Jelassi could have become anything or anyone. Instead, she chose to play the leading role in the animated movie about herself. Born on the south side of Stockholm, she was raised in a home where drug abuse was the norm – she grew up faster than any child should have to. At 9 years old she moved to Tunisia and was raised there until the age of 14, when she returned to Sweden.

At 17 she started making music as a way of dealing with her still ongoing trauma. As an animated character, she was able to look at her reflection in the mirror, snap her fingers and escape from reality. Music was another vessel. She released her debut EP Port 43 in 2019 which was nominated for a Swedish Grammy.

Jelassi’s artistry speaks to any child that grew up in a troubled home, and her lyrics are filled with messages of hope and solidarity. This is her calling, and as a listener, one has the privilege of witnessing her journey. Whether performing in front of large crowds across Scandinavia, sitting on the same panel as the Swedish Royal Family, or crushing female rapper stereotypes, Jelassi is destined for success.

Hans Vestberg is chairman and chief executive officer of Verizon, the world’s largest wireless, fiber-optic and global information networks and services company. In 2017, Hans served as Verizon’s chief technology officer and president of Global Networks, responsible for developing the architecture for Verizon’s fiber-centric networks. He was appointed CEO in August 2018 and Chairman of Verizon’s Board of Directors in March 2019.

Before joining Verizon, Hans served for six years as president and CEO of Ericsson, a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Sweden. Born in Hudiksvall, Sweden, Hans earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He is married with two children and is fluent in Swedish, English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Already from early years Hannah has been set on fixing the climate, the only thing to work out was how. With expertise in sustainable development, CSR and circular economy, Hannah has established a rooted understanding of sustainable business development and the methods for a circular transition. Today, she is positioned as a guide for large companies that want to take the chance to transform and become more sustainable.

Hannah has an unchanging ambition to influence our current relation to natural resources in which we take, we make, and we waste. As part of Stena Circular Consulting, Hannah aims to elucidate how a circular economy can be used to lower resource extraction and improve prosperity. In various project she aims to show how less is more and that long-term handling of our already existing goods is the way forward.

Emma Stenström is Associate Professor and Director of the Research Center for Arts, Business & Culture at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).

Her research concerns mainly aesthetic, creative, and innovative aspects of sustainable business, and the humanistic side of management.  Beside her academic career, Emma is a regular columnist in Dagens Industri.

Elin Lidén is Director of EMEA Product Management at SKF. She started her career in the Chinese aluminum industry in 2008 and has spent more than half of her working life in Asia.

Since joining SKF more than ten years ago she has held several different positions within SKF Technology Development in China, India and Sweden, most recently as Director for Global Application Engineering.

She has been actively leading how SKF engineers can reduce customers’ CO2 emissions as well as how to improve diversity and inclusion in engineering. Her team members will confirm that she is crazy about giving and receiving feedback and during her time off you will most likely find her one of Sweden’s National Parks.

Elin holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers University and Technology.

Benjamina is the founder and CEO of Cambridge-based food tech start-up Higher Steaks.  Higher Steaks is a cultivated meat company that have developed proprietary technologies that allow them to scale any type of cultivated meat in up to 25X less time with 5X the efficiency. They created the world first bacon and pork belly prototypes from cultivated muscle.  Previously, Benjamina co-founded a London-based B2B electronics company. Benjamina has also worked at Stratasys, PepsiCo’s joint venture with Strauss and an ed-tech startup. Benjamina holds a Master of Chemical Engineering from the Imperial College.

Anton is a multi-talented agent of change and creativity. After quitting school in 2016 he started working for the non-profit Brainpool, a community that inspires tomorrow’s leaders of change and brings them and great companies, role models and academia together. He soon became co-driver and right hand to entrepreneur and innovator Stina Boman Wittich – Chairwoman, co-founder and CEO of Brainpool – gaining a diverse skill set, including everything from entrepreneurship to quantifying and driving societal change using analytic tools like social return of investment.

Constantly curious and driven to learn and explore, Anton has worked with writing and producing music, coordinating efforts to break down the public stigma of mental illness, been an active public speaker since 2018 and painting, with his first exhibition in late 2019.

Currently Anton is working with redefining sustainability for companies and as a junior advisor creating strategy aligned with modern values.

Anna Lundström leads Human Resources for the Freemium Business as well as the Global Support Functions at Spotify. In her role, Lundström is responsible for more than 3000 employees across the globe. Prior to this role Anna led HR for the Americas region at the company

Lundström joined Spotify in 2016 and has since developed and executed organizational and personnel game plans that have helped transform and develop Spotify’s business through the company’s hyper growth strategy.

Prior to Spotify, Lundström served as an HR Executive for Nasdaq and Swedish broadcast transmission service company Teracom.

Lundström has a Master of Social Science in Human Resource Management with a Major in Business Law from Lund’s University in Sweden. Anna lives in Stockholm with her husband and two children.

Tilly was born out of the two founders’ personal experience with (in)fertility and is now on a mission to revolutionize support for others on the same journey.

200 million couples try to conceive each year, 50 million need treatment – yet current care is fragmented and reactive and neglects the well-established psychological effects of fertility struggles.

Tilly is the first platform that provides personalized support throughout the entire journey, and across both physical and mental issues. By using a data-driven approach and gathering tools that target a range of pain points in ONE place, Tilly decreases time to pregnancy and reduces unnecessary fertility stress. The app was released last year and already has users from more than 40 countries.

Jenny Ann Ax:son Johnson spent 10 years in EdTech prior to founding Tilly. She’s now creating the tool she wishes she had herself.

Roya is an NFT marketplace where creators and buyers meet. The creators,  or artists, digitize their art into a collection of limited NFT’s. Whenever a  creators work is sold, even after the initial sale, the artist automatically  collects royalties.

As of today, NFT’s give the highest financial return to creators when  compared to Youtube and Facebook combined. In other words, its the best  way for creators to monetize their content. At Roya, we strive towards  creating a progressive, fair platform that helps to lead, improve and contribute  towards the development of blockchain technologies.

Roya’s mission is also to transform lifestyle brands into web3. This means  Roya helps to not only digitize content which in itself also helps add quality  content to the NFT marketplace, but also to conceptualize, curate and  support brands and organisations as they move into web3. Roya aims to be the most relevant player in web3 digital transformations for lifestyle brands.

Mahiar Afrooz is a serial international entrepreneur with a track record in predicting future disruptions in web3.