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Conference chair and Drucker Forum founder set the stage for the 2023 Drucker Forum

Katharina Moser Executive Board member, Inner Development Goals
Richard Straub President, Global Peter Drucker Forum
H.E. Jaideep Mazumdar Ambassador of India to Austria

Partners offer perspectives on the mission of this year’s gathering

Chair:
Johan Roos Chief Academic Officer & Professor, Hult Int’l Business School

Speakers:
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. SHRM-SCP President and CEO, SHRM
Pierre Le Manh President & CEO, Project Management Institute (PMI)
Alex Adamopoulos CEO Emergn
Helmut Reisinger CEO EMEA & Latin America, Palo Alto Networks

Accomplished leaders of large organizations share hard-won wisdom about the most important keys to an organization’s ability to survive catastrophe and come back stronger.

Chair:
Mary Meaney Haynes Board member, Angel Investor, Philantropist

Speakers:
John Allan Chair of the Council, Imperial College London
Guillaume Alvarez Senior Vice President EMEA, Steelcase Inc.
Isabelle Kocher de Leyritz Chairman & CEO, Blunomy
Reinhard Schlemmer Member of the Executive Board, Vinci Energies S.A.

Creative responses to unforeseen events always entail change — and require collective commitment to a better future.

Chair:
Tiffani Bova Growth Advisor, Bestselling Author

Speakers:
Behnam Tabrizi Consulting Professor, Stanford University
Anjana Mistry Chief Financial & Operations Officer, Emergn
Patrick Guggenberger Partner, McKinsey & Company
Tony Park People & Culture Team Leader, Toss

“Good judgment comes from experience,” the old quote goes, “but unfortunately, experience comes from bad judgment.” Why do some people, organizations, sectors never recover from mistakes, while others learn and grow?

Chair:
Julia Kirby Senior Editor, Harvard University Press

Speakers:
Amy Edmondson Professor of Leadership & Management, Harvard Business School
Daniel Pink Best-selling author
Niren Chaudhary Chairman of the Board, Panera Brands
Falco Weidemeyer Partner, Global Head of Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy, EY Parthenon

What an irony if a transformation actually left a company more vulnerable to future crises. How do we ensure that digitizing a process doesn’t make it more brittle or at risk of attack?

Chair:
Esther Clark author

Speakers:
Robin Speculand CEO, Bridges Consultancy & Co-founder Strategy Implementation Institute
Lalit Karwa Head TCS PACE, Tata Consultancy Services, Europe
Manjit Singh Former Senior VP & General Manager Knock at RealPage Inc.

! will be held in German

Julia Culen Founder CCG Conscious Consulting Group
in conversation with
Niklaus Brantschen Jesuit and Zen Master

Leadership experts share stories of high-stakes situations that demanded resilience. How much did recovery depend on the actions of a senior executive or team, what made the difference, and what could have been done better?

Chair:
Angelika Reich Partner, McKinsey & Co

Speakers:
Hortense Le Gentil Executive Leadership coach
Tony O’Driscoll Adjunct Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
David Bryson Non Executive Director, Executive Leadership Coach
Iris Brachmaier Group Chief People Officer, UNIQA Insurance Group AG

Stunning developments in AI and other technologies demand deeper thinking about the good life and what constitutes a better toolkit for achieving it.

Chair:
Zhike Lei Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, IMD Business School

Speakers:
Santiago Iñiguez de Ozoño President, IE University
Scott Hartley Co-founder & Managing partner, Everywhere Ventures, investing in startups
Bob Goodson Cofounder and president of Quid

It’s the generation of social media, climate anxiety, pandemic, advancing AI. Does all this make Gen Z a super-resilient generation—or robbed it of essential resources it needs to succeed?

