James Hewitt Wins Speaker Sourcing Contest
James Hewitt will join our Nordic Business Forum 2018 speaker lineup and will be paid a 30,000 € speaking fee. The Speaker Sourcing Contest finale was held today in Stockholm. James Hewitt, Head of Science & Innovation at Hintsa Performance, won the competition and will join the Nordic Business Forum 2018 speaker lineup and will […]
Join Our Speaker Sourcing Contest Final in Stockholm
Join our FREE Speaker Sourcing Contest finale on Wednesday 15 August at the Coor Conference Center in Stockholm. What a ride these last few months have been! Our shiny, brand new Speaker Sourcing Contest set out earlier this year to find individuals with fresh perspectives and management ideas and give them a platform to speak […]
#NBForum2018 Speaker Protips
Our brand new Speaker Sourcing Contest has hit the ground running this year, and it’s hard to believe that we are already in the home stretch. The contest, which set out to find individuals with fresh perspectives and management ideas and give them a platform to speak, is coming to a close on Wednesday 15 […]
Speaker Spotlight: Separating Minds from Machines with Andrew McAfee
About Andrew McAfee Andrew McAfee is the co-founder and co-director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy and a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing business, the economy, and society. His 2014 book on these topics, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity […]
Speaker Spotlight: Number Crunching with Aswath Damodaran
About Aswath Damodaran Aswath Damodaran is the Kerschner Family Chair Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He teaches the corporate finance and valuation courses in the MBA program. In addition to being the author of multiple books on valuation, his accomplished teaching has earned him the Stern School […]
Speaker Spotlight: Feeling the Power with Amy Cuddy
About Amy Cuddy Social psychologist and bestselling author Amy Cuddy is an expert on the behavioral science of power, presence, and prejudice. She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history. Amy, who teaches leadership at Harvard, earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University and has […]
Speaker Spotlight: Getting Strategic with Gary Hamel
About Gary Hamel Gary Hamel is one of the world’s most influential and iconoclastic business thinkers. He has worked with leading companies across the globe and is a dynamic and sought-after management speaker. Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School for more than 30 years and is the director of the […]
Everything You Missed @ Oslo Qualifier
Our third and final Speaker Sourcing Contest qualifying round took place on June 5th in Oslo. As with the previous qualifiers, 8 contestants competed for two spots in our Stockholm final in August. The presentation topics covered the three themes of our Nordic Business Forum 2018 event: Strategy, Peak Performance, and Artificial Intelligence. Most of […]
President Obama to Speak at Nordic Business Forum in Helsinki
Nordic Business Forum will bring President Obama to Helsinki to speak to business executives and owners. President Obama will be traveling to Europe for the Nordic Business Forum, which takes place in Helsinki from the 26-27th of September 2018. President Obama will be speaking to an audience of 7,500 business executives and business owners from […]
Everything You Missed @ Stockholm Qualifier
On June 4th, we hosted our second qualifying round of our Speaker Sourcing Contest in Stockholm. As with the previous round, 8 contestants competed for two spots in our Stockholm final in August. The speeches spanned the three themes of our Nordic Business Forum 2018 event: Strategy, Peak Performance, and Artificial Intelligence. You can rewatch […]
Raymond Hofmann & Gopal RajGuru Progress to the Speaker Sourcing Contest Final Round
The third and final Speaker Sourcing Contest qualifying round was held Tuesday 5 June in Oslo at Radisson Blu Plaza Oslo. Out of the 170+ applicants for the contest, 8 individuals were chosen to present at the qualifier. Their topics covered the themes of Artificial Intelligence, Peak Performance, and Strategy. Two audience favorites with the […]
Changes in the NBForum’s Board of Directors
Ari-Pekka Salovaara and Susanne Najafi to join the Nordic Business Forum’s board of directors. With the new board members, Nordic Business Forum aims to level up the experience with mergers and acquisitions and internationalization. Nordic Business Forum’s general annual meeting decided on Friday last week on some exciting updates on our board of directors. Ari-Pekka […]