First speakers announced
20 October 2021
It is time to introduce just some of the fantastic keynote speakers that will be on the digital mainstage at Sweden Innovation Days!
These world leading professionals come with a wealth of expertise in mission innovation, strategic investment, innovation and design, digitalisation and democracy and will be sharing their knowledge across all four days of this event.
Our moderators
Aurore Belfrage will join Sweden Innovation Days as the lead moderator for all four days! Aurore is the CEO of BCB Ventures. She has extensive experience as a tech investor, geopolitical risk advisor and sustainability strategist and is even a steering committee member for the Swedish government’s contribution to Expo2020 Dubai.
Every day Aurore will be joined by a new co-moderator. The first to accompany her will be Dan Hill who is Director of Strategic Design at Vinnova. On Day 2 Anders Brinne, Strategic Area Lead, Sustainable Precision Health at Vinnova will co-moderate.
Stay tuned as we will also be announcing the co-moderators for days three and four soon!
World leading experts on the mainstage
Every day between 14:00-17:00 CET the digital mainstage will be filled with world leading experts. They will move past inspirational speeches to also provide practical insights on how we can innovate how we innovate to reach the Global Goals!
A variety of perspectives including academia, the European Commission, government agencies, corporates and public organisations are all represented amongst the first speakers. See who will be on the Mainstage below!
January 17: Missions to achieve the Global Goals
Banny Banerjee, Stanford Changelabs
Darja Isaksson, Vinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency
Patrick Child, European Commission DG Research & Innovation
January 19: Co-creation for innovation
Andreas Netz, Vinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency
Carl Heath, RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden
Malin Lindberg, Luleå University of Technology
January 20: Climate neutral cities
Dennis Pamlin, RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden
Maria Stenström, the Swedish 2030-secretariat
Magnus Frodigh, Ericsson AB, GFTL Technology, Ericsson Research
January 18: Preventative health and wellbeing
Ebba Carbonnier, SweLife and Karolinska Institutet Innovations
Magnus Björsne, AstraZeneca BioVentureHub
Learn more about these expert speakers here
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