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Peter Hinssen

Peter Hinssen is a globally recognized keynote speaker, bestselling author, business school lecturer, LinkedIn Top Voice, serial entrepreneur, trusted board member, startup investor, and the world’s leading expert in innovation, technology, and leadership. Peter likes to describe himself as a pathological optimist. He strongly believes that companies can and should build a better, clearer, and bolder ‘Day After Tomorrow’. Peter Hinssen is available to book as a speaker through Sprekershuys.

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About Peter Hinssen

Disruptive innovation confronts us with a new, digital reality, but it also offers opportunities. As an expert, Peter Hinssen knows how to turn this into growth opportunities for your company, enabling you to continue creating value for your customers in the future. Peter is a board advisor to leading companies such as Belfius, Mediahuis, and Ergon Capital, advising them on innovation and technology.

Disruptive Innovation

Peter Hinssen is one of the leading speakers on disruptive innovation. He is curious by nature and regularly explores how digitalization has transformed industries and business models. He is also interested in networks and sees them as the most fundamental pillar and driver of progress. He shares his insights into the digital world at business schools across Europe, including the renowned London Business School (UK), and serves as an advisor in the field of disruptive and digital innovation. He explains how technological changes affect us, what the future may look like, and how companies can become part of it.

Serial Entrepreneur

Peter founded several technology start-ups. His first company, e-COM, was acquired by Alcatel-Lucent, his second, Streamcase, by Belgacom, and Across Technology by Delaware Consulting. His third venture, Porthus, went public in 2006 and was acquired by Descartes. In between start-ups, he was Entrepreneur in Residence at McKinsey & Company, focusing on digital and technology strategy. Peter’s current company, nexxworks, inspires and connects organizations so they can thrive in the ‘Never Normal’.

Bestselling Author

Peter is the author of five bestsellers. The Phoenix and The Unicorn (2020) is a book about Phoenixes: companies that can reinvent themselves in cycles, just like the mythical bird. The Day After Tomorrow (2017) explores the benefits of long-term thinking in times of radical innovation. The Network Always Wins (2014) explains how and why companies have no choice but to become a network when the outside world has become one as well. In The New Normal (2010), Peter writes about how companies need to explore the boundaries of the digital world and what happens when technology simply becomes ‘normal’. Business/IT Fusion (2008) is a guide to resolving the conflict between business and IT.

Acclaimed Keynote Speaker & Lecturer

Peter is a globally recognized speaker on technological evolution, innovation strategy, and adaptive leadership. He delivers his keynotes with a unique combination of depth, clarity, positivity, and a dry dose of humor. Peter has worked with Fortune 1000 companies and leading brands such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, LVMH, Hermes, HP, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Gartner, Danone, Chanel, LinkedIn, HSBC, Airbus, Sanofi, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Honeywell, SAS, and many others. He also teaches at renowned business schools such as London Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Lectures

What does the future of work look like? And how can companies respond to technological developments? In his lectures, he connects the world of disruptive technology with future growth opportunities for businesses. He helps them turn innovation into their greatest strength and provides them with the tools to create value for their customers in the long term.

Keynotes

Peter is a world-renowned thought leader in technological evolution, innovation strategy, and leadership. He has delivered numerous keynote presentations around the world for Fortune 1000 companies and leading organizations such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, LVMH, Hermès, HP, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Gartner, Danone, Chanel, LinkedIn, HSBC, Airbus, Sanofi, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Honeywell, SAS, and many others. His keynotes can be tailored to the specific needs of your events and audience.

Themes

Sessions

The world is more unpredictable than ever and presents business leaders with numerous economic, geopolitical, social, and environmental challenges. Some see these Never Normal developments as a threat, but this Executive Masterclass with Peter Hinssen and CX and customer culture expert Steven Van Belleghem is designed to show you the opportunities from two perspectives:

How can you turn these challenges into innovative business strategies?
How can you design a culture that actively puts customers and their needs at the centre of your organization?

The world is more fluid and unpredictable than ever and presents business leaders with numerous economic, geopolitical, social, and environmental challenges. Some see these Never Normal developments as a threat, but this Executive Masterclass by world-leading innovation experts Peter Hinssen and Pascal Coppens is designed to show you the opportunities:

How can you turn these Never Normal challenges into innovative business strategies?
What can companies learn from both Western and Chinese innovation?

Today, we are experiencing a powerful cocktail of global platforms, information, intelligence, and automation that is accelerating the pace of change. But technology is no longer the biggest driver of disruption. What is coming our way is ecological, biological, social, and geopolitical in nature, and this is only the beginning. These many disruptions will develop into seismic shocks that will completely overturn the way we live and work. Think of the rising sea levels we may experience in the coming decades. Or pandemics such as COVID-19. Or the cold (trade) war between the US and China.

In today’s market, ‘normal’ is constantly being redefined. Are you ready for it? Is your organisation? In this keynote, Peter Hinssen reveals how companies, leaders, and employees will need to adapt to survive and thrive in the Never Normal.

Unicorn start-ups are brilliant. But let’s be honest: very few of us will start one or work for one. Most of us are connected to large companies that often struggle to remain relevant to the ever-changing customer. That is why this keynote focuses on a creature that is just as magical, but perhaps offers more realistic inspiration: the Phoenix. These are companies that, like this mythical bird, are able to reinvent themselves time and time again. They repeatedly rise from the ashes of the old and come back stronger than ever. These are the Walmarts, Volvos, Disneys, Apples, Microsofts, Ping Ans, Assa Abloys, and AT&Ts of this world.

Everyone is talking about AI, but the discussion tends to swing between the two extremes of hype and doom. In this keynote, filled with practical examples and cases, Peter Hinssen aims to demystify AI and offer his audience an in-depth and nuanced perspective on both the challenges and the immense potential of this technology.

These are the four pillars of his presentation:

Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
Application of AI
Implementation of AI
Phoenix Potential

In the rapidly changing landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the discussion often swings between extremes: hype versus doom and West versus East (especially China). This joint keynote, featuring innovation strategy and technology expert Peter Hinssen and China keynote speaker Pascal Coppens, aims to move beyond these two extremes and offers a nuanced yet in-depth exploration of both the transformative potential and the challenges of AI.