GWC 23 Seoul

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Designing the History of the Future

Designing the History of the Future

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"I want to innovate what we call "work" out-of our lives. The vision is that humans and machines work in a symbiosis, human ingenuity and machine intelligence in a complementarity , where er learn and discover new tech and technology learns "human", understands, supports and respects each one of us in a hyper-personal way" Martin Wezowski is the Chief Futurist at SAP. He is responsible for SAP's long term innovation vision as a fundament for SAP's corporate foresight and innovation strategy. He's mission is to "Know and Show what is next for the future of work", more specifically, he crafts future software and platform concepts, narratives and outlooks , defines and runs innovation frameworks to prepare SAP’s vast ecosystem for the future. He is a faculty member of Futur/IO, a European future institute and other education programs, he also advises on several boards. Martin also is leads his own firm "The Wezowski" as lecturer and advisor in transformative innovation, methods to "lead from the future", and modern change-leadership. 2017 he was named 1 of 100 most innovative minds in Germany as the “Software visionary”in the prestigious german business publication Handelsblatt Prior to joining SAP he moved across a range of disciplines from strategic leadership, systems design to customer experience expert. He worked for Sony/Ericsson in Sweden/Japan, as Creative Director. Later, in Shenzhen, China, he served as Director of the Strategic UX Board for the giant Huawei. He builds on his international adventures stretching from Poland, Sweden, China to Germany, and finds time from the vision and strategy work to frequently share his passion for leading from the future, with a clear vision for humans, and work, around the world. (WEF Strategic forum, Nobel-fest, Duke University, EU-advisor and keynote speaker, SxSW, TEDx, Singularity-U Summit, BOMA, Volcano Summit, CES, Tech Open Air - TOA, HUB Berlin, DMEXCO, WEBIT, Ada Lovelace festival, TWIN Global, CeBIT, CES. WeAreDevelopers, and much more)In 20171 of 100 most innovative minds in GermanyPrevious companiesSony/Ericsson | HuaweiFaculty Member Futur/IO