Morning Stage 2025
Expanding horizons: On the morning of Innovation Day, renowned international speakers will present their visionary concepts, horizon-expanding insights and future-proof recommendations under the theme TOGETHER UNLIMITED. There will be a focus on ‘Human-Tech Collaboration’. Like every year, we’ll be bringing together visionary thinkers from the worlds of business, media and politics to shed light on new perspectives and develop sustainable solutions for companies and their brands.
Listen to their valuable inspiration and find out how a collaborative approach can pave the way for lasting success.
Host: Janique Johnson and Wolfram Kons
We’ll be revealing further details about this year’s Morning Stage line-up here very soon, so make sure you stay tuned!
Considered one of the top voices in AI and the future of work, Ian Beacraft is a trusted advisor to the world’s most innovative companies. The founder and Chief Futurist of Signal and Cipher, Ian leads a strategic foresight and development agency that navigates companies through the rapidly changing technology landscape to find meaningful routes to innovation that impact the bottom line, inspire cultural change and create new products and services.
Previously responsible for P&L development and innovation departments at the largest agencies in the world, Ian is known for making bleeding-edge technology understandable and monetisable. The list of brands he has advised includes Samsung, Intel, Coca-Cola, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Universal Pictures and dozens more.
Ian Beacraft is known as a ‘gonzo futurist’, actively experimenting with new and emerging technologies before they leave the research lab to understand the implications and applications for the future of work and society at large. Ian is the first person ever to host a news segment – the Future Report on Defiance Media – as a synthetic human, streaming to over 100 million devices around the world.
Léa Steinacker is an award-winning journalist, social scientist, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and CEO of the digital platform ada. Her research focuses on how technology interacts with people, methodologies, and the planet. She has published extensively on topics such as automated facial recognition, synthetic voice generation, and quantum computing.
Raised in Germany, Australia, and Wales, Léa Steinacker (*1989) studied at Princeton, Harvard, and the American University in Cairo, and earned her doctorate from the University of St. Gallen, where she researched the social impacts of artificially intelligent systems. She then worked for human rights organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, before joining Wirtschaftswoche in 2017 as Chief Innovation Officer and later serving as Chief Strategy Officer.
Agenda
AFTERNOON PROGRAMME
12:00 p.m.
Lunch, Networking & Innovation
1:30 p.m.
Masterclasses & Networking
1:30 p.m.
Masterclasses Part I and Speaker
2:20 p.m.
Masterclasses Part II
3:30 p.m.
Coffee & Cake and Networking Time
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