As business lead for the transformation programs of TomorrowLab, Karen Sprengers, is an empowered strategist and passionate about innovation and technology. With an extensive track record spanning over 15 years across diverse industries including mobility and aviation, healthcare, industry, and smart cities—both in B2C and B2B capacities—Karen brings a wealth of experience and expertise.
As director of the Living Tomorrow Innovation Missions, she brings networks together, to explore innovative technologies and future concepts abroad. Through immersive visits to pioneering entities in Europe, Dubai and Silicon Valley such as NASA Ames Research Center, Google, Google Wing, HP, and numerous groundbreaking startups, she makes the future tangible, stimulates debates and enhance collaboration.
Her expertise lies in foresight and scenario thinking, strategy, transformation, stakeholder management, business model innovation, design thinking and innovation excellence.
Topic:
Speed of change and how future foresight enables companies and organizations to be more resilient
Innovation without a future strategy is merely daydreaming:
Strategy is about doing the right things first, before doing things right. But the speed of change is accelerating. How can we better understand which evolutions will impact or perhaps even disrupt our industry? Which technologies will be important? How do we define a futureproof vision and strategy based on all these uncertainties? How do we involve and engage the people in our organization in these transformations? How do we create future proof ecosystems?
By exploring different scenarios for the future, we avoid dwelling only on wishful thinking in a strategic exercise. Working with scenarios helps us imagine what the world might look like and prepare for the unexpected.
We cannot predict the future, but we can explore and imagine it.
Scenarios look at the broader context of an industry, because usually change comes from outside the industry. Future exploration makes organizations resilient and agile. Scenarios provide a shared vision of possible futures. They are not limited to wishful thinking or to one dominant vision of the future. They cover key uncertainties about the future.
Karen provides inspiring cases of how scenario planning has guided companies and organizations through the speed of change.
Other topics:
- The future of healthcare
- The future of mobility
- Advanced Air mobility: the opportunities of drones now and tomorrow
- Innovation excellence: a robust basis for innovation
- Business model innovation: from an idea to a plan that might actually work
Languages in which the keynote can be given are Dutch & English.
Astrid Bastiaens is een gedreven strateeg en gepassioneerd spreker met meer dan 15 jaar ervaring in diverse sectoren, waaronder energie, IT, bouw, telecom, smart cities en media. Met een bewezen track record in zowel B2C als B2B aspecten van het bedrijfsleven, brengt Astrid een schat aan expertise met zich mee.
Ehsan Karimi Rad Domain Lead Innovation and Strategy at TomorrowLab
Met meer dan 15 jaar ervaring op het snijvlak van innovatie, strategie, technologie en business development brengt Ehsan een schat aan kennis en praktische inzichten naar de voorhoede van discussies over de toekomst van werk.
Astrid Bastiaens, een empowered strateeg en gepassioneerd spreker met een bewezen track record van meer dan 15 jaar ervaring in diverse sectoren (waaronder energie, IT, bouw, telecom, smart cities en media) en aspecten van een bedrijf in zowel B2C als B2B.
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