#BetterFuture Seminar: Progressive Leadership in the Digital Age
Start: Tuesday 26 February 2019 9:00 am
End: Tuesday 26 February 2019 10:30 am
Venue: MWC 2019, Hall 1, CC1, Seminar Theatres 1 & 2
Location: Barcelona, Spain
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Digitalisation is spearheading the fourth industrial revolution and a new pedigree of leadership is required to succeed in this advancing technological climate. The emergence of pioneering and revolutionary technologies, such as the advent of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the dissemination of 5G, are reshaping the future landscape of the global economy an at unprecedented rate on an unparalleled scale.
Discover why mobile is at the pinnacle of this digital transformation; projected to connect billions more people and things to the online world by 2030. This expansive connected network is directly contributing to addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), whilst enabling immersive experiences to enrich and empower daily life.
To prosper within this digital age, leaders need to be mindful of the dual commercial pressures before them. Whilst retaining strong relationships with shareholders and investors, businesses need to accommodate the increasing consumer demands to implement responsible practices and sustainable policies.
This is a delicate balancing act to perform; underscoring the necessity for leaders to subscribe to a progressive leadership approach for healthy financial returns, whilst ensuring their social compass is pointing in the right direction. The most successful brands nurture relationships with consumers through ensuring an open culture of trust and transparency. Investors are drawn to leaders with the ability to reflect holistically of current technological climate and consumer desires.
Business leaders are the architects of the digital future, but only those designing strategies whereby profits are anchored by social contracts will thrive in the age of digitisation.
Highlights from other #BetterFuture activities at MWC Barcelona 2019 can be found here.
Keynotes speeches
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU
Sigve Brekke
CEO, Telenor
Sigve Brekke is the President & CEO of Telenor Group since 2015. He has 20 years’ experience with the company and was instrumental in building Telenor’s footprint in Asia, which currently spans five markets. Brekke served as EVP and Head of Asian operations from 2008 and until his appointment as Group CEO. He also has extensive operational experience from the region having served as CEO of dtac (Thailand) and Telenor India. Prior to joining Telenor, Brekke had a political career and served as State Secretary (Deputy Minister) of Defense in Norway 1993-96. He holds a Master degree in Public Administration from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Panel Discussion: The Role of Responsible Leadership in the Digital Age
Christa Gyori
CEO & Co-Founder, Leaders on Purpose
Sigve Brekke
CEO, Telenor
Sigve Brekke is the President & CEO of Telenor Group since 2015. He has 20 years’ experience with the company and was instrumental in building Telenor’s footprint in Asia, which currently spans five markets. Brekke served as EVP and Head of Asian operations from 2008 and until his appointment as Group CEO. He also has extensive operational experience from the region having served as CEO of dtac (Thailand) and Telenor India. Prior to joining Telenor, Brekke had a political career and served as State Secretary (Deputy Minister) of Defense in Norway 1993-96. He holds a Master degree in Public Administration from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Aminata Kane
Chief Executive Officer, Orange Sierra Leone
Kaan Terzioglu
CEO, Turkcell
CEO, Turkcell
Panel Discussion: Leveraging Innovation for a Better Future
Elena Gil
Global Director, Global Big Data B2B and CEO, LUCA, Telefónica S.A.
As the Global Director for Big Data B2B at the Telefonica Group and CEO at LUCA Data Driven Decisions. Elena’s responsibility is to help corporate customers on their Big Data adoption journey, enabling them to become data-driven companies, providing an extensive portfolio of cutting-edge Big Data solutions.
Elena holds a degree in Economics and Business studies from Deusto University (Spain) and an MBA from MIT-Sloan School of Management (USA). She has also completed studies at Berkeley University (USA) and EDHEC de Lille (France).
Elena joined Telefonica in 2000. Since then, she has held prominent managerial positions at Telefonica International and Telefonica Latinoamérica, in the units of Large Corporations, Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) and Consumer businesses. From 2014 to 2016, Elena was the BI & Big Data Global Director at Telefonica Group, responsible for leveraging customer insights for internal use and external monetization, leading the transformation of Telefónica into a data-driven company.
Before joining Telefonica, she worked for McKinsey and HI Holding – Iberdrola (Spain) and Mitchel Madison Group (USA).
Heather Johnson
Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility; Group Function Marketing and Corporate Relations, Ericsson
Robert Kirkpatrick
Director, UN Global Pulse
Olga Yurkova
Head of Regional PR Department, MTS Russia