Jos de Blok is the founder and CEO of Buurtzorg (neighborhood nursing). Founded in 2006 with one team of four nurses, Buurtzorg has transformed home-based health care in the Netherlands and it has created an innovative method for nursing care at home. He’s a nurse by education and considered a change agent when it comes to the organization of community based (home) care. Before he established Buurtzorg he had several senior management positions in home care organizations including director Innovations for medical services. He is a globally recognized keynote speaker, changemaker and visionary. As a community based and client centered organization, Buurtzorg connects highly qualified licensed nurses and clients to create positive and proactive solutions that are effective, holistic, and sustainable.

Alice Groen is a Business Consultant at VGZ, one of the largest health insurance companies in Holland. She is an expert in Lean, Agile and Holacracy and loves to share the story of the VGZ Way of Working in which all these three philosophies and methods come together. She will inspire you with the true story about organizational change, she shares the successes and failures of their journey, always adding her personal story in a vulnerable and honest way.

Brian believes that we sit at the threshold of a quantum leap in how we work and organize together. He’s developed an approach for evolving responsive organizations that support human well-being. Brian's company, HolacracyOne, helps teams liberate the creative potential sapped by lengthy meetings and decisions-by-committee. Through Holacracy, a revolutionary self-management practice, companies transform their conventional hierarchies to agile, self-organizing networks. In doing so, they accelerate decision-making and unleash their most effective resource: the empowered leadership of their people.

Nicole Bardet is a member of the Executive Board of the Alternative Bank Schweiz Ltd., in charge of loans to companies and responsible for the introduction of sociocratic methods within the bank. As a member of the committee of an association aiming at the ecological transition in her region, she was able to test new forms of organisation, participation and decision making, which inspired her professional activity. Nicole Bardet was president of the Fédération Romande des Consommateurs in her adopted canton of Fribourg. She is a member of the foundation board of an

Dominik Bolten has been working at Roche, a Swiss multinational healthcare company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with more than 100'000 employees for 17 years. He is a graduate engineer and has held various local and global roles in Switzerland and abroad. Dominik is a transformation team member at the Roche headquarter site in Basel where he is driving the implementation of the purpose-oriented, self-organized organizational model within the PS Site Services Organization with its 1500 people.

Jacob Watkins is an Enterprise Transformation Coach in Roche Pharma International (PI) working deeply in the ongoing transformation toward a networked learning organisation. He utilises systems thinking and living systems theory in his work and has many examples to offer from the PI experience. He joined Roche after a long career in management consultancy where he focused on large scale transformation which of course continuously highlighted the need for shared leadership and accountability in successfully scaling change.

Originally from Brazil, I gained great experience and met a lot of inspiring and interesting people in all the 7 different countries where I lived and worked. My working experience spans different industries ranging from FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, Governmental Agencies and Business Services. Currently I work in Hoffmann-La Roche in Pharma International, where I have the chance to continue learning from amazing colleagues who are bringing our innovative treatments to 110 different countries.

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No, hierarchies have not disappeared, nor have the leaders who used to be managers, nor the rules and even less the processes. I happen to participate in the strategic deliberations of the association "France Processus", and if it is true that this wording does not necessarily make one dream anymore, its subject is nevertheless at the heart of the collective performance of organizations. A recent conversation with Susanne Aebischer, the expert with whom I co-founded The NextGen Enterprise Summit, has caused me to formalize things a bit.