Collaborating with Technology to Evolve Humanity
SIME Leader Sessions 2024
As the world evolves, so does the way we interact with technology, other industries, and each other. This spring, we're thrilled to invite you to an experience that transcends the ordinary – the Sime Leader Sessions - Summer Edition. Under the inspiring theme of Collaborating with Technology to Evolve Humanity, we're setting the stage for a transformative journey that promises to reshape our future. New for this year are the Camp Fire and Oasis sessions featuring collaborative sessions in an innovative format to solve common issues and pursue joint opportunities in sustainability, innovation, AI and inclusion.
In addition, enjoy and contribute in topical break outs and industry summits covering AI, Sustainability, Metaverse, Cyber security, Retail, Real Estate, Foodtech, Longevity, Intraprenurship, Investing and fund raising, Scale-Up, Marketing, Talent and more.
22 & 23 April
Epicenter Stockholm
On April 22-23, SIME invites leaders and visionaries to explore "Collaborating with Technology to Evolve Humanity." Engage in innovative discussions and connect with peers at Northern Europe's premier tech event. Discover, share, and shape the future together.
Featured Speakers
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Agenda at a Glance
Collaborating with Technology to Evolve Humanity
22 April
09.00 Ola’s mad voyage into possible futures and mind-bending technology trends
Ola Ahlvarsson, serial entrepreneur co-creator of SIME and Epicenter
Key takeaways:
- The latest technology
- Visions and hallucinations
- What leaders must understand
09.30 War and peace and what it means to business
James Appathurai, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber at NATO
Key takeaways:
- Yippie, we’re in NATO, now what?
- Investing in defense and security - a multi-billon opportunity that keeps us safe
10.00 Collaborating to win – next-level AI
Ingrid af Sandeberg, chair Stockholm AI,
Jeff Abbot, author Blitzscaling, founder AI Salon and Blitzscale Ventures
Key takeaways:
- Exploring how to cooperate with AI
- Rules and risks with exponential AI
- Leading together
10.20 Cyberspies and what to do about them
Hanna Linderstål, Senior security advisor and founder
Earhart Business Protection Agency
Key takeaways:
- A crash course in cyber espionage and how to avoid it
- Geopolitics makes cyber security deadly
10.40 Inner Development Goals – inside a global leader movement
Erik Fernholm, co-creator of 29k and IDG
Key takeaways:
- Why leadership needs to change
- How does leadership based on inner development lead to the right o external impact
- IDG global update
10.50 Breakout sessions and summits
- Longevity
- Fintech
- Marketing and Technology
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Summary of Breakout Sessions
13.10 A music industry transformed
Ulf Ekberg, pop star and founder Ace of Base
Key takeaways:
- From the global stages to a TikTok near you
- Entertainment and AI, disruption or democratization
- The first preview of the new movie about Ace Of Base
13.40 Dancing with Chaos – how to manage success, family and purpose
Up close with author Carly Abramowitz, Author of best-selling Dancing with Chaos
Key takeaways:
- How to break free from complexity,
- Move toward your goals faster
- Closing the gap between how you want to live and how you live
14.00 The world 2040 according to Alexander Bard
Alexander Bard, musician, philosopher, and generally badass
14.30 Breakout Sessions and Summits
- Product Design
- Intraprenourship
- Ai
- Scale Up's & Entreprenours
15.30 Summary of Breakout Sessions
15.45 A view on climate -the road to sustainable cities
Einar Bodström, founder and CEO, ClimateView
Key takeaways:
- Data driven sustainability
- The challenge all cities must overcome
- Sustainability as a business opportunity
16.05 Mindchange – book release Ola Ahlvarsson’s book about the art and science of thinking (and as a bonus living a harmonious life)
Ola Ahlvarsson, author of Mindchange
Key takeaways:
- How you can train your thoughts and feelings to make you happier and more successful
- The brain is plastic and develops your whole life if you know how to train your thinking
- The world needs a new narrative
Be the first to get Ola’s new book!
16.45 Book release cocktail and press conference at Elements
16.30-18.00 AiSalon Stockholm
Join us for the AiSalon Stockholm chapter launch during the SIME conference! Register here >>
23 April
09.00 Introduction and recap of yesterday
Ola Ahlvarsson
09.10 Let's teleport to 2040 - Futurist journey with visions and hallucinations
Erik Rosales and Charlie Caper
Key takeaways:
- How we will work live and play 2040
- Our complicated relationship to robots
- Really weird things that will probably become true
09.30 Scaleups making us go WOW!
Presentation by Jonas Kjellberg, CEO and founder, of Nornorm the fast-growing office as a service company powering Epicenter and making interior design a competitive edge.
