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The European Forum Alpbach is an interdisciplinary platform for science, politics, business and culture. Established in 1945, the annual European Forum Alpbach addresses the relevant socio-political questions of our time. We connect international decision-makers from all sectors of society with the goal to create a dialogue across generational, ideological and other lines that divide us.
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We live in an age that demands moonshots: exponential technological growth, a race to the bottom (resources), and the climate crisis are changing the ‘operating space’ (Rockstroem 2009) for businesses and our living environment more than ever before in human history.
We believe this shift is the launchpad for moonshots. Why? Because we see these risks as nothing less than fundamentally game changing opportunities.
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The time is now for bringing together the right people, disciplines, and technologies. Our challenges ask for new transformative leadership and the break down of silos. make_shift is the place where moonshot learning happens, and we invite leaders who want to prepare for these opportunities to join us.
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What is make_shift?
make_shift is about the leadership necessary to embrace future markets and game changing opportunities arising out of technological disruption, climate crisis, and human behaviour;
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make_shift is a unique collaborative le- make_shift takes deep dives into the arning journey that equips leaders with future with unusual suspects and the mindset, the unusual insights, and like-minded peers. the ‘how’ to build future-ready businesses;
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Who will attend make_shift? Selected group of ‘shift_makers’ - senior management and executives with the mandate to transform businesses in order to get ahead of tomorrow’s challenges.
The international business leaders who are building innovation and leading companies through business transformation;
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The moonshot experts for the course change that we need to mitigate the climate crisis and accelerate the global transition;
The unusual suspects who help us to understand how to adapt more quickly to exponential technological growth and to unleash people potential.
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What to gain from make_shift? These three pillars of change guide the learning journey and provide the structure for the learning process.
Methods to discover and unlock the potential of white space opportunities to innovate and transform current business;
An understanding of global sustainability transformation, megatrends, circular economy, technological opportunities, and planetary boundaries;
It is not just another executive training – a tailor-made programme of interactive sessions held in an immersive setting in a beautiful location in the Austrian Alps.
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Insights to deliver on strategy: Collaborative leadership know-how focusing on people-centred innovation, culture, and change.
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Methodology and Learning Design
1. Reframe
Large-scale system transformation and global change. How are they affecting your business and what are the game changing opportunities? Â
REFRAME
2. Rethink
RETHINK
3. Relearn
RELEARN
People-centred innovation and transformative leadership. How can we lead business transformation? How to build successful future-ready businesses. Learning from the front-runners.
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Programme Draft
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DAY 1
Welcome and Warm Up Philippe Narval, Anna Handschuh, Bo Krüger
Setting the Stage - Business transformation in the age of climate crisis and exponential technological growth: Planetary boundaries, game changers, risks and opportunities. Jeffrey Sachs
Business Deep Dive I Executive conversation on business transformation and its opportunities.
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DAY 3
Workshop on People - Centered Innovation How to make innovation, transformation and leadership for change work.
Business Deep Dive IV Executive conversation on the future of mobility.
Anna Kirah
Philipp Glöckler, ÖBB (TBA)
Business Deep Dive III Executive conversation on business transformation and the concept of shared value.
Business Deep Dive V Executive conversation on the circular economy.
Stefano Venier
(TBA)
Chad Frischmann, Geanne van Arkel
Workshop on Leadership Business Deep Dive II Executive Conversation on the state of the circular economy.
Bo Krüger, Eva Best
Lessons Relearned and Key Takeaways Guiding principles and unusual insights. Bo Krüger, Anna Handschuh
Martin Stuchtey
Fireside Chat Now or never. Climate crisis is the perfect launchpad for entrepreneurs.
Leadership for Change International thought leader fireside chat. Lucrece Foufopoulos
Sprints - fast forward into the future
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Schedule may be subject to change
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Speakers
Jeffrey Sachs is a University Professor and
Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 to 2016. He is also Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. He has authored numerous bestseller books. His most recent is A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018). He is one of the world’s leading experts on economic development, public policy and the transformations we need to achieve the sustainable development goals and the goals of the Paris Agreement. Jeffrey is author of various publications in collaboration with internationally recognized experts as environmental scientist Johan Rockström.
