Programme - Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship

good morning paper
— Friday, november 13, 2009 —
Welcome to
Good Morning
2019!
you’re reading this we would
like to welcome you to our 10th
Ianniversary.
Today promises to be
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an exciting and interesting day for
all concerned. How, you might ask,
do we know that? You’re here, we’re
here and, well, everybody else is here.
But before you immerse yourself in a
day of entrepreneurial bliss, there are
a few things that will help you plan
your day.
Meet our alumni
If you want to hear the advice that
some of our most successful alumni
have for tomorrow’s companies, don’t
miss the Start-ups Demo & Networking session. This will take place during lunch and coffee breaks in the
Royals Festvåning. And while you’re
there, why not pitch your own ideas
to the Bonnier R&D and Media Invest teams at the Bonnier Genius Bar.
They promise instant feedback, so
good luck!
Future films
An Okapi is a rare animal that looks like a cross between a zebra, a giraffe and a horse.
SSES welcomes a new member school to the team
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year we, dare we call ourselves the Okapi of the academic
world, are happy to announce that
Stockholm University became our
fifth member school. It’s been a few
years since a new school has joined us
and this feels like the right move for
all parties involved. Stockholm University is one of the largest academic
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facilities in Northern Europe. They
participate in regional, national and
international collaborations and have
exchange agreements with some 600
academic partners around the world.
With over 50,000 students, within humanities, law, science, social sciences
and teacher training, we expect to see
the odd entrepreneur at SSES.
With this partnership in place
Stockholm University students will
get the chance to take part in all
courses and extracurricular activities at SSES, we will be able to offer
new and varied courses, thanks to the
added skill set from Stockholm University lecturers, and there will be a
new dynamic mix of students. What’s
more, with such a wide curriculum of
studies, the combinations of potential
work groups at SSES are endless.
We look forward to new innovations and new ideas from our
most recent member. For more
information contact SSES Center Director Thomas Arctaedius at
thomas.arctaedius@eks.su.se
We also have some budding short
film makers among us today from the
different member schools. If you want
to find out their vision on which new
industries, companies and ideas will
dominate in 2019, drop by Oscarsalongen during a break. It’s also a great
place to speak to likeminded people
from the different SSES schools.
After event mingle
Don’t miss the after event mingle at
Obaren (Stureplan 2). If you’re there
between 17.45 and 19.00 we’ll buy
you a drink. Just remember to keep
your name badge.
Finally, thanks to our sponsors: Bonnier R&D, The Confederation of
Swedish Enterprise, Stockholm Business Region and Microsoft BizSpark.
Always have a five year plan, things will be more successful
Thanks to five more
years of funding support
from the Persson Family Foundation, SSES
can take the next step.
A
good entrepreneur will tell
you that you should always have
a five year plan. With something to
aim for and a good idea of how you’re
going to get there, things will be more
successful. And the man responsible
for ensuring SSES realises its plans is
SSES Executive Director Nick Kaye,
who has led the organisation for the
past four years.
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Hi Nick, I understand you have
some good news.
That’s right. In early 2009 an international evaluation of SSES activities
was completed by external experts,
and following on from this the Persson Family Foundation pledged a
further five years of funding support.
You must be proud of your organisation.
Yes, of course. The positive results
of the evaluation truly reflect all the
hard work that everybody puts in
at SSES on a daily basis. And when
I say everybody I mean everybody,
the owners, the board members, the
administrative staff at HQ and the
member schools, the lecturers, the
coaches, and the alumni. It’s their
hard work that has been repaid with
a further five years of support.
This isn’t the only big news of the
year.
No, we are pleased to welcome Stockholm University on board, making
us a truly interdisciplinary academic
faculty and bringing complementary competence to the collaboration.
Our goal now is to ensure that we
draw upon a good spread of students
to compliment our other schools,
such as those from the humanist and
law faculties, which are exclusive to
Stockholm University.
What other goals do you have for
the coming years?
We want to increase SSES’s level of
engagement with industry. As a successful academic faculty we have
access to many of the country’s and
indeed the world’s most renowned
lecturers. However, as we are preparing students for a life in business, we
would like to develop our close ties
with the business world.
