A mission critical program, designed for leaders, future leaders and leading business consultants. "Flipped Conference" meetings in Silicon Valley to explore future scenarios and better understand exponential technologies.

1. WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS UNTIL
EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING.
A program, designed
to stay ahead of the curve.
IACy International FZCO • Dubai • San Francisco

2. I am actually most worried about
successful organizations.
They are convinced they are doing it right.
But too often, they don‘t even know,
why they are successful...
Niki Skene, Co-Founder at Silicon Valley Inspiration Tours

3. "We did not do anything wrong.
But somehow we lost."
Stephen Elop
Former Nokia CEO
source: Luca Sartoni "Stephen Elop meets the bloggers"

4. SLOW DOWN!
Our linear world has taught us to value knowledge, opinion and strategy. In other words: the linear
world fell in love with the solution. A thinking model that turned out to be very shortsighted (but
not everyone has realized that yet).
You're still here? Good.
Because this is the era to ask questions.
The era to fall in love with the problem, and not the solution. This is the time to slow down to dive
deep.
When was the last time, you felt comfortable, asking "can you explain this again", "I don't quite
understand" or "can I please think about it?".
Those who take a pause to dive deeper will be the SHAPERS OF OUR FUTURE.
My invitation: join us!

5. YOU KNOW HOW PEOPLE GO TO CONFERENCES,
AND THE DAY AFTER THE CONFERENCE
LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THE DAY BEFORE THE
CONFERENCE?
interesting.
we should change that.

6. INTRODUCTION TO THE FLIPPED CONFERENCE
Conferences as we know, follow the same format: ideas are shared in front of an audience in a
theatre setting: selected speakers are on a stage, talking to a room full of people.
Conference on Wheels participants experience the flipped conference format:
Instead of watching a talk from the audience, we will drive from one Speaker to the next, meet
them in their environment to have a conversation about their ideas, visions and roadmap of the
future. After the talk, we have about 40min with each speaker, in this very intimate setting of a
groupsize of 10 – and no one will leave the room, falling behind in the conversation.
On an usual conference day (like TEDx), you will listen to ~15 talks.
In the flipped conference, you will meet 15 speakers during the whole week.

7. 100% CUSTOMIZED for YOU
In 2012, we launched a program in Silicon Valley aimed at inspiring leaders from
organizations of all sizes and across various industries about the future(s) of their
fields.
From its inception, the program's uniqueness lies in its customization.
Two weeks before participants convene in San Francisco, everyone is invited to a
welcome meeting. Here, they are encouraged to share their individual expectations,
hopes, desires, fears, and visions for the program with the curator.
Armed with this information, we craft a schedule filled with 4-5 perfectly tailored
conversations, meetups, talks, workshops, and visits, each day.
The DNA of Conference on Wheels

8. YOUR HOST: NIKI SKENE
With a foundation in branding and advertising at
notable firms like BBDO and McCann-Erickson, and
later at my own venture, planetsisa, my career took a
transformative turn in 2006 after discovering TED.
This ignited a passion for elevating ideas and
reshaping perceptions of the future.
Recognized as a global TEDx Ambassador in 2011 and
joining Singularity University as a faculty coach in
2015, I've since dedicated myself to blending
visionary concepts, exponential technologies, and
personal insights into future thinking.
I established the Innovationagency (IACy), introducing
initiatives such as Conference on Wheels and the
Moonshot Business Ninja. In 2020, I expanded into
youth education with Moonshot Pirates, and in 2021,
launched EXO-ONE, an online community aimed at
weaving together global aspirations.

9. LET'S GET REAL
EXPLORING SILICON VALLEY
Each day starts with an "EXPONENTIAL BRIEFING" (principles of
"Exponential Organizations": The Mindset of a Datacompany, New
Methods (Design Thinking 3.0, Growthhacking), Organization
Setups, Next Gen Leadership Skills & Corporate Community
Building.
From this session, we drive to the people we meet and spend 1hr
with each speaker. Usually we have 4-5 MEETINGS, EACH DAY.
Each day ends with a WRAP-UP SESSION to share insights,
observations and thoughts.
Each participant will receive AI GENERATED INTERPRETATIONS of
the transcriptions of each meeting with INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC CALL-
TO-ACTION SUGGESTIONS.
Each participant will be personally introduced (EMAIL-INTRO) to
every speaker in the program.

10. Sample program Silicon Valley Inspiration Tour
Monday (San Francisco)
Kick Off
Briefing Exponential Organization
Autodesk Gallery (3D, 4D Printing)
Intelygenz (Artificial Intelligence)
Amazon Web Services
RoboTaxi Ride
Tuesday (Silicon Valley)
Briefing: The Art of Experiment
Circuitlaunch (Make things)
Global Footprint Network ("Overshoot Day")
Stanford University
Mozilla (Firefox)
Growth Hackers
Wednesday (Silicon Valley)
Briefing: The Mindset of a Datacompany
Thomas Lento (Data Scientist)
Singularity U Speakersession
University of SIlicon Valley
Apple Machine Learning
Thursday (Silicon Valley)
Briefing: Future Scenarios Health, Energy,
Retail, Money, Cars
Lucid Motors
Google
AI Strategy Insights
Friday (San Francisco)
Briefing: The Skills of Social Intelligence
AI Startup
Propelland (Rapid Prototyping)
Farewell Lunch
This is how your week could look like...
KEY TOPICS:
AI STRATEGIES
AUTOMOTIVE FUTURE
ROBOTICS
SUSTAINABLE PLANET
EXPONENTIAL
GROWTH

12. LOOKING FORWARD TO SEE YOU
IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Let me introduce you
to some interesting people...
IACy International FZCO • Dubai • San Francisco