EAMIF 2022 Program Outline
All times shown in the program are in East Africa Time (EAT)
12:00 - 12:20
Welcome and Commencement Speech
Welcoming remarks from leaders of the organisations whose collaboration made this event possible.
HOST & INTRODUCTION
Zia Manji, Director & Senior Client Partner, Career Connections
CONTENT PARTNER STATEMENT
Richard Straub, Founder & President, Global Peter Drucker Forum
STRATEGIC PARTNER STATEMENT
Hans Stoisser, CEO, ECOTEC GmbH
STRATEGIC PARTNER STATEMENT
Madeleine Dunford, Managing Director, Career Connections
12:20 - 12:40
Keynote:
The Vital Role of Business in African Society: Rethinking the Rules of the Game in a Digital Economy
The Vital Role of Business in African Society: Rethinking the Rules of the Game in a Digital Economy
Today’s society of organisations have an unprecedented social responsibility for their impact on employees, theenvironment, customer and stakeholders. But society as a whole is also demanding that organisations serve a socialpurpose to create sustainable development, social and economic change. How do organisations help tackle thesechallenges through innovation, a focus on long-term value and adapting their management models, whilst remainingtrue to their purpose?
CHAIR
Zia Manji, Director & Senior Client Partner, Career Connections
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Sim Tshabalala, Group CEO, Standard Bank Group, and Executive Director, Standard Bank Group and Standard Bank South Africa
12:40 - 13:40
Parallel Track A1:
The Power of Purpose: Providing Human Meaning in a Tech-Intensive World
The Power of Purpose: Providing Human Meaning in a Tech-Intensive World
The best uses of technology are human-centered ones: they free people from tedious tasks to add value in more creative ways. But the even greater superpower to give an organisation is a sense of purpose. How do some leaders get beyond mission statements and truly inspire collective achievement?
CHAIR
David Gatende, Group CEO, Davis & Shirtliff
PANELIST
Tal Ben-Shahar, Founder, Happiness Studies Academy
PANELIST
Jane Karuku, Group Managing Director & CEO, EABL
PANELIST
Michele Zanini, Co-founder, MLab and Co-author, Humanocracy
PANELIST
Allan Kilavuka, Group Managing Director & CEO, Kenya Airways
15:45 - 16:45
Parallel Track A2:
Digital Transformation in Large Enterprise
Digital Transformation in Large Enterprise
Virtually every large, established organisation is in the midst of an effort to digitise major components of its operations—and in some cases, entire business models are being overhauled. What lessons can be learned from the success stories?
CHAIR
Omid Kassiri, Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company
PANELIST
Wambui Kinya, Regional Manager, EMEA, Elephant Ventures LLC
PANELIST
Jack Ngare, Managing Director, Microsoft ADC
PANELIST
Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, Managing Director, M-Pesa Africa and Ag. Chief Financial Services Officer, Safaricom PLC
PANELIST
Kihara Maina, CEO I&M Bank Kenya
13:40 - 13:55
Connect2Converse Lounge
Participants divide into breakout groups to engage with ideas just presented.
14:15 - 15:15
Parallel Track B1:
When Innovation Is the Name of the Game
When Innovation Is the Name of the Game
Businesses these days don’t last long if they can’t launch new products and services. At the firm level, innovation drives top-line growth—and at thesociety level it delivers quality of life gains and economic prosperity. Given how important it is, why are most organisations struggling to innovate?
CHAIR
Brenda Mbathi, President, GE East Africa
PANELIST
Curtis Carlson, Technologist and Pioneer in Innovation
PANELIST
Peter Njonjo, CEO and Co-Founder, Twiga Foods
PANELIST
Hal Gregersen, Senior Lecturer, Leadership & Innovation, MIT's Sloan School
PANELIST
Joseph Rehmann, Founder & Group CEO, Victory Farms Kenya and Kivu Choice Rwanda
15:45 - 16:45
Parallel Track B2:
What Great Leadership Looks Like in the 2020s
What Great Leadership Looks Like in the 2020s
One thing is always true about leaders: by definition, people are willing to follow their lead. But from era to era and under changing conditions, different kinds of leaders come to the fore. What’s right for the moment we’re in now?
