Voted as one of the Top 10 Women in Business by Zonta International at the early start of her professional career, Karin Humar is shaping the industry from the inside today a strategic marketing manager in Trelleborg. With a strong background in marketing, strategy and leadership, her career expands over several industries including higher education, non-profit, mining, and industrial, to name a few. With first three years of her corporate experience, Karin has played a pivotal senior role in her organization in elevating positioning of marketing in a traditional B2B environment and accomplished complete marketing alignment with business strategy to facilitate attainment of business goals.
Luca Russignan is an insurance strategy professional with a successful track record in complex global organizations. He has 12+ years of Insurance, consulting and market intelligence experience, including with Prudential Plc and EY where he held roles as an enterprise risk analyst, strategy manager, lead analyst and global insurance analyst lead. Luca is passionate about working with executives to drive innovation in insurance by leveraging market intelligence to explore and assess the implications of emerging macro and technology trends across the life and non-life sectors. He is currently leading the development of InsurTech market intelligence and the activation of thought leadership for Capgemini in the insurance sector.
Carlo is currently Head of Studies in the Strategy & Market Intelligence Office at Leonardo. He is the member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (Roma), of Chatham House (London), and of the Board of the NATO Defense College Foundation. He has published five novels and several short stories.
Andrew Cosgrove is the EY Knowledge Global Business Insights Leader. Andrew has over 25 years' experience of establishing and running strategic intelligence groups in the Consumer and Business Advisory industries with EY, McKinsey and Mars. He is co-author of Managing Profitable Growth in Emerging Markets: Scaling the Tail, published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Part of Bosch’s core corporate management division IoT & Digitalization. Looking after executive level corporate strategic partnerships across the Bosch group in the fields of IoT and Digitalization. Previously was part of the Bosch Global Ecosystem Project.
Earlier Vivek Sharma was part of Vinci Energies' Global Brand Team, with responsibility for the company's branding and IoT (Smart City) Business Development in the DACH region. His organization was responsible for positioning the company's brand & growth strategy, cultivating opportunities in new and existing customer markets and growing demand for ICT solutions globally.
Omur is the Digital Innovation Lead in ViiV Tech GSK-GlaxoSmithKline. He helps the company to become one of the world’s most innovative, best performing, and trusted healthcare companies. Ömür believes that people like him working together, can deliver extraordinary things for our patients and consumers and make ViiV and GSK a brilliant place to work. Ömür has worked for over 22 years in multinational companies where he has shown a proven record of accomplishment for defining, owning, and delivering high value, high quality, and cost-effective solutions. As a truly international person with high cultural sensitivity based on extensive work experience in many different countries and multi-cultural environments, he is adding value to businesses by partnering on a business leadership level and delivering state-of-the-art and cost-effective solutions and services that drive results. Ömür has a passion for people development and has published a guiding book this year.
Erik Karlsson has been working for Ericsson as a Strategic Intelligence Analyst for the past three years. Most of his duties involve helping analysts, marketing and sales professionals to generate actionable market insights from structured and unstructured data Before starting as a Strategic Intelligence Analyst, Erik spent seven years within supply chain and forecasting, producing Demand Forecasts to dimension Ericsson’s supply chain. By using the same core concept: business and data he now supports the wider organization with his data modeling and analytical expertise. Erik has managed several successful analytical projects recognized for their short implementation time combined with high quality. He received a national research award for his work within sustainable supply chain for the EU. In his spare time, Erik enjoys reading psychology, training full contact Karate and cooking. He lives in a retro inspired apartment from the 40s in Stockholm, Sweden with his partner.
