Mo Gawdat – AI Today, Tomorrow, and How You Can Save Our World
With so much confusion surrounding the impact of Artificial Intelligence in our age of post truth, we’re all in need of the guidance of a straight talking oracle. With that in mind, there are few people better qualified to disentangle the reality of AI from its various myths and misconceptions than IBM, Microsoft, and Google […]
6 leadership lessons from day 2 of Nordic Business Forum 2023
Day 2 of the Nordic Business Forum delivered another round of thought provoking speeches centred on activism, AI, and ethics. For more inspiration on how to be the change you want to see in the world, read our key takeaways from yesterdays program below. Nicolai Tangen: Transparency is key to productivity “The best companies in […]
6 leadership lessons from day 1 of Nordic Business Forum 2023
From the stage to the crowd, the event hall to the networking area, the 6600 attendees of day 1 of the Nordic Business Forum 2023 were surrounded by leaders that personified the change we want to see in the world. Change is unpredictable, systemic, all encompassing. But, as our keynote speakers revealed, it’s how our […]
6 Keynotes, 6 Lessons – What We Learned During Semifinal 1 of The 2023 Speaker Contest
The 2023 Nordic Business Forum Speaker Contest opened in style today as the panel of judges cast their eyes over the first batch of inspiring keynote speakers. Centred on the themes of leadership, innovation, and sustainability, we’ve summarised the key takeaways from the presentations delivered by Edwin Spee, Cecilie Kjeldsberg, Ramesh Muthusamy, Uku Tomikas, Antoni […]
Zoe Chance – Leadership Through Influence (VIP session)
There is the little mote of sentience that is you, and there is everything else in existence. The medium through which we make things happen, how we interact with people to bring about favorable outcomes, is influence, yet many of us don’t have the tools we need to be good influencers. In a leadership setting, […]
Joseph Stiglitz – What’s Ahead and How to Deal with It
How can the world halt its seemingly endless lurch from one crisis to another, especially when fragile supply chains, spiraling energy prices, proliferating authoritarianism, and Russia’s war with Ukraine impede our efforts to improve global stability? As Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz laid out in his 2022 Nordic Business Forum keynote, strong, clear energy policy […]
6 Leadership Lessons from Day 2 of Nordic Business Forum 2022
With a whole day of inspirational keynotes, productive networking, and afterwork socializing behind us, thousands of business leaders convened once more at the Nordic Business Forum to take in a series of powerful messages delivered by a stellar lineup of keynotes about the state of the world we live in today. The key takeaways from […]
6 Leadership Lessons from Day 1 of Nordic Business Forum 2022
After more than three years of planning, pivots, and preparations, a 7000-strong audience of business leaders packed out a buzzing conference hall on day one of the 2022 Nordic Business Forum to explore the ideas of the thinkers shaping our discourse around the future of work. With businesses being nothing without their people, and culture […]