James Appathurai served as NATOS spokesperson, Russia negotiator and the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy before becoming responsible for cyber security and innovation 2022.

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Professor Micael Dahlen, record selling author of Nextopia, A Little Book about Happiness, Chaosologi and many more and the creator of the Happy Leaders program at Handelshögskolan, arguably the first academic happy course in the world. One of our most published business professors and for sure the hippest looking.

Susanne Najafi, founder venture capital company Backing Minds, e-commerce success Eleven and many more. A champion thinker and doer bridging the divides and backing entrepreneurs from minorites and non-standard backgrounds.  Also founder of the XO Foundation, and has also founded RefugeeAir and #Letthemfly an initiative driving safe routes for refugees.

Anna Gissler works with attracting international investors, establishments, talent and provide Stockholm with the best in class business environment.

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Penny Low, Serial entrepreneur in various fields, from wealth management to innovation to social enterprises. Mentor to CEOs and strategy advisor to governments. Veteran Member of Singapore Parliament, who developed the first eco-town in the tropics and the award-winning township in Singapore. Author of 'Top 50 Social Innovations Changing Our World'.

Fabrice Grinda, founder FJ Labs and named world’s best investor by Forbes magazine. A founder himself, founding classified giant OLX and several other ventures has invested in over 1000 startups with off the charts good ratio of exits and returns including Alibaba, DeliveryHero and many more. He I also host of entrepreneurs favoirite podcast Playing with Unicorns.

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Managing Director TechSverige

Former Chief Digital Officer for the Swedish Government

Former Head of unit Digitalisation at Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions

Paula Bublay has been hosting co-living houses for the past five years in Silicon Valley, Mallorca, Istanbul, and Tallinn. She is now the founder and CEO of Buenro, a co-living marketplace where curated groups of people share luxury villas all across the world. Paula holds an MBA from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with continuing studies in social impact marketing at Stanford University.

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Christopher Sandberg is a twice International Emmy Award Winning, world-renowned creator of mass-immersion events and premium drama. His productions are listed in WIRED Magazine's groundbreaking milestones in transmedia. Sandberg organises the largest immersive magic school in the World, College of Wizardry, at castles in Europe, and heads Sweden's largest historical festival Medieval Week, in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Visby.

Sandberg is Founder of immersive studios The company P (SWE) and Ubique (USA), and live action role-play success Tall Tales Heroes (SWE).

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Johanna has a Master's Degree in Business Administation from the University of Lund. She started out as Business Unit Director at Icon Medialab, one of the leading digital agencies in Scandinavia around the millennial.

In 2002 she founded and became CEO over her own design agency, Summer and further the CEO of the marketing group ONE Media, listed at the Swedish equities market place Aktietorget. As shareholder and former CEO of the Mobiento Group, the leading mobile marketing group in Scandinavia she has played a key role in the company’s success and winning the Cannes Lions, MMA, Red Herring top 100 to name a few. For three years Johanna was the CEO the leading digital agency in Scandinavia, Creuna, with 140 employees in Stockholm, Gothenburg  and Malmö and was acquired by Knowit in 2021.

Today she heads the biggest business area within H&H Group containing Nordic Morning, Comprend and Petra, Pyramid and Graal with 300 employees in offices in Sweden, Finland, Poland, UK and everywhere.

Sam Rihani, comes from a long background in media and social media serving 13 years as Country Director for Facebook and Meta. He brings uniqw experience from the birth and growth of social media as well as thoughts about our metaverse future.

Ola Ahlvarsson is a Swedish entrepreneur and athlete based out of Stockholm, Miami and Ibiza. Ola has since the mid 90’s been at the cutting edge of digital entrepreneurship as a company builder, investor, thought leader, writer and advisor on innovation and internationalization to several world leading organizations. He is the founder or co-founder of 20+ companies, including Result, Starstable, Epicenter, Ahlvar, Villa Ahlvar, Sellbranch and Sime.

He has been a member of the board of the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer program (where he was elected young global leader). As a writer he is the author of “Mission Possible” (2005) and "Silicon Valhalla" (2018) about Swedish entrepreneurship.

Ola has a unique background in martial arts with a World and European Championship gold in Goju Ryu Karate, a bronze in Taekwondo World Championships and a World Championship in Kick-Boxing. He combines the experience from the martial arts world with his 20 year experience in the field of entrepreneurship. He is also a sought after moderator. Read more at www.olaahlvarsson.com

Ten years of self-tracking during an exceptional era of tech development led Per to mainly focus on healthtech - for the benefit of personal health, democratization of healthcare as well as startup opportunities.

Per is an advisor, speaker and educator at heart. He's also contributing editor for Warp News, “making the future come sooner”. 

His extensive business background comes from leading roles in marketing: as brand development director (Ericsson Mobile Phones, Huddinge Sjukhus etc) and being a board member of Twilfit and the Stockholm Marketing Association; as advertising account director for Saab Cars, Skandia Försäkring, Volvo Trucks.

He's known for being well-read, strategic, creative and open minded.

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Author Megadeals, Co-founder Mine Storage, Venizum, Forestcarb, Vendemore (acquired by D&B), InZynk, Megadeals, Investor in 15 sustainability companies and SaaS companies. Christopher has worked with large deals for +100 Fortune 500 companies and a few hundred scaleups around the World.

