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Roundtable Pavilion

13:00-13:30 Table 1: Leading in AI

How do we build organisations that succeed with AI? What does leadership look like when technology is moving faster than most can adapt? The biggest barrier to AI adoption is rarely the technology itself. It's how people work, decisions are made, teams are organised and value is created. At this Round Table we'll explore what separates organisations that turn AI ambition into real capability from those that fall behind.

Moderator: Johan Norrfjärd, Beyond Talking
Participants: Karin Lundgren, IT Technical Site Lead (Director) at Astra Zeneca, Amalia Berglöf General manager Pepp, Eric Mannheimer, Head of Market & Sales & Partner at SEVR,  Stefan Christiernin, Head of Engineering Research at Volvo Cars

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13:00-13:30 Table 2: How Tech and AI Enable Better Sustainability

Technology can help organisations use resources more efficiently, improve decision-making and measure impact. But where can AI make a meaningful difference, and how do we ensure its own footprint does not undermine the gains?

Moderator: Jessica Öhrblad, Logivity
Participants: Louise Wintzell CEO & Founder HIDNstock, Karolina Lisslö Gylfe Secretary General /Executive Director at WePlanet, Leo Li Impact Growth and Engagement manager at Autodesk, Nicole Anderson Brodin Sustainable Procurement Manager at Essity

13:00-13:30 Table 3: Agentic AI

AI agents promise to move from supporting individual tasks to managing more complex processes and acting with greater autonomy. Where are they already creating value, and what questions around control, accountability and trust must be solved?

Moderator: Johan Sanneblad, CEO Token Tech
Participants: Anna Blomdell, Estrad; Bengt Wassberg, PixPax, Charles Maddok, Strawberry; Johan Berntsson, CTO Logivity; Louise Duker, Smartr, Johan Esbjörner, AWS                           

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13:40-14:10 Table 1: Physical AI: The Cost of Being Wrong

Physical AI is leaving the lab for factory floors, roads and warehouses, and West Sweden builds a lot of those machines. But getting from pilot to production isn't blocked by one thing. It's the data to train on, the compute to run it, the safety case to trust it, and the people who can build it. This table brings together people working on each of those bottlenecks. Where does scaling actually break, and what would fix it.

Moderator: Jon Lindén, founder and CMO at Ekkono Solutions
Participants: Daniel Langkilde Co-founder and CEO at Kognic, Susanne Timsjö CEO at ABB Robotics Nordics, Leon Boschman Digital Research Engineer at Chalmers University of Technology and Sweden AI Factory, Kristian Abel VP and Head of Engineering Academy at Volvo Cars, Shivesh Kumar Assistant Professor in Dynamics and Control at the Department of Mechanical and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology

13:40-14:10 Table 2: Europe Beyond Silos: Can Collaboration Become Our Competitive Advantage?

Europe has world-class research, industrial expertise and ambitious companies, but too much knowledge and capacity remains fragmented. Could stronger collaboration across sectors, borders and organisations become one of Europe’s greatest competitive advantages?

Moderator: Aline Santa Izabel, Business Helsinki
Participants: Ellinor Bokedal SISP, Lotta Lehikoinen Chalmers Ventures, Gudmund Zakari W Business Oslo, Kyle MacDonald Founder & CEO KTRM Innovation and Ventures, Safuan Zairi Chief Ecosystem Officer at Mranti and Maci Mechiche Co-founder and CEO at Aveksana.

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14:20-14:50 Table 1: Competence, Talent and Upskilling

What happens to talent strategy when AI changes not only how work gets done, but also who does what? The discussion explores which capabilities can be developed through upskilling, when new expertise is needed and how organisations can make the most of both deep experience and new talent while keeping pace with rapidly changing skills needs.

Moderator: Astrid Sjöström AI Sweden
Participants: Ola Wassvik Co-founder at Light Bringer, Anna Gulliksen Advisor at Women in Tech, Jessica Laos Leadership consultant ; Albert Bengtsson Co-Founder at Immersive Sweden, Victorine Lançon Co-Owner & CCO at Daya Ventures

14:20-14:50 Table 2: Open Source Models

Open-source AI models can offer organisations greater transparency, flexibility and control. What role could they play in Europe’s AI ecosystem, and how should organisations weigh openness against performance, security and responsibility?

