About me
Martin Wezowski is the Chief Futurist at SAP. He is crafting SAP's long term innovation outlooks as a fundament for SAP's strategic foresight and innovation strategy. He's mission is to "Know and Show what is next for the future of work", more specifically, he crafts future software and platform concepts, narratives, and outlooks, defines and runs innovation frameworks to prepare SAP’s vast ecosystem for the future.
He is together with partners building the “Beyond Leadership Academy” for modern change makers who want to lead from the future, rather than only from past data and KPIs. Creative, compassionate, open minded, and future anchored leadership is pressing the leadership academy will fill for the need for the decade to come.
He is a member in World Economic Forum’s “Global Foresight Network”, faculty member of Futur/IO, a European future institute and other education programs, he also advises on several boards. Additionally, Martin leads his own firm "The Wezowski" as lecturer and advisor in transformative innovation, on methods to "lead from the future", and modern change-leadership.
2017 he was named 1 of 100 most innovative minds in Germany as the “Software visionary“ in the prestigious German business publication Handelsblatt.
Prior to joining SAP, he moved across a range of disciplines from strategic leadership, systems design to customer experience building. He worked for Sony/Ericsson in Sweden/Japan, as Creative Director. Later, in Shenzhen, China, he served as Director of the Strategic UX Board for the giant Huawei.
He builds on his international adventures stretching from Poland, Sweden, China to Germany, and finds time from the vision and strategy work to frequently share his passion for leading from the future, with a clear vision for humans, and work, around the world.
(WEF Strategic forum, Nobel-fest, Duke University, EU-advisor and keynote speaker, SxSW, TEDx, Singularity-U Summit, BOMA, Volcano Summit, CES, Tech Open Air - TOA, HUB Berlin, DMEXCO, WEBIT, Ada Lovelace festival, TWIN Global, CeBIT, CES. WeAreDevelopers, and much more)
