Speakers
Start-up Day brings together some of the most interesting and passionate entrepreneurs not only from Scandinavia, but from around the globe.
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The speaker list is continuously updated, so stay tuned.
Confirmed speakers
Jesper Ericsson is an entrepreneurial scientist with a passion for increased interactions among today’s bioleaders as well as the next generation of visionaries. Jesper is the co-founder of the Swedish Biotech Builders network and the Stockholm 2020 Initiative and has a background from KTH and has also been engaged as both a student and faculty within SSES. He is currently finishing his PhD within neuroscience at KI as well as joining the team at Biolamina, a cutting edge biotech company within the stem cell field.
Moderator
Jesper Ericsson will moderate the talks on the main stage.
Hjalmar Winbladh is co-founder and CEO of Wrapp. Hjalmar is an acclaimed serial entrepreneur who in 1994 founded his first mobile internet company Sendit that later was acquired by Microsoft. Hjalmar took the position as GM of Microsoft’s Mobile Internet Business Unit. In 2006 he founded the Mobile VoIP provider Rebtel where he today is chairman. Hjalmar is also a board member, co-founder and senior advisor for several international businesses.
Wrapp: The story of a start-app
Hjalmar Winbladh and Andreas Ehn will discuss the differences in starting up a web business today and five years ago, drawing on their experiences with Rebtel, Spotify and their most recent start-up Wrapp.
Andreas Ehn is co-founder and CTO of Wrapp. As Spotify’s first CTO Andreas established a world class tech team that built the platform and product for the music service. Previously he worked for the successful Swedish internet company Stardoll. Andreas is a board member of several companies and he is frequently hired as an advisor for promising internet start-ups as well as for venture capital funds.
Wrapp: The story of a start-app
Hjalmar Winbladh and Andreas Ehn will discuss the differences in starting up a web business today and five years ago, drawing on their experiences with Rebtel, Spotify and their most recent start-up Wrapp.
Anna Oscarsson is co-founder of Kvittar, a company that she started to work with 2009 while still a student at the business and entrepreneur school, the Kaospilot, in Malmö. Anna is also involved with and one of the initiators of Geekgirl Meetup Öresund. Her earlier experience include working with media projects in Belarus, India and Denmark.
Building digital infrastructure with stubbornness
Anna Oscarsson will talk about how to develop a new digital infrastructure and get people to adapt to it. What is it that makes you keep on going and not to give up!
Frank Meehan is part of the successful Horizons VC team, representing Mr Li Ka-Shing's private investments. Horizons was an early investor in Skype and holds investments in Facebook, Spotify, Second Market, Waze and many others, plus were an early investor in SIRI before it was sold to Apple. Our recent investment in Summly, created by 16 year old Nick D’Aloisio from the UK shows our focus on unique breakthrough tech driven investments. Frank was a board member of Spotify from 2009-2011 and also of SIRI from early 2009. He is currently also on the boards of Trapit, Tripboard, Tout, Summly, Magisto, DoubleTwist and the TOM Group.
Focus and delivery in the start-up jungle
Having taken the road from KTH student to Horizons VC with some very successful investments, Frank Meehan will explain the secret of focus and delivery, inspiring us with the courage to make that critical leap to success.
Nikolaj Nyholm is General Partner at Sunstone Capital, a Northern European early-stage technology venture capital firm. Nikolaj most recently served as CEO of the people-photo-tagging service Polar Rose, sold to Apple in 2010. He was previously the co-founder of Imity, an open-source mobile social networking platform sold to Zyb/Vodafone, of Organic Network (creators of OpenWRT), and of Speednames/Ascio, Scandinavia’s largest domain name registrar sold to London AIM-listed GroupNBT. Nikolaj spent a year as O’Reilly’s European Conference Program Chair and co-produces the annual technology/culture conference in Copenhagen, reboot.dk.
Inside the head of an investor
Nikolaj Nyholm will open up his investor brain to give us an insight into what makes them tick. Learn about the dirty decision parameters and what you should, and definitely should not do when chasing funding.
Gustav von Sydow is the CEO and founder of Burt, the Swedish software startup helping the advertising industry become more clever and creative with data. Prior to founding Burt, Gustav was an award-winning advertising strategist and developer, creating campaigns, websites and applications for start-ups as well as the Fortune 500 companies. He is a frequent speaker at conferences for advertising and internet technology, and has presented at Cannes Lions, Web 2.0, Techcrunch50, DEMO and Eurobest.
Big business - the happiness and hardships of building an Enterprise 2.0 start-up
With experience from a number of different start-ups, Gustav von Sydow and John Sjölander will share their personal insights of the ups and downs in their everyday life of building a large scale, business-to-business start-up.
