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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 ...
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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 & ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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? – ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Helena Åhman
Helena Åhman is a passionate observer of the human mind and expert on leadership, pressured situations, situational awareness and conflict management. She describes these phenomena through captivating stories. Her stories may involve hostage negotiators, scientists or film stars, but they are all based on solid scientific background and knowledge. Her ability to combine science, stories ...
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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.
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Theo Priestley
Theo Priestley is one of the UK’s leading futurists, and is a sought after international keynote and TEDx speaker on emerging technology trends. Theo has published more than 100 articles on topics including Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Fintech, Digital Transformation, and Virtual Reality, for Forbes, the European, WIRED, and Huffington Post. Theo has ...
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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 ...
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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.
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William Higham
William Higham is one of the world’s leading futurists and strategy experts. He helps organizations to understand how tomorrow’s Smart Consumers will think, feel and behave and how they can benefit from this in their business. His expertise comes from 20 years’ consumer experience for companies such as Sony, Virgin and Universal. “Today’s customer is ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sean Pillot de Chenecey
Sean Pillot de Chenecey is a seasoned public speaker with a track record of delivering keynotes in diverse regions such as the US, EU, MENA, and Asia for over a decade. He has spoken at a wide range of venues, including boardrooms, congress halls, stadiums, and festivals.
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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.
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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, ...
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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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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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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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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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Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson is the Schussel Family Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, Chair of the MIT Sloan Management Review, and the Editor of the Information Systems Network. Erik Brynjolfsson earned his A.B., Magna cum laude, and S.M. in Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences at Harvard ...
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Steve Howard
Steve Howard is a leading sustainable business professional and is a recognised authority on sustainability and climate change. Steve was Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA Group and served on IKEA’s Executive Group Management from 2011-2017. In 2015, Steve co-founded We Mean Business, a leading climate change coalition of organisations which helped support the Paris Agreement ...
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Dr. Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna is a leading Global Strategy Advisor, world traveler, and Best-Selling Author. He is Founder and Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. Parag has been an adviser to the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 program. Dr. Khanna holds a PhD in international relations from the London ...
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Peter Diamandis
Peter focuses on the importance of innovation and he looks to the future in explaining how exponentially advancing technologies will transform our companies, our industries, our governments and our lives over the next 5 to 10 years. Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. ...
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Jane Young
Jane has a fresh and powerful vision of the future of communications. She helps her audience see past the jargon, hype and worms’ eye view of social media tools, to a bigger picture of how to drive growth in the 21st century; looking at how we can solve age-old business problems using new knowledge and ...
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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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Samuel Scott
A former journalist turned passionate genius of marketing, Samuel Scott is an expert of sales and marketing that is sought after around the world as a keynote speaker. A man who most certainly eats, breathes and lives for all things related to marketing, Samuel is a communications expert that is called upon to share his ...
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Terence Mauri
Terence Mauri has been described as ‘an outspoken and influential expert on the future of leadership’ by Thinkers50 the global authority of top business thinkers in the world.
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Andreas Weigend
Andreas S. Weigend is one of the world’s leading innovators, an expert in social and mobile technologies, consumer behaviour and digital marketing. He directs the Social Data Lab, teaches at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and his research centres on how ongoing social data revolution impacts consumers, companies, and society. Andreas is an engaging and ...
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Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker is one of the founding fathers of the euro and a pioneer of European unification. As Prime Minister of Luxembourg he was the longest-serving head of government in the European Union – with 18 years in office – as well as the longest-serving democratically elected head of government worldwide. Jean-Claude Juncker studied law ...
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Sinan Aral
If you want to successfully compete in today’s rapidly changing digital marketplace, organizations must have a deep understanding of business analytics, which is why companies like Microsoft and Facebook tap the expertise of award-winning researcher, data scientist and MIT professor Sinan Aral. Since he is also a successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Professor Aral offers ...
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Tammy Erickson
Harvard MBA Tammy Erickson has been honored three times by the Thinkers50’s list as one the most influential living management thinkers in the world. Her in-depth research and analysis on generations in the workplace is employed to provide essential presentations on preparing for the changing demographics of the workforce. Her career has revolved around building ...
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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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Mattias Fras
AI is a state of mind. It is about a new mindset and values. It is about thinking about problem-solving in new ways. That means driving change in companies and institutions changes fundamentally. Not only organizational change but also individual change. Going from linear thinking to transformational thinking. From 10% impact to 10x. From process ...