Tech Blueprint
The Nordic arena for Applied Tech
Alwin BakkenesHead of Global Software Engineering at Volvo Cars
Can Sweden Lead the Next Automotive Revolution?
Software, AI and advanced computing are transforming both the car and the industry behind it. Drawing on Volvo Cars’ transformation, Alwin Bakkenes explores what this shift demands from established automotive companies and how Sweden’s strengths in engineering, safety and industrial collaboration could help secure a leading role.
Yixin FangHead of Auto and maufacturing industry Nordics at AWS
Panel: The Real Cost of AI
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.
Susanne TimsjöManaging 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
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.
Fireside: What Will It Take to Scale Physical AI?
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.
Andreas LundmarkFounder 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
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.
Sovereignty First: Building AI infrastructure that Europe can actually trust
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.
Daniel LangkildeFounder 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
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.
Fireside: What Will It Take to Scale Physical AI?
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.
Peter KurzwellyModerator / Head of AI at Swedish Television (SVT)
Welcome!
Opening remarks from the team at Gothenburg Tech Week!
The Blueprint Ahead
A look back at the key ideas from the morning and a guide to the afternoon ahead, from lunch and networking to case-driven Tech Blueprint sessions and expert roundtables.
Fireside: What Will It Take to Scale Physical AI?
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.
Wrap up!
A final reflection on the day’s key ideas, conversations and takeaways, before we close Tech Blueprint and look ahead to what comes next.
Stephanie DarvillModerator 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.
Astrid SjögrenSector 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
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.
Malin WenellAVP Engineering, Integrations at Recorded Future
Malin is a senior cybersecurity and software engineering leader with a career built on one core belief: that great technology is made by great teams.With experience spanning startups, scale-ups, and large corporate organizations she brings a rare combination of deep technical roots and people-first leadership. She has owned engineering roadmaps, product strategy, hiring, and organizational performance across multiple teams and industries where the stakes are high and the margin for error is low.She holds a Master's in Computational Linguistics from the University of Gothenburg, where she is also based.
No engineer left behind: Shifting an organisation to AI first
Most AI transformations will not stall because of the technology. They will stall because teams are left to navigate the shift alone.
In this session, we share how we used role-specific cohorts, open failure-sharing forums and embedded team champions to transition our engineering and design teams into a new AI-powered operating model. Expect an honest look at what worked, what failed and the metrics that mattered, along with a practical blueprint for building AI capability across an organisation.
Ruxandra TeodoruArea VP of User Experience at Recorded Future
As Area VP of User Experience at Recorded Future, Ruxandra leads their user experience strategy and heads up design for the company’s AI initiatives. Her path into design leadership has wound through agencies, consultancies, the public sector, and global tech. A diverse background that gives her a useful view of how to build intuitive, impactful products and the high-performing teams behind them. She believes that the strongest products emerge when teams that are well-supported, constructively challenged, and empowered to grow, are given purposeful missions. Beyond her core role, she is an angel investor and early-stage advisor. She earned a Master’s in Interaction Design from Chalmers University of Technology and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
No engineer left behind: Shifting an organisation to AI first
Most AI transformations will not stall because of the technology. They will stall because teams are left to navigate the shift alone.
In this session, we share how we used role-specific cohorts, open failure-sharing forums and embedded team champions to transition our engineering and design teams into a new AI-powered operating model. Expect an honest look at what worked, what failed and the metrics that mattered, along with a practical blueprint for building AI capability across an organisation.
David MagårdDirector 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
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.
Tiffany BoswellCEO & 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.
Johan LundénCEO at Coretura
Johan has extensive experience from a long international career in the automotive industry. His expertise spans engineering, strategy, sales, and business development, with notable positions at AB Volvo, Traton, and Scania.
If you can think it, you can try it: Leading a company built AI first
Coretura was founded in 2025 by Volvo Group and Daimler Truck to build one software foundation for the commercial vehicle industry. Two owners with a century of history each, and a company with none of it. Coretura never had to fit AI into existing operations. It was built around AI from the start, choosing everything as code so tooling, governance and decisions could move at the same speed. Johan Lundén explores what this means for the organisation: why Coretura is deliberately flat, what it asks of leaders when employees can decide faster than any hierarchy can approve, and where it gets hard.
Leading Through the AI Shift
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.
Eric ZinnSustainability Director at Göteborg Energi
Eric Zinn is curious and analytical energy professional with a strong interest in electricity markets, flexibility, and smart energy solutions. He enjoys turning complex topics into clear insights and finding practical ways to create value from increasingly sustainable solutions.
