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BOOK LAUNCH: AI LEADERSHIP FOR BOARDS

It is predicted that artificial intelligence [AI], and the “big data” on which Al is based, will become one of the most challenging board issues in the next ten years.   It is with great pleasure that we announce the

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SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION HACKATHON

On the 6th, 7th and 8th of March 2020, I had the pleasure to facilitate a hackathon to address sustainability in the fashion industry in Portugal, a project developed for Moda Lisboa. A hackathon is a design sprint event where

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RAPID LEARNING CYCLES IN STOCKHOLM

For the first time the author of Rapid Learning Cycles methodology, Katherine Radeka, was presenting her work and methodology in Stockholm, in an event organized by me with support from FCG. The Rapid Learning Cycles framework is a synthesis of

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THE FUTURE AT KI INNOVATION DAY

On the last 15th of November 2019, I had the honor of sharing my thoughts on the future of health-care on an inspiring lecture at the Innovation day in Karolinska Institutet. My talk was one of the three inspiring talks to

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INSPIRING LUNCH TALK AT SPOTIFY

I was invited to activate and inspire Spotify employees with a lunch presentation. Rapid advancements in technology, together with increasing socio-political unrest and the challenges of climate change, generate increasingly dynamic, complex and uncertain competitive environments. Today, it is an advantage

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DESIGN THINKING AT ERICSSON

Last Thursday, the 26th of September 2019, I had the honor of giving an inspiring talk on innovation and a Design Thinking workshop to the Marketing and Communications team from Business Area Technologies and Emerging Businesses (BTEB) at Ericsson. The

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ME IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES

My opinion on “Is Paris the next start-up hotspot?” article was published in the Financial Times under the segment “MBA view”  where business school students discussed what it takes for Paris to become Europe’s tech hub. My published opinion was:

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4BOARDS.AI AT IMIT 40 YEARS

Our research project 4boards.ai had the pleasure to present at the celebratory event for IMIT’s 40 years, on the 24th of October 2019. IMIT, a partner in the 4boards.ai project, is a foundation that aims to support research and development

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THE GIG-ECONOMY IN ALMEDALEN

I participated in a panel discussion on the gig-economy, which took place in Almedalen 2018. Almedalen week is known as as the time when different actors in politics an civil society get together in Visby, in the island of Gotland, to

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INNOVATION IN VILNIUS

On the 30th of March I had the honor of spending the morning presenting my thoughts on innovation and strategy to a group of key Lithuanian companies in Vilnius. This event was an organisation at Challenge Accelerator.

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TEDX MATOSINHOS TALK

My TEDx Matosinhos talk is finally available!   TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” It supports independent organizers who want to create a TED-like event in their own community.

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Democracy

THE DEMOCRATIC FUTURE OF HAMMARBY SJÖSTAD

My TEDx Matosinhos talk is finally available! TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” It supports independent organizers who want to create a TED-like event in their own community.

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Experience Design

EXPERIENCE DESIGN GROUP PREMIERES AT KULTURNATT

On the 25th of April we premiered in Kulturnatt the newly re-created Experience Design Group with the project “The democratic future of Hammarby Sjöstad”. This was a dynamic evening where a select group of influential citizens, politicians and other officials were

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THE BIOSPHERE CODE

Algorithms increasingly permeate all aspects of modern life and are transforming the way we humans interact with non-human species and the biosphere. In this manifesto, we gathered a small group of thinkers and doers – scholars, programmers, artists, entrepreneurs, game

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Entrepreneurship

BALTICLAB – CONNECTING CREATIVE MINDS

Balticlab is an innovation programme, which brings entrepreneurs and creatives in the Baltic Sea region together to explore new perspectives and sources of inspiration and to together prototype the future. The aim of the programme was to the create a community

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Experience Design

FERNANDA TORRE GOES HONG KONG

“After extended consideration of all submissions I am delighted to let you know that the Programming Committee would like to invite you to present your final paper at our international Designing Experience-conference to be held at the Academy of Visual Arts,

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Entrepreneurship

NOV2K 2013

Nov2k – Future of Science and Medicine is a yearly symposium that is organized and run by graduate students at Karolinska Institutet and Södertörn University. The 14th edition of Nov2k had the sub-theme Creativity, having comics as the element that created

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Award

WINNER RED DOT AWARD: COMMUNICATION DESIGN 2014

My illustration Odd Job Live in Bremen just one of the world’s most prestigious design awards: the Red Dot Design Award 2014. The illustration for the Swedish jazz band Odd Job was made together with the prestigious design studio Gábor Palotai (Gabor

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Co-creation

WE HAVE COMPANY

We Have Company was a co-creation space, created to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space where work was to be catalyzed by the exchange of ideas, sharing of knowledge and work together. We Have Company acted as a cushy nest designed

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Experience Design

LIFE BITS

In 2012 I won the design competition “Beam me up Scotty” together with the mentor Hrafnkell Birgisson, a competition organised by the Helsinki design studio Diagonal and taking place in Habitare Design Fair.  Three teams, each consisting of two designers, a mentor and

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Experience Design

NOV2K 2011

Nov2k is a yearly symposium that is organized and run by graduate students at Karolinska Institutet and Södertörn University. Mixing playfulness with inspiration for interaction, the team brought Experience Design insights to the planning of the event, creating intimacy and the

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Experience Design

FORECASTING THE EXPERIENCE OF OPERA

  Forecasting the Experience of Opera was a strategic partnership between the New York City Opera,the Experience Design Group at Konstfack, R1 KTH Experimental Performance Space, the Operahögskolan, and the Stockholm School for Entrepreneurship. Forecasting the Experience of Opera –

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SSES “GOOD MORNING” STAGE EXPERIENCE

Stage for the entrepreneurial event Good Morning 2011,occurring in Grand Hotel Stockholm and organized by the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. Stage Experience The stage was designed as if it was a coffee house, inviting the audience to interact with the

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COLLABORATION DESIGN, THE PATH FOR PROSPERITY

Last October 2013 I was invited by the Creative Association of Curators TOK in St.Petersburg (Russia) to give a talk in the International Conference “Socially Integrated Design: New Ideas for Familiar Spaces”. My talk was called “Collaboration Design, the path

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