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Andreas Ekström
Andreas Ekström focuses on the Digital Revolution seen from the role of a futurist looking at all disciplines of society. He is a senior writer at the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan and an author of several books. In his acclaimed volume ‘The Google Code’ his journalistic curiosity turns towards the growing influence of Google in our ...
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Siri Wikander
Siri Wikander has been in HR leadership and People Growth positions for the past 20 years in large stock-listed companies like Axfood and Scandic Hotels as well as in start-up and scale-up firms.
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Oskar Kihlborg
Oskar Kihlborg is one of Sweden’s most experienced adventurers and speakers, with over 30 years of expeditions spanning from dense jungles to arctic climates—situations where human trust, group collaboration, and inner drive are constantly put to the test. In 1990, together with Mikael Reuterswärd, Oskar became the first Swede to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Charlotte Signahl
In the last two decades, Charlotte Signahl has been talking about “unpleasant” topics i.e. undesired powerstructures between people in groups, organizations and in society. How those power structures affect the individuals, their performance, and well-being, but also how an understanding of the same power structures makes everyone feel better. Charlotte talks about Human Rights and ...
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Claes Ceverin
Over the past 100 years, we as individuals, leaders, and organizations have developed an ability to relate to and manage changes in the market. The evolutionary change takes place step-by-step and to which we have developed an approach over time. Claes Ceverin is a popular keynote speaker on the topic’s future and change. As a ...
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Robin Teigland
Robin Teigland is Professor in Management of Digitalization in the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Division at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she was recruited to build bridges between technology and the development of society. She is also the Director of Ocean Data Factory Sweden – Sweden’s national initiative for AI-driven innovation based on ...
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Gustav Molnar
Gustav Molnar, CEO, Public Speaker, and Digital Workplace Evangelist, is helping organizations to work smarter together in a digital ever-changing world. Gustav’s passions include leadership, engagement, and behavioral science. With plenty of energy, charm, and brand new research does Gustav Molnar share advice and experiences from organizations and leaders who have mastered the art of ...
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Fredrik Sträng
”The mountain remains steep, indifferent to my whining and complaints. What I can alter is my attitude toward its incline.” – Fredrik Sträng Fredrik Sträng, once bullied and gripped by a paralyzing fear of heights, sought therapy for his death anxiety. Yet, he emerged as Sweden’s preeminent high-altitude climber, conquering seven peaks above 8000 m ...
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Mikael Meijer
Mikael Meijer is a prominent leader and entrepreneur with a solid background in e-commerce, retail, and digital marketplaces. With a proven ability to generate exponential growth and multi-billion-dollar revenues, Mikael has become a sought-after speaker and advisor in the field. His passion for delivering outstanding results and his ability to develop effective marketing and sales ...
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Tobias Persson
Tobias Persson has written and performed Stand up comedy in Swedish for over 20 years. He did his first-ever gig in English in London 2009. REVIEWS: “Persson’s insights are sharp, his analysis is intelligent and his everyday dilemmas over how to be a good human being come from the heart…it’s clear he’s got it in ...
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Gustav Stenbeck
Gustav Stenbeck is an entrepreneur and a business angel. Incurable tech optimist, a capitalist, an evangelist for the business/sustainability combo and keynote speaker. He has for 15 years worked in the area where business and sustainability intersect. As an entrepreneur and investor he get’s involved in various startups and help them grow. He has a ...
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Shahrzad Kiavash
What do we do when life does not play out as expected? Shahrzad Kiavash was 28 years old, happy and healthy when she suddenly got an unusual form of sepsis (blood poisoning). The doctors gave her a minimal chance to survive. She did survive, miraculously. But she lost her two legs. A drastic change, in ...
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Annelie Pompe
Annelie Pompe is a professional adventurer from Sweden. She works as an inspirational speaker, adventure guide, yoga and breathing teacher, author, and photographer. Amongst her adventurous achievements is a world record freedive to 126m in one breath, as well as being the first Swedish woman to summit Everest from the north side and climbing the ...
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Al Pitcher
Al Pitcher moved to Sweden in 2010, and has quickly made a name for himself in the Swedish standup scene. In 2011 he won ”Best male comedian” at Svenska Standup galan and the following year he went out to do the celebrated and sold out ”Fika tour”, which was quickly followed by another successful tour ...
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Petra Malm
Petra Malm is a former soldier of the Swedish Special Forces who shifted her secret life in the military and became a lecturer and a trainer. As the first female Petra Malm passed the test to SOG (Swedish Special Forces). Over a decade, Petra lived a secret life as an elite soldier on the front ...
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Linda Hammarstrand
Linda Hammarstrand is a popular lecturer in subjects such as performance culture and values. She has 20 years of experience in communication, HR, and education within the Stena sphere. Her most recent assignment within Stena was to visualize Stena’s business philosophy and values for 22,000 employees worldwide. Linda Hammarstrand was the ”Director of Passion” and ...
