Be part of a wave of action that will reshape the practice of management. As Peter Drucker urged, we are resolved to put the human being centre stage – as customer, employee, partner and stakeholder. Showing the way will be presidents and CEOs of global corporations such as Paul Polman (Unilever), Isabelle Kocher (ENGIE), Lynn Forester de Rothschild (E.L. Rothschild), Alex Adamopoulos (Emergn), Young Sohn (Samsung Electronics), Jean-Dominique Senard (Michelin), Zhang Ruimin (Haier Group), Jim Keane (Steelcase), Bob Collymore (Safaricom), Peter Oswald (Mondi), Xavier Huillard (Vinci Group) and Rick Goings (Tupperware Brands). Global and local media will spread the word, including Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, The Economist, Les Echos and Trend.

A group of thought leaders second to none will challenge your thinking. They include Linda Hill, Clayton Christensen, Lynda Gratton, Roger Martin, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Dave Ulrich, Gary Hamel, Marshall Goldsmith, Martin Wolf, Emmanuelle Duez, Vivek Wadhwa, Charles-Edouard Bouée, Hermann Hauser, Ricardo Vargas, Dorie Clark, Julian Birkinshaw, Alex Osterwalder, Rahaf Harfoush, Gianpiero Petriglieri, Herminia Ibarra, Hal Gregersen, Sally Helgesen, Vineet Nayar, Sunny Giles, Michael Jacobides, Sarah Green-Carmichael, Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Curtis Carlson, Michael Gelb, Sarah Spiekermann, Fredmund Malik, Philip Kotler, Julia Kirby, Adi Ignatius, Henry Mintzberg and Andrew Hill. See the full group here.

Your participation is an investment in learning and self-development in the very special history and culture charged environment of the Vienna Hofburg (Imperial Palace) – the spot where the Vienna Congress convened two centuries ago with the aim to create a new order of peace for Europe.

See the contours of the conference program from the outline of the key themes of the 2018 Drucker Forum.

The Drucker Forum is not a one-off event – it is a world-spanning journey with important partner organizations to launch the debate on the year's key themes. The Forum features in events from Tokyo to Paris, London to Mumbai, and Cologne, Zurich, Alpbach and Copenhagen to Munich. The discussion is fuelled by social media and working groups and accompanied by a blog series on HBR and LinkedIn.
Join the Drucker Forum Community to take part in this historic journey.

The human connections made at the Drucker Forum are extremely valuable. They are complemented by virtual connections you will make by following the online hashtag #GPDF18. We welcome the younger generation to the spotlight through the Drucker Challenge Essay Contest and the Drucker Forum Talent Award, which bring a strong contingent of the leaders of the future. It is now the time for companies to nominate high-potential managers-in-the-making to take part in the Forum. See the young generation in action in this refreshing video from the 2017 barcamp session.

Join us in remembering the late C.K. Prahalad (shown above with his wife Gayathri) by viewing a synopsis video of his opening speech at the first Drucker Forum in 2009.

As Yves Doz said at his memorial speech: "This is what C.K. Prahalad shared deeply with Peter Drucker: a concern for companies as a part of the social fabric and of an institutional structure that extends well beyond them."