Joachim De Vos

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Who is Joachim De Vos?

International keynote speaker, author, business owner/executive & professor specialising in foresight. Focus on the future, technology, foresight, strategy and innovation and how to prepare your organisation. Joachim De Vos, since 1995 top exec at Living Tomorrow, the leading international innovation platform connecting with 5M+ visitors about what the future could look like. He started TomorrowLab in 2007 as an innovation consulting company working with over 600 companies on innovation, future strategy, technology and open innovation. He is a professor of scenario planning at the University of Ghent. He is the author of the book entitled “Why Innovation Fails”, bringing the real story of Kodak together with the inventor of the digital camera, Steven Sasson. Joachim talks about the future, how it could unfold and how to prepare your organisation for this change. He talks with passion, vision, insight and, most importantly, practical experience of all these companies and consumer insights.

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    Why Innovation Fails: The 7 keys to success

    To remain successful, organisations must be able to respond effectively to the fast pace of change or even stay one step ahead of it. To make this possible, it is crucial to look at the future in the right way. This means embracing uncertainty, seizing opportunities, and recognizing threats in good time. ‘Why Innovation Fails’ not only teaches you how to look at the future, it also explains the most frequently made mistakes and highlights the most common pitfalls in the innovation process. In addition, you will gain greater insight into the technological developments of the next ten years and discover how this insight can be turned into a concrete approach that will build future-proof and successful innovation companies and organisations. In this compelling keynote, Joachim De Vos takes you into the future, shows you how to assess it correctly with your organisation and how best to structure innovation. He does this on the basis of concrete examples and provides very useful tools to get you started right away or make your existing innovation efforts more successful. The book on which the keynote is based was launched in June 2022 and immediately became management/marketing book of the month.

    Living Tomorrow - Will Change Happen to You or be Led by You?

    Joachim is the co-founding partner of Living Tomorrow and TomorrowLab, the reference innovation platform in Brussels and Amsterdam since 1995. Millions of visitors from all over the world have already visited Living Tomorrow. More than 600 organisations have already worked with Living Tomorrow. Can't make it to Brussels to visit the future ? Then let the future come to your event with Joachim's keynote. He tells the story of how the future platform came into being and what role it has played over the last 25 years. He leads you into the exploration of the future: what will 2040 look like ? Many young visitors then are now business leaders, with their visit to Living Tomorrow often influencing their choice of study and career. They wanted to create the future because it belongs to all of us. Maybe those young people from back then are now your customers in the room? Joachim talks with passion about past developments, current change and especially the vision of the future. He ends by handing you a kind of crystal ball with which you can predict the future. And above all, prepare for it! If you want to make your employees, customers or guests enthusiastic about tomorrow and get them to progress into that future, then this keynote is exactly what you are looking for.

"There is no doubt that the way we live will be different in the future. The advances in technology and communications are changing our lives dramatically. I think the Living Tomorrow project of Joachim and his team – where you brainstorm about what is possible and you get people to come in, look at it, and talk about what this all means – is fantastic… I am certainly impressed with what I’ve seen."

Bill Gates

Founder Microsoft

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Although we live in times of uncertainty, De Vos gives us hope in Why Innovation Fails. He offers practical insights and ideas to keep believing in the future. I was able to see up close how innovation is his life and how he and his teams open the eyes of companies, governments and cities to the unknown. "The Future is Ours" is his message!

Herman Van Rompuy

President Em. European Council, Minister of State

The 7 keys to innovating successfully are mandatory insights for every perceptive business leader who wants to build a future-proof organisation

Fadel Al Faraj

CEO Q8 Italy and formerly CEO of Q8 North-West Europe