Peter A. Gloor

Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he leads a twenty-year project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks, wellbeing and happiness. He is also Founder and Chief Creative Officer of software company galaxyadvisors, and Honorary Professor at University of Cologne, and at Jilin University, Changchun, China. He also taught at Universidad Cattolica in Santiago de Chile, Aalto University Helsinki, University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and University of Applied Sciences Lucerne (HSLU). Earlier he was a partner with PwC and Deloitte, where he was head of eBusiness Europe, and the section leader for software engineering at UBS. He got his Ph.D in computer science from the University of Zurich and was a Post-Doc at the MIT Lab for Computer Science. His newest book “Happimetrics – Leveraging AI to Untangle the Surprising Link Between Ethics, Happiness and Business Success” appeared fall 2022 at Edward Elgar Publishing

Prof. Christopher Tucci

Christopher L. Tucci is Professor of Digital Strategy & Innovation at Imperial College Business School and Co-Director (Education) for I-X, Imperial’s new campus concept centered on AI/ML, data, and digital. Professor Tucci is Academic Director of the Centre for Digital Transformation at Imperial College Business School as well. He was Professor of Management of Technology at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he held the Chair in Corporate Strategy & Innovation. From 2013-2018, he was Dean of the College of Management at EPFL. In 2018, he was Visiting Thought Leader at CEIBS in Shanghai, China. He received the degrees of Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, MIT; SM (Technology & Policy) from MIT; and BS (Mathematical Sciences), AB (Music), and MS (Computer Science) from Stanford University. He was an industrial computer scientist involved in developing Internet protocols and applying artificial intelligence tools. Professor Tucci teaches courses in Deep Tech Acceleration, Co-Creation in AI & Robotics, AI Ventures, Design Thinking, Digital Strategy, and Innovation Management.

His primary area of interest is in how firms make transitions to new business models, technologies, and organizational forms. He also studies crowdsourcing, Internetworking, and digital innovations. He has published articles in, among others, Academy of Management Review (AMR), Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Research Policy, Communications of the ACM, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Academy of Management Annals, and Journal of Product Innovation Management. His article with Allan Afuah, “Crowdsourcing as solution to distant search,” won the Best Paper of 2012 for AMR. He has served in leadership positions in the Academy of Management (AOM) and the Strategic Management Society and was elected in 2023 to the leadership track of the Academy of Management’s Board of Governors.

Dr. Myrna Flores

Myrna Flores is the Executive Director of the Centre for Digital Transformation at Imperial College Business School and the co-founder and president of the Lean Analytics Association (LAA) which was launched in 2012 as a spin-off from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. 

Myrna Flores has over 20 years of experience in driving process improvement and innovation initiatives, delivering training programs and organising hackathons, engaging and collaborating with key stakeholders and teams to solve strategic challenges. 

Myrna collaborates with an ecosystem of partners on innovation projects, designs and delivers ad-hoc training programs, and diffuses the latest trends and best practices to inspire organisations to accelerate their transformation journeys. She is a Design Thinker passionate about working with organisations to implement new ways of working and design user-centric solutions. She is also very interested in designing new business models which integrate digital technologies and sustainability best practices to automate business processes and move from a linear delivery approach to a circular economy model aligned with the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

She has a PhD in Open Innovation from Politecnico di Milano (2006), a Master’s degree in Manufacturing Science (1999) and a Mechanical Engineering degree (1996) from Tecnológico de Monterrey. She also carried out a postgraduate course in IIT Madras, India in Technologies and Sustainable Development. Myrna has published more than 50 articles in journals and presented at multiple international conferences. She is co-author of four books: Digital Factory for Human Oriented Systems (2010), Lean Product Development Best Practices, Ten Industrial Success Stories (2017), and DARE to Gemba Walk, A Practical Approach for Leaders and Teams Towards Collaborative Problem Solving (2020) and Lean Thinking Evolution, Getting Prepared for the Digital Era (2022).