The Nordic platform for innovation and entrepreneurship

Techarenan 2024

Techarenan holds several events throughout the year on the theme of innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability. In addition, Sweden’s best companies are recognized in various categories during the Techarenan Challenge.

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Friends Arena, Stockholm
22-23 February

TECHARENAN

Visby, June 25-27 

TECHARENAN

Stockholm, October

TECHARENAN

Annual Dinner

Stockholm, October

TECHARENAN

The Nordic entrepreneurial competition with finals in Almedalen

Connecting changemakers – Inspiring innovation.

Techarenan was founded in 2014 and aims to bring positive change to society by gathering the brightest and most driven business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, industry experts and decision makers to share ideas, know how and create meaningful networks.

The TECHARENA platform in numbers 2023

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Speakers

Selection of previous speakers at Techarenan

Al Gore

Former US Vice President

Jessica Meir

NASA Astronaut

Amit Arora

Professor of AI, Columbia University

Steve Wozniak

Founder, Apple

Jenny Rundbladh

CEO, SPP

Tom Erixon

CEO, Alfa Laval

Romina Pourmokhtari

Minister for the Environment, Sweden

Rebecka Coutaz

VP General Manager, DICE

Susanne Najafi

Founder, Backing Minds

Morten Nyegaard

Head of Nordics, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Tjodolf Sommestad

President, King

Gulfem Toygar

Country Manager, Amazon Sweden

Mike Butcher

Editor-at-large, TechCrunch

Thomas Davin

Director, UNICEF Global Innovation

Hanna Stjärne

CEO, SVT, Swedish National TV

Olga Shikhantsova

Partner, Speedinvest

Annika Winsth

Chief Economist, Nordea

Maya Noël

CEO, France Digitale

Angeliki Dedopoulou

Public Policy Manager AI, Meta

Daniel Akenine

National Technology Officer, Microsoft

Anabel Diaz Calderon

VP EMEA, Uber

Johanna Bergman

Director of Strategic Development, AI Sweden

Tobias Lindh

Managing Director Nordics, Adyen

Anne Lidgard

Director & Senior Advisor, Vinnova

Mats Persson

Minister for Education, Sweden

Ambarish Mitra

Co-Founder, Greyparrot

Lisa Ericsson

Head of KTH Innovation

Vojtech Vosecky

Associate, Circle Economy Foundation

Charlotte Kalin

Public Affairs & Sustainability Director, Coca-Cola

Daniel Sazonov

Deputy Mayor, Helsinki

Jeremy Lamri

CEO, Tomorrow Theory

Podcast & Play

Did you miss any of our panel discussions or podcasts? Listen to them here:

All the interviews from our events

All the panel discussions from our events

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