Innovation is not a buzzword.
It’s motivating your people to go the extra mile.
It’s creating the right conditions for creativity to thrive.
It’s leadership; lifting your people and your organization.
It’s lifelong learning
It’s an experience
Our Future of Work Tour tells you exactly how to organize innovation. From startups to scale-ups to corporates, everybody is struggling with leadership, organization structures and lifelong learning.
Today more than ever, the workplace is changing and the needs of organizations to innovate in order to survive is stronger than ever. Let us show you how your organization can become lean, agile, people-focused and innovation-minded.
Join Peter Hinssen on a 5-day long mind-altering trip through Silicon Valley to discover how the Day After Tomorrow of work will look like.
We have prepared a couple of megatrends for you that will enable innovation.
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Engaging your people requires a special form of leadership. What does it really mean to be a “leader” in the 21st century? Innovation grows together with great leadership and so does your organization.
People love learning from their peers. Part of a good leaders’ role is to create ecosystems of learning to get people involved and keep them motivated.
Recognized as the 2017 #1 Global Voice for Education on LinkedIn media network, Heather McGowan is an internationally known speaker, writer and thought leader. McGowan prepares leaders to most-effectively react to rapid and disruptive changes in education, work, and society.
Jason Averbook, a global keynote speaker, industry analyst, co-founder and CEO of Leapgen, has launched his latest book: The Ultimate Guide to a Digital Workforce Experience ~ Leap for a Purpose. Jason looks to broaden executive mindset to rethink how to better design and deliver employee services that exceed the expectations of the workforce and the needs of the business.
How do you organize for innovation? Superhero employees combined with an inspiring workplace and great leadership are a good start. But how does it all fit together? The innovation puzzle has 4 dimensions and there’s no silver bullet. Day 4 will help you to create the perfect puzzle with the pieces you have at your organization.
Sunday - Welcome in San Francisco
Time to get to know your travel companions and discover the city while doing so.
Arrival in San Francisco
Peter is a serial entrepreneur, Forbes contributor, LinkedIn Influencer, best-selling author and one of the most sought-after thought leaders on organizing for the Day After Tomorrow, radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business. He has given numerous keynote speeches around the world, among which those for Google Think Performance, Nimbus Ninety, Gartner, NEXT Berlin, Tedx, PayPal, MasterCard, Microsoft, CIO City, SAS, Accenture and Apple. He lectures at renowned business schools like the London Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine.
More about PeterMonday - People and Skills: the augmented worker
Innovation requires superhero-employees and knowledge to flow freely through your organization. The right tools and lifelong learning can truly make the difference.
People will have to work with and next to machines to become better at what they’re doing. The augmented worker is a mix between technology, the right tools and the right mindset.
To support this shift, learning needs to become an experience and well-educated people can turn that experience into something new that you might not yet have thought about.
Jason Averbook, a global keynote speaker, industry analyst, co-founder and CEO of Leapgen, has launched his latest book: The Ultimate Guide to a Digital Workforce Experience ~ Leap for a Purpose. Jason looks to broaden executive mindset to rethink how to better design and deliver employee services that exceed the expectations of the workforce and the needs of the business. Leapgen is an emerging growth management consulting firm dedicated to raising the potential of HR and IT leadership as they strive to innovate their organization’s digital workforce experience.
More about JasonJason looks to broaden executive mindset to rethink how to better design and deliver employee services that exceed the expectations of the workforce and the needs of the business.
SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform to find, engage, and hire great talent.
The interaction between people and robots or "cobots" is the next big thing in tech. As an employer, you want your people to be safe and to work in the best environments possible. Exoskeletons and cobots are tools that will change manufacturing and require your attention.
Order picking, maintenance, logistics, field services and even operating on people. Augmented reality and VR are slowly entering the market but they are here to stay. How do you leverage AR in your organization and what are the major challenges? Metavision and Atheer are the perfect companies to answer these questions.
How do we cope with an aging workforce? As an individual, a company or a civilization? One answer might be wearables. Wearables can monitor our health, support our bodies and warn us when necessary. In the workplace wearables will become an important part of wellbeing in the workplace. Look out for Superflex because they have the key to solve the problem of the aging workforces.
The network always wins and so does sharing knowledge. People in your organization loose plenty of time coping with problems to which a coworker next door might have the answer right away. Knowledge platforms enable the free flow of information both internally and externally and can help companies to vastly improve their productivity.
Tuesday - People and space: the workplace of the future
No, we’re not talking about the flex-desk at your office where everybody seems to be sitting in the same chair every day.
The workplace of the future might not be what you’re imagining. Technology has enabled us to work everywhere we want, the gig economy has shifted the way we work and yet, everybody is driving to work during rush hour.
A workplace that generates innovation is flexible, open, stimulating and all around us.
Boundaries are slowly disappearing at work. Boundaries between private life and work but also boundaries between work and play. Firms from a range of industries are giving their staff an inspiring place to work by introducing activity-based working and blurring these lines.
Activity based working offices improve staff interaction, which increases knowledge sharing and boosts morale. The office is also turned into a home-away-from home, which improves quality of life.
How can you organize digital collaboration? What does it take to have an entirely digital organization without office space? Is it even possible? Tools like Slack can help you to streamline activities and manage your team but there are companies taking it one step further. Ever heard of knack.com? They don't have an office and collaborate on different projects from all over the USA.
