QSP Summit brings key figures on Management and Behavior to Porto

The 13th edition of the QSP Summit kicked off today, at the Exponor, featuring 47 top speakers on the global theme of "Convergence", on 21 and 22 March 2019.

Key national and international figures take part of the conference series panel of speakers on the convergence between human and technological capitals.

Speakers include Spencer Harrison, professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD, who has worked with Google, Atos or Salesforce; Stanley Hainsworth, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Tether, who has collaborated with Nike, Legos and Starbucks; Jerry Storch, Storch Advisors CEO; Barbara Kahn, Professor of Markeying at Patty & Jay H. Baker, University of Pennsylvania; and Rob Bradley, Vice-President of Digital Commercial Strategy and Revenue at CNN, who will offer insights and advice on the global theme of Convergence, just to mention a few.

Rui Ribeiro, organiser of the QSP Summit, highlighted the "prestige and independence" of the event, whose aim is to meet the needs of companies, managers and professionals in the most diverse areas.

Online-Offline, Voice-Data, Humans-Robots, People-Culture, Technology-Marketing, Product-Brand, Creativity-Management are some of the headlines of the QSP Summit conferences and worklabs.

Author and best seller Daniel Pink opened the summit and delivered the inaugural conference of this first day of the Summit. Pink shared insights on behavioural science, drive and team leadership.

Like in previous editions, Porto City Hall was represented at the Summit with a Porto. Stand, via the Municipal Company Invest Porto.

Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira hosted the Summit Speakers at his Official Residence

The evening prior to the opening day of the QSP Summit, Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira hosted an informal meeting of the speakers at Casa do Roseiral, the official residence of the Mayor of Porto.

In an interview to "Porto.", Daniel Pink had already advanced the issues to be presented at the main stage at Exponor. The New York Times Best Seller stated that "what we know about companies and organisations is that they are making decisions all the time about how to compensate people, and a lot of the decision they make are based on intuition and guesses, but this is where science comes in to give evidence to make better decision."

"What research does is to give us clues on how to design the organisation. The design management system just works better and it turns out that a lot of those principles are very human principles. If you actually treat people well, they're happy and work better", Pink explained.

"We have to think about management as a technology, a very effective technology for compliance; but there isn't a single best system when it comes to management or self-management. It is all about balance and some common principles, namely paying people well, offering them mastery and purpose and that works pretty well", Daniel Pink concluded.