Andreas S. Weigend is one of the world’s leading innovators for the implementation of customer needs in the Internet-enabled services. He was the Chief Scientist at Amazon.com, where he specialized in understanding how people behave online, helping Amazon build their customer-centric, measurement-focused culture. An expert in data mining and computational marketing, he advises exciting startups and consults for established firms including Alibaba, Best Buy, Lufthansa, MySpace, and Nokia.

“We know nothing, but we can measure it” Andreas S. Weigend

In detail

Andreas Weigend graduated in physics, electrical engineering and philosophy in Munich, Cambridge and Stanford. As the Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, he developed predictive models for customer behaviour, including situation-based marketing and customer network value, and designed applications for recommendations and cross-selling. Andreas teaches at Stanford (Data Mining), Berkeley (Marketing), and in China (Tsinghua) - his work with students and clients provides him with a precious flow of new ideas constantly enhancing his 15 years of experience.

What he offers you

Andreas S. Weigend now helps data-rich organizations base strategic decisions on data and analytics. His career as scientist and innovator enables him to successfully bridge the gap between industry and academia. He helps some of the most brilliant entrepreneurs and executives around the world leverage user data to create innovative products and business models.

How he presents

Andreas S. Weigend enjoys sharing his fascinating and actionable insights in his highly sought-after presentations. He boils down ideas and trends to their essence, revealing core concepts and strategic implications. An engaging and entertaining speaker, he focuses on important, often hard questions and uses carefully chosen examples from his extensive network and vast expertise to expound on these questions. His goal is to challenge the minds of the audience.

Why the Social Data Revolution Changes (Almost) Everything

The Implementation of Customer Needs in the Internet-enabled Services

The 4 Myths of E-Commerce

What Every Company Can Learn from Amazon.com

Data Mining

Computational Marketing

2000
Computational Finance 1999 (with Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Blake LeBaron & Andrew W. Lo)

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Prof. Jean-Pierre Lehmann has been Professor of International Political Economy at IMD since 1997. In 1995, he launched the Evian Group, which has developed as a leading global voice on global trade and investment issues and acts as a forum for dialogue and a birth place of ideas. He was also Associate Professor of International Business at INSEAD. He is the author of several books and articles primarily dealing with globalization, modern East Asian history and East Asia and the international political economy.

“Advisor to WTO Director General, Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi”

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Prof. Lehmann studied in Japan, Switzerland, the United States (Georgetown) and received his doctorate from Oxford. Prior to joining IMD, his academic and business careers encompassed activities in virtually all Asian and Western European countries, as well as North America. He was founding director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) at the Stockholm School of Economics and Professor of East Asian Political Economy and Business. He established and directed the East Asian operations of InterMatrix, a London-based business strategy research and consulting organization (1986-1992). During this time he was concurrently Affiliated Professor of International Business at the London Business School.

What he offers you

Jean-Pierre Lehmann offers vast and highly respected experience in areas including globalization, global governance, trade and development, the role of business in reduction of poverty and inequality and the socio-economic, cultural, and business dynamics of Asia. Acting in various leading capacities in a number of public policy institutes and organizations, as an adviser to governments and corporations, and as a frequent commentator in the international media he is uniquely positioned to provide answers to questions on a variety of current issues.

How he presents

World famous thinkers in management, Jean-Pierre Lehmann’s highly sought-after presentations are thought provoking and captivating, enjoyed by audiences worldwide.

Global Trade and Investment

Leading the Global Enterprise

Global Governance

The Role of Business in the Reduction of Poverty

Challenges Facing China

East Asia and the International Political Economy

Building on Talent

Mastering Technology Enterprise

Orchestrating Winning Performance

2009
Japan’s open future: an agenda for global citizenship (with John Haffner & Tomas Casas i Klett)

2008
Strategies, Markets and Governance: Exploring Commercial and Regulatory Agendas (with Ralf Boscheck, Christine Batruch, Stewart Hamilton)

2003
La clinique analytique de winnicott

1978
Image of Japan

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Christoph von Marschall is arguably the best German speaking expert on the US president, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. As bureau chief of the Berlin Tagesspiegel in Washington, he followed Obama’s two year campaign, closely observing the presidential couple even after their entry into the White House. He writes for major internal magazine including Die Zeit, Cicero and the Atlantic Times. Marschall appears frequently as a commentator in the international media.

