Join us on a talk on why companies need to reinvent themselves as catalysts for a sustainable future and the leadership required to do so.

About this Event

The global pandemic has created an unprecedented reality that is profoundly impacting our society and economy now and for the foreseeable future. At the same time, a slower, less visible but perhaps even more devastating reality is transpiring with climate change. Never before has it been more crucial to rethink how we conduct business. With industry frontrunners in the Nordics as well as the Pacific Northwest, the event will explore:

• Why companies need to to reinvent themselves as catalysts for a sustainable future.

• How to lead an organization on a sustainable transformation journey.

• How to move from incremental change to exponential impact.

The event will feature two panels: one on sustainable fashion and one on sustainable transport logistics, with invited speakers sharing their leadership experience of driving a sustainable transformation journey.

The event is co-hosted by the Embassy of Sweden (Washington, USA), the Honorary Consulate General of Sweden in San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and the Nordic Innovation House in Silicon Valley.

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Welcome to a workshop about how to transform a process industry or automation company towards using a more data-driven approach. A data-driven approach to drive efficient and responsive production and manufacturing systems is clearly the way forward, but to do so companies need to change the way they work and collaborate. This requires new alliances, new business models and new strategies and methods. In this workshop, forefront industry from the Nordics’ and technology providers from Silicon Valley will ideate around these topics.

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Ari Rantala

Director, Application Engineering – Automation and Digital Solutions at MoGroup

Ari Rantala is experienced in minerals and metals processing on-line analysis, advanced measurements, process control and optimization from technological and business
development, innovation and management perspectives.

Prachi V. Vakharia

Head of Alliances and Strategic Partnerships at Safe AI

Prachi V. works on autonomous vehicles safety standards, V2X technologies, digital and shared mobility projects, and electric mobility services and infrastructure. Previously, she led product and innovation at AES, a Fortune 100 energy firm, in the E-Mobility division and also developed EV standards for Workplaces and Fleets at Forth.

The workshop

Industry companies are now in a better position than ever before to incorporate data into their daily decision-making activities in a meaningful and productive way, creating a more sustainable future. In this second workshop, in a series of activities within the stronghold Nordic IndTech, Nordic industry companies will be given the opportunity to ideate, learn, network, and create partnerships with technology frontiers from Silicon Valley. You will also be able to listen to two keynote speakers sharing best practices based on their knowledge and experience from transforming companies into data driven industry production companies, the benefits and opportunities, what challenges they overcome, and how.

Background

Important decisions that impact process industry and automation should be based on facts, not guesses, wishes, theories or opinions. Today’s emerging technology helps by enabling both people and the equipment to collect and process the facts they need to achieve better results.

The accelerated deployment of technologies such as low-cost sensors and their connection to the internet in combination with high-speed internet (5G) has created a lot of hype about the future of process industry and manufacturing. The Internet of Things (IoT) and its application of big data and analytics has led to the creation of the next generation industries. This involves using data to reduce costs through new age sales and operations planning, dramatically enhanced productivity, supply chain and distribution optimization, and new types of after-sales services with increased knowledge about the end-users and their needs.

Who are you?

You are probably working on a daily basis with strategy related questions, with an interest in industry data analytics and are open for starting interesting collaborations and/or strategic alliances within this field.

About Nordic IndTech

This Nordic IndTech Talk is the second out of a series of events within the Nordic Innovation House Silicon Valley stronghold Nordic IndTech organized by Automation Region and PiiA (the strategic innovation program Process industrial IT & Automation). The aim is to decrease the gap between Nordic world leading process industry and automation companies and tech frontiers from Silicon Valley creating a more sustainable next generation automation together. By combining need owners with automation and tech companies, our goal is to support the industry in the next step of digitalisation.

There is currently a strong interest globally to learn how heavy industry from Sweden works with innovation. PiiA, Automation Region, and Vinnova therefore started a new focus area 2019 in Sweden called Indtech and have under 2020 decided to internationalize this area in collaboration with Nordic Innovation House Silicon Valley and our fellow Nordic countries in Silicon Valley calling it Nordic Indtech with a series of activities planned under 2020 – 2021 under the Nordic Indtech umbrella.

