Jens Schouenborg
Jens Schouenborg has a background in integrative neurophysiology focusing on pain mechanisms and sensorimotor integration and got a full professorship in Physiology, 1998 at Lund University, Sweden.
Since 2006 Jens Schouenborg heads the interdisciplinary Neuronano Research and Innovation Center at Lund University, Sweden, which focus on inventing and developing a new generation of truly biocompatible neuro-electronic interfaces for understanding fundamental brain functions (www.neuronano.lu.se) and for therapeutic applications (www.neuronano.se) in e.g. chronic pain, neurodegenerative diseases and epilepsy. The novel technologies developed provides opportunities for powerful treatments without noticeable side effects in both pain conditions and Parkinson’s disease and also unprecedented opportunities to decode the neuronal signaling in the conscious brain.
Gustaf Toresson Lundberg
Gustaf has been named a top entrepreneur and marketer by Forbes and is the founder of Tangent: a media company focused on interviews with some of the world’s biggest names in culture, business, and entertainment.
Featured in Forbes 30 under 30, BBC, Financial Times, and Sky News, Gustaf is also a venture advisor and scout at investment firm EQT and a contributor at Forbes. He is particularly fascinated by the Passion and Creator economy: how creators can independently build businesses to monetize their skills or interests in the digital age.
Previously, Gustaf started his first company at 18 years old, founded organizations with over 120 employees and $10m in sales, and worked at BCG Dubai and JP Morgan London. He is from south of Sweden and has a passion for electronic music.
Glenda Bailey
1988- 1996 Editor in Chief Marie Claire UK
1996 – 2001 Editor in Chief Marie Claire US
2001 – 2020 Editor in Chief Harper’s Bazaar US
2020 -2021 Global Editorial Consultant Harper’s Bazaar
2021 – Present Founder of the Glenda Bailey Consultancy
Awards and Honours
Over 30 professional awards
Including 2 Amnesty International Awards for Journalism and A Women of Courage Award
BA Hons fashion Design Kingston University
Honouree Doctorate from Kingston University
and Derby University
Chevalier of Arts and Letters from the French Government
2018 Dame Glenda Bailey OBE from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
David Patrikarakos
David Patrikarakos is an author, journalist and analyst with an extensive track record in foreign affairs and disinformation. He has written for a variety of the world’s most prominent publications and his last book War in 140 Characters: How Social Media is Reshaping Conflict in 21st Century received international acclaim. It is now used by West Point and Sandhurst on information war and counter-disinformation courses; by the UK MoD for its “information advantage” policy; as well as being on the required reading list for NATO Officers.
The book was shortlisted for British Army Book of the Year, and publicly praised by the head of the British Army, General Sir Nicholas Carter, and Admiral James Foggo, Commander of NATO Forces Europe.
In February 2022 The Wall Street Journal the chose War in 140 Characters as one of “7 books to read to understand why Russia wants Ukraine.”
His first book “Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State” was published in 2012, with an updated version in 2020, and is the first history and analysis of Iran’s nuclear program from its beginnings in the 1950s until the present day. It was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Sunday Times ‘Must Read’ and shortlisted for International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book awards.
He is a Poynter Fellow at Yale, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and an Associate Fellow of the School of Iranian Studies, St Andrews University. He has lectured extensively at universities and think tanks in both the US and UK, including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, LSE, King’s College London, UCL, IISS, Manchester and many more. He has given a TEDx talk on Post-Truth Politics in the Modern Age.” He gave the 2017 Keynote Speech for the International PEN Congress.
As a broadcaster he has appeared on BBC Newsnight, Start the Week, The World Tonight, BBC 5Live, BBC Have Your Say, BBC News 24, BBC World News, ABC, Al Jazeera, Ukraine’s Hromadske TV, various US radio stations and many other programmes on TV and Radio, as well many other international broadcasters.
Danica Kragic
Danica Kragic is a Professor of Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research areas are robotics, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Danica is a co-Director of the Wallenberg Autonomous Systems, AI and Software Program and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. She is on Board of Directors of H&M Group, SAAB AB and FAM. She loves to sew, mainly for herself and robots in the future.
Anu Duggal
Anu Duggal is the founding partner of Female Founders Fund, the largest early-stage fund for female founders managing $100M in AUM backed by some of the most powerful names in tech including Melinda Gates, Susan Wojcicki, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Katrina Lake and more. She launched Female Founders Fund in 2014 to start a movement to diversify venture capital and direct more dollars to female founders.
Anu has been honored in Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list and Crain’s “Notable Women in Tech” list and been included in Business Insider’s “Ultimate List of Female Startup Investors” and “Top 4 Venture Firms Investing in Women.” Over the last seven years, Anu has played an instrumental role in not only investing in female founders, raising seed capital for a portfolio with over $4 billion in enterprise value, but also shifting the VC industry as a whole to make more investments in female-founded companies.
Amanda Lagerkvist
Amanda Lagerkvist is Professor of Media and Communication Studies in the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University. As Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2014-2018) she founded the field of existential media studies. In her work she has explored among other things digital memories, death online and lived experiences of automation. In her monograph, Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation (OUP, 2022) she introduces Karl Jaspers’s existential philosophy of limit situations for media theory. She is the PI of the WASP-HS project “BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds.”
Find out more: https://www.im.uu.se/research/hub-for-digtal-existence/
Simon Shaw
Ten years ago Simon Shaw sold Edvard Munch’s The Scream for $120m – a World Record for any work of art.
Simon is a veteran of the art auction industry. For a decade he ran Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art department, scouring the globe for masterpieces by Monet, Picasso, Modigliani and Van Gogh. Born in Norwich, England, Simon’s career has taken him from Paris, Athens, London and Stockholm to New York, where he is currently based.
Most recently he worked on the legendary final project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped. Simon loves nothing more than telling stories that bring art to life. He is a passionate advocate for its power to heal, connect and inspire.
Suzan Hourieh Lindberg
Suzan is the co-founder and CEO at The Social Few, Scandinavia’s leading data and insight based diversity growth agency. She is also co-founder of the diversity tech company Perspetivo – the most representative and inclusive research panel platform in the Nordics with focus in predictive analysis. A platform that enables a society where all people are welcome and all voices are being heard.
Suzan is born in Macedonia with parents from Syria and Former Yugoslavia, living in Stockholm. She is also heptalingual with numbers being her preferable alphabet.
With a background in statistics, business development and tech, Suzan is determined to spread data-informed knowledge in order to create awareness and solutions to market and societal imperfections based on lack of diversity in perspectives. With that, she has developed methods such as inclusive infrastructure and perspective density measurement.
She aims to keep creating solutions that enables sustainable and inclusive societies, by all and for all.
Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and former barrister known for her work on culture, social justice. Identity and anti-racism.
Afua is the founder of Born in Me Productions, which creates scripted and non-scripted television, movies and podcasts, in partnership with Fremantle. She presents and produces non scripted TV documentaries, including African Renaissance, a BBC series on African art, and Enslaved, a 6-part series about the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson, and a podcast series for Audible. She is creative chair of the 2022 Edinburgh TV Festival, the most prestigious TV event in the UK.
A journalist for more than twenty years, she has been a senior Guardian correspondent, Sky News editor, and freelance contributor to publications including the New York Times, Time Magazine and Vogue.
Afua’s bestselling book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging is the winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize. Her other books include Equal To Everything, about the UK Supreme Court, and Empire: Look Again. She is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and holds a degree from Oxford University, and honorary doctorates from London’s South Bank University and The University of Oxford Brookes.