“An expert on the intricacies of the US election system and on the changing mood of the electorate”

In detail

Christoph von Marschall holds a Ph.D. in Eastern European History from Freiburg University. His journalistic career began in 1989 at the Süddeutsche Zeitung and he has won several awards: In 2002 he received the German-American Prize for a commentary post related to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and its consequences for American foreign policy. In 2005 he was honoured with the German-Polish journalism award for a report on Skierbieszów, the birthplace of the Federal President Horst Köhler. In the same year he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contribution to the German-Polish reconciliation.

What he offers you

Christoph von Marschall openly talks about his unique experience following the President-Elect during the 2008 elections. He expertly analyzes how the questions of race, religion and the economic crisis dominate America’s policy. The award winning journalist offers insights into the political landscape of the United States of America and the role of Europe.

How he presents

In his highly sought-after presentations, Christoph von Marschall provides his audiences with a vivid and insightful analysis of power relations and the political climate.

After the inauguration of Barack Obama - How the new President has changed America and the World

Obama, Clinton and Peace - What is the role of Germany, the EU and NATO in the new U.S. Foreign and Peace policies?

More than Bush and less than Merkel: Opportunities and Limits of Energy and
Climate policy in Obama’s America

Mission Impossible? How the economic crisis changed President Obama’s agenda for reform

Manager, Mother, First Lady - Michelle Obama’s Stunning Career

2009
Michelle Obama: Ein Amerikanischer Traum (An American Dream)

Barack Obama: Der schwarze Kennedy
(updated new edition after the induction of Obama as President) - translated into five languages.

2007
Barack Obama: Der schwarze Kennedy

1993
Freiheit in der Unfreiheit. Die Autonomie der Polen in Galizien nach dem österreichisch-ungarischen Ausgleich von 1867 (The autonomy of the Poles in Galicia after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867)

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Dame Clara Furse was the first female in the London bourse’s 200-year history to occupy the position of Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange, making the L.S.E. the destination of choice for international firms eager to raise cash. She is a member of the Board of Euroclear, LCH.Clearnet and Fortis, and became Non-Executive Director of Legal & General in June 2009.

In 2007, Furse was listed among Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in The World

In detail

Clara Furse was born in Canada to Dutch parents, and educated at schools in Colombia, Denmark and Britain, graduating from the London School of Economics in 1979 with a BSc in economics. Her career has spanned a broad range of global financial markets. She began her career in 1979 as a broker, joining Phillips & Drew (now UBS) in 1983, becoming a Director of the company in 1988, Executive Director in 1992, Managing Director in 1995 and Global Head of Futures in 1996. In addition, she served as a board member and Deputy Chairman of LIFFE (1991-1999). She was Group Chief Executive of Credit Lyonnais Rouse from 1998 to 2000. In 2005 Clara Furse was ranked 19th in Fortune magazine’s Most powerful women in business list. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.

What she offers you

Having held such a senior position at the heart of the global financial market (“one of the hardest in the City”), Clara Furse delivers fascinating insights from an ideal and unique perspective. With her gutsy leadership, she has been credited with leading the transition of the Exchange from a mutual organization to a commercially driven, public company, increasing revenue by over 80 percent in the process. Her highly sought-after presentations shed new light on global economic issues.

How she presents

No-one interested in the realities of governing our financial institutions in times of unrivalled turmoil will wish to miss an incredibly insightful presentation from Clara Furse, one of the UK’s top players in the world of high finance.

How the Recession is Affecting Global Trading

Futures

The Impact of Technology and Globalization on the Exchanges Sector

Leadership

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Richard Whiteley is the Principal of The Whiteley Group, dedicated to helping indiviuals and organisations realize and expand their potential by designing and presenting customized, exciting and provocative speeches and workshops. Most recently, he held the position of Vice Chairman of The Forum Corporation, an industry-leading, 700 man-strong, global training and consulting firm. His award-winning best seller, ‘The Customer-Driven Company’, was named one of the top four business books of 1991 by Fortune Magazine. ‘Customer-Centered Growth’, was selected as a Business Week best-seller, and named one of the top five business books by Selling Magazine.

