Keynote speeches

Peter is a world-renowned thought leader on technological evolution, innovation strategy and leadership who has given numerous keynote presentations around the world, for Fortune 1000 companies and leading organizations such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Accenture, HP, SAS, Microsoft, Gartner, Danone, HSBC, London Business School, Sanofi, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and many more. His speeches can be adapted to the specific needs of your events and your audience.

These are the most popular topics of Peter's keynotes

  • Surviving and thriving in a Never Normal world of constant change and high unpredictability.
  • How corporates can keep reinventing themselves into Phoenix companies, like Walmart, Microsoft, Amazon and Ping An have done before them.
  • Understading the era of augmented intelligence: a profound and nuanced story of both the challenges and the immense potential of AI.
  • Models of disruption and models of corporate innovation that work.
  • The strategic, cultural and leadership foundations of innovation.

The Never Normal

We’re at a crossroads. Certainly since the COVID-19 crisis but even before that, we have been evolving into a world with many new types of disruptions. There’s this potent 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’s coming at us is ecological, biological, societal and geopolitical in nature and this is just the beginning. These many disruptions are going to evolve into seismic shocks that will completely overturn how we live and work. Think about the rising sea levels we might experience the next decades. Or pandemics like COVID-19. Or the cold (trade) war between the US and China.

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The Era of Augmented Intelligence

Everybody is talking about AI, but the discussion tends to center around the two extremes of hype or doomism. In this keynote filled with practical examples and cases, Peter Hinssen wants to demystify AI in order to provide his audience with a profound and nuanced story of both the challenges and the immense potential of this technology. These are the 4 pillars of his presentation:

  1. Evolution of Artificial Intelligence - From Then to Tomorrow
  2. Application of AI - Realities and Responsibilities
  3. Implementing AI - Leveraging Power and Getting Started
  4. Phoenix Potential - Transforming with the Power of AI
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AI Unveiled: moving beyond the hype in East and West

In the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the discourse tends to fluctuate between extremes: hype versus doomism and West versus East (China in particular). This joint keynote - featuring innovation strategy and tech expert Peter Hinssen and China keynote speaker Pascal Coppens - seeks to navigate beyond these binaries, offering a nuanced but profound exploration of AI's transformative potential as well as its challenges.

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The Phoenix and the Unicorn

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

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Never Normal Masterclass

The world is more unpredictable than ever, presenting business leaders with many economic, geopolitical, societal and ecological challenges. Some see these Never Normal evolutions as a threat, but this Executive Masterclass with Peter Hinssen and CX and company culture expert Steven Van Belleghem has been designed to help you see possibilities, from two sides: 

  1. How can you turn these challenges into innovative business strategies?
  2. How can you design a culture that actively puts customers and their needs at the core of your company?
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Innovation Strategy Masterclass

The world is more fluid and unpredictable than ever, presenting business leaders with many economic, geopolitical, societal and ecological challenges. Some see these Never Normal evolutions as a threat, but our Executive Masterclass by world leading innovation experts Peter Hinssen and Pascal Coppens has been designed to help you see possibilities:

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