June 20

09:00 Registration

Grand Hotel, Södra Blasieholmen 8, Stockholm

11:45 Lunch

13:00 Official opening

Summit officiated 
Opening remarks: HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden

Welcome remarks
Magdalena Andersson, Prime Minister of Sweden

Special address
Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, OECD

The world is on a trajectory of change but how countries navigate the accumulative challenges influencing economic growth will define the success of generations to come. Understanding the global macro-economic context is imperative for both Swedish companies and those investing in Sweden, so they can make informed strategic decisions to lead the green and digital transition. How can the OECD economic outlook provide a platform for understanding the Swedish business ecosystem as a global role model?  

13:30-15:30 - Session 1: Join Sweden to grow world-leading companies

Creating the foundation for long-term growth with Sweden

Creating a world-class business environment that fosters long-term growth requires bold and brave decisions and investments from all stakeholders. While ambitious goals have been set, success will only be achieved if the long-term strategy supports cross- industry and cross-border partnerships. What policies and actions are being implemented by the Swedish government to support industry, research, and academic innovation and implementation?  

Speakers:

• Anna Hallberg, Minister of Foreign Trade and Nordic Affairs
• Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson, Minister for Business, Industry and Innovation

Innovation – the primary driver for competitiveness
Sweden has been able to maintain and exceed innovation expectations and stay relevant in the global market for over 150 years. That success is not by chance, it can be attributed to a commitment to collaboration and entrepreneurship. But how can large-scale international companies, investors, and a thriving start-up scene work together to create new value chains, redefine traditional industries and business models, and improve competitiveness? 

Speakers:

• Leif Johansson, Chair, AstraZeneca
• Robert Falck, CEO and Founder, Einride 
• Joakim Lagerholm, Vice President - Nordics, Siemens Energy
• Malin Berge, VP Strategic Growth and Global Head of Sustainability Innovation Lab, Mastercard

Teaming up for world-class research and development
Investment in education is seen as a key indicator for innovative research and development, and Sweden’s active research policy has led to world-leading advancements in areas including environmental technology, life sciences, and advanced technologies like AI. How can international companies and investors access and leverage the co-creating environments involving industry and academia to further accelerate development? 

Speakers:

• Anna Ekström, Minister for Education and Research
• Pia Sandvik, CEO, RISE
• Ole-Petter Ottersen, President, Karolinska Institutet  
• Anders Ynnerman, Director, Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program

14:30-15:00 - NETWORKING BREAK

Securing the workforce of tomorrow
To deliver and power the industrial, digital, and sustainable transformation, there needs to be a major investment in upskilling a sizeable workforce with appropriate technological and cognitive skills. These in demand skills are required to deliver both Swedish and global ambitions. What steps have Swedish industry and the government taken to build a workforce that is flexible, innovative, and productive? 

Speakers:

• Rasmus Cruce Naeyé, State Secretary to Minister for Employment and Gender Equality , Minister for Employment
• Marie Nilsson, Federal Chair, IF Metall
• Klas Wåhlberg, Director General, Teknikföretagen 

15:30-17:00 - Session 2: Join Sweden to lead the green transition

Developing green value chains through innovation and collaboration
No one country, company, or individual can deliver the solutions needed to build new green value chains; but collaboration and partnerships across country, business, and industry lines can bring the technical innovation needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across value chains. How are Swedish and international companies working together to take risks and disrupt traditional value chains?  

Speakers:

• Khashayar Farmanbar, Minister for Energy and Digital Development
• Baba N Kalyani, Chair and Managing Director, Bharat Forge
• Peter Carlsson, CEO, Northvolt
• Henrik Henriksson, CEO, H2 Green Steel

15:45-16:15 - NETWORKING BREAK

Green transition in practice – from materials to products
Sustainable ideas of yesterday are being turned into tomorrow’s realities; cross-industry collaborations have shifted the automotive industry, created green steel, and are reinventing agriculture technology. This disruption has been possible because of a shift in the entire value chain - from raw materials to end products. How can international companies in Sweden excel in the transformation to build and accelerate fossil fuel-free production methods? 