More information:

• PiiA – the strategic innovation program Process industrial IT & Automation →

• Nordic Innovation House Silicon Valley →

• Automation Region →

• Sustainable Manufacturing Finland →

Programme

18:00 – Welcome and intro about Nordic IndTech
18:15 – Keynote Speaker (1) Swedish / Finish Keynote
18:40 – Brainstorming Part 1
19:05 – Break
19.10 – US Keynote speaker
19:20 – Brainstorming Part 2
19:30 – Report out
19.45 – What's next: a common vision
20:00 – Thank you and goodbye

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Fireside chat with industry experts · December 16, 2020

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Warmly welcome to the first Nordic IndTech Talk. Grab your favorite cup of coffee, tea or maybe some Swedish Glögg and enjoy listening in to this fireside chat with industry experts from the Nordics and Silicon Valley moderated by Nordic Innovation House discussing how emerging technologies will transform the industry sector globally, deep-diving into topics such as challenges and opportunities related to gathering, analyzing and leveraging industry data.

Moderated by the Wallenberg Fellow Oscar Mörke from Nordic Innovation House.

Eva Petursson

Research and Innovation Manager, SSAB

As the Research and Innovation Manager at SSAB Eva Petursson works with questions such as how to increase the competitiveness in the market as well as decreasing the climate footprint for SSAB, a field where digital tools are critical to success. Eva Petursson takes the lead on challenges and opportunities related to this field by collaborating with academia, suppliers and customers.

Isha Bhatt

Chief Data Officer at Volvo Cars

Isha Bhatt is a Chief Data Officer at Volvo Cars and heads up the Data and Analytics team. Her team’s purpose is to empower the company to make better products, services & decisions effectively leveraging the power of data and analytics. She believes in an authentic leadership style and is passionate about building products that solve customer pain points.

Björn Jonsson

Hub Manager Northern Europe Process Industries & Head of Industrial Automation Division in Sweden, ABB

Björn Jonsson has worked with industrial automation his entire career. He is currently responsible for the ABB Industrial Automation department in Sweden supporting customers with instruments, automation and optimization of their industrial processes. Besides this, Björn has several board positions. He is on the board of SynerLeap, Svemin and Chairman at Automation Region.

Vahan Tchakerian

Senior VP Global Sales, Cogniac

Cognac AI is a Silicon Valley Scaleup utilising the latest in AI technology to build inspection workflows, Cognac offers enterprise class AI-based Deep Learning software automating visual inspection tasks to human level accuracy and beyond. Vahan Tchakerian serves as Cogniac’s Senior Vice President of Global Sales. Prior to joining Cogniac early 2018, Vahan spent four years at Carl Zeiss where he served as Vice President of Global Sales and Vice President of Industry Sales.

Dave Nakamura

Head of Information Technology, AstraZeneca San Francisco Bay Area 

San Francisco Bay Area Head of IT for AstraZeneca, overseeing R&D and Commercial Operations sites and sits on various internal digital and data consortiums. Currently interested in evolving Data and Innovation strategies and partnering with the AZ Technology Innovation Team in the evaluation of potential technology partnerships.

About Nordic IndTech

This Nordic IndTech Talk is the second out of a series of events within the Nordic Innovation House Silicon Valley stronghold Nordic IndTech organized by Automation Region and PiiA (the strategic innovation program Process industrial IT & Automation). The aim is to decrease the gap between Nordic world leading process industry and automation companies and tech frontiers from Silicon Valley creating a more sustainable next generation automation together. By combining need owners with automation and tech companies, our goal is to support the industry in the next step of digitalisation.

There is currently a strong interest globally to learn how heavy industry from Sweden works with innovation. PiiA, Automation Region, and Vinnova therefore started a new focus area 2019 in Sweden called Indtech and have under 2020 decided to internationalize this area in collaboration with Nordic Innovation House and our fellow Nordic countries in Silicon Valley calling it Nordic Indtech with a series of acitivties planned under 2020 – 2021 under the Nordic Indtech umbrella.

Welcome to a webinar with Nordic Innovation and Vinnova on the theme “The way forward for creating an equal funding system"! Nordic Innovation has since 2018 worked with the process to map the challenges in the Nordics for female entrepreneurs and the best way to lessen the gap. A Nordic Task force for diversity consisting of members from all the Nordic countries have been put in to place, with the aim to make the Nordic innovation ecosystem more gender equal. In June a report “Female Entrepreneurship in the Nordics 2020 - comparative study” was launched to highlight the current entrepreneurial landscape in the Nordics. The study was concluded with measures to stimulate female entrepreneurship.

