The Future of Diversity

The Future of Diversity

Silicon Valley taught Sweden how to build unicorn companies. What can Silicon Valley learn from Sweden about building diverse teams? How do we export our best practices and how do we make diversity and gender equality our greatest asset? Join us for an exciting evening as we gather some of the most passionate people in this area to discuss one of the most important challenges of our time.

Schedule & speakers:

18.00-18.30 Food, drinks & mingle

18.30-18.40 Intro from Silicon Vikings

18.40 Olga Stern, Founder Genews
Genews challenge the way corporate media operate by providing real time data concerning the gender balance in Sweden's major news publications.

19.00 Dajana Vlajic, Project Manager Womengineer
Womengineer is a non-profit organization working to increase the amount of female engineering graduates in Sweden with the goal to achieve equal numbers by 2030.

19.10 Umut Alp, CTO Truecaller
Truecaller has recently emerged as one of Stockholm's most expansive start-ups. CTO Umut Alp will explain how they were able to create the company's technical platform with a team represented by over 40 nationalities from all over the world.

19.30 Sofia Falk, Founder and Creative Director, We Are The Story Doers (formerly Wiminvest)
We Are The Story Doers is focused on hacking the system of undiversified corporate culture and helping companies make meaningful changes that get more women into operative management positions.

19.50-21.00 More mingle & drinks!

We are very excited about this incredible line-up of speakers and look forward to getting professionals from all industries to be inspired to get the conversation going.

Our lovely friends at Spotify are hosting us at their office (Birger Jarlsgatan 61). The Spotify HR team is sponsring with food and drinks for the night.

Please keep your RSVP status updated as we have a limited number of available spots!

Event hashtag: #siliconvikingsSE

Hope to see you there, we can't wait!

/Silicon Vikings Stockholm Chapter