Another goal is to increase our
focus on marketing and communications of SSES activities. This includes
both internally at the member environments and externally in the community in order to attract more practitioner and student participants as well
as industry projects and financiers.
The Key driving force of the development of our activities however, remains the demands and needs of our
students, entrepreneurs and industry.
Therefore we continuously adapt our
academic courses and portfolio of
extracurricular activities to address
these demands as they evolve.
Any other achievements we should
know about?
At SSES we get a sense of achievement almost every day. We get to
work with real-life entrepreneurs,
helping them to evolve their ideas
from an embryonic stage through to
a growing business. We witness the
inspiration, energy and output of
our students and alumni, who have
launched more than 200 successful trading companies to date. And
you have been seeking, may be sitting
next to you.
“The Key driving force of the
development of our activities,
remains the demands and
needs of our students, entrepreneurs and industry.”
we get to hear comments from students referring to how participation
in SSES activities has catalysed the
founding of new businesses.
Finally, what’s your message to the
attendees of today’s event?
I would just like to take the opportunity to challenge everybody to engage in entrepreneurship as the full
contact sport it is. While the myriad
of inspirational and knowledgeable
speakers today will stimulate much
thought and discussion, I encourage
you to meet as many of the attendees
as possible. They have gathered here
today from all walks of life, but they
all have one thing in common, entrepreneurial spirit. And who knows,
the marketing, financing or strategic
partner, or indeed customers that
Nick Kaye, Executive Director.
Saltmätargatan 9
Box 6501
113 83 Stockholm
info@sses.se
www.sses.se
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The right
direction
Karin Ahlin’s guide to
Good Morning 2019!
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of the most important skills
in an entrepreneur’s tool kit is
direction. Knowing where you’re going and knowing how to get there.
Fortunately at Good Morning 2019,
we have our resident expert, Karin
Ahlin, who is combining an MA in
Storytelling at Konstfack with her
role as a Training Co-ordinator at
Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. And for those of us that haven’t
fully developed our directional skills,
she’s kindly created this map for us, so
we can find our way around today.
Karin finds her inspiration in the
movement of images and life. She
works a lot with patterns and believes
they carry a lot of meaning, both
in how they can be used and in the
way they can be interpreted. ”I see
patterns as icons of reality’s surface.
When we see patterns in the past, we
can see opportunities for change.”
Karin has made a bit of a stir in
the design world recently as she was
selected by Svensk Form to represent
Sweden at the Ung7 exhibition in Tokyo, Paris and London, for Talent2008
in Eindhoven, for “Vårsalongen” at
Liljevalchs and for the art show Master Piece by PopUp Art. During the
breaks you can see an example of her
cinematic work to your right on your
way up to the second floor.
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Review:
Unbeatable Indian takeaway Highlights from the alumni Hall of Fame
Futuristic workshop at the
Indian Institue of Design
S
SES went to the Indian National Institute of Design (NID)
and gave it a five star rating. After
pondering over everything on offer,
we decided to start with The Future
of Education (2008) a subtle blend of
SSES and NID students and lecturers
debating what we can expect in the
coming decade. Then came The Future of Urban Living (2009) and once
again we found ourselves surprised
by the level of commitment by all
participants.
Next up is The Future of Talent
(2010) which will be taking place in
early January. All in all we can highly
recommend a trip to the Indian National Institute of Design. A great
atmosphere, hospitable hosts, and a
new way of looking at things, now
that’s five star!
Surroundings *****
Service *****
Atmosphere *****
Value for money *****
Moving music to move to
SoundCloud is taking music transfer
and sharing into the next decade. A
mixture of Youtube meets Flickr if
you like. A place for musicians and
labels to put their music on the web,
and to share it with you, me, well anybody really. www. soundcloud.com.
Cut the crap
JayCut provides an online video
editor to your website. The award-
winning tool runs directly in a web
browser and on ultra-portable devices. No downloads, no installs, and
therefore no barriers for your visitors.
www.jaycut.com.
A glowing example
If you’ve ever misplaced a worm in
the dark and had difficulty finding
it, your troubles are over. Thanks to
a group of SSES students, who developed artificial glow worms. Why, you
may ask, have they artificially developed something that exists in nature?
