Innovation@Work Virtual Week 2021 | The Economist | 1 February 2021 | Virtual Event

People and technology must collaborate and innovate to make it successful.

Innovation@Work is a bold new event tightly centred on the future of work. With insight from the world’s most respected corporations on how they are thriving despite disruption, we will host data-driven case studies on leadership, collaboration and productivity. Our 100+ global speakers (including 60+ C-Level executives), will share timely and practical knowledge from recent experiences and transformative work experiments across all functions and industries, giving you fresh inspiration and takeaways to apply to your own 9-5.

The agenda for the week has been designed with you in mind. Each day is themed to cater to key interest areas for our cross-functional audience.

Who should attend?
• Chief digital officers, chief innovation officers, chief technology officers, chief information officers, chief transformation officers, chief strategy officers driving digital transformation
• Chief human resource officers, chief people officers, chief talent officers, chief diversity officers, chief inclusion officers, chief work officers looking after company’s culture and employees’ well-being
• Start-ups and entrepreneurs
• Chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief marketing officers, chief operations officers
• Future of work Influencers, authors, philanthropists, mental health ambassadors

2021 Speakers

Sandeep Mathrani
Chief executive officer, WeWork

Poppy Gustafsson
Chief executive officer, Darktrace

Cal Henderson
Co-founder and Chief technology officer, Slack

Ray Dalio
Co-chairman & Co-chief investment officer, Bridgewater Associates

Mark Dixon
Chief executive officer and founder, IWG

Keith Enright
Chief Privacy Officer, Google

Mathieu Ovaert
Chief Digital Officer, Nestle

Harry Moseley
Global Chief Information officer, Zoom Video Communications

Bruce Daisley
Former Vice president EMEA Twitter, and Bestselling Author

Chris Ciauri
President EMEA, Google Cloud

Rohit Sood
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Sid Sijbrandij
Chief executive officer, GitLab

Kedar Deshpande
Chief executive officer, Zappos

Eve Lewis
Director of Meditation, Headspace

Dean Carter
Chief human resources officer, Patagonia

Jared Spataro
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft 365, Microsoft

Glenn Sanford
Chief executive officer & founder, eXp World Holdings, and Chief strategy officer, Virbela

Shannon Sisler
Chief human resources officer, Crocs

Nicola Millard
Principal innovation partner and chief technology and information officer, BT Enterprise

Julien Codorniou
Vice President Workplace, Facebook

Frank Calderoni
Chairman and Chief executive officer, Anaplan

Chris Baker
Managing director, EMEA, Anaplan

Anuradha Chugh
MD Europe, Ben & Jerry's

Javier Soltero
Vice president and General Manager Google Workspace, Google Cloud

Frank Salzgeber
Head of Innovation and Ventures Office, European Space Agency

PJ Hough
Executive vice-president and Chief product officer, Citrix

Alex Liu
Managing partner and Chairman, Kearney

Sharan Pasricha
Chief executive officer, Ennismore Hotels

Jonathan Davidson
SVP and General Manager, Cisco Mass-Scale Infrastructure

Ambros Scope
Head of leadership and future of work, Zurich Insurance

Micha Kaufman
Co-founder and chief executive officer, Fiverr

Axel Hefer
Chief executive officer, Trivago

Bart van Ark
Professor of Productivity Studies, Alliance Manchester Business School

Chris Thewlis
COO, npower

David Heinemeier Hanson
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Basecamp

Clive Tillotson
Head of global Covid-19 response and chief information security officer, Fujitsu Global Delivery

Danielle Harmer
Chief People Officer, Aviva

Adrian Blair
Chief executive officer, Receipt Bank

Elke Reichart
Chief digital officer, TUI Group

Erica Brescia
Chief operating officer, GitHub

Erin Platts
Head of EMEA and president of UK branch, Silicon Valley Bank

Frederic Kerrest
Executive vice chairperson, Chief operating officer & Co-founder

