Thursday 14 Nov 2013
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Conference Chair
Matthias Lüfkens, CH
Managing Director, Digital, EMEA at Burson-Marsteller
Richard Straub (AT)
President, Peter Drucker Society Europe
Georg Kapsch (AT)
President, Federation of Austrian Industries
Alexander von Gabain (AT)
Chairman of the Governing Board,
European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT)
Felix Thun-Hohenstein (AT)
Global Business Director, 3M ASD, Precision Grinding & Finishing, Winterthur Technology Group
Doris Drucker (US)
Board member, the Drucker Institute 
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Complexity – Looking at the World
through Different Lenses
Chair
Richard Straub, AT
President, Peter Drucker Society Europe
Speakers
“Applying Complexity Thinking to Solving Global Problems“
Don Tapscott (CA)
President and CEO The Tapscott Group
“The Embarrassement of Complexity“
Helga Nowotny (AT)
President European Research Council, Professor
Emeritus of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich
“Managing Complexity?”
Charles Handy (UK)
Social Philosopher and author.
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Complexity – Impact on People and Organizations
Room
Grosser Festsaal
Chair
Andrew Hill (UK)
Associate Editor and Management Editor, Financial
Times
Speakers
"Solutions for Mastering Organizational Complexity"
Fredmund Malik (CH)
Founder, Owner and Chairman
of Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen
“Innovation and Scale in Complex Times”
John Hagel III (US)
Director Deloitte Consulting LLP, Co-Chairman
Deloitte Center for the Edge
“Design for Complexity”
Tim Brown (US)
CEO and president of IDEO
“Can Well-being be Achieved in the Current Complex Environment?”
Umair Haque (UK)
Director Havas Media Group
Discussion
and exchange with the audience
13:00 – 14.15 LUNCH BREAK - Book signings at Ludwig Urban Saal
Amplifying Strategy: Lessons from the Vanguard Companies
Room
Kleiner Festsaal
Chair
Liisa Välikangas (FI)
Professor of Innovation Management, Aalto
University School of Business and Hanken School of Economics
Panellists
Jouko Ahvenainen (UK)
Co-Founder & Group Chairman, Grow VC Group
Otto Chrons (FI)
Co-Founder and CTO, Microtask
Discussion
and exchange with the audience
Building the Human Capacity to Cope with Complexity
Room
Ludwig Urban Saal
Chair
Laurent Choain, FR
CHRO Mazars; Board member EFMD
Speaker
Tamara J. Erickson (US)
CEO, Tammy Erickson Associates and author
Panelists
Heiko Hutmacher (DE)
Member of the Management Board, Chief HR Officer, Metro Group
Petra Pointinger (AT)
Executive Director Human Resources, Head of HR Austria,
Raiffeisen Bank International
Discussion
and exchange with the audience
Applying Complexity Science to Management Practice
Room
Großer Festsaal
Chair
Thierry Grange (FR)
President of the Strategic Board, Grenoble Business School; Special Advisor of the President of AACSB for Europe
Speakers
"Good management requires no predictive power!"
Peter Gomez (CH)
Professor Emeritus of Management, University of St. Gallen
"Managing complexity by understanding multiplex networks"
Stefan Thurner (AT)
Professor for Science of Complex Systems,
Medical University of Vienna and Santa Fe Institute
Discussion
and exchange with the audience
15:45 – 16:15 COFFEE BREAK
The Top Mangement Perspective:
Is Complexity on the Agenda?
Room
Großer Festsaal
Chair
Lynda Gratton (UK)
Professor of Management Practice, London Business School; Founder The Hotspot Movement
Speakers
Natarajan Chandrasekaran (IN)
CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services
Panelists
Curt Pullen (US)
Executive VP, Herman Miller
Clas Neumann (IN)
Senior VP and Global Head of SAP Labs Networks
Discussion
and exchange with the audience
Room
Theater Odeon (Access with Gala Voucher)
MC
Christian Prosl (AT) Amb. (ret.), President, Austrian Cultural Association
Gala Dinner
Drucker Challenge Awards presented by
Lynda Gratton (UK)
Professor of Management Practice, London Business School;
Founder The Hot Spots Movement
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