TWIN Tech 2020
Agenda

Asking the Right Questions: Leadership through Adversity & Beyond

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP– PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Michelle Buck
Clinical Professor of Leadership
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Great leaders often distinguish themselves via the courage of the questions they ask. Amplify your TWIN Tech 2020 experience by defining questions that matter most to you.

This interactive 100-minute online workshop will help each of us discover how to define better questions and what it means to “live” them– rather than rushing too quickly to solutions.

Together in a World Apart

We’ve invited four of our world’s top global community builders to share their insights regarding how the online space impacts social capital. If you’re interested in how we maintain community and build social capital in a digital world—and we all should be!— then make time for Seema, Yarrow, Plamen and Kunal.


Seema Bhudia
Founder & CEO
Hush House

Plamen Russev
Founder & Chairman
Webit Foundation

Kunal Sood
Founder
Novus

Yarrow Kraner
Founder & Chairman
HATCH


INTERLOCUTOR
Rob Wolcott
Co-Founder & Chairman
TWIN Global

Covid-19 and the Global Economy—Reckoning & Renewal

Sérgio Rebelo
MUFG Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Join us for an exceptionally insightful analysis of the global economy during and post-pandemic… delivered with Professor Rebelo’s signature style. Learn why so many Kellogg students, colleagues and fellow TWINians value Sergio’s perspectives and friendship.

Digital Transformation & Enterprise: Across the Rubicon

Digital savvy companies are faring FAR better through this pandemic than those that took piecemeal or gradual approaches in the past. Meanwhile, the digital imperative has now become urgent and essential for long-term survival.

Insight Partners is one of the world’s top venture firms (by funds and performance) in enterprise digital. Richardson RFPD integrates the latest IoT capabilities for customers across industries. Ulta Beauty recently blew away their numbers due to rapid transition and thoughtful preparation before the crisis. Hear their recommendations to WIN beyond the crisis.

Paramita Das
Head of Commercial
The Americas
Rio Tinto

Emmet Keeffe
Partner & Founder, Insight Ignite
Insight Partners

Rafael Salmi
Global CEO
Richardson RFPD


INTERLOCUTOR
Peter Bryant
Managing Partner
Clareo
TWIN Co-Founder

Welcome… To the World

Rob Wolcott
Co-Founder & Chairman
TWIN Global

Around the TWIN World… In 30 Minutes

We’ll open our 2020 experience with live casts from Venice, Tokyo, Sofia and Oslo. Our TWIN Siblings at H-Farm, the JIN, Open Innovation Lab of Norway and Webit Foundation are leading innovation ecosystems leaders in Southern Europe, Japan, Norway, Bulgaria and worldwide.

Tomas Barraza
H-Farm
Venice, Italy

Truls Berg
CEO & Founder
Open Innovation Lab of Norway
Oslo, Norway

Moriella Kowalski
H-Farm
Venice, Italy

Hiro Nishiguchi
CEO & Co-Founder
Japan Innovation Network (JIN)
Tokyo, Japan

Aniela Ruseva
Webit Foundation
Sofia, Bulgaria

Plamen Russev
Webit Foundation
Sofia, Bulgaria

Maurizio Rossi
H-Farm
Venice, Italy

Together, Apart: Connection, Creativity

Brian Collins

Chief Creative Officer & Founder
COLLINS

COLLINS is one of the leading brand experience houses in the world. Over the years, TWINian Brian Collins has subjected us to cat and baby videos (during precious mainstage time!) and compelled us to draw our neighbors with our non-dominant hand— upside down. When life demands exceptional creativity and vision, how can we navigate through the pandemic, and what does this tell us about connecting, as human beings, beyond.

Serendipity Calls!

Join us for a new TWIN tradition. At TWIN we, “Never leave serendipity to chance.” With our new simple method, Serendipity Calls!, you’ll meet other TWINians on a meaningful basis. FAR better than watching speakers online! We’ll leverage the HopIn “Networking” function for these sessions. You never know who you’ll meet… or re-meet. I can assure you that everyone at TWIN Tech is worth meeting.

TWIN CATALYST UPDATE
Empowering Health through Food
Special thanks to Griffith Foods

In 2019, we launched the TWIN Catalyst focused on Nourishing the World to 2050: Empowering Human Health through Food (find more HERE).  We have engaged multiple stakeholders and developed a shared vision and action plan.  We’re moving from catalyst to coalition. Join us to learn more.