Speakers:

• Ola Källenius, CEO, Mercedes
• Andreas Regnell, Chair Hyrbit and SVP Strategic Development, Vattenfall
• Martin Lindqvist, CEO, SSAB
• Niklas Johansson, Senior Vice President Communication and Climate, LKAB
• David Herrero, COO, Fertiberia

A changing global investment landscape
International investment flows have been dramatically impacted by the turmoil of the past few years, first with the pandemic and now with the war in Ukraine. The World Investment Report 2022 outlines the current global situation for foreign direct investment, international tax reforms, and sustainable investment. How has Sweden recovered and what challenges and opportunities are there for future short- and long-term global investment?
Speakers:

• James Zhan, Director Division on Investment and Enterprise, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  

17:00-17:10 - Concluding remarks: Join Sweden to accelerate your competitiveness
Sweden is a nation open for business with ambitious goals that will only be achieved through global collaboration. Investing in, and with Sweden can deliver competitive advantages, but how is the state, industry, and business ecosystems supporting international companies to leverage the potential? 
Jan Larsson, President and CEO, Business Sweden

19:00 Join Sweden Gala Dinner

Industrial transformation for sustainable production

The new business landscape is shaping the demand for and innovation of sustainable production systems, with new technologies for competitiveness and sustainable growth taking centre stage. Sweden is positioned to lead the global race towards implementing bold and progressive solutions with a highly internationalised business community with global giants as well as start-ups and scale-ups. This forum will focus on how international companies and Swedish companies can turn game-changing production ideas into reality through international collaboration.  

Host: Anna Hallberg, Minister of Foreign Trade and Nordic Affairs 
Moderator: Mia Odabas
Room: New York, Grand Hôtel

Dialogue contributors: 

• Cecilia Warrol, Programme Director Produktion2030, Director Industrial R&I, Teknikföretagen (The Association of Swedish Engineering Industries)
• Francisco Betti, Head of Advanced Manufacturing and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum 
• Göran Nyström, Senior Advisor, Ovako
• Jakob Kiefer, Group Head Public Affairs, ABB Group
• Joakim Andersson, Global CEO, GKN Aerospace
• Magnus Ekbäck, Vice President strategy and business development, Sandvik Coromant
• Martin Ärlestig, EVP Production, Komatsu Forest
• Mukul Dhyani, Senior Vice President and Head - Continental Europe, Tech Mahindra
• Harald Cavalli-Björkman, Chief Growth Officer, Renewcell
• Peter Löfgren, CEO SynerLeap and SVP ABB, Synerleap ABB
• Tobias Hansson, Country Manager, Hitachi Energy Sweden

Collaborations for a sustainable battery value chain
Green energy is the cornerstone of a sustainable future and the need to revolutionise the transport sector has been a major catalyst for change. Sweden is taking position creating the most sustainable battery cluster in the world. By combining renewable, affordable energy supply with a strong innovative manufacturing and process industry, world class automotive industry and more. This forum will explore Sweden’s attractiveness as a location to establish, both for battery cell manufacturers and strategically important suppliers in the battery value chain. 

Host: Emil Högberg, State Secretary to Minister for Business, Industry and Innovation
Moderator: Willy Silberstein
Room: Uppsala, Grand Hôtel

Dialogue contributors: 

• Alexander Streif, VP Supply chain, Northvolt
• Anja Palm, Business Manager, Skellefteå
• Daniel Brandell, Professor and manager of Ångström Advanced Battery Centre (Uppsala University)
• Henrik Björkman, Northvolt/Volvo Cars R&D Center
• Martin Phillips, CEO Europe, Talga Resources
• Michael Bruun, Partner, EMEA Head of Private Equity, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
• Richard Zhuang, General Manager, KDL
• Robin Olsson, COO, Senior
• Youn Geun Lee, Head of Factory, DongJin

Safe, sustainable, and automated transport solutions
Cities, nations, and businesses all must reduce emissions, with the mobility sector at the heart of the transformation journey. Swedish manufacturers, technology providers, and researchers are at the forefront of co-creating smart mobility solutions that will pave the way for safer, more efficient and fossil fuel-free transport of people and goods. This forum will explore how international companies can leverage Sweden’s abundant dynamic automotive clusters, incubators and test beds, vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, tech start-ups, and academia. 

