Hands on labs
To Boldly Go… and Sometimes Fail - The Enterprise Guide to Leading in Uncertain Times
Room 32
11 November 2026, 10:30–11:00
What can Star Trek teach you about leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, and failure? (Un)Surprisingly, quite a lot! Beyond spaceships, alien civilisations, and futuristic technologies, Star Trek offers some remarkably relevant lessons about making difficult decisions, challenging assumptions, working with people who think differently, and dealing with uncertainty.
Smaranda Ignat
SAVENSIA
Smaranda Ignat - entrepreneur, trainer, business consultant, mentor and adviser for both traditional business organizations and tech startups. Having a background in human resources, business administration, real estate and innovation, I believe that magic comes from connecting people with opportunities, facilitating the access to clients, investors and international ecosystems for the startup teams and companies I work with. The more technology and digital transformation are touching important corners of our lives, the more important are becoming the human touch, communication and empathy. My bet for the next decade is on human centric real estate technology, since we spend more than 90% of our lives inside a building and digital innovation makes buildings more efficient, healthier and better places to live and work. I thrive in an environment where there is a challenge to solve, a crisis to survive through and a fire to extinguish.
