Keynote Speakers on Future Trends, Geopolitics & Macro Intelligence

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What does technological advancement hold for the future of work, society, and human connection? How will AI, geopolitics, and sustainability reshape the business landscape? Our keynote speakers on future trends and macro intelligence deliver sharp analytical foresight and strategic clarity to help your organization make confident decisions in a rapidly changing world.

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  • Anticipate Global Megatrends: Gain actionable foresight into artificial intelligence, demographic shifts, sustainability, and emerging market dynamics.
  • Navigate Geopolitical & Economic Shifts: Understand macroeconomic risks and geopolitical developments to safeguard and guide your long-term business strategy.
  • Build Strategic Resilience: Equip your team and leadership with a forward-thinking mindset designed to turn market disruption into growth opportunities.
  • Access World-Class Research: Tap into leading futurists, trend analysts, and strategy researchers who translate complex global forces into concrete business insights.

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The future is not just something that happens to us, it is something we actively shape. By leveraging insights from top researchers, futurists, and trend analysts, your leadership team gains deep clarity on shifting human behaviors, technological disruptions, and evolving market requirements. Turn strategic foresight into your ultimate competitive edge.

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    Jesper Ek
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    Jesper Ek

    Jesper Ek has walked the walk of Leadership as a practicing leader/manager for more than 25 years, mostly in big, international organizations. He is known for his engaging management style and has a track record of being a leader who’s turning minus to plus but without the traditional ways of cutting costs but rather boosting ...
    Arvid Axland
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    Arvid Axland

    How to design meaningful experiences Arvid Axland is a Swedish thought leader within experience design and communication. He is the Co-Founder of Pool, a successful creative agency in Sweden. He is also the author of the Swedish best-seller ‘Jakten pa Känslan’ – the art of designing meaningful experiences. Arvid is one of the country’s foremost ...
    Mai-Li Dahlström
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    Mai-Li Dahlström

    Mai-Li Dahlström (formerly Hammargren) provides actionable strategies and leadership insights on how to generate cash flow from pioneering ideas. As a wearable tech pioneer—having sold over 20,000 products long before Apple released a touchscreen watch - and following four years in Silicon Valley helping drive Lookback to profitability, she brings a wealth of hands-on lessons to share.
    Johan Eriksson
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    Johan Eriksson

    Johan Eriksson is a leader with broad experience from different industries and organizations. Today he is part of Google’s management team for Northern Europe, engaged in multiple start-ups and talks about leadership, innovation and digitalization. Johan Eriksson has a background as an entrepreneur and many years within the world’s biggest company in marketing, Procter &amp ...
    Tobias Degsell
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    Tobias Degsell

    Tobias Degsell likes data, views the world in patterns, and is gifted with brilliantly explaining complex things in simpler words. Besides being labeled as a Gold Finder by one of the Big Five Tech  Companies, Tobias is often called a Change Maker, Collaboration Evangelist, and a Thought Leader.  Before founding his company Combiner, Tobias worked ...
    Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson
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    Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson

    Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson has worked with sustainability for over 20 years and is a frequently sought-after expert both in Sweden and internationally for events and TV broadcasts. She is a TED-X speaker, engaged by the UN and the EU Commission, and regularly hired by the business sector as a moderator and speaker. She has written hundreds ...
    Johan Ronnestam
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    Johan Ronnestam

    Johan Ronnestam, keynote speaker on AI, branding and the future business landscape. Johan helps leaders and brands drive growth through strategy, innovation and creative direction in an AI-shaped world.
    Anders Borg
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    Anders Borg

    Anders Borg is a Swedish economist and politician who served as Minister for Finance in the Swedish Government from 2006 to 2014. Anders Borg provides unique insights on technological change, digitalization, and how globalization affects people, companies, and countries. How does the current Covid-19 crisis affects the global economy and policies? And how do the ...
    Kathrine Aspaas
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    Kathrine Aspaas

    Kathrine Aspaas welcomes you to The Emotion Revolution! Why is emotional strength becoming crucial for growth and development in business? Because our jobs are changing. When powerful technology provides us with artificial intelligence, digitalization and robotics, we, humans can develop even further what is unique to us: – How do we nurture our guts? – ...
    José María Figueres
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    José María Figueres

    José María Figueres served as President of Costa Rica and created a comprehensive national development strategy combining sound macroeconomic policies, strategic investments in human development, and a strong alliance with nature. “Climate change is the ultimate challenge” After years of public service, José María joined the Management Board of the World Economic Forum and was ...
    Reetta Heiskanen
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    Reetta Heiskanen

    With her roots in the Finnish startup scene and journalism, Reetta Heiskanen (M.Soc.Sc) writes and talks about the future of work, equality and digital solutions. She co-launched programming and robotics courses in Nordic highschools with the Mehackit team in 2015 and truly believes in democratizing technology skills for the future generations. Today, based in Brooklyn, ...
    Henri "Henkka" Hyppönen
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    Henri "Henkka" Hyppönen