John Sjölander, Founding CTO and at present COO at Burt is a proper startup veteran. With 13 years in various startups he has been along for the successfull as well as the less fun parts of the game. However he seems to fuel on that unpredictable excitement and the passion for the startup scene is in his DNA. Today he is focusing on building awesome teams and recruiting the best talent there is. When not busy building a fast growing online advertising analytics company, he spends extensive time engaging in the startup community by mentoring and lecturing on how to build businesses, arranging events and evangelizing startup life.
Big business - the happiness and hardships of building an Enterprise 2.0 start-up
With experience from a number of different start-ups, Gustav von Sydow and John Sjölander will share their personal insights of the ups and downs in their everyday life of building a large scale, business-to-business start-up.
Kristina Saudargaite, Co-founder of Sveikas Vaikas believes that every person deserves to know what they eat. The initiative Sveikas Vaikas that she started with her friends in Lithuania was threatened to be sued by food corporations. However, public support was so powerful that Sveikas Vaikas ended up in the parliament that banned harmful food additives at schools. Currently Kristina is doing her Masters at Stockholm School of Economics, while working on InBelly, the international version of Sveikas Vaikas that was recently chosen by Kairos Society as one of the best 50 student-run companies in the world.
In search for the optimal business model
Kristina Saudargaite will walk you through the personal experience of business model generation: homework to do before diving into what you are passionate about.
Hoa Ly is passionate about the idea that science and technology can help us live both healthier and better lives. To pursue his vision he co-founded Hoa's Tool Shop, a health tech company that has been listed as one of the hottest startups in Europe by Wired Magazine. Hoa is also co-founder of Psykologifabriken and a researcher in clincal psychology at Linköping University. Last but not least he is a music lover and DJ, and regularly plays alongside prime music exports such as Adrian Lux, Miike Snow and Dada Life. Together with Swedish celebrities like Noomi Rapace, Swedish House Mafia and Joel Kinnaman, Hoa Ly was named one of Sweden's up and coming stars 2011 by career magazine Shortcut.
Innovate by combining your passions
Hoa Ly will share his experience of combining his passions for psychology, technology and music and how it has enabled him to build new and innovative things.
Paulina Modlitba Söderlund is Community Manager at Toca Boca, a Swedish play studio that produces interactive apps for kids. She is a KTH and MIT Media Lab alum with focus on media and web strategy, social media, and business development. Before joining Toca Boca, Paulina was Head of Product Strategy at Stardoll. Paulina is also active in the female tech and web network Geek Girl Meetup.
Community Management in a start-up
Paulina Modlitba Söderlund, will moderate a session about community management with panelists Evelina Ander, Lisa Enckell and Pernilla Åström. How do you build long term relationships with your users and customers in social media and what are the challenges?
Evelina Ander is Marketing Manager at Swedish-American start-up Yubico. Yubico provides online identity protection with it's YubiKey. Evelina's focus is online communication and she has a bachelor's degree in Media- and Communication. Prior to Yubico, she was responsible for email marketing, social media and PR at the online travel agency MrJet/ebookers.
Community Management in a start-up
Paulina Modlitba Söderlund, will moderate a session about community management with panelists Evelina Ander, Lisa Enckell and Pernilla Åström. How do you build long term relationships with your users and customers in social media and what are the challenges?
Lisa Enckell is Marketing Manager at the social gifting service Wrapp. Wrapp lets you celebrate friends and family with free gift cards provided by top brands that want to attract customers. Lisa holds a Master of Science in business and economics from Stockholm School of Economics and has previously worked as a PR-consultant, presenter and theatre producer.
Community Management in a start-up
Paulina Modlitba Söderlund, will moderate a session about community management with panelists Evelina Ander, Lisa Enckell and Pernilla Åström. How do you build long term relationships with your users and customers in social media and what are the challenges?
Pernilla Åström is Community Manager at Mynewsdesk where she has built up the social media presence and community activities since 2007. During this time, the company has gone from being a startup and industry challenger to become a market leader in Sweden and represented in six markets. Pernilla has previous experience from consultative sales, relationship marketing and digital pr in B2B, working with media analysis and online monitoring for Business Intelligence.
Community Management in a start-up
Paulina Modlitba Söderlund, will moderate a session about community management with panelists Evelina Ander, Lisa Enckell and Pernilla Åström. How do you build long term relationships with your users and customers in social media and what are the challenges?
Per Håkansson is a Silicon Valley-based writer, lecturer and advisor on mobile business strategies, technologies and entreprenurship. Previously he worked 15+ years with product development and business strategy at global Internet successes Springboardr, Blurb, Yahoo! and Icon Medialab. Per has won the Webby Award in 2008 and has been featured in Fast Company. He is currently working on a series of Master classes for tech entrepreneurs and writing a book on how to successfully work, live and play in the new always-on mobile world.
Working the future
Per Håkansson will share his success strategies for a more human, personal and productive lifestyle and tell you how to thrive in an always-on mobile world.
