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103 profiles
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Qaisar Mahmood
Qaisar Mahmood is a Swedish author and social commentator with extensive experience in the public sector, having held a variety of roles within government institutions. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, he moved to Sweden at the age of seven and grew up in Tensta, Stockholm. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Stockholm University and has worked for several Swedish government agencies, including the Swedish National Audit Office and the Government Offices of Sweden.
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Dahlia Rezai
Dahlia Rezai is a political scientist, expert in social sustainability, and a highly regarded speaker who inspires engagement around some of the most critical societal challenges of our time. She is recognized for her courage and warmth, with a confident and professional stage presence that captures and connects with audiences.
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Linda Leopold
Linda Leopold combines big-picture thinking on AI with real industry experience. Named one of nine “inspirational women leaders in AI shaping the 21st century” by Forbes, she spent seven years in AI leadership roles at the global fashion retailer H&M Group.
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Joakim Paasikivi
Joakim Paasikivi is known as one of the most frequently consulted security policy analysts in Swedish and Nordic media. He is a sought-after speaker by government agencies, military units, and the business community alike.
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Hanna Linderstål
Hanna Linderstål has 25 years of experience working in cybersecurity and is a recognized strategist with extensive expertise advising governments, agencies, and corporations globally. Her knowledge encompasses hybrid warfare, immersive AI, and cyber threat analysis, establishing her as a trusted authority in the rapidly evolving digital threat landscape. In 2024, she was honored as Sweden's Security Profile of the Year.
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Olof Gränström
Keynote speaker Olof Gränström is a political scientist and economist. Olof’s mission in life is to make people learn and understand more about the world we live in. It is not a lack of data that create our misconceptions of the world – it is our limited cognitive ability to understand the data. However, we ...
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John Howchin
John Howchin is the former Secretary General of the Ethical Council of the AP Funds and Head of Environmental Affairs at Norges Bank, the “Norwegian Oil Fund”. He has worked globally with the world's largest companies on climate, environment and human rights for over 20 years.
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Peter Kurzwelly
Peter Kurzwelly is a leading expert in artificial intelligence in Sweden and has played a key role in building AI Sweden, the country’s national center for applied AI. In recent years, Peter has been based in Montreal, Canada, where he has collaborated with leading research institutes such as Mila and the Vector Institute to strengthen Sweden’s international AI presence.
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Rebecka Carlsson
Rebecka Carlsson is a sustainability entrepreneur, business advisor and author. She has co-founded a handful of sustainable companies and worked as a political advisor to Sweden’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Climate and the Environment. Rebecka Carlsson is trained in exponential technologies by Singularity University at NASA, and in social entrepreneurship at Stanford Graduate ...
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Renata Chlumska
Renata Chlumska is Sweden’s foremost female adventurer with incredible achievements such as paddling around the USA and climbing the ”Seven Summits,” the highest peaks on all seven continents. To make projects like these possible, Renata emphasizes the importance of her team; while the achievement is hers, it would not have been possible without her team. ...
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Charlotte Mattfolk
Charlotte Mattfolk is a senior strategic advisor within the fields of future analysis and strategy, business transformation, digitalization, sustainability and entrepreneurship. Within the field of future analysis, she has a track record of over 500 studies across a wide variety of industries and topics. Charlotte has been speaking about the future the last 20 years, ...
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Nicklas Bergman
Straight-talking Swedish entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and thinker, Nicklas Bergman understands and interpret the technological megatrends currently shaping business, society, and culture. He works with forward-thinking leaders and organizations, established and new, to help them navigate an increasingly uncertain future
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Evelina Anttila
Evelina Anttila is an investor, entrepreneur, and former lawyer who has distinguished herself as a strong voice in AI development, gender equality in business, and the responsibility of capital in shaping society.
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Amer Mohammed
Amer Mohammed is a futuristic digital director, speaker, and entrepreneur with experience in combining business development, technology, change enablement, and design to implement effective, long-lasting enterprise business transformation strategies. He founded his first start-up in 2003, the world’s first web-based distribution system for free newspapers. With his background as a programmer and system architect, he ...
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Nicholas Fernholm
Nicholas Fernholm is the former logistics manager at Älvsjö epidemic hospital, ”robot manager” at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, and project manager for Region Stockholm’s supply of personal protective equipment. Nicholas lectures on how society, organizations, and individuals are affected by the technological shifts and changes in the world around them. We are probably, as ...
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Märtha Rehnberg
Märtha Rehnberg is a climate freak by heart, political economist by training, entrepreneur and policy-advocate by practice. She is the Co-Founder of Copenhagen-based think tank DareDisrupt, specialized in a responsible disruption and exponential technologies.
