Entrepreneurship

Uffe Elbæk - How to challenge the status quo’s of the world

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:20:15 GMT

"The most interesting place to be is at the border between the known and the unknown, and how you handle your life there."

What are you doing right now? What is important to you? Should you do it differently? Are you already on the right track?

These are questions that social entrepreneur and politician Uffe Elbaek invites us to reflect on. Combined with four personal stories, he talks about how the people we meet, and the mistakes that we make, have an influence on our worldview and how we go about things.

David Gram - Increasing the Longevity of Content

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:53:21 GMT

"We are like mad scientists that are allowed to experiment."

How to create a longevity in a product that was invented 80 years ago? And how to still stay relevant in the ever changing world?

David Gram, Marketing Director of Lego Group's Future Lab, speaks about his experience of Intrapreneurship within the Lego Group. With this approach, it is always a challenge to stay true to the core values and be a rebel at the same time. You have to accept that people will hate your project in the beginning, because that's what the invention of future play is about.

Rob Fitzpatrick - (not) presenting your idea

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:44:06 GMT

"Leave your idea and your ego out of it."

Presenting your idea to other people is fishing for compliments, and compliments are bad data. Instead of talking about your product and idea directly, discuss on detail how people have handled their problems in the past.

Rob Fitzpatrick, author of The Mom Test, speaks about how to solve the issue, get commitments and keep away from guessing about the future.

Juliana Rotich - How to enable others to make things happen

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:29:56 GMT

"It is in sharing that we create value."

Out of the need for better media coverage, Ushahidi was born. Co-founder Juliana Rotich explains why this new technology is a door opener to create a more transparent and better world - not only in Africa, but also on a global scale.

Through the concept of crowdsourcing, knowledge is being put in people's hands. This enables us to find true stories in data and give the world a better picture of what is really going on.

Alexis Ohanian - Lagom is not enough

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:08:31 GMT

Alexis Ohanian is an entrepreneur and investor from Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder of the social news site reddit.

With a proven record of making something people love as the model for success, he will come to The Conference to talk about the importance of giving a damn about the people who are about to use and consume what you create.

Emily Best - Beyond Crowdfunding

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:34:02 GMT

Emily Best, Founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, will share insights on building social capital, practical tips for crowdfunding, and a vision of the future in which creators, in collaboration with their audiences, can make a living and push their art form further than they ever thought possible.

This session is about how you as a creator can build audiences gradually and thoughtfully throughout your career – to stop thinking about what you make as little siloes but as part of a bigger picture. Learn about how you can build a sustainable relationship with fans that last over a long period of time. Crowdfunding is just one piece of that.

Julia Nunes - Beyond Crowdfunding

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:33:53 GMT

Julia Nunes, Musician, will talk about how she works to connect with her fans and how she uses contemporary crowdfunding tools to ask them for money.

Martin Källström - Wearable Technology

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:01:27 GMT

Martin is the founder and CEO of Memoto. He is an experienced entrepreneur and technologist, thinker and tinkerer. The past decade was a period of transformation for him. Since both his parents passed away in cancer and his two daughters came into his life, he realized how much value there is in the small everyday moments that ties our lives together.

Technology is by now an essential part of our lives. The trend is clear, it's getting closer to our bodies. The quantified self-trend has been thriving for some years, but what happens if the technology we carry goes from measuring to documenting and enhancing our sense in real time? How will this new technology be adopted, and will we eventually become cyborgs?

Matthew Berman - Lean Marketing and Growth Hacking

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:27:35 GMT

Matthew Berman, Distribution Hacker in Residence at 500 Startups, will speak about growth hacking, and his experience from helping companies that they invest in with user acquisition, analytics, growth, and development.

Growth hacking, or lean marketing, is a set of tactics and best practices for getting people to use what you are creating. It’s about having a sense of design, human behavior on the internet and technology, and to feed what you learn to the developing processes of a product or service.

Lina Thomsgård - Change Making

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:26:41 GMT

Lina Thomsgård, Founder of Rättviseförmedlingen, will talk about how more than 50 000 people on social media have worked together to make a real change for gender equality in Swedish media.

Let’s acknowledge that what we all do can actually make a better world. You can set the agenda for events bigger than your everyday life. All people, from all fields, have the power to make an impact – a techie just as much as a truck driver.

Cindy Gallop

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:55:33 GMT

Cindy Gallop, the founder & CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn, offers some provocative, challenging and highly subjective views on how to redesign the future of business; the power shift from the old world order model to the new; the lies we tell ourselves around the most fundamental aspect of human behavior, our sexuality; and why disruption is so critically important in the only gigantic billion-dollar sector nobody in the tech world ever encourages you to disrupt.

You can change the world in more profound ways than you ever thought possible, by changing what you do in the office, and what you do in bed. Cindy Gallop will talk about changing the world through business and sex.

