Speakers

PETER VOSER
Chairman of the Board, ABB Ltd

Chairman of the Board of Directors of ABB Ltd. since April 2015. Previously, Chief Executive Officer (2009-2013) and Chief Financial Officer (2004-2009) of Shell, where he also held various leadership roles from 1982-2002. ABB CFO from 2002-2004. Deputy Chairman of PSA International Pte Ltd, and Member of the Board of Directors of Roche, IBM and Temasek. In addition, Peter Voser is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies and a member of the Catalyst Board of Directors. Degree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland.

KAIDI RUUSALEPP
Founder and CEO, Funderbeam

Founder and CEO of Funderbeam, the global funding and trading platform of private companies. Powered by blockchain technology, the marketplace delivers capital to growth companies and on-demand liquidity to investors worldwide. Member of Startup Europe Advisory Board at European Commission. Kaidi is a former CEO of Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange and of the Central Securities Depository. Co-Founder of Estonian Service Industry Association. A lawyer by training, she co-authored the Estonian Digital Signatures Act of 2000 -- landmark legislation that enables secure digital identities and, in turn, the country’s booming electronic economy.
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CARL LEINAR
Senior Advisor, Board Member and Keynote Speaker & Board member in STF Ingenjörsutbildning AB and Bliwa Skadeförsäkring AB

Former CEO of TRR Trygghetsrådet ( the biggest Swedish Outplacement Agency) and former Vice President Ericsson-Head of Human Resources Sweden.

DANICA KRAGIC
Professor, KTH - Working and living along with AI

Danica Kragic is a Professor of Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Her research is in the area of AI, machine learning and robotics.
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MARCUS WALLENBERG
Chairman, SEB

Marcus Wallenberg is Chairman of FAM and Patricia Industries, and Vice Chairman of Investor AB and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He is also involved in banking and finance, the defense industry and the pharmaceutical industry as Chairman of SEB and Saab AB, and as Director on AstraZeneca's board. Marcus holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

KATRIN WESTLING PALM
Director-General, The Swedish Tax Agency

Katrin Westling Palm is Director General for the Swedish Tax Agency since november 2017. Ms Westling Palm has been a civil servant for more than 30 years and among serveral other positions Ms Westling Palm has been Director for the Swedish Pensions agency for more than 7 years.
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EVA NORDMARK
President, TCO

TCO, the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees, is a trade union confederation comprising 14 affiliates that together organise around 1.4 million white-collar workers. Eva is also chairman of the university board at Luleå University of Technology, Scandinavia’s northernmost university of technology with around 19 000 students and 1700 employees. Prior to her role as President of TCO she was President of one of TCO’s member organisations, Vision, in the years 2004-2011.

JACOB WALLENBERG
Chairman, Investor AB

Jacob Wallenberg is Chairman of Investor AB, Vice Chairman of FAM and Patricia Industries, and Director on the board of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He is also actively involved in the telecommunications industry, and the power and automation technology industry as Vice Chairman of Ericsson and ABB. Jacob holds an MBA degree from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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LUKA CRNKOVIC-FRIIS
Founder and CEO, Peltarion

Luka is CEO and Founder of Peltarion, the leading Swedish AI company making artificial intelligence technology usable and affordable for all companies and organizations through their operational AI platform. He has more than 15 years of experience with neural networks and their industrial applications from companies such as NASA, Tesla, General Electric, Dell, BMW, Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, and the Universities of Harvard, MIT and Oxford. He holds a master’s and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. After being awarded his master’s in 2004, Luka co-founded Peltarion, convinced then - as they are now - that artificial intelligence represents the next industrial revolution, but that it needs the right tools in order to be truly accessible, affordable and reliable for everyone.
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MICHAEL BARRETT
Professor, Cambridge University
Innovating through Co-working Spaces for Digital Transformation

