Thomas F. Anglero is the Cognizant Nordic CTO & Innovation Officer. He is an expert in artificial Intelligence and Innovation. Prior to Cognizant, Mr. Anglero was the Nordic Director of Innovation at IBM.

Kristine Beitland is director of Corporate Affairs, and is part of the management of Microsoft Norway. Beitland is a lawyer with a strong passion for the point where technology and society meets, with a strong belief that technology and knowledge are crucial to achieving the UN's sustainability goals. She is a board member of the Norwegian Center for Information Security, GoForIT, AmCham Norway, and a member of the advisory board for the research project "Governance of heath Data in Cyberspace", the Juristforbundet's Tech Forum and the Norwegian Church Aid's Tech for Peace Initiative. She has previously been a member of the government's Vulnerability Committee (Lysne I), director of the Business Security Council, and 16 years in the police as head of Organized Crime in the Police Directorate, department director in the Police's Immigration Unit, head of prosecution at the Oslo police district, and prosecutor at the Oslo, Follo and Trondheim police chambers.

Andreas grew up in Stavanger, and has a Master of Science in Business from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Università Bocconi (2012-2017). 

Ha has also studied jurisprudence at the University of Oslo. 

He has priviously worked as an advisor at The Norwegian Energy Regulatory Authority (2017-2020) and as a political advisor to The Standing Committee on Business and Industry for the Labour Party parliamentary group from 2020 before being appointed to State Secretary for Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre at the Prime Minister's Office on 14th October 2021.

His political background include leader for the Workers' Youth League in Rogaland (2010-2012), board member at the European Youth Norway (2012-2013), board member at Rogaland Labour Party (2010-2015) and County council representative for the Labour Party in Rogaland (2011-2019). 

With a broad and profound educational background at college and university level, considerable work experience from the public and private sector, including the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities, as well as over 20 years’ experience as an active politician, Hammer Krog is a prevalent leader figure who advocates progress and renewal within Norwegian local politics. As the first female mayor of Bærum, she has led a municipality experiencing large and complicated challenges within the fields of transportation and urban development. She has consistently promoted the importance of new technology within the fields of climate, environment and welfare issues.

The speaker is Group Chief Operations Officer of Itera (ticker ITE on Oslo stock exchange, itera.com). As Group COO he is responsible for OneItera philosophy for +800 people in 8 countries, One management operating model with Sales, Delivery and People matters, deliveries, compliance & governance, security & privacy, Quality leadership and performance improvement, CISO & DPO, Contract Management, internal IT data model and IT solutions. 

Worked with digitalisation of business processes through products and projects developments since 1984, both B2B and B2C. Worked in Itera since 2007. He established Itera in Ukraine in 2008 together with Itera CEO Arne Mjøs. Jon Erik Høgberg is Itera Corporate Crisis Manager and together with the Crisis team guide people, customers and organisation through stormy waters in Ukraine since 2014 and in particular since 24th February 2022. 

Mykola Kolisnyk is a Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine. He has extensive experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career in foreign commercial enterprises. He worked at the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine for three years before joining the Ministry of Energy. Over the past 6 years, he has held managerial positions and played a key role in implementing European legislation, enhancing the security of critical energy infrastructure, and coordinating international cooperation.

Former US Presidential Advisor,
Former Advisor to the UK Cabinet,
Best-Selling, Award-Winning Author,
Tech Entrepreneur

The Hon. Dr. Malmgren is an economist who makes sense of the world economy by writing books, by founding tech businesses, by advising policymakers around the world and through public speaking and teaching. She is a Senior Partner of The Monaco Foundry, a start-up incubator for impact-led founders, and a Special Advisor to Avonhurst, a legal and consulting firm in the UK specializing in deals, policy and capital raising. She is also on the Board of Premios Verdes which holds the “Green Oscars” each year. She writes a column about the world economy on Substack. She previously co-founded a drone manufacturing firm which won the Cog X Award for Autonomy, the 2020 National Technology Award and Power Product of the Year 2020. She served as the Chairman of the Drone/UAV Subcommittee on manufacturing standards at The British Standards Institute.

She served President George W. Bush in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and on