Creative Bureaucracy & Civic City in a Nomadic World, United Kingdom
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
Co-founder, Transition Collective, Denmark
The Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark
“Robust governance in turbulent times!”
Professor, Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Founder of Experimentalista and The Institute for Everything In-Between. Honorary Professor of Practice and Senior Policy Fellow at UCL and Central St. Martins. Former Chief Creative Officer of Mexico City.
UK / Mexico
"On Shape-Shifting and the In-Between: Thought Experiments for an Uncertain World"
Lecturer and Researcher at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa
CEO of Nordic Health Lab, Denmark
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2026 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
State University of New York, United States
(In-Person)
Philippine Women's University, Philippines
(Online Only)
Harvard University, United States
(Online Only)
North-West University, South Africa
(Online Only)
Marymount University/ Capitol Technology University, United States
(Online Only)
Columbia International University, United States
(Online Only)
København, Denmark
København, Denmark