Now a webinar series is organized by the different Nordic countries with the focus on what we can do to change this trend. A way of finding the way forward together.

During this webinar, Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova is the host and the focus will be at female entrepreneurs access to funding and how we can create an equal funding system. The webinar will be one hour and you will hear key findings from the report and listen to short presentations from actors working to change the numbers. 

Agenda

• Introduction Vinnova

• Introduction Nordic Innovation Task force for Diversity

• Key findings from report by Menon

• 3 examples of the way forward by The Yes Way, Minc (incubator) and Pale Blue dot (VC)

• Questions from the audience

• Wrap up

The webinar will be held in English.

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Nordic Programs and Market Entry Assistance for the US

Interested in growing your company in the United States?

Join us for an informational event with the Nordic Innovation Houses in New York and Silicon Valley, as well as the smart cities program Nordic City Solutions, and the health tech program Nordic AMPlify. 

You will get an overview of the services and programs from each of these Nordic initiatives designed to support your market entry and what to look forward to during the next 3-6 months.  Most importantly, you will learn how you or the startups you work with can easily plug into and access these services and programs virtually and in-person. We can can give you a head-start when expanding to the US!

The virtual event will feature a brief presentation followed by an open Q&A where everyone can participate and directly ask questions most relevant to them.

RSVP to the event here:  https://bit.ly/2IrgIZ6

Featuring US keynote speaker Nathan Lakta & Co-founder of the Danish, Silicon Valley-based start-up Netlify, Christian Bach.

This webinar is for Nordic B2B SaaS start-ups interested in gaining insights from the US SaaS landscape and learning more about what an expansion to the US can look like.

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If the News Media wants to affect the way our reality is presented to us in the future, we need to develop new Journalistic Methods and Forms. What could this mean concretely?

Join our expert speakers from the University of Minnesota Duluth, and Finland's public broadcasting company YLE News Lab, in discussing the role of Journalism, Media Literacy, News Literacy, and AI tools for Privacy, Transparency and Trust in online media.

Agenda:
- Opening words, Thomas Hanson, Diplomat in Residence, University of Minnesota Duluth
- New Tools for Democracy: Combining News Media, AI and UX design, Jarno M. Koponen, Head of AI & Personalization, Yle News Lab
- Panel discussion hosted by Petra Söderling, Senior Advisor, Business Finland

About the speakers:
Thomas Hanson is the Diplomat in Residence, University of Minnesota Duluth, Chair of Committee of Foreign Relations Minnesota, and Board Member at Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights – US Foundation.

Jarno M. Koponen leads teams and builds products that combine media content, artificial intelligence and user experience design. Over the last 10 years he has focused on creating innovative personalized media experiences such as an award-winning edugame Troll Factory, an AI-powered smart news assistant Voitto and a pioneering predictive discovery engine Random/Futureful.

His work has been covered by The New York Times, Fast Company, Vice, Oxford Reuters Institute, NPR, Ars Technica and MIT Technology Review among others. He has written renowned articles about media, artificial intelligence and product design on VentureBeat and TechCrunch.

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Nordic Innovation House-New York kicks off its PropTech program via a virtual event exploring the state of PropTech in New York and how this industry is focusing on new solutions for the future of real estate in the US.  Our panel of PropTech experts will dive into the recent COVID-19 pandemic, it’s affect on the industry, developing trends, and where the opportunities are for startups with PropTech solutions.

This event is free for everyone.  If you’re not currently a member on the Hub or following us on our newsletter, signup is easy and comes with a long list of features and benefits including, network, a comprehensive list of relevant events, personal invitations, educational content, and news on the latest in the Nordic and NYC startup ecosystem.

RSVP to the event here:  https://bit.ly/3klTEZu

To sign up for Nordic Hub access, go to http://hub.nihny.com  today.

