We Accelerate - the gathering of today's most impactful leaders to accelerate a new economy
In 2020, we brought together corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, social innovators in a virtual week of roundtable sessions. We wanted to explore what we can do to emerge stronger from the dramatic personal, economic and societal situations. We wanted to instill hope and inspire action. Over 1,000 leaders from around the world attended and we created hundreds of new connections and tracked 15 new initiatives from one week alone.
Due to this success, we hosted We Accelerate Week in 2021. This time, with more of a focus on solutions that we can accelerate going forward. Browse below and see how it went!
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Lunch Time Sessions
A Look Back at We Emerge 2020
“People need to understand that we brought this upon ourselves. We must come out of this pandemic with a different respect for nature and animals, and stop treating them as though they’re commodities. That will make us better people, and better stewards of the planet and the future.”
Dr Jane Goodall, DBEFounder The Jane Goodall Instiute 
“Now is the time for everyone to join this entrepreneurial force, in the sense that what solutions are out there, what problems do we have, and how can we solve them?”
Verena PausderEntrepreneur, Expert Digital Education 
“For the future, I would love to see more than 50% of leaders around the world to be female and the rest of them to lead with feminine energy.”
Dr. Scilla ElworthyNobel Peace Prize Nominee 
"It's easy to manage in a growing environment but it's difficult to lead change."
Florian BankoleyVice President IT – Automotive, Bosch 
“We need digitalization - we need a new way of transportation. We’ve already made the first steps, but we need to take a different approach for the more rural areas.”
Matthias GramerCOO DB 
"Leadership has to reinvent itself. It has to become more individual and incorporate many more aspects of life than just the professional one."
Alexandra HeinrichsVice President HR DACH and Nordics, Unilever 
“No decisions are even more dangerous than fast decisions and it depends on who comes together and makes the decision - independent from hierarchy."
Hannes StreeckManaging Director | Consumer Goods, FIEGE 
“If you want to change the direction of a big ship, you have to change it one or two degrees. And in one year, you're going a different direction without anyone onboard noticing it.”
Peter SchwarzenbauerFormer Board Member BMW 
"We cannot have environmental justice without social justice. 2020 is the year to 'open our eyes' and really understand and to see the interconnectedness of everything."
Diana CohenCEO and Co-Founder, Plastic Pollution Coalition 
“We must provide the youth with visions of the future and talk about skills for jobs with a future, especially in new business areas of the Green Economy.”
Samia KassidWorld Future Council 
“If you feel that you aren't enough or don't have the skills to lead a great transformation, we need to come to a collective understanding that it can't be done by one person, but we all can take part in the process.”
Pia Heidenmark-CookSenior Advisor, IKEA 
“We need to go from an egosystem to an ecosystem, do the work on yourself and take that to the outside. Start with yourself and others will follow.”
Angela GallenzHR Manager, H&M Germany 
“As business leaders and as societal leaders, I think it’s our role now to build back better and give people a sense of hope.”
Al CookExecutive Vice President, Equinor 
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