{"id":51628,"date":"2018-05-01T17:52:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/speaker\/christoph-burkhardt-en\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:02:29","slug":"christoph-burkhardt","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/en\/speaker-presenter\/christoph-burkhardt\/","title":{"rendered":"Christoph Burkhardt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Christoph Burkhardt \u2013 Mindset Future.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christoph Burkhardt brings innovation strategies to companies worldwide that have realised that innovation is part of daily business in the 21st century.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The high-flyer when it comes to the future, innovation and progress lives and works in Silicon Valley, in his adopted home of San Francisco, and is up close and personal every day when breakthrough ideas emerge and conquer the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Germany&#8217;s best innovation psychologist\u2019 writes Focus about Christoph Burkhardt. \u2018Probably the only one,\u2019 says the innovation expert himself. For more than six years, Christoph Burkhardt has been helping companies all over the world to grow professionally &#8211; with great success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-christoph-burkhardt-presentation-topics\">Christoph Burkhardt presentation Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Unlock Artificial Intelligence<\/strong> \u2013 Smart Technologies Used Smartly: How the next generation of smart technologies is revolutionizing our world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Unlock Innovation Excellence<\/strong> \u2013 Silicon Valley Lessons: How organizations are transforming themselves into hubs for innovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Unlock Purpose-Driven Growth<\/strong> \u2013 from purpose to growth: how the right questions, not the answers, produce outstanding solutions and how you ask them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Unlock Organizational Intelligence<\/strong> \u2013 Diversity as the Basis for Innovation: Why Difference Makes the Difference for Innovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t Be A Robot<\/strong> \u2013 Seven Survival Strategies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Why we need to stop behaving like robots if we don\u2019t want to be replaced by them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Future trends and what they mean<\/strong>&#8211; Without ifs and buts, but with hand and foot. How to develop products and services that turn your customers\u2019 lives upside down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The courage to take risks<\/strong> &#8211; Progress through mistakes = growth through innovation. How to help extraordinary ideas achieve a breakthrough without risking everything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After studying psychology and economics in Heidelberg, Munich and London, Christoph Burkhardt has been working as an independent consultant and innovation researcher with companies such as Intel, Merck, Lufthansa, BMW and Siemens since graduating from the London School of Economics in 2010 and has taught at top universities across Europe. In his book \u2018Breakthrough\u2019, the future optimist explains why good ideas are no coincidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who is Christoph Burkhardt?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christoph Burkhardt is a business psychologist who specialises in innovation processes. His mission: to support companies and organisations in not only reacting to change, but actively shaping it. Having worked in Europe and the USA, particularly in the innovation centre Silicon Valley, he has learned how ideas can be turned into real market changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to his scientific expertise and practical experience, he has made a name for himself as an expert in future strategies. Companies that work with Christoph Burkhardt benefit from his in-depth understanding of technological developments and his pragmatic methods for successfully integrating them into existing structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christoph Burkhardt &#8211; learning from one of the world&#8217;s best innovation strategists.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014, the German Speakers Association honoured him with the Newcomer Award for his keynote speech on the evolution of ideas. Since then, Christoph Burkhardt has captivated thousands of listeners around the world and inspired them to embrace innovation and progress. As an economist, he knows how important innovation and growth are for an economy. As a psychologist, he also understands what it means to develop the courage to take risks and make complex decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his research projects, many of them in practice, Christoph Burkhardt has developed systems that optimise the generation, evaluation and implementation of innovative ideas and protect large companies in particular from decision paralysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christoph Burkhardt \u2013 Mindset Future. 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