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Founder Stage


Every company and movement looks different when you hear the story from the person who built it. The Founder Stage brings you close to entrepreneurs and changemakers who have turned personal experiences, difficult problems and ambitious ideas into something real.


10.00 - 10.20 Alaa Murabit Founder at For Mama/ Every Pregnancy 

10.30 - 10.50 Julieta Martinez Founder TREMENDAS

11.00 - 11.20 Jacob Andersson, Co-founder Klang.ai

11.30 - 11.50 Ola Wassvik Co-founder & CCO at Lightbringer

Lunch Break

13.00 - 13.20 Rajet Krishnan, Founder at Viking Analytics

13.30 - 13.50 Tomas Ohlson Co-Founder at Elergi

14.00 - 14.20 Julia Petryk, Founder at Calibrated

14.30 - 15.00 Tiffany Boswell, CEO and Co-Founder at Meela



Speakers at Founder Stage

Dr. Alaa Murabit
Founder at For Mama/ Every Pregnancy

Dr Alaa Murabit founded For Mama, the first zakat-certified collaborative for maternal and child health, now operating independently as Every Pregnancy. A physician and founder, her work focuses on turning local trust and community knowledge into impact at scale. She is the recipient of the 2026 WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award.

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Julieta Martínez Oyarzún
Founder TREMENDAS

As founder of Tremendas, Julieta Martínez has advanced a powerful model for youth-led change, positioning young women at the forefront of climate action and gender equality. She has built a movement spanning 18 countries, strengthening young women's leadership in shaping solutions and influencing global conversations. For her visionary work connecting youth with climate action and gender equality, she is awarded the 2026 WIN WIN Youth Award.

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Jacob Andersson
Co-founder Klang.ai

Jacob Andersson is co-founder of Klang AI, a Swedish platform that turns conversations into structured, searchable knowledge. A developer at heart, he has built Klang from its first line of code, developing speech and language models specifically for Nordic languages.

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Sovereignty First: Building AI infrastructure that Europe can actually trust

Stage B

AI sovereignty goes beyond where data is stored. It is about retaining control over models, suppliers, costs and future choices. Berget AI and Klang.ai explore its strategic, political, economic and technical dimensions, what customers need in practice, and how policymakers should respond. The session also examines the role of open-weight models and open-source technology in building that control while meeting regulatory requirements.

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Ola Wassvik
Co-founder & CCO at Lightbringer

Ola Wassvik is a deep tech founder, inventor and patent strategist with more than 20 years of industry experience. After co-founding FlatFrog and overseeing portfolios of more than 300 patent families, he now helps growing tech companies build stronger IP portfolios through Lightbringer’s AI-native patent service.

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Dr. Rajet Krishnan
Co-founder and CEO at Viking Analytics

Dr. Rajet Krishnan is CEO and Co-Founder of Viking Analytics, which helps industrial teams use vibration data to understand the health of their machines. He brings more than a decade of R&D experience, including at Huawei, and holds a PhD from Chalmers. Viking Analytics is now used in over 20 countries. At the Founder Stage, Rajet will talk candidly about the decisions and setbacks behind that growth.

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Tomas Ohlson
Co-Founder Elergi

Tomas Ohlson was the founding engineer at Einride, where he wrote the first lines of code and helped grow the company from a small founding team to more than 400 people. He is now starting again, building a new company at the intersection of AI and the energy transition, Elergi Labs.

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Panel: Powering the AI Economy

Main Stage

AI may feel digital, but its growth depends on physical infrastructure. Data centres need vast amounts of reliable electricity, while industry and transport are electrifying at the same time. The challenge is not only producing enough power, but expanding the grid, shortening connection queues and deciding where new capacity should be built. This panel brings together perspectives from the energy system, data centre innovation and AI-powered grid planning to explore how Sweden can meet growing demand while keeping energy reliable, affordable and competitive.

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Julia Petryk
CEO and Founder at Calibrated

Julia Petryk is the Co-Founder and CEO of Calibrated, a Ukrainian communications agency specialising in defence tech, cybersecurity and cognitive security. With more than 15 years of experience in international technology communications, she founded the agency in Kyiv during Russia’s full-scale invasion. Julia has since launched several initiatives supporting Ukraine’s tech and communications ecosystem, including Planetwide, Tech PR School and the Defence Tech Communications Bootcamp. She also co-founded PR Army just hours after the invasion began, bringing Ukrainian voices and expertise to international audiences. Her work has earned international recognition, including PRovoke Media’s Top 25 PR Innovators in EMEA.

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Tiffany Boswell
CEO & Co-Founder at Meela

Tiffany Boswell is co-founder and CEO of Meela, a personalised therapy-matching platform inspired by her own struggle to find the right therapist. Under her leadership, Meela has raised more than €5 million, expanded across Sweden and the UK, and helped over 100,000 people find better-matched mental health support.

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Stephanie Darvill
Moderator Founder Stage / Head of Accelerator Daya Ventures

Stephanie Darvill returns for her fourth year as a moderator at Gothenburg Tech Week, hosting conversations on the Founder Stage. An experienced moderator at events including Women in Tech Sweden and TechBBQ, she is Head of Accelerator at Daya, a femtech startup hub, and Programme Manager at Women in Tech Sweden. She looks forward to honest conversations with founders about the innovations they are building across the Nordics and beyond.

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