnus Penker
- Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Joseph Pistrui
- Deepa Prahalad
- Rosemarie Ryan
- Gisbert Rühl
- Philippe Silberzahn
- Hermann Simon
- Richard Straub
- Nicolai Strøm-Olsen
- Joakim Sundén
- Rob van Leen
- Rajeev Vasudeva
- Haiyan Wang
- Adrian Wooldridge
- Rickard Zetterberg
Associate professor at EMLYON Business School;
Research fellow at École Polytechnique
Biography
Philippe Silberzahn is a recognized expert in innovation and entrepreneurship. He has authored and co-authored five books in French and English on entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy as well as many academic articles on these topics.
As a consultant and management educator, he works with companies confronted to disruptions in their markets, including AXA, Renault Group, Royal Canin, Alcatel-Lucent, Total, Saint-Gobain and EDF.
He is an Associate Professor at EMLYON Business School in France. He is also a Research Fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France and a visiting lecturer at HEC Paris, CEDEP, EPFL/HEC Lausanne, and Solvay Brussels School of Business and Economics. He was previously a Research Associate at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
Prior to his academic career, he had over twenty years of industry experience as an entrepreneur and CEO, having participated in the creation or acquisition of four high technology firms, and as an international consultant in India, China, Europe and the US.
He holds a PhD from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Caen, France, a MS in Management from the Sorbonne University, and an MBA from the London Business School.