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Welcome to “Linner”

Join us for a virtual lunch in the US… and dinner in Europe and Africa! Lunch dates across the Digital Rubicon take on new forms.

We’ll share a quick check-in with our Sardinian and Canadian foodie friends in Denmark.

Roberto Flore
Head of the Food Lab
DTU Skylab

Afton Halloran
Host, Nordic Talks
The Nordic Council

Share Your Mission. Change Our World

DO NOT MISS THIS SESSION. Since our first global convening in 2009, we’ve asked delegates to gather in groups of 5 and each share one mission of importance. The others are only allowed to do two things: ask clarifying questions and offer to introduce fellow TWINians to others whom they think can help. That’s it. The results are often profound.

Markets, Trust & Purpose of Business

If the world has any hope to build better futures, business must play leading — and collaborative– roles. Ethics, purpose, equity, inclusion, all essential questions especially where the success of business rests up on the power of competitive market mechanisms.

Julie Hill
Board Member, Anthem, Inc.
Board Member, Lord Abbett Family of Funds
Chair – Board of Trustees, University of California, Irvine

Anil Sethi
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
ETH, Zurich

Karim Shariff
Principal
Majlis Investment Management


INTERLOCUTORS
Peter Bryant
Managing Partner
Clareo
TWIN Co-Founder

Anna Catalano
Board Member
Willis Towers Watson, Holly Frontier, Frontdoor
TWIN Co-Founder

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WHOOPS! The Serendipity of Screw Ups

Our TWINians are not only uber-successful, they’re humble and reflective. (Undoubtedly related phenomena.) Join a few of our serial innovators for reflections on turning mistakes, failures, oversights, f-ups and the like into opportunities—even a bit of enlightenment.

Dorit Donoviel
Associate Professor & Director
NASA Translational Research Institute for Space Health
Baylor College of Medicine

Sam Glassenberg
Founder & CEO
LevelEx

Sridhar Iyengar
Founder & CEO
Elemental Machines

Slava Rubin
Co-Founder & Partner
Humbition
Co-Founder & Former CEO, Indiegogo


INTERLOCUTOR
Rob Wolcott
Co-Founder & Chairman
TWIN Global

Serendipity Calls!

Discuss what you’ve just heard, but this isn’t just a breakout. It’s about connecting and re-connecting. You never know who’ll arrive on screen.

We’ve All Crossed the Digital Rubicon. Now What?

Rob Wolcott
Co-Founder & Chairman
TWIN Global

Welcome to Impact House: Our Home for TWIN Tech 2020

Israel Idonije, LL.D., O.M.
Founder
FBRK Impact House
Chicago Bears Defensive End, 2003 – 2012

Howard Tullman
Venture Investor & Serial Entrepreneur
TWIN Co-Founder & Board Member

Digital Rubicons, Digital Divides & Our Prosperity

Larry Irving has for years been a leader across the Digital Divide. At the forefront of telecommunications policy since the 1990s, Irving has been a key advisor to two presidents, as well as a public voice across sectors and continents. Prosperity must be a society-wide mission.

Larry Irving
Principal
The Irving Group
Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce

Front Line Dispatch: Covid, Preparedness & Resilience

TWINian Dr. Ling spoke for us at TWIN Global 2018. I’ve since shared his remarks with students and clients worldwide. He warned us all about the challenges of drug availability in the US and other countries well before the Covid-19 pandemic… and has since been active battling the pandemic on the front lines.

Geoffrey Ling, M.D., Ph.D.
CEO
On Demand Pharmaceuticals
Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins
Former Director, DARPA Biological Technologies
Colonel, US Army (ret.)

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In the Room: Segment One

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New Horizons: AI & Business

Competing in the Age of AI

Karim Lakhani
Professor
Harvard Business School
Author, Competing in the Age of AI

Rubicon Energy

A Few Thoughts on Energy & Life

Chris Gould
SVP, Corporate Strategy, Chief Innovation & Sustainability Officer
Exelon

Rubicon Food & Agriculture

Microbiome, Digital Twins and our Health(ier) Futures

The past few years have yielded radically new insights and ways of understanding the microbiome, food & human health. Lydia Afman and Sally Cudmore are at the forefront. Scott Bowman leads our TWIN Catalyst: Food & Agriculture, in which Drs. Afman and Cudmore are actively engaged.