Presentation by PJ, founder of Vaimo, the leading e-commerce and content agency hailing from the Sápmi land and conquering the world.
10.00 Mindplay - Parenting in an Exponential World
Erik Rosales, TV host of children's programs, theater performer and innovator
Imad Elabdala, a serial entrepreneur in treating children's trauma, intrapreneur, previous war correspondent and author of children's books
Different perspectives on the increased complexity of being a parent or growing up
10.20 From drug dealing to spying in North Korea – the unlikely story behind the movie The Mole and the man who changed himself and then took on the North Korean dictator
Jim Latrache, spy, ex drug lord, psychologist and moviestar
A quest for belonging and adrenaline from the French foreign legion to the top of the drug business and via love to be an activist and spy
- A unique story of human transformation
- Love as the answer
- From anger to purpose
- Behind the scenes from his role in the new version of Bron (the Bridge)
10.40 Upgrade your decisions
A fireside chat with Caissie Kozyrko, ex Chief decision scientist at Google, leading tech blogger, speaker and author
Key takeaways:
- Must know data-driven decision-making skills for modern leaders in a complex environment
- The discipline of turning information into better actions, in any setting and at any scale
- Key learnings from Google and beyond
11.00 Breakout Sessions and Summits
- Talent
- Foodtech
- Real Estate and Prop-tech
- Sustainability
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Summary of Breakout sessions
13.15 Knowledge-packed Asia tour
Cecilie Chen, serial intrapreneur and former chines journalist
Mahesh Kumar, serial entrepreneur and co-creator of Epicenter
Key takeaways:
- Touch down India, China and South East Asia, what can we learn and what are the opportunities
13.35 Restoring the truth - Making truth fact-based again
Daniel Dubno is an Emmy Award-winning television news producer, technologist, curator, futurist, and inventor. a TED- and World Economic Forum speaker, advisor to DARPA and other world-leading organizations and a master in interpreting the signs of our time.
Key takeaways:
- The need to reclaim the truth in public discourse
- AI risk and opportunities in journalism
- How to make money on accuracy, integrity, and truthful content.
- The US Election, where the truth can be the first victim
13.55 Elements - where the magic happens
Tove Törneman, Project leader Elements, AMFFastigheter
Celeste Fierro, CEO Elements, Stockholms new Sustainability innovation house and campfire for tomorrow's most important questions
Charlie Caper, Chief Magic Officer, Elements
Stockholms new innovation house for a sustainable future and campfire for tomorrow's most important questions
14.15 Breakout Sessions & New this year - Campfire and Oasis Sessions - Group sessions where the collective intelligence helps solve participant challenges
- Cyber Security
- Product Design
- Intraprenourship
- Retail
15.15 Summary of collaboration sessions
15.30 Political commentary on US elections and the future of journalism
Mike Oreskes, former editor in chief International Herald Tribute/New Your Times. Co-Author, The Genius of America, How the Constitution Saved Our Country and Why It Can Again.
15.45 A Queer Bird in the Middle East – homo romantic movies in Arabic and beyond
Up close with film director and gay icon Naures Sager
Key takeaways:
- LGBTQ+ hate and love in the Middle East
- How to make a great love story
- Standing up and seeing the opportunity in diversity
16.05 To Light the Flame of Reason
– Clear Thinking for the Twenty-first Century
Christer Sturmark, founder and publisher Fri Tanke, author of Flame of Reason – Clear Thinking for the Twenty-first Century
16.30 After Sime mingel at Elements
19.00 SMILE Gala at Epicenter in cooperation with Operation Smile where every ticket pays for a child with cleft palate surgery.
On the last evening day, April 23rd we have added a grand finale with the SMILE Gala where the Sime audience together with Operations Smile helps kids with face deformities get surgery and be able to smile and thrive supported by top artists and wonderful food experiences. Read more here >>
Exploring how digital opportunities can convert into new business, valuable relationships and a better world.
Attendees
Speakers & contributers
Sessions & Summits
Renowned as Northern Europe's leadership conference, Sime is celebrated for setting the stage where the digital future unfolds. Recognized for its impactful gatherings, we convene the brightest minds — from policymakers to tech giants and dynamic startups — to navigate the question: What's next in the digital frontier?
Decision Makers &
C-Level Executives
Customer Satisfaction
Stages & Zones
Hall of Fame
For 28 years SIME has had the privilege to host some of the world's most interesting and inspirational speakers.
Explore a few of them bellow.
