Systems of Innovation

Speakers

• Uffe Elbaek

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  Chairman and Founder, The KaosPilots International Board

  Uffe Elbæk, founder and former principal of The KaosPilots – International School of New Business Design & Social Innovation, was born in 1954 and has, as he says, already managed to live several lives since. Personally as well as professionally. From 1991 to 2006 he was the principal of The KaosPilots in Denmark, and is today Special Advisor for the new leadership-team at the school. In November 2001 and again in 2005 Uffe Elbæk was elected to the City Council of Århus (Denmark’s second largest city) for the Danish Social-Liberal Party. He stepped down as city counselor in Århus, when he was hired by the City of Copenhagen to be the CEO of the World Outgames 2009, a position he held from 2007 to 2009. In the spring of 2010 Uffe Elbæk accepted to run for the Danish Social-Liberal Party in the coming national election for the Danish Parliament. Uffe Elbæk is also on the board of several Danish and international organizations, and has over the years received numerous honors and awards, ranging from his appointment as ambassador for the local premiere league football club AGF to Knight of the Dannebrog. Today he lives with his partner Jens in a big old apartment in the heart of Copenhagen. In July 2010, Uffe Elbæk founded the consulting company Change the game with the focus on leadership training, political campaigning and social innovation concepts. Besides being the CEO of Change the game, Uffe Elbæk has given himself the title: Senior Troublemaker and Solution Finder. Because that is his job these days.

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• Piera Morlacchi

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  Lecturer, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex

  Dr. Morlacchi is an organizational scholar who studies the relationship between technologies and organization with a focus on healthcare and medicine. Initially she studied engineering science at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) where she completed her Bachelor and Master degrees in management and industrial engineering, with a specialization in complex systems modelling and artificial intelligence (dissertation title "Design of neural networks for modelling and managing of production systems"). After working as a research assistant during my master studies at graduation she was hired in Milano as a research fellow and lecturer, where she stayed for three years. In 1998 she moved to the UK to do her PhD in the School of Management, University of Bath (UK) completing a thesis on innovation in the medical device field (title "How new technologies become legitimated: the co-evolution of technologies and networks in the cardiac implantable device field") and graduating in 2003. She joined the University of Sussex in May 2003. Here, she is affiliated to SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) and B&M (Business & Management) department within the BMEc School and she has been involved in research, administration and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the area of entrepreneurship, management and organization, research methodology and policy.

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• Nina Smith

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  Founding CEO/Strategic Advisor, GoodWeave

  Nina Smith is an award-winning leader and founding Chief Executive Officer of GoodWeave International (GoodWeave), the leading international NGO working to stop child labor in global supply chains. At GoodWeave's helm from 1999 to 2023, Nina pioneered a market-led model that has reduced child labor at scale in select sectors by shining a light on the most vulnerable supply chain workers; stopping abuse; and addressing root causes. A Skoll and Schwab Foundation Awardee, Nina advocates for child and worker rights through her writing, public speaking and the boards she serves, including The Fair Labor Association and the Better Buying Institute. Nina is also winner of the Tufts University Alumni Award for Active Citizenship and Public Service and the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s EXCEL Award for excellence in chief executive leadership, and is a member of Elluminate’s Women’s Leadership Collective.

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• David Muhia

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  Scholar, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

  David Muhia has a PhD in the field of Tropical Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he was a Welcome Trust Prize Student. David’s early career was in medical research at the Welcome Trust Kenya where his focus was in Malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB. He has also worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. His research has resulted in numerous publications in peer reviewed international journals

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