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Mary Juusela
Mary Juusela is one of the Nordic region’s foremost experts in values, tolerance and humane sustainability. She lectures on human behavior and on how individuals and groups go further by being open, more inclusive and empathetic. Mary is often hired as an inspirational lecturer during leadership conferences, staff days and many tailor-made events throughout Sweden, ...
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Mårten Nylén
Mårten Nylén is known as the head trainer in four seasons of the TV show ”Biggest Loser” in Sweden, as the host of Ninja Warrior, and as a well-known personal trainer phenomenon. With a long client list with well-known names such as Wyclef Jean, Joel Kinnaman, Daniel Ek, Marie Serneholt, and Will Smith, most people ...
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Linda Johansson
Linda U Johansson is a futurist and entrepreneur. She is the founder of both Volvo Cars and Lynk & Co’s e-commerce, and an experienced lecturer. Linda provides an exciting and inspiring vision of the future with digital commerce and AI. With her own experiences in the industry and in her role as CEO at eCom ...
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Ted Burk
As a Naval Officer, Ted Burk was recognized as a talented fighter pilot and innovative problem solver. As a TOPGUN graduate, he identified cultural gaps and built bridges between warfighters and engineers - optimizing performance in both weapons and tactics.
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Tine Mejlbo Sundfør
Tine Mejlbo Sundfør has a master’s in clinical nutrition and a Ph.D. in Nutrition on the topic «Diets for weight loss and cardiovascular health in obesity» at the Faculty of Medicine – University of Oslo. She has broad experience from clinical work at Oslo University Hospital, from private medical centers, teaching students at bachelor and ...
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Karin Callin
Diversity and inclusion are nowadays a given – right? It should be, as well as the fact that it can be directly linked to business results and therefore must be integrated into the company’s strategy. Customers, owners, employees and our entire society benefit from diversity and inclusion. Karin Callin has for several years worked on ...
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Hanna Wallensteen
Inclusion, Exclusion and Minority Stress in the Workplace Since the summer of 2020 most organizations have realized the importance of raising awareness and knowledge in issues related to inclusion and diversity in relation to race and ethnicity in order to recruit, retain and represent their organization in accordance to their core beliefs and values. This ...
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Fredrik Hären
Fredrik Haren is The Creativity Explorer, a global keynote speaker on Business Creativity, Innovation and Change. He has delivered over 2,000 presentations, lectures and workshops in over 75 countries on 6 continents and has inspired over a million people from the stage to become more creative and to look at the world in a new way.
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Mattias Fras
Mattias Fras has worked with change for most of his 23 career years. First half as a management consultant, and the second half within Nordea, introducing new technologies.
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Staffan Ehde
For over 20 years, Staffan Ehde has been an evangelist for the idea that purpose is the DNA that determines whether an organization succeeds or fails. He first realized this in the film industry, where direction is what makes the difference, something that translates directly into purpose within organizations.
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Jonas Eriksson
Jonas Eriksson is the most successful Swedish referee of all time. He was a FIFA international referee between 2002 and 2018 and has experience from international championships as the World Cup, the European Football Championship, and the Champions League.
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Andreas Piirimets
In a captivating blend of animated rhetoric and pedagogy, Andreas Piirimets adeptly synthesizes the latest research on the brain, sleep, and stress, presenting it in an engaging and accessible manner. Drawing from a rich foundation of both scientific findings and personal experiences, he offers practical insights and hands-on strategies for effectively managing the challenges of...
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Joakim Odelberg
Joakim Odelberg is one of Sweden’s most in-demand and respected photojournalists, producers, and underwater filmmakers. Driven by a passion for nature on land and at sea, his work has taken him far beyond Sweden’s borders and built a large, dedicated following.
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Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki was the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. Guy is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. He is a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley).
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Mattias Klum
Mattias Klum has worked full-time as a photographer since 1986, and as a cinematographer and director on numerous film and television projects since 1994. In 1997 National Geographic Magazine published Mattias Klum’s photographs for the first time. That made him the first Swede and one of National Geographic’s youngest contributors at the time. Mattias Klum ...
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Parul Sharma
Parul Sharma has many years of experience in the area of sustainability, human rights and anti-corruption in high risk markets. Parul is the CEO at The Academy for Human Rights in Business and Chair at Amnesty International Sweden.
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Katrine Marçal
Katrine Marçal is an award-winning author, journalist and keynote speaker. Her first book “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner” has been translated into more than 20 languages and was hailed by Margaret Atwood as “A smart, funny, readable book on economics, money and women”. It was named one of The Guardian’s Books of the Year in ...
