Events

Jessica Jackley is a woman on a mission. Her pursuit to end poverty led her to co-found Kiva, the world’s first peer to peer microlending website. At Nordic Business Forum 2016 Jackley will tap into the theme of culture. Jackley co-founded Kiva in 2005 after hearing a speech by Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus, an economist from Bangladesh who developed the idea of microcredit. For a person who has always been keen on charity work, finding a business that could help reduce poverty was a dream come true. I was so completely blown away by the idea that I quit my job, dropped everything and moved to East Africa to help.” Jackley has described the impact of the speech. Since it’s

Peter Diamandis is not only an innovative founder of multiple organizations, but he is also a man who believes there are no problems that couldn’t be solved. At Nordic Business Forum 2016, Diamandis will speak about the implications of exponential technologies digitization. If it had been up to his parents, Diamandis would have become a doctor, and on paper he actually did. However, after graduating from Harvard Medical School, he pursued his childhood dream and focused on making it possible for anyone to fly in space. He established a foundation called XPRIZE and announced a $10 million prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within 14 days. Today XPRIZE designs and operates

Amy Chua, a bestselling author and a professor at Yale Law School, will give some insights on success factors at Nordic Business Forum 2016. Chua is a previous Wall Street lawyer, who in 1994 entered academics at Duke Law School. Seven years later she continued her teaching career at Yale Law School, where she now is the John M. Duff. Jr. Professor of Law. At Yale Chua’s areas of expertise are contracts, law and development, international business transactions, and law and globalization. Besides her career as a teacher, Chua is also a successful writer. Already her first book, ‘World on Fire: How exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability’ was a New York Times bestseller. However, especially

The father of the world’s most modern management and the creator of the employees first philosophy, Vineet Nayar will be tapping into the theme of culture at Nordic Business Forum 2016. You may have heard the saying “Employees First, Customers Second”, but what you might not have known is that the man behind this philosophy is an Indian business executive Vineet Nayar. Nayar is the former Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, a $6 billion global information technology services company based in India. During his presidency at HCLT, Nayar led his team through a period of remarkable transformation driven by the employees first philosophy. The transformation led the company’s revenues and market cap grow by six folds. After the transformation, HCLT

The former improv comedian turned successful entrepreneur and business executive, Dick Costolo, will speak at Nordic Business Forum 2016 under the theme of digitalization. Twitter has become one of the most popular social media platforms of today. As the CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015, Costolo led the company’s growth from a few hundred to a few thousand employees. Furthermore, in the course of those years the active user group amounted to more than 284 million. Costolo was also in the lead of Twitter when the company went public and when it launched the “Promoted Tweets” opportunity for advertisers. Before his tenure at Twitter, Costolo co-founded three different digital media companies. The latest, FeedBurner, was acquired by Google, which