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Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist best known for his work in influence, human connection, and decision making. Jon specializes in applying the latest research to transform the ways companies approach marketing, sales, consumer engagement, and culture. His clients range from Fortune 500 brands, like Microsoft, Google, AB-InBev, and Samsung, to startups.

More than a decade ago, Jon founded The Influencers Dinner, a secret dining experience for industry leaders ranging from Nobel laureates, Olympians, celebrities, and executives, to artists, musicians, and even the Grammy winning voice of the bark from “Who Let the Dogs Out.” Guests cook dinner together, but can’t discuss their career or give their last name, and once seated to eat, they reveal who they are. Over time, these dinners developed into a community. With thousands of members, Influencers is the largest community of its type worldwide.

Jon’s second book, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Seller "You're Invited". The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence. In it, he demonstrates the importance of human connection, trust and community to accomplishing what is most important to us.

In his free time, Jon works on outrageous projects. Among them spending a year traveling to all 7 continents, or to the world's greatest events (Grand Prix, Art Basel, Burning Man, Running of the Bulls, etc.) and barely surviving to tell the tale. These Adventures were chronicled in his first book: The 2 AM Principle: Discover the Science of Adventure

Dr. Ruben Puentedura is the Founder and President of Hippasus, a consulting firm based in Western Massachusetts, focusing on transformative applications of information technologies to education. He has implemented these approaches for over thirty years at a range of K-20 educational institutions, as well as health and arts organizations. He is the creator of the SAMR model for selecting, using, and evaluating technology in education, which currently guides the work of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, as well as multiple other projects worldwide. He is also the author of The EdTech Quintet, a categorization of the core technology toolset required for education derived from the Horizon Report. His current work explores new directions in mobile computing, digital storytelling, learning analytics, and educational gaming, focusing on applications in areas where they have not been traditionally employed.

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Entrepreneur and CEO with solid marketing, sales and online media experience that has lead multiple online sales and marketing teams in various European markets. Managerial domain has extended from online product management and sales management to general management. Interested in entrepreneurial spirited companies with growth ambitions.

Specialties: General Management, Sales Management, Marketing Communication, Product Management and Business Development

Thomas has over 35 years of business experience, including from Ericsson, WSP and Kungsleden, of which 28 years as CEO. Most recently, he comes from the position as CEO of the employer organization Almega.

Thomas Erséus has a master's degree in road and water engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and is currently chairman of the board of Chalmersfastigheter. Thomas worked on AMF Fastigheter's board for almost two years before he recently took over as CEO.

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Errol Koolmeister is the award-winning AI and technology expert who has successfully built several large companies' ability to deliver value with AI. Most recently, he comes from the H&M group, where he, as responsible for AI, has been involved in recruiting over 100 people, integrating AI in the core business, and driving the technical transformation in the company.Before H&M, he worked as an advisor to several start-ups and large companies in Europe & Russia. In addition, he advised on how to best use and scale AI in organizations. Before working as an advisor, Errol worked as a lead data scientist for the Vodafone group. He was part of building up the international AI team, which today consists of over 500 people.He began his career at Nordea bank, the largest financial institution in the Nordics, where he helped build the fraud and anti-money laundering department. So with his background in risk and security, he has deep knowledge of using and extracting value from data both ethically and responsibly.

Ullakarin Nyberg is a senior physician at the north of Stockholm Psychiatry and a suicide researcher at Karolinska Institutet. Today, she works full-time with suicide prevention and post-suicide support. Ulla Karin Nyberg is also a highly regarded lecturer and author and has her own podcast, the Inferno podcast.

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Fredrik Paulún is one of Sweden's best-known nutritionists (Master of Science in Nutrition) and health entrepreneurs. He is an international best-selling author in the field of health and nutrition, and develops healthy foods for Orkla Foods Sweden under the Paulúns brand for the Swedish and international markets. Fredrik is a business developer at Nutrilight, which develops and sells products in the field of red light therapy.

Fredrik Östbye is Head of Aliaxis Next, a new Division in Aliaxis Group, going for new businesses and forge technology partnerships with promising startups to develop new solutions and services in sustainable water management, resilient water infrastructures and water for food production.

Fredrik is an entrepreneur who has built companies since he went to school. His first company installed solar panels on houses. The second one got acquired by a Kinnevik company in 2004, based on the prediction that all electricity meters will be connected. The third one got acquired by Telenor in 2013, based on the prediction that everything will be connected.

He gets his energy from doing business where all involved are winners and the results contribute to a more sustainable world. His deep technical knowledge in combination with a great sense of doing business repeatedly has resulted in successful concepts positioned in the market. He has always been a workaholic, but when not working he spends time with his kids and enjoys horseback riding, kitesurfing and snowboarding.

He is convinced that the world needs to switch to solar and wind power as primary energy sources, and thanks to smart technology and innovative business models the evolution towards a more convenient lifestyle for everyone can continue without running out of natural resources.

With more than 10 years of media and communication, Kotada founded aktarr.se in 2017, which is now one of Sweden's largest and fastest news and information platforms for in Sweden. Kotada has a strong background in diversity and inclusion with a vision to make a better, more inclusive society.