Our third Anticipatory Leadership Week is underway in Istanbul with Sabanci University! The Anticipatory Leadership Summit opened Monday - Türkiye’s first gathering of researchers, diplomats, policymakers, and business leaders across energy, health, finance, and tech to prepare for the next 5, 10, 25 years by linking emerging science and technology with the skills and mindset needed to lead through uncertainty and change. 🔹 Introducing GESDA, Stéphane Decoutère presented the GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar® Pulse of Impact, showing how science anticipation can inform long-term strategic planning and innovation in the private sector. He emphasized how GESDA’s Radar aligns with Sabanci University’s forward-looking research agenda - from quantum computing, AI-enabled manufacturing, and semiconductor technologies to the circular economy, biosecurity, and the future of energy. 🔹Marga Gual Soler, PhD introduced GESDA’s approach to Anticipatory Science Diplomacy, emphasizing the growing role for the business and defense sectors in science diplomacy and the shifting geopolitical dynamics requiring new multi-stakeholder frameworks for governance and action, exemplified by the case of OQI – Open Quantum Institute Institute. 🔹GESDA’s Chair of the Diplomacy Forum Enrico Letta captured the spirit of the moment: “Istanbul is uniquely positioned as a bridge between Europe, Asia, and Africa - and Sabancı University, thanks to its distinctive model of academic–industry integration, can instill an anticipatory mindset and scientific literacy across sectors, particularly in the private sector.” This week marks GESDA’s first major initiative in Türkiye, hosted by Sabancı University under the leadership of Founding Chair Güler Sabancı and President Yusuf Leblebici and the incredible team at Sabancı University Executive Development Unit (EDU) Ezgi Akpinar Ozge Ozkan Fatos Aksel Elif Aktas Bayrak Ece Ackerman. A special thank you to the Embassy of Switzerland in Türkiye and Ambassador Guillaume Scheurer for co-hosting the opening reception celebrating 100 years of Swiss–Turkish friendship and collaboration. #GESDA Kirsi Beaumond #GESDA #AnticipatoryLeadership #ScienceDiplomacy #SabanciUniversity
congrats to our friends at Sabanci University Yusuf Leblebici and to our Board member Enrico Letta for your leadership - and of course to our stellar GESDA team Marga Gual Soler, PhD and Kirsi Beaumond - the pillar of GESDA's anticipatory leadership capacity building...
President at Sabanci University
6hThank you, all our friends at GESDA, for the wonderful collaboration !! Looking forward to much more ambitious projects together...