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SÏMON SANEBACK

International Speaker, Board Professional, Co-founder, Wellstreet

Sïmon Saneback is an award-winning serial entrepreneur with substantial experience in the online industry and a frequent keynote speaker around Europe. Sïmon, who started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 16, is co-founder of Wellstreet Group and has been recognized as Sweden’s Startup Investor of the Year in 2018 by SUP46 at Swedish Startup Gala and again in 2019 by Nordic Startup Awards. 

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BRIGETTE HYACINTH

Author, Founder, MBA Caribbean Organisation

Brigette Hyacinth is an international keynote speaker, bestselling author and thought leader on Leadership, Artificial Intelligence and digital transformation She has been ranked: Top 100 HR Influencers of 2019. Brigette has authored 4 books including, “The Future of Leadership: Rise of Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence” which has been ranked, /Top 100 Best Artificial Intelligence Books of All Time/. She is also the founder of MBA Caribbean Organisation, a firm she established in 2008 which specializes in seminars and workshops in leadership, management and HR. Brigette is an internationally recognized Influencer and has traveled to over 50 countries, in five continents to share her expertise. She currently has over 2 Million followers on LinkedIn and is sought out by organizations all over globe for her leadership insights.

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TRINIDAD

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DR. ZUNAIRA MUNIR

Founder and Managing Director, Strategize Blue

Dr. Zunaira Munir is a Senior Expert of the Global Blue Ocean Strategy Network. She has worked directly under Professors Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (Founders of Blue Ocean Strategy) on various Blue Ocean projects and initiatives worldwide, including ‘National Blue Ocean Strategy’ instituted by the Prime Minister of Malaysia that led to the creation of 1.8 million jobs and a 50% increase in GDP for Malaysia. With a client list that reads who’s who in business, she has trained organizations, big and small, that are eager to grow and willing to innovate. Clients include Coca-Cola, Pfizer, Honeywell, Intel, HP, T-mobile and others. As an executive, she was instrumental in growing Clary Business Machines to America’s top hundred electronics companies as ranked by the INC Magazine. She is now engaged in global business development of OneScreen - the blue ocean collaboration solution she helped her family business create that is now generating $20M in annual revenues . ‘Key Concepts in Innovation’, a book she co-authored and Palgrave McMillan published is widely being used in business and engineering schools around the world as a supplement to the textbooks on innovation.. She holds a PhD in Management Science and Engineering and an MBA. She has lived and worked in six continents around the world and brings to her speeches a fascinating multidisciplinary and multicultural view.

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GLENN D ROLFSEN

TEDx speaker, psychotherapist, Corporate Health Service

Glenn has addressed over five hundred major national and international companies and has gained a reputation as a brilliant raconteur as well as an engaging and knowledgeable keynote speaker. He has worked as a teacher to educate gestalt therapists in Norway and several European countries. As corporate counsel and leadership consultant he works daily to improve the working life quality for employees. Glenn has shown his concept of how to change an unhealthy and toxic work environment by presenting a clever and easy guide to prevent backbiting at work. He has been a Keynote speaker at the World Health Organisation (WHO) with his Gozzip 2018 concept to all 155 member states. 

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NORWAY

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ANDREW COCKS

Associate Subject Matter Expert, Questback

Andrew Cocks  is an assessment psychologist specialising in organisational culture and employee engagement. He has specialised in employee research for 20 years and has been Group Head of Engagement and Employer Brand at HSBC and European Head of Employee Engagement for Watson Wyatt. He currently provides consultancy services as an affiliate of Questback. Andrew designed the multi award-winning CultureQuest Parity, an assessment for organisations to help them understand the cultural root-causes of inequality and the gender pay gap and develop targeted interventions to help close it.

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UK

KAISA SALAKKA

Director, Product Management,

Unity Technologies

Kaisa is the Director of Product Management for Unity, leading new product innovation. Prior to Unity, Kaisa served as a VP of Product for Silicon Valley game analytics start-up Omniata that later got acquired by King. Before entering the games industry she held several senior product roles applying machine learning for telecoms and media in companies that are today part of Nokia. Kaisa holds a M.S. in Operations Research from the Aalto University.