Moderator: Jacob Andersson, Co-founder at Klang
Participants:  Anderas Lundmark Berget AI; Fazeleh Hoseini AI and is a Research Scientist and Project Leader at AI Sweden; Anders Olme Channel Sales Nvidia and Youri van Elsland is Head of Expansion at Velatir

14:20-14:50 Table 3: Regulations as a Business Advantage

Regulation is often treated as a constraint, but understanding it early can also build trust, reduce risk and create a stronger market position. How can organisations turn responsible AI and regulatory readiness into a genuine business advantage?

Moderator: Sebastian Torres at Delphi
Participants: David Magård, Director Government and Regulatory affairs SIROS Foundation; David Wallén, CEO och co-founder Intric, Susanne Stenberg Policy Expert at RISE, Johan Thelin, Koderize

Where challenges become conversations

Some of the most valuable insights happen when experts, practitioners, decision-makers, and founders sit around a table and discuss the realities they are facing right now.

The Roundtable Pavilion was created to make those conversations accessible to everyone. This is where difficult questions, differing perspectives, and practical experiences take centre stage.

How it works

  • 3 parallel tables
  • 9 conversations (30 min each)
  • Up to 50 listeners per table through headphones
  • Live audience participation

Why Roundtables?

The challenges facing organisations today rarely have simple answers.

The Roundtable Pavilion is designed to move beyond presentations and create space for nuanced discussions and practical experiences.

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Moderators & Experts at Roundtable Pavillion

Andreas Lundmark
Founder and CEO at BergetAI

Andreas Lundmark is CEO and co-founder of Berget AI, building secure, sovereign AI infrastructure and inference for the EU. Before founding Berget, he spent two decades advising blue-chip and private equity clients on AI and strategy, including as Partner & MD at Boston Consulting Group, where he led AI-driven transformation across telecom, media, retail, and industrial sectors. He's also active as an investor and board advisor to early-stage tech companies.

Panel: The Real Cost of AI

Main Stage

AI tools may be easy to test, but their true cost becomes harder to predict as usage grows. Token-based pricing, multiple tools and models, integration, data infrastructure and human oversight can turn a promising pilot into a significant operational investment. Organisations need to understand the cost of the entire AI-enabled process, not simply the price of the tool, and determine where AI creates enough value to justify scaling it.

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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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Amalia Berglöf
Managing Director at Pepp

Astrid Sjögren
Sector initiative manager SME at AI Sweden

Astrid is responsible for initiatives focusing on small and medium-sized businesses at AI Sweden. With a background in engineering physics and entrepreneurship, she is known for explaining AI in a clear way, grounded in data and without the hype. Astrid has helped thousands of people and over 500 organizations use AI in a safe and responsible way.

Sweden's Next AI Move

Main Stage

Sweden already has several structural advantages, industrial capability, digital maturity, strong research, public-sector data, clean energy and credible AI institutions but leadership will depend on turning them into faster adoption, investment, computing capacity, skills and clear rules.

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David Magård
Director Regulatory and Government Affairs at SIROS Foundation

David Magård has an extensive background in AI law, policy and implementation from different parts of the Swedish Government. He has a legal background and negotiated the AI Act, led work on the Swedish Trust Model for AI in the public sector and on the AI regulatory sandbox, and has served as an expert to the European Commission. David works as a Director at SIROS Foundation, a non-profit organisation that builds and supports open source digital identity solutions, mainly for digital wallets, including identity for AI (agents). David is also an advisor to Agion.

Sweden's Next AI Move

Main Stage

Sweden already has several structural advantages, industrial capability, digital maturity, strong research, public-sector data, clean energy and credible AI institutions but leadership will depend on turning them into faster adoption, investment, computing capacity, skills and clear rules.

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Aline Santa Izabel
Networks & Ecosystem Manager, Business Helsinki | EIC Expert Advisor, European Commission

Aline Santa Izabel is an Innovation Strategist and Ecosystem Leader at Business Helsinki, connecting startups, research, industry, investors, and the public sector. She also advises and evaluates for the European Commission’s EIC Accelerator and contributes to leading European innovation programmes, with a focus on deep tech, sustainable growth, and Europe’s competitiveness.

