Prof Loredana Padurean

Keynote Speaker, Author, Award Winning entrepreneur & Professor

Prof. Loredana Padurean is a global award-winning academic, entrepreneur, author and public speaker, with deep expertise and interest in Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership, currently teaching at Northeastern University in Boston where she won the Teaching Innovation and Excellence award for using AI in the classroom.

Her rich background as a faculty fellow at MIT Sloan and Senior Associate Dean at Asia School of Business, informed her recent leadership book "The Job is Easy, The People are Not" and her upcoming book on innovation with AI called "Nail it, Scale it, Sail it - an Innovation Odyssey” in collaboration with MIT Sloan Professor Charles Fine.

She is a captivating TedX speaker, with over 350 events globally, and top-tier clients such as TBWA, State Street, China Construction Bank, European Commission, MITRE, Maybank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BCP Peru, and more. She is the winner of "Distinguished Woman Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement Award" and twice winner of the prestigious Swiss National Foundation research grant.