Jørn is Startup Director at Oslo Business Region, Oslo municipality. Jørn comes from the startup world, having served as CEO of the music tech company Soundrop (sold to X5). Prior to Soundrop he spent many years at Warner Music, most recently working as Marketing Director. He is passionate about startups, tech, the fourth industrial revolution […]
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Gustav Arentoft
Gustav is responsible for MakerDAO Business Development in the European region, one of front-runners in financial blockchain services globally. “With our USD pegged stablecoin Dai we aim to transform and shape the economic landscape with the usability of a non-volatile cryptocurrency. The stability of Dai is enabled by a collateral backed protocol which allows for […]
Harry Halpin
Harry Halpin is a Scientific Advisor of Nym and Chairman, a Binance-backed startup working on privacy-enhancing technologies like mixnets. He co-chaired the first IEEE Privacy and Security on the Blockchain workshop, led EU projects like NEXTLEAP and DCENT at Inria, and standardized WebCrypto at W3C/MIT. Blockchain technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have very poor […]
Kieran Brown
Kieran Brown is a Senior Managing Consultant in London with the Berkeley Research Group. He is a trusted strategy professional serving clients in the government, technology and industrial sectors in the USA, UK, North Asia, and the Middle East. Kieran has been leading the blockchain research and policy work with the Executive Office of a […]
Vinay Gupta
Co-founder of Mattereum and a leading figure in the blockchain space, having co-ordinated the release of the blockchain platform Ethereum in July 2015, and was strategic architect for ConsenSys Systems, a technology hub focusing on the Ethereum blockchain and related applications. After traumatic experiences, he is back in the spotlight, have sued and won over […]
Kristoffer Hvidsteen
Kristoffer Hvidsteen is passionate about changing how you work and live with tech. He has just left his position in Accenture as the Nordic Director for Strategy and Circular Economy to start a company Prescient.
Their aim is to help scale sustainable circular solutions with biz-tech through a mix of investment and advisory.
Mads Stolberg-Larsen
How to connect supply chains with digital marketplaces, apps, and payment with Dai, as Stable Cryptocurrency to Enable Frictionless, On-Demand Liquidity.
Data Gumbo
[deleted] is working in Data Gumbo, a Houston-Stavanger based company founded in 2015 with an aim to digitalize energy and shipping sector with the help of blockchain. [deleted] [deleted] believes industrial blockchain solutions have come to stay and it is time Norwegian industries begin to implement the technology.”
Ole Kristoffer Bjelland
Ole is working on the innovation program in the Norwegian Red Cross’s international programs. He helps project managers apply new methods, technologies and collaboration with business and academia. Some of the projects he is working on are early warning systems for epidemic outbreaks, energy systems for refugee camps and digital identities in the Red Cross’s […]
Linda Hesselberg
Linda has broad and important experience with everything from communication to project management and finance. She has previously worked as a project manager in the Oslo Business Forum, where she has been responsible for the company’s last four conferences, last where they brought Barack Obama to Norway and had over 3000 participants. Linda has her […]
