Talks
Creative Thinking Process
Final-year university students & faculty
Audience:
Structured creativity, frameworks for idea generation, resilience, adaptability
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This talk showed how enterprises can unlock innovation through structured creativity. Delivered to final-year students and faculty, it highlighted the shift from linear problem-solving to divergent thinking, resilience, and adaptability. Practical frameworks and case examples demonstrated how leading organizations turn creativity into measurable advantage, leaving the audience with tools to challenge convention and innovate with confidence.
Entrepreneurship
Graduating students & faculty
Audience:
Balancing vision and execution, risk, ethics, and partnerships
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At a time when start-ups are reshaping industries, this talk explored the mindset and strategies needed for entrepreneurial success. Addressed to graduating students and faculty, it highlighted the balance between vision and execution, risk and resilience, and innovation and sustainability. Case examples showed how entrepreneurs move from concept to scale, leaving the audience with tools for adaptability, ethics, and strategic growth.
Marketing in the Age of Big Data
Students & faculty
Audience:
Data-driven personalization, predictive insights, privacy and compliance
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This keynote examined how big data is transforming marketing, shifting campaigns from intuition to analytics, modeling, and segmentation. Participants learned how organizations achieve personalization at scale while maintaining trust and compliance. Case studies highlighted risks of misuse, from privacy concerns to consumer backlash. Delivered to students and faculty, the session stressed that marketing’s future lies in combining data-driven efficiency with authentic customer connection.
Improving Operations
Final-year students & faculty
Audience:
Using analytics to reduce waste, identify bottlenecks, enhance productivity
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This talk explored how data and advanced analytics drive operational efficiency by transforming everyday processes. Presented to final-year students and faculty, it showed how organizations reduce waste, identify bottlenecks, and boost productivity through intelligent data use. The session emphasized both technology and the human element, leaving participants with a holistic view of operational improvement that integrates analytics, leadership, and cultural readiness.
Enterprise Data Strategy
University audience
Audience:
Governance, security, traceability, unlocking ROI
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This session offered a deep dive into building and executing effective data strategy. Delivered to a university audience, it showed why data is a strategic resource, not just a technical asset. Key pillars included governance, security, privacy, and traceability, each enabling analytics and AI. Real-world examples revealed pitfalls of fragmented approaches and the advantages of integrated strategies for ROI, risk reduction, and competitive edge.
The Data Science Playbook
Students & faculty
Audience:
Moving from theory to practice, ROI, transparency, interdisciplinary teamwork
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This talk demystified the path from theory to practice in data science. Presented to students and faculty, it traced the evolution from core concepts to enterprise applications, showing that technical skill needs strategic vision to create impact. Topics included balancing experimentation with ROI, building interdisciplinary teams, and ensuring transparency. Case studies highlighted how data science drives results across industries while demanding ethics and foresight.
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Senior leaders
Audience:
Analytics and AI in manufacturing and supply chain transformation
Focus:
This keynote for senior leaders at Schaeffler explores how advanced analytics and AI enable transformation in complex manufacturing and supply chains. The session highlights data’s role in building resilience, efficiency, and sustainability, while addressing challenges of change and integration. Leaders gain practical pathways to prepare their enterprises for the next wave of innovation and to stay competitive in a data-driven global market.
DHL Global Innovation Keynote
Senior leaders and professionals across DHL’s global operations, attending the DHL Innovation Centre conference
Audience:
The seven pillars of enterprise transformation, Data, Technology, Automation, Analytics, IoT, Digital Transformation, and Governance, and how they shape the future of supply chains
Focus:
This keynote examined how every modern enterprise, including those in the supply chain ecosystem, must evolve into a true “data business” to remain competitive. It explored the opportunities and challenges that arise when integrating new technologies, automating processes, and managing data across diverse systems. A central theme was that successful transformation is not just about digitizing assets but also about transforming human behavior into a digital-ready mindset. The session offered a clear roadmap for aligning people, data, and technology to build resilient, adaptive organizations capable of thriving in post-pandemic global markets.