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Chad Frischmann is Vice President and
Research Director of Project Drawdown. Chad is the lead researcher and principal architect of the methodology and models behind Project Drawdown and the New York Times Bestseller “Drawdown. The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.” It describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. Chad has a multidisciplinary background in public policy, human rights, sustainable development, and environmental conservation. He taught at the University of Oxford and the University of California at Berkeley.
Martin Stuchtey is an internationally
recognized expert on the Circular Economy and Professor for Resource Strategies and Management at the University of Innsbruck. Martin was the Co-founder of McKinsey & Company’s Sustainability Practice, as well as Managing Partner and Director of the Center for Business and Environment at McKinsey. Together with Dame Ellen MacArthur he initiated the Circular Economy Initiative at the World Economic Forum. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Systemiq Ltd, a specialist firm for innovation and investment in new land use, energy and circular industrial systems.
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Stefano Venier is the CEO of Hera S.p.A..
Stefano started his career at Electrolux, followed by different positions in the planning and M&A departments of Eni, a petrochemical company. He was Vice President of Energy & Utilities at A.T. Kearney prior to joining Hera Group as Head of Business Development and Strategic Planning. He moved to the position of General Manager for Development and Marketing and in 2014 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer by the Board of Directors of Hera S.p.A, a position he currently holds. Under his leadership Hera Group, one of Italy’s largest multi-utilities, became a frontrunner of the Circular Economy.
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Geanne van Arkel is Head of Sustainable
Development EMEA at Interface. Interface has been a leader in addressing climate change and in Circular Economy for 20 years. Geanne joined Interface in 2003. In her role as Head of Sustainable Development she successfully led the organization toward the fulfillment of their sustainability strategy “mission zero” and is now spearheading the implementation of the company’s next strategic goal in EMEA: The climate take back. Interface’s “climate take back” strategy is not about sustainability as reducing harm, it is pushing the boundaries of sustainable business innovation toward a regenerative footprint.
Lucrèce Foufopoulos serves as Executive
Vice President Polyolefins and Innovation & Technology at Borealis Group. Lucrèce Foufopoulos joins Borealis after a career of more than 20 years in the chemical and petrochemical industry. Most recently, she served Eastman Chemical as Vice President & General Manager of the Rubber Additives business unit. Prior to joining Eastman Chemical, Lucrèce Foufopoulos held a variety of positions at multinationals, including Dow Chemical, Rohm and Haas, Dow Corning and Tyco. She is also a board member of Royal Vopak, the world’s leading independent tank storage company.
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Anna Kirah is the Managing Director of
Kirah&Co. As an internationally recognized innovation expert and design anthropologist, Anna specializes in people- centered innovation. She has worked in companies such as Microsoft and Boeing. She was the founding Dean of the Danish 180º Academy, a radical innovation training for industry leaders. Subsequently, she joined the international digital design consultancy Making Waves as Chief Experience Officer and became Managing Director of the NGO “Design Without Borders”. She is Head of Service Design at the Oslo and Akershus University College and advises clients around the world on people-centered innovation and digital transformation which translates to building a resiliant future.
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Tatjana Novakovic first gained insights
about environmental and ecological economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). Having specialised in Information Technology and Business Information Systems, she turned to blockchain technology to research its potential in helping achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Together with a team at BlockchainHub Berlin, she researched projects running on blockchain technology and concluded token analyses. The need for interdisciplinarity shifted her research to the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at Vienna University of Economics where she currently serves as Expert Project Manager on the [UN]BLOCKED project, bridging the gap between sustainability and blockchain technology.
Katherine Foster has been spearheading
initiatives at the nexus of innovation, policy and sustainable development for over 25 years. A former Canadian diplomat specialized in human security and climate, Katherine became the Innovation Lead for Switzerland and then Business Development Lead across Europe for the European Union’s Climate-KIC. Katherine is CSO of BLOC, an MIT Solve Fellow, an advisor to the World Bank and the United Nations, and a mentor for the Startup Bus, the MIT IIC, and the EU EIT Food. Katherine focuses on collaborations across borders, sectors and stakeholders.