Albert Bengtson
Co-founder Immersive Sweden

Leading Through the AI Shift

Main Stage

AI allows people to experiment, build and make decisions faster than most organisations are designed to handle. That changes what leadership needs to provide, from direction and trust to structures that can turn individual initiative into shared capability. Bringing together perspectives from building an AI-first company, organisational transformation and intrapreneurship, this panel explores how leaders can redesign ways of working, develop the right capabilities and move from scattered experimentation to lasting business value.

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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.

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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Johan Norrfjärd
Co-founder and CEO at Beyond Talking

Johan Norrfjärd is CEO and co-founder of the change agency Beyond Talking, based in Gothenburg. He works at the intersection of technology, leadership, and organizational development, helping organizations turn change into practical action.

With extensive experience working with management teams, organizational design, and leadership development, he supports organizations in creating direction, strengthening collaboration, and developing new ways of working. Johan is also one of Sweden's most sought-after trainers in tech talent programs and has spent many years working closely with both technology companies and individuals looking to develop their skills for the future of work.

Leading Through the AI Shift

Main Stage

AI allows people to experiment, build and make decisions faster than most organisations are designed to handle. That changes what leadership needs to provide, from direction and trust to structures that can turn individual initiative into shared capability. Bringing together perspectives from building an AI-first company, organisational transformation and intrapreneurship, this panel explores how leaders can redesign ways of working, develop the right capabilities and move from scattered experimentation to lasting business value.

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Jessica Öhrblad
Chief Executive Officer at Logivity

Jessica Öhrblad is CEO of Logivity, where she leads the development of digital solutions for smarter, more efficient, and sustainable transport logistics. With extensive experience from senior roles in large, global organizations across the transport and logistics industry, she combines deep domain knowledge with a strong ability to drive change. Jessica is a committed advocate for data-driven optimization and for turning sustainability ambition into measurable impact.

From Individual AI to Scalable Value

Stage A

Technology has never been more accessible. As AI spreads, the challenge is shifting from access to creating value at scale.

At Logivity, individual experimentation quickly opened new possibilities. It also revealed a challenge familiar from transport logistics: optimising individual parts does not necessarily optimise the whole. Different AI tools and approaches can create local value while remaining difficult to connect and scale.

Logivity CEO Jessica Öhrblad and Johan Berntsson, Chief Technology Officer, share how they are moving from individual AI use towards a shared organisational capability, without losing the speed and creativity of experimentation.

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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.

Daniel Langkilde
Founder and CEO at Kognic

Daniel Langkilde is co-founder and CEO of Kognic. He is an experienced machine learning practitioner and previously led the "Collection & Analysis" area at Recorded Future. Daniel has published several thought leadership articles on applied AI and AI alignment. He holds an M.Sc. in Engineering Mathematics from Chalmers and has also been a visiting researcher at MIT and UC Berkeley.

Kognic is a leader in data annotation for autonomous vehicles, offering a purpose-built platform that seamlessly integrates scalable and cost-effective human feedback into customers' data pipelines. We help teams in the automotive and robotics industries build, train, and validate safe and robust AI systems that can navigate our world.

Keynote:Teaching Machines to Understand the Physical World

Main Stage

Physical AI must make sense of environments that are complex, unpredictable and rarely offer one objectively correct answer. For machines to act safely in the real world, they need more than large models and vast amounts of data. They need relevant data, continuous human feedback and reliable ways to evaluate how well they understand difficult situations.Daniel Langkilde explores what it takes to build AI systems that can perceive, learn and make better decisions in the physical world, and why human judgement remains essential as these systems scale.

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Fireside: What Will It Take to Scale Physical AI?

Main Stage

Physical AI is moving intelligent systems beyond digital environments and into machines that operate in the real world. But scaling these systems across industry requires more than advanced robotics and powerful AI models. It depends on high-quality data, reliable performance, safety, infrastructure and the ability to integrate new capabilities into existing industrial environments. Susanne Timsjö and Daniel Langkilde explore what it will take to move Physical AI from promising applications to widespread industrial use.

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Johan Berntsson
Chief Technology Officer at Logivity

Johan Berntsson comes with extensive experience in enterprise architecture, connected supply chains and technology-driven business development. Combining deep technical expertise with a strong understanding of complex business environments, he focuses on how technology can be applied and scaled to create tangible business value.

From Individual AI to Scalable Value

Stage A

Technology has never been more accessible. As AI spreads, the challenge is shifting from access to creating value at scale.