Well, these are readily available and
make ideal fish bait for competetive
anglers. So if you’re into fishing, keep
your eyes peeled for them.
For more examples of how our alumni have achieved great success visit
the Hall of Fame on our website, or
pick up a copy of our year book at the
entrance.
Success begins at home
Presenting the
SSES founders
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successful organisations
begin life as an idea. And behind that idea you’ll usually find one,
or a group of, visionary founders.
SSES is no different to this, we’re just
lucky to have had a great deal of support on the way. Support from generous benefactors such as the Persson
Family Foundation (not once, but
three times!) dedicated lecturers (always happy to give their time to our
cause) and demanding (we mean this
in the best possible way) students. Of
course this doesn’t happen overnight,
nor does it happen by chance, there
has to be something and someone to
believe in.
So allow us to present our founders, the special someones who got the
ball rolling in the late 1990s. Those visionaries who had the ambitious aim
of developing an inter-institutional,
ost
interdisciplinary entrepreneurship
platform with a teaching syllabus that
would meet the demands of students,
faculty and industry.
Oh, and if you’re wondering how
successful they were, just take a look
around you, or go to www.sses.se
and read through our Hall of Fame
highlighting some of the more than
200 currently trading companies our
alumni have started.
Stay competitive.
Prepare for the unthinkable.
Prof. Claes Gustafsson,
KTH. The Thinker and
Philosopher
Prof. John Skår,
Karolinska Institutet. The
Institutional Entrepreneur
& Idea Popper
Prof. Bengt Stymne,
Stockholm School of
Economics. The Organisational Expert
The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship is celebrating its 10th anniversary by looking at
the world ten years from now. At the event Good Morning 2019! speakers and participants
from startups, industry, academia and politics will mix with student entrepreneurs to discuss
where future opportunities lie and how to stay on top in an ever-changing world. They’ll also
show us the direction science, innovation, technology and design are heading.
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Future films in Oscarsalongen
challenged our students to
envisage the future. To imagW
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ine which industries, companies and
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ideas will dominate in 2019. And to
document it on film. The result of this
can be seen in Oscarsalongen during
the coffee breaks.
During lunch you can join
Emma Stenström, Ronald Jones, Rolf
Hughes and Peter Majanen as they
discuss the films and help us interpret
these captivating perceptions of our
future. And during the afternoon coffee break the best “Future Film” will
be announced in co-operation with
prize sponsor Tällberg Foundation.
KTH
On the panel discussion
Konstfack
Peter Majanen is CEO and partner
of Quattroporte. He works with a
number of leading companies, helping them make their future a valuable
asset.
Dr Rolf Hughes is a visiting Prof. of
Design Theory and Practice-based
Research, The Experience Design
Group, Konstfack.
Ronald Jones is a Prof. of Interdisciplinary Studies, SSES Center Director and SSES Course Director at
Konstfack.
There are 3 billion mobile devices
today, and by 2019 a mobile device
will be in everyone’s pocket. We
guide you through the trends that
will shape the mobile devices of
the future - what’s in the lab today
will be in your pocket in 2019.
Karolinska Institutet
Medicine moves: In 2019, the goal
will be the same, but it’s a whole
new ball game.
Meet the future with Icap – the tool
that will revolutionise creativity.
Stockholm School of Economics
Instantiation is the concept of
ever increasing customisation in
realtime made possible through
empowerment of the consumer.
Emma Stenström is a Assist. Prof. of
Economics at the Stockholm School
of Economics and Visiting Prof. at
Konstfack. She researches and teaches cultural business and leadership.
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Start-ups demo & Networking at Ambassadors
the Royals festvåning
for life
organisations have a few
Pitches, tips and minglekey figures that they can count
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start-ups
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ing with SSES alumni
on to carry out the role of ambasost
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you’re looking for new talent
or new companies to invest in,
you should make a beeline for the
Royals Festvåning during the lunch
or coffee break. Upcoming start-ups
will be pitching their new business
ideas to a panel of SSES alumni including Bhavik Gandi, CEO & founder of Startup Sales Systems, Mattias
Säker, CEO of utbildning.se, and Eric
Wahlforss, CTO & co-founder of
Soundcloud.
