In addition to researching and teaching, I greatly enjoy speaking about strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship to external audiences. Over the years, I have keynoted and consulted with large firms, universities, university incubators, private accellerators, NGOs, reserach labs, and government agencies. A few of these are listed below.
Keynotes (selected)
"Customer Development for Startups" — Keynote and workshop for all CEOs of Volvo Group Venture Capital's (formerly VTT) portfolio companies (Volvo HQ, Gothenburg)
"Managing Startups or New Business Projects?" — Keynote for 60 senior managers and innovation project teams from Ericsson BU Support Solutions (Ericsson HQ, Stockholm)
"Customer Centered Business Innovation" — Keynote for 20 regional sales directors from SKF's Industrial Drives Business Unit (SKF HQ, Gothenburg)
"Developing and pitching New Business Projects" — Presentation and workshop with the twelve finalist teams of Ericsson BU Support Solutions' Global Innovation Challenge (online)
"Balancing Growth and Profitability" — Presentation and discussion with 19 CEOs of medium sized companies from the Gothenburg region, organized by the West Swedish Chamber of Commerce (Gothenburg)
"Pros and Cons of Startup Collaboration with Large Firms" — Presentation and panel discussion hosted by U.S. Ambassador Azita Raji and organized by SRI International (Stockholm)
"How to Succeed and Fail by Listening to Customers" — Keynote for customers and employees of Knowit (Tallin)
"Startups and Business Prototyping" — Keynote for European high-performance computing researchers at Barcelona Super Computing Center (Barcelona)
Two-day workshop helping four innovation project teams from Göteborg Energi identify and valitade new Business Models (Gothenburg)
One-day workshop with the CEO and two business area managers plus teams from 3L System (now part of Vitec) as they sought to redesign the business models for their respective business units (Stockholm)
Two-day workshop together with my colleague Marcus Holgersson for the management teams of eleven Vinnova funded technology competence centers. Focused on IP strategy and business model innovation (online)
Half-day workshop with the CEO and management team of the Nano and Micro Technology research institute IMEGO (Gothenburg)
Longer consulting project with Ascom supporting CTO and project manager in developing a new business platform for the hospital sector (Gothenburg)