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Ashkan Fardost
Sweden, the late 90’s, a quiet Stockholm suburb. A teen who dreams of being a music producer has just gotten his hands on the first piece of production software capable of rivaling a professional setup. At the time, he is a weirdo – listening to trance, claiming to make music while sitting quietly in his ...
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Kjell A. Nordström
Dr Kjell A. Nordström is the interpreter of the new business world. His dynamic style has made him a highly appreciated speaker, and he has given keynote presentations in over 100 countries. The Global Gurus Top 30 Management ranking put him at number 23 worldwide and among the top 5 in Europe. He suggests that ...
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Robert Karjel
Robert Karjel is a helicopter pilot and a lieutenant colonel in the Swedish Air Force. His job as a helicopter pilot has taken him all over the world, from peace-keeping in Afghanistan to pirate-hunting in Somalia. Robert Karjel is a unique voice that takes you on a journey through crises and challenges, both in the ...
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Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Together with Hans Rosling and Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund founded Gapminder in 2005. Gapminder’s mission statement is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based world view everyone can understand. She designed the user-interface of the famous animating bubble-chart tool called Trendalyzer, used by millions of students across the world, to understand global development trends. ...
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Ola Rosling
Ola Rosling is the co-founder and president of the “Gapminder Foundation,” which he founded together with his wife, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and his father, Hans Rosling. As a lecturer, Ola Rosling presents statistics and facts in a way that makes the information easier to understand and remember. His passion and expertise shine through, making the content stick.
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Sofia Rasmussen
Sofia Rasmussen is a trend analyst, lecturer, moderator, author, and was nominated for MySpeaker Of The Year 2022 and named one of Veckans Affärer’s 101 super talents in 2019. She has a master’s degree in Political Science and has worked for 16 years researching the labor market and people’s work life values. Sofia Rasmussen lectures ...
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Katarina Graffman
Katarina Graffman is Doctor in philosophy, in cultural anthropology, writer, and lecturer. Based on over 20 years of continuous anthropological studies of the human consumer, Katarina can map and, to some extent, predict human behavior, which is not least important when it comes to sustainable consumption. Katarina has paid special attention to media consumption and ...
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Erik Fernholm
Erik Fernholm is a thought leader, social entrepreneur and award-winning keynote speaker with an academic background in cognitive neuroscience and happiness research.
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Olof Röhlander
Olof Röhlander is the northerner who shifted gears from a career in table tennis to be a mental trainer and author. Sharing a relevant and ever topical message, Olof has spoken to people from all walks of life in a wide array of forums. He has a remarkable ability to reach out even the most ...
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Jacob Bergdahl
If our planet had been created a year ago, humanity would have existed on the planet for ten minutes, and the industrial era would have started only two seconds ago. The internet would have existed for mere milliseconds. In those milliseconds, humanity has created innovations at an unbelievable speed. The invention of technologies such as ...
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Oscar Jonsson
Oscar Jonsson is a scholar of strategy, emerging technology, and Russia who is the founder of Phronesis Analysis and Researcher at Swedish Defence University. His background is that he has ten years of experience working in academia, armed forces leadership, and think-tanks, including 2,5 years of management in the knowledge sector. Oscar Jonsson’s research focuses ...
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Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder
Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder is one of Sweden’s leading experts on information and IT security. In 2013 Anne-Marie was the first Swede to be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. For almost 20 years she was the Chief Information Security Officer at The Swedish Internet Foundation. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of her ...
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David Ståhlberg
David Ståhlberg guides you to curiosity, innovation and hope for our joint future, and helps you see the potential in your organisation. After leading roles at Google in Sweden and at Procter & Gamble, David is today helping leaders and lead teams to turn the accelerating pace of technological change into an opportunity for positive ...
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Anna Frankzen Starrin
In times of exponential technology development, exponential behavioral changes also occur. Anna Frankzen Starrin is the cultural anthropologist and trend analyst who has come to be known as Robot Anna in the media, because she talks about automation and the impact of digitalization on people and companies. Anna wants to make companies dare to look ...
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Julia Krantz
Julia Krantz is the creator behind the site Magic Fabric that’s since 2014 has been exploring the next frontier of fashion and digital entertainment through new technologies including 3D, XR, and AI. She has throughout the years featured rising talent, innovative projects, and cutting-edge software that’s later come to shape the future of the industry.