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Philipp GloĚˆckler started his career as an
entrepreneur by successfully founding Avocadostore, a webshop for a sustainable lifestyle. He became a pioneer of the sharing economy with his next venture, the Hamburg based sharing platform WhyOwnIt. He consecutively joined Moovel as Head of White Label, moved to the position of Chief Innovation Officer before becoming Chief Business Intelligence Officer of Moovel Group. Currently, he is taking some time off to plan his next step.
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Facilitators
Anna Handschuh started her career in
Marketing at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. As the Marketing Lead, she co-founded the German branch of the pioneering Sustainability Bank Triodos Bank. Subsequently she was Head of Programme at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (Migros), a Swiss think tank for future research, where she curated the international thought leader conferences and conducted research on global changes in consumer behavior, innovation and sustainability. Since 2015 she works as an adviser, researcher and lecturer at the Rotterdam Business School with focus on innovation for a low-carbon economy. Her trademarks are speed, lateral thinking and a just-do-it attitude.
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Bo KrĂźger is an acknowledged international
speaker, facilitator and meeting designer. He works as a Management Consultant, at Implement Consulting Group. Bo works on all management levels and has worked with clients in more than 25 countries. His passion is to create outstanding meetings that will let participants leave eager to change themselves, their business and the world. When he design and facilitate meetings and conferences, he always strive towards engaging the participants as much as possible and make it fun and memorable. His trademarks are humor, energy and creativity. Bo has written several books on facilitation, creativity and gamification.
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At the European Forum Alpbach, we are proud to offer state of the art, innovative formats for learning and sharing to our community. We connect generations and engage decision takers through participatory methods that are an undeniable factor in the DNA of our organisation. We are very grateful to work with a hand picked group of bright minds, dot connectors, systemic thinkers and bridge builders – from tech to sustainability, from business to science.
SOUNDING BOARD
GEANNE VAN ARKEL Head of Sustainable Development, Interface EMEA (NL)
RENAT HEUBERGER Founder and CEO, South Pole Carbon (CH)
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PHILIPP GLÖCKLER Chief Intelligence Officer, Moovel (D)
DR SHERMIN VOSHMGIR Director, Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business (AT)
PROF DR MARTIN STUCHTEY Founder and Managing Partner, SYSTEMIQ Ltd. and Professor, Sustainability Innovation Lab, University of Innsbruck (AT)
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Strategic content partners of make_shift RE SE ARCH INS TITUTE FOR CRYP TOECONOMIC S , VIENNA UNIVER SIT Y OF ECONOMIC S AND BUSINE SS , AUS TRIA
I N N O VAT I O N L A B F O R S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y, UNIVERSIT Y OF INNSBRUCK , AUS TRIA
R A I F F E I S E N C A P I TA L M A N A G E M E N T, A U S T R I A
K L I M A- U N D E N E R G I E F O N D S , A U S T R I A
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C L I M AT E C H A N G E C E N T R E A U S T R I A
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Investment
- open from mid March - maximum of 25 participants - email us by June 20th - contact: make_shift@alpbach.org
- EUR 2,990 incl VAT_covers participation and catering - free access to the Economic Symposium (27 - 29 August) - does not cover travel and accommodation - co-create and join the make_shift network
Please email us your profile and explain what attracts you to make_shift and what you expect to gain in order to change your business. We would also like to hear from you about what you see as the biggest risks and opportunities over the course of the next 10 years. Where do you see unleashed potential to create impactful change? 2 5 – 2 7 A U G U S T 2 0 1 9, E U R O P E A N F O R U M A L P B A C H , A U S T R I A
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More information on the application process: www.alpbach.org/make_shift Facebook: /forumalpbach Twitter: @forumalpbach
concept 20 March 2019 by elephant strategy for European Forum Alpbach make_shift 2019
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