Ola Ahlvarsson, host

Ola Ahlvarsson, the former world champion in Kickboxing turned serial entrepreneur and founder of Result that has helped more than 200 Internet companies grow internationally the last ten years. Ola is also the chairman of SIME.

Johan Jorgensen, CEO Voxbiblia

Johan is one of the longest serving entrepreneurs in the Swedish Internet sector, as well as a former journalist and commentator on all things digital. Since 10 years he runs Voxbiblia, a company that builds unique systems and methods for digital Bible publishing, be it text or audio or combinations of the two. The systems are both provided under the own brands of biblesearch.org, voxbiblia.se, voxbiblia.co.uk and voxbiblia.com, as well as to partners under their respective brands. He also serves on several boards and is a partner of the investment company Grädde Invest. He can be reached at johan@voxbiblia.com.

Maks Giordano

Maks Giordano is the founder and managing partner of juuman ' okudo, a specialized consultancy for Social Media and the creation of Mobile Services and - Applications. 

He is active in the Digital Arena since the early nineties. 

Before founding juuman´okudo earlier in 2010, Maks worked for KYTE, the mobile, online and social video platform as their managing director for Germany and was a Member of the Management Board of SevenOne Intermedia, the multimedia unit of the ProSiebenSat1 Network, a Pan-European Media House in 12 Countries. He was responsible for the Mobile and Games Unit and in charge of Innovation for the Group.

Maks holds an MBA in Media & Communication from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland and wrote his MBA Thesis about "Mobile Gaming". He taught Mobile Business and Innovation Management at the Universities of Applied Sciences in Berlin and in Dornbirn/Austria. He published books about "Mobile Business"  and "Usability" and was a judge to the "One Show New York" and the "Webbys". He lives and works with the Help of Lufthansa between San Francisco, Berlin, Munich and Lake Constance and enjoys to meet friends in a very analogue way.

Bob Stumpel

Bob is a business strategist and advisor. He has built two advertising agency groups, developing both to a level of biggest independent agency in the Benelux, and then merging them into international agency networks. He is a board member at Result, an international group of growth experts, also running their Dutch operation. Bob is a long time pioneer in helping marketers to innovate or integrate new technologies, new media and new channels to enhance or revive their marketing and communication routines.

Joakim Jardenberg

Joakim has been working in the borderland of new and old media since he set up the first server on aftonbladet.se in 1994, and seen them grow to a massive site in both numbers and attention. He is a wizkid, a guru, a rebell (officially by Apple) and a pain in the ass (semi-official and with lot's of love by Google).

Always with one leg in userland, one in technology and one in the business model he has been involved in painting the map of the digital landscape in for 15 years now. And I still love it. He is also a small investor, senior advisor and board member in everything from startups to highly mature companies.

Mohamed El-Fatatry, Founder & CEO, Muxlim Inc.

World's top evangelist for the $1 trillion global Muslim consumer market. Visionary entrepreneur and motivational speaker with a background in Media, Technology and Business. One of the world’s “500 Most Influential Muslims” and “Leaders of Tomorrow”.

At 16, Mohamed became the youngest higher-education instructor in the history of the United Arab Emirates by creating and teaching the web development course at the Emirates Institute of Technology. By 21, he founded Muxlim Inc., the world’s largest Muslim lifestyle network reaching tens of millions of people in 190 countries.

Rupert Schäfer

Rupert has more than 10 years experience in the field of technology, internet, media, entrepreneurship, venture capital and conference design. Rupert is a true online expert. He lives and breathes the digital lifestyle. He was producer of the DLD (Digital Life Design) conference from 2005-2010 – the most important tech and design conference in Europe. Besides DLD, he was working for DLD Media & DLD Ventures - of Hubert Burda Media, one of Europe ́s largest and most innovative media corporations. Currently Rupert is the german managing partner of Result.com, a international firm with specialized on growth advisory, internationalization, internet strategy and M&A consulting.

Rupert is a frequent speaker, moderator, lecturer and start-up jury member in conferences and industry events.

Therese Engström

Therese Engström has many years’ experience of working with intercultural communication both in the non-profit and the business sector in Paris, New York, London, Geneva and in field, mainly in Africa for various NGO’s.

Besides from her work in the non-profit sector, as Officer for emergency operations in West Africa for the International Red Cross (IFRC), as project manager with mine and cluster bombs at the Swedish UN Association and with the ICT non-profit Lifeline www.lifelineenergy.org, working with media to reach the poorest of the poor in developing countries, Therese has further worked as Key Account Manager at the company that builds Absolut Vodka’s global image, KNOCK, as Sales and Sponsorship Director for the World Travel Awards and with climate change for Respect.

Her experience from different sectors has given her the ability to speak both business and non-profit ”languages”, which is crucial to SIME Non-Profit as one of it's goals is to mix and match these worlds and bring forward best practice from both.

Therese has a BA in International Corporate Communications, Political Science and Journalism from The American University of Paris, France. She has also studied in Madrid, Lisbon and in Cambridge, England.

Terhi Paananen

Terhi Paananen is a social media training coordinator, former confirmation training pastorand author of several books on youth work. She has been a social media active since she started blogging in 2006, Facebooking on 2007 and tweeting in 2009. She believes crowdsourcing can change the world for better but we can only do it together.

Pasi Ilola

Pasi Ilola is the CEO of Planetify, which helps companies to grow their online businesses globally. Pasi has been building online communities and social networks for the past 15 years. Pasi managed marketing globally for the Habbo Hotel virtual world, growing it past 100 million registered users, and built a virtual world called Virtual Magic Kingdom for the Walt Disney Company. He also founded a digital agency called Frantic, which he led as CEO for seven years, and most recently he was CEO of Suomi24, the largest social network in Finland.

Daniel Daboczy

Daniel Daboczy has a background as a curator and producer from the contemporary art-field with exhibitions marked as top ten worldwide three years in a row and has during the last 3 years successfully changed career and built a web-agency with a reward winning online videoplayer that uses depth and beauty as it's primary visual effect.

During his entire career he's been focused on putting his energy, networks and knowledge into good use and see if this can affect or change our society. Since he believes that knowledge wants to bee free and that we together can build paradigm shifting platforms he's been developing numerous campaigns and platforms for these purposes.

He's currently running the first Nordic crowdfunding platform called Funded By Me that aims to help projects, ideas and companies towards realizing their goals on a very early stage. Still at an early stage it proves to be a success and has during the last days opened in Norwegian with the aim to make it fully Nordic within this year.