Oracle Innovating through crisis and beyond
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Alf Rehn
Professor of innovation and management at the University of Southern Denmark
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Alf Rehn
Professor of innovation and management at the University of Southern Denmark
Alf Rehn is a globally noted thought leader in innovation, trends, and creativity; a sought- after speaker, an author and a columnist, as well as a well-regarded commentator on leadership and organizational culture. He has held the Chair of Management and Organization at Åbo Akademi University in Finland, a professorship of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and is currently a professor of innovation, design, and management at the University of Southern Denmark. His research has spanned numerous fields and has been published in top academic journals as well as in a series of bestselling books, challenging preconceived notions and provoking thought across the world. His new book, Innovation for the Fatigued: How To Build a Culture of Deep Creativity, published by Kogan Page, is an antidote to fads and incrementalism – a much needed guide for any company that seeks to truly make new ideas take root.
Anna Puustell
Head of Innovation at Accenture
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Anna Puustell
Head of Innovation at Accenture
Anna is acting as the Nordic Innovation lead for Accenture. In her role she is in the intersection of emerging technologies, shifts in human behavior, new growth and business model changes. She likes to help organizations from public sector to private become future fit, which is easier said than done. Anna believes in multidisciplinary teams and spending enough time understanding the real key problem before jumping into a solution. Anna is part of Accenture Nordic Strategy & Consulting service leadership team and she has a global innovation lead role in one of the key accounts.
Stephan Geyer
Head of Business Innovation at Oracle
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Stephan Geyer
Head of Business Innovation at Oracle
Stephan is Innovation and Digital strategist with 16 years of experience in designing concepts, go-to-markets, services, use-cases, methodologies and ecosystems for a wide range of clients across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Japan and Asia Pacific. Motivated by a profound interest for uncovering latent and unmet business opportunities across a variety of industries, but with a deep expertise in the technology space.
Armed with an extensive international working experience across 4 continents and fluent in 5 languages, Stephan has a track-record of navigating complex corporate environments to uncover ‘intrapeneurs’ within and help customers reach simple actionable solutions across language and cultural divides.
Stephan started his career in the Middle East with Sun Microsystems where he developed his technical background as an Enterprise Architect working with customers across various industries, including being part of the team architecting the Middle East’s most powerful supercomputer at the time, in Oman.
Once in Oracle, Stephan has held a variety of roles closer to the business side of things, where he introduced new concepts to the Middle East and Africa in the form of Oracle’s Engineered Systems and later became a Telco Global Client Advisor, helping customers shape their IT strategy.
More recently, Stephan has been involved in driving tangible innovation within Oracle’s customers leveraging his Industry, Technical and Design Thinking knowledge to not only help customers frame, ideate and test their ideas, but to bring them to reality.
As part of his innovation career within Oracle, Stephan has been instrumental in leading innovation teams in projects in the Middle East, Europe and Japan.
Currently, Stephan leads a team of Business Innovators that are obsessed with delivering tangible innovation in their respective engagements.
Armed with an extensive international working experience across 4 continents and fluent in 5 languages, Stephan has a track-record of navigating complex corporate environments to uncover ‘intrapeneurs’ within and help customers reach simple actionable solutions across language and cultural divides.
Stephan started his career in the Middle East with Sun Microsystems where he developed his technical background as an Enterprise Architect working with customers across various industries, including being part of the team architecting the Middle East’s most powerful supercomputer at the time, in Oman.
Once in Oracle, Stephan has held a variety of roles closer to the business side of things, where he introduced new concepts to the Middle East and Africa in the form of Oracle’s Engineered Systems and later became a Telco Global Client Advisor, helping customers shape their IT strategy.
More recently, Stephan has been involved in driving tangible innovation within Oracle’s customers leveraging his Industry, Technical and Design Thinking knowledge to not only help customers frame, ideate and test their ideas, but to bring them to reality.
As part of his innovation career within Oracle, Stephan has been instrumental in leading innovation teams in projects in the Middle East, Europe and Japan.
Currently, Stephan leads a team of Business Innovators that are obsessed with delivering tangible innovation in their respective engagements.
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