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Morning Stage 2024
Once again, we are welcoming a line-up of high-profile, international speakers to our Innovation Day stage, who will present their inspiring, visionary ideas. This year the focus is on our overarching theme #FuturePositive. Instead of looking on the black side, we are looking optimistically ahead to a positive future – and focusing on the opportunities for business and brands.
When it comes to shaping the future, they are among the most instrumental driving forces worldwide. Look forward!
Agenda
MORNING PROGRAMME
9 am - Come Together
10 am - Morning Stage
- Keynote #FUTUREPOSITIVE
- Topic #PIONEERS
- Topic #SOCIETY
Noon - Lunch, Networking Time and Innovation Highlights
AFTERNOON PROGRAMME
From 1pm
- Masterclasses Part 1 and Speaker Meet-Ups
- Masterclasses Part 2
- Inspiration Highlight on Stage
4 pm - Coffee & Cake and Networking Time
Speaker 2024
Adam Davidson
Award-winning New Yorker writer and the author of The Passion Economy.
A widely respected public voice with a unique talent for explaining the complicated interconnections between business, technology and economics, he was previously an economics writer for the New York Times Magazine. Davidson co-founded and ran NPR’s Planet Money, served as NPR’s international business and economics correspondent, and has been a frequent contributor to This American Life, where he received a Peabody Award, a DuPont-Columbia Award and a Polk Award for his work on “The Giant Pool of Money”. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, GQ and Rolling Stone, among other publications. He also served as a technical consultant to Adam McKay, the co-writer and director of the Academy Award-winning film The Big Short (and later, Davidson’s cohost on Gimlet Media podcast Surprisingly Awesome). He is currently launching a course on passion storytelling for business with the education start-up Maven. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and lives in Charlotte, Vermont with his wife and son.
Cathy Hackl
A globally recognised tech and gaming exec, futurist and speaker focused on spatial computing, virtual worlds, augmented reality, AI and gaming platforms strategy.
Cathy Hackl is the CEO of Spatial Dynamics, a spatial computing and AI solutions company and a top tech voice on LinkedIn. Cathy has worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Magic Leap and HTC VIVE and has worked with companies like Nike, Ralph Lauren, Walmart, Louis Vuitton and Clinique on their emerging tech and gaming journeys.
As a sought-after keynote speaker, she has spoken at Harvard Business School, MIT, SXSW, Comic-Con, WEF, CES, MWC and more. She is one of Ad Age’s Leading Women of 2023, was featured on the cover of Forbes LatAm’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2023 issue and is on the Vogue Business 100 Innovators list.
She hosts Adweek’s highly successful TechMagic podcast and is popularly known in tech circles as the Godmother of the Metaverse. Cathy has been a fixture in the world of immersive technology for almost a decade with many media appearances in CNBC’s Squawk Box, 60 Minutes, CNN, Good Morning America, GQ, Time, The Economist and Bloomberg, and is a guest editor for Vogue Singapore.
In 2022, she became the first human to ring NASDAQ’s opening bell and open the financial markets both in physical and avatar form while on live television.
Francesca Bria
She is an innovation economist working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, cities and society.
Francesca Bria is Honorary Professor in the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL in London and part of the High-Level Round Table for the New European Bauhaus set up by the EC President Ursula von der Leyen to accelerate the EU Green Deal. She is the former President of the Italian National Innovation Fund and a Board Member of the Italian public media company RAI.
From 2015 to 2019, she was Chief Digital Technology and Innovation Officer for the City of Barcelona. In this role, she led the Smart City Agenda and was one of the founders of the United Nations Cities Coalition for Digital Rights. Francesca Bria was the founder of DECODE, the EU flagship project on data sovereignty in Europe, and is a Senior Adviser on the EC programme STARTS (innovation at the nexus of science, technology and the arts).
Francesca has taught at several universities in the UK and Italy and advised governments and public and private organisations on technology and innovation policy and its socio-economic, geopolitical and environmental impact. She was nominated Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and was listed in the Top 50 Women in Tech by Forbes Magazine. Francesca is also Culture Person of the Year 2020 according to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), and has also been recognised as one of the world’s top 20 most influential people in digital government by Apolitical.
Expert in sustainability policy and transformation research, co-founder of Scientists4Future
Prof. Dr. Maja Göpel has been working as a political economist, transformation expert, and sustainability scientist at the intersection of science, politics, and society for 25 years. Until October 2020, she advised the German government on global environmental changes as Secretary General of the scientific advisory board.
For her work, Maja Göpel has already received numerous awards, including the Science Communication Medal from the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen and the Theodor Heuss Prize in 2021. In 2020, she was awarded the B.A.U.M. Environmental and Sustainability Prize and the ZEIT WISSEN Prize for "Courage for Sustainability," as well as the Adam Smith Prize in 2019.
AI expert and founder of you.com
Richard Socher is the founder and CEO of You.com. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce. Before that, Richard was the CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Richard received his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. He is widely recognized as having brought neural networks into the field of natural language processing, inventing the most widely used word vectors, contextual vectors and prompt engineering. He has over 150,000 citations and served as an adjunct professor in the computer science department at Stanford. Outside of work, Richard enjoys paramotor adventures and photography.
Managing Director appliedAI
Dr. Andreas Liebl is Managing Director of the appliedAI Initiative and the appliedAI Institute for Europe with the goal to "Shape Europe's innovative power in AI" by working on advancing organizations to highest levels of AI maturity and by creating state of the art AI applications. He is Steering Committee member in the Global Partnership on AI and serves as expert regarding innovation and commercialization next to other advisory roles. He previously was one of the Managing Directors of UnternehmerTUM, worked for McKinsey and did his PhD at the Technical University of Munich.
Editor Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Carsten Knop was born in Dortmund in 1969. An internship in the editorial office of the "Westfälische Rundschau" led to freelance work in the local editorial offices of this newspaper even before graduating from high school. Knop studied business administration at the University of Münster. This was followed in 1993 by a traineeship at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His journalistic training was followed by his first editorial position in 1995: He was quickly transferred to Düsseldorf as a correspondent for the "Börsen-Zeitung". The change of location made it possible to return to the Düsseldorf office of the F.A.Z. in 1996, which had already been the outstation of the traineeship. After the time in Düsseldorf, he worked as a business correspondent first in New York and then in San Francisco. Since 2003 Carsten Knop has been back in Frankfurt, where he spent many years as head of corporate reporting and was later also responsible for business news. From the beginning of 2018 until March 2020 he was editor-in-chief for digital products. He has been editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since April 2020.
New York Times bestselling author and journalist
Oliver Burkeman is a journalist and best-selling author. For 14 years he was writing the popular weekly column called ‘This Column Will Change Your Life’ in The Guardian and online where he investigated routes to mental wellbeing.
His book Four Thousand Weeks (the average lifespan of a human) is a New York Times best-seller and named one of the best books of 2021 by the Financial Times, The Times, The Observer, Audible, Time and Barnes & Noble. Here, Oliver explores why the central challenge of time management isn't becoming more efficient, but deciding what to neglect; why, in an accelerating world, patience is a superpower and why, in conditions of limitless choice, burning your bridges beats keeping your options open.
His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian US, Esquire, Psychologies and New Philosopher.
