Claiming our Humanity – Managing the Digital Age …

… is the theme of the Global Peter Drucker Forum 2015 (#GPDF15), taking place in Vienna on November 5th and 6th, 2015. High ranking speakers and participants, from Charles Handy, Henry Mintzberg, Tammy Erickson to Dambisa Moyo and Zhang Ruimin, President & CEO of the Chinese Haier Group. And many more.

Live Stream available

Check out the program and, in case you don’t participate in person, you can register for the free live stream here.

Series of blogposts

You can also find interesting insights, opinions and ideas in the series of blogposts set up in the forefront of to the event. For example, the end of expertise by Bill Fisher, Let’s get the future right this time by Vlatka Hlupic, or It’s the Operating System, stupid! by myself.      

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