STHLM TECH FEST + City pitch

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Hi everyone!

A while back, in September, I got the chance to attend STHLM TECH FEST with the help of KTH Innovation. I thought I would share my experiences of this event with you.

This was my very first time attending STHLM TECH FEST. The first day I was there, on Monday the 4th of September, I got to witness a panel discussion with the co-founder of Klarna, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the head of Nordics and Baltics of MasterCard, Sasha Krstic, the co-founder of iZettle, Jacob De Geer, and the CEO of Bambora, Johan Tjärnberg. They spoke about the future of the world of fintech and of the difficulties that lie ahead.


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After that there was a city pitch held about the opportunities for Swedish startups and companies to open up offices in Poland. The person giving the pitch was trying to convince Swedish companies such as Truecaller and Klarna into setting up offices in Krakow and Warszawa. It was good to see how a pitch might be done in real life with the pressure of having a room filled with people criticizing your idea.

 

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After attending a couple of these panel discussions and pitches I made sure to check out the fair. There I had the chance to speak to a couple of company representatives from the start-up that some of you might have heard of, Stilla. What they are offering is a product called Stilla Motion that you put on any of your belongings that you would like to protect from being stolen and such, wether it is your backpack or wallet. This device connects to your mobile device through the Stilla app and an alarm goes off on your smartphone when your belongings are being moved. What I think is a really interesting feature is the fact that, in the app, you can adjust how sensitive the movement sensor in the Stilla Motion device is and it also has many more adjustable settings. If you want to know more about Stilla visit: https://wearestilla.com.

Lastly, I would just like to comment on the fact that KTH Innovation has been able to do a great thing by providing free tickets to KTH students who want to attend the STHLM TECH FEST. As one of our guest lecturers, Tobias, mentioned previously in his presentation to the class, it is very important that we create platforms and meeting places where different people can meet and interact, because we want to be able to take advantage of the synergies that arises when this happens. I would hope that in the future more students get the chance to attend STHLM TECH FEST and similar events. In november I will also be attending the STHLM TECH MEETUP, so I am really looking forward to that.

 

Thanks for taking the time to read this! Let me know if you’ve been to STHLM TECH FEST before or anything similar to it 🙂

 

All the best,

Houda Abu Zeid

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Equal career paths

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Last week, IVA held an educative seminar on the subject of equal career paths. With guest speakers such as the (male) CEO of netlight the discussion did not only include the females’ perspectives – such as a large number of other gender equality events only tend to focus include. The audience probably included more than 10-15% males – which I personally thought was a high engagement.

Within any type of technology intensive organisation in todays rapidly developing society one cannot avoid questions of sustainability – including a sustainable working environment where any form of equality should be included. There are a lot of “female networks” within small as large, new or more traditional organisations, but usually male dominated organisations, to give women a larger network, questions of how gender equality can be improved usually arises in such networks. However, I cannot help but wonder how the organisation as whole is supposed to become more educated when the majority of the firm is not actively engaged in the question of gender equality since the network only is for females?

Another guest speaker was Anna Wahl, a professor from KTH researching in gender equality. An interesting learning was that Anna defined the discussion of gender equality into two different parts; the one part of the discussion where people try to argue for the same conditions (mostly physical, e.g. strength, ability to give birth etc) which is very hard to do something about – so the people who disagree in this area of the discussion can agree to disagree. The other part of the discussion is however that all genders should have the same opportunities and be judged from their capability. This is where the discussion should focus as individuals are not judged on their capabilities without being judged by their gender.

At the end of the seminar, a woman from the audience explained that she worked with equality with a lot of start-ups, where many are driven by a few people who sometimes only are men. As every investor looks for sustainability goals, they also look for equality goals – meaning this is something start-ups early focus on. She then asked: When an individual only initiates equality projects because it looks good for the investor, and not because it is a question that is truly cared about – how can I make these people understand that the question needs to be taken with great seriousness?

Somehow, this question is sometimes laughed at when a women brings it up. What I wonder is: Why would a male not need to ask people to take this question seriously?

Thanks for reading this far guys, and please feel free to reach out if you want to discuss this with me. I think it’s an important question that every entrepreneur must care about.

/Sofie

Posting the link to the event which is supposed to be available online:

http://www.iva.se/event/jamstallda-karriarvagar—hur-okar-vi-antalet-kvinnor-i-ledande-positioner-i-naringslivet/