Host: Tomas Eneroth, Minister for Infrastructure
Moderator: Helena Stålnert
Room: Spegelsalen, Grand Hôtel

Dialogue contributors: 

• Alexis Trolin, Head of Solution Train E³ 2.0 Architecture, Cariad
• Anders Forslund, Founder and CEO, Heart Aerospace
• David Holmgren, Head of Autonomous Systems, Scania
• Fredric Wall, Sales Director South EMEA, Nvidia
• Gustav Hasselskog, Gounder and CEO, Candela
• Hui Zhang, Vice President, NIO
• Jonathan Selbie, CEO, Univrses
• Karin Ebbinghouse, CEO, Elonroad
• Magnus Granström, Director, SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers, SAFER
• Malin Andersson, Program Director, Drive Sweden
• Mattias Johansson, Volvo Cars
• Matts-Åke Belin, Global Lead, Decade of Action for Road Safety, World Health Organization
• Nils Mösko, Strategy and Business Development, Polestar
• Stefan Ytterborn, Founder and CEO, CAKE
• Robert Falck, Founder and CEO, Einride
• Thierry Mallet, Group Chairman and CEO, Transdev
• Ödgärd Andersson, CEO, Zenseact
  
  

The future of medicine – connected and precision health
Life science has the power to solve the major health and societal challenges of today and tomorrow and the future of health and medicine is being shaped by innovation, digitalisation, and collaboration. Sweden is a leading life science nation with excellent healthcare, top research institutions, innovative science parks and incubators, unique research infrastructure, and an entrepreneurial and world-leading tech and start-up scene. This forum will explore how Sweden fosters research, ideas, investments, companies, and people so ideas can grow into sustainable, impactful solutions.  

Host: Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson, Minister for Business, Industry and Innovation
Moderator: Linda Nyberg
Room: Blaisierummet, Grand Hôtel

Dialogue contributors:

• Björn Eriksson, Director General, Läkemedelsverket 
• Carl Borreback, Professor, Paindrainer
• Daniel Månsson, CCO and Founder Flow Neuroscience
• Gunilla Osswald, CEO, BioArctic
• Jenni Nordborg, National Coordinator, Government Office for Life Science, Government of Sweden
• Jesper Hedberg, CEO Testa Center
• Magnus Björsne, CEO, AstraZeneca BioVentureHub 
• Magnus Pettersson, Mindler
• Malin Parkler, CEO, Pfizer Sweden
• Mikael Kubista, TATAA Biocenter
• Ole-Petter Ottersen, President, Karolinska Institute 
• Pascal Roché, CEO, Ramsay Santé
• Patrick Griss, Partner Zuhlke Ventures
• Petter Björquist, Verigraft
• Philip Siberg, Coala
• Susanna Francke Rodau, VP Global Policy & Patient Access Elekta
• Tomas Tiseus, Coala

Pushing the boundaries of digital innovation
Digital disruption is the new normal with industry game changers driving transformation across sectors and reshaping every aspect of human life. Sweden is at the forefront of building progressive, resilient, and green solutions, building on its long history of pioneering development, use, and diffusion of new digital technologies and solutions. This forum will explore how large multinationals, SMEs, and start-ups/scale-ups can cross industry boundaries and work with government and academia in an inclusive and non-competitive environment to successfully create and implement new digital solutions. 

Hosts: Khashayar Farmanbar, Minister for Digital Development and Krister Nilsson, State Secretary to Minister for Foreign Trade
Moderator: Beata Wickbom4
Room: Stockholm, Grand Hôtel

Dialogue contributors:

• Anders Ynnerman, Professor Scientific Visualization, Linköping University
• Anders Ösund, VP Technology and Innovation, Combient
• Daniel Fäldt, Chief Digital Officer, Saab
• Emma Ridderstad, CEO, Warpin
• Isabelle Hatchette, CEO, Interspectral
• Jan Söderström, Head of Advanced Technology and Industry Group US, Ericsson
• John Fuller, CTO, Avalanche Studios Group
• Jonas Hultin, CEO, Rocker
• Martin Gren, Co-founder and Vice Chairman of the Board, Axis Communication 
• Niklas Bakos, Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Adverty
• Serge Lachapelle, Director Product Management, Google
• Staffan Helgesson, Founder & General Partner, Creandum
• Vanessa Eriksson, SVP Chief Digital Officer, Zenseact

12:30  Official closing and lunch