Sweden Innovation Days - Vinnova Silicon Valley Edition

“We need to innovate how we innovate”

Vinnova Silicon Valley’s contribution to Sweden Innovation Days is 7 sessions in 3 days!

Sweden Innovation Days is Sweden's largest global digital innovation event and free of charge for everybody. The conference brings together actors from all around the world to share best practices and experiences with the aim of creating collaborations with the mission to achieve the Global goals. 

Innovation is more important than ever and there is no time to waste! So please join us on this crucial journey!

Tuesday Jan 18

9 AM - 10.30 AM (PST)

PREVENTATIVE HEALTH – WHAT EFFECTS MAY INCREASED COLLABORATION BETWEEN SWEDEN AND CALIFORNIA HAVE ON SOCIETY, AND CAN WE PREVENT PEOPLE FROM BEING SICK.

In this session we will with key note Professor Gunilla Jacobson deep dive into how Stanford is forefront in preventive healthcare with the goal of having no sick patients at Stanford Hospital. Swedish and American researchers within precision health will share insights from an on-going Image Recognition project, which is part of a collaboration between Linköping University and Stanford. The section will end with a high-level discussion about the importance of international collaborations within precision health, with representatives from Linköping University, from the Swedish Life Science office, from the Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova and from Stanford Medicine.

Wednesday Jan 19

9 AM - 09.50 AM (PST)

INDTECH - ACCELERATING THE TRANSITIONS TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE CONNECTED INDUSTRY

Listen in to how Automation Region and the strategic innovation program PiiA, Processindustrial IT & Automation, creates knowledge sharing and collaboration opportunities using a design thinking approach. In the IndTech Silicon Valley project the partners create sparks between Swedish industry and technology software frontiers from Silicon Valley, building a foundation for longterm collaboration. Swedish industry will share their success stories from ongoing collaborations as well as a sneak peak of what is planned ahead for the upcoming year.

Wednesday Jan 19

10 AM - 10.50 AM (PST)

ACCELERATE ELECTRIFICATION THROUGH INNOVATION AND CO-CREATION

Electrification of transportation and construction is a key enabler to reduce carbon emissions and solve our climate challenges. Learn how to co-create innovative solutions within the value chain, and with unexpected partners, to accelerate the electrification of transports and infrastructure.

Wednesday Jan 19

11.00 - 11.50 AM (PST)

CO-CREATION EMERGENCE HAPPENING

The metaverse with its vast interactive digital space is a rich landscape for collective expression and new forms of partnerships. We invite the participants in Sweden Innovation Days to join us in “Emergence”, an online multimedia experience at the intersection of science, art, and technology.

The participants will be able to see and discuss a co-created digital art piece, which is made using selects sent in by the speakers, organizers and participants of the event. The individual pictures are orbited around a black hole before they are placed in the co-created piece. If you would like a photograph of yours to be a part of the co-creation, go to Sweden in Silicon Valley website for instructions on how to submit it.

Thursday Jan 20

08 AM- 08.50 AM (PST)

FUTURES THINKING FOR BUILDING CLIMATE-POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONS: YOUR GUIDE TO ACCELERATING CLIMATE STRATEGY

This session with Institute for the Future will help your organization identify opportunities for transformation that you can act on today to become climate-positive. It will use strategic foresight tools to systematically guide you through the climate crisis and where it fits into your organization’s strategic planning. It will also help you think through what you need to do to build a climate-positive organization for the long term.

THURSDAY JAN 20

09 AM- 09.50 AM (PST)

CYBER CHALLENGES IN FUTURE OF MOBILITY

Autonomous transportation is an evolving ecosystem that increasingly is blurring the boundaries between established industries.

Cybersecurity is a specific and growing challenge that is challenging traditional divisions between public and private and will require new types of collaborations and partnerships.

The purpose of this panel is to highlight the complex cyber challenges that will impact stakeholders in autonomous transport and smart cities.

THURSDAY JAN 20

10 AM- 10.50 AM (PST)

TAKING ON CLIMATE TECH: WHAT CAN SWEDEN AND SILICON VALLEY LEARN FROM EACH OTHER?

Panel discussion on how Sweden and Silicon Valley are seizing the opportunity of climate tech and how we create the right conditions for growth companies to scale solutions for a net-zero transition. The session features investors, accelerators, and climate tech companies in Sweden and Silicon Valley. 

Over the past year, entrepreneurial activity and investments in climate tech have soared to the point that leading investment corporations now expect the next 1,000 billion-dollar start-ups to be in climate tech. Between 2016 and 2021, climate tech start-ups in the U.S. raised the most funding, while their equivalents in Sweden came in third place. The rapidly growing market constitutes an opportunity for investors, entrepreneurs, and societies to couple financial gain with impact – leading to both Sweden and Silicon Valley joining the race to become the capital of climate tech. But how equipped are our ecosystems to foster and scale climate tech companies at the pace needed for net-zero transitions? And how do Sweden and Silicon Valley differ in how the opportunity of climate tech is seized? 

Target groups: Entrepreneurs, investors, accelerators, policymakers, and private- and public sector representatives interested in how to make climate tech happen.