26 January 17:00-19:00Disruption Hall, Epicenter Stockholm

As Artificial Intelligence reshapes every aspect of our society, how should we frame our relationship with a technology that has become inseparable from modern life?

The scale of its impact is undeniable. In 2024, AI-related investment and activity accounted for roughly 40% of total GDP growth in the U.S., underscoring how deeply it is already reshaping our economy. It has become a ubiquitous tool and a symbol of innovation, progress, and abundance. Yet, like every transformative leap, it brings complex, urgent, and far-reaching challenges.

From widespread job displacement and automation to environmental impacts and the potential loss of human control, to the utopian promises of artificial general intelligence (AGI), AI raises critical questions for humanity: How will we coexist with increasingly autonomous systems? How can we ensure that AI serves the collective good rather than undermines it? The answers we choose will not only define the next era of technology but may shape the very evolution of our civilisation.

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the promises, perils, and possibilities of AI; a conversation that matters to every sector, every society, and every individual.

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Moderator

Ari Stein
Director, Conference & Content Strategy, MWC, GSMA // Founder of 52 Insights Magazine

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Speakers

Nicklas Bergman
Tech founder, investor, speaker and thinker

Nicklas Bergman is an entrepreneur and tech investor with more than 30 years of experience helping leaders navigate emerging technologies. Known for his curious and sometimes provocative approach, he cuts through complexity to uncover opportunities and actionable insights. A lifelong science nerd with deep roots in the European startup ecosystem, Nicklas advises everyone from scaleups to public institutions, including as an investment advisor to the EUR 5 billion EIC Fund. You bring him in not for easy answers, but for fresh perspectives, honest questions, and conversations that spark real change.

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Johan Harvard
Global AI Advisory Lead @ Tony Blair Institute | Keynote speaker

Johan Harvard has spent a career moving between nation-state strategies and specific solutions that change day-to-day reality. Today he leads global AI advisory at the Tony Blair Institute, working with heads of state, ministers, public and private sector leaders to turn AI into real impact, beyond pilots. His work spans Europe, Asia, Africa, MENA and the Americas, giving him first-hand insights into what successful adoption actually requires across very different market realities. 

A former architect of Sweden’s National AI Strategy, he has also led EU-facing AI policy and standards work, then moved into industry to ship applied AI at scale. He keeps his technical edge by coding AI tool prototypes himself. He oversees large-scale delivery with tech partners, ranging from major tech players to local startup players, where he guides design and governance.

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Karin Hamberg Stén
Generative AI expert and co-founder of Studio Stén

Karin Hamberg Stén is a generative AI expert, keynote speaker and co-founder of Studio Stén, where she advises and educates some of the largest companies, public sector bodies and institutions in Sweden on how generative AI is reshaping work, decision-making and organisational structures. Her work focuses on working with leaders and organisations to build the judgment and structures needed to adapt to AI's evolution.Her background is in the tech sector and art, with experience from New York, Tokyo and Stockholm. Karin approaches AI through a distinctly human and cultural perspective, with a focus on questions of authorship, agency and meaning. She is particularly interested in how our collective choices around technology shape organisations, culture and society over time.

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Virginia Dignum
Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Umeå University

Virginia Dignum is Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University, Sweden, where she leads the AI Policy Lab.

She is a leading voice in global AI policy, chairing the ACM Technology Policy Council , co-chairing the IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Autonomous Systems, and advising the Wallenberg Foundations in Sweden.

She is a member of expert groups at UNESCO, OECD, and was part of the EU’s High-Level Expert Group on AI, the UN’s High Level Advisory Body on AI, and World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence. She also founded ALLAI, the Dutch AI Alliance. As part of her work for UNESCO’s AI Ethics Experts Without Borders, she is advising governments around the world on the development and operationalization of their national AI strategies. Her forthcoming book, The AI Paradox, is published by Princeton University Press in February 2026.

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