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Joakim Skog
Joakim delves into emerging technologies, tools, methodologies, and mindsets to understand potential futures, equipping himself to make the right strategic decisions today. His approach is rooted in foresight, experimentation, dialogue, and collaboration, with a focus on an exploratory mindset. At Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova, he has built a team that focuses on exploring strategic foresight ...
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Fredrik Moberg
Dr. Fredrik Moberg holds a PhD in natural resources management from the Department of Systems Ecology at Stockholm University, with emphasis on coral reef ecology. Today his research deals with biological diversity, ecosystem services and resilience of social-ecological systems, including the influence of emerging technologies and algorithms on large-scale environmental change. Fredrik Moberg is author ...
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Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Helle Thorning-Schmidt has an extensive background spanning politics, international relations and business. In 2017 she was named as one of the world’s greatest leaders by Fortune magazine. As leader of the Denmark’s Social Democrat party for 10 years and Prime Minister from 2011-2015, she steered the country through a difficult financial crisis while reducing child poverty and increasing spending on education. She was the first woman to hold both positions.
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Fredrik Reinfeldt
With his background as Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of several major organizations — both national and international — Fredrik Reinfeldt brings a broad and deep understanding of a wide range of topics.
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Fredrik Heghammar
Fredrik Heghammar is a born maker, expert in innovation and digital production, with extensive blue chip and high profile experience.
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Karin Zingmark
Karin Zingmark has over 20 years of experience in driving change on the topics of Communication and Leadership, most recently as CMO Lead at Microsoft. Today, she is a sought after speaker, an author, and a strategic advisor, active on several boards. She is current with her second book “Brave through Trust”, following up on ...
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Stefan Hyttfors
Stefan Hyttfors is an acclaimed futurist, author and global speaker. “The future is about how we create new, rather than capitalize on old, forms of society and business models to expand wealth and quality of life. So that’s what I do; I study change and I try to inspire as many as possible to embrace ...
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Albert Bengtson
A pioneer in the exciting world of innovation and digitization, Albert Bengtson has recently made a name for himself as a co-author of the groundbreaking book ”Principles of Intrapreneurial Capital.” His lectures are filled with insights into how the interplay between corporate culture, leadership, talent, and decisions creates the conditions for change. Over the past ...
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Lena Sellgren
Lena Sellgren is Chief Economist and Head of Analysis at Business Sweden, Sweden's trade and investment council, with a background at Nordea, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Institute of Economic Research. She has extensive experience in global economic monitoring and analysis.
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Louise Bringselius
Louise Bringselius, a leadership researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics, is an award-winning speaker and one of Sweden’s leading experts on trust and trust-based leadership. She also lectures on psychological safety, organizational culture, change management, and governance.
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Carl Finnborg
An unforgettable lecture with the former bodyguard Carl – a true source of inspiration and a master of survival! The years abroad were over. Carl had taken off his protective vest. He looks forward to a life far from that as a bodyguard to diplomats, royalty, artists, politicians, and business leaders. He returned to Sweden ...
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Tobias Ahlin Bjerrome
Tobias Ahlin gives inspiring lectures about the digital revolution, innovation, and the future. He’s reached an international audience through his lectures and has the last two years lectured in 18 countries he was recently invited by The New York Times to New York and to Facebook’s headquarters in Tel Aviv. He’s had a central role ...
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Johan Ronnestam
Johan Ronnestam is an esteemed authority in the dynamic business landscape, boasting a rich reservoir of experience and expertise. With a remarkable career spanning over 25 years, he has adeptly navigated the complexities of modern business, mastering the latest trends and technologies that drive success in an ever-changing world. His forward-thinking approach, coupled with an ...
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Azra Osmancevic
Azra Osmancevic is Vice President of Operations Nordics at Viaplay Group & co-founder of legal tech start-up Justic. In 2023 she was ranked #1 on Ledarna’s annual list of Sweden’s top female leaders. Moreover, Azra is an active angel investor, board professional & the founder of Femtorship, a mentoring program for young women. As an ...
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Svante Randlert
Svante Randlert is one of most requested speakers in the Nordics with over 150 presentations a year on attracting, engaging and developing the right employees in the right ways and in the right places. Through the years he has directly advised hundreds of organisations and thousands of bosses on how to become the first choice ...
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Donnie SC Lygonis
In business, seizing opportunities for growth and differentiation are paramount. Donnie Lygonis, a distinguished innovation strategist and works at the largest University in Stockholm Sweden where he calls home, KTH Innovation. He is a serial entrepreneur, 6X TEDx speaker, and workshop facilitator. Donnie is the asset your company needs for continued growth and longevity. His ...
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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 ...