Eva Kaili
Chair for science technology and member of European Parliament

Gerald Kremer
Chief digital officer, global real estate, Credit Suisse

Hovhannes Avoyan
Chief executive officer and Co-founder, PicsArt

Jeff Dodds
Chief Operating Officer, Virgin Media

Katia Walsh
Chief Strategy and AI Officer, Levi Strauss and Company

Mark Evans
Managing director marketing and digital, Direct Line

Melanie Frank
Managing vice president of technology, Capital One

Michael Fung
Deputy chief executive (industry) and chief human resources officer and chief data officer, SkillsFuture Singapore

Jason Dorsey
President and Co-founder, Center for Generational Kinetics

Nicholas Bloom
Senior fellow and Professor of economics, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Nitin Chaturvedi
Chief digital and technology officer, KFC

Peter Flavel
Chief executive officer, private banking, Coutts

Cecilie Heuch
Executive Vice President and Chief People and Sustainability Officer, Telenor

Peter Williams
Chairman, Superdry

Sebastian Thrun
Co-founder, Cresta

Will Serle
Chief people officer, Capita

Zayd Enam
Chief executive officer, Cresta

James Wheatcroft
Vice president marketing & CX Northern Europe, Accor Hotels

Nick South
Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Ben Channon
Director, Ekkist Advisory

Gabe Dalporto
CEO, Udacity

Jolawn Victor
Chief international officer, Headspace

Mike Tumilty
Chief operating officer, Standard Life Aberdeen

Ruth Cotter
Senior vice president of worldwide marketing, human resources and investor relations, AMD

Sarah Cannon
Partner, Index Ventures

Subroto Gupta
Chief innovation and transformation officer, Compass Group India

Linda Avery
Chief data officer, Verizon

Emma Duncan
Britain editor, The Economist

Nickle LaMoreaux
Chief human resources officer, IBM

Benjamin Gaunt
Senior vice-president, talent, bp

Sacha Nauta
Public Policy Editor, The Economist

Rosie Blau
Editor, 1843, The Economist

Josie Delap
International Editor, The Economist

Callum Williams
Senior economics writer

Hal Hodson
Asia technology correspondent, The Economist

Tom Standage
Deputy editor, head of digital strategy and Editor, The World In, The Economist

C Vijayakumar
President & Chief executive officer, HCL Technologies

Emma Bridger
Managing director, People lab

Christopher Fuss
Head of SmartSensor, IoT DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation

Matthew Valencia
Special assignments editor, The Economist

Jan Piotrowski
Business editor, The Economist

Andy Eichfeld
Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources and Administrative Officer

Kenneth Cukier
Senior Editor, The Economist

Per Ove Johansson
Solution Strategist, Citrix

Jerome Grateau
Google Workspace EMEA Director

DJ Jazzy Jeff

Dominic Shine
Executive officer, Dentsu Group Inc. and Chief technology officer, Dentsu International

Gloria Mark
Professor, University of California, Irvine

Henry Tricks
Schumpeter columnist, The Economist

Idrees Kahloon
Washington correspondent, The Economist

Jane Christopher
Senior HR Business Partner, Citrix

Jeremy Kingsley
Senior editor, The Economist Intelligence Unit

John Ferguson
Practice lead, Globalisation, trade and finance, The Economist Intelligence Unit

Laura Bourne
Global Process Owner, Plan to Report, BT

Martin Jermyn
Director, Deloitte

Mats Granryd
Director General, GSMA

Miranda Johnson
Deputy executive editor, The Economist

Rob Doepel
Partner and UK&I energy market leader, Ernst & Young LLP

Shamsi Iqbal
Principal Researcher, Productivity and Intelligence group, Microsoft Research

Vijay Vaitheeswaran
US Business Editor, The Economist

2021 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSOR:
• Google Cloud

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Citrix
• Microsoft

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER:
• McKinsey & Company

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Anaplan
• Okta
• Dark Trace
• Fiverr
• Slack

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Receipt Bank
• Cisco

WORKPLACE SPONSOR:
• WeWork

VIRTUAL WORLD SPONSOR:
• Virbela

INSIGHT HOUR SPONSOR:
• Globalization Partners

SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS:
• Porter Novelli
• HR