During the session, which will
be moderated by Terrence Brown,
SSES Course Director of Planning,
our panel of experts will provide each
new business with feedback on their
ideas and give them tips on how to
reach their goals.
If you’re a budding entrepreneur
we suggest you visit the Bonnier Genius Bar and meet representatives
from Bonnier R&D and Bonnier Media Invest. You can pitch your busif
The past is the
Relax, take it easy, start a business present is the
future
24 Business Camp goes
from strength to strength
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s it possible to set-up a web business in 24 hours, and squeeze in
time for a bath? The answer, it seems,
is a resounding yes, as that’s exactly
what 60 teams of entrepreneurs did a
few weeks ago at the 24 Hour Business Camp.
The event, which was launched
in February this year by SSES alumni
Ted Valentin, was such a success that
SSES, together with Ted, organised
another one last month, and interest
for it just seems to grow and grow.
This time we had more teams, more
participants and more sponsors.
The theme of the event was the
Application Programming Interface
(API), which is an interface implemented by a software program in order to allow other software to interact
with it.
With a wide range of CRM, mobile phone and web based APIs, including group text services, tourist
tips, sales support tools and blogs,
don’t be surprised to find yourself using many of these innovations in the
future.
To find out more about the event
and see the entire list of new companies visit www.24hbc.com.
24h
BUSINESS
CAMP
The people’s favourite
Lokaliker is a real-time location
guide. The application takes the pulse
of locations by automatically sending
your position when you press “Damn
I like this place!”. This gives users a
vibrant view of what spots are hot at
the moment without having to know
anyone in the area.
The judges’ favourite
Goldfish CRM is a system for salespeople with memories like a goldfish.
In order to help you remember what
you’ve said to potential customers,
the system automatically records
your phone calls, tags them and places them in a user friendly library for
reference. GoldfishCRM was awarded
250.000 sek of advertisement space,
courtesy of Bonnier R&D.
Need Wi-Fi?
Use Grand Guest with grand as username and password.
Decor design by
Spuntanellerna
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is just a big circle, the 80’s
came and went and came back
again. Flares were in, then out, then
in again. The mullet was in for a while
and then… surely not!
Anyway, if you’re wondering who’s
responsible for the environmentally
friendly stage design and decorations
at Good Morning 2019! we have the
group called Spuntanellerna to thank
for that.
They present the future with
items from the past and present. In a
do-it-yourself tradition, they use discarded materials and objects that they
“find” at flea markets and at the back
of grandma’s cupboard, and turn them
into their own. They show great respect
for previous designers and owners,
and for both natural and man-made
products. They have an uncompromising respect for the future, based on
curiosity and imagination.
“By placing an object in a new
context we want to share the instinctive thoughts an object brings to
mind. We’d like to encourage people
to see beyond the expected and to
discover the beauty in simplicity, the
odd in the common.”
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Emerging web start-ups
10:50-10:55 Filehill
10:55-11:00 Info24
11:00-11:05 Ambadoo
Mixed start-ups
13:00-13:05 MovintoFun
13:05-13:10 Sustainergies
13:10-13:15 NanoMonolith
13:15-13:20 Vibrente
13:20-13:25 Livetunnel
13:25-13:30 Mobiplaza
13:30-13:35 3D Exposure
Geopositioning in
tomorrows mobile services
15:35-15:40 iKartor/ Dreamjob
15:40-15:45 Lokaliker
15:45-15:50 Bluewalks
ness ideas and get direct feedback, or
simply talk to them about the latest
media/web consumer and market
trends.
Hands up if
you’re not a
…trepreneur
creative and future thinking
become the most sort after skills
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in industry, we asked the question
The country’s
of today’s SSES students, are you an
entrepreneur or an intrepreneur? Or
best students at
rather, will you be driving your company or your employer’s company
your doorstep
forward? And while we were at it we
took the chance to get their views on
do you get if you cross a
a few other things.
designer, a microbiologist, an
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accountant and a philosopher? The
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hat
What are you doing in 2019?
80% – Running my own company
11% – Being an employee
9% – A position in academia
Is the entrepreneurship revolution really happening, or will large
companies continue to dominate
the economy?
46% – Yes, smaller enterprises will rule
39% – No, large players will continue
to dominate
15% – Not sure
If you run a venture or thinking
about starting one, what do you
most want out of the experience?
