Speakers

Michael G Jacobides, Sir Donald Gordon Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Professor of Strategy at London Business School, has been ranked as Thinkers50, a top 50 management thinker, since 2019. He has visited Harvard, NYU, Cambridge, Imperial, Bocconi and Wharton, where he obtained his PhD, after studying at Athens, Cambridge and Stanford. He is the Engagement Director of LBS's AI & Data Analytics Initiative. His work appears in the top academic journals including such as the Strategic Management Journal and Strategy Science (where his papers on ecosystems and AI are some of their most-read), as well as Organization Science, Research Policy, Academy of Management Journal, and Industrial and Corporate Change where he is a co-Editor. He also publishes in Harvard Business Review, California Management Review (where he won the 2023 Best Paper of the Year Award), Forbes, Fortune and the Financial Times.  He is an Academic Advisor to BCG’s Henderson Institute and Lead Advisor of Evolution Ltd, a boutique advisory focusing on the intersection of strategy, technology and ecosystems. He advises disruptive start-ups and Fortune500 firms alike. His research on industry transformation, value migration and business ecosystems has won awards by the Sloan Foundation, the StrategieForum and CMR. A co-author of WEF’s White Paper on Digital Platforms & Ecosystems and member of the WEF AI Governance Alliance, he has been on its Global Agenda Council and presented in Davos. He is Strategy Advisor (pro bono) of ELLET, Greece’s key NGO on environmental & cultural preservation.  He has worked on policy as a Visiting Scholar at the New York Fed, member of High Level groups for the EU and the Industry Parliament Trust in the UK and serves as the Chief Digital Economy Advisor (pro bono) at the Hellenic Competition Commission. A frequent keynote speaker in events from TEDx to the Global Drucker Forum he works on thought leadership with consultants such as McKinsey, IDEO, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, Keystone and ECSi, and on strategy with corporates such as SAP, Majid Al Futtaim, Haier, Huawei, Philips, Globe Telecom, MasMovil, Vodafone, Nokia, Enel, Santander, Helvetia, Zurich, CS, BaltCap, Airbus, DeBeers, Lavazza, Burberry, Mowi, MerckSerono, SpringStudio and the NHS.