During the process of producing and recycling batteries, there is always a waste product in the shape of black dust. It might seem like a minor issue, but it contains critical raw materials that are both valuable to the ecosystem and hazardous to the human workers. Arelys Sosa was part of the core team when …
Managing renewable energy assets is still a quite manual task – there are many different dashboards and alarms to monitor at all times. Brandon Vargas wants to reduce this complexity in order to accelerate the green energy transition. Together with Sajad Sharhani, he recently founded Evora Labs in Stockholm, using plenty of agentic AI to …
The food industry is difficult to enter – especially if you build a consumer brand. Foodtech startup Angry Camel was founded in Malmö by Kotabia Aal and Bakr Jahhan in 2021, with an innovation that process chickpeas into a non-allergenic protein powder. They quickly realized that the B2B market was far more suitable, and decided …
Many farmers run small businesses with limited time to evaluate different energy solutions. Javier Arroyo is on a mission to help this group become more self-sufficient and cost-efficient through batteries and smart software. He founded Edgy Systems for industries and the business segment Edgy Battery for farmers after previously working with battery engineering at Volvo …
Technology can unlock life-changing opportunities for people with disabilities. Griet Vanhee previously worked as a speech therapist for ALS patients. She was recruited to the Swedish eye-tracking company Tobii and the newly formed division Tobii Dynavox, focusing on AAC solutions – Assistive and Alternative Communications. On stage at Women in Tech Sweden 2026, Griet showcased …
When Ken Villum Klausen founded the digital challenger bank Lunar in Denmark almost 11 years ago, he could hardly foresee the current AI landscape. With a resilient backbone formed on the struggles of building a proper Nordic challenger bank, Lunar is now increasingly positioning itself as an infrastructure for other fintech companies – and AI …
AI solutions are being rolled out at an incredible pace, but how do organizations and individuals implement these new ways of working in practice? Turns out there’s a gap in AI adoption, not only between genders, industries and continents, but within companies and teams as well. Lund-based Gertrude Chilufya is on a journey to bridge …
Urban forests and gardens are increasingly important for shade, climate change mitigation, noise pollution and air quality. But out of the 100 Billion USD invested annually, there is plenty of waste because trees are not properly taken care of. A third don’t even survive their first year. Devon Young from Avanade and Hannah Prior from …
Anyone who’s met Shaena Harrison remembers the encounter, since she probably introduced you to a person you didn’t know you wanted to meet. During her more than ten years in Stockholm, she has been working for tech companies like Klarna, Oneflow, LinkedIn, SingularityU Nordic and Telia, while volunteering at TEDx Stockholm. Eventually, she realized that …
Cryopreservation is a common process in nature. Given that it already works with IVF embryos, could it potentially work for entire human bodies? James Arrowood believes so. He is CEO of Arizona-based non-profit organization Alcor Life Extension Foundation, one of the largest cryonics facilities in the world. This is no longer just science fiction. Heja …
Jag har bokat Maxim i Stockholm för en ordentlig Heja Framtiden-talkshow, torsdag den 7 maj 2026. Temat för kvällen är Människan i framtiden, och tillsammans med Dr Mouna, Niklas Laninge, Philip de Croy, Marika Smith och Nicklas Hermansson kommer jag dyka ner i det mänskliga – liv, död, pengar, sex, relationer, psykologi och filosofi. Det …
Mitchell Davis is a renowned authority in many different parts of the food system. He has been involved in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants and the James Beard Foundation, and runs his own media outlet Kitchen Sense on platforms like Instagram and Substack. Heja Framtiden met Mitchell at the Stockholm Food Forum, when the new …
Plenty of academic research end up in obscure publications behind big paywalls. When Abeni Wickham couldn’t even access her own scientific paper, she realized that this was also undermining democracy. This led to the foundation of SciFree, a digital platform allowing libraries to provide citizens with open access to thousands of academic papers and journals. …
Välkommen till Heja Framtiden, podcast och plattform för framtidsfrågor. Här på hemsidan kan du bekanta dig med alla de hundratals fantastiska personer jag har intervjuat i podden sedan starten i januari 2018. Om du är intresserad av ett specifikt ämne kan du se en hel drös med kategorier under Podcast i menyn här ovanför. Utifrån …
India faces many challenges related to climate change. But it’s also a powerhouse of innovation and engineering. Rajat Kukreja is Entrepreneurship Manager at the University of Toronto India Foundation in Mumbai, enabling connections between science, government and startups to build new collaborative projects around urban planning and climate resilience. He has also been instrumental in …
