PROGRAM

Chair
Nicole Torres Senior Associate Editor, Harvard Business Review
 
Speakers
Martin Reeves Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute
Helmut Reisinger CEO Orange Business Services
Yoshikune Takashige Chief Strategist, Global Marketing, Fujitsu Limited
Rafael Ramirez Professor, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Valerie Hackl Managing Director, Austro Control GmbH
 
Strategy is difficult enough to set—and execute—when it focuses solely on the future of a firm. When a larger ecosystem must be considered, strategists face much greater challenges.

Chair
Arthur Kleiner PwC | Editor-in-chief, Strategy+Business
 
Speakers
Michael J. Gelb Executive coach
Rahaf Harfoush Digital Anthropologist
Scott Hartley Venture capitalist; start-up advisor
Whitney Johnson CEO, WLJ Advisors
Julia Wang CEO, MLA Foundation, President, Peter F. Drucker Academy (Hong Kong)
 
Peter Drucker’s popular “Managing Oneself” underscored that thriving organizations depend on managers’ personal effectiveness. In today’s ecosystems era, some keys to executive success have changed.

Chair
Philippe Dewost Senior Advisor, Internet, Tech & Digital Transformation
 
Speakers
Karolin Frankenberger Academic Director, Executive MBA HSG, University of St.Gallen
Mikko Kosonen President, Sitra – the Finnish Innovation Fund
Noboru Konno President Japan Innovation Network
Peter Williamson Professor of International Management, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School; Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge
Werner H. Hoffmann Head of Institute for Strategic Management, WU Vienna
 
High-impact innovation requires convergence on a vision of the future by many parties. Learn how recent breakthroughs in many realms were achieved through alignment and collaboration.

Chair
Mehran Gul Author, New Geography of Innovation

Speakers
Adam Cheyer Co-Founder & VP Engineering, Viv Labs; Co-Founder, Siri Inc.
Carsten Linz Global Head Digitalization Business & Functions, Group Digital Officer, BASF SE
Karenann Terrell Chief Digital & Technology Officer, GSK
Claudia Crummenerl Managing Director People & Organization globally and Head of People and Organization CE, Capgemini Invent
Amit Bajaj CEO Europe, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
 
The communications and computing tools that gave rise to today’s business ecosystems continue to evolve and surprise. Panelists discuss keys to thriving in this fast-moving space.

Moderator
Isabella Mader Executive Advisor, Global Peter Drucker Forum

Participants from the Young Generation Programs pitch a self-chosen topic in line with the overall conference or Drucker Challenge theme to be voted onto the stage by the audience to get the opportunity to give a short talk on this topic. There will be 15 Pitches and 5 voted talks, followed by a discussion with the audience.

Chair
Gabriel Joseph-Dezaize, Editor-in-Chief, HBR France

Speakers
Cécile Maisonneuve President, Fabrique de la Cité
Thomas Madreiter Head of urban planning, Vienna City Council
Martin Ferguson Director of Policy & Research, Socitm

Chair
Daniel Rettig Editor-in-Chief ada, Handelsblatt Group

Speakers
Christian Rangen Founder, Engage // Innovate & Strategy Tools
Kristianne Paasche Special advisor cluster development and policies Norway
Janka Krings-Klebe Managing Partner co-shift GmbH
Lucia Seel Communication and Content Manager, European Cluster Collaboration Platform

Innovation Superclusters are on the rise around the world: from Canada to China, Norway and the EU.

Chair
Ania G. Wieckowski Executive Editor HBR

Speakers
Louise Juhl Director of Marketing & Communications Copenhagen Capacity
Wu Yong Internet of Food Platform Owner, Haier Group
Simone Cicero Managing Partner, Boundarlyess
Bill Fischer Professor of Innovation Management, IMD

Two ecosystems, one conceptualized as the Internet of Food for the Smart Home, and the other a Nordic eSports ecosystem catalyzed by local government efforts to increase  software development skills in the greater Copenhagen region, will be examined to better understand the design objectives, and operating principles

Chair
Kumaar Bagrodia Founder & CEO, NeuroLeap

Speakers
Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño Executive President of IE University
Antonio Njeto-Rodriguez Author, Speaker, Advisor
So-Young Kang Founder & CEO, Gnowbe
Sandy Stelling Managing Director, Business Transformation, Alaska Airlines

With so many different disruptive forces simultaneously at play, learning will further develop into a strategic differentiator. The predominantly linear model of L&D in organisations will no longer do. Will learning become the objective function of management? How could ecosystem thinking help usher in a new paradigm in organisational learning?

Chair
Sarah Green Carmichael Editor at Bloomberg Opinion

Speakers
Hal Gregersen Executive Director, MIT Leadership Center, MIT Sloan School of Management
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Author, Harvard Business Review Press
Christian Sarkar Founder of Ecosystematic and Double Loop Marketing LLC
Laurent Choain Chief People, Education & Culture Officer, Mazars

The toughest and most important problems are always ones that require collaboration beyond any one manager’s or policymaker’s scope of control. One of the characteristics of ecosystems is the way how cooperation and competition need to be reconciled and made productive.

Chair
Andrew Hill Management Editor, Financial Times

Speakers
Bart Weetjens Social entrepreneur, Zen priest
Michele Zanini Managing Director, Management Lab
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox CEO of 20-first and author
Gianpiero Petriglieri Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD

People originally formed companies and other large-scale organizations to achieve great things in their lives and communities, but many of these enterprises today frustrate more achievement than they enable. What changes could allow more human potential to be realized?