Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs, as of Aug 27th 2022, responsible for accelerating digital infrastructure to enable data-driven collaboration in multiple domains, promoting data-sharing in the private sector for public benefit, and cultivating digital literacy.

Previously, Audrey was minister without portfolio, responsible for formulating Taiwan's policy on open government, social innovation and youth engagement. She also served on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and the 12-year basic education curriculum committee; and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project.

In the private sector, Audrey worked as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography, and with Socialtext on social interaction design.

In the social sector, Audrey actively contributes to g0v (“gov zero”), a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society, with the call to “fork the government."

Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.

Petro Darmoris is Board Member at Social Economy Europe, and the Ukrainian Social Academy. For more than 8 years Petro has been helping Ukrainian social economy entities, especially social entrepreneurs in conducting diagnostics, strategic and operational planning, designing business models, and business development. He has helped more than 50 social startups to launch and scale their social businesses in Ukraine.

Petro graduated from the Lviv Business School at the Ukrainian Catholic University and the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School. His master’s degrees he obtained at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine), and the Catholic University of Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).

Pia Sandvik, CEO of RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, is born in Ludvika and holds an MSc in mechanical engineering from Linköping University.

Pia Sandvik, PhD and Associate professor in Quality Control Technology, has previously been President at Luleå University of Technology and CEO of Länsförsäkringar Jämtland. She is Board Chairman of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, board member of EIT (The European Institute of Innovation and Technology), Almi AB and Prevas AB and a member of the IVA division XI Education and Research Policy.

Vivek heads the Employment and Entrepreneurship Portfolio at the IKEA Foundation, where he is
guiding strategy, managing programs and partnerships. Vivek is a development professional with
over two decades of experience in planning, strategy development, designing and execution of
large-scale development programs.

In the past he has worked with the Aga Khan Foundation, Plan
International and Nielsen and led country programs and initiatives on sustainable livelihoods,
multi-sector programming and civil society strengthening. He has been working with diverse
partners and programs in complex environments, involving multiple stakeholders, across Africa,
Asia and Europe. Vivek holds a Master’s degree in Social Policy and Development from the London
School of Economics and Political Science.

Jakob Wernerman is the Director of Humanitarian Assistance at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). He leads a team of more than 35 staff members in Stockholm who oversee and manage Sida’s annual humanitarian allocation which in 2022 amounts to over 5 billion Swedish kronor in some 33 humanitarian crises worldwide. Jakob has also a background as both a technical expert and as a manager in humanitarian affairs, emergency preparedness and disaster risk reduction from various different roles within the UN-system.

Hedda Pahlson-Moller is a private investor, independent board director, strategic advisor and adjunct professor committed to catalyzing a systemic shift towards impact finance and responsible business. 

Bridging both practitioner and academic fields and leveraging critical lenses of social justice, diversity and planetary health for a just transition through TIIME.org.

Peter Surek (44) is Head of Social banking at Erste Group and CEO of Erste Social Finance Holding. He is a retail and social banker with 20+ years of experience in different Central and Eastern European (CEE) markets. Since 2013 he leads at Erste Group Social Banking development and within the last years he has consistently implemented social banking in all Erste core markets, building thus Europe-wide unique platform for financial inclusion. In 2019 – 2021 he acted as member of European Microfinance Network’s Board of Directors and since 2021 he is member of InvestEU Investment Commitee.

Tove Chevalley, an experience innovation and transformation leader with experience from working within world leading brands as well as start ups and consultancy.

Currently as Head of Electrolux Global Innovation Hub she leads an international and networked team with the aim to positively challenge conventional thinking and rethink the way we cook, care for our clothes and the wellbeing of our homes, all for a better and more sustainable future.

From failure, success and collaboration she has learned what is needed and what it takes to move people, teams and companies through change and innovate for a sustainable future that looks vastly different than their past and present.

Michelle Ndebele leads the Play for All accelerator at LEGO Foundation, a program that provides technical and financial support to startups who are developing or scaling innovations to support neurodivergent children all around the world. Michelle believes that social challenges require the attention of all sectors. In her career she has developed and implemented strategies that bring together the private, public, and social sectors to find innovative solutions that bring more and better opportunities for underrepresented populations. In her role, Michelle will continue to look for new ways for the LEGO Foundation to contribute positively to the lives of children using innovative and impactful Learning through Play approaches, with a focus on supporting and uplifting underrepresented children.

Michelle is an art lover, particularly East and Southern African contemporary art. When she has time, Michelle makes loom woven jewellery using Japanese glass beads. Home for her, her husband, and their 3-year old twins, is now Billund, Denmark.