“Increases expectations”

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Richard has appeared on national and local television and radio, was featured in Flightline, an American Airlines publication, and is a frequent commentator in the business press. He was formerly a columnist for Sales and Marketing Magazine, and has created two video programs, Customer-Driven Quality with Fortune Magazine, and Solving the Leadership Puzzle, featuring the Kansas City Chiefs pro football team. In 1978 Richard founded and later served as president of The Instructional Systems Association, a group of leading national training companies.

What he offers you

Richard’s personal experience in building his own successful companies, ensure that the ideas and principles offered are practical and based on the most pressing and contemporary issues facing business. An entrepreneur and practitioner first, his extensive knowledge of current business challenges and dynamic presentation style have brought him acclaim as a powerful speaker. His presentations are known for their practicality and usefulness because of his first hand company building experience and his work with over 300 organizations and 350,000 executives in 26 countries over the past thirty years. First and foremost Richard considers the audience members to be his primary customers and tailors each presentation to create high impact, take-home value for every participant.

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Customer Centered Growth: How to Create and Retain Customer Loyalty

ReSpiriting Work: How to Bring Spirit and Passion to Your Work

How to Create the Branded Customer Experience

High Impact Leadership: Best Practices for Leading In Times of Rapid Change

Selling Through Service: How to Create the Relationship Advantage

The Corporate Shaman

2002
The Corporate Shaman: A Business Fable

2000
Love the Work You’re With: A Practical Guide to Creating Greater Joy and Productivity in your Job

1996
Customer-Centered Growth

1991
The Customer-Driven Company

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Manfred Kets de Vries is a clinical professor of leadership development; he holds the Raoul de Vitry d’Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD. He is the Director of INSEAD’s Global Leadership Centre, program director of INSEAD’s top management seminar, and the program “Consulting and Coaching for Change”, and has on five occasions received INSEAD’s distinguished teacher award. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than twenty books and has published over 200 scientific papers.

“One of the world’s leading thinkers on leadership”

Manfred Kets de Vries has been ranked among the top 50 most influential business thinkers. In 2009 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the list of most influential thinkers

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He has also held professorships at McGill University, the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Montreal, and the Harvard Business School, and has lectured at management institutions around the world. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

What he offers you

Manfred brings a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organizational change. Bringing to bear his knowledge and experience of economics , management and psychoanalysis he scrutinizes the interface between international management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and dynamic psychiatry.

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Leadership/Entrepreneurship

Career Dynamics

Developing Leaders

Building International Teams

Cross-Cultural Management

The Dynamics of Corporate Transformation and Change

2009
Reflections on Character and Leadership: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries

2005
Global Executive Leadership Inventory: Facilitator’s Guide Lessons on Leadership by Terror

2004
Are Leaders Born or Are They Made?

2003
Leaders, Fools and Impostors

2002
The Happiness Equation

2001
The Leadership Mystique

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Akio Miyabayashi was a former CEO of Minolta Europe, responsible for the launch of Minolta Europe in 1965, and Minolta’s own distribution network in the USA 1966, he became CEO Minolta Europe in 1975.

His clear understanding of the criteria and driving forces of global competitiveness enabled him to successfully develop the European Operations of this multi-national corporation from a staff of 17 in 1965 to 5,200 in 1995 when he became a senior corporate adviser for the Minolta worldwide. His ability to understand the different cultures of the world and utilizing it for the successful growth, enabled Minolta to become a major player in the European market, with 44 companies and subsidiaries and 2 factories throughout Europe, including Eastern Europe and some parts of the former Soviet Union.

A charismatic speaker with the knowledge of different cultures (European, American and Japanese), Akio Miyabayashi has shared centre stage with some of the world prominent politicians and business leaders. His presentations leave the audience with a valuable insight into European and Asian developments in industry, management and society, and offer meaningful projections into the 21st century.