The Ukrainian society is not frozen. Beyond the headlines, much of everyday life and business innovation is actually functioning quite well. Anastasiia Liubiashcheva is deeply involved in the Ukrainian startup ecosystem, working with Home of Startups Accelerator, Vacuum Deep-Tech Acceleration and the EU-funded consortium Seeds of Bravery. Her mission is primarily to boost deep tech …
Being new in a country is difficult. Food is a great icebreaker, but how do you even enter these contexts in an effortless way? At the same time, many brilliant chefs are overworked, underpaid and rarely recognized for their time and effort. Stockholm-based foodtech startup Bestick wants to marry these two problems with a smooth …
The power grid’s numerous substations require large amounts of hardware components and metals such as copper. Gothenburg-based EcoPhi was born out of CEO and founder Ebrahim Balouji’s research at Chalmers University of Technology, and today the company offers a combination of harmonizing hardware and AI-driven software. The aim is to digitalize the power system in …
Hydrogen is increasingly important for the energy transition. But it’s still expensive to produce it without fossil fuels. Rutvika Acharya is co-founder and CEO at Caplyzer, aiming to change that equation. By developing a new generation of electrolyzers, Caplyzer wants to make a real impact in the world of hydrogen. Heja Framtiden has a paid …
Relationships and storytelling are keys to fixing the food system. At least according to Fiji-based Karen Mapusua, Director of the Land Resources Division at The Pacific Community, enabling collaboration and technology transfer between 22 countries and territories in the Pacific Ocean. She is also president of the IFOAM Organics International World Board. What are the …
Heja Framtiden has a paid collaboration with Stockholm Business Region and the newly instated Stockholm ImpACT Days, where Re:Think Food is the theme for 2025. The week was kicked off by Big Meet, Sweden Foodtech’s yearly conference, this time at Rosendals Trädgård on Royal Djurgården in Stockholm. In the kitchen, we met with Sabi Nazarian, …
What are some of the most important lessons if you want to build a successful global brand from scratch? Swedish TV host, comedian, singer and writer Gina Dirawi decided to embark on an entirely new adventure when she started building her brand ZËIYT, developing olive oil products for skin and hair care. To boost the …
The iPhone production demands plenty of rare resources, but the product lifespan is often cut short because of minor deficiencies, which leads to tons of unnecessary e-waste and carbon emissions. The Finnish company Swappie aims to give iPhones a second or third chance in the hands of consumers. After nine years of operations, it has …
Technology is often said to disconnect us from one another, but there are exceptions. Sean Rogg is an artist and futurist who continually explores how human emotions, empathy, and connection can be triggered, manipulated, and deepened through technology and collaboration. By making the audience an integral part of his experiments, he has broken away from …
Stephanie Melodia is a London-based keynote speaker, podcast host, marketing consultant and former startup founder. Her work revolves around entrepreneurship in general, and gender equality in the startup scene is an important topic. Heja Framtiden met her after a keynote at the Women in Tech conference in Stockolm, where she took shots at the powerful …
Is a prosperous future within our planetary boundaries still possible? Sandrine Dixson-Declève was co-president of the think tank Club of Rome 2018-2024 and is now serving as executive chair at Earth 4 All, a collective of scientists, economists and advocates aiming to craft policies within a framework called Transformational Economics. Heja Framtiden met Sandrine at …
What impact can a single company make when it comes to social sustainability among its third scope suppliers, scattered across the globe? This is exactly the question Wendy Savage struggles with daily as Senior Director of Social Impact and Transparency at the outdoor fashion brand Patagonia. In this conversation at Norrsken House in Stockholm, she …
Will the foodtech sector recover from its recent challenges? According to Matthieu Vincent from Digital Food Lab in Paris, it depends on access to capital, longterm thinking and the development of cheap, renewable energy. Some apparent trends are that many foodtech startups are moving from B2C to B2B, from building a consumer brand to crafting …
Estefania Simon-Sasyk is the founder of Mycelium Gastronomy Network, a global consultancy bent on driving the sustainable food systems transformation through education, collaboration and creativity. Some of their clients are billion-dollar enterprices, curiously exploring product development, regenerative practices and novel foodtech innovations. Heja Framtiden mer Estefania at the Spot on Food conference in Kristianstad, fall …
Circular economy may seem like common sense – why waste resources when we could reuse them for something else? Well, it’s apparently difficult to conduct circular business practices in a linear system. Ken Webster served as innovation manager at Ellen MacArthur Foundation during its formative years, and many look to him as one of the …