Activities
In order to spread new knowledge and promote collaboration, we regularly invite experts and decision-makers from academia, politics, business and the public sector to dialogue and debate. All our invitations are personal and the topic determines who we invite.
Our meeting arrangements
To create the right conditions for dialogue, we adapt our activities to the purpose. We work with three different formats. From large events for broad knowledge dissemination, to moderated debates and smaller roundtables for concrete problem solving.
Events
Events are larger gatherings where we present new knowledge and raise current issues to a wider audience.
Salon debates
Salon debates are moderated discussions that challenge perspectives and deepen understanding in a specific area.
Roundtable discussions
Roundtables are smaller meetings where stakeholders from different sectors come together to share experiences and explore solutions together.
Past activities
Moderator: Elizabeth Walentin
In the presence of His Majesty the King Sweden. Speakers/panelists included Anna Hallberg (Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Trade and Nordic Affairs), Karl-Henrik Sundström (Chair of the Committee, Sweden Expo2020), Jan Larsson (CEO, Business Sweden) Björn Rosengren(CEO, ABB), Börje Ekholm (CEO, Ericsson), Martin Lundstedt (CEO Volvo Group), H.E Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy (Managing Director for Expo 2020), H.E. Dr Eiman Bint Habbas Al-Mutairi (Vice Minister of Commerce of Saudi Arabia & the CEO of the National Competitiveness Center), Jan Moström (CEO, LKAB), Viveka Beckeman, (Director General, Swedish Forest Industries), Joakim Karlsson (CEO, Envac), Andreas Regnell (Senior VP Strategic Development, Vattenfall), Martin Lindqvist (President and CEO, SSAB) Gustaf Salford (CEO, Elekta), Johan Holmström (CCO, XVIVO), Cecilia Edström, (Board Director and Senior Advisor, former CEO Bactiguard), Claudio Facchin (CEO, Hitachi Energy), Christian Levin (CEO, Scania), Henrik Sjölund (CEO, Holme), Ahmed Sultan Bin Sulayem (Executive Chairman & CEO, DMCC), Dr Aisha Bin Bishr (Global Digital Magnate & Former Founding Director General of Smart Dubai, Vice Chairwoman of Emaar Development Board), Leif Johansson (Chair, AstraZeneca) Jacob Wallenberg, (Chair, Investor).
Guests:
David Crouch (journalist) Lena Sellgren (Business Sweden), Jennie Cato (Scania) and Magnus Mehring (Stockholm School of Economics), Katarina Blomkvist (Uppsala University), Mats Barversten (formerly Spotify),
Cecilia Warrol (Teknikföretagen) Björn Block (IKEA), Roberth Friedman (Israeli Embassy), Steve Angus (British Embassy), Susanne Ackum (Future Work Forum), Jan Larsson (Business Sweden)
Host: Elizabeth Walentin
Rolf Skog, Professor University of Gothenburg and CGF, Dick Lundqvist, General Counsel Wallenberg Foundations, Patrik Marcelius, lawyer Mannheimer Swartling and Erik Sjöman lawyer Vinge.
Representatives from Business Sweden and companies taking part on stage at the Summit in Dubai.
Mats Isaksson, former Head of Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance at OECD and Ossian Ekdahl, Chief Active Ownership Officer at Första AP-fonden
David Weild IV, former vice chairman of Nasdaq, Grant McKelvey, Head of Listing Qualifications at Nasdaq Stockholm, and Patrik Tigerschiöld, chairman of Bure Equity AB
Mark J. Roe, David Berg Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and professor Rolf Skog, Gothenburg University and CGF
Peter Dahlen, Managing Director, AmCham
Mats Isaksson, Head of Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance at OECD, and Gül Demirtaş, Sabanci University and CGF