IMPACT TALKS BY NORRSKEN

Covid-21(?), geopolitical change, new leadership, accelerating technological trends and climate change. Phew! As a business leader, it’s not easy to navigate this increasingly complex world.Gapminder is on a mission to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview everyone can understand, creating action by correcting systematic misconceptions. AFRY is helping businesses and governments accelerate the transition to a sustainable society. 

SPEAKERS
Jonas Gustavsson, CEO AFRY 
Lisen Oliw,  Nordic MD Norrsken Foundation

Complemented by insights from Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Co-founder Gapminder

Until today, impact reporting has taken the form of sustainability reports that are impossible to understand and compare. A new system developed at Harvard translates that data into dollars. All of a sudden, impact becomes easy to understand, compare and act on. The implications are massive. 

SPEAKERS
Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman Bridges Ventures
Professor Rob Zochowski, Harvard
Avid Larizadeh Duggan, Entrepreneur and Investor
Johanna Blendow, Norrsken Foundation

Most of us want to make a difference. We see suffering, injustice, and death, and are moved to do something about them. But working out what that ‘something’ is, let alone actually doing it, can be a difficult and disheartening hurdle.Effective altruism is a response to this challenge. It is a research field that uses high-quality evidence and careful reasoning to work out how we can use our unique skills to help others as much as possible. 

SPEAKER
Gabriella Överödder,  Executive Director Effective Altruism

Over 1000 billion SEK will be invested in the Northern parts of Sweden. Leading the way are companies like Northvolt and H2 Green Steel, both of which are transforming battery and steel production. What do they have in common other than fundamentally changing industries forever? Follow the money...

Speaker
Harald Mix, Co-founder and Chairman of Vargas Holding, and Managing Partner at Altor Equity Partners

WHO estimates that depression is the leading cause of disease burden on society by 2030. Already today, more than 1 billion people suffer from migraines. But since the development of SSRIs (antidepressants), barely any new drugs have been introduced. Research is now showing that psychedelics have the potential to not just treat, but to cure mental diseases. This could completely transform psychiatry and reduce human suffering across the globe. 

SPEAKERS
David Nutt - Chair in Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, President of the European Brain Council.

Few statisticians inspire more passion and controversy than Bjørn Lomborg. Time Magazine ranks him as one of the 100 most influential people of our time, while Rajendra Pachauri of the IPCC compares him to Adolf Hitler. Bjørn himself states that “if we care about the environment and about leaving this planet and its inhabitants with the best possible future, we actually have only one option: we all need to start seriously focusing, right now, on the most effective ways to fix global warming.”

As Assistant Secretary-General, Ulrika Modéer is leading UNDP's strategic partnerships across 170 countries to achieve the sustainable development goals.

Johan Kuylenstierna is one of the most influential minds shaping Swedish and global climate policy, most recently as chair of the Swedish Climate Policy Council and previously as CEO of the Stockholm Environment Institute.

Together they will cover the most effective ways of dealing with the climate crisis. 

SPEAKERS
Johan Kuylenstierna, Chair Swedish Climate Policy Council, Professor Stockholm University
Bjørn Lomborg - Founder of Copenhagen Consensus Center
Ulrika Modéer, Assistant Secretary-General at UNDP

How did we end up with a tax on plastic bags as our biggest climate achievement when the majority of the Swedish people agree that climate change is the most worrying issue in society right now. Looking back, what could have been done better in Swedish politics?

SPEAKERS 
Anna Kinberg Batra, Chair of the Board Soltech Energy Sweden, Chairperson at Svensk Solenergi
Maria Wetterstrand, CEO Miltton Europe

Human civilization is facing a number of catastrophic risks, many of which are not getting enough attention, nor being fully understood. Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue around catastrophic and existential risk, and mitigating these risks to design viable future systems. In short, how we can steer civilization away from self-destruction. 

SPEAKERS
Daniel Schmachtenberger, Co-founder The Consilience Project
Niklas Adalberth, Chairman and Founder Norrsken Foundation

The value of a company is the sum of the problems it solves, and no problems are bigger than the ones discussed today. Which presents the biggest financial upsides, and where would you put your money?

SPEAKERS
Ngetha Waithaka, Director at Actis
Tove Larsson, General Partner, Norrsken VC
David Samuelson, Principal at Nordic Capital