Lydia Afman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human Nutrition
Lead, Me, My Diet & I Digital TWIN
Wageningen University Research

Sally Cudmore, Ph.D.
General Manager
APC Microbiome Institute
University College Cork


INTERLOCUTOR
Scott Bowman
Managing Partner
Clareo
TWIN Co-Founder

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Cities, Energy & Sustainable Futures
Session sponsored by Exelon

Prosperity requires reliable, sustainable, safe energy at scale. Cities play an essential part in the evolution, particularly with respect to the long-term transition to renewable, clean, distributed sources. Hear from energy leaders on the forefront of traditional and emerging solutions.

Peter Bryant
Managing Partner
Clareo

Paul Donnellan
Partner
Clareo

Declan Flanagan
EVP & CEO, Onshore
Ørsted

Amy Francetic
Managing Director
Buoyant Ventures
Board Member, Clean Energy Trust

Grzegorz Gorski
COO, Ocean Winds
JV between Engie & EDPR

Chris Gould
SVP, Chief Innovation & Sustainability Officer
Exelon

TWIN Catalyst: Empowering Health through Food
Session sponsored by Griffith Foods

Over the past 12 months, TWIN leaders have been exploring the changes needed in our global food system, curating and activating a global community of leaders motivated to take action, and developing and aligning around an agenda for multi-stakeholder change. Three areas of focus (territories) around which we plan to launch grand challenges in the coming year.

At this working session, we’ll unveil the vision and direction our global community has established, and discuss ways to activate and accelerate impact through regional ecosystems. Join us to learn more, contribute to our thinking and explore what it could mean to become involved.

Digital Health and Wellness
Personalization to precision Health & Wellness
Session sponsored by Anthem

Digital health was often a hard sell prior to COVID-19. It’s now rapidly becoming the new status quo. healthcare has never seen a surge of this magnitude and diversity, from drug discovery, vaccine development, self diagnostics and testing to managing chronic conditions. Software, hardware and wetware blur the lines from digital health/wellness to everywhere health/wellness.
This track on “Personalization and Precision” includes 3 segments of interactive discussions on decoding disease to connected cures, how advanced technologies are creating new foundations, and how Patients are becoming the new healthcare “CEOs.”

HOST
Anitha Vadavatha
Founder
d.Cent Labs
Exponential Technologies Advisor

AGENDA

Decoding Diseases to Connected Cures

Andreas Caudiff
Industry Advisory Board
ETH Zurich

Plamen Petrov
VP, Artificial Intelligence and Exponential Technologies
Chief Data Officer
Anthem, Inc.

Anish Shindore
Head of Digital Therapeutics
Sanofi

How Advanced Technologies are Creating New Foundations

Sumit Jamuar
Chairman & CEO
Global Gene Corp

Jose Cordeiro
Vicechair
HumanityPlus
Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science


Patients Are Becoming the New Healthcare “CEOs”

Robin Farmanfarmaian
Co-Founder
Face Touch Aware
Professional Speaker and Entrepreneur

Dr. Vishal Nangalia
Anaesthesiologist
Royal Free Hospital
Founder, ELU AI

Followed by Interactive Q&A and networking

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Neuroscience and The Arts Experience: Online & Beyond

Joining you from the studios of Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion, a multi-Grammy Award-winning percussion ensemble. They’ve made the virtual transition far more successfully than so many other small arts groups. What can we learn?

Moran Cerf, Suzanne Dikker and Chris Gebhardt will explore the neuroscience and psychology of experiencing performance online, while comedian Jeff Cesario, cellist Tina Guo and TWIN Creative Director Jeffrey Ernstoff will share insights as to what works online, what doesn’t, and what we can all learn about our transitions to an increasingly virtual world.

Third Coast Percussion
Multi-Grammy Award-Winning Ensemble

Moran Cerf
Associate Professor of Neuroscience & Marketing
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Jeff Cesario
Multi-Emmy Award Winner
Writer & Comedian

Suzanne Dikker
Senior Research Scientist & Artist
New York University

Jeffrey Ernstoff
Principal
Ernstoff Creative
TWIN Creative Director

Chris Gebhardt
Founder & CEO
Stir Strategy & Story
Edmund Hillary Fellow
TWIN Futures Team

Tina Guo
Cellist, Recording Artist, Composer

VIRTUAL COCKTAILS

Join your fellow delegates and our entire TWIN team for informal cocktails with whoever is around. (For the first time in our TWIN history, though, you’ll have to bring your own drinks.) Join us in the HopIn ‘sessions’ rooms. When one fills up (20 maximum), go find another room!

