Speakers and Chairs Bios
- Alex Adamopoulos
- Vanessa Gamboa Adams
- Philip Aminoff
- Sara Armbruster
- Gianpaolo Barozzi
- Julian Birkinshaw
- Tim Brown
- Curtis Carlson
- Niclas Carlsson
- Yogesh Chauhan
- Laurent Choain
- Clayton Christensen
- Mary Beth Christie
- Judith Clegg
- Sarah Cliffe
- Nicolas Colin
- Peter Day
- Steve Denning
- Tamara J. Erickson
- Mark Esposito
- Bill Fischer
- Debra France
- Maëlle Gavet
- Sarah Green Carmichael
- Robert Grüneis
- James Guild
- Rita Gunther McGrath
- Anil K. Gupta
- Prabhu Guptara
- John Hagel III
- Guy Halfteck
- Gary Hamel
- Boma Harahap
- Michael Harte
- Lisa Hershman
- Andrew Hill
- Tawfik Jelassi
- Eyal Kaplan
- Annie Koh
- Angelica Kohlmann
- Philip Kotler
- Ralf Köster
- Bill Liao
- Andreas Ludwig
- Christian Lüdtke
- Isabella Mader
- Fredmund Malik
- Roger L. Martin
- Mariana Mazzucato
- Milena Milicevic
- Thanigai Muthusamy
- Annu Nieminen
- Efosa Ojomo
- Sally Osberg
- Alexander Osterwalder
- Sarah O`Connor
- Will Peachey
- Magnus Penker
- Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Joseph Pistrui
- Deepa Prahalad
- Rosemarie Ryan
- Gisbert Rühl
- Philippe Silberzahn
- Hermann Simon
- Richard Straub
- Nicolai Strøm-Olsen
- Joakim Sundén
- Rob van Leen
- Rajeev Vasudeva
- Haiyan Wang
- Adrian Wooldridge
- Rickard Zetterberg
Entrepreneur and business model innovator;
Co-founder of Strategyzer
Biography
Alexander Osterwalder is an entrepreneur, speaker and business model innovator. He is co-founder of Strategyzer, a leading SaaS company that helps organizations develop new growth engines, better value propositions und powerful business models via online applications and facilitated online courses.
In 2015 Alex won the strategy award by Thinkers50, called the “Oscars of Management Thinking” by the FT, and ranks #15 among the leading business thinkers of the world. In 2013 he won the inaugural Innovation Luminary Award by the European Union.
Alex is lead author of the 2 best-selling books Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design. USA Today named Business Model Generation among the 12 best business books of all times. The German edition was named Management Book of the Year 2011. Fast Company Magazine named it one of the Best Books for Business Owners in 2010.
He invented the Business Model Canvas, a strategic management tool to visualize, challenge and (re-) invent business models. Leading organizations and start-ups around the world use it. He is a frequent keynote speaker at Fortune 500 companies and has held guest lectures in top universities around the world, including Wharton, Stanford, Berkeley, IESE, MIT, KAUST and IMD.