Caroline Berg is the fifth generation Chair of the family company Axel Johnson. She is also the Chair of Martin & Servera and the Vice Chair of Nordstjernan. Caroline is a member of the Board of Axfood, Dustin, Axfast, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation and Stockholm School of Economics’ Advisory Board. Between 2006-2014 Caroline was the vice president of HR, Communications and Sustainability at Axel Johnson.

Barbara Bush is the Co-founder and Board Chair of Global Health Corps (GHC), which mobilizes a global community of young leaders to build the movement for health equity. GHC was founded in 2009 by six twentysomethings who were challenged by Peter Piot at the aids2031 Young Leaders Summit to engage their generation in solving the world’s biggest health challenges. Barbara and her co-founders believe health is a human right and that their generation must build the world where this is realized. Since that time, GHC has placed almost 1,000 young leaders from more than 40 countries with non-profit and government health organizations like Partners In Health and the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia, and the United States, developing them as creative, effective, and compassionate leaders along the way.

Prior to GHC, Barbara worked in educational programming at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, where she supported design-thinking programs for high school students and faculty across the US. She has worked with Red Cross Children’s Hospital in South Africa and UNICEF in Botswana, and has traveled with the UN World Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition in ARV treatment. Barbara is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee and the UN Global Entrepreneurs Council. She sits on the Board of Directors for Covenant House International, PSI, Friends of the Global Fight for AIDS, TB, and Malaria. She is a Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, and a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation. In 2011, Barbara was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year, in 2013 she was recognized as one of Newsweek’s Women of Impact, and in 2015 she was named to Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business list. Barbara graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2004.

Doctrin’s purpose is to radically improve healthcare. We do this by helping healthcare providers to intelligently digitalise the patient journey. Our platform allows healthcare providers to prioritise, treat and follow up with patients – safely, securely and online.

The Doctrin team includes medical doctors, data scientists, software developers and management consultants. All of us share the passion of radically improving healthcare and we are dedicated to build a value-driven organisation with the common goal of helping one billion people to access better health care.

Together with Hans Rosling and Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund founded Gapminder in 2005. Gapminder’s mission statement is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based world view everyone can understand.

She designed the user-interface of the famous animating bubble-chart tool called Trendalyzer, used by millions of students across the world, to understand global development trends. The tool was acquired by Google, and Anna worked at Google in Mountain View, CA as a Senior Usability Designer 2007 to 2010. At Google Anna improved search results for public data, developed data exploration tools for Public Data and made a bubble tool gadget (Motion chart) in Google Spreadsheets. In 2010 Anna came back to Gapminder to develop new free teaching material. Anna is now Vice President and Head of Design & User Experience at Gapminder. She also sits in the Gapminder Board. Anna holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Photography.

Anna founded Dollar Street, the biggest systematic image bank with representative home documentations based on data. At the moment we have almost 30 000 photos and 10 000 video clips, which are free to use under Creative Common license.

Together with Ola and Hans, Anna wrote the Factfulness book, launched in April 2018.

Sana Labs is an artificial intelligence company that applies recent breakthroughs in deep learning to personalize education. Using deep neural networks, Sana’s algorithms find every single students’ unique and optimal path through a course by recommending the right question, piece of content or explanation at the right time – constantly optimizing each students engagement and learning efficacy. Meaning, anyone can learn anything in an individualized way.

The interdisciplinary team includes leading engineers and scientist with backgrounds ranging from Imperial College and CERN to Google and Spotify. Working with some of the world’s largest education companies, Sana Lab’s technology is transforming how millions of people learn.

Anna Malmhake is Chairman and CEO of The Absolut Company since July 2016. Previously, Anna held a number of senior management roles within Pernod Ricard. She joined the Absolut Company in 2007 as Global Brand Director, Absolut Vodka, and was appointed Vice President Global Marketing in September 2009.

In 2011, Anna moved to Dublin and joined Irish Distillers as Chairman & CEO. With her strategic management and marketing skills, as well as her commercial understanding, she continued the rapid development of Jameson Irish Whiskey as an icon of the global spirits industry.

