Speakers

Confirmed Speakers

Jesper Ericsson is the marketing and sales director at BioLamina, a cutting edge biotech company within regenerative medicine. Jesper is also the co-founder of the Swedish Biotech Builders network, increasing the interactions among today’s bioleaders. He has a background from KI where he defended his PhD in neuroscience last year after engineering studies at KTH and has also been engaged as a student and faculty within SSES.

Moderator
Jesper Ericsson will be moderating the talks on the main stage.

Alexandra Bylund is the co-founder of Foap.com, a start-up that focuses on an iPhone app where the users can earn money on their photos. She has always had web, tech and social media as huge hobbies and started her first blog in 2005. She has a background in the travel industry and has worked for Ving/Thomas Cook and Solresor. Her previous job was as e-commerce Manager at Solresor where she was responsible for all online marketing and digital communication. Foap was founded in november 2011 and has since then been Alexandra’s full-time job.

Our 10 biggest mistakes
Alexandra Bylund, co-founder of Foap, will present the Foap journey from day one until now. 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.

Carl Waldekranz is the CEO and co-founder of Tictail. With the ambition of creating the worlds most used and loved e-commerce platform, Tictail has become the home to more than 10 000 stores in only 10 months. The vibrant community includes kickstarter projects like Transparent Speaker, hundreds of fashion bloggers as well as global fashion brands like Cheap Monday. Before Tictail, Carl cofounded and sold a digital agency called Super Strikers where he as an Art Director helped develop the brand identity for companies such as Spotify, Wrapp and Bambuser together with co-founder Kaj Drobin. Carl also founded Keyflow, a mobile guest list app company.

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.

Christian Thaler-Wolski is an investment manager with the Digital Media and Software team at Wellington Partners, a leading pan-European VC. He started his career at ORACLE, the global leader in the software industry and joined Wellington Partners in 2009. Wellington Partners is an investor in Spotify, Readmill, HowDo, EyeEm, Livebookings, Hailo and many other great companies. Christian holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Start-up hot seat
Investor Christian Thaler-Wolski will have a chat with some hot new start-ups on stage, in front of the Start-up Day audience.

Conor Delahunty is a designer who focuses on products and services. Right now he leads design at Somewhere (somewherehq.com), a new company who are trying to help people find the people they should be working with. Previously Conor worked at Made by Many (madebymany.com), a digital product and service design company in London, working with companies such as Skype, ITV and adidas. He likes the internet a lot.

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.

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.

Start-up hot seat
Investor Frank Meehan is back in Stockholm to have a chat with some hot new start-ups. This time on stage, in front of the Start-up Day audience.

Kristian Tryggvason is a co-founder and CEO of BioLamina, a biotech company selling high quality tools that help researchers develop stem cell therapy. BioLamina has been chosen as one of the hottest 33 technological start-up companies two years in a row by NyTeknik and Affärsvärlden. Kristian has also been chosen as one of the top future stars by Shortcut. He has a PhD in Cell Biology and an MBA.

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. He will describe why this is extremely difficult and how BioLamina is pursuing this challenge.

Lisa Lindström is the Managing Director of the Swedish design consultancy Doberman and a board member of several major Swedish corporations. She has been voted Sweden's Service Innovator of the Year and listed as one of the top 10 female leaders in Sweden. She is now in the process of taking Doberman to a global market.

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.

Nicole Vanderbilt is Etsy's Country Manager for the UK, Nordics, Australia and Canada. Prior to joining Etsy, she held a variety of leadership roles in the consumer internet industry, including CEO of mydeco.com, VP of International for Bebo, Head of Industry Marketing at Google, and Director of Premium Communications at American Express. Nicole holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BSE from Princeton in Architecture and Engineering. She is a slow runner, occasional yoga enthusiast, avid reader, frequent traveller and big fan of independent, creative businesses.

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. Explore new ways of approaching commerce that make for a more lasting and fulfilling world.

Ole Ruch is the Managing Director for Airbnb in Northern Europe and Asia-Pacific. Previously based in East-Asia and Russia, Ole developed international markets as part of the Executive Management team for Groupon. Ole has founded a number of start-up companies and helped to significantly grow global digital brands throughout his professional career. He holds a Masters in Management from Imperial College Business School in London, prior to which he studied Entrepreneurship at Boston University and Law at the University of Oslo.

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.

Oskar Kalmaru is a co-founder and marketing manager of Memoto - a Swedish start-up founded in 2012 with the vision to give everyone a photographic memory. Memoto gained attention from around the world when it launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of its wearable camera. Oskar is a SSES alumni and has previously co-founded several other online startups as well as worked with a major Swedish PR agency.

