The buzz: “The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation” (Ryan Kavanaugh). Welcome to the Platform Era, where your same-old status-quo business model will not sustain you if an upstart like Uber or Amazon eyes your market. News flash: The largest businesses by market capitalization are now platform-based business models that have disrupted and grown at phenomenal rates. How to survive? Embrace new agile technologies. Unleash your ecosystem power. Adapt your business culturally. The experts speak. Björn Goerke, SAP: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars” (N.V. Peale). Alan W. Brown, Univ. of Surrey: “In theory, theory and practice are the same…in practice, they are not” (J. van de Snepscheut). Marc Geall, SAP: “The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slo.” (Rupert Murdoch). Join us for Digital Disruption: Threat, Opportunity or Both?