• Achieving Global Competitiveness Through Total Quality Management
• Beyond Customer Satisfaction: hardware, software, humanware
• Preparing for the 21st Century: Trends and Prognoses
• Information Technology - How will it Affect our World in the Future?
• Different Cultures between Japan and Europe: “Mono-Chrome” , “Poly-Chrome” ?
• Japanese Success Factors - “Kaizen, Team Work, Kanban Motivation etc.”
• Managing Fundamental Change
• Leadership

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B.J. Fogg is best known for promoting the concept of “captology,” a word he coined to describe the overlap between persuasion and computers. The founder of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab is one of the most sought-after thinkers in Silicon Valley today. As a psychologist he brings a new perspective on working with technology innovations. He holds at least seven patents, and has additional patents pending.

Fortune Magazine recently listed BJ as one of “10 New Gurus You Should Know”

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B.J. Fogg has held full-time positions at Interval Research, HP Labs, Sun Microsystems, and Casio Research. In 2003, shortly after publishing his book, he began investigating how computers can help people develop close personal relationships. This work has led to a startup and Internet service YackPack. Stanford University awarded BJ the Maccoby Prize in 1998 for four years of experimental research on how computers can change people’s attitudes and behaviours.

What he offers you

B.J. Fogg applies his findings to companies like eBay (where he’s working to improve customer service) and Nike (where he has helped simplify its sports technology line) and shares his insights with his worldwide audiences. His research goes deep into investigating the psychology of Facebook, how Web site or cell-phone design can impact consumers and he has started research into Peace Innovation (the vision is to innovate persuasive technologies that can bring about world peace in 30 years).

How he presents

B.J.’s life’s work is to shape technology innovation in ways that benefit the world and make people happier and his powerful and passionate presentations draw us all that little bit closer.

Captology

What Makes Facebook So Persuasive

Persuasive Technology

Charismatic Computers

Web 2.0

Two Essential Principles: Designing for Simplicity and Building Relationships of Trust

2007
Mobile Persuasion: 20 Perspectives on the Future of Behavior Change (co-editor)

2003
Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do

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Kishore Mahbubani is the Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He served for 33 years as a diplomat for Singapore and has written many articles and two best selling books on world affairs. Mr Mahbubani also serves in advisory capacities to various institutions in Singapore and North America.

“A gifted diplomat, a student of history and philosophy, a provocative writer and an intuitive thinker”

In detail

A student of philosophy and history, Kishore Mahbubani has had a highly successful career in politics. He worked for the Singapore Foreign Service from 1971 to 2004, with postings to Cambodia, Malaysia and Washington and he was the Singapore Ambassador to the UN. He also served as President of the UN Security Council in Jan 2001 and May 2002. He was also Permanent Secretary at the Singapore Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998.

What he offers you

As a career diplomat, a writer and a scholar Kishore Mahbubani has vast experience working at the highest political level around the world. In his presentations he offers invaluable advice to organisations on the challenges facing them in China and Asia.

How he presents

An accomplished speaker, Mr Mahbubani’s presentations are seamlessly put together and loaded with useful insights and ideas.

The China Challenge

Asian Power, Asian Values

The Great Powers and Asia

American Culture: The People’s Choice or a Form of Imperialism?

2005
Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World

2004
Can Asians Think?

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Richard Reed is the co-founder of innocent drinks, the UK’s fastest growing food and drinks company and the no.1 smoothie brand in the UK. The business was started in May 1999 by Richard and two friends, and has a turnover of £35m, selling over 800,000 smoothies a week in the UK, Eire and Continental Europe.

“A Serial Entrepreneur”

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innocent drinks is not Richard’s first enterprise. In fact, Richard’s entrepreneurial career started earlier than most, when he began washing windows for his neighbours at the age of 8!!!! However, a summer job picking up dog biscuits in a pet food factory soon reminded Richard of the joys of working for himself, and led him to set up a summer gardening business called Two Men Went to Mow, employing his school friends.

What he offers you

Richard’s presentation, “The innocent Story”, shows that with a non-corporate attitude, a sincere commitment to the cause and creative thinking it is possible to create a fast growing, profitable company that acts responsibly.

How he presents

A versatile and engaging speaker, Richard draws upon his innovative and creative ideas to inspire audiences with his entertaining presentations.

The innocent Story

Entrepreneurship

Creative Thinking

Social Corporate Responsibility

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