Panel: Powering the AI Economy
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.
Isabelle KemlinBusiness and Innovation Executive at RISE
Isabelle is Business and Innovation Executive at RISE’s Data Center Systems unit, a world-leading testbed and innovation hub working with companies including Google, Meta, Ericsson and ABB. She brings over 15 years of leadership experience in mission-critical environments and previously led CBRE’s data centre operations in the Nordics. Isabelle is also co-founder and Vice Chair of the Swedish Datacenter Industry and Vice President of the European Data Centre Association.
Panel: Powering the AI Economy
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.
Albert BengtsonCo-founder Immersive Sweden
Leading Through the AI Shift
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.
Rudolf AntoniRegional Director West Sweden at Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
Sweden's Next AI Move
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.
Dr. Alaa MurabitFounder 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.
Julieta Martínez OyarzúnFounder 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.
Jacob AnderssonCo-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
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.
Jessica ÖhrbladChief 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
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.
Johan BerntssonChief 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
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.
Ola WassvikCo-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.
Tomas OhlsonCo-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.
Panel: Powering the AI Economy
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.
Anthony RutoSenior Director, Research Engineering at Autodesk
Lessons from AI-Driven Software Engineering That Can Improve Design and Make Productivity
As generative AI begins to automate software engineering, new principles are emerging that also apply to Design and Make processes. AI-enabled development shifts the focus toward clear requirements, structured documentation, and rigorous validation to guide and verify generated outputs. While execution becomes increasingly automated, professional oversight remains critical to ensure reliability and quality. This talk will explore how these lessons can transform Design and Make workflows—enabling faster design execution with AI while elevating the importance of design and manufacturing specifications, thoughtful application of AI where it adds value, and expert-driven verification to build trust in AI-enabled workflows.
Andrew HarrisDirector, Research at Autodesk
Lessons from AI-Driven Software Engineering That Can Improve Design and Make Productivity
As generative AI begins to automate software engineering, new principles are emerging that also apply to Design and Make processes. AI-enabled development shifts the focus toward clear requirements, structured documentation, and rigorous validation to guide and verify generated outputs. While execution becomes increasingly automated, professional oversight remains critical to ensure reliability and quality. This talk will explore how these lessons can transform Design and Make workflows—enabling faster design execution with AI while elevating the importance of design and manufacturing specifications, thoughtful application of AI where it adds value, and expert-driven verification to build trust in AI-enabled workflows.
Jan Erik SolemCEO and co-founder of Stær
What it means for companies and products when everything is easy to build
Before the limit for many companies was how fast software could be written. Today, the limit is how fast decisions can be made and how quickly you learn from feedback. Building companies and products on agents requires a new operating model. The value created shifts away from product implementation toward knowledge of the problem it solves. This talk shares learnings from Staer on running a company on agents and explains what the future looks like for products.
Johan NorrfjärdCo-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
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.
Charles MaddokCo-founder and CEO at Strawberry Browser
Panel: The Real Cost of AI
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.
John JohanssonCTO and Founder at Devies
How hard can it be? Just ask Claude.
For one person, asking Claude is easy. Ask it what your biggest customer actually agreed to, why the pricing model looks the way it does or who should be allowed to see what, and things get complicated fast. This session explores what it takes to make “just ask Claude” work across an entire company: structured data, continuously captured knowledge, relationship-based permissions, shared processes and automation, all without compromising security.
Julia PetrykCEO 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.
Dr. Rajet KrishnanCo-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.
Malin KjällströmManaging Director at GTW
Malin Kjällström is the founder of Gothenburg Tech Week, which she launched in 2015 to strengthen West Sweden’s tech ecosystem and create new connections between startups, industry, investors and academia. With a background in business strategy, fundraising and project leadership, she is passionate about bringing different perspectives together and creating the conditions for collaboration, innovation and growth.
Annsi KrolHead of Communication at GTW
Annsi Krol is Head of Communications at Gothenburg Tech Week, an association dedicated to strengthening the tech ecosystem in Gothenburg, Sweden and across the Nordics. With more than 25 years of experience across communications, marketing, insights and technology, she brings people and perspectives together to turn complex ideas into meaningful conversations, stronger communities and action.
Isabella RobertssonProject manager at GTW
Isabella Robertsson is Project Manager at Gothenburg Tech Week, where she coordinates the people, partners, timelines and practical details that turn ambitious ideas into well-executed events. With a structured approach and a natural ability to keep many moving parts on track, she plays an important role in creating experiences where collaboration can happen and the Nordic tech community can come together.
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