Workshops Sep 21

During the two days of Founders World Summit at Grand Hôtel large scale founders meet up for a global growth exchange during Founders Group Sessions and Founders Selected theme Workshops.  

When detailing your participation you select among the below parallel workshops. Mark your preference in order for Founders Alliance to optimize.

Venue: Grand Hôtel, Södra Blasieholmshamnen 8, Stockholm

Climate Operational focus
Facilitator: Sacha Ghiglione - Prime Computer

Founders Climate Workshop

Exchange: Our world needs great founders building large scale Climate companies to achieve necessary change for the benefit of the planet. 

During the workshop we will facilitate an interactive exchange based on each founder's key topics with input to accelerate their operative companies to their next level. 

Participants: Founders building international Climate related companies. Example invited founders: Joachim Karthäuser - Zelk, Climeon (Stockholm), Richard Romanowski - eleXsys, Planet Ark Power (Brisbane), Sabina E. von Arx - Q. Brands (Zürich), Ingmar Rentzhog - WeDontHaveTime (Stockholm), Christopher Engman - MegaDeals Advisory (Stockholm), Sacha Ghiglione - Prime Computer (St.Gallen), Giovanni Fili - Exeger (Stockholm), Ulf Stenerhag - Wayout (Stockholm).

Facilitator: Sacha Ghiglione - Prime Computer

Prior to the workshop participants are encouraged to identify one key strategic initiative or challenge to be which will be discussed and given input by the other participating founders in the workshop. 

The workshop is co-created with Founders Group Climate

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Climate Investor focus
Facilitator: Alexander Helling - Baseload

Founders Climate Workshop

Exchange: Building and financing Climate related companies is a necessity to achieve necessary change for the benefit of the planet. During the workshop we will facilitate an interactive exchange based on each investing founder's key topics and experience. 

Participants: Founders investing in international Climate related companies & Operative founders building Climate companies to learn from the investor perspective. Example invited founders: Joachim Karthäuser - Zelk, Climeon (Stockholm), Richard Romanowski - eleXsys, Planet Ark Power (Brisbane), Sabina E. von Arx - Q. Brands (Zürich), Ingmar Rentzhog - WeDontHaveTime (Stockholm), Christopher Engman - MegaDeals Advisory (Stockholm), Sacha Ghiglione - Prime Computer (St.Gallen), Giovanni Fili - Exeger (Stockholm), Ulf Stenerhag - Wayout (Stockholm).

Facilitator: Alexander Helling, Baseload 

The workshop is co-created with Founders Group Climate & Founders Group Climate Investors

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SaaS Investment
Speaker: Ariel Sterman, VP, Bessemer Venture Partners

Founders SaaS Investment Workshop

Exchange: How to succeed in building large scale international SaaS companies given today's world outlook with select & leading SaaS founders. 

The exchange will start with a presentation by Ariel Sterman on Bessemers famous report "State of the cloud 2022” (https://www.bvp.com/atlas/stat...;with some great voice over and updates) as well as The new investment market

Speaker: Ariel Sterman Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners, join us in person from Tel Aviv and uncovers the year’s top trends and insights in the global cloud economy including how the model is only getting better and why being a Centaur is the new milestone to celebrate. Don’t miss the summary of the State of the Cloud 2022 and latest trends for the investment market.

Participants: Founders building or investing in international SaaS related companies. Example invited founders: Jimmy Lundström - RefinedWiki, Martina Klingwall - Telness, Monika Linkamaa - Enfuce, Mattias Kellquist - Phyron, Patric Palm - Favro, Martin Klöfver - Trippus Event Solutions, Mathias Thulin - GetAccept, Rickard Hansson - <weavy/>.

Facilitators: Jimmy Lundström - RefinedWiki,  Mathias Thulin - Get Accept

The workshop is co-created with Founders Group International Growth

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Future Food
Facilitators: Anna Strömberg & Kristoffer Lundholm - SALLY & EY Doberman

Preferable Future of Food Workshop

Exchange:Our current food system is in many ways broken and needs to be fundamentally reimagined and rebuilt in order to help create a future where people and the planet can prosper – and business thrive. 

Already now there are many investors and founders building companies within the food sector that are leading the way. But to achieve the necessary change we need to improve both the speed and scale. Sustainability and decarbonization will only be achieved if more business models are transformed around circular and regenerative principles. 

This workshop will start with an introduction by Anna Strömberg & Kristoffer Lundholm at SALLY EY Dobermans Future manifestation Lab, on their latest work around how a food system that generates more life and new businesses could look like. 

After introduction an interactive and facilitated workshop will follow where founders will get a chance to use their skills and knowledge to further develop new and existing business models that would help shape a preferable future for the people and the planet. 

Participants: Large scale founders building or investing innovating the Food System Example invited founders: Bengt Persson - Välingetorp Invest, FoodHills, Gustaf Brandberg - Gullspång Invest, Moa Gürbürzer - Oddbird, Peter Wassberg - Daily Botanic, David Berggren - AVEQIA, Robin Lee - Grönska, Adam Gillberg- Proteinbolaget, Niclas Luthman - NICKS 

Facilitators: Anna Strömberg & Kristoffer Lundholm from SALLY & EY Doberman 

The workshop is co-created with Founders Group FoodTech

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Life Science
Facilitators: Olle Ericsson - Moleculent & Niclas Carlsson - Founders Alliance

Life Science Founders Workshop

Exchange: How to succeed in building & investing in large scale Life Science companies. During the workshop we will facilitate an interactive exchange based on each founder's key topics with input to accelerate their operative companies & investments in Life Science companies to their next level. 

