Welcome to 2050. Megatrends and technologies disrupting business and society

Dr. Mark Esposito is Professor of Business & Economics at Hult International Business School and part of the teaching faculty at Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education where he teaches courses on Business, Government & Society & Economic Strategy and Competitiveness. He serves since 2013 as Institutes Council Co-Leader, at the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program (MOC) at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, at Harvard Business School, headed by Professor Michael Porter. He holds Fellowships with the Judge Business School in the UK, as part of the Circular Economy Center; the Social Progress Imperative and with the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils in Washington D.C.. He is also nonresident Fellow at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai. In 2017 he was named Global Expert for the World Economic Forum. Mark is the Co-Founder and President of Nexus FrontierTech, an AI Studio, dedicated to the productions of AI solutions. He was named one of the emerging tomorrow's thought leaders most likely to reinvent capitalism by Thinkers50, the world's premier ranking of management thinkers and inducted into the 'Radar' of the 30 most influential thinkers, on the rise. Mark is the co-author of the best seller Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using DRIVE to Harness the Power of Today's Megatrends. The framework contained therein was nominated for the CK Prahalad Breakthrough Idea Award by Thinkers50, the most prestigious award in business thought leadership. The DRIVE framework has also led Chartered Management Institute’s own magazine Professional Manager in the UK to name Mark as one of the 18 new voices in 2018 that reshape management and leadership. Talent Quarterly in the US called the DRIVE framework one of the 24 trends transforming talent management in the years to come. Mark holds a B.A. and M.A in Social Sciences from the University of Turin in Italy, a PhD in Business and Economics from the International School of Management in Paris/New York and an Executive Doctorate of Business Administration from Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech. He is fluent in 6 languages and in his non academic life, he holds the rank of Master Instructor, Black Belt IV Dan, at the International Budo Institute in Canada.

Cristina Pozzi is a successful entrepreneur and key-speaker, with expertise on the emerging technologies of the forth industrial revolution (Exponential Technologies, AI, Internet of Actions and more) and their impact on future scenarios. After 10 years of successful work in the market of pre-paid services, in 2016 she sold Wish Days, the company she co-founded in 2006, achieving one of the most significant exits in the start-up market in Italy. In the same year she founded a social enterprise called Impactscool, whose mission is to spread innovation, technology and a critical mind about the future among students, citizens, and companies. She is the author of the book 'Welcome to 2050' first issued in 2017 and then again in 2019. Her company's motto is 'The Future is open source, shaped together, and accessible to everyone'. In march 2019 Cristina was selected by the World Economic Forum to be part of its community of Young Global Leaders. The Organization selects every year 100 personalities under 40 with an extraordinary career. In the past years talents like Jack Ma, Nico Rosberg, Emmanuel Macron, Mark Zuckerberg have been part of it. Thanks to Cristina Pozzi, Italy came back to have its representative after 5 years of absence.