    Henri "Henkka" Hyppönen is a creative director, author, speaker, TV host, and serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of four companies including a problem-solving company that creates products and services using human intelligence and AI. Henri speaks regularly about the future, business, leadership and creativity, and about the intersection of human and machine intelligence. Henkka ...
    Paavo Beckman
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    Paavo Beckman

    Mr. Paavo Beckman has been a CEO and Co-Founder at six companies and led teams in San Francisco, New York, London and Finland. He is an expert in startup & corporation collaborations and a visionary in an innovation field who knows what is happening on the market. 
    Daniel Rahman
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    Daniel Rahman

    Daniel Rahman is an experienced serial entrepreneur, innovator and experimental innovator. Rahman has been setting up more than five companies in different roles in different fields and is currently the CEO of Integrify. Integrify trains talented immigrant coders and directs them to work. Social entrepreneurship and innovations seeking real impact are close to Daniel’s heart. ...
    Henrietta Kekäläinen
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    Henrietta Kekäläinen

    Henrietta Kekäläinen is the CEO & Co-founder of Carbo Culture, a clean technology company aiming to draw down a million tons of carbon within the next five years. Her company has a novel technology to manufacture a biocarbon product from waste. The product is used as a platform to reinstate health and productivity to destroyed ...
    Markku Wilenius
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    Markku Wilenius

    Markku Wilenius is a professor of Futures Studies in Turku University Business School. He is also an Unesco Chair in Learning Society and Futures of Education. He has worked over 20 years with Futures Studies. In 2015 he co-founded Turku Complex Systems Institute at the University of Turku. His latest research program is the future ...
    Nora Rosendahl
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    Nora Rosendahl

    Nora Rosendahl is a startup entrepreneur and researcher specialising in work and stress. Nora is passionate about productive, human-centred ways of working – how can you fulfil your potential without exhausting yourself? Nora has previously worked as a business consultant focusing on transformation in high-tech companies. She became interested in the relationship between the individual ...
    Alf Rehn
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    Alf Rehn

    Alf Rehn is the professor of innovation, design, and management at the University of Southern Denmark and is, in addition, an internationally noted thought leader and strategic advisor. Alf Rehn has written several bestselling books and given some 1000 keynotes all over the world – including in North Korea. His keynotes have been praised for ...
    Marshall Goldsmith
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    Marshall Goldsmith

    Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behaviour for themselves and their teams. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources – America’s top HR honour. He is co-founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-level executive coaches and he served as ...
    Lars Sudmann
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    Lars Sudmann

    Lars Sudmann is an advisor, keynote speaker and executive trainer on leadership, strategy, innovation and communication for global corporations and their leaders. Lars is an expert on business leadership and communication, especially for global and virtual businesses and organizations. He is the owner of Sudmann & Company, a consulting and management training network.
    Göran Persson
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    Göran Persson

    Göran Persson is the former Prime Minister of Sweden. He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, stepping down after the 2006 General Election. Since leaving the political realm, Persson holds the position of Chairman of Sveaskog, a leading Swedish forestry business. “Leading Expert on the Swedish Financial Model” Göran Persson is more widely ...
    Mikko Eerola
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    Mikko Eerola

    Mikko Eerola is one of the authors of the book The Block Chain Roadmap for decision makers (2019). He has worked throughout his career in business digitalization, both as a management consultant and as a business leader in growth and listed companies. Europe and the United States. Mikko has extensive experience in developing business globally ...
    Johan Norberg
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    Johan Norberg

    Johan Norberg is the lecturer, documentary filmmaker, writer and historian of ideas who knows how to separate facts from assumptions and anecdotal storytelling. He has lectured all over the world, from Stockholm to Sydney, Buenos Aires to Beijing, Cairo to Capitol Hill. Celebrated for his ability to simplify complex ideas, he has made a name for himself among students as well as politicians and leaders of major corporations.
    Judith Wolst
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    Judith Wolst

    Judith Wolst is an entrepreneur, digital adviser, and author. Since 2005 she has worked with digital change work in both business and the public sector. Among other things, Judith Wolst today runs the think tank SusTechable – a movement dedicated to exploring the intersection of technology and sustainability.digitalization, future trends, and technologies as AI, blockchain, ...
    Andreas Ekström
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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 ...
    Siri Wikander
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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.
    Claes Ceverin
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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 ...
    Robin Teigland
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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 ...
    Gustav Molnar
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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 ...
    Fredrik Sträng
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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 ...
    Mikael Meijer
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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 ...
    Gustav Stenbeck
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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 ...
    Linda Johansson
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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 ...
    Mattias Fras
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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.
    Joakim Odelberg
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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.
    Parul Sharma
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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.
    Arash Gilan
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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 ...
    Aurore Belfrage
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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.
    Mr. Q
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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 ...
    JP Castlin
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    JP Castlin

    JP Castlin is a globally renowned expert in strategy, leadership and applied complexity science, who has been dubbed “a member of the Mount Rushmore of strategic management” and one of the world’s “most important voices in strategy”. He is the creator of the ABCDE framework for strategy under uncertainty, an author, and a columnist. JP...