Torun Litzén is the Director of Corporate Communications at Kinnevik, one of the founding partners of Reach for Change. Through Kinnevik, Torun has been involved in reach for Change since its inception and she is now the Chairman of the Board. Torun holds a degree in business administration form Stockholm School of Economics.

Franz Josef Allmayer is a serial entrepreneur and regenerative practitioner, he serves as a founding member and co-creator at Integrity.Earth, a digital venture cooperative with seat in Liechtenstein; SEEDS, a financial ecosystem and better-than-free currency giving value to regenerative market forces; Hypha, a human-centered DAO building the tools to organize and scale new economic and governance systems; COOPAEP a digital cooperative bank leveraging innovative structured finance to fund the transition towards a regenerative civilization, and more.

Reshaping and repurposing money such that it serves a world in which people and the planet thrive, motivates Franz to create the tools, processes, and on the ground collaborations to support the development of bioregional economies of abundance.

Zara Zamani is a technologist ‍ a blockchain expert & architect, and a digital transformation strategist. She has both practical and theoretical knowledge with multiple years of experience in designing blockchain platforms in tourism, fintech, healthcare, logistics, and energy distribution industries. She is also a lecturer and researcher in the adoption of blockchain in small and medium enterprises at Halmstad University, Sweden.

She has more than 10 years of experience in entrepreneurship in IT and has worked in more than 12 countries. Their international and diverse tech experience has made her a thought leader in emerging technologies and was among the 21 women in the blockchain you should know in 2021 by fintech review plus the top 50 most influential women on LinkedIn in 2019 and The 10 Most Inspiring Women Leaders to Follow in 2022. She currently works at ChromaWay AB as the Chief Solutions Officer.

Shane O’Connor is an Innovation Manager, Ventures, at UNICEF’s Office of Innovation. With the team, he explores how emerging technologies, such as blockchain, drones, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence and data science, in billion-dollar markets can intersect with the needs of a billion people, and co-creates and integrates new practices toaccelerate UNICEF’s impact for children. Previously, Shane led Technology for Development (T4D) and Innovation efforts for UNICEF in Sierra Leone. To support operational and programme work, Shane integrated the use of CDR-based mobility mapping to predict the spread of Ebola; launched West Africa’s first Drones for Good Corridor; and enhanced the Government’s use of Machine Learning and Data Science toward improved data for decision-making. Before joining UNICEF, Shane was CTO, Deputy MD, and Co-Founder of a mobile financial services platform. He currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and children

Caroline Stiernstedt Sahlborn has approx 25 years of experience in strategic and operational management for private, public and non-governmental organizations, with expert knowledge within change management and process design. Caroline has created, led and implemented various development processes, leadership and entrepreneurship programs, conferences and workshops both in Sweden and internationally.

She is a partner at the Inner Foundation and serves on the board for Inner Development Goals and Ekskäret Foundation. Her purpose is to contribute to inner health, human development and better collective leadership, leading to new solutions to the problems we can not solve by ourselves.

Jenny Elfsberg is head of Vinnova’s Innovation Management Division in Stockholm, Sweden. Vinnova is Sweden’s innovation agency charged with building Sweden's innovation capacity and contributing to sustainable growth. Jennys previous position was head of Volvo Group’s innovation hub in Silicon Valley during the first two years, establishing the hub and overseeing its operations. Prior to that, from 2009 to 2018, she held the position of Director of Emerging Technologies & Innovation within Volvo Construction Equipment. Jenny has extensive experience of leadership within R&D and her main focus during the last 10+ years has been technology exploration and development, assessment and improvement of the innovative capability of large global organizations, foresight and future scenario development, front-end innovation collaboration and co-creating with external industry and academic partners. She holds a licentiate in engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology.

Ebba Theding is a financial expert who has a unique combination of knowledge of traditional finance and blockchain technology. She graduated from Linköping University with a Master of Science in Business and Administration; International Business Programme, her master thesis was on “Brands – Invaluable Assets?” She has volunteered as a board member at the SE Forum, Scouterna, and SingularityU Nordic.

After completing MIT Sloan Blockchain Technologies, Business Innovation, and Application, she became a board member at Antler Interactive. Ebba has also been a member of Linköping University Board. Her previous positions include the position of CFO at Mindshare Sweden, Starcom Sweden, IUM Sweden, and CEO at Oscar & Clothilde. She is a founding board member at Fieldstream with the experience of being co-owner at CapChap.

Ebba is currently the Chief Financial Officer of ChromaWay AB, pioneering the blockchain field since 2014.

David Collste is a postdoctoral researcher at the Planetary Boundaries group. He studies feedback between human development, the economy, and planetary boundaries. Collste has a background in system dynamics, economics, political science, and resilience thinking.

