IMD Annual Report 2019

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IMD ANNUAL REPORT 2019

IMPACT STORY

Orchestrating Winning Performance Seizing tomorrow’s opportunities in Dubai

Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) is IMD’s signature program that offers participants the opportunity to explore the cutting-edge breadth of ‘burning issue’ business topics and trends with faculty experts and influential guest speakers. Taking place each year in Lausanne, and nowDubai, it offers participants the insights and guidance on areas they need to stay successfully ahead across one intense and inspiring week of learning and networking. The first edition of OWP in Dubai was IMD’s largest off-campus activity in 2019 and attracted 150 participants representing 76 companies and 42 nationalities from 33 countries, alongside 22 members of IMD’s world-class faculty, to reflect on more than 35 hot topics.

Areas covered in Dubai included leadership, governance, digital, innovation and strategy,

focusing on topics such as: • Best in class governance • Artificial intelligence: boom or doom?

• Strategic agility: the art of piloting initiatives • Navigating your family enterprise into the future • The current challenges of competitiveness • Core leadership skills for your future • China’s innovation imperative: inevitable global consequences • Blockchain, cybersecurity and the challenges of data protection • Getting relationships right: overcoming labels, biases & misperceptions at work The inaugural OWP edition in Dubai also featured keynote addresses from: • H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence • Lindiwe Matlali Successful entrepreneur and social activist, Founder Founder and CEO of Africa Teen Geeks • Omran Sharaf Director of the United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars • Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Jadhai CEO of Saudi Arabia’s ELM • Wesam Lootah CEO of Smart Dubai

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Participant PROFILES

EDITION of OWP DUBAI

150

INDUSTRIES 17

EXECUTIVES representing 42 nationalities

76 COMPANIES FROM 33 COUNTRIES

2355 TOP APP USER interactions

800+ exchanges * BUSINESS CARDS *on the OWP Dubai application