Programme

The first year of a start-up
Carl Waldecranz, Co-founder and CEO of e-commerce platform Tictail will talk about team versus ideas, and what impact company culture has had when growing a vibrant community of 10 000 stores.

Reimagining commerce
Nicole Vanderbilt, UK and Nordics Country Manager for Etsy, will present a new approach to business where people-powered commerce represents a clear alternative to big-box, cookie-cutter retail.

Truly Meaningful Work

Chad Hamre, Founder and CEO of Ethical Ocean, will talk about 'trying it all' before finally finding 'truly meaningful work' in building and scaling his own digital social enterprise.

During this session we have parallel tracks running

Main Stage

Marketing needs no product
Oskar Kalmaru, co-founder of Memoto, will share his experience of marketing a start-up - long before it has any products out on the market.

Our 10 biggest mistakes
Alexandra Bylund, co-founder of Foap, will present the Foap journey from day one. During the first one and a half years they did a lot right, but maybe more interesting, they also made mistakes. Find out which they were and what they learned from them.

Gaps
Conor Delahunty, Designer at Somewhere, will talk about gaps, intentionally leaving holes and broken spaces in your product so that people can surprise you by doing things that you could never have guessed.

Gold Partner interview with Corrado Tomassoni, PayPal - "Painless Monetization for Start-ups"

The Gallery: Social Entrepreneurship track

A resource based economy
Magnus Engervall, co-founder of FlexiDrive.se, will question fundamental principles and talk about ways to increase product utility and creating a more sustainable society.

Turning competitors into collaborators
Ida Östensson, CEO of Crossing Boarders, will talk about innovative ways to put gender on the agenda, and how to work with a collaborative approach to other actors in the field, instead of viewing them as competitors.

Choosing the right legal structure for your social enterprise
Karolina Lisslö and Josefina Oddsberg, founders of Bee Urban, will share their learnings from choosing the right legal structure for their social enterprise.

The Social Entrepreneurship track will be moderated by Therese Bohlin, Prime.

During this session we have parallel tracks running

Main Stage

Going global from day one
Ole Ruch, Managing Director for Airbnb in Northern Europe and Asia-Pacific, will talk about scaling a start-up internationally and share the story of Airbnb's growth across the world.

Is design a universal language?
Lisa Lindström, Managing Director of Doberman, will share very openly the learnings from putting a design agency on an international market.

David against Goliath
Kristian Tryggvason, co-founder and CEO of BioLamina, will talk about building a company with the intention to disrupt industry conventions and become the golden standard.

The Gallery: Social Entrepreneurship track

Breaking new grounds
Kia Mohebi, Managing director of Inspons, will talk about her experience with the clash of cultural differences between the social entrepreneurship scene in Scandinavia vs. US, Australia and England.

Why are Prezi renovating houses?
Karin Berglund and Annika Skoglund from SSES along with Imre Szeles, film director, will present a documentary on how Prezi teaches their employees that change is possible through social entrepreneurship.

The Social Entrepreneurship track will be moderated by Therese Bohlin, Prime.

Start-up hot seat
Investors Christian Thaler-Wolski, Wellington Partners and Frank Meehan, Horizons Ventures will have a chat with some hot new start-ups on stage.