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22 September 2022 11:30AM-02:00PM CESTStockholm City Hall, The Prince's Gallery

Personal Invitation

As part of the 8th Founders World Summit we have the pleasure to gather +60 global large scale female founders to a lunch seminar - A Woman's Place - Enabling Impact in a Dynamic Society led by Female Founders at The Price's Gallery, Stockholm City Hall. 

Exchange (virtual and physical):

  • The value of a world owners' shift for all
  • Case study by successful female international founders
  • Discussion on how to accelerate success of more large scale female founded and owned companies and a more dynamic ownership base in the future for the benefit of all
  • Interactive Round Table workshops on each participants' sustainable international growth and ownership

This is a collaboration between Invest Stockholm, part of the City of Stockholm and Founders Alliance. An invitation only event.

    Interlinked with the lunch seminar is the 8th Founders World Summit on September 21-22 and the 21st Founders Awards Gala beginning at 6 pm (18.00) September 22 at the Stockholm City Hall. 

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    Participants

    Large scale international female founders and select founders enabling positive change in the society meet up to be inspired by Panellists and Round Table Exchange in The Prince's Gallery at City Hall of Stockholm. 

    Global large scale female founders will be participating both physically and online. 

    Check-in time

    Check in physical and virtual starts at 11:15 am.

    Adress

    Stockholm City Hall, The Prince's Gallery, Hantverkargatan 1, Stockholm

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    Program (CET/UTC +02:00)

    11:15 AM

    Registration at the Prince's Gallery

    Prince's Gallery, Stockholm City Hall
    11:55 AM

    Panel of leading International Female Founders

    The Prince's Gallery, Stockholm City Hall
    12:15 PM

    Lunch & Round Table founders exchange to assist each other for sustainable international growth and ownership

    Lunch is served at the Prince's Gallery

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    The Prince's Gallery, Stockholm City Hall
    01:00 PM

    Plenary discussion on Round Table discussion with panellists

    The Prince's Gallery, Stockholm City Hall
    01:30 PM

    Networking, Photoshoots and Promotion Interviews (only physical)

    The Prince's Gallery, Stockholm City Hall
    02:00 PM

    Thank you!

    03:00 PM

    Welcoming & Introduction

    Welcoming speech in the Hall of Mirrors.

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    The Hall of Mirrors (Spegelsalen)

    Speakers

    Emma Rozada
    Serial entrepreneur, Founder (HQ Sweden)

    The Techno Creatives

     Emma is a serial entrepreneur, and founder of The Techno Creatives. An awarded design & development agency, leaders within helping the automotive industry forming into digital products and services for the mobility of tomorrow. 

    Today The Techno Creatives are 50+ design nerds, tech geeks, and restless entrepreneurs from all over the globe combining design thinking and a startup approach to innovate and challenge the status quo for their clients.

    She believes that the world can be a better place, mainly through the execution of new solutions. With the power to think and build digital products, she started her first design-driven technology startup in 2003 programming a touchscreen-based system for restaurants in Bangkok, in the era where the battery of the devices lasted for 1,5 hours. 

    Since then, she has started and founded 20 companies in 5 countries. Extensive experience from board and management, both international and domestic. Founder, investor, and fundraiser in several successful startups.

    Bokio.se

    Focus on your business dreams. Automated bookkeeping and economy administration helping entrepreneurs to run thinner businesses free of charge thanks to AI and machine learning. Launched in Sweden and the UK.

    Yachtdefined.com /Navico.com

    Boating made easy. Navigation control system for smart boating. Now part of Navico, world's largest marine-electronics manufacturer.

    Weret.com

    Go out and catch that perfect wave. A new generation analog-smartwatch to stay up to date with the current weather conditions. Lifestyle brand within the surf-industry and influencer marketing.

    Goldenridge.cn

    Smart, electric autonomous mobility services for China. First autonomous mobility service to be launched in public with Baidu and Apollo.

    G O T H E N B U R G ‐ S H E N Z H EN 

    Driving positive change through execution. We tailor iconic experiences, services, and products. 

    14 x Red Dot Awards, 

    6 x DI Gasell 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 

    6 x Ventures

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    Denise Johansson
    Co-Founder & Co-CEO (HQ Finland)

    Enfuce

    Denise Johansson is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Enfuce, a Nordic payment service provider headquartered in Finland. Enfuce was the first in the world to put payment processing into the public cloud and is taking the payments world by storm. Enfuce is one of the leading Fintechs in Europe, with close to 10 million end-users on its platform.

    Denise Johansson is a thought leader within payments and open banking, a key driver of bringing sustainable financial solutions for the world, and also an active spokesperson for women in fintech. She has 15+ years of experience in the payment industry, and has helped numerous European fintechs and financial institutes enter new markets fast with safe, secure and scalable card products, while continuously making the financial industry more sustainable. 

    As the co-founder of a leading European fintech company, Enfuce, her job is to drive the payments revolution for fintechs, banks and merchants.

