The Journey to CTO and Gender Diversity

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26 October 2021 16:00-18:30Veras Gräsmatta

The CTO

Grab a drink and meet some of the best CTOs out there right now, for an evening deep dive into tech’s most mythical role.

The ’Woz’ still stands as a father figure - Steve Wozniak represents to many the ultimate CTO; heart and brain in place, always innovative, could pull insane hours - but who are the legends of tomorrow? How has the role changed? And why is there still so few women ”wozes” out there? The role of the CTO is more relevant now than ever given the speed of digital innovation and tech startups shaping and influencing whole industries.

Welcome to meet some of the most exciting CTOs of Sweden for an after work debate on future technology, business impact and gender diversity.

After Work, Live Audience Q&A
Moderators: Jennifer Grönqvist, Future strategist & co-founder WIT Venture Studio, Malin Frithiofsson, Investor & Founder of WIT Venture Studio

Guests:
- Emma Rosell, Head of Tech, NetClean Technologies

- Johanna Björklund, CTO, Adlede

- Maria Hall, CTO, Joint Academy

- Oskar Hagberg, CTO the Techno Creatives

- Martin Lannsjö, Solutions Architect, Matic Tribe

- Calle Rynning, Solutions Architect, Matic Tribe

- Maximilian Gustafsson, Head of Development, QueensLab

- Rebecka Wedlund, CTO, Groowytech

- Frida Persson, CTO Mycorena

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Speakers

Oskar Hagberg

Oskar Hagberg has a background as software engineer and has more than 15 years of experience in digital product development. He works as CTO at The Techno Creatives, where he has built a highly performant team of developers from all over the world. Through the company's growth journey, Oskar has had a wide range of responsibilities, including development, recruitment, sales, team growth, company strategy and IT support - always with an entrepreneurial mindset and challenging the assumptions of what is possible.

Frida Persson

Frida has a background in Biotechnology from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, with a focus on Food, Nutrition and Sustainability. She works as the Chief Technology Officer at Mycorena AB, but she has been part of the journey since the beginning. She started as a R&D Engineer, working mainly in the lab to develop and optimize Mycorena's fermentation process on a small scale. Since then, she has been part of an extensive expansion phase and I'm currently in the project group planning our first production facility that will produce thousands of tonnes of our product every year.

Johanna Björklund

Johanna Björklund is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University. Her research is on semantic, or human-like, analysis of multimodal data, incorporating, e.g., images, audio, video, and text. She is also a co-founder and CTO of the media tech companies Codemill, Adlede, and Accurate Player, which deliver products and services for the media supply chain and count ITV, BBC, and ProSieben among their customers.

Martin Lannsjö

Martin Lannsjö is a solutions architect that started his career as a developer at Lunarstorm 15 years ago. Since then, he has been helping small startups and large enterprise companies with solutions design and digital strategies. Nowdays, he is trying to change the way people experience mobility within the automotive industry.

Carl Rynning

Carl Rynning is a technologist with special interest around the combination of solution architecture design and business development. Been part of the start-up scene since 2015 and failed a handful of start-ups up to this date.

Emma Rosell

Emma Rosell is the CTO of NetClean, a tech company that develops world-leading software products to protect businesses' IT environments against child sexual abuse material. Emma is leading the R&D department, responsible for outlining the company's technology and product vision and ensuring that teams and priorities are aligned with NetClean’s business needs and strategies. Emma has a passion for developing high-performing teams and has several years of leadership experience in tech and product development, most recently as CTO for a low code platform company.

Maria Hall

Maria Hall is the Chief Technology Officer of Joint Academy, the digital clinic that offers online treatment for chronic joint pain. Maria has long experience of building and running engineering teams at fast-growing technology companies and has previously served as the CTO at both Prisjakt and Zmarta, two award-winnings scaleups. At Joint Academy, Maria is running the 50+ person strong engineering team that ensures that tens of thousands of patients across five markets have access to their chronic joint pain treatment through their phone. Apart from purpose-driven technology, Maria is passionate about building strong company cultures that foster innovation and new strands of thought.

Maximilian Gustafsson

Maximilian has been a software developer at Queenslab since the start at Drottninggatan.He is currently managing Queenslabs ALM, Application Lifecycle Management as a service, where a team of passionate engineers helps our customer deploy and manage complex applications. Primarily focused on DevOps and Kubernetes Maximilian is committed to deliver a performant and resilient solution while maintaining costs.

Rebecka Wedlund

Rebecka is an ex programmer turned business developer turned entrepreneur. She has a background working with product and business development in roles ranging from systems developer to team lead to company manager and CEO, giving her a unique competence that combines business savvy with a strong technical understanding. Today she works as an independent contractor on the side, while building a femtech startup focused on women's health after childbirth. Her passion lies in helping women turn their tech business ideas into something great.

Veras Gräsmatta

Vera Sandbergs allé 8, Göteborg

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