SPEAKER LINE UP
VERNE HARNISH
Founder & CEO, Scaling Up
Soul Matters
Founders/artists/creators often describe how they’ve put their “heart and soul” into a venture, project, or initiative. The Heart side seems well understood – representing the purpose and passion.
Yet it’s the Soul of the organization which is the glue – that provides a unifying “how” we deliver on our promises and passion.
Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 18,000 members worldwide, and founded and chaired for fifteen years EO’s premiere CEO program held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today.
CRISTINA GARRIDO
CEO, Anteverti
Creativity: The Final Lifeline for Cities
Cities are living laboratories of diversity, exchange, freedom, and inspiration. However, they concentrate, at the same time, the most pressing challenges of the 21st century.
How can we, as a global society, confront these challenges to create truly sustainable cities for the future?
DR. RODRIGO TOLEDO, PhD
Group Leader, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology
Shaping the Future of Cancer Care
Explore how stronger connections between cancer research laboratories and the healthcare system are accelerating the Liquid Biopsy revolution, bringing non-invasive blood and urine tests into everyday care and helping us outsmart cancer with earlier, more precise insights.
SEAN FINTER
Founder & CEO, Finter Group
You’re Not Broken - You’re Running Outdated Software
This isn’t a talk about failure. It’s about what happens after success—when praise masks damage, exhaustion is mistaken for drive, and the most dangerous lie becomes “I’m fine.” Through raw, deeply personal stories spanning five countries and four decades, Sean Finter reveals how the beliefs installed early in life quietly hijack our health, relationships, and sense of self. This talk dismantles the myth that more discipline, more grit, or more success will fix what’s actually breaking underneath.
If you’re successful, composed, and pretending not to notice the check-engine light—this talk isn’t a coincidence. You’ll leave with a choice most people only get after something breaks.
DIANA JACOBSON
IESE MBA Class of 2027
Unboxed
Humor, cultural satire, and storytelling are woven together to confront the stereotypes we place on others and the identities we trap ourselves within. Through the lens of grief and navigating assumptions, this speech reveals how labeling limits human connection — and how choosing curiosity over judgment can dismantle those boxes and build genuine understanding.
SPENCER MARSHALL
IESE MBA Class of 2026
Engineering Connection
An engineer’s guide to the hard work of human connection. Learning how to make bridges, and connections, that last.
JOSEMARIA SIOTA
Executive Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at IESE
Do successful companies quietly kill innovation?
We tend to believe successful companies are great at innovating. But what if success itself quietly works against it? Drawing on nearly a decade of research and cases from companies such as BMW, Adidas, and LG, this talk shows how the systems that drive performance can also block innovation—and how building the right bridges can turn organizational walls into growth opportunities.
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