Contribution: Keynote speech
Conducting business and negotiations across cultures

Erin Meyer is the author of The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business and co-author with Reed Hastings of No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention.

She is a Professor at INSEAD, one of the world's leading international business schools. Her work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and Forbes.com. In 2021, Erin was selected - for the third time - by the Thinkers50 as one of the fifty most influential business thinkers in the world.

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Contribution: Keynote Speech
Role of Emotions in High-Stake Negotiations

Daniel Shapiro teaches a highly evaluated course on negotiation at Harvard College, instructs psychology interns at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, and leads executive education sessions at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

He is the author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable, which Matthew Bishop of the Economist Group called “quite simply, the best book I have ever read on negotiating in extreme conflict.”  He is also co-author with Roger Fisher of the negotiation classic “Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate.”

Named among the top 15 professors at Harvard University, Shapiro specializes in practice-based research—building theory and testing it in real-world contexts.

Contribution: Keynote Speech
Leading High-Stake Negotiations

“Matthias Schranner is one of the best negotiators worldwide”
– Forbes

Negotiation expert Matthias Schranner was originally trained by the police and the FBI as a lead negotiator for high-stakes situations. For the past 20 years, he and his team at the Schranner Negotiation Institute have been advising clients including the UN, global corporations and political parties in difficult negotiations. His proprietary Schranner Concept® is used by numerous Fortune 500 companies worldwide to succeed in difficult negotiations.

Contribution: Keynote Speech
Mastering the six disciplines of strategic thinking in negotiations

Michael D. Watkins, PhD, a globally recognized expert in the field of leadership. Over his career, he has designed and led world class programs at IMD, INSEAD, and Harvard Business School. He is a Thinkers 50-ranked management influencer (2019 to present) and was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2023, in recognition of his remarkable contributions to the field of management thinking. Watkins was a member of the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. While there, he began to teach negotiation to senior leaders in the national security community.

These experiences led him to co-author "Breakthrough International Negotiation," which combines the diplomacy case studies and analysis, and which won the CPR Institute’s Prize for best book in the field of negotiation in 2001.

Michael is best known for his global bestseller, "The First 90 Days," the classic reference for leaders in transition, which has sold 2 million copies and is translated in 27 languages.

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Contribution: Interactive Session.

Measuring Negotiation Performance

Remi is renowned for leading The Negotiation Challenge, a prestigious international negotiation competition. Additionally, he is an Honorary Professor of Negotiation at HHL and, as of January 2022, the Academic Director of HHL's newly founded Center for International Negotiation. This think tank is dedicated to enhancing the understanding of negotiation as a crucial managerial skill, aiding business executives in improving their negotiation intelligence and honing their negotiation abilities.

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Contribution: Fireside Chat
TBA

Taro Nordheider is an executive at Hakluyt & Company. Previously he was CEO of Piech Automotive AG and Executive Vice President & Chairman of the Management Board at Swarovski.

Hakluyt & Company advises decision-makers on the opportunities and risks facing their businesses. Their clients trust them with their most important commercial issues, and value discretion and independence of thought. For more than 25 years, leaders of many of the world’s most prestigious companies and most successful investment firms have turned to Hakluyt & Company for the judgement, insights and advice we provide in a wide range of situations.

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Contribution: Breakout Session with Matthias Schranner
"She's the Negotiator"

Her strong personal and professional dedication to the advancement and empowerment of women, in all their diversity is exemplified in various panels and board member positions she holds including at the Swiss Diversity Awards and the Look Good Feel Better Foundation. She is also a champion of the Estée Lauder Companies Breast Cancer Campaign, promoting women’s health, rights and wellbeing in collaboration with the World Health Organization. In 2024, Jasmin was selected among the 6 finalists for the Swiss Who is Who Women award which celebrates the most inspiring women in Switzerland.

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Contribution: Keynote Speech
Extraordinary Performance

Felipe’s narrative is based on two powerful and interrelated themes that are critical to attract and retain talent, create long term value and successfully navigate uncertainty.
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Entrepreneurial Mindset

All corporations are faced with complex transformational challenges that require shifting mindsets from comfort zones and corporate cadence to fast experimentation, courageous risk taking and co-creation dynamics. Embracing an entrepreneurial mindset and embedding it in corporate cultures is instrumental to successfully navigate today’s business environment.

Extraordinary Performance

Reaching levels of extraordinary performance through the adoption of virtues [habits of good action] is the basis of Felipe’s proposition to execution excellence. By adopting a systematic and holistic approach for acquiring and strengthening virtues, leaders and teams across your organization will increase their performance levels, improve financial results and consolidate an excellence culture.

Contribution: Fireside Chat
Leading self, leading teams, and leading organizations

Katharina specializes in teaching executives globally about leading self, leading teams, and leading organizations, and in building resilience at the individual, team, and organizational level as well as leading customer-centric organizations.

Lange’s teaching on self-leadership focuses on creating better awareness of a leader’s bright and dark sides. In her sessions, executives discover the key values that motivate and inspire them. Just as importantly, they discuss how to integrate their weaknesses with courage and humility into their (professional) lives.

She directs IMD’s custom programs for Mondelez, BAE Systems and E&Y, and co-directs IMD’s signature program Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP.)