The Swedish Startup Conference 2021

The Swedish Startup Conference 2021 was our biggest-ever webinar, gathering 1,238 Swedish Startup Founders, VCs, executives, seed fund partners, general partners, journalists and bloggers.

37 Speakers contributed to the event, sharing their experiences of pivoting their Startups amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and giving advice on topics ranging from funding to expanding to The United States.

Agenda (Stockholm Time)

5.00pm-5.05pm: Webinar Opening

5.05pm-6.05pm: Silicon Vallgatan Rapid Fire Talks

• Alexander Högman, Co-Founder of Mediatool

• Sara Wallin, Chief Executive Officer of Chalmers Ventures
• Linus Kullänger, Founder & CEO of Care to Translate
• Deborah B. Lygonis, CEO and Co-Founder of Friendbase and Co-Founder of Craft Animations & Entertainment and Validicity
• Sami Sulieman, Founder of Affärsänglarna i Malmö & Plexian
• Alexandra De Wever Treschow, CEO of Aprovix
• Nguyet Hoang, Founder & CEO of FitnessBet
• Jon Linden, CEO/Founder of Ekkono Solutions
• Lech Kaniuk, CEO of SunRoof
• Helena Sjögren, Founder of Amzello and Elastic Minds and Senior Advisor & Head of Business Development at Reedz
• Carl Moberg, CTO and Co-Founder of Avassa Systems
• Daniel Kernell, Co-Founder & COO of Doktor24
• Martin Landén, Co-Founder & CEO of APPRL
• Teenie Fung, Co-Founder & CEO of Hypertype.co
• Erik Calissendorff, Founder of Plejd
• Magnus Liungman, Founder & CEO of NudgeLabs and Founder of Doctrin
• Martin Ryen, CEO of Pharem Biotech & pCure

• Gordon Savage, Head of Solution Sales of APSIS
• David Brudö, CEO & Co-founder of Remente
• Robert Mertens, Founder of Mooringo
• Francesco Mazzotta, CEO and Co-Founder of Pilloxa
• Arvid Stenback, Co-Founder & Head of Business Development at Formulate
• Johan Nihlén, Founder & CEO of Altered Company

• Lisa Lindvall, CEO & Founder of The Fit
• Dimitris Giannoccaro, Co-Founder & CEO of IamIP
• Jenny Keisu, CEO of X Shore

6.05pm-6.20pm: Silicon Valley Panel Discussion (U.S.-based speakers, or speakers with experience in the U.S.)

• Rikard Steiber, Founder and CEO of GoodTrust
• Annika Steiber, Founder & CEO of A.S. Management Insights and Director for the Rendanheyi Silicon Valley Center at Menlo College
• Ola Soderquist, Co-Founder & CFO of Bioxytran Inc.

• Fredrik Sunesson, Co-Founder of Sunesson Consulting Group
• Michael Mohn, Co-Founder of DRKN
• Carl Leskinen, Co-Founder & CEO of Burt Intelligence
• Ralf Hirt, Founder & CEO of 8W8 Global Business Builders

6.20pm-6.30pm: Startup Stories

• Kaarina Kvaavik, Co-Founder of Language I/O

6.30pm-6.40pm: “How to Engage and Retain Your Customers” Fireside Chat

• Frank Yaw-Owusu, Ecosystem Developer, EMEA & Global Emerging Markets at Twilio Startups

6.40pm-6.50pm: “Swedish Startups & Employee Share Incentives” Fireside Chat

• Christoffer Vikersveen Herheim, Co-Founder of Optio Incentives

6.50pm-7.00pm: ”Scaling your IT infrastructure with free resources from AWS” Fireside Chat

• Ott Salmar, Head of Sales at Cloudvisor