Innovation Roundtable® Workshops hosted by Lufthansa Group

Foresight, AI & Leadership for Innovation

Join 150+ peers from the world’s largest corporations at Lufthansa Group for two days of insights, peer-to-peer discussions and networking.

15–16 September 2026FrankfurtCorporate only
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Speakers from

  • Rolls-Royce logo
  • Lufthansa Group logo
  • BASF logo
  • EDHEC Business School logo
  • Evonik logo
  • Volkswagen Group logo
  • Audi logo
  • Heineken logo
  • Huawei logo
  • Philips logo
  • Amazon logo
  • Siemens logo
  • ABB logo
  • Lufthansa Technik logo

Connect · learn · share

Interactive by design

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Presentations

Insightful talks by top leaders in large firms

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Discussions

Engaging discussions on key innovation topics

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Networking

Meet peers from 150+ multinational companies

Choose one, or join both.

Two days. Two focus areas

Foresight & AI for Innovation & Ventures

  • Registration & light breakfast

  • Lufthansa Group logo

    Prioritizing Use Cases, Managing Data, and Focusing on Human Needs

    Portrait of Oliver Schmitt

    Oliver Schmitt · Senior Vice President Digital Solutions and Lead of Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar · Lufthansa Group

  • Rolls-Royce logo

    Communicating the North Star Across the Organization and Leveraging LLMs

    Portrait of Ricardo Entz

    Ricardo Entz · Head of Technology Strategy & Roadmapping · Rolls-Royce

  • Coffee break

  • Innovation Roundtable

    Roundtable Discussion I

    Issues of Special Interest

  • BASF logo

    Engaging Lead Users and Navigating the Shift Towards Agentic Workflows

    Portrait of Daniel Käsmayr

    Daniel Käsmayr · AI for Knowledge Management & Ideation; Principal Scientist, BASF Corporate Research · BASF

  • EDHEC Business School logo
    Portrait of René Rohrbeck

    René Rohrbeck · Professor of Strategy, Chair for Foresight, Innovation & Transformation · EDHEC Business School

  • Lunch

  • Innovation Roundtable

    Roundtable Discussion II

    1) Exercise facilitated by René Rohrbeck (EDHEC) · 2) Selection of Topics

  • Evonik logo

    Identifying Gamechangers, Building Scenarios, and Leveraging AI

    Portrait of Isaac Ismaila

    Isaac Ismaila · Foresight Manager · Evonik

  • Volkswagen Group logo
    Portrait of Christine Schütz

    Christine Schütz · Head of Venture Clienting · Volkswagen Group

  • Innovation Roundtable

    Building New Ventures at Speed

    Creating a Sandbox Environment, Experimenting, Defining KPI Sets, and Launching Ventures

  • Innovation Roundtable

    Wrap Up

    Insights from the day.

  • Drinks on the premises

  • Networking Dinner

Learn directly from corporate leaders

Hear from innovation, R&D, and transformation leaders across engineering, healthcare, energy, consumer, and tech.
  • Portrait of Oliver Schmitt

    Oliver Schmitt

    Senior Vice President Digital Solutions and Lead of Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar

    Lufthansa Group logo
  • Portrait of Ricardo Entz

    Ricardo Entz

    Head of Technology Strategy & Roadmapping

    Rolls-Royce logo
  • Portrait of Daniel Käsmayr

    Daniel Käsmayr

    AI for Knowledge Management & Ideation; Principal Scientist, BASF Corporate Research

    BASF logo
  • Portrait of René Rohrbeck

    René Rohrbeck

    Professor of Strategy, Chair for Foresight, Innovation & Transformation

    EDHEC Business School logo
  • Portrait of Isaac Ismaila

    Isaac Ismaila

    Foresight Manager

    Evonik logo
  • Portrait of Christine Schütz

    Christine Schütz

    Head of Venture Clienting

    Volkswagen Group logo
  • Portrait of Martin Koehler

    Martin Koehler

    Head of Partnering Product & Technology

    Audi logo
  • Portrait of Mona Caroline Stünckel

    Mona Caroline Stünckel

    Senior Director Digital Solutions & Transformation

    Lufthansa Technik logo
  • Portrait of Hans Bernd Aringhoff

    Hans Bernd Aringhoff

    Head of Corporate Research & Innovation

    Lufthansa Technik logo
  • Portrait of Atul Athavale

    Atul Athavale

    Director Cloud Sovereignty Innovation Team

    Huawei logo
  • Portrait of Priscilla Dunant Maurits

    Priscilla Dunant Maurits

    Global Agile Transformation Lead, formerly

    Philips logo
  • Portrait of Andreas Wagner

    Andreas Wagner

    Principal Data & AI and Head of EPIC Leadership

    Amazon logo
  • Portrait of Mathias Oppelt

    Mathias Oppelt

    Head of Customer & Startup Driven Innovation

    Siemens logo
  • Portrait of Marco Affeld

    Marco Affeld

    Smart Transformation Lead

    ABB logo
  • Portrait of Simone Lopulisa

    Simone Lopulisa

    Global Program Lead, Driving Enterprise-wide Value Acceleration & Transformation at Scale

    Heineken logo
Lindner Hotel Frankfurt Höchst, Frankfurt

Host

Hosted by Lufthansa Group in Frankfurt

Lufthansa Group is one of the world’s leading aviation groups, connecting people, markets and economies through a network of airlines, maintenance and logistics businesses.
  • 15 min from Frankfurt Airport
  • 10 min from Train
  • Free parking
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The network

The leading network exclusively for corporate innovation practitioners

Innovation Roundtable connects innovation leaders from large corporations in a setting designed to learn from each other rather than from a stage.

2766+

Corporate innovators

joining our events every year

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176+

Multinational companies

operating in diverse industries

How membership works

136+

Large scale events since 2009

designed for hands-on peer exchange

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The Innovation Roundtable workshop series represents an excellent opportunity to learn and get to know best practice through direct exchanges with Innovation practitioners in a professional setup across a global peer network.
Portrait of Markus Durstewitz

Markus Durstewitz

Head of Innovation Methods and Tools

Airbus

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