A 40-minute interactive session and demos with the experts in sovereign AI
As organizations shift to agentic AI, the divide between transactional and warehouse data must disappear. To power AI agents that reason in real-time, you need a data platform that is modern, observable, sovereign, with governance built in.
Join our live session to learn how EDB Postgres AI eliminates silos and simplifies your architecture across hybrid estates.
Date: June 25, 2026 - June 25, 2026
Location: Virtual
For decades, leadership studies have circled the same questions: how individuals influence, how authority is shared, how teams perform. But what if the most effective form of leadership lies not in individuals at all, but in the spaces between them?
Constellation presents the first research into a model of leaderless leadership - where purpose, culture and context, rather than people at the top, become the guiding forces.
This ground-breaking study draws on psychology, organisational science, and fresh empirical evidence to reveal a revolutionary approach to leadership for a world too complex for hierarchies to keep pace.
This is not a reworking of old theories. It is a new map. The book presents new academic research into a model of ‘leaderless’ leadership, which draws on social identity theory, group dynamics and the psychology of personality to propose a type of leadership that is more suitable to today’s complex world.
This research is the first of its kind, and the book’s objective is to introduce a discussion amongst academics and practitioners for new types of distributed, autonomous approaches to leadership.
The book was reviewed by the Institute of Leadership, Henley Business School, The Contact Centre Management Association, and LEGO.
Date: July 17, 2026 - July 17, 2026
Location: Online
I'll be section leader
It was with great pleasure and honor that I was asked by the Scientific Committee of the X. Mátyás Durkó Memorial Conference to be the section leader.
The "The Role of Artificial Intelligence" session will be led together with Judit Herczegh at the University of Debrecen on June 15-16, 2026.
For me, this is a particularly important occasion: the jubilee, 10th edition of the conference coincides with the 70th anniversary of the higher education programmes in public education and adult education. It's good to see how tradition and innovation meet — and that AI is an unavoidable factor in this.
I am especially looking forward to thought-provoking presentations and professional discussions.
Date: June 16, 2026 - June 17, 2026
Location: University of Debrecen
Coalition Picnic - From Alpha to Omega Event
The Edtech Coalition (of which I am a member) organizes a Coalition Picnic, Location: Balatonfüred (Hungary), Gapa Terrace and Park Forest Date: 13 June 2026 (Saturday) | 13:00. Our goal with the Coalition Picnic is to meet in person and connect with a pleasant wine in an informal, inspiring environment. During the entire duration of the event (10:00–17:00), we also welcome your family members. We are preparing nearly 30 interactive experience points throughout the event. One of the highlights of the day will be the world premiere of the situational family theatre entitled "Between the Screens", which will deal with the issues of digital childhood and online-offline balance with humour and everyday situations. We hope that we can spend this special day with you — with professional conversations, thinking together, delicious snacks, excellent wines and real community experiences.
The EdTech Coalition is a key platform for the digital education and education technology sector in Hungary, which was created by the cooperation of state, higher education and market players. Its goal is to develop digital education, integrate innovative technologies in Hungary and represent the sector internationally.
Date: June 13, 2026 - June 13, 2026
Location: Balatonfüred (Hungary), Gapa Terrace and Park Forest
Published author of three debate instructional works through Victory Briefs — the leading national debate curriculum publisher: Introduction to Lincoln-Douglas Debate (main author, full textbook); LD Varsity Debate Guide (multiple chapters, main author); The Criteria Handbook chapter on 'Theory: How to use Values and Criteria in Debate.' Used in curricula across hundreds of high schools nationally.
Date: June 28, 2026 - July 11, 2026
Location: University of Texas at Austin
So what does it look like when contract management is done well? Not in an award-ceremony, best-practice kind of way. In a practical, real-world way.
It looks like this: the contract manager is involved before the contract is signed. They understand the commercial intent behind the legal language. They have a working relationship with the people on both sides of the agreement, not just the legal teams. They know which risks are real and which ones are theoretical. And when problems arise, because they always do, they deal with them early, without drama, before they turn into a crisis.
That is sustainable contract management.
It is also harder to demonstrate than heroism, because the value is invisible. You are not the person who saved the day. You are the person who made sure there was no day to save. That is a much harder story to tell internally, but it is the right one.
Date: July 17, 2026 - July 17, 2026
Location: https://www.linkedin.com/events/webinar3-fromfirefightingtosust7460972033565192192/
Process and people. You actually need both.
The natural response to the heroism trap is to systematise everything. Build a contract register. Define your contract lifecycle. Create templates. Automate reminders. Use software to track obligations and deadlines.
All of that is necessary. But it is not sufficient.
The mistake many organisations make is treating contract management as a documentation and compliance exercise. Get the processes right, tick the boxes, and assume the outcomes will follow. They will not. Because contracts are agreements between people, not between documents. And people do not behave like documents.
A supplier who feels disrespected will find ways to underdeliver, even while technically meeting every contract term. A client who feels unheard will escalate small issues into formal disputes. A colleague who does not understand why a clause exists will quietly work around it. None of this shows up in a contract register.
Managing these dynamics requires something that no AI tool, no platform, and no template library can fully replace: the ability to read a situation, build trust, have a difficult conversation, and make a judgment call under pressure.
That is a human skill. And it is the skill that often determines whether a contract actually delivers what it was supposed to.
Date: July 03, 2026 - July 03, 2026
Location: https://www.linkedin.com/events/webinar2-processandpeoplemanage7460970938654744576/
The heroism trap
One of the things I explore in my webinar series with Volker Ballueder is what we call the heroism trap.
Webinar 1: Heroism is why contract management fails
In many organisations, the contract manager is the person who arrives when things go wrong. The deal is close to collapsing. The supplier is not delivering. The client is threatening to walk. And the contract manager steps in, reads the contract, finds the relevant clause, and sorts it out.
That sounds useful. And in the short term, it is.
But here is the problem. If your value as a contract manager is defined by how well you handle crises, you are essentially building a system that depends on crises to demonstrate its worth. You become a firefighter. And firefighters, by definition, do not prevent fires. They just show up when one starts.
In the Age of AI and ecosystems, this is unsustainable. Ecosystems move fast. The interdependencies are deep. By the time a crisis becomes visible, the damage is often already spreading in multiple directions at once.
The hero model worked in a simpler time. It does not scale in the world we are operating in now.
Date: June 19, 2026 - June 19, 2026
Location: https://www.linkedin.com/events/webinar1-heroismiswhycontractma7460969073456144384/
The Core Narrative: The $383B Yield Crisis
The C-suite is facing a Roadmap Void. While $913B is being spent on AI globally, nearly 40% ($383B) is currently "lost yield," trapped in the "Digital Closet" of unaligned tools, fractional leadership gaps, and failed strategy-to-project execution.
Our Mission: To provide the strategic blueprint for CMOs and modern executives to pivot from fragmented experimentation to enterprise-wide transformation.
We are here to audit a $383B leak in the global enterprise roadmap. We have the tech capability, but we lack the 'Strategic Maturity' to convert that tech into yield. Today, we bridge that gap.
Date: June 22, 2026 - June 22, 2026
Location: LinkedIn Live
Innovation and Executive Mandate: How Law Firm Leaders Are Reimagine The Future of Law Firms
Date: October 23, 2026 - October 24, 2026
Location: New York City
