FUTUROMUNDO INNO
European Futures Forum
June 26, 2026, Stuttgart

FUTUROMUNDO INNO is the European forum for everyone who wants not only to discuss innovation, but to actively shape it. The focus is on Europe’s competitiveness, new productivity impulses for SMEs, disruptive thinking, and the use of AI as a co-innovator. FUTUROMUNDO INNO combines inspiration with practical application, brings leading minds together, and provides concrete methods to measurably strengthen Europe’s innovative capacity. Curated by the Steinbeis Center Europe.

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June 26, 2026, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

FUTUROMUNDO INNO

SPEAKER LINE-UP

KI-Superagenten: Bedrohung oder Befreiung für Innovation?

Silvia Hernandez (Senior Partner & Stuttgart Hub Lead, Accenture)

SPEAKER:
Silvia is Managing Director and Global Lead for Talent & Organization (T&O) for Accenture´s Products Industries, with a deep understanding of the Automotive and Industrial sectors. She is also a member of Accenture's Global T&O Executive Committee. Silvia recognizes the intense pressure that leaders of global organizations face in the light of rapid technological change and a volatile environment. With an aging workforce, talent scarcity and shifting job expectations, she understands the critical need to transform the workforce to gain the required skills and to be comfortable with technologies like AI or robotics. Silvia is also an author and a public speaker. She frequently speaks at international conferences, including TEDx, Oxford University and the Daimler Sustainability Dialogue. Silvia is also a Visiting Professor and Advisory Board Member of the Faculty of Business at Manchester Metropolitan University. As a relentless optimist and convener she is deeply committed to bringing people and organizations together for fundamental change and global impact. She currently lives in Stuttgart.

(Founder & CEO, KHAIO GmbH)

Lucy Dinu (Founder and CEO of KHAIO, Switzerland)

95% of AI pilots fail. A pharma company built brilliant internal AI but nobody touched it. A hotel tried to automate and employees revolted. My own team's initiative collapsed the day I left. The pattern? We deploy technology but ignore human architecture. I bridge systems thinking and human change, and I see what breaks: organizations built for stability forced into permanent transformation. In five years, advantage won't be best AI but leaders who can continuously rethink.

SPEAKER:
Lucy Dinu founded KHAIO GmbH (Knowledge, Humanity, AI, and Optimization) after a decade of watching the same pattern: brilliant transformation initiatives that technically succeeded but organizationally failed. Based in Stuttgart, KHAIO helps leaders build AI strategies that people actually adopt by combining technical architecture with the leadership presence and change readiness that most consultancies skip. Her mission: innovation that's not just smart, but human., Futuromundo 2026

Hearts, Heads, and Hands: Why AI Transformation Is a Leadership Problem, Not a Technology Problem

Lucy Dinu (Founder & CEO, KHAIO GmbH)

95% of AI pilots fail. A pharma company built brilliant internal AI but nobody touched it. A hotel tried to automate and employees revolted. My own team's initiative collapsed the day I left. The pattern? We deploy technology but ignore human architecture. I bridge systems thinking and human change, and I see what breaks: organizations built for stability forced into permanent transformation. In five years, advantage won't be best AI but leaders who can continuously rethink.

SPEAKER:
Lucy Dinu founded KHAIO GmbH (Knowledge, Humanity, AI, and Optimization) after a decade of watching the same pattern: brilliant transformation initiatives that technically succeeded but organizationally failed. Based in Stuttgart, KHAIO helps leaders build AI strategies that people actually adopt by combining technical architecture with the leadership presence and change readiness that most consultancies skip. Her mission: innovation that's not just smart, but human.

We are ready for better. Europe has the solutions for a livable future.

Benjamin Schwarz, (Managing Director, part GmbH)

Europe already holds the answers to many crises – from climate adaptation to digitalization. In his multimedia live report, Benjamin Schwarz takes the audience across Europe to places where courage, pragmatism, and trust drive real change. He shows that progress follows from clear communication: when politics, administration, and society share one story. “We are ready for better” is a talk about working solutions – and how to tell the future so people want to shape it.

SPEAKER:
Benjamin Schwarz’s contribution is particularly relevant for political leaders, public administrators, NGOs, foundations, and communicators who want to make change tangible and inspire participation. It speaks to decision-makers, campaigners, and strategists seeking practical, communicative approaches to transform complex political goals into stories that mobilize people and strengthen democratic trust.

Wieder ins Spiel kommen – Was Wirtschaft vom Fußball über Resilienz in Krisen lernen kann.

Prof. Dr. Marcus Bölz
(Leiter Institut für Sportkommunikation, Fachhochschule des Mittelstands, Berlin)

Fußball ist radikale Gegenwart: Entscheidungen fallen sofort, Chancen müssen erkannt und genutzt werden. Genau dieses Mindset brauchen auch Organisationen in Umbruchphasen – Unsicherheit nicht nur aushalten, sondern produktiv nutzen.

Niederlagen gehören dazu. Erfolgreiche Teams reagieren, lernen, passen sich an und finden zurück ins Spiel. Diese Resilienz ist auch für Unternehmen entscheidend.

Transformation gleicht einem offenen Spiel: dynamisch, verletzlich, voller Möglichkeiten. Fußball zeigt, wie aus Druck Energie entsteht – durch situative Intelligenz, Vertrauen und Mut.

Prof. Dr. Marcus Bölz überträgt diese Prinzipien in seiner Keynote auf Führung und Wirtschaft.

SPEAKER:
Marcus Bölz, gebürtiger Stuttgarter, ist Professor für Sportkommunikation und Leiter des Instituts für Sportkommunikation an der Fachhochschule des Mittelstands in Berlin. Der ehemalige Journalist (u. a. Deutsche Welle, dpa, zeit.de) verbindet in seiner Forschung Sport, Psychologie und Transformation. Seine Arbeit zeigt, wie Denkweisen aus dem Fußball Unternehmen in Veränderungsprozessen stärken können.

The Learning Trinity: Human – Machine – Collective — Future Skills as a Learning System

Ricardo dos Santos Miquelino (Co-CEO & Partner, and dos Santos GmbH)

Future skills don’t emerge from more content, but from better learning systems. In this masterclass, we design the “Learning Trinity” of Human, Machine, and Collective Intelligence. Participants explore roles, rituals, tools, and decision logic to build adaptive learning journeys across education and work — and leave with a practical blueprint they can apply immediately.

SPEAKER:
Ricardo dos Santos Miquelino designs systems that connect human, collective, and artificial intelligence to anchor transformation culturally and accelerate it strategically. He is the creator of HMx (Human–Machine Experience) and co-creator of the Trinity Framework© within Collective Intelligence Design, enabling organizations to learn, think, and decide collaboratively with machines.