9:25-9:30: Closing Remarks

- Kipsum: The solution for energy savings
- Stampyt: Welcome to the digital automotive revolution!
- IRider: Augmented riding is now!
- Heex: Smart Data management software for autonomous driving.
- iXBlue: Robust and accurate georeferencing. Anytime. Anywhere
- Lextan: The future of last mile delivery
- EpicNpoc: Improve user experience
8.45-9.25: French startup pitches:

- Matthieu de Chanville - Managing Director of Alliance Ventures
- Professor Alexandre Bayen - Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
- Ms. Loan My Descourvieres, Group Start Up & Technology Incubator Director, Valeo
- Ms. Mitra Broomand, Associate, Autotech Ventures
8:15-8:45am: Panel session- “Is SV Still the heart of innovation when it comes to Mobility?”
8:05-8:15am: Introduction by Saeed Amidi, CEO and Founder of Plug and Play and the Consul General of France in San Francisco
8:00-8:05am: Welcoming remarks
Agenda

Is Silicon Valley still the heart of innovation in mobility?

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Following the COVID-19 epidemic, passenger transport at sea has faced a challenging market. The cruise and ferry operators are returning to business through revised safety routines and even stricter hygiene onboard.
 
However, many questions on how to best prepare for, and safely operate during and post-pandemic still remain.

Which solutions and practices can mitigate the COVID-19 spreading onboard?

On behalf of Business Finland and the Finnish Marine Industries, we would like to invite you to our webinar “Health at Sea: COVID-19 mitigation through ship design and solutions onboard”.
We have invited topic experts to present their perspective of the COVID-19 risk mitigation onboard.

The webinar will take place on Thursday 3 September 2020 at

• 2PM-3PM CEST (Brussels)

• 3PM-4PM EEST (Helsinki)

• 8AM-9AM EDT (Washington DC)

• 8PM-9PM CST (Shanghai)
  

This webinar is free of charge.

Agenda:

• Opening words: Head of Smart Mobility Program, Ulla Lainio, Business Finlanf

• Shipyard perspective: Future ship modifications to mitigate COVID-19, Carl-Gustaf Rotkirch, CEO, Helsinki Shipyard

• Considerations for future ship design, Head of new technology, Jan-Erik Räsänen, Foreship

• People flow management, Head of Sales, Carlo Ricci, KONE

• UV-technology for cleaning air and surfaces, Director of Business Development, Henrik Hansen, Halton Marine 

The event will be hosted by André Noël Chaker 

Who should join?

Ship owners, operators, yards and suppliers who experience that COVID-19 affects their operations.

Register for the webinar here.

There are been considerable changes over the last few months. As we settle into a new normal, Nordic City Solutions in North America has also had to revise our approach to international business development as we pivot to a more digital method of collaborating to help find business-solutions to urban development challenges.

Join Nordic City Solutions on Wednesday, June 10th for a webinar to outline how Nordic companies can get involved in North American Urban Development projects in 2020.

Webinar times by time-zone: 09:00 EST / 13:00 GMT / 15:00 CEST / 16:00 EEST

The webinar will be hosted by Cisco Webex.

Stanford HAI Live Virtual Event

Two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we see curves flattening and cities lifting shelter restrictions. By no means is this pandemic over; and yet, policymakers, researchers, medical practitioners, and industry are starting to grapple with how we operate in a post-COVID world. What is the path forward, economically, medically, and culturally?

The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence's second virtual conference on COVID will address these questions. Scholars from across disciplines will discuss their research using AI, data science and/or informatics to help us understand how we emerge from this crisis. Sessions will examine, among other topics: Preparing for the 2020 election, protecting privacy during contact tracing, and assessing COVID infections.

Shomit Ghose, Tech investor and Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley, and a great friend of Nordic Innovation House Silicon Valley will be joining the BioInnovation Institute and share his perspectives.

The scope of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a new set of requirements to healthcare practice worldwide. Curve-flattening and non-pharmaceutical intervention have now entered the lexicon and reflect healthcare’s broader need to become more scalable and virtualized. Digital technology innovations will not only help to address COVID-19’s short-term needs, but will also catalyze the development of virtualized solutions for a range of healthcare conditions for our post-COVID future. Innovations in non-contact, digitally-driven healthcare will be among the most impactful and longest-lasting legacies of the COVID-19 crisis.

Read more in this White Paper written by Shomit Ghose.

