Deep-Dive Event

AMAZON EPIC LEADERSHIP

AMAZON EPIC LEADERSHIP EPIC LEADERSHIP

Copenhagen • 04 June 2026 | Frankfurt • 17 September 2026 | Stockholm • 19 November 2026

Stockholm • 12 June 2025 | Paris • 30 September 2025

Copenhagen • 04 June 2026
Frankfurt • 17 September 2026
Stockholm • 19 November 2026

Stockholm • 12 June 2025
Paris • 30 September 2025

Join a full-immersion Deep-Dive, during which Andreas E. Wagner from Amazon will guide you in leading with Empathy, Purpose, Inspiration, and Connection (EPIC).

The Deep-Dive Event upskills leaders in emotional intelligence and interpersonal dynamics so they can lead innovation and transformation initiatives more effectively.

Combining insights from neuroscience, psychology, and Amazon’s unique innovation culture, the workshop offers exercises, simulations, and opportunities to practice and augment key leadership skills. Participants will learn how to win both the hearts and minds of their people to supercharge their organization’s innovation capabilities.

What you WILL do and learn

During the 1 day Deep-Dive, you will:

Meet your Deep-dive Guide

Andreas E. Wagner

Andreas is a Business Coach with senior leadership experience in sales, services, business development, and marketing at AWS, Ericsson, Huawei, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Ingram. His work spans multiple industries and diverse cultural leadership environments.

He holds a Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH), an MBA, and a PhD, and lectures on leadership and digital transformation.

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Program

DAY 1 • 20 February

Customer Validation

Iterate along the four key steps and tools:

  • Create a customer persona to define the test subject and build empathy

  • Create hypotheses to formalize product-market fit beliefs

  • Make predictions to create testable atomic variables

  • Conduct a field experiment with customer discovery interviews

Dinner

DAY 2 • 21 February

Solution Validation

  • Use Problem Framer to build deep empathy with the customer

  • Leverage Journey Maps to identify customer pains

  • Leverage Solution Canvas to define the solution to experiment on

  • Use Amazon’s PR to check resonance and prove you can delight the customer with Actualization

Dinner

DAY 3 • 22 February (half-day)

Business Validation

  • Introduction to the 7Vs

  • Deep Dive with Amazon’s FAQs

The first day starts in the morning and the third day ends around 13:00. There will be dinners at the end of day one and day two.

Elevate your leadership with EPIC: Amazon has a unique culture and approach to innovation. The EPIC Leadership program started as an internal initiative to train Amazon's leaders in emotional intelligence (EQ) skills. This program has now been fully leveraged by Amazon's customers and partners. These EQ skills enable leaders to perform at the highest levels, lead with greater empathy and inclusion, and build teams that achieve sustained success.

During the EPIC Leadership deep dive, we will trigger action to upskill participants in EQ and interpersonal dynamics. This will enable you to more effectively lead innovation and transformation initiatives. The EPIC program equips leaders with the key skills of empathy, purpose, inspiration, and connection (EPIC) - critical for leading change. Research has found the biggest blockers to successful digital innovation are people issues, not process or technology.
Andreas E. Wagner
Principal - Innovation and Leadership Programs

REGISTER

ARE YOU FROM A MEMBER COMPANY?

Our network’s member companies have a number of DeepDive tickets included in their annual membership plans + can purchase additional tickets at special member rates. Please contact us at [email protected] to learn more.

Regular Rate

for non-member companies
500
  • Access to the event
  • Lunch, light breakfast, coffee breaks
    at the event venue

Member Rate

for member companies
300
  • Access to the event
  • Lunch, light breakfast, coffee breaks
    at the event venue
Save 40%
€ 94 excl. VAT & CC-fee

Networking Dinner

On the evening of 11 June, you can network with other participants at the Deep-Dive and HR Innovation Roundtable® workshop hosted by Amazon earlier that day.

Brasserie Makalös
in Stockholm city centre • French Cuisine
3-course dinner incl. 2 glasses of wine/beer/soft drinks

PROGRAM

The Deep-Dive runs from 9:00 to 17:00
(registration and light breakfast from 8:30; networking drinks from 17:00 to 18:00)

Who can join

The Deep-Dive is limited to max 50 participants: secure your ticket before it gets sold out!

Like all Innovation Roundtable® events, you can join this event if you are working for a large, multinational firm (min €500mln in revenues). Innovation Roundtable ApS reserves the right to reject any application to attend.

Tickets & rates

Payment by credit card

Accepted credit cards: VISA, Mastercard and Amex. Credit card fees (2.2%) and local VAT are not included.

Cancellation policy
If the registrant is hindered from joining the event he/she may find a replacement from within the same company. Such substitution is permitted at no extra charge at any time before the event date, subject to approval by the Innovation Roundtable ApS. Innovation Roundtable ApS reserves the right to reject requests made by member firms to change a paid registration into one within the quota of seats included in the membership privileges. Cancellations received by email will be refunded with credit vouchers that can be used towards future events organised by Innovation Roundtable ApS, anytime within 18 months from issuance (subject to availability of seats at those events).

VAT refund
Danish VAT is charged on the delegate fee (25%). It is possible to get VAT refunded — a standard process in large firms.

Payment by credit card
Accepted credit cards: VISA, Mastercard and Amex. Credit card fees (2.2%) are not included.

Dinners
We do not apply any commission / agency fee to the price of the dinners negotiated with the restaurants.

Cancellation policy
If the registrant is hindered from joining the event he/she may find a replacement from within the same company. Such substitution is permitted at no extra charge at any time before the event date, subject to approval by the Innovation Roundtable ApS. Innovation Roundtable ApS reserves the right to reject requests made by member firms to change a paid registration into one within the quota of seats included in the membership privileges. Cancellations received by email will be refunded with credit vouchers that can be used towards future events organised by Innovation Roundtable ApS, anytime within 18 months from issuance (subject to availability of seats at those events). Cancellation of parts of the event (e.g. one day) is not possible and will not result in a refund.

Travel & Accommodation

Attendees are responsible for booking their own travels and accommodation.
Venue details and recommended hotels will follow.
 

THE VENUE

The event will take place in the French Headquarters of Amazon, located in Clichy.

RECOMMENDED HOTELS

Hôtel Résidence Europe & Spa
TRIBE Paris Clichy
L'Imprimerie Hôtel
Ibis Clichy Centre Mairie

THE VENUE

The event will take place in the auditorium of Amazon Web Services EMEA offices.

RECOMMENDED HOTELS

Hotel Kungsträdgården
Hobo Hotel Stockholm
Scandic Klara
Best Western

Past Deep-Dive participants said...

The EPIC Leadership Deep Dive was a powerful and practical experience. It gave me actionable tools to lead with empathy, purpose, and connection. It is something professional leaders need constant reminders of to have in our backbone. Truly inspiring and immediately applicable.
Gilai Nachmann
Arla Foods • Sr. Project Manager