Our Road Ahead

Rob Wolcott
Co-Founder & Chairman
TWIN Global

Kadri Voorand
Jazz vocalist, pianist & composer
Estonia’s Musician of the Year for 2020

Mihkel Mälgand
Bassist & Arranger


CO-HOSTS
Moran Cerf
Associate Professor of Neuroscience & Marketing
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Kristi Ross
Co-CEO & President
TastyTrade

Digital Rubicon: The Corporate Leaders’ Guide

Rita Gunter McGrath
Professor
Columbia Business School
Author, Seeing Around Corners

Navi Radjou
Innovation Researcher & Author
Frugal Innovation: How To Do More With Less
Fellow, Judge Business School
University of Cambridge

INTERLOCUTOR
Kaihan Krippendorff
Founder
The Outthinker Network

Disappearing Tech: Tech Markets & the No Code Movement

Gary Hoberman
Founder & CEO
Unqork


INTERLOCUTRICE
Kristi Ross
Co-CEO & President
TastyTrade

DELEGATE CONVERSATIONS

During each of our three “Delegate Conversations”, all of our TWIN Tech Delegates (not livestream) will automatically join online breakout rooms for conversations with 4 – 6 other fellow delegates. Professor Wolcott will provide questions to consider during each iteration. We’ll all learn more, build relationships and experience one way online can be better than in-person. (Imagine a breakout discussion at an in-person event—except with all six people in six different locations.)

Wellness Every Moment: Digital Promise and Responsibility

Jennifer Schneider, M.D.
President
Livongo

Lee Shapiro
CFO
Livongo
Managing Partner, 7Wire Ventures
TWIN Co-Founder


INTERLOCUTOR
Anitha Vadavatha
Founder
d.Cent Labs

Unlocking Nature’s Intelligence through AI

Lee Chae
Founder & CEO
Brightseed Bio

INTERLOCUTOR
Scott Bowman
Managing Partner
Clareo
TWIN Co-Founder

The Dark Side of the River: Cyber

Dmitri Alperovitch
Executive Chairman
Silverado Policy Accelerator
Founder & Former CTO
Crowdstrike


INTERLOCUTOR
Rob Wolcott
Co-Founder & Chairman
TWIN Global

Game Day Calls

Our scientist and media and fin tech entrepreneur offer their questions, comments, frustrations, aggressions, hostilities about what they’ve heard thus far.

Moran Cerf
Associate Professor of Neuroscience & Marketing
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Kristi Ross
Co-CEO & President
Tastytrade

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Systems, Evolution & Our Digital Future

TWINian David Krakauer, complexity theorist, big thinker and provocateur, will offer thoughts about how complex systems tackle systemic shocks and how we can think about our own evolution through the crisis and beyond.

We’ll also share thoughts on earthworms, canaries and human health from Owen Brennan, OBE, and Alice Stanton, M.D.

David Krakauer
President & Professor of Evolutionary Genetics
Santa Fe Institute

Owen Brennan, OBE
Executive Chairman
Devenish Group

Alice Stanton
Vice Dean & Professor of Cellular Therapeutics
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland


INTERLOCUTOR
Rob Wolcott
Co-Founder & Chairman
TWIN Global

Personal Rubicons: Resilience, Authentic Leadership, Adversity and the Science of (always) Smiling

Jesus Mantas
Senior Managing Partner
IBM Global Business Services
IBM

Join long-time TWINian Jesus Mantas as he shares reflections on why resiliency is a bad word, leading without authority, the science of smiling– and how stage 4 cancer brings new perspectives on relationships, life… and Netflix.

The Next Rubicon: SPACE

Anousheh Ansari
CEO
XPrize Foundation
Space Explorer

INTERLOCUTRICE
Anna Catalano
Board Member
Willis Towers Watson, Holly Frontier, Frontdoor
TWIN Co-Founder

To Rome! The Purpose Path

Nicholas Pearce
Clinical Professor of Management
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
Assistant Pastor, Apostolic Church of God (Chicago)

Call to Action: Into the Breach, To the Future

Rob Wolcott
Chairman & Co-Founder
TWIN

Moran Cerf
Northwestern University

Kristi Ross
TastyTrade


CONCLUDING PERFORMANCE

Kadri Voorand
Jazz vocalist, pianist & composer
Estonia’s Musician of the Year for 2020

Mihkel Mälgand
Bassist & Arranger