Agenda

1. Introduction to BioInnovation Institute (BII) – Jens Nielsen, Chief Executive Officer, BII2. Crisis as Catalyst – Shomit Ghose, General Partner, ONSET Ventures3. Supporting health tech start-ups at BII – Markus J. Herrgård, Chief Technical Officer, BII

About Shomit Ghose

Shomit Ghose is a Tech investor and Partner at ONSET Ventures and Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley. Prior to entering venture capital, he was a startup software entrepreneur with a career of operating excellence spanning 19 years. Shomit’s startup roles included three highly successful IPOs as SVP of Operations at Tumbleweed Communications; VP of Worldwide Services at BroadVision; and software engineer at Sun Microsystems. He was also CEO and board member of Truviso, for two years leading to its acquisition by Cisco Systems.

At the age of 15, Shomit was awarded two academic scholarships to the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated with a degree in Computer Science. He serves on the advisory boards of UC Berkeley College of Engineering’s Sutardja Center, Innovation Center Denmark’s ScaleIT program, and the Lundbeck Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship Program.

About BioInnovation Institute

BioInnovation Institute is an international initiative for research-based innovation and entrepreneurship, embracing every phase of a life-science start-up. BII, located in Copenhagen, Denmark, offers start-ups in health tech, bioindustrials and therapeutics state-of-the art lab and office facilities, business acceleration programs, start-up business incubation, commercial support, unique funding opportunities and access to high-level mentoring and international networks. BII is an initiative of the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Read more on www.bioinnovationinstitute.com

During the spring the Climate-KIC SuSMo project will hold a series of online webinars focusing on best practices and the latest topics within shared mobility. On May 19th, Elias Arnestrand, leading the mobility initiative at Nordic Innovation House - Silicon Valley will discuss how to bridge the Silicon Valley mobility ecosystem with Europe.

Agenda

• Introduction

  Axel Persson and Lennart Persson, Trivector

• How to bridge the Silicon Valley mobility ecosystem with Europe?

  Elias Arnestrand – Head of the Future Mobility initiative, Nordic Innovation House in Silicon Valley.

• This is how San Francisco and San José deal with shared mobility – experiences and good practices from the US West Coast

  Alex Demisch, Data Analytics & Strategy Manager, San Francisco MTA
  Ramses Madou, Planning, Policy, and Sustainability, San Jose DOT & Vice-Chair of the Board, Open Mobility Foundation

Ramses Madou and Alex Demisch will present how City of San Jose and City of San Fransisco are approaching shared mobility and emerging modes of transportation on the innovative landscape of the US West Coast. They are both engaged in Open Mobility Foundation and will share their views on the city’s new role in a new digital landscape of shared mobility.

Idean Design Webinar

Orchestrating service experiences with service design

Companies are rapidly shifting and responding to changing customer behaviors. So designing consciously – and more humanly – across different touchpoints is more critical than ever. 

The hardest part in service delivery, be it the optimization or launch of new services, is their orchestration. In order to stay relevant and valuable to our users, we need to keep up with changing expectations and demands.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss how orchestrating tools and moments is a core competency of delivering valuable service experiences.

Firstly, we are responsible for understanding the needs of our users. Secondly, we are accountable to meet those needs with interactions that enable them to achieve their goals and get on with life. 

Orchestrating the tools and moments to support our users requires empathy, collaboration, creativity, and alignment, which results in better experiences and outcomes.

The key takeaways

• What is a "service" & what is service design? 

• The orchestration imperative 

• The frontstage and backstage of service design 

• The value of taking a service design approach to customer experience

Register here: https://www.idean.com/events/service-design-webinar

We‘re excited to join the VIRTUAL Nordic Innovation Summit 2020, a FREE online event May 14 featuring top Nordic and Pacific Northwest leaders on sustainability, growth, and corporate leadership.

For more info and to register: https://www.nordicmuseum.org/innovation. The Summit is an annual event hosted by the National Nordic Museum in Seattle. In the spirit of innovation, the event has pivoted to a 100% virtual format with amazing speakers and panelists. COVID-19 will not stop us from sharing ideas and forging new partnerships to build a stronger, healthier, and more sustainable world. 

We hope you will join us (virtually, of course) on May 14. Register here: https://www.nordicmuseum.org/innovation

Are you a Norwegian company operating in the US, or an American company operating in Norway? Join to hear about COVID-19 relief packages.