Rodrigo Castilhos Associate Professor, SKEMA Business School
in conversation with
Sophie Kaitlin Drescher High School Student, Austria’s Youngest Moderator
Abhishek Banerjee undergraduate Economics student, University of Calcutta

Cities, like all complex ecosystems, can prove surprisingly resilient. But they have their fragilities, too—and sometimes a “doom loop” seems impossible to reverse. How can employers—and the people in them—do more to keep them thriving?

Chair :
Christian Bason Founder, Transition Collective. Former CEO Danish Design Center. Public Sector Innovation Expert.

Speakers:
Christian Sarkar Co-Founder Regenerative Marketing Institute
Remigijus Šimašius former Major of Vilnius, Lithuania
Leoluca Orlando former Mayor of Palermo
Bernadette Luger City of Vienna

Careers today are less linear, more boundaryless and more bespoke allowing people more freedom to find paths that fit them better.  We’ve applauded individual resourcefulness and resilience in making transitions from one career or way of working to another. But we’ve let companies, universities, governments off the hook in what is both a societal problem and opportunity. How can we create institutions whose purpose it is to help people move through the often-uncomfortable transitions that characterise modern careers?

Chair:
Katharina Moser Executive Board member, Inner Development Goals

Herminia Ibarra Charles Handy Chair in Organizational Behaviour, London Business School

Join this unique workshop to travel on a restorative inner journey. Through guided inner enquiry and creative interaction, you will uncover your personal meaning of authenticity, identify barriers, and explore how to overcome them.

Margot Borden Psychotherapist, Coach
in conversation with
Simone Ahuja Global Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author. Founder, Blood Orange Innovation

We’re at a watershed moment: the year AI changes everything. How will this technology-driven revolution test human resilience and, by responding creatively, can we emerge more resilient than before?

Chair:
Eduardo P. Braun Global leadership expert & consultant

Speakers:
David Weinberger Senior researcher Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Thuy Ngoc Tran Co-founder, CTO, Astrid AI
John Walsh VP of Technology & CTO, Fujitsu Europe
Matt Sigelman President, Burning Glass Institute

Everyone has setbacks, but some recover better. What gives them that power? Mindset or muscle? Resources or relationships? Grace or grit? And then there’s the more important question: Can whatever it is be learned?

Chair:
Anthony Howard CEO & Founder of The Confidere Group and The Socratic Leader Academy

Speakers:
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox Founder & CEO, 20-first; Global expert on gender and generational balance
Thomas Bubendorfer Solo climber
Asheesh Advani President & CEO, Junior Achievement
Nadya Zhexembayeva Founder & Chief Reinvention Officer, Reinvention Academy

19:30: APERITIF

20:00: GALA DINNER
Master of Ceremony:    
Katharina Moser Executive Board Member, Inner Development Goals

DRUCKER CHALLENGEAWARDS CEREMONY

presented by:
Peter Wundsam Managing Partner, Mazars Austria

Dinner Speaker:
Asheesh Advani President and CEO of JA (Junior Achievement) Worldwide

Musical setting by:
Paul Smith Musician, Composer, CEO of the VOCES8 Foundation
and
Daniela Mars Trevor James Flutes Artist

Organizations must respond strategically to changes of immense scale and scope. Most need better ways to track geopolitical developments and understand their implications for how organizations operate.

Chair:
Monika Rosen Vice President Austro-American-Society

Speakers:
Ed Williams President, International, Edelman
Lothar H. Wieler Chair of the Digital Health Cluster, Hasso Plattner Institut; Professor of Digital Global Public Health;
Antonella Mei-Pochtler Board member, Publicis and Generali; Co-chair of the Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa;
Daniel Stelter Economist, Founder of the German Discussion Forum Beyond The Obvious

A hands-on workshop learning to use an AI tool to leverage human creativity in an innovation initiative

Isabella Mader CEO, Excellence Institute
in conversation with
Curtis R. Carlson Distinguished Executive in Residence, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Kalina Deng Vice President, Snipp Interactive

What kinds of companies have bounced back better from the pandemic years? New evidence shows it’s the ones who had already invested time and energy in building their capacities for innovation.

