Get TO NEXT
KEYNOTES
Innovation
Purpose•Relevance
Speaking at your event
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: TED main stage, Aspen Ideas Festival, CXO Forum in Tokyo, Dubai 2020, Rueda de Innovación (Bogota). INNOVATOR IN RESIDENCE: Cisco, eLab@Princeton University, Silicon Valley Digital Business College, Hitotsubashi University, Copenhagen Business School and Business Institute Denmark. BOARD MEMBER: OpenFinance Mexico, Copenhagen Fintech (4+ unicorns in 4 years) ADVISOR to Stanford’s Institute on Responsible Digital Leadership and Shimizu (Japan).
If you would like for us to speak to your organization, company, or team on the subject of innovation, transformation, and the future please contact us directly.
Andrea Kates has been the featured keynote speaker and global thought leader on the TED main stage, Aspen Ideas Festival, CXO Forum in Tokyo, Rueda de Innovación (Colombia), and in corporate settings (3M, Cisco, Phocuswright: The Future of Travel, OpenFinance Mexico: The Future of Finance, Dubai 2020).
Her board affiliations include:
Embrace Global, Copenhagen Fintech, OpenFinance Mexico, and Stanford University’s global institute on Responsible Digital Leadership.
Hire Andrea Kates for your next in-person, online, or hybrid event. Some examples of topics to get your creative juices flowing include:
How not to straddle the Phygital Worlds
The Future of Work: Leading Post-Covid Imperatives
The Future of Fintech: We’re all in fintech now
Ethics and Trust: Bedfellows, Ecosystems, and Cocreation
Commitment as the cornerstone of innovation culture
Perpetual Refresh: How to stay relevant today and see ahead of what’s next
Find Your Next: Based on the bestselling book, Andrea reveals the secrets behind cross-industry innovation + reimagined business models
Why Us?
Andrea Kates is a globally recognized leader in bridging the gap between innovation and commercialization. She has led innovation projects for Mayo Clinic Ventures, Carolinas HealthCare System, Roche, FirstSight Vision, and Embrace.
She has been a featured speaker/key opinion leader for the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps, Cisco’s Global Innovation Summit, TED, Jones Lang LaSalle’s global women’s summit, and the Zurich Insurance global innovation summit. Kates is the author of Find Your Next, based on her original research on innovation from case studies of Sharp HealthCare, GE ecomagination, and other firms.
Today, Andrea works with leaders to discover their best future with a tangible, practical set of steps to get there called: Get to Next.