Innovation Norway, US Department of Commerce, NACC, AmCham and the Norwegian and US Embassies present and answer questions about how you can find relief in the COVID-19 packages.

Representatives from the following partners will be available to answer questions:

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Embassy and General Consulates)

The US Embassy in Norway

The US Department of Commerce / Select USA

Norwegian American Chambers of Commerce

AmCham in Norway

Innovation Norway

Either watch on this Youtube live stream or  watch this event live on the UC Berkeley Facebook page.

Nordic countries are regularly cited as exemplars of healthy and resilient societies. Join us for a virtual conversation comparing and contrasting the Nordic public health, economic and public policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the responses by Denmark and Sweden, and consider learnings that may be drawn by the U.S. 

Hosted by Dr. Laura Tyson, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, the event will feature Dr. Robert Strand, Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business and leading expert on Nordic sustainable business and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and Dr. Ann Keller, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management and leading expert on pandemic responses.

This event is sponsored by the UC Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business, the UC Berkeley Department of Scandinavian, the Institute of European Studies, the Peder Sather Center, and Nordic Talks at Berkeley.

Norway Talks Future - Today, is a series of talks with high-level speakers discussing how to secure a sustainable path for our common future

About this Event

Event sign-up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/norway-talks-future-today-managing-healthcare-systems-through-a-crisis-tickets-104047789740

Norway Talks Future - Today, is a series of talks co-hosted by the Norwegian Consulate General in San Francisco and Innovation Norway San Francisco & Silicon Valley - Team Norway.

The series includes high-level speakers and attendees discussing how we together can secure a sustainable path for our common future.

On Thursday May 7 we are hosting our first virtual Norway Talks Future - Today talk under the topic, “Managing healthcare systems through a crisis“. We will be speaking with three Health Executives from Norway and the US exploring the current state, key challenges and use of technologies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as their thoughts on preparing for the future.

Host: Jo Sletbak, Norwegian Consul General in San Francisco

Moderator: Åse Pettersen Bailey, Innovation Norway in San Francisco and Silicon Valley

Panel:

Geir Arnhoff, Founder and CEO of Dossier Solutions

Dossier organizes and documents training and knowledge, effectively ensuring operational quality. Dossier assists more than 350 000 healthcare professionals and dozens of healthcare providers in reducing time spent on competency management, while assuring compliance and increasing patient safety.

Torkel Thune, Oslo University Hospital

Torkel is the Manager for IT Sourcing and Services Management and the IT Crisis Manager at the Oslo University Hospital. He is an experienced Information Technology Manager from the hospital, health care and IT industry in Norway.

Yan Chow, (MD, MBA), Healthcare Industry Strategist

Yan has extensive experience in the US Healthcare sector. Some of his previous roles include Director of Innovation and Advanced Technology Group at Kaiser Permanente and Medical Director at Amgen, the world’s largest independent biotechnology firm. Yan is currently the Global healthcare industry leader and strategist for Automation Anywhere, an industry pioneer and global leader in enterprise-grade robotic process automation software.

Sign up today in order to receive a webinar link the day before the webinar. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/norway-talks-future-today-managing-healthcare-systems-through-a-crisis-tickets-104047789740

SACC-USA and the Atlantic Council are hosting a webinar with the Swedish Ambassador Karin Olofsdotter as a keynote speaker. She will give an update on the Swedish approach to the COVID-19 outbreak and how it affects business and trade. Michael Andersson, chairman of SACC-USA, will moderate the discussion. READ MORE HERE: https://www.sacc-sf.org/event/ambassador-karin-olofsdotter-about-swedens-approach-to-the-covid-19-outbreak/

To receive your personal access link to the webinar register here.

Topics

• Why has Sweden chosen a different response to the coronavirus? Will it work?

• What is the impact of CORONA-19 on Swedish Companies in the US?

• How will the virus outbreak affect the current Swedish trade agenda?

• How is the Swedish Embassay working during the crisis?

To receive your personal access link to the webinar register here.

