ENTERPRENEURSHIP
Who we are
“Business as a force for good” is an INSEAD value. Business creates economic growth that lifts people out of poverty and creates innovations that fill economies with new products and services. The foundation of business is entrepreneurship.
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Our purpose is to bring together INSEAD Alumni with an entrepreneurial background and spirit and to provide a platform to exchange war and success stories from first-hand experience and enjoy excellent networking.
What we do
Back in 1999, the first reunion of INSEAD alumni interested in entrepreneurship took place to create a platform for new business ideas.
Since then, the confidential setting of IAAG's Entrepreneurship Forum has allowed speakers to openly share their ideas and insights. Vivid discussions among the group facilitate new business ideas and the formation of partnerships and venture teams.
Also, the IAAG Entrepreneurship Forum maintains an intense collaboration with the INSEAD faculty. Nearly every year renowned professors like Peter Zemsky, Henning Piezunka, Christoph Zott, Peter Jaboji, Morten Hansen, Bob Ayres, Bill MyGill, LoIc Sadoulet, Tim Bovard, Anet Aris, Ville Satopää and many more provide their insights into their recent research. We look forward to continuing this fruitful cooperation in the future.
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Several very well-known business personalities participated in the past years, i.a.: Erich Sixt (founder of Sixt), Alexander Samwer (founder of German Founders), Rolf Dienst (Founder of Wellington Partners), Dr. Andreas Wiele (Member of the board of Springer), Dr. Bernd Rödl (founder of Rödl & Partner), Michael Käfer (CEO Käfer Group), Marc Samwer, Global Founders, Jochen Engert (Founder &MD FlixMobility)...
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The forum targets INSEAD alumni with entrepreneurial backgrounds and spirits. Every year up to 80 participants join this international learn from each other and gain inspiring insights from actual cases and events while meeting like-minded people.
Entrepreneurship Forum 2025
This year's Forum is organized by Margret Dupslaff, Ines Kolmsee, Benjamina Mirnik-Voges, Charly Wittgenstein and Kristin Torre-Vinuesa around the topic of Energy.
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26. Entrepreneurship Forum in 2025
Energy at the Crossroads: How Innovation is Transforming Today's Energy Landscape
Friday 23 23rd of May 2025, 8:30 am - 5 pm
at Kunstermann Eventlocation Viktualienmarkt 8, Munich
Agenda*
0800 – 0830 Registration - coffee/tea/breakfast snacks
0830 – 0930 Introductions
Investing in Energy and the Industrial Transformation
0930 – 0955 Tina Dreimann – Co-founder at betterventures
Impact = Return – How entrepreneurs power the future
0955 - 1020 Franz-Anton Leidenfrost - Director at Octopus Energy
The German Energy Market between Hardware Constraints and Software Opportunities
1020 - 1045 Peter Gigler - Director, Corporate Sustainability at Wacker Chemie
Renewable Energy: Key for Industrial Transformation
1045 - 1110 Philipp Emig – SVP at Picus Capital
Early-Stage VC Financing in Energy-Technology
Pause
Energy Digitalisation and Storage
1140 - 1205 Anselma Wörner – CEO at Exnaton
Digitalisation in the ENERGY Sector
1205 - 1230 Ben Ibata – CEO at SCHWARM Technologies
Swarm Intelligence in the Energy Transition
1230 - 1255 Christoph Lienert – COO & MD at Green Flexibility –
Battery Energy Storage Solutions
Lunch
Back to INSEAD-Academic Session
1400 - 1500 Felipe Monteiro, INSEAD Professor of Strategy
Sustainability as a Business Model Transformation
Nuclear Power and Ice
1505 - 1530 Heike Freund – COO at Marvel Fusion
Fusion Energy
1530 - 1555 Lydia Bertholet – Investor Relations at Transmutex
Creating Value from Nuclear Waste
1555 - 1620 Alexander von Rohr – Founder & CTO at Energy Campus
Heating with Ice?
1620 - 1630 Wrap-up
from 1630 Drinks & Networking
Looking forward to networking with you!
Your Entrepreneurship Team
Margret Dupslaff MBA' 20D, Ines Kolmsee MBA'01J, Benjamina Mirnik-Voges MBA'01J, Charly zu Sayn-Wittgenstein MBA'05D, Kristin Torre-Vinuesa MBA'18J
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*still subject to change
Team
Benjamina Mirnik-Voges
MBA’01J
Ines Kolmsee
MBA’01J
Contact us via the office.
Charly Prinz
zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
MBA’05D
Kristin Torre Vinuesa
MBA'18J