Anna holds a Bachelor degree of Social Science, Business and Law from the University of Stockholm. She started her career in 1991 at Procter & Gamble in Sweden and then joined the Coca-Cola company in Stockholm in 1996, where she held various marketing positions.

From 2001 to 2003, Anna worked for Motorola in Sweden, London and Chicago. Returning to Sweden at the end of 2003, she became Managing Director of Temo AB, a Swedish market research firm and then took up the position of Marketing Director of the Coca Cola Swedish bottler.

Anna Malmhake received the title of CEO of The Year at IMAGE Businesswoman Awards 2015 for her work with Irish Distillers. She is member of the Executive Committee for Pernod Ricard, and sits on the Board of Directors for Oriflame, a beauty company selling direct, founded in Sweden.

Anna enjoys a well-made cocktail and visiting new bars and restaurants. Outside of work Anna enjoys spending time with her family and partner, and an active lifestyle. Some favourites include computer gaming, history, especially vikings, film and fashion.

Addie McDonough is a rising senior at Montgomery Blair High School just outside of Washington D.C. In addition to playing field hockey and lacrosse at her school, Addie participates in marches and local political campaigns in and around the capital city. During the summer she works with special needs children in their school program.  She speaks French, enjoys cooking and is thrilled to participate in the Brilliant Minds Conference.

Hedda Hövel is a student at Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium, outside of Stockholm. She is active in the Model European Parliament, with a focus on security and defense. She encourages more young people to engage in politics, both domestically and on a global level. After she finishes high school next year, she wants to go abroad and study international politics. Hedda is a big soccer enthusiast and used to be a host for a sports show on public radio. Now, she works as a coach for an aspirational team of young girls. She sees herself as a leader, now and in the future.

Åsa Tamsons is Senior Vice President, Head of Business Area Technologies and New Businesses, at Ericsson. Technologies like 5G, IoT, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and edge computing are changing the way we live and work. Inspired by technological leaps like these, bold thinking and innovation, Åsa and her team are leveraging Ericsson’s technology leadership to create value through connectivity. The ambition is to empower an intelligent, sustainable and connected world, and drive a positive change for people as well as companies.

Before joining Ericsson in April 2018, Åsa was a partner at McKinsey & Company, focusing on high tech, software and telecommunications. With a passion for technology, innovation and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, Åsa has lived and worked in Stockholm, Silicon Valley and Sao Paolo. A yoga aficionado, she also believes in being curious and learning new things.

Viktoryia Khromchanka is a Swedish-Belarusian entrepreneur who started her career in the PR industry. With a strong ideological backbone she has navigated the Swedish political and media landscapes promoting entrepreneurship, integration and transparency. Viktoryia has been involved in helping cultural institutions in Stockholm fight bureaucracy to promoting higher industry standards for asylum homes during the asylum crisis of 2015.

Fighting outdated structures led her on the path of challenging the whole live music industry. Without any previous knowledge or experience of the music industry she left her PR firm for an idea. Gigital, an online marketplace for booking live music, was born May 2017 with the mission of bringing more transparency and openness to the industry. Two years after the bold decision, Gigital has become one of the leading digital solutions for booking live music in the Nordic market.

Vasant (Vas) Narasimhan, M.D., has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Novartis since February 1, 2018.

Since becoming CEO, Dr. Narasimhan has led a strategic and cultural transformation at Novartis to become a leading medicines company globally powered by advanced therapy platforms and data science.   Under his leadership the company has completed over $60 billion in strategic transactions.  Dr. Narasimhan previously was Global Head of Drug Development and Chief Medical Officer for Novartis. Prior to this he held a range of leadership roles in product development and general management in Novartis Vaccines and Sandoz.  Over his career at Novartis he has overseen the licensure of over 20 novel medicines including advanced cell and gene therapies as well as vaccines. Before joining Novartis in 2005, he briefly worked in management consulting.

Dr. Narasimhan received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in the US, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Chicago in the US. During and after his medical studies, he worked extensively on a range of public health issues in developing countries and continues to champion global health priorities today. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine and serves on the Board of Fellows of Harvard Medical School.