Join the Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce & Team Norway for a webinar on how to navigate challenges relating to COVID-19 shutdowns and manage responsible reopening on both sides of the Atlantic. Read more here: https://www.naccma.org/nacc-webinar?fbclid=IwAR35ann6zJkhxIm0pY0GHSjfRhLDQYfg-Ziee43JON4cmXJwwt5VGbIrtek

Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rQZqYVqDTaqQhTBZ9ZecJw

• How have transatlantic companies managed the legal and business challenges around shutdowns? 

• How are transatlantic businesses managing the prospect of re-opening in Norway and the United States? 

• What are best practices for persevering under shutdown and reopening responsibly?

Moderator

Idar Voldnes, CEO, IntraPoint 

Idar Voldnes is CEO of IntraPoint, a Norwegian and US based software company focused on “Protecting what you care about”. Since 1999, IntraPoint has worked with local and global organizations to develop Incident & Crisis Management plans and response solutions that are now available in the cloud. Idar is also President of the Norwegian American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC

Panelists

Eirik Tord Jensen, President, Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace USA 

Eirik Tord Jensen is responsible for all KDA USA marketing personnel, keeps an oversight over, and facilitates for the business development operations in the U.S. Eirik served in the Royal Norwegian Navy for twelve years. He was educated and served as a radar engineer before graduating from the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy in 1988. He left the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander in 1995 after serving as a commanding officer on different fast patrol boats over the last five years. Eirik has worked within the Norwegian Defense industry for 25 years on both engineering and management level. He has among others served as COO of Teleplan Globe AS and CEO of Saab Technologies Norway AS before joining KONGSBERG as Director Business Development in 2015. He has also served as Chairman and member of the Board of Directors in various defense Norwegian defense companies. Before taking the position as President of KDA USA, Eirik held the position as Executive Vice President Space & Surveillance, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS. In addition to his role at KONGSBERG, Eirik serves as President of Norwegian-American Defense and Homeland Security Council (NADIC) and on the Board of Directors of Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce, Mid-Atlantic Chapter.

Ryan Marth, Partner, Robins Kaplan LLP 

Ryan Marth advises U.S. and international clients on all aspects of their businesses, including contractual relations, distribution, pricing, privacy, protection of intellectual property, and compliance with U.S. and foreign antitrust and competition laws. After serving as a law clerk to Hon. Helen M. Meyer of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Ryan began his career at Robins Kaplan, working under the nation’s premier trial lawyers in the most complex antitrust and commercial cases.Now Ryan continues to use his experience in complex litigation to help clients anticipate business challenges, spot problems before they arise, and avoid conflict and litigation down the road. When conflicts do arise, Ryan has proved his ability to help clients to obtain favorable business results. For example, Ryan was among the lead lawyers for a class of merchants that obtained a $5.54-6.24 billion settlement in an antitrust class action against Visa, MasterCard, and their member banks – the largest such settlement in the history of the antitrust laws. He has also obtained favorable results for smaller businesses, including securing the third-largest ever settlement with the City of St. Paul on behalf of a business owner whose services contract the city breached.

Kaare Risung, Partner, Schjødt DA

Kaare is a telecoms lawyer who works extensively with electronic network contruction, inter-connection and access issues. With the passing of years, focus has increasingly been on the content business on electronic networks, such as content regulation, platform issues, content aquisition, marketing law, IP and privacy.

Kaare follows his clients in the field across their needs, with contracts, regulatory issues as well as transactional work, establishment of JVs and other forms of industry cooperation.

This Webinar is supported by Team Norway

Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington DC

Innovation Norway

The Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce, NACC

The Norwegian-American Defense Industry Council, NADIC

The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco & Silicon Valley host a webinar and Q&A focusing on short-term legal advice, governance, commercial relations for small businesses struggling in the new COVID-19 economy.

Speakers:

• Lars Johansson, JD MSc (ECON.), founding partner, Burks Johansson LLP.

• Sylvia K. Burks, JD, MBA,  founding partner,  Burks Johansson LLP

Burks Johansson LLP  works with entrepreneurs and start-ups, and large multinational corporations, to expand to the US via acquisitions, investments, JVs, distribution arrangements, or via organic business expansion. www.burksjohansson.com.

Read more about SACC-SF/SV here: https://www.sacc-sf.org

Sign up for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legal-advice-that-could-save-your-small-business-in-the-covid-19-economy-tickets-102340761974