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JAAKKO SAHIMAA

Account Director, Organisational Psychologist, HRM Partners

Jaakko Sahimaa is a young, talented and business-minded organizational psychologist. During his career he has worked as entrepreneur, occupational psychologist, consultant and trainer. Jaakko is also a co-founder of Meaningful Work Finland Association. At the moment he is writing a book about the topic "leading the meaning". Jaakko has a passion and mission to make Finnish working life and organizations more meaningful and more purpose-driven. He believes it is a necessity for companies to thrive in future. 

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ERIC MATSGÅRD

Head of HR Products, CMO, Aditro

Eric is the Head of HR Products & CMO at Aditro. He is responsible for driving service design initiatives across the product portfolio and services as well as steering the digital transformation within the company. Eric is passioned about helping customers to get their jobs done with tools that are intuitive and easy to master. Eric has a long and versatile experience in the technology industry. For the past 10 years, Eric has been working with digital consumer products in the areas of online gaming and video solutions. At the moment Eric´s passion revolves around drones as they combine three of his greatest interests – flying, video and tech.

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JAANA KILPIMAA

Senior Advisor, Leadership and Business Development Services, Azets Insight

As a creative and inspirational organizational, leadership and competence development professional with strong business background, Jaana's mission is to drive people oriented renewal, transformational leadership and work communities potential for better performance and joy. Jaana has led and consulted several organizational change and renewal processes as well as coached leaders and work communities, continuously examining the working life change phenomena and the modern leadership with curiosity and enthusiasm.

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MIIKKA TUOMOLA

Business Development Director, RecRight

Miikka Tuomola is an experienced video recruitment professional and Business Development Director of RecRight. He has over 5 years of experience in HR Tech, and during that time he has helped hundreds of organisations worldwide to develop their recruitment processes by making videos an integral part of the process and thus more effective. Miikka is a modern business leader with a true customer-first attitude.

BJÖRN LORENTZON

Business Development Manager, Sympa

Björn Lorentzon has an extensive career in HR as an advisor and leading HR functions within large companies, as well as startups and the public sector. He has studied an extensive mix from macro sociology and law, to engineering math and programming, but has his main subject in organisational psychology. In his current position as Business Development Manager at Sympa, Björn actively monitors industry trends and acts as a sounding board for digital HR trends within the company. He is also an active speaker and visiting panelist at HR events in Sweden and around Nordics.

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SWEDEN

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MARJO LAUNONEN-ESPINOSA

Language Center Director, Berlitz Finland

Marjo Launonen-Espinosa has a long experience working in the language and culture training industry and multicultural environments. She majored in English philology and minored in North American studies and has lived in three countries. In her current position as Language Center Director at Berlitz Helsinki she consults with corporate clients who want to support their employees in gaining fluency in their working languages or help them to integrate into the Finnish society. She is also a certified COA practitioner, working with clients looking to improve their intercultural communication skills. Marjo’s mission is to help companies improve their competitive advantage by ensuring their people are engaged and able to bring out their professionalism in a foreign language at the same high level as they do in their native language.

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ELINA SEPPÄNEN

Senior Advisor, Practise Owner, Sofigate

Elina Seppänen is Business Lead for HR Business Technology team. During her career Elina has worked in all sides of the HR field: internal HR, consultant and customer in such companies as Sofigate, Accenture, Tieto and HR4 Consulting (currently Accountor). Elina is passionate about bringing technology into the hearts and minds of HR professionals and making HR speak more IT. Currently Elina and her team are working tirelessly in disrupting the field of HR for technology. Elina believes that best results for business are achieved when passion meets profitability. 

MICHAEL MAIER

Country Manager Nordics, Personio

Having studied Technology & Management at Technical University of Munich and first experiences in Strategy Consulting (Bain & Company) and mid-sized companies, Michael had co-built Munich-based FinTech Start-Up Gini. There he was also co-responsible for transforming the organization to a decentralized holocratic team. After building up the Partnership department at Personio, he is now driving the expansion to the Nordics to enable better organizations through HR software in small and medium sized companies.