34% – Create social good
25% – An outlet for my talent
25% – A flexible lifestyle
15% – To build something that will
last for generations
1% – A quick profit
Do you want to contribute as a mentor,
guest speaker or partner? Contact us.
Nick Kaye
Executive Director
070 208 85 54
nick.kaye@sses.se
sador. At SSES we have hundreds of
them. Many of them actively working
within the organisation, dedicating
their time to the future of Sweden and
its entrepreneurs.
With over 200 guest contributors,
coaches, experts, seminar leaders and
inspirational speakers, underpinning
our activities each year, their role as
ambassadors of SSES in the broader
community has enabled us to continually draw on similar valuable resources over the past ten years.
Demand for SSES activities has
never been higher, and the strongest
marketing channel we have are the
alumni who continue to participate,
be that through academic courses or
extracurricular activities. They not
only continue to devote energy, but
also develop their networks and competences through additional SSES
activities, and most importantly, convince fellow students to embark on
the SSES journey.
With over 1000 students having
graduated from our academic courses
during the last year and 2000 having
participated in our extra-curricular
activities, these ambassadors play a
pivotal role in ensuring we have a large
pool of potential participants to select
those that will add the most value.
Marie Sundström
External Relations Manager
073 403 52 94
marie.sundstrom@sses.se
Rasmus Rahm
Director of Education
073 200 04 40
rasmus.rahm@sses.se
answer: God only knows! The one
thing you can be sure of however, is
that it won’t be what you expect. This
is what SSES is all about, bringing
people from different backgrounds
together with a common goal – that
goal being to create and develop.
At SSES, we’re always looking for
coaching, lecturing and financial support. You only get back what you put
in, in this world, so why not take the
opportiunity to work with the country’s best students?
Weekend
workshops
NCE again students and lecturers alike are giving up their weekO
ends in the name of entrepreneurship.
At the appropriately named “Weekend
Workshops”, lecturers from our member schools and guest experts from
industry immerse our studens in behavioural changing topics that aren’t
covered in as much detail in the regular SSES curriculum. This includes
topics such as sales, pitching, branding, negotiations and bargaining.
As you might expect there’s a
lot demand for these workshops,
so if you’re planning on participating in one our advice is to visit
www.sses.se/ww and check the dates
for applications now. The workshops,
which are free for students from our
member schools, run from 10am –
5pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Speakers and panelists
Sara Öhrvall is the Executive Vice President at
Bonnier R&D. Previously
she was responsible for
concept development of
jeep hybrids, sports and eco-friendly
cars at Volvo, the Managing Director of the brand agency Differ and
founder of the innovation consulting
firm Ninety.
Jane Walerud is the Business Area Head for Assistive Technology, Tobii.
She likes to assist in the
start-up phase of new
companies and help them grow. She
has founded, directed and invested
in a dozen companies, and is best
known for founding Bluetail, which
was acquired by Nortel.
Jonas Frisén, Prof. at
Karolinska Institutet, is
one of the world’s most
prominent stem cell researchers and the founder
of Neuronova AB, a medical scientific
company. His pioneering discoveries
on stem cells will have an important
impact on the future of medicine.
Mathias Uhlén, Prof. at
KTH with more than 300
publications in the field of
technology-driven medical research. He is currently directing an academic research
projects in life science with the aim
of mapping the building blocks (proteins) of humans. He has founded a
large number of companies in diverse
areas of biotechnology.
Stina Ehrensvärd, CEO
and founder of Yubico,
which provides a new,
simple and secure login
to the web. She is a serial
entrepreneur and innovator. She has
won the European Championship
in IT innovation and the Swedish
Woman Entrepreneur award.
Andreas Ehn was the
CTO of Spotify from it’s
launch, but recently left
to work on a new venture
that hopes to bring people, places and time together in intelligent ways. Previously he worked
at Stardoll and in Silicon Valley. Andreas studied computer science at
KTH and economics and business
studies at Stockholm School of Economics.
Tomas Seo, founder of Phorecast, a
consulting firm that spots new markets by facilitating innovation war
The program
09:30 Moderator kicks-off the
event. Magnus Lindkvist, Pattern
Recognition
games. Previous to this
he led Pangea Design
during their most expansive phase, worked with
several start-ups and was
Chairman of the Swedish Association of Designers.
Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, President of
Karolinska Institutet (KI)
and member of Karolinska Institutets Nobel Assembly. Her experience includes Prof.
in Physiology, KI’s Dean of Research
and Secretary General of the Swedish
Research Council’s Scientific Council
for Medicine. In 2008 she was awarded H. M. the King´s Medal in gold,
12th size, Seraphim ribbon, for distinguished achievements in medical
education and research.
Folke Snickars, Faculty
Dean of KTH, holds a
PhD in Optimisation.
Since 1985 he has been the
Prof. of Regional Planning
at KTH. He is currently also Chairman of the Scientific Council of the
Stockholm Regional Planning Office
and Chairman of the European Spatial Planning Observation Network.
Lars Bergman has been
the President of Stockholm School of Economics since 2004. He was
appointed Prof. of Economics in 1983. He is a member of
the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Chairman
of the Swedish Association for Energy Economics.
Kåre Bremer, is the ViceChancellor of Stockholm
University. After completing a PhD in Botany
he occupied various positions within Stockholm University’s
Department of Botany. From 1980
to 1989 he was Head Curator at the
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Phanerogamic
Botany, and then Prof. of Systematic
Botany at Uppsala University.
Ivar Björkman, has been
president of the University College of Arts Crafts
and Design (Konstfack)
since 2003. He is both a
researcher and designer and he is active in design and art management.
Several pieces of his work can be
found in museums and exhibitions
around the world. He received his
PhD in design and art management
from Stockholm University in 1998.
09:40 The entrepreneurship rev-
olution – is it really happening or
will large companies dominate
the future? Dr Kjell A. Nordström
10:00 The future business of
science and technology. Jonas
Frisén, Karolinska Institutet and
Mathias Uhlén, KTH will join
Dr Kjell A. Nordström in a panel
discussion
Clockwise from left: Stefan Persson, Maud Olofsson, Kjell A. Nordström,
Li Gong and Matthew Barzun.
Keynote speakers
Stefan Persson
Stefan Persson is one of the most wellknown names in Swedish business.
He was responsible for H&M’s international expansion between 1976 and
1982 before becoming Managing Director and CEO of H&M from 1982
to 1998. Today, he is the Chairman of
the Board. It’s thanks to funding from
the Persson Family Foundation that
SSES has managed to realise many
of its achievements to date, and will
continue to do so in the future.
Maud Olofsson
Maud Olofsson is the Swedish Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister
for Enterprise and Energy. Her areas
of responsibility include, business development, primary industries, competition, needs-driven research, state
ownership policy, regional development, tourism, mining and minerals
policy and energy policy.
Kjell A. Nordström
Kjell A. Nordström gives thought
provoking talks to audiences all over
the world. The 2007 Thinkers 50,
the world’s first ranking of manage-
ment thinkers, put him and his partner Jonas Ridderstråle at number
13. He has a PhD in International
Business from Stockholm School
of Economics.
Matthew Barzun
Matthew Barzun is the US Ambassador to Sweden, but is perhaps best
known for his work with CNET Networks and his volunteer work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
Prior to becoming Ambassador, he
was the President of BrickPath LLC,
where he advised and invested in internet media companies. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in history and
literature from Harvard College.
Li Gong
Li Gong is Chairman and CEO of
Mozilla Online Ltd in Beijing. He is
the co-founder, investor, and advisor
to about 20 Silicon Valley and China-based start-ups and he has been
involved with running China R&D
Centres at Sun MicroSystems and
MSN. He graduated from Tsinghua
University, Beijing, and earned a PhD
at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Carl Johan Sundberg,
heads the Unit for Bioentrepreneurship and is
a researcher in human
physiology at Karolinska
Institutet. He has created
many courses and programmes such
as human physiology for non-medical
students, medicine for journalists,
popular science communication, from
science to business and drug discovery
for the financial industry.
Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship alumni
Anna Omstedt Lindgren co-founded Tasteline, Sweden’s largest food
and recipe website, togheter with two
other SSES-alumni. She was recently
awarded one of Sweden’s 101 top super talents by Veckans Affärer. Today
she’s the Managing Director of a new
start-up called MedUniverse, aiming
at providing a professional network
for doctors online.
