Mats Brännström is a world-renowned gynaecologist known for his work on uterus transplantation. Motivated by an idea brought to him by a patient, he spent a decade researching the possibility of a live birth after a uterus transplantation.  In 2014, Brännström led the surgical team to success and presented the first live birth after uterus transplantation. This was followed by 7 more live births after uterus transplantation in Sweden, which was soon repeated by others from around the globe, including the USA, China and India. The Swedish uterus transplantation project is acknowledged today as an example of how to bring innovative surgery into the clinical arena by systematic research, that will guarantee a safe and effective treatment in humans. This success has given the hope of having biological children to millions of previously infertile women.

Mats Brännström is the Chairman Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at University of Gothenburg and a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School and Mayo Clinic, USA and has previously conducted research and clinical training at University of Adelaide, Australia. Brännström is also the founder of Stockholm IVF, a large provider of assisted reproduction in the Stockholm area.

Malin Stenberg was only 15 years old when she was told she had been born without a uterus and would never carry a child of her own. She is now the world’s first woman to have a baby with a womb transplant. Five years ago, she was given a womb by a family friend as part of a Mats transplant program at Gothenburg University and has made history by giving birth to her son Vincent. Malin wants to tell her story to give hope to others in the same situation.

Karl-Henrik Sundström was appointed CEO of Stora Enso in August 2014. He joined Stora Enso in August 2012 as CFO and member of the Group Leadership Team.  In June 2013 he took on the role as Executive Vice President for division Paper and Wood Products.

Prior to joining Stora Enso, Mr. Sundström held the role as CFO of NXP Semiconductors 2008–2012. Before that, he held several managerial positions in Ericsson, including CFO.

He is member of the board of Mölnlycke and chairman of the tax delegation for Swedish Business and Commerce and member of the board of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

Karl-Henrik participated in an Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1997 and holds a degree in Business Administration, Finance and Accounting from the Uppsala University, Sweden.

Juliet de Baubigny is a General Partner at Bond and focuses on emerging technology companies in the U.S. and Europe. She is actively involved with investments in Spotify, Omio, Brex, FabFitFun, and Spotahome.

Prior to joining Bond, Juliet was a Senior Partner at Kleiner Perkins. Over an 18-year career she worked closely with a broad number of companies including Amazon, Google, Nest, Bloom Energy, Chegg, and Beyond Meat. She has advised founders and CEOs on company building, leadership development, and strategic partnerships.

Juliet is a passionate champion of innovation and philanthropy. She is a member of the board of Product (RED) and most recently co-founded Beyond Type 1, an organization focused on finding a cure for Type 1 diabetes.

Juliet holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business from the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Jonah Peretti is the Founder and CEO of BuzzFeed. After co-founding The Huffington Post in 2005, Peretti launched BuzzFeed in 2006 as an experimental lab that focused on tracking viral content and making things people wanted to share. Under Peretti’s leadership, BuzzFeed now reaches the third largest U.S. millennial audience on the internet and generates more than 9B monthly content views, with writers and producers creating shareable and entertaining content, and reporters and editors covering everything from politics to technology and investigations. BuzzFeed has also pioneered social advertising to build shareable campaigns for the world’s leading brands.

Before BuzzFeed, Peretti experimented with viral projects and studied how information and ideas spread through the web. Peretti is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and has taught at NYU and the Parsons School of Design. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and twins.

Joel was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. After graduating from Malmö Theatre Academy 2007 Joel attended at the Gothenburg City Theatre, Sweden’s oldest city theatre. 2007 he got a huge recognition for his role as Raskolknikov in the play from Fjodor Dostojevskij’s roman Crime and Punishment at Backa Theatre in Gothenburg. Although his acting career started already in 2002, taking part in the Swedish thriller called The lnvisible, Joel has since then contributed in more than 40 film productions and TV-series. He is widely famous for his role as JW in the Swedish film, Easy Money (Snabba Cash) a trilogy based on the best-selling novel written by Jens Lapidus. But reached global recognition for his roles such as Stephen Holder on AMC’s The Killing, Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake and Rick Flag in the DC Comics film Suicide Squad working along co-actors Will Smith, Jared Leto, Ben Affleck and Margot Robbie to name a few.

Joel is currently starring in the Netflix original series which has been Netflix largest budget series to-date where he plays the lead role as Takeshi Kovacs in Altered Carbon. During 2018 the movie Three Seconds will be released based on the novel of the same name where Joel plays a reformed criminal and former special operation soldier working undercover with the FBI. Joel worked with co-stars Ana De Armas, Rosamund Pike and Clive Owen.

Is the Executive Producer of ABC Freeform’s The Bold Type, now in its fourth season and inspired by her career. Former Creative Advisor to CBS News, and Former Chief Content Officer of Hearst Magazines. She sits on the Board of Directors of Snap Inc., Frederic Fekkai, and Women Entrepreneurs New York City, an initiative to expand female entrepreneurship, with a focus on underserved women and communities.

The British-born editor moved to the U.S. in 1997 as the New York Bureau Chief for The Guardian, before becoming the New York columnist for The Times of London. Coles joined Hearst in 2006 as editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, where she co-produced the Style Network’s unscripted show Running in Heels. She was named editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the world’s largest women’s media brand, in 2012. She was the executive producer of the unscripted series So Cosmo on E! in 2017.

Over the course of her career, Coles has won numerous prestigious awards for journalism and media leadership. She was recently described by The New York Times as “one of the most powerful people in media.” Coles is also the author of Love Rules, a book with HarperCollins on relationships in the digital age and lives in Manhattan.

Jason Hardi is the Founder, CEO and Visionary of MUZIK, a technology company that develops and designs Smartware®, connected devices that combine AI, third-party apps and original content to deliver unique experiences curated by icons and influencers across sports, fashion, music and entertainment. To date, MUZIK has been issued over 130 patents and trademarks and recently unveiled its’ newest smart headphone with embedded voice technology powered by Google. The Company has aligned with strategic investors including Kering Group’s François-Henri Pinault, Groupe Artemis, and Twitter, as well as celebrity shareholders that include Offset, Cardi B, Michael Jordan, Tony Robbins, Drake, Chris Paul, and Kevin Hart representing the true convergence of Culture and Technology.

Seasoned and award-winning journalist Isha Sesay has covered global events and major breaking news of the past decade, with a focus on stories of social injustice and their impact on women and girls. Reporting from Nigeria in 2014, Sesay led the CNN team that covered the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian school girls. CNN’s in-depth reporting was recognized with a Peabody Award. Sesay was awarded a Gracie Award for Outstanding Anchor for her coverage of this story, in addition to other accolades during her tenure at CNN.

As part of her anchoring and reporting duties, Sesay has interviewed a number of world leaders including Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga; President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal; President Lech Kaczynski of Poland; Liberian President Ellen John Slrleaf; and President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone. Sesay is also the Founder and President of W.E. (Women Everywhere) Can Lead, a non-profit organization working in her native country of Sierra Leone, to nurture and empower teenage girls to become Africa’s next generation of dynamic female leaders.

In July 2019, Sesay’s definitive account and first book, Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram (Dey Street Books) will publish. Of Sierra Leonean descent, Sesay grew up in Britain and holds a BA honors English degree from Trinity College, Cambridge University. She lives in Los Angeles.