Collste co-leads the graduate module on systems thinking of Stockholm Resilience Centre’s Master’s programme and leads an undergraduate course in ecological economics. Collste has worked on the project Economy and finance for a just future on a thriving planet commissioned by the Swedish Ministry of Environment for the United Nations meeting Stockholm+50 in 2022. Collste holds a joint PhD degree in Sustainability Science and Economics.

Pär Andersson is Head of Equities at Spiltan Fonder. Spiltan Fonder started out in 2002 with an AUM of 10 million SEK and today manage over 80 000million SEK and is a well-known and appreciated fund manager in Sweden. Spiltan Fonder has received several awards for successful asset management over the years. Pär Andersson joined Spiltan Fonder in 2008 and has managed Spiltan Småbolagsfond and Spiltan Aktiefond Småland since then. Pär Andersson has a degree from the University of Lund (finance & economics), holds a CEFA and has worked within finance since 1994.

Fadi Barakat holds a masters in Biomedicine as well as Organisation & Leadership. After struggling to find work in his field of study, he understood that the city he loves has a problem with diversity in the work place. Since then he has committed himself to fight for greater opportunities for other minorities like himself.

He has twice been nominated as a leader in diversity at the Malmö city business awards and at a national level with his work at Manpower and more recently Malmö Stad. He is the Co-founder of Swedens first international business incubator Level and a board member of the Swedish Red Cross

Heaven Bereket is the Founding Trustee of Pangea Trust catalyzing innovation through social businesses that stimulate the economy in Africa by creating enabling environment to harness skills, provide technical expertise and capital, spur and accelerate social-economic transformation, increase job creation, and improve the quality of life at the base of the pyramid. Heaven also serves as Boardmember and investor. Heaven's journey started in 2011 as a pharmacist who later became Keynote Speaker, tech-entrepreneur, investor, bitcoin enthusiast, trading school founder, and the heart and brains behind Bambino Foundation.

Binette was born in Stockholm with parents from Senegal, being raised partially in Dakar as well as in one of Stockholm’s most vulnerable areas. She is the creator of successful concepts such as Space Academy at Space, and Concept Leader/Co-Founder of ChangersTech powered by Changers Hub.

She is also the official partner at iCog Anyone Can Code, an Ethiopian based EdTech company which has taught programming to nearly 30,000 - 25 percent of which have gone on to become entrepreneurs in tech

Lykke Westgren works as Investment Manager and Head of Sustainability at Nicoya, an investment company focusing on foodtech as a mean to transform the global food system. In her role Lykke explores and evaluates new potential investments as well as manages the portfolio’s sustainability strategy.

Lykke brings experience from The Royal Institute of Technology where she previously worked as business coach for impact start-ups. She has also worked 10 year+ in the food industry and adjacent industries. Lykke holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a MSc in Bioengineering from Lund University

Maria has 20+ years of experience working with sustainability in food retail, industry and service sector. She holds a M.SC. in Chemical Engineering and executive MBA. After working as a sustainability manager and a management consultant, she is since three years acting as the Secretary general of Axfoundation – a do-tank and a stand-alone, non-profit organization developing practical and innovative solutions to complex sustainability challenges.

Amma Gyampo is an African Venture Philanthropy, Social Enterprise, Impact Investing and Social Enterprise advocate. She is a Co-founder and current CEO of ScaleUp Africa, an Entrepreneurship Support Organisation which helps large, global organizations achieve better Socio-Economic Impact outcomes through the design and implementation of strategic initiatives. ScaleUp Africa designs and implements SME and Gender focused programmes for clients including UNDP, Access Bank, Mastercard Foundation, GIZ and the EU. She is also a Founding Member of Impact Impact Investing Ghana, Ghana’s National Advisory Board (NAB) on Impact Investing.

As an active Ecosystem Builder, she is committed to supporting young entrepreneurs in Africa through programmes with Ashesi University and Founder Institute Ghana. She is also an Advisor to Pan-African Entrepreneurial development initiatives like Africa Scalecraft https://www.africanscalecraft.com/team-advisors with some of Africa’s leading investors and most impactful entrepreneurs.

One of the star judges on European Union funded, GHOne TV entrepreneurship show in Ghana, "The Circular Economy Competition", Amma's portfolio career spans 20 years across EMEA Region with myriad consulting projects including Strategic Advisory, Board Member and Programme Management roles for myriad organisations in Africa and Europe including:
-TROTRO Tractor – Board of Directors
-Reach for Change -Global Advisory Board
-Maanch UK - Impact Advisory Board
-BlackBerry
-Vodafone
-Ghana's Ministry of Youth and Sports: Ministerial Sub-Committees on Youth, Sports Tourism, Job Creation, Gender, Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship

Amma is also a thought-leader with various features in TEDx, BBC, Business Insider Africa, Quartz Africa, Forbes, Africa.com and Entrepreneur.com.

