Tuesday, October 21
Opening Session
4:00 - 5:30pm
Spotlights
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Welcome
Lāth Carlson
CEO
National Nordic Museum -
Welcome
Dan Strauss
Councilmember
City of Seattle, District 6 -
Welcome
Marit Warncke
Mayor
Bergen, Norway -
Welcome
Anniken Huitfeldt
Ambassador
Norway -
Keynote:
"Designing new proteins using deep learning"Dr. David Baker
Director
Institute for Protein Design,
University of Washington -
Keynote
Jannicke Mikkelsen
Astronaut, Filmmaker, Trailblazer
Opening Reception
5:30 - 7:00pm
Wednesday, October 22
Registration & Coffee
7:30 - 8:45am
Day 2 Opening Session
8:45 - 9:15am
Spotlights
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Keynote:
"The Fifth Acceleration - What we can learn from the Nordics to accelerate AI adoption"Mathias Sundin
Founder & Chairman
Warp Institute Foundation
Energy
9:15 - 10:40am
Spotlights
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Keynote
Isaac Kato
Founder
Two Ravens VC -
Fireside Chat:
"Microgrids for Community Resilience"Lāth Carlson
CEO
National Nordic Museum -
Fireside Chat:
"Microgrids for Community Resilience"Callum McSherry
Managing Partner
Cascadia Renewables & Sulis Energy -
Fireside Chat:
"Microgrids for Community Resilience"Markus Virta
Managing Partner
Cascadia Renewables & Sulis Energy -
Fireside Chat
Jonas Jonsson
CEO
ByggVesta -
Fireside Chat
Jonah Goldman
Generate Capital
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Keynote:
" The Climate Pledge in Action – Pioneering Sustainable Tech Solutions at Scale"Maiken Møller-Hansen
Director, Energy & Sustainability
Amazon Devices -
Keynote:
“Advanced Solutions in Plastics and Critical Materials Recovery, Recycling and Reuse”Brian E. Maxted
CEO & Owner
The Holloway Group -
Fireside Chat
Daniel T. Schwartz
Director
Clean Energy Institute, University of Washington -
Fireside Chat
Martin Kiener
CEO & Founder
FOM Technologies
Security
11:10am - 12:15pm
Spotlights
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Keynote:
”Resilient Finland: a whole-of-society perspective”Minna Laajava
Consul General of Finland
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Fireside Chat:
"Building Trust in a World of AI, Fraud, and Cyber Threats"Erik Benson
Managing Director
Voyager Capital -
Fireside Chat:
"Building Trust in a World of AI, Fraud, and Cyber Threats"Alex Algard
CEO
Hiya -
Fireside Chat:
"Building Trust in a World of AI, Fraud, and Cyber Threats"Sunil Gottumukkala
CEO
Averlon -
Keynote
Petri Hautakangas
CEO
Tupl -
Keynote
Kristine Rezai
Technical Presales Engineer, North America
IQM Quantum Computers -
Keynote:
"Inuit collectivity as resilience"Nauja Bianco
Greenlandic expert in security and Nordic geopolitics
Lunch Break
12:15 - 1:15pm
Health and Biotech
1:15 - 2:35pm
Spotlights
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Keynote:
"The Six Points of Connection: A Framework for Reversing the Loneliness Epidemic"Charlotte Massey
Founder & Executive Director
US Chamber of Connection -
Keynote:
"Skape Bio: Designed biotherapeutics from Denmark and the University of Washington"Christoffer Norn, Ph.D.
Co-founder & CEO
Skape Bio -
Fireside Chat
Jens Molbak
CEO & Founder
NewImpact -
Fireside Chat
Julius Sterling Burkheimer
Founder & Architect
Imperium Fitness -
Keynote:
"Moving from concept to care - the need for new models in biomedical research"Douglas Kieper
Director
Paul G. Allen Research Center
Transportation
3:10 - 4:30pm
Spotlights
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Keynote
Marko Liias
Senator
Washington State Legislature -
Keynote:
" Navigation towards zero – when reality surpasses the vision"Lasse A. Vangstein
Chief Communications & Sustainability Officer
Havila -
Fireside Chat
Sam Cho
Comissioner
Port of Seattle Commission -
Keynote:
"Electrification and Circularity"Nick Huzar
CEO
Juicer
Closing Reception
4:30 - 6:15pm