Opening workshop and working lunch

Get to know your fellow Future Quest participants. Together, we'll tune into the landscape of transformation through Three Horizons, a simple framework that illustrates how change unfolds and how we can shape the future with meaningful action. What does this mean for our work and leadership? 

Quest Visit Departures - Travel by bus to visits

Quest Visits 

Group 1 - Urban Partners: Decarbonizing the built environment 

Urban Partners implements international models for resilient, thriving cities from planning to execution. We’ll visit Jernbanebyen - a former railway yard being transformed into a green district. We’ll go to Spor10, in the heart of the community, to learn how local leaders are setting a foundation of ‘social’ infrastructure before building begins. We’ll speak with Urban Partners' founder, Mikkel Bulow-Lehnsby, and architecture partners at Cobe about their vision for urban environments that contribute to human and planetary well-being. (Website)

Group 2 - Novo Nordisk: Transforming the healthcare industry

For over a century, Novo Nordisk has brought innovative medicines to millions of people, building off a strong heritage of producing insulin. Novo Nordisk has become Europe's most valuable company, with sales growing by over a third and profits rising by 51% in 2023 alone. We’ll meet with Katrine DiBona, Global Head of Sustainability and Public Affairs, and Mette Mainz Rode, Corporate Vice President, Product Supply, Strategy and Sustainability, for a candid conversation on what it takes to maintain sustainable business in the face of explosive growth, and to influence a wider transformation of the global healthcare industry. (Website)

Reflection and Cross Pollination

Debrief the afternoon visits across groups. What insights and ideas are we taking away?

Dinner with Local Guests @ BIG HQ 

Inspiring and diverse local leaders will join us for a private dinner and discussion on courageous leadership in pursuit of a resilient, thriving world. 

Hosted at the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) Headquarters, overlooking Copenhagen's historic harbor. This unique building integrates culture, climate, and its surroundings to foster creativity and collaboration within. 

Quest Visits

Group 1 - Copenhagen Atomics: Engineering a future without fossil fuels.

Copenhagen Atomics harnesses the power of thorium to generate cleaner, safer, and cheaper nuclear energy - all within the footprint of a shipping container. With modular reactors that can be operational 1000x faster than classic nuclear installations, the founders envisage a world where nuclear energy makes up 20% of global energy mix — the same amount currently generated by gas. We’ll view the prototypes at their factory and meet CEO Mads Steenberg and CFO Jesper Glahn to explore what it takes to pursue a vision of abundant energy for all. (Website)

Group 2 - Ørsted: Radical business transformation

Ørsted shifted from a fossil fuel-based company to a renewable energy leader in a decade. By investing in offshore wind farms and converting coal and gas power stations to biomass, Ørsted became one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies. We’ll visit the Avedøre Holme near-shore wind farm and meet Ulrik Stridbæk, Vice President, Head of Regulatory and Public Affairs, who will share key learnings on the leadership required for an accelerated business transformation. (Website)

Quest Visit - full group

All to join - Maersk-McKinney Møller Center for Zero-Carbon Shipping: Industry collaboration at scale

Journey on an electric ferry and learn how the shipping industry is working together to decarbonize. With 100,000 commercial vessels consuming 300m tons of fuel a year, this is no small feat. We'll meet Lene Serpa, Director, Head of Corporate Sustainability & ESG at Maersk, Bjarne Foldager, Head of Sales & Promotion MAN Energy Solutions, and Bo Cerup-Simonsen, CEO of Zero-Carbon Shipping, and learn how cross-industry partners are learning into collaboration and accelerating solutions across suppliers. Just as ships went from sails to steam, this group is making the shift from combustion to electric and green ammonia-powered engines. 

Afternoon Workshop - Deep realism and active hope 

A conversation with Nigel Topping and Lindsay Levin on the challenges we face in the middle of this ‘decisive decade’, alongside opportunities for exponential change and how we can achieve it. Followed by time in nature (walking, cycling) to reflect deeply on what we’re learning and what it means for how we lead. 

Dinner 

Breakfast: Reimagining the food system in Copenhagen  @ Kitchen Collective. 

We'll have breakfast with Madland, a hub for those at the forefront of rethinking the food system. At the Kitchen Collective, we'll be joined by some of the city’s food entrepreneurs to sample some of their innovations and learn how they are working to transform the food system in the city and beyond. 

Closing session: Moving insights to action @ H15 

Equipping ourselves for the next stage of integrated leadership to accelerate transformation - in our organizations and beyond. A chance for participant-led discussions. 

Light lunch will be available at the close of the program from midday.