keynote speakers

Tina Dacin

Tina Dacin is the Stephen J.R. Smith Chair of Strategy and Organizational Behavior at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada and also the Principal Investigator of the Community Revitalization Research Program. She is the former Director of the Smith School of Business Centre for Social Impact as well as a former member of the University Senate at Queen’s University and Former Chair of the Principal’s Innovation Fund Committee.

Gernot Grabher

Gernot Grabher is an economic geographer and Professor of Urban and Regional Economic Studies at the HafenCity University Hamburg. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 at Vienna University of Technology, and held positions at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), King’s College London, the University of Konstanz and the University of Bonn.[1] Grabher was Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Copenhagen Business School, Santa Fe Institute, Cornell University and the Institute of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.[2] Between 2007 and 2011 he was co-editor of Economic Geography.[3] Currently, he is co-editor of the Regions and Cities book series of the Regional Studies Association.[4] Gernot Grabher is internationally renowned for his research on networks, regional evolution and decline, and project organization.

Gianni Lorenzoni

Gianni Lorenzoni is Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management University of Bologna and Honorary Visiting Professor at City, University of London. His research interests include strategic networks, design-driven innovation, industry emergence and genealogical theories of entrepreneurship. Prof. Lorenzoni was the founding president of Bologna Business School (2000–2014), founding president of AlmaCube (2000–2010), vice president of the Italian Academy of Management (1991–1998) and chair of the Management Department of the University of Bologna (1991–1994). He served as an advisory board member of several multinational companies (1983–2006).

Costas Markides

Professor Costas Markides is recognised as one of the world’s foremost experts on strategy and innovation. An internationally acclaimed teacher and conference speaker, Professor Markides has researched the topics of strategic innovation, business model innovation, diversification and international acquisitions. His work explores how established companies could pursue radical or disruptive innovation and how they can compete with two business models in the same industry. He also examines how companies can create a culture of continuous innovation and the role that individual managers play in making a company more innovative. Professor Markides’ book, All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy was shortlisted for the Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award in 2000. Similarly, his Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets (with the late Paul Geroski), was on the shortlist for the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs Management Book of the Year in 2005. In Game-Changing Strategies (2008), Professor Markides explores how established firms can use business model innovation to break the rules in their markets and how to respond when a disruptive business model invades their markets. His latest book was published in 2021 and is entitled: Organizing for the New Normal: Prepare your company for the journey of continuous disruption. He is currently examining how established firms respond to new business models invading their markets and is writing a new book entitled: Business Model Innovation: Strategic and Organizational Issues for Established Firms. A native of Cyprus, Professor Markides received his BA (Distinction) and MA in Economics from Boston University, and his MBA and DBA from Harvard Business School. He is now Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and holds the Robert P Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership at London Business School.