PAULA KILPINEN

CEO, HRM Partners

Paula Kilpinen is a visionary CEO, consultant and coach. She works as the CEO at HRM Partners, with the purpose to promote meaningful work. She is also the author of an award winning PhD and a sought-after keynote speaker. Paula believes that in order to foster the changing work life, organizations need to become more purpose- and capability-driven. By leveraging capabilities and rehumanizing work, companies are able to act in a sustainable way and make a contribution to the society as a whole. 

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PIA ADLIVANKIN

CEO, Linnanmäki

Pia Adlivankin, the CEO of Linnanmäki Amusement Park, believes that the success of their park is based on inspired and committed funmasters, who together passionately develop the most loved amusement park in Finland. At Linnanmäki they believe that the commonly set goals are met by playing together, being passionate about development and with the right funmaster attitude, where they support and help colleagues succeed. The employer must always ensure, that the funmasters arrive at work along a red carpet, motivated to exceed customer expectations and wanting to guarantee the success of the workplace.  Pia Adlivankin has been excited to lead the work fun-being at Linnanmäki since 2014.

MERVI LAMMINEN

CEO & Founder, Auntie

Mervi Lamminen is the founder and CEO of Auntie Solutions. Auntie is revolutionizing psychological support for employees, aiming for a world without burnouts. Easy access digitally and early stage support are keywords when helping people to feel better and be more productive.Before becoming the matron at Auntie, Mervi was a director in a growing IT-company. That's when her need for stress management and burnout prevention became apparent. Even motivating work with great customers can take its toll, and she was forced to face questions such as how to maintain joy at work and how to recover from the long hours day after day. Now she wants to help other people in similar situations with Auntie - with easy access and as early as possible.

KRISTA LEPPÄNEN

HR Advisor, Recruitment Services, 

Azets Insight

Krista has diverse, hands-on experience on uniting talents and organisations on manifold occasions where hands need to be seen shaken on a shared future vision. Intrigued about the future and new forms of work, Krista is always eager to discuss how jobs are transforming and how individuals, organisations and policies will adapt to the continuous change. As a believer in the life-prolonging effect of executing positive curiosity and in sharing, she's a practising mentor for young professionals and a pro bono career coach.

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VISA MYLLYNTAUS

Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, Kesko

Visa Myllyntaus is responsible for recruitment, onboarding and employer brand in K Group – the third biggest retail company in the Nordics. K Group has developed their recruitment and employer brand with measurable results for the past three years. Visa is an advocate for developing recruitment through efficient practices and meaningful encounters and turning applicant and employee experience into a competitive advantage.

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LAURA LARES

CEO, Ablers

Laura is a spirited and inspiring strategy and leadership lecturer and facilitator who helps more than 1 000 professionals and 100 organisations every year to open new perspectives in leadership, HR and business. She has 30 years of diverse HR and management experience in large corporations, SME’s, universities, associations and public-private networks. Prior to her present entrepreneur and professional board member role she has served as the CEO of Kalevala Jewelry, VP of HR & Business Development and VP of Sales in UPM Wood Products, Principal Lecturer of Management and Leadership as well as Professor of Industrial Management – among many other roles and interests.

PAULUS MAASALO

Country Manager Quinyx Finland

Paulus Maasalo has a long career working with workforce management in the retail sector, management consulting and within IT. In his current role at Quinyx Paulus is helping organizations optimize their business and increase employee engagement through modern approach to WFM. Quinyx is the leading SaaS based and fully mobile WFM solution with over 500 000 users worldwide and 8 offices both in Europe and the US. Paulus is a strong believer in bringing the benefits of modern solutions to front line employees and managers to create a happy workforce and profitable business.

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SUSANNA GRUNDSTRÖM

Advisor, Sofigate

Susanna is a former HR Director who loves to think big but keep feet firmly on the ground. Her journey has been through thick and thin in Business HR roles at Accenture, GlaxoSmithKline and Nordcloud. She is an experienced HR professional with strong background both from the perspective of leading HR and making HR remove waste from their work via e.g. agile methodology. Susanna is passionate about modern ways of working and design thinking.

Susanna works as Advisor at Sofigate helping companies to reshape and rethink HR.