At Logivity, individual experimentation quickly opened new possibilities. It also revealed a challenge familiar from transport logistics: optimising individual parts does not necessarily optimise the whole. Different AI tools and approaches can create local value while remaining difficult to connect and scale.

Logivity CEO Jessica Öhrblad and Johan Berntsson, Chief Technology Officer, share how they are moving from individual AI use towards a shared organisational capability, without losing the speed and creativity of experimentation.

Read more

Susanne Timsjö
Managing Director at ABB Robotics Nordics

Susanne Timsjö is the Managing Director of ABB Robotics Sweden AB and Head of ABB Robotics in the Nordic region. With extensive experience at ABB spanning software development, innovation, sales, and business development, she leads efforts to help industry become more competitive, flexible, and sustainable through automation, robotics, and AI.

Susanne is particularly passionate about how artificial intelligence can be translated into intelligent and autonomous solutions that create real value in manufacturing and production environments. She is a highly regarded speaker on robotics, AI, and the future of industry.

Keynote: When Physical AI Transforms Industry

Main Stage

As AI moves from analysing information to interacting with the physical world, new opportunities are emerging across manufacturing and logistics. Susanne Timsjö shares ABB Robotics’ perspective on this shift, exploring how AI, software and robotics are converging to create more adaptive, autonomous and intelligent industrial systems, and what this means for the future of automation.

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Fireside: What Will It Take to Scale Physical AI?

Main Stage

Physical AI is moving intelligent systems beyond digital environments and into machines that operate in the real world. But scaling these systems across industry requires more than advanced robotics and powerful AI models. It depends on high-quality data, reliable performance, safety, infrastructure and the ability to integrate new capabilities into existing industrial environments. Susanne Timsjö and Daniel Langkilde explore what it will take to move Physical AI from promising applications to widespread industrial use.

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Gudmund Wiker
Senior Advisor - Growth and Investments at Oslo&Co

Ellinor Bokedal
Director Strategic Communications & Policy at SISP

Patrik Sandgren
Policy Expert at Teknikföretagen

Sweden's Next AI Move

Main Stage

Sweden already has several structural advantages, industrial capability, digital maturity, strong research, public-sector data, clean energy and credible AI institutions but leadership will depend on turning them into faster adoption, investment, computing capacity, skills and clear rules.

Read more

Louise Wintzell
Founder & CEO at HIDNstock

Stefan Christierin
Head of Engineering Research at Volvo Cars

Kristian Pärtel Abel
VP and Head of Engineering Academy

Anna Gulliksen
Advisor at Women in Tech Sweden

Karolina Lisslö Gylfe
Executive Director at WePlanet

Johan Sanneblad
CEO and Founder at TokenTek

Charles Maddok
Co-founder and CEO at Strawberry Browser

Panel: The Real Cost of AI

Main Stage

AI tools may be easy to test, but their true cost becomes harder to predict as usage grows. Token-based pricing, multiple tools and models, integration, data infrastructure and human oversight can turn a promising pilot into a significant operational investment. Organisations need to understand the cost of the entire AI-enabled process, not simply the price of the tool, and determine where AI creates enough value to justify scaling it.

Read more

Susanne Stenberg
Policy Expert at RISE

Safuan Zairi
Chief Ecosystem Officer at Mranti

Leo Li
Impact Growth and Engagement Manager at Autodesk

Jessica Laos
Leadership Consultant

Shivesh Kumar
Assistant Professor in Dynamics and Control at the Department of Mechanical and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology

Karin Lundgren
IT Technical Site Lead (Director) at Astra Zeneca

Karin Blomdell
Co-founder at Estrad

Anders Ölme
Partner Business Manager at Nvidia

Johan Toverland Thelin
Founder at Koderize

Leon Boschman
AI Application Expert at Sweden AI Factory

David Wallén
CEO and Co-founder at Intric

Fazeleh Hoseini
AI Privacy Researcher at AI Sweden

Louise Duker
CCO & Innovation manager at Smartr

Eric Mannheimer
Head of Market & Sales & Partner at SEVR

Nicole Anderson Brodin
Sustainable Procurement Manager at Essity

Johan Esbjörner
Solutions Architect at AWS

Maci Mechiche
Co-founder & CEO Aveksana

Youri van Elsland
Head of Expansion at Velatir

Victorine Lancon
CCO at Daya Ventures

Kyle MacDonald
Founder & CEO KTRM Innovation and Ventures

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