Call for Speakers
Lead27
19 Nov 2026
The Circle Convention Center Zurich Airport, The Circle 27 Flughafen CH, 8058 Zürich Zürich, Switzerland
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Navigate Through the Tensions
Organisations operate in an environment of competing priorities, constant disruption, rising expectations, technological acceleration, and growing human fatigue. Within this reality, the central challenge goes beyond innovation, transformation, or growth alone. What increasingly defines leadership is the ability to navigate the tensions that shape modern value creation: between performance and possibility, transformation and fatigue, and innovation and control.
At LEAD27, these tensions are brought to the surface. The conference creates a space for leaders to explore how organisations can move forward without oversimplifying the realities they face. It is designed to be forward-looking but grounded, ambitious but credible, strategic but practical.
Rather than presenting disruption as a clean success story, the conversations focus on what leadership now truly requires: judgment, trust, adaptability, and the ability to create direction and value in the space between competing demands.
Call for Speakers
23 Mar 2026
08 Apr 2026
At Lead27 we will showcase based around 3 separate tracks, but these tracks are not isolated themes but are rather three lenses on the same reality.
We welcome you to submit your sessions are one of these tracks. Sessions can be talks, workshops, panel discussions, or any any other type of presentation method.
1. Performance vs. Possibility
Lead Through the Tension
This track focuses on the leadership challenge at the heart of modern transformation: how to deliver in the present while building for the future.
Leaders are expected to drive performance, maintain stability, and create confidence today – while also building capabilities, trust, resilience, and long-term advantage for tomorrow. That tension defines executive leadership more than ever. This track explores how leaders make decisions, set direction, communicate under pressure, and turn competing demands into momentum and outcomes.
It is not about leadership as inspiration alone. It is about leadership as judgment, accountability, and the ability to move organisations forward in complex, high-pressure environments.
2. Transformation vs. Capacity
Transform Through the Tension
This track focuses on one of the most urgent and under-addressed challenges in modern organisations: how to keep changing without draining the people who make change possible.
Transformation is no longer a one-time initiative. For many organisations, it has become a permanent condition. That makes the central question not just how to redesign structures, culture, skills, and ways of working – but how to do so in a way that is sustainable, adaptive, and humanly possible.
This track explores how organisations evolve without losing energy, coherence, and trust.
3. Human vs. Machine
Build Trust in the Tension
This track focuses on one of the defining questions of this moment: how to unlock value from AI, data, platforms, and automation without losing trust, oversight, security, or control.
The opportunity side of innovation is well known. What matters now is whether organisations can scale new technologies responsibly, govern them intelligently, and make choices that create business value without creating fragility. This track explores how innovation becomes trusted innovation.
It is about moving beyond hype toward credible adoption, scalable value, and technology leadership that understands both opportunity and risk.
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