Nikolaj Nyholm - From Local To Global

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:02:11 GMT

Nikolaj Nyholm is Partner at Sunstone Capital. He will talk aboutventure capitalist’s role in growing a company.

Scandinavia is a part of the world where pretty few people live, ie. our domestic market is small. That’s probably why we have a history of being good at exporting our innovations. But how do you do that in our competitive world? This session is about taking your business and idea from a local operation to a global company.

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Ole Ruch - From Local To Global

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:01:37 GMT

Ole Ruch is the Managing Director for Airbnb in Northern Europe. He will speak about setting up local offices around the world to grow a product.

Mai-Li Hammargren - From Local To Global

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:01:34 GMT

Mai-Li Hammargren is the founder and CEO of the Swedish company Mutewatch. She will focus her presentation on how they communicated the product so successfully on a global scale.

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Jeremy Fisher - Collaborative Innovation

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:29:27 GMT

Jeremy Fisher, Co-founder & CEO of Wander, developing technology to facilitate exploration, discovery and imagination.

Sometimes it feels like we don’t have enought time to do things. But on the other hand it seems like a lot of people have some time to spare. And many small periods of time are potentially a lot of time. If you create a framework for people to work in, people might use it to help you with your venture. In this session you’ll learn how.

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Vinay Gupta - Access over ownership

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:38 GMT

Vinay Gupta is co-founder of WhipCar.com. It’s the world’s first service that enables car owners to rent out their vehicles whenever they are not in use.

Increasingly, we prioritize access over ownership in our lives. We subscribe to a car service instead of owning a car and we prefer to have access to 15 million songs on Spotify over buying CDs or mp3s. This trend is dubbed collaborative consumption. It was named by TIME as one of the “10 Ideas That Will Change The World” and is the new human behavior we will explore in this session.

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Danya Cheskis-Gold - Access over ownership

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:09 GMT

Danya Cheskis-Gold is the community director at Skillshare.com, a community marketplace for learning anything from anyone.

Tine Thygesen - The Interest Graph

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:47:59 GMT

Tine Thygesen is the founder of Everplaces, a tech company that lets you keep track of wonderful places you’ve discovered.

We’ve had the social graph for some years, letting us use the relation between people. Now we are increasingly benefiting from understanding the relationships between ourselves and the things around us, with the building of interest graphs. Here we will dig deeper into it by looking at it from both a consumers and brands perspective.

Noah Brier - The Interest Graph

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:40:23 GMT

Noah Brier is co-founder of Percolate, a technology company based in New York. Percolate helps brands create content at social scale

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Britta Riley - Funding creativity with the crowd

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:22:53 GMT

Britta Riley is an artist and entrepreneur. Two years ago, she launched the Windowfarms Project, an experiment in mass collaboration to reduce the environmental cost of fresh food production in cities. The Windowfarms Project uses a process called R&D-I-Y, or research and develop it yourself, wherein thousands of people openly help design low power vertical hydroponic gardens to grow food in their apartment windows without soil. In this presentation Britta talks about how she raised $28,000 on Kickstarter to fund development of Windowfarms kits that now support the project through sales.

Daniel Daboczy - Funding creativity with the crowd

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:22:27 GMT

Daniel Daboczy is a previous art curator and producer. As the CEO and co-founder of FundedByMe.com, Scandinavian first and premium platform for crowdfunding he is passionate towards finding new ways to make sure that brilliant or creative ideas get as much input and support at a very early stage.Daniel introduces what crowdfunding is and talk about some lessons learned with his work with Funded By Me.

Naveen Selvadurai - New business opportunities with disruptive thinking

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:53:59 GMT

Naveen is Co-founder of Foursquare, a location-based mobile platform that helps you explore the world around you, meet up with friends, discover new places, and save money using your phone. In this presentation Naveen talks about how Foursquare went from 0 to 10 million users, how the service evolved and what they’ve learnt from it.

Luke Williams - New business opportunities with disruptive thinking

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:53:53 GMT

Luke Williams is a leading consultant and speaker on design and innovation strategy, and the author of Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business. Luke speaks about how to spark business transformation with Disruptive Thinking. A way of thinking that will help business leaders to produce and implement ideas that alter the trajectory of a business and revive stagnant markets.

Tine Thygesen - New business opportunities with disruptive thinking

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:53:48 GMT

Tine is a founder of Everplaces, a tech company trying to build the new standard in personal navigation by helping you find your way to people and places that are special to you. In this presentation Tine introduces disruptive thinking and why certain products are able to change the way an industry functions.

Björn Jeffery [part 2] - Kids, entertainment and what history can teach us...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:34:01 GMT

Björn Jeffery is the founder of Toca Boca, a game studio that makes digital toys for touchscreen devices. In this presentation Björn give insights on producing playful media experience for kids at very early age.

Björn Jeffery [part1] - Kids, entertainment and what history can teach us...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:33:40 GMT