Dr. Uve Samuels is a speaker and expert on innovation, transformation, digitization and education.
As Founder and CEO of the Exponential Innovation Institute, he addresses the central question: Why do German companies fail in digitization and how can we prevent this? In his role as an entrepreneur, he is a thought leader for a new mindset and doer for the transformation of our country. Having delivered 100 transformation projects for corporates and guided over 100 startups, he has unique experience.
Uve Samuels gets people to rethink and take their own action.
With the “Five Exponential Principles” he has developed the rules for the development of exponentially scalable business models in Europe and Germany. His books “Exponentielle Innovation” and “Exponentielle Innovation Playbook” and numerous lectures and workshops for the development of own products and business models inspire the own departure into the digital future.
The path to exploring the rules for exponentiality took Dr. Samuels to Silicon Valley and Silicon China many times. There he worked with leading innovation experts from the hotspots of innovation, which fundamentally changed his view of the world and his own actions. The disruptive mindset and radical innovation attitude are the result of these phases of his work.
In his talks, Uve Samuels forms a positive atmosphere of departure, delivers concrete approaches and gets his audience to act.
Uve Samuel’s lecture topics
- Exponential innovation
- Building your own Apple with 9 steps
- Agile Transformation: Conquering the Future in a Sprint
- Flow: 10 times faster & better decision making
- Build your own AI Startup
- Creativity
- Dealing with complexity
- High Performance
- Future trends
- Culture change: Failure Culture
- Leadership 4.0
- Digital Transformation
- Developing potential
- Humboldt 4.0
He is currently Founder, Member of the Steering Committee and Exponential Master Mind of the AI Startup HUB in Hamburg, where he works together with leading AI experts and supports 30 AI startups annually in their work on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. As an advisor to the Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany, he is committed to the transformation of our education and science system.
He laid the foundations for his innovation mindset by studying applied computer science and mechatronics and earning a doctorate in microsystems engineering. Through his work as CEO of the private university of the Hamburg economy, the HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration, he is a connoisseur of the science system. Through his function as former CEO of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, Uve Samuels is well acquainted with the requirements of the business community in all industries.