Michael Barrett is Professor of Information Systems and Innovation Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics. Michael draws primarily on practice-based theories for understanding digital innovation and transformation across various themes including service innovation; ecosystem leadership; digital innovation and co-working spaces. In 2016, Michael was awarded the Distinguished Scholar award by the OCIS division of the AOM.
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CAROLINE BERG
Chairman of the Board, Axel Johnson

Caroline Berg is the fifth generation Chair of the family company Axel Johnson. She is also the Chair of Martin & Servera and the Vice Chair of Nordstjernan. Caroline is a member of the Board of Axfood, Dustin, Axfast, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation and Stockholm School of Economics’ Advisory Board. Between 2006-2014 Caroline was the vice president of HR, Communications and Sustainability at Axel Johnson.

ANDERS FERBE
President of the governments delegation of validation

Anders Ferbe is a trade union activist in Sweden for more than 40 years. Ex President of IF Metall Sweden and ex Vice President of IndustriAll Global and IndustriAll Europe. Now retired but active as a President of the governments delegation of validation and also other projects.

PER KRUSELL
Professor, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University

Per Krusell’s research spans macroeconomics, focused on long-run issues but broadly defined to include inequality and climate change. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota and worked in the United States for over 20 years, most recently as a Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He is a long-time member of the Economics Prize committee (including as its chairman) and since 2008 he is a professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University.
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ELEONORE SCHLYTER
Head of unit, Department of Labour, Trelleborg Municipality

Eleonore Schlyter has since 2014 worked with welfare support at the department of labor in Trelleborg Municipality. As a unit manager she's responsible for the process with the unaccompanied minors according to the Social services act, Socialtjänstlagen and also the process that consider applications from people applying for welfare support. Eleonore has earlier worked as project manager in the private and in the municipal sector. She is driven by challenging existing structures to contribute to community development.
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SARAH JACK
Professor and holder of the Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Chair in Innovative and Sustainable Business Development

Sarah Jack’s interests include looking at how the entrepreneur in various contexts works to build and sustain communities, innovation (especially social innovation) and entrepreneurship and innovation over time (primarily through the study of family businesses in Canada, Spain and Finland). Her research questions are developed through a desire to extend understanding and contribute to the knowledge gaps that exist in entrepreneurship research and their implications for policy, theory and practice. Sarah also serve on various editorial boards.
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CHRISTOPHE ANDRÈ
Head of the OECD Sweden-Finland desk

Christophe André is a senior economist at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Since joining the OECD in 1997, he has worked on many topics, including macroeconomic analysis, modelling and forecasting, fiscal and monetary policy, as well as housing and health policies. Since 2014, he heads the Economics Department’s Sweden-Finland desk, producing macroeconomic projections, structural policy analysis and Economic Surveys.
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SUSANNE ACKUM
Consultant Economic Analysis

Susanne has a PhD in Economics from Uppsala University. Her thesis was about unemployment and labor supply. She is a former Director (Trade Union Institute for Economic Research), Director-General (Institute for Labour Market and Education Policy Evaluation (IFAU)), State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance and Audit general. She is currently working on issues concerning fiscal policy, especially the functioning of the labor market.

MARKUS SCHMITZ
CIO of the Federal Employment Agency, Germany

Dr. Schmitz has been at the Federal Employment Agency since 2005 and was responsible for a number of key projects in the context of the Hartz reforms. He served from 2009 to 2014 as Managing Director of the Head Office for Product Development in the basic social security system. Dr. Schmitz served as Chairman of the Management Board in the Regional Office of Bavaria starting in 2015. Since November 2016, he has been responsible for the Information Technology and Digital Processes department.
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DARJA ISAKSSON
Director-General, Vinnova

Darja is since August 2018 Director General at Vinnova – Sweden´s Innovation Agency. Previously she was a member of the Swedish Government Innovation Council and member of Swedish Government´s Digital Advisory Council. Darja is also founder of two successful digital agencies.

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