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Opening Session

4:00 - 5:30pm

Spotlights

  • Welcome

    Lāth Carlson

    CEO
    National Nordic Museum

    LinkedIn
  • Welcome

    Dan Strauss

    Councilmember
    City of Seattle, District 6

    LinkedIn
  • Welcome

    Marit Warncke

    Mayor
    Bergen, Norway

    LinkedIn
  • Welcome

    Anniken Huitfeldt

    Ambassador
    Norway

    LinkedIn
  • Keynote:
    "Designing new proteins using deep learning"

    Dr. David Baker

    Director
    Institute for Protein Design,
    University of Washington

    LinkedIn
  • Keynote

    Jannicke Mikkelsen

    Astronaut, Filmmaker, Trailblazer

    LinkedIn

Opening Reception

5:30 - 7:00pm


Registration & Coffee

7:30 - 8:45am


Day 2 Opening Session

8:45 - 9:15am

Spotlights

  • Keynote:
    "The Fifth Acceleration - What we can learn from the Nordics to accelerate AI adoption"

    Mathias Sundin

    Founder & Chairman
    Warp Institute Foundation

    LinkedIn

Energy

9:15 - 10:40am

Spotlights

  • Keynote

    Isaac Kato

    Founder
    Two Ravens VC

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat:
    "Microgrids for Community Resilience"

    Lāth Carlson

    CEO
    National Nordic Museum

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat:
    "Microgrids for Community Resilience"

    Callum McSherry

    Managing Partner
    Cascadia Renewables & Sulis Energy

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat:
    "Microgrids for Community Resilience"

    Markus Virta

    Managing Partner
    Cascadia Renewables & Sulis Energy

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat

    Jonas Jonsson

    CEO
    ByggVesta

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat

    Jonah Goldman

    Generate Capital

    LinkedIn
  • Keynote:
    " The Climate Pledge in Action – Pioneering Sustainable Tech Solutions at Scale"

    Maiken Møller-Hansen

    Director, Energy & Sustainability
    Amazon Devices

    LinkedIn
  • Keynote:
    “Advanced Solutions in Plastics and Critical Materials Recovery, Recycling and Reuse”

    Brian E. Maxted

    CEO & Owner
    The Holloway Group

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat

    Daniel T. Schwartz

    Director
    Clean Energy Institute, University of Washington

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat

    Martin Kiener

    CEO & Founder
    FOM Technologies

    LinkedIn

Security

11:10am - 12:15pm

Spotlights

  • Keynote:
    ”Resilient Finland: a whole-of-society perspective”

    Minna Laajava

    Consul General of Finland

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat:
    "Building Trust in a World of AI, Fraud, and Cyber Threats"

    Erik Benson

    Managing Director
    Voyager Capital

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat:
    "Building Trust in a World of AI, Fraud, and Cyber Threats"

    Alex Algard

    CEO
    Hiya

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat:
    "Building Trust in a World of AI, Fraud, and Cyber Threats"

    Sunil Gottumukkala

    CEO
    Averlon

    LinkedIn
  • Keynote

    Petri Hautakangas

    CEO
    Tupl

    LinkedIn
  • Keynote

    Kristine Rezai

    Technical Presales Engineer, North America
    IQM Quantum Computers

    LinkedIn
  • Keynote:
    "Inuit collectivity as resilience"

    Nauja Bianco

    Greenlandic expert in security and Nordic geopolitics

    LinkedIn

Lunch Break

12:15 - 1:15pm


Health and Biotech

1:15 - 2:35pm

Spotlights

  • Keynote:
    "The Six Points of Connection: A Framework for Reversing the Loneliness Epidemic"

    Charlotte Massey 

    Founder & Executive Director
    US Chamber of Connection

    LinkedIn
  • Keynote:
    "Skape Bio: Designed biotherapeutics from Denmark and the University of Washington"

    Christoffer Norn, Ph.D.

    Co-founder & CEO
    Skape Bio

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat

    Jens Molbak

    CEO & Founder
    NewImpact

    LinkedIn
  • 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

    LinkedIn

Transportation

3:10 - 4:30pm

Spotlights

  • Keynote

    Marko Liias

    Senator
    Washington State Legislature

  • Keynote:
    " Navigation towards zero – when reality surpasses the vision"

    Lasse A. Vangstein

    Chief Communications & Sustainability Officer
    Havila

    LinkedIn
  • Fireside Chat

    Sam Cho

    Comissioner
    Port of Seattle Commission

    LinkedIn
  • Keynote:
    "Electrification and Circularity"

    Nick Huzar

    CEO
    Juicer

    LinkedIn

Closing Reception

4:30 - 6:15pm


Sponsors

Level One Sponsors

Level Three Sponsors

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Level Four Sponsors

  • CONSULATE GENERAL OF FINLAND