Plenary Speakers
Dr. Pierino Puigsubira
Entrepreneur & Business Coach at Stratecrea
Andorra
Dr. Pierino Puigsubira
Entrepreneur & Business Coach at StratecreaAndorra
Biography
I am certified in Marketing and International Business and benefit from an Executive MBA from the IE Business School. I provide 25 years of Professional Experience capitalised in Industrial and Service Environments.
I am a Serial Entrepreneur and have Created and Managed several Companies including co-Founding Innovative Tech-Startups in Different Countries; I have also Developed Projects in highly Competitive Markets in the Building and Green-Tech industries in SME and MNE Structures.
I Help Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Stand Out with their Projects & Companies for Better Results and a more Meaningful and Satisfying Work Life.
Speech Title
BIOPLACE, Where the Energy Meets: An Innovating Biomass Commerce through an Integrated IoT Marketplace.
Dr. Sharon Simmons
Jackson State University
United States
Dr. Sharon Simmons
Jackson State UniversityUnited States
Biography
Doctor Sharon Simmons is an innovative educator and entrepreneur who is a professional colleague with a collection of vintage works that she engages periodically. Doctor Sharon Simmons is a Caribbean born woman who has worked in many parts of the world, including the USA, Africa, Europe. She has demonstrated the power of social entrepreneurship and small business. Her greatest accomplishment is enabling students with no or limited resources to be competitive on stages previously not accessible and win as a team. She is the first to integrate HBCUs into her level of entrepreneurship and innovation. Her legacy is the mass and diversity of the students she has impacted with her proposition - "Choose to lose, if your win will destroy a life worth saving."
Speech Title
Competing Against The Odds - Stories of Success
Dr. Cristina Fernandes
University of Porto
Portugal
Dr. Cristina Fernandes
University of PortoPortugal
Biography
She is an Associate Professor w/Habilitation (in Management) at the Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal. She holds a PhD in Management from the University of Beira Interior. She is a researcher at CEF.UP (Center for Economics and Finance), Porto. She is part of the editorial board of Management Decision, Review of Managerial Science, Journal of Innovation and Knowledge; has several dozen scientific articles published in international journals including the Journal of Technology Transfer; Journal of Knowledge Management; R&D Management and Journal of Business Research. Actively participates in scientific meetings and international conferences on these topics, having been distinguished several times with awards for best article. Has participated in several international projects.
Speech Title
What impact indicators characterise success in sustainable and circular ecosystems? A Multilevel Approach.
Prof. R Scott Livengood
University of Colorado Boulder
United States
Prof. R Scott Livengood
University of Colorado BoulderUnited States
Biography
Professor Livengood earned his PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Maryland and his Masters of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He worked at KPMG (Honolulu & San Francisco offices) and Honeywell International (Phoenix & Morristown offices) along the way, but his true passion lies in education. He is the lead author of That’s Our Turf! Identity Domains and Competitive Dynamics with Rhonda Reger (published in the Academy of Management Review , his field’s top theoretical outlet) and has been an award-winning teacher of strategy, entrepreneurship, and international business at numerous universities throughout the United States and to groups around the world. An Ironman, lover of music, movies, and sports, avid traveler, and curious explorer of the world around him, he is also fluent in Japanese and Seinlanguage.
Speech Title
How Entrepreneurial Connection is the Key to World Peace: This is The Way.