CHAIR
Madeleine Dunford, Managing Director, Career Connections
PANELIST
Charles Mudiwa, CEO at Stanbic Bank Kenya and South Sudan
PANELIST
Jay Ireland, Executive Chairman at Milele Energy
PANELIST
Fred Swaniker, Founder & CEO, African Leadership Group
15:15 - 15:45
Artistic Voyage
Dr. Merritt Moore, Ballerina and Quantum Physicist
15:45 - 16:45
Parallel Track C1:
Striking the Balance between Empowered Decisions and Efficient Direction
Striking the Balance between Empowered Decisions and Efficient Direction
Large organisations want to be more agile and adaptive, and need their people to take more entrepreneurial initiative. Can they get all that while still making disciplined progress toward strategic goals?
CHAIR
Samora Kariuki, Director of Fintech, Sote
PANELIST
Gina Lodge, CEO, Academy of Executive Coaching, UK
PANELIST
Tendayi Viki, Author and Corporate Innovation Expert
PANELIST
Firas Ahmad, Group CEO & Co-Founder, Azampay
15:45 - 16:45
Parallel Track C2:
Workplace Resilience and the Shape of the New Normal
Workplace Resilience and the Shape of the New Normal
As Covid-19 shifts from pandemic to endemic, and economies emerge from two years of crisis, will the world of work bounce back to what it was? Or will workplaces be forever altered by the experience?
CHAIR
Paul Lambert, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry, London
PANELIST
Rahaf Harfoush, Strategist, Digital Anthropologist & Author
PANELIST
Scott Gregory, CEO, Hogan Assessment Systems, USA
PANELIST
Mickaël Locoh, VP Southern Europe & Africa, Steelcase
16:45 - 17:00
Connect2Converse Lounge
Participants divide into breakout groups to engage with ideas just presented.
17:00 - 17:45
Keynote:
Blockchain For Good
Blockchain For Good
How the Second Era of the Internet can transform economic development and help solve some of the world's biggest problems.
CHAIR
Zia Manji, Director & Senior Client Partner, Career Connections
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Don Tapscott, Executive Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute
17:45 - 18:00
End Ceremony
HOST
Zia Manji, Career Connections
16:45 - 17:00
Connect2Converse Lounge
Participants divide into breakout groups to engage with ideas just presented.
EAST AFRICA MANAGEMENT &
INNOVATION FORUM
INNOVATION FORUM
PROGRAM OUTLINE
APRIL 6, 2022
ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN AFRICAN TIME (EAT), KENYA
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Hal Gregersen
Senior Lecturer, Leadership & Innovation, MIT's Sloan School
Jane Karuku
Group Managing Director & CEO, EABL
Sim Tshabalala
Group CEO, Standard Bank Group
Don Tapscott
Executive Chairman, Blockchain Research Institute
Kihara Maina
CEO, I&M
Bank Kenya
Bank Kenya
Fred Swaniker
Founder & CEO, African Leadership Group
Tal Ben-Shahar
Founder, Happiness Studies Academy
Brenda Mbathi
President,
GE East Africa
GE East Africa
Madeleine Dunford
Managing Director, Career Connections
Michele Zanini
Co-founder, MLab & Co-author, Humanocracy
Allan Kilavuka
Group Managing Director & CEO, Kenya Airways
Jack Ngare
Managing Director, Microsoft ADC
Scott Gregory
CEO, Hogan Assessments
Rahaf Harfoush
Strategist, Digital Anthropologist & Author
Curtis Carlson
Founder and CEO, Practice of Innovation
Charles Mudiwa
CEO at Stanbic Bank Kenya and South Sudan
Jay Ireland
Executive Chairman, Milele Energy
Paul Lambert
Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry, London
Samora Kariuki
Director Fintech, SOTE
David Gatende
Group CEO, Davis & Shirtliff
Tendayi Viki
Author and Corporate Innovation Expert
Sitoyo Lopokoiyit
Managing Director,
M-Pesa Africa
M-Pesa Africa
Gina Lodge
CEO, Academy of Executive Coaching
Omid Kassiri
Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company
Wambui Kinya
Regional Manager, EMEA, Elephant Ventures LLC
Firas Ahmad
Group CEO & Co-Founder, AzamPay
Mickaël Locoh
VP Southern Europe & Africa, Steelcase
Peter Njonjo
CEO and Co-Founder, Twiga Foods
Joseph Rehmann
Founder & Group CEO, Victory Farms Kenya & Kivu Choice Rwanda
HOSTS AND PANEL CHAIRS
Madeleine Dunford
Managing Director, Career Connections
Zia Manji
Director & Senior Client Partner,
Career Connections
Career Connections
Neha Kapila
General Manager,
Career Connections
Career Connections
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