Talks / symposia / workshops

The questions have travelled with the work.

Conference presentations, symposia, and workshops on organizational decision-making, governance, and emerging technology.

2016—now / in public

Each room changed the next question.

Plenary panel on publishing at top journals in the AI era
Beijing
Conference participants in a group portrait on a staircase in Santiago
Santiago
Participants in the Humans and Algorithms symposium
Chicago

Bogotá · Rotterdam · Amsterdam · Dubai · Boston · Chicago · Santiago · Beijing

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Organized symposia, presentations, and workshops.

Conference participants in a group portrait on a staircase in Santiago
2025Conference presentationPresenter

Chile Strategy Conference

17–19 December 2025 · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · Santiago

Presented at the Chile Strategy Conference in Santiago in December 2025.

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Participants in the Humans and Algorithms symposium
2024Panel symposiumCo-organizer

Humans and Algorithms in Organizations

Navigating the Intersection of Blockchain and AI

9–13 August 2024 · Academy of Management Annual Meeting · Chicago

Co-organized a panel symposium on how blockchain and AI alter coordination, governance, organizational design, and human judgment.

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Two Web3 Decentralization symposium presenters at the lectern
2023Panel symposiumCo-organizer

Web3 Decentralization

Blockchain Technologies’ Impact on Modern Organizational Governance

4–8 August 2023 · Academy of Management Annual Meeting · Boston

Co-organized a panel on what decentralization means in practice—and how blockchain changes participation, authority, and organizational governance.

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Magnus van Haaren asking a question with a handheld microphone
2020–2022International engagementAmbassador

Expo Dutch Pavilion in Dubai

Netherlands Pavilion · Expo 2020 Dubai

2020–2022 · Expo 2020 Dubai · United Arab Emirates

Represented the Netherlands around the Dutch Pavilion and joined public, university, alumni, and media conversations during the Expo period.

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Innovation workshop participants gathered around a presenter
2019–2020Innovation practiceConsultant

Accenture Innovation Center in Amsterdam

2019–2020 · Accenture Strategy · Amsterdam

Worked in consulting at the Amsterdam Innovation Center, where strategy was developed through workshops, immersive environments, service design, and applied experimentation.

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Erasmus Tech Community organizers in a group portrait
2018–2019Community leadershipBoard member & Director of Innovation

Erasmus Tech Community in Rotterdam

2018–2019 · Erasmus University · Rotterdam

Helped build a student-led technology community through public events, campus conversations, and partnerships across Erasmus University.

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Magnus van Haaren speaking on the TEDx stage in Bogotá
2017Public talkSpeaker

How Everyone Can Innovate

Talk delivered 2016 · video published 20 January 2017 · TEDxColegioAngloColombiano · Bogotá

An early public talk about treating innovation as a practice available to everyone, rather than a talent reserved for a few.

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