Announcing the keynote speakers for IASP Virtual

IASP is delighted to announce that our two keynote speakers for IASP Virtual will be Darja Isaksson (Sweden) and Eduardo P Braun (Argentina).

Darja Isaksson is Director General at Vinnova – Sweden’s Innovation Agency. She is the founder of two agencies, working with business and product development for clients such as Sony Ericsson, IKEA and Husqvarna. Apart from being executive advisor and board member of multiple companies, she serves as advisor to the Swedish Government in the Digitalisation Council as well as the Swedish Prime Minister’s Innovation Council, evaluated national research and innovation programmes and served on the board of Swedish research institutes RISE ICT and RISE Interactive. As a result of her work, she has been awarded "Most powerful opinion maker in Sweden", and is listed as one of the "World’s 100 most influential people in digital government.”

She’ll be sharing her thoughts on the role of innovation in confronting the real challenges facing the world, and what science parks and areas of innovation can do to strengthen local and regional innovation ecosystems, and foster collaboration for societal change.

Join us on September 28th at 14:15 CEST to hear her insights!

And to finish the programme on a high note and give us food for thought to take back to our daily work after two days of knowledge sharing, closing keynote speaker Eduardo P Braun will be reflecting on some of the key themes discussed, and exploring the fundamental role of culture in the development of an innovation ecosystem.

Eduardo P Braun is a leadership expert, author, and Conference Chair of the Global Peter Drucker Forum. For more than 15 years Eduardo has travelled the globe and engaged in conversations with world-renowned management leaders, heads of state, and top academics and entrepreneurs, including personalities such as Jack Welch, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Gary Hamel, Richard Branson, and Pope Francis, among others. An industrial engineer from the University of Buenos Aires, Eduardo has an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a vast work experience in the US, Europe, and Latin America in companies such as Booz Allen & Hamilton, Etex Group, and The HSM Group - global multimedia management company and organizer of the World Business Forum.

Make sure you’re connected at 16:40 CEST on September 29th to hear his conclusions!

Check out the full programme and register for here for free!