An engaging, powerful and extremely energetic and passionate keynote and corporate speaker with a broad experience across the world.
Hans van Grieken is currently the EMEA Technology Research & Insights Leader and part of Deloitte’s global Emerging Tech Executive Council.
He joined Deloitte in August 2016, coming in from Gartner, where he was a VP of Research. In this role he helps shape Deloitte’s global research agenda in addition to identifying & driving a number of EMEA research initiatives.
Hans is the lead or co-author of a number of recent Deloitte global and regional digital transformation research papers, amongst them 9 shifts that are changing the Digital Technology Operating Model of the Future (one of two lead authors), TechTrends 2019 (contributing author and global Conference and Boardroom speaker), and Dutch Digital DNA Demystified (lead author).
Hans frequently addresses international boardrooms and conferences, assisting leaders to better understand the fundamental technology-driven changes that shape their business world, navigate short-term challenges and identify long-term opportunities.
Hans is also a part-time executive lecturer at Nyenrode Business School on the topic of digital disruption and innovation and, since 2009, a supervisory board member at Priva, the world market leader in greenhouse climate management and process optimisation.
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