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.

Therese Bohlin is Planner at Prime, where she works with strategies and planning with a focus on creative direction and concepts. She has extensive experience in brand management, most recently as Planning Director at the advertising agency McCann. She is awarded for her work both nationally and internationally and lectures at Stockholm School of Economics and Berghs among others. The societal perspective is an integral part of her daily consultancy in clients' communications and social entrepreneurship collaborations.Therese holds an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Moderator
Therese Bohlin will be moderating the talks on the Social Entrepreneurship Track.

Annika Skoglund works at Stockholm University and as Senior Lecturer at SSES. Her research interest revolves around critical perspectives on the expert society and specifically the shaping of an enterprising self. She has experience from small innovative start-up companies as well as large industrial EU-projects.

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.

Chad Hamre is a person who prioritizes meaning and impact over almost everything else. He is the founding-CEO of Ethical Ocean (ethicalocean.com), a Canadian social enterprise that built America's leading online-platform for responsible shopping. Ethical Ocean exists to help socially and environmentally progressive brands launch, find customers, and compete in a world dominated by cheap consumer products ripe with negative externalities. Previously to this, Chad worked with Engineers Without Borders in Zambia and as a management consultant with ICF International specializing in carbon markets. These days he really likes hot-yoga, graphic design, Muay Thai, vegan food, and entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa.

Truly Meaningful Work 
Chad Hamre, CEO at Ethical Ocean, will give an inspirational talk about how he 'tried it all' before finally finding 'truly meaningful work' in building and scaling his own digital social enterprise.

Ida Östensson is the founder and CEO of Crossing Boarders that promotes gender equal free time for all. Ida has a background in the skateboard culture in which she has started up local and national organizations for skateboarding girls. At the age of 19, Ida was handpicked by Umeå municipality to start her own service with a focus on young people's influence. Since then, she has opened up Sweden's first Garment Library, Sweden skateboarding associations and helped three young girls to write a book. She is a doer who rather give solutions instead of complaining and she thinks she will experience an equal world before she dies.

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.

Imre Szeles is an ex-camera man now working as a promo editor for RTL Hungary, producing trailers for the country's biggest television network. He is also chief coordinator at major Hungarian music festivals, working with international acts at Volt and Balaton Sound Festival. Besides being the presenter of an electronic music radio show (Deck Attack), he randomly pop up as a DJ at different Budapest bars.

Josefina Oddsberg is co-founder and Chairman of the Stockholm based company Bee Urban Sweden. Josefina has a background in the media industry as a tv-producer but decided to retrain as a biologist in 2007 when her concern for the degrading state of the planet became overbearing. Josefina ended up as an urban ecologist with a Master’s degree from the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Ecosystem Services, Governance and Globalisation. In addition to her work with Bee Urban, Josefina does research for documentary films regarding environmental issues with the latest project being the international film ”The Plan”.

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.

Karin Berglund is SSES Centre Director at the Stockholm University. Her research interest lies in visualizing the suppressed forms, groups and values of entrepreneurship. Her current research focuses on the importance entrepreneurship might achieve in society with a somewhat broader interpretation - that is to say comprising other values than purely economic ones, highlighting other characters than the western male hero stereotype, and drawing attention to other processes than only those leading to starting new enterprises.

Karolina Lisslö is co-founder and CEO of Bee Urban Sweden - a completely new business concept which allows companies to become sponsors of hives as a part of their CSR work. Bee Urban's mission is to spread awareness and knowledge about the pollination effect of bees and their impact on a local and global scale. Karolina is also active in improving the air quality in Stockholm and her actions have resulted in the creation of new regulations by government. Karolina is currently a board member of Friluftsfrämjandet and Naturskyddsföreningen Stockholms Länsförbund.

Kia Mohebi is the founder of Inspons, a site where you raise money to charity through sport activities. Kia has a background in real estate in London and later in Stockholm before she studied innovation and entrepreneurship. She combined her impressions and experiences from her time abroad with the newfound academic knowledge in an innovative intersection between sports and the concept of fundraising for a charitable cause. A concept little known in Sweden, yet largely renowned in many countries such as US, Australia and England.

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.

Magnus Engervall is one of two founders of FlexiDrive.se, Sweden's first peer-to-peer car sharing platform enabling people to rent cars from each other. FlexiDrive.se increases the utility of vehicles and is a part of "the sharing economy" which is growing by the minute. Magnus has a degree in economics from Stockholm School of Economics and is an SSES alumni.

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.

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