Peter Hinssen – Technological Evolution & Business

Peter Hinssen is a globally acclaimed keynote speaker, bestselling author, business school lecturer, LinkedIn Top Voice, serial entrepreneur, trusted board member, startup investor and the world’s leading innovation, technology and leadership expert.

Peter is a world-renowned thought leader on technological evolution, innovation strategy and leadership who has given numerous keynote presentations around the world, for Fortune 1000 companies and leading organizations.

His speeches can be adapted to the specific needs of your events and your audience.

About Peter Hinssen

Serial Entrepreneur

For more than fifteen years, Peter led a life of technology start-ups.

His first company e-COM was acquired by Alcatel-Lucent, his second, Streamcase, by Belgacom, and Across Technology by Delaware Consulting.

His third venture (Porthus) was quoted on the stock exchange in 2006 and acquired by Descartes.
Between start-ups, he has been an Entrepreneur in Residence with McKinsey & Company, with a focus on digital and technology strategy.

Peter’s current company nexxworks helps inspire and connect organizations to thrive in the Never Normal.

Pathological Optimist

Peter likes to describe himself as a pathological optimist. He firmly believes that companies can and should help build a better, brighter and bolder Day After Tomorrow.
Keynote Speaker & Lecturer

Peter is a top ranked and world class speaker on technological evolution, innovation strategy and adaptive leadership. He brings his content with a unique combination of depth, clarity, positivity, and a dry sense of humor.

Peter has collaborated with Fortune 1000 companies and leading brands like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Accenture, HP, SAS, Microsoft, Gartner, Danone, HSBC, London Business School, Sanofi, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and many more.

He also lectures at renowned business schools like the London Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Bestselling Author

Peter is the author of five bestselling business books. ‘The Phoenix and The Unicorn’ (2020) is a book about Phoenixes: companies that are able to rethink themselves in cycles, just like the mythical bird.

‘The Day After Tomorrow’ (2017) is about the benefits of long-term thinking in times of radical innovation.

‘The Network Always Wins’ (2014) explains how and why companies have no choice but to become a network when the outside world has evolved into one.

In ‘The New Normal’ (2010), Peter writes about how companies should explore the limits of the digital world, and what happens when technology just becomes ‘normal’. ‘Business/IT Fusion’ (2008) is a guide about how to solve the conflict between business and IT.

Board Member

Peter is a multiple board advisor at leading companies like Belfius, Mediahuis and Ergon Capital on subjects related to innovation and technology.

Topics

We’re at a crossroads. Certainly since the COVID-19 crisis but even before that, we have been evolving into a world with many new types of disruptions.

There’s this potent cocktail of global platforms, information, intelligence, and automation that is accelerating the pace of change.

But technology is no longer the biggest driver of disruption.

What’s coming at us is ecological, biological, societal and geopolitical in nature and this is just the beginning.

The Era of Augmented Intelligence

Everybody is talking about AI, but the discussion tends to center around the two extremes of hype or doomism.

In this keynote filled with practical examples and cases, Peter wants to demystify AI in order to provide his audience with a profound and nuanced story of both the challenges and making potential of this technology.

Innovation Strategy Masterclass

The world is more fluid and unpredictable than ever, presenting business leaders with many economic, geopolitical, societal and ecological challenges.

Some see these Never Normal evolutions as a threat, but our Executive Masterclass by world leading innovation experts Peter Hinssen and Pascal Coppens has been designed to help you see possibilities:

• How can you turn these Never Normal challenges into innovative business strategies?
• What can companies learn from both Western and Chinese innovation?