Wednesday - People and empowerment – employee engagement & leadership
Engaging your people requires a special form of leadership. What does it really mean to be a “leader” in the 21st century? Innovation grows together with great leadership and so does your organization.
People love learning from their peers. Part of a good leaders’ role is to create ecosystems of learning to get people involved and keep them motivated.
I’m a leadership and talent development expert on mission to empower individuals, teams, and organizations to lead extraordinary lives. I’ve spent the last decade creating and facilitating breakthrough experiences that inspire people to do things they didn’t think were possible. My transformational work helps leaders change the game by getting unstuck from what holds them back, discovering their path of purpose for work & life, thriving in the moment, and creating positive change in the world.
More about GarrettAdeption.io personalizes learning content to user's goals. It supports users to embed learning through deliberate practice.
Cracking the code for the use of games in B2B seems to be a never ending story but games can be more than just a way to unbend. Games can help HR-professionals with the development, education, hiring process and training of employees. We'll show you how games can change your people and vision.
Stride Health has built software that allows independent workers who can afford it, to buy health care and financial benefits on their own. The company is betting beg on the gig economy and the challenges these people are facing.
OKR's, goals, peer feedback and performance management. By now, we all know the buzzwords of a lean organization. Your workforce comprises all of the talented individuals whose sense of purpose seamlessly needs to align to the organization’s top priorities today and to developing the skills needed for their career growth and to face tomorrow’s challenges.
Thursday - Re-thinking organizations
How do you organize for innovation? Superhero employees combined with an inspiring workplace and great leadership are a good start. But how does it all fit together? The innovation puzzle has 4 dimensions and there’s no silver bullet. Day 4 will help you to create the perfect puzzle with the pieces you have at your organization.
McGowan is an internationally recognized keynote speaker on the future of work and the future of learning. Accelerating disruptive cycles in industry, with rising automation and rapid adoption and scaling of technology, are making traditional jobs frameworks obsolete and demanding new and adaptive skill sets of workers.
McGowan also guides corporate executives to re-think and re-frame their business models, and their understanding of team and organizational structures, to be resilient and successful in changing markets.
She co-published a book on the future of work in spring 2020: the adaptation advantage, on how the ability to adapt is key to thrive in the Day After Tomorrow.
More about Heather E.Accelerating disruptive cycles in industry, with rising automation and rapid adoption and scaling of technology, are making traditional jobs frameworks obsolete and demanding new and adaptive skill sets of workers.
Heather will tell you all about the megatrends shaking op HR as we know it and immerse you in new ways of coping with an ever more competitive playing field.
My career as technical entrepreneur is built on the principles of rapid feedback through experiments, continuous learning, spirited creativity, and iterating towards excellence. These principles have directed my path through agile software development as a developer, lean product management, company building as a founder, and ecosystem building as a platform creator.
More about NoahCoMakery accelerates the value of blockchain projects. The company connects a diverse set of talented individuals with unique blockchain opportunities, allowing them to contribute and help launch projects that add value to blockchain initiatives. Its community-based platform allows contributors to be paid in tokens directly from the projects they have provided their expertise to, and in return delivering to them an immediate stake in the blockchain ecosystems they have helped to build.
I'm a passionate entrepreneur with an addiction to learning and an unhealthy habit for taking on 'impossible' problems.
As CEO @ HUMM I lead the team in taking on our radical vision, building a wearable device that instantly accelerates learning by modulating the electrical currents of the brain. I'm currently focused on developing valuable relationships globally in the science, tech and esports industries.
More about IainImagine a world where learning is effortless, where communication and control of technology are as simple as a thought and where every person has the power to expand their intelligence. In the last ten years, cutting edge neuroscience has opened new horizons for the human brain. Humm has developed a headband that speeds up the learnign process and helps people to concentrate better.
Friday - People and skills - the flexible worker
The worker of today is not the worker of tomorrow and definitely not the worker of the Day After Tomorrow. Lifelong learning is needed more than ever.
Technologies change so fast that a 25-year old junior competes on effectiveness with a 40-year old senior manager. In your company, you'll need both but how can you leverage their different skills and keep them up-to-date with the latest developments at the same time?
Food for thought.
As part of the Cisco Hyperinnovation Living Lab, or CHILL, Shannon Lucas leverages her extensive experience in collaborative innovation, bringing together giants of industry to develop new businesses and markets.
More about ShannonGlobal innovation executive specializing in future trend analysis, driving innovation & intrapreneurial culture, and delivering transformational technology solutions. Strategic consultant and expert facilitator, experienced in guiding Fortune 1000 corporate customers through ideation and prototyping to market entry. Seasoned program manager with proven track record of delivering on time and under budget. TedX speaker.
Peter is a serial entrepreneur, Forbes contributor, LinkedIn Influencer, best-selling author and one of the most sought-after thought leaders on organizing for the Day After Tomorrow, radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business.
More about PeterOur aim is to end the program around 2 PM on all of our programs. Therefore, we recommend people to schedule flights that leave around 4 - 5 PM or later. At the bottom of this page you can find the recommended flights if you're flying from Belgium to San Francisco.