Chair:
Bill Fischer Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management, at MIT, and Emeritus Professor of Innovation Management, IMD

Speakers:
Tim Brown Chair of IDEO, Vice Chair of the kyu Collective
Gilma Teodora Gylytė Architect; Co-founder, DO ARCHITECTS
John Hagel III Faculty member, Singularity University & Member Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute; Founder of Beyond On Edge, LLC
Radoslaw Kedzia Senior Vice President of Huawei European Region

After a storm of the century, the places still intact are the ones that were built to withstand a battering. In the midst of economic “gales of creative destruction,” is your organization structured to endure?

Chair:
Michele Zanini Co-founder, Management Lab

Speakers:
Ekin Ilseven Assistant Professor Strategy and Organizations, School of Business and Economics Católica-Lisbon
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez Visiting Professor at Duke CE, IE,Solvay, Vlerick, Ecole de Ponts;
Maria Norrman Global Chief of Staff, EF Education First & Chief of EF Pro Cycling Team
Yannick Fierling CEO, Haier Europe

Indexes now used widely by fund managers have focused corporate managers more tightly on hitting their “social” marks. Are companies—and societies—more sustainable as a result?

Chair
Tina Deutsch Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Klaiton

Speakers:
Adrian Wooldridge Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion
Jennifer Tharp Chair of the PMI Board of Directors
Annette Mann CEO. Austrian Airlines AG
Eugenio Longo Sustainability Director, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Europe

Dancers, comedians, opera singers, and other artists are hardly immune to setbacks. What works for them, and could it work for others, too?

Chair:
Guila Clara Kessous Unesco Peace Ambassador

Speakers:
Scott Handy Theatre director
Paul Smith Musician, Composer, CEO of the VOCES8 Foundation
Kamilla Arku Pianist

AI and digital society rely on highly connected networks. The unintended consequence is the prospect of cyberattacks with widespread damage. Are our responses keeping up with the threats?

Rebecca Kerr Founder: Global Creative Solutions Group
in conversation with
Helmut Reisinger CEO, EMEA and Latin America, Palo Alto Networks
Thomas Arnoldner Deputy CEO, A1 Group

Few would argue against aiming for more creative resilience—but can something so subjective really be a management goal? If it’s difficult to say just how resilient a person, team, organization, or society is today, how would we gauge any gain or loss a year down the road?

Chair:
Claudia Crummenerl Managing Director Workforce & Organization, Capgemini Invent

Speakers:
Sally Susman Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Executive Vice President Pfizer
Yves Doz Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, INSEAD
Carla Arellano Partner, Greyhound Capital
Hannes Mösenbacher Chief Risk Officer, Raiffeisen Bank International AG

Resilience isn’t only up to you—it’s a strength or weakness of a whole ecosystem around you. How can you cultivate the systemwide flexibility that must be in place to deal with dynamic situations?

Chair:
Allyson Stewart-Allen Founder, International Marketing Partners Ltd.

Speakers:
Emily M. Dickens Chief of Staff, Head of Public Affairs, SHRMSHRM
Michael Jacobides Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, London Business School
Dewi Schoenbeck Member of the Steelcase AG board of directors and Vice President, German Speaking Markets
Patricia Murphy Vice President, EMEA & LATAM Ecosystems, Strategic Alliances and Partners, Palo Alto Networks

Management as a discipline has been slow to evolve from basic roots developed in an age of industrial manufacturing. What will it take to turn management back into the powerful, value-creating force for change the world so desperately needs in today’s complex and exponential world?

Chair:
Timo Meynhardt Professor for Business Psychology and Leadership, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Speakers:
Michael Kaschke President of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Bob Kaplan Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at Havard Business School
Rita McGrath Professor of strategy, Columbia Business School
Kevin Nolan President & CEO, GE Appliances, a Haier Company

Richard Straub President, Global Peter Drucker Forum

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