This event is an excellent opportunity for leaders of European companies to meet with global figures, experts, businessmen, strategists, analysts and the world’s bestselling authors. They will provide you – the CEOs and vice-presidents of European companies – with inspiration and experience in areas that you can use in both your professional and personal life.
The following speakers guarantee it to be an extraordinary experience bringing knowledge and inspiration:
Garry Kasparov
a multiple chess grandmaster and strategy expert
Perfect strategic thinking. A unique perspective. Tactics. Listening to one’s intuition. The greatest chess player of all times. This multiple chess champion sat on the imaginary “chess throne” for over 20 years. He draws on his extraordinary chess career even today. His talks on leadership, strategic thinking, tactics and using your intuition for achieving your goals have fans all over the world. In 2007 The Daily Telegraph put him in 25th place on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses.
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Scott McKain
a best selling author of business books and leading business thinker and speaker
“How to excel and move up in business, whatever the economic climate in the industry?” “How to increase the profitability of your business?” or “How to keep your customer?” He has been answering these sorts of questions for years for the world’s largest corporations such as IBM, AT&T, Cisco, Intel, and Time Warner.
Scott McKain offers clear ideas that apply to real business. His book Collapse of Distinction is among the Top 10 bestselling business books of 2009. With his induction into the Speakers Hall of Fame, he became a member of an elite group that includes people such as Colin Powell and Ronald Reagan.
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Peter Littmann
a brand building and marketing expert and advisor to world-renowned brands and large corporations
He managed to turn the local German clothing company Hugo Boss into a world-renowned brand. He has advised Tomas Bata and the management of Mercedes. Today, his clients include BMW, Porsche, Marc O´ Polo and Axel Springer, and his latest challenge is to get global recognition for the modern Slovak national drink TATRATEA and turn it into a global brand. As the head of his own consulting company Brandinsider GmbH, he knows very well how to recognise a market opportunity and get the maximum out of it.
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Magnus Lindkvist
a futurologist and adviser in trendspotting, innovations and the recognition of opportunities
He often starts his talks with something grotesque and ends by playing a ukulele. By his detachment, wisdom and proven research he brings innovation to business. A management consultant as well as a film director, Magnus Lindkvist uses quantitative business factors with the visionary art of the future. That’s one of the things that make him one of Europe’s most wanted speakers in the field of trend predictions and the recognition of future opportunities. He focuses mainly on trends concerning consumption, technology, consumer behaviour and strategy. He has collaborated with brands such as Lexus Europe, Helly Hansen Globally, Amer Sports, Carlsberg and Differ.
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Joan Laporta
the most successful president of FC Barcelona and a Catalan politician
How can you turn something great into the best? Joan Laporta knows a lot about that. He will provide an authentic look behind the scenes of the sports business. Thanks to his vision, within 7 years he managed to resurrect a downsliding and financially unhealthy club and bring it to the top of the world charts. After seven years in the seat of the president of FC Barcelona he could boast six trophies. He nearly tripled the club’s annual budget, he significantly contributed to the reduction of violence in the stadiums and he increased the international prestige of the club by concluding a historic agreement in cooperation with the children’s fund UNICEF.
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Sir John Whitmore
the father of coaching, a sought-after consultant in the area of organisational change
Even the experience from his career as a professional motor racing driver can be successfully applied in the business world. As the father of coaching, today he works globally with leading multinational corporations to establish coaching management cultures and leadership programmes. He has educated managers of the world’s leading organisations such as Rolls Royce, British Airways, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Roche. He is the leader in the area of business coaching and his most successful book Coaching for Performance has been translated into 17 languages. More than 500,000 copies have been sold all over the world.
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Leo Johnson
a leading adviser on sustainable development and an expert on megatrends
He is a leading expert on sustainable development and the identification of environmental and social megatrends. He specialises in the risks and opportunities created by these megatrends for leading companies. He has advised more than 50 international banks and businesses. He established Sustainable Finance – a company dealing with sustainable development. He regularly appears as a guest and commentator on the BBC, CNN and CNBC. He lectures about sustainable development at academic institutions, including the University of Cambridge.
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Ian Scott
an expert on strategy, international economy, development and knowledge management
His more than 40 years of experience in international finance and development make him an all-around expert. He specialises in the international economy and its development, strategy and knowledge management. He is an authority on leadership and change management. He worked for a quarter of a century at the World Bank, from which he retired as its director. In the field of strategic management he advises many public, private and third sector organisations on issues such as oil, gas, technology and health care.
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