Bhavik Gandi is the CEO & founder
of Startup Sales Systems, a company
specialising in enabling start-ups to
sell great ideas successfully. He is a
serial entrepreneur with start-ups in
telecom, technology, media, and en-
tertainment, which have generated
over $300 million in sales. He took
courses at SSES in 2005.
Eric Wahlforss, is a co-founder of
Berlin-based Soundcloud where he is
currently CTO. His main interest lies
in emerging web technologies and
their applications. Before moving to
Berlin and starting SoundCloud he
co-founded the web consultancy network Strategy & Interaction in Stockholm. He took three courses at SSES
in 2004.
Fredrik Gustafsson studied at SSES
between 2001-2002 and at the same
time founded Företagslitteratur with
Pocketklubben and Pocketogram.
Later he founded Pocketförlaget and
Tukan Förlag. These are all leading
niche publishers today.
Jonas Hombert is the CEO and
co-founder of JayCut. The company provides video editing software thats runs in a web browser
and on mobile devices to customers
such as Procter&Gamble. Although
only 23 years old, he has previously
been elected as one of Europe’s top
young entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek. He studied at SSES in between
2006-2007.
10:40 Coffee break activities.
Start-ups Demo & Networking in
Royals festvåning. Future films in
Oscarsalongen
–see page 3
11:10 Re-structuring businesses
– how to become more innovative
and stay competitive in a changing marketplace. Matthew Barzun, US Ambassador to Sweden
11:35 Business models for
emerging markets. Dr Li Gong,
Chairman and CEO of Mozilla
Online Ltd
12:00 Incorporating entrepreneurship into the large organisation. Sara Öhrvall, Bonnier R&D
12:30 Lunch break activities.
Start-ups Demo & Networking in Royals festvåning. Future
films and Panel discussion in
Oscarsalongen. Making room
for the intrapreneur, a round
table discussion in Kinarummet.
–see page 3
13:50 Intrapreneur of the year
award announcement
14:00 Keynote interview. Stefan
Persson, H&M
Moderators
Magnus
Lindkvist,
Pattern Recognition, is
one of Europe’s leading
trendspotters. With a
background in management
consulting
and filmmaking, he fuses the quantifiable world of business with the
imaginative field of futurology. He is
an active member of TED, and initiator of the SSES course Trendspotting
and Future Thinking.
10:20 The future business of
design and innovation. Stina Ehrensvärd, Yubico, Andreas Ehn,
Ex-CTO Spotify
Mattias Säker is the CEO of utbildning.se, a search engine for courses
and corporate training. The company aims to help people around the
world find the right education. The
company is established in the Nordic
countries and in the UK. He studied
at SSES between 2006-2007.
Ted Valentin has created Tidningsbutiken.se, Uppsatser.se and a number
of other websites. His latest project,
Blogipedia.com, is similar to Wikipedia.com but with facts and opinions
from blogs. He studied at SSES in
2003 and co-organised 24 Hour Business Camp together with us.
14:30 The universities in 2019:
Breeding grounds for successful entrepreneurs? Lars Bergman Rector-SSE, Ivar Björkman Rector-Konstfack, Harriet
Wallberg-Henriksson Rector-KI,
Kåre Bremer Rector-Stockholm
University, Folke Snickars Faculty
Dean-KTH. Moderator: Carl-Johan Sundberg, KI
15:00 Creating the most supportive business climate for the
future. Maud Olofsson keynote
followed by a panel discussion
with SSES Entrepreneurs: Anna
Omstedt Lindgren, MedUniverse,
Jonas Hombert, JayCut
15:30 Coffee break activities.
Start-ups Demo & Networking in
Royals festvåning. Future films in
Oscarsalongen –see page 3
16:00 Entrepreneurship as a
means of fulfilling your life and
your dreams. Jane Walerud, Tobii,
Ted Valentin, Internet Entrepreneur, Fredrik Gustafsson, Pocketförlaget, Tomas Seo, Phorecast
16:30 Good night 2019. Magnus
Lindkvist, Pattern Recognition
18:45 Mingle at Obaren. Bring
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