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STOCKHOLM SCHOOL
OF ECONOMICS

Program

AI for resilient retail: redesigning leadership and operating models under disruption

15:30 – 16:00

Arrival and registration

16:00 – 16:10

Welcome and opening

Moderator:

Xuehui "Lily" Gao, Assistant Professor, Center for Retailing, Stockholm School of Economics

16:10 – 16:30

Opening conversation

Why AI for Resilient Retail — and why now?

A moderated conversation with

  • Nina Shariati, Founder, Circular Transparency
  • Rickard Sandberg, Associate Professor, SSE House of Innovation

16:30 – 17:10

Panel 1

When AI becomes a leadership question

Panelists

  • Anneli Gunnarsson, Global VP Retail Data & Machine Learning, IKEA
  • Ellen Svanström, CDIO, H&M Group
  • Peter Muld, CIO, ICA

17:10 – 17:30

Break

17:30 – 18:10

Panel 2

Where resilience strengthens — and where it breaks

Panelists

  • Hanna Linderstål, International cybersecurity advisor, Founder of Earhart Business Protection Agency, and cybersecurity expert to UNICC
  • Linda Leopold, AI Strategic Advisor
  • Martin Elwin, Technology Director for Northern Europe, Amazon Web Services

18:10 – 18:50

Panel 3

Ecosystem dynamics: capital, scaling, and structural advantage

Panelists

  • Arti Zeighami, Senior Advisor AI@Scale, Partner & Director, Boston Consulting Group
  • Daniel Akenine, National Technology Officer, Microsoft
  • Rebecka Löthman Rydå, General Partner, Norrsken Evolve

18:50 – 19:00

Closing reflections

19:00 – 19:30

Networking mingle