Data & AI Stockholm, Summit 2026

Alysha Adams

OSSA Consultancy / CDW

Alysha Adams is a global people leader, AI strategist, and transformation expert specializing in the human side of AI adoption. With over a decade of experience leading people, culture, and organizational transformation across Fortune 500 technology companies, fintech, and mission-driven organizations, she helps leaders bridge the gap between AI strategy and real-world execution. Her work focuses on designing organizations where people, culture, and operating models evolve alongside AI, ensuring technology creates lasting business impact rather than becoming another failed transformation initiative.

Armin Catovic

Funnel

Armin Catovic is the Director of Data and AI at Funnel, and a Vice Chair at the non-profit Stockholm AI. With 15+ years in tech leadership, he has pioneered ML/AI applications and widespread adoption across legal, venture capital, private equity, news media, marketing, traffic management, and telecom. An alumnus of Swinburne University, he has published in top-tier AI conferences and was named among Sweden's top 100 most influential people in AI, as well as nominated for the AI Professional of the Year.

Baaba Bonuedie

Nordea

Baaba Bonuedie, PhD, is a Senior Data Governance Expert at Nordea Bank, where she helps strengthen enterprise data governance to support trusted data, regulatory compliance, and AI readiness. With experience across financial services, higher education, and the public sector, she specializes in data governance, information management, and responsible AI. An experienced researcher, speaker, and facilitator, Baaba is passionate about helping organizations build governance frameworks that enable trustworthy, scalable AI while balancing innovation, risk, and business value.

Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot

Spotify

Ekaterina Garbaruk Monnot is a technology leader with experience building and scaling products at Spotify, Klarna, and Pleo. She currently leads a department focused on developer productivity and the future of work, helping teams leverage AI to build better products faster. Passionate about leadership, mentoring, and organizational growth, Ekaterina brings a practical perspective on how AI is transforming product development, team collaboration, and the future of building digital products.

Emelie Fågelstedt

Fågelstedt Kommunikation

Emelie Fågelstedt is an independent strategist, entrepreneur, and founder of Fågelstedt Kommunikation, helping organizations navigate digitalization, innovation, and the future of work. She explores how emerging technologies such as AI and XR are transforming the way we work, learn, and collaborate. She is also the founder of Digital Fika, a global networking community, and the initiator of Freelance Mornings. Through her work, Emelie is passionate about building communities, fostering innovation, and supporting the future of flexible work.

Erik Nielsen

Simployer

Erik Nielsen is a Principal Product Designer at Simployer with over 15 years of experience in product design, UX, digital strategy, and innovation. Throughout his career, he has held design and leadership roles at Simployer, Telenor, SSF, Heep, and Teknikmagasinet, helping organizations create intuitive digital products and user-centered experiences. Passionate about the intersection of design, technology, and AI, Erik combines creativity with strategic thinking to build products that solve real user problems and drive meaningful business impact.

Gabriel Moosman

Acast / Omni

Gabriel Moosman leads the Data & Analytics function at Acast, the world's largest independent podcast company, where he drives the end-to-end data platform strategy and recently led the company's transition to Omni. He is passionate about turning data into measurable business value by building trusted, practical data platforms that enable better decision-making. Before Acast, Gabriel spent nearly eight years building and scaling analytics and business intelligence at Epidemic Sound during its rapid global growth. He began his career in New York and London and holds an MS in Quantitative Methods and Modeling from Baruch College, New York.

Joe Welton

OpenAI

Joe Welton leads OpenAI’s Large Enterprise business across the UK, Ireland and Northern Europe, working with some of the region’s largest organisations to move AI from experimentation into practical, company-wide value. Before OpenAI, Joe spent seven and a half years at AWS, where he led the UK Travel & Hospitality business and partnered with customers across start-ups, digital natives and large enterprises. His focus is the operating work behind successful AI adoption: choosing high-value workflows, enabling teams, building governance into delivery and scaling what works. He studied at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

John Wernfeldt

Northridge Analytics

John Wernfeldt is Managing Director at Northridge Analytics and President of DAMA Sweden. He helps CDOs and senior data leaders build trusted data foundations that enable AI, improve decision-making, and create lasting business value. With a background spanning Gartner, Capgemini Invent, and KPMG, John specializes in practical data governance, data strategy, and analytics. He is known for helping organizations move from fragmented data to trusted, scalable foundations for analytics and AI.