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Anna Gullstrand
Anna Gullstrand is the Chief People & Culture Officer (CPCO) at Mentimeter. Mentimeter is a 240+ employee’s values-driven SaaS start-up with offices in Stockholm, Sweden and Toronto, Canada. Their audience engagement platform helps over 200 million users globally to participate in inclusive, interactive and impactful presentations, trainings, lectures and meetings. Since graduating from the internationally ...
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Arash Gilan
Som vd för Viva, ett av Nordens största marknadsföringsbolag, har Arash Gilan inte bara bevittnat, utan också lett digital transformation på första parkett. Hans förmåga att förstå och navigera i det digitala landskapet har gett honom utmärkelser som “Årets inspirerande ledarskap” av Great Place to Work. Men hans passion sträcker sig bortom affärsvärlden. Med VD-podden ...
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Aurore Belfrage
Aurore Belfrage invests in cleantech, renewable energy, and energy efficiency technologies. With a background as an investor at EQT Ventures, a columnist for Svenska Dagbladet, and co-host of the +Katapult podcast, Aurore Belfrage brings extensive experience in how technology can strategically strengthen your business in a rapidly changing world.
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Mr. Q
Mr Q is the physical manifestation of the future that lies ahead of us. He is already a famous superstar who has co-hosted events with politicians and business leaders, starred in movies and entertained guests all over the world. Mr.Q can communicate with people on any free or pre-programmed topics, answer questions, recognize faces, take ...
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Fredrik Wikholm
Fredrik Wikholm is an innovative entrepreneur in the fields of communication, data science, fashion, and finance. Hailing from Sweden, Fredrik’s passion for planet-positive entrepreneurship grew out of his childhood in nature and many years in the climbing and snowboard community that later formed Uniforms for the Dedicated, the menswear company that Fredrik co-founded in 2007. ...
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Lisa Ekström
Lisa Ekström is a well-known Swedish speaker and inspirational performer. Lisa Ekström is the founder of the company Kamoja. The company name and word Kamoja springs from Lisa’s international upbringing. "Kamoj" means to borrow or snitch in Thai. An "a" at the end makes it a Swedish verb, so as in borrowing an idea or ...
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Urban Björn
Urban Björn is an economist and for more than 15 years was business manager and SVP in Investment and Corporate Banking. He changed tracks and became HR Manager, and later Head of Diversity & Inclusion at one of the Nordic region’s largest banks where in 2018 he trained over 1,000 managers in inclusive leadership. Since ...
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Pontus Wadström
Pontus Wadström works as an independent strategy advisor, lecturer and researcher. He has previously worked as strategy consultant and as head of various strategy, business development and change departments, portfolios and projects in publicly listed companies and in start-ups. His expertise is how organizations strategize – do strategy for real and in practice – and ...
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Hélène Barnekow
Hélène Barnekow was the CEO of Microsoft Sweden for three successful years from 2018 to 2021. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT and telecom industry, including roles such as CEO at Telia Sverige and Director of Field & Partner Marketing at EMC in Boston, USA.
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Barakat Ghebrehawariat
Barakat Ghebrehawariat is a political scientist, journalist and entrepreneur who thinks we should communicate more with each other. Barakat is a popular speaker, advisor and opinion leader with extensive experience in working with norm criticism, anti-racism and inclusion. With his unique insights and humor, he helps organizations with diversity and inclusion from the communication perspective. ...
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Kristina Hagström Ilievska
Kristina Hagström Ilievska is a bundle of energy with a huge passion for life! She sees herself as a naive optimist with rebellious traits who never turns down the chance to develop and improve things. During a lecture with Kristina, you will get practical advice and guidance on how you and your organization can work ...
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David JP Phillips
David JP Phillips is an internationally recognized lecturer, author and coach in modern presentation techniques, body language and communication. His training and materials are based on neuroscience and biology, which means that his lectures, workshops and trainings are very practical and motivating.
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Annika Telléus
Annika Telléus is an esteemed speaker and course leader, known for her warm and reassuring presence on stage. She is particularly skilled in the areas of communication, group development, and leadership. With her deep experience and passion for seeing people and groups grow, Annika has helped companies in various industries create strong teams with high ...
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Katarina Matson
Katarina Matson utvecklade och genomförde utbildning i omedveten partiskhet (Unconscious Bias) för mer än 1500 ledare globalt, samt implementerade en global föräldraledighetspolicy för alla anställda på Volvo Cars. Sedan 2021 driver Katarina Matson verksamheten Let’s Tango AB, och föreläser och utbildar ledare och medarbetare som vill öka medvetenheten och få fördjupad kunskap i hur de ...
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Ann Linde
Ann Linde is one of Sweden’s most experienced politicians in foreign affairs and has played a central role in many critical events such as the NATO process, handling the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the evacuation of Afghanistan, and the 9000 Swedes who were stranded during the pandemic. In 2021 Ann was chairperson of OSCE, the ...