    At Enfuce, she draws on her deep experience within financial services to lead the company towards sustainable growth. She established ambitious objectives guiding Enfuce to expand, employ the latest digital technologies, and push the team further than they’d been before. Teamwork is a central aspect of Denise’s role: she makes sure that the management team at Enfuce is fully aligned. Denise also puts a great deal of effort into making sure that everyone sees each other not just as colleagues, but as part of the team that’s going to make it happen.

    Keywords: #payments #fintech #sustainability #womenintech #compliance, #womenintech #collaboration

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    Olga Iarussi
    CEO & Co-Founder Italian Artisan (HQ Italy)

    Italian Artisan

    Italian Artisan is a B2B Marketplace that connects Italian manufacturing excellence with Fashion Brands all over the world in order to promote the internationalization of the many small Italian artisans and producers who are unlikely to find new international customers.

    Italian Artisan have over 10,000 brands registered on the platform looking for authentic Italian manufacturers and over 650 manufacturers Italian Artisan to look for new customers.

    Olga is associated with Women & Technologies where until 2019 she held the role of President and is a winner of the prestigious Tecnovisionarie 2017 award. She is also a member of InTheBoardroom, inserted by StartupItalia in the list of “Unstoppable Women. Women who are changing Italy " and a member of the NED Community.

    Previously she was the CEO and General Manager for Triumph International in South Europe learning the relaunch of brands, the opening of new channels, retail development and multi-channel. 

    Prior  to Triumph Olga worked in FMCG Sales & Marketing for over 12 years in Procter & Gamble and in 5 years in KraftHeinz, where she held roles of increasing responsibility both in Italy and in Europe.

    Keywords:#meritocracy #young #empowerment #rolemodel #giveback #nevergiveup

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    Anu Bhardwaj
    Founder & CTO (HQ USA)

    SHEQONOMI

    SHEQONOMI is the world's first suite of mobile apps on Android, iOS, KaiOS, and PragatiOS focused on women-led podcasts built by women, powered by girls targeting the bottom billion. One of 10 female-led startups for Reliance JiO’s 2022 “Build For Bharat” Cohort featuring 50 of India’s leading mobile startups leading innovation across JiO Platforms.

    2021 Global Finalists for Financial Inclusion (The People's Republic of Bangladesh) for the SDG Impact Accelerator hosted by the Government of Turkey, UN Technology Bank, UNDP, and other multilateral and multinational stakeholders 2020 Global Transform Fund- (COVID Innovation) Competition WINNERS from the Islamic Development Bank for the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, The Sultanate of Oman, The United Arab Emirates, People's Republic of Bangladesh, and the Republic of Indonesia. 

    Last year, SHEQONOMI launched "Amplifying Her Voice'' Global Virtual Summit Series in collaboration with The State of Women Institute, Women Investing in Women DIGITAL and 55 global women's organizations that had 3,000+ attendees, 555 global speakers from 120+ countries, featured in 90+ global newswires including Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Yahoo! Finance and other prominent news outlets to date. 

    SHEQONOMI is pleased to work closely with all of our global partners from Women Investing in Women Digital and The State of Women Institute as we continue our global platform built on blockchain technology.

    Prior to founding SHEQONOMI, Ms. Bhardwaj spearheaded Women Investing in Women DIGITAL, The State of Women Institute, and the 2010-2013 U.S. Department of Commerce Private Equity/Venture Capital Certified Trade Missions to the Nordics and Middle East, representing over $175 billion USD private-equity and venture-capital interests in collaboration with the International Trade Administration, the U.S. Embassies in the Royal Kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman. 

    Her client list includes top-tier global private equity, venture capital, and fund-of-funds such as Irving Place Capital, Castle Harlan, W.L. Ross, Pegasus Advisors, NEA, HBG Holdings, Cubera Private Equity, Lion Capital, Novak Biddle, Alinda Capital, Top Tier Capital, Pantheon, Pathway Capital, TH Lee, and Veronis Schuler Stevenson.

    Keywords: #internationalbusinessdevelopment #womeninprivateequity #womeninphilanthrophy #highgrowthwomenentrepreneurs #angelnetworks #crowdfunding #blockchain #digitalassets #deeptech #podcasting #thestateofwomen

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    Founders Alliance at a Glance

    Founders Alliance was established in 2002 by Niclas Carlsson. Today Founders Alliance is a premium collaborative business forum for founders of large-scale corporations, owners of international growth companies and engaged in multiple social impact initiatives around the globe.

    Founders Alliance facilitates a platform for collaboration for founders (members) incl. Founders Groups, one-to-one introductions, closed online communities, international business trips and events (hybrid). 

    The annual Founders World Summit, is the annual culmination delivered for the 8th time September 21-22, 2022 in Stockholm followed by the 21st Founders Awards Gala at the City Hall of Stockholm (Nobel Prize venue).

    Its membership comprises over 300 high performing founders owning over 3000 companies in all parts of the world stretching across all industries and areas of expertise. 

    The core of Founders Alliance is independent from state funding, financial actors, advisory firms and academic institutions. 

    For membership requests please contact niclas.carlsson@foundersalliance.com.

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