Jonas Björk

Lovable

Jonas Björk is a technology leader with a passion for data and the systems that turn it into impact. His background spans the full data stack, from infrastructure and platform architecture to analytics, machine learning, AI, and product development. Throughout his career, he has focused on building systems that scale, whether infrastructure, products, teams, or organizations. He enjoys working at the intersection of engineering, product, data, and AI.

Karima Makrof

AKLYON Consulting

Karima Makrof is the Founder and Chief Adviser – Data Governance at AKLYON Consulting and a Senior Manager at PwC Sweden's Chief Data Office. With over 20 years of international experience, she helps organizations build practical data governance that strengthens decision-making, accountability, and responsible AI. Karima is the author of The Confidence to Act and a frequent international speaker, moderator, and mentor, known for making complex governance topics practical and accessible.

Karin Håkansson

Adapteo Group

Data foundation in the AI era. 20+ years of experience helping organizations turn data into business value. Karin Håkansson's background spans the Toyota Production System, software development, data quality, and enterprise data. Today she focuses on building trusted data and AI foundations by connecting data, knowledge, governance, and organizational design.

Luis Martinez

TELETID

Luis Martinez, PhD, is an AI Governance expert, independent consultant, and founder of TELETID. With over a decade of experience, he helps organizations build trusted AI governance frameworks that bridge technology, business, and regulation. A contributor to the EU AI Harmonized Standards (CEN-CENELEC) and Sweden's AI standardization efforts at SIS, Luis has held senior AI governance roles at ASSA ABLOY, Volvo Cars, and Ericsson. He was named Sweden's Responsible AI Professional of the Year 2024 and currently leads AI governance initiatives at Utbetalningsmyndigheten.

Neelima Misra

DaasTek

Neelima Misra is a Data & AI Transformation Leader with over 26 years of experience helping global organizations deliver business value through data, AI, and digital transformation. She has held leadership roles at Microsoft, Accenture, Cognizant, HCL, Pitney Bowes, and Centigo, driving large-scale enterprise initiatives across industries. Passionate about responsible AI, data mesh, and enterprise architecture, Neelima combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to build scalable, ethical, and future-ready data and AI ecosystems.

Robert Sahlin

Supercargo

Robert Sahlin has 15 years of experience building and scaling data platforms exclusively on Google Cloud Platform. As a Google Developer Expert (cloud), his technical focus is on Agent-Native Engineering, Data Contracts and Data Mesh architectures. He is currently developing Supercargo.dev, a headless, GCP-native data governance layer designed to help organizations build and govern data products in the agentic coding era. In addition to product development and strategic consulting, he writes actively about agentic data platform engineering on LinkedIn and Substack.

Sanna Kuoppamäki

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sanna Kuoppamäki is an Associate Professor and Docent in Technology and Health at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on human-centered AI, digital health, social robotics, and wearable technologies, exploring how AI can support healthier lives and better healthcare. She leads interdisciplinary research at the intersection of AI and healthcare and is widely recognized for her work on inclusive technology design, digital health, and responsible innovation.

Varun Atrey

Legora

Varun Atrey is Product Marketing Director at Legora, the world's fastest growing enterprise AI company where his work spans go-to-market strategy for the Legora Agent, consumption-based pricing among many other things. Before Legora, Varun held marketing and product roles at Visa, Tink, Rebtel, and Furhat Robotics, spanning fintech, telecom, and robotics. He's a seasoned marketer and self-described product-nerd with a track record of translating complex technical capabilities into clear market narratives.