Dr. Richard STRAUB

Founder and President, Global Peter Drucker Forum, Vienna

1984-1987	Director, PC Sales IBM Austria
1987-1992	Director, PC Unit, IBM Austria
1993-1994	Assistant General Manager, PC Marketing, IBM EMEA
1994-1995	Regional Director, PC IBM Central Europe and Russia
1996-1997	Director, IBM Global Marketing and Sales Institute, Belgium
1997-2001	Chief Learning Officer, IBM Global Sales and Distribution Group
2001-2005	Director, Learning Solutions, IBM EMEA
since 2006	Associate Director, Corporate Services EFMD
since 2006	Senior Adviser, IBM Global Education Industry
since 2006	Senior Adviser to the Chairman, IBM EMEA
since 2008	President, Peter Drucker Society Europe

Ph.D. Joanna J. BRYSON

Reader, Department of Computer Science, University of Bath

1986	BA in Behavioral Science, The College of the University of Chicago
1986-1988	Sole technical employee, Lawrence I Schulman & Co. / First Options of Chicago
1988-1991	Project Leader for automating the exchange-floor staff, A M Investors, Chicago
1992	MSc in Artificial Intelligence, The University of Edinburgh
1999-2000	Research Assistant, Human Communication Research Center, University of Edinburgh
2000	MPhil in Psychology, The University of Edinburgh
2001	PhD in Computer Science, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001-2002	Postdoctoral Fellow, Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge
2002-2010	Lecturer B (Assistant Professor), Department of Computer Science, University of Bath
2007-2009	Visiting Research Fellow, Methods and Data Institute, University of Nottingham
2007-2009	Resident Faculty and Hans Przibram Fellow, The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna
2010	Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Oxford University
since 2010	Reader (Associate Professor), Department of Computer Science, University of Bath
2011-2013	Visiting Research Fellow, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, University Mannheim
2015-2017	Visiting Fellow, CITP - Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

Rahaf HARFOUSH

Digital Anthropologist and Author, Red Thread Inc., Paris

2004-2006	Bchelor of Arts, Business Administration and Management, Ivey Business School at Western University, London (Ontario)
2006	Exchange Program, Media & Communications, HEC - Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris
2006	Research Analyst & Media Strategist, New Paradigm Learning Corporation, St. Petersburg (Florida)
2006-2008	Research Analyst & Project Manager, Hotspex Market Research, Toronto
2008-2009	Indipendent Consultant
2009-2011	Associate Director, Technology Pioneers, World Economic Forum, Geneva
since 2012	Founder, Digital Foresight & Innovation Strategist, Red Thread Inc., Paris
since 2014	Adjunct Professor, Innovation & Emerging Business Models, Finance & Economics MBA Program, Sciences Po, Paris

Dr. MBA MBI Marc TEERLINK

Chief Business Strategist, IBM Watson Group, New York

since 1982	Professional Freelance Photographer
1986-1994	Managing Consultant, Global Bank, Emerging Market Start-Up Manager, Big Five Consulting Firm'
1995-1997	Sales & Marketing Manager US West Coast; Transformation Manager, AT&T
1997-2001	Director Europe, Relationship Technologies, BI & CRM, Teradata
2001-2002	IBM Internal Sales Transformation Team Executive, IBM
2003-2004	Executive Principal IBM Internal Sales Transformation, IBM
2004-2007	Business Intelligence Practice Partner Nordic, IBM
2007-2010	Analytics Consulting Leader West & South Europe, IBM
2010-2014	Global Strategist, Big Data Analytics & Optimization, IBM
since 2014	Chief Business Strategist, IBM Watson Group, New York

Mag. Andreas TREICHL

Chairman of the Management Board, Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna

1975	Master's Degree in Economics, University of Vienna
1976-1977	Trainee programmes at Citibank, Morgan Stanley and Brown Brothers Harriman, New York
1977-1994	Various management positions at Chase Manhatten Bank in New York, Brussels, Athens and Vienna
1994-1997	Member of the Management Board, Erste oesterreichische Spar-Casse, Vienna
1997-2008	Chairman of the Management Board, Erste oesterreichische Spar-Casse, Vienna
since 2008	Chairman of the Management Board, Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna

Julia KIRBY

Senior Editor, Harvard University Press; Author, Only Humans Need Apply, Cambridge

Julia Kirby is a senior editor at Harvard University Press, focused on helping research-based books by scholarly authors reach broad audiences and influence current thinking. She joined HUP after a fifteen-year career at Harvard Business Review, where she worked with hundreds of management thinkers over the years to bring their ideas to practitioners across sectors of the economy and all around the globe. Her newest book, with Tom Davenport, is Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines (Harper Collins, May 2016). She also coauthored (with Chris Meyer) the 2012 book Standing on Sun: How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere, praised by The Financial Times as one of the best business books of its year. Prior to HBR, Julia worked in the management consulting industry, producing and packaging insights on emerging technologies, strategy, marketing, talent management, and leadership.