Mattis Bergquist, Head of Sustainability at Coop Sweden has been working with sustainability and business development for over 20 years. During the breakout 'Food choices for the future' he will share his knowledge and experience, and also describe how Coop is working with complexity in sustainability.

Ingrid Mellstig is Head of Electrolux Food Foundation.

Mother of four, who has been in international communications positions for over three decades. Passionate about food and sustainability opportunities, I believe in partnering for the Goals. Cannot wait to do further good for people, business and planet!

Anders’ core area of expertise is how to utilise materials and resource management for business intelligence, innovation management and sustainable strategies to leverage corporate branding and competitiveness. He has devoted his professional life to mapping, scouting, sourcing, implementing and designing sustainable, innovative and advanced materials and production techniques for Avant-garde Unicorns and Fortune 500 companies cross market. After 18 years of working as a consultant, he founded the fast growing biotech company PaperShell based on his knowledge about the demand for sustainable materials and the lack of viable large-scale solutions.

PaperShell believes that the answer to the climate crisis and sustainable management of resources is found in nature. That’s why they’re building paper back into a more dynamic version of wood. The result? A 100% fossil free natural composite that is moisture resistant, doesn’t burn and is much stronger than ordinary press moulded wood veneer and plastics. Enabling them to create durable, precision components that store bio-carbon instead of wasting it on single-use items or biofuels. PaperShell is slowing down the paper-cycle and paying tribute to the high-tech possibilities found naturally in forests.

Bennet Barth is the Program Lead at BMW Foundation/RESPOND and drives the strategic development and implementation of the BMW Foundation’s work around business, innovation and technology. Bennet is also part of the Foundation’s investment team, where he manages an international portfolio of impact investments and supports the foundations programmatic work around Sustainable Finance.

Before joining the BMW Foundation, Bennet worked at MAZE in Lisbon, where he, alongside entrepreneurs and investors, sought to scale impactful and effective solutions to social and ecological challenges. In this capacity, he supported the set-up and fundraising, advised several impact enterprises and, through various joint publications with international partners, contributed to building the impact investing ecosystem in Europe.

Bennet studied industrial engineering and management with a focus on mechanical engineering (B.Sc.) and economics (M.Sc.) in Berlin and Lisbon. In previous roles Bennet worked in development cooperation in renewable energy projects in Asia and West Africa.

Leah is passionate about working at the intersection of entrepreneurship and impact, currently doing so at RESPOND, a program run by the BMW Foundation where she manages event partnerships and engagements for the RESPOND start-ups and community. She previously managed an internationally operating incubator program based in Amsterdam for entrepreneurs with a refugee background, named Forward Inc.

She has an academic background in Global Business and Sustainability with degrees from Rotterdam School of Management and Maastricht University. Leah is always eager to learn about new developments in the impact and regenerative economy sector and expand her knowledge and.network in the field

Kassim Nagwere felt early on that he had what it takes to make a difference in society. After some of his friends ended up in the wrong crowd, Kassim started Drömstort to help young people reach their full potential and to create the right conditions for young people to get out of exclusion. His self-confidence grew after he had managed to lead Uganda and Sweden, two national basketball teams with cultural differences, to championship level.

Drömstort has several youth centers that inspire young people to be active and do something with their lives. The organisation focuses on leadership, education, jobs and meaningful leisure time and specializes in reaching troubled youth with fun and creative activities. Drömstort is part of the Incubator for social entrepreneurs of Reach for Change.

Adji Joof is a 22 year old musician born in Sweden. Her parents come from Gambia and Senegal. She started to dance and perform when she was small and has now released her first single "Lowkey" in 2021. She has participated in several music videos, concert openings and shows. Right now she is dedicated to music and has several singles on its way. To follow her you can find her on all platforms by the name Adji Joof.

Sofia Breitholtz is CEO at Reach for Change. She has previous experience from strategy and management consulting with EY and Ben & Jerry’s, experience from development cooperation with the EU in Southern Africa and social entrepreneurship as Deputy CEO of Solvatten. Sofia is a true activist who believes in the power of bringing diverse sectors and perspectives together to solve global challenges, and has a passion for our most important resource - our children, inspirational women and empathetic leadership.

Leila is a host and moderator who contributes a lot of energy and reflection from the stage. She has a strong interest and commitment for topics surrounding inclusion and democracy. Leila has in recent years been a television presenter at SVT and UR and this is the second time she's hosting Partnering for Change.