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, …
”VR has not taken off”. That was the theme of VR entrepreneur Antti Martikainen’s talk att the XR Hack conference in Stockholm at Epicenter. But the word that follows is usually ”yet”. Antti runs the company Virtual Dawn in Finland, and in this episode he talks about the opportunities ahead for the emerging industry and …
Äntligen är det åter dags för Bar Talk i Stockholm! På torsdag den 21 mars kommer jag och Henric Smolak att dyka ner i cirkulär ekonomi och delningsekonomi tillsammans med Elin Bergman, Maria Soxbo och David Knutsson. Spektaklet äger rum på United Spaces, Torsgatan 26. Det blir som vanligt gratis pizza från Deglabbet, så missa …
Sociala robotar kommer att bli allt mer vanligt förekommande i samhället, särskilt när de nu kan tränas på AI och stora språkmodeller. Charlie Caper är kreativ chef på den svenska robotpionjären Furhat Robotics, som i mer än tio års tid arbetat med att utveckla konversationsrobotar för företag över hela världen. Charlie är dessutom professionell trollkarl …
Vad kan vi få ut av att närma oss en motpart med nyfikenhet och lyssnande? Emma Stenström är docent i företagsekonomi vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, och har utvecklat metoden Bubbelhoppa som också resulterat i en bok med samma namn. Det handlar i korta drag om att föra genuina samtal med människor som tycker eller lever …
How do the large language models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 work? In what ways will they benefit us – and how can we help improving them? Korey Stegared-Pace works as Cloud Advocate at Microsoft in Stockholm, and part of his job is to educate and engage more people in software development, AI and machine learning. In this …
What is a meme and how can it be used as a marketing tool – or even become part of a business model? Liz Hagelthorn is one of the world’s leading experts when it comes to viral social media growth and the monetization of memes. But she also has a long – and personal – relationship with …
There’s a lot happening in the intersection between new technologies and the creative industries. Gareth Deakin is a London-based consultant and angel investor specializing in the vibrant music tech scene. He also has a long background from major record labels. We met him at Stockholm Creative Tech Week 2022 to discuss the future of music, with AI, blockchain and …
Casey Hudetz is a Chicago-based designer and filmmaker. Over the past few years, he has been exploring technological development with the help of human pop culture and storytelling. One of his projects is called The BEAR Test, and is his attempt to create a new ”Turing Test” with the popular children’s book I Want My Hat Back by Jon …
Darlene Chiu Bryant is the founder and Executive Director at GlobalSF – a business network creating connections for San Francisco companies expanding abroad, as well as attracting other businesses to set up shop in the dynamic Bay Area. We met Darlene during the foodtech conference Big Meet in Stockholm. What similarities and opportunities can we find between the two business regions, …
Do we really need to buy all these tools and products when we easily could share them with other members of our community? Alexander Engl is the CEO and co-founder of ihopa, a startup providing a ”neighbour box” that allows members to freely borrow high-quality products whenever they like. The box can include everything from chainsaws and grass trimmers …
Allihoop är en ny disruptör på bostadsmarknaden. Genom att samarbeta med fastighetsägare kan företaget skapa attraktiva boendemiljöer för hundratals hyresgäster, som delar gemensamma ytor, kök och träningsfaciliteter. Trenden med coliving har bara börjat och kommer bli en allt mer relevant lösning för storstadsområden som behöver kunna erbjuda resurseffektivt boende för framtidens talanger. Läs mer på …
Foodtech-företaget Hooked har seglat upp som en spännande utmanare i seafood-segmentet. Med grundvisionen att bidra till mer hållbara marina ekosystem har de tagit fram sin första produkt: växtbaserad tonfisk på burk. Det må låta som en kuriositet, men framväxten av hungriga bolag som Hooked skickar ändå en viktig signal – att det behövs fler typer …
Erik Engellau-Nilsson är vd för Norrsken, Klarna-grundaren Niklas Adalberths stiftelse som rymmer allt från startup-kluster till investeringsfonder och accelerator-projekt. Syftet är att stötta bolag som vill bidra positivt till världen på olika sätt. Erik berättar om sin egen väg från rollen som marknadschef på Klarna, och hur synen på socialt entreprenörskap har förändrats drastiskt på …
CEO Oscar Höglund and his co-founders have developed Epidemic Sound from a visionary idea into a disruptive global music brand and a business with 400 employees. Growing from the thriving Stockholm music tech and startup scene, Epidemic has proven that there is strong demand for its concept of selling royalty-free music to business owners around …
Harper Reed was a celebrated Chief Technology Officer for Barack Obama’s successful campaign in 2012. But did he in fact help develop practices that led to put Trump in the White House four years later? This is exactly the kind of contrasting complexity that defines Harper Reed as a thinker, tech entrepreneur and keynote speaker. …
Dr Elizabeth Jochum is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark. She also conducts research at the Research Laboratory for Art and Technology, where she looks at the integration of robotics in the arts sector, mainly dance and choreography. Having worked extensively with robotics over the past decade, …