Participants: Founders building & investing in Life Science companies. 

Facilitators: Olle Ericsson - Moleculent & Niclas Carlsson - Founders Alliance.

Prior to the workshop participants are encouraged to identify one key strategic initiative or challenge to be which will be discussed and given input by the other participating founders in the workshop. 

The workshop is co-created with Founders Group Life Science

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Marketing & Sales
Introductory Speaker: Thomas Rogalin Facilitator: Mario Pereira - Mavera

Scalable Marketing and Sales Workshop

Exchange: How to build and manage a scalable marketing and sales function. 

Example of topics expressed to work with by invited founders:

  • Media- and marketing plan current and two coming years
  • How to maximize sales & marketing and brand-building marketing
  • Which services will help moving forward
  • How to work with social media
  • How far out in the convergence funnel is the content

Agenda

The exchange will start with an introduction and case study by Thomas Rogalin on his experiences of scaling Sales to achieve sustainable, profitable company creation in is companies: Teleperformance and Workz, followed by a interactive discussion based on each participating founders´challenges and questions to scale.

Participants: for Nordic founders building mid sized to large sized companies. Example invited: Charlotte Ljung - Endbright, Lina Hedin - Add Insight, Pontus Holgerson - Corplus Alexander Lidvall - Dynabyte, John Tengström - ASTRA Law, Mario Pereira - Mavera, Stefan Haslum - Adestia, Torkel Kristoffers - Vardagsfrid, Urban Aspelin - Elektrosignal Infra.

Facilitator: Mario Pereira, Founder of Mavera

The workshop is co-created with Founders Group 7

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Governance - Owners, board and management
Facilitators: Annika Hall - Annika Hall Consulting and Jonas Carpvik - Carpvik Consulting

Workshop Corporate governance as an interplay among Owners, board and management

Exchange: Founder owned businesses face unique challenges concerning strategic leadership and governance. The inter-dependency among owners, the board, and the management team is high.

Roles tend to get mixed up, and decisions are made, not only for economic, but also for emotional and historical reasons. Because of this, the quality of the interplay among the owners, the board and the management team is crucial for organisation value creation. 

This interactive workshop focuses on that interplay’s core building blocks, and aims at providing the participants with an understanding of strengths and potential areas of improvement of their own situation. Example of topics

  • How do we make the interplay among owners, board and management functional and rewarding?
  • Which are the common traps?
  • Which are our company's strengths and areas of improvement?

Participants: Founders interested in a relation view of corporate governance, and its role in organisation value creation. 

Facilitators: Annika Hall - Annika Hall Consulting and Jonas Carpvik - Carpvik Consulting 

Prior to the workshop participants are encouraged to identify one issue related to the workshop theme that you want to be discussed during the workshop.

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FinTech
Facilitators: Sabina von Arx - Q.Brands & Jonas Mårtensson - Resscapital

FinTech Founders Workshop

Exchange: How to succeed in building & investing in large scale international FinTech companies. During the workshop we will facilitate an interactive exchange based on each founder's key topics with input to accelerate their operative companies & investments in FinTech to their next level. 

Participants: Founders building or investing in international FinTech related companies.  

Facilitators: Sabina von Arx - Q.Brands & Jonas Mårtensson -  Resscapital.

Prior to the workshop participants are encouraged to identify one issue related to the workshop theme that you want to be discussed during the workshop. 

This workshop is co-created with Founders Group FinTech.

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Public Relations
Facilitator: Catarina Lundbäck - Alaska Film & Production

Workshop - Your understanding & acting in the world of Public Relations

Exchange: In our growth with larger companies and ownership responsibility as well as the increased exposure, surveillance and regulations it is key for us entrepreneurs to understand the logic from journalists and acting right with our companies and ourselves as individuals. 

The workshop starts with a short introduction by Catarina Lundbäck followed by an interactive workshop based on participating founders key questions.

Example of topics:

  • How does the media logic work and how to relate to it?
  • What is the current situation and trends important to relate to?
  • When and why should I protect my identity?

Participants: Founders building or investing in growth companies interested in understanding the media logic for well managed companies and for itself as a founder. 

Facilitator: Catarina Lundbäck is the founder and owner of Alaska Film & Production and Investigative Journalist as well as a Founders Alliance member in Founders Group 10.

This workshop is co-created with Founders Group 10

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Leadership
Facilitator: Dr. Johan S. Roos - HULT, LEGO Serious Play, Grönadal Egendom Real Estate

Workshop - Your Founders' Leadership for accelerated Impact

Exchange: It is defined that the role of founders is to build and own companies that drive necessary change in society for the benefit of all. How do Founders lead this? 

The workshop starts with a short presentation by Dr. Roos based on interviews with Founders Alliance members followed by an interactive workshop. Topics include managing change, culture, ownership, and “guiding principles” for effective leadership. 

The purpose is to give participants the opportunity to both conceptualise about and share leadership practices. 

Participants: Founders dedicated to develop growing companies by developing its leadership

Facilitator: Dr. Johan S. Roos is the Chief Academic Officer at HULT, co-inventor of LEGO Serious Play, and owner at Grönadal Egendom Real Estate in South Sweden.

Prior to the workshop participants are encouraged to identify one weakness/challenge of its Leadership to be discussed and given input by the other participating founders and Johan S Roos in the workshop.

This workshop is part of Niclas Carlsson and Johan S Roos multiyear collaboration on researching how large scale Founders lead and own companies with the purpose to broaden and accelerate the entrepreneurial footprint and increase essential understanding and awareness of the role of Founders for large scale company creation and accelerated social impact.

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