THIS IS SIME
Sime Stockholm is Northern Europe’s leading event on tech driven business and digital opportunities. Since 1996 we’ve been gathering world leading speakers, thought leaders and experts, C level executives, Unicorn founders, techies and marketeers for two yearly events, spring and authum, with mind-blowing days, where we explore the frontiers of tech, business and humanity together.
Sime is about how digital opportunities can convert into new business, valuable relationships and a better world. Our passion is to spread knowledge, engagement and hope.
The event is held at our co-owned innovation house Epicenter, home of start ups, scale ups and large industry innovation labs where great ideas come alive every day.
WHAT TO EXPECT
We provide our audience with amazing high level inspiration on our Inspiration stage pared with deep dives into the most relevant topics in our Summits and Masterclasses.
We facilitate top level business meetings, unique experience sharing and to make it even better; we make sure we all have a lot of fun!
As a partner you get access to a powerful platform to engage with your most important customers and prospects in a customized way that suits your needs in terms of meetings, branding and framing. We have plenty of formats (e.g. Co-host, Knowledge Partner, Expert Partner, Demo Partner) and senior expertise to amplify your message – and, most important to ensure that it will be relevant to your customers.
The Sime Experience
Sime was created because we believe that knowledge about digital opportunities is key to future prosperity, better business and an important force to make the future a fantastic place. And because we believe in human meetings to make it happen.
We don ́t believe in silos. Like no other event Sime attracts a diverse crowd of decision makers, C-level executives and smart people with impact.
The Sime vibe inspires, challenges and touches regardless if you are one of the 1100+ participants, our partner or speaker.
At Sime you will smile a lot, learn a lot and meet people that will impact your business as well as become your friends for life!
More About SIME
Learn more about some of the events most important features
Main Stage
The Main Stage at the SIME Conference is where the heart of inspiration beats, featuring an impressive lineup of international speakers, captivating entertainment, and expert discussions. Here, industry leaders and visionaries converge to share their insights on emerging trends and opportunities, offering a glimpse into the future of technology, business, and innovation.
With a vibrant mix of engaging talks and dynamic presentations, the Main Stage sets the scene for a journey of discovery and enlightenment, designed to empower and excite every attendee about what lies ahead.
Summits and Masterclasses
Our Summits are 14-16 breakout tracks or masterclasses focusing on industries, technologies or questions for a targeted audience.
Summits and masterclasses are held in our in one of our 5 event venues. Typically 2 fast paced hours of presentations and conversations, 20 minutes each.
Topics can be AI, Real Estate, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Sustainability, Healthtech, Retail, Leadership etc.
Expo and Magic
In our Expo Zone, next to the restaurant, companies that have an interesting, tangible product or solution, have the opportunity to showcase it to the 900+ SIME audience.
Great expos and demos are an important part of the "magic" Sime’s experience.
Expo Zone is open to all participants passing by.
Meetings and the Smile gala
The essence of a remarkable conference lies in its participants, and at SIME, our greatest treasure is our vibrant community of over 900 decision-makers from diverse industries and roles.
We break down barriers and foster unity. SIME is where diverse minds meet in a dynamic atmosphere, sparking conversations, fostering collaborations, and creating smiles.
Our celebration culminates in the much-anticipated "Smile Gala" on the evening of the second day, a heartfelt afterparty supporting Operation Smile's noble mission to aid children affected by cleft conditions. Join us in making a difference, one smile at a time.
Upcoming
Stay updated with our exciting lineup of upcoming events and sessions.
Networking Powerhouse
Sime transforms networking, connecting you with industry leaders, innovators, and potential partners in a dynamic environment. It's where visions are shared and future collaborations are initiated, offering unparalleled opportunities to engage with those at the forefront of digital transformation.
Lead Generation Hub
In today's business uncertainties, Sime emerges as the ideal platform for lead generation. Our diverse agenda addresses the latest challenges and innovations, facilitating valuable connections and partnerships. It's an ideal setting for meeting like-minded professionals and developing lasting business relationship
Learning and Growth
Sime prioritizes knowledge and advancement, featuring educational content, in-depth masterclasses, and engaging roundtables. Our event equips you with new skills and insights, empowering you to implement fresh ideas and strategies in your work environment, whether you're in the office or remote.
Join us for an unforgettable SIME experience
Welcome to SIME, the premier conference for innovation and technology. Our mission is to inspire and empower individuals and organizations to embrace the digital revolution and drive positive change. At SIME, you can expect thought-provoking talks, interactive workshops, and unparalleled networking opportunities.
Join us and be part of the future!
John Doe
CEO, XYZ Corp