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Thor is leading Avanade’s Innovation Lab and Experience  Center in Houston and is responsible for driving innovation internally as well as with Avanade’s clients. Thor has developed innovative solutions and strategies for clients in Oil and Gas, Utilities, Retail, Manufacturing, and Consulting,  including Schlumberger, McDermott, BHGE, Marathon Oil,  Marathon Petroleum, Occidental Petroleum Corp, The Men’s Wearhouse, McDermott, MG&E, and many more.

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have we now become homo nexus - the always-connected human?

Jen Grant currently leads Appify as CEO, delivering an enterprise-grade no-code platform that supports companies such as TataMD, Johnson & Johnson, and Keysight in quickly delivering apps to their mobile workforces. Prior to Appify, spent the last 15 years taking multiple companies to over a billion-dollar valuation. As CMO, Jen Grant led Looker’s marketing until the 2.6B acquisition by Google in 2019, led the rebrand of Elastic and built the team that took the company public for 2.4B in 2018, and grew Box from a small start-up to an industry-leading enterprise content company with a 1.7B IPO in 2015.  Grant also spent 4 years at Google leading the Google Apps EDU, Gmail, and Book Search marketing teams. She holds an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Princeton.  Learn more about Jen and Appify's mission at www.appify.com

it is the closest system to nature

in the future, jobs will drop in your lap

Max Stucki is the Foresight Analysis Manager at Futures Platform. He has worked with multiple organizations identifying and making sense of trends affecting both the public and private sectors. Futures Platform supports organizations in all decision-making with a digital foresight solution that helps to discover future changes and is curated by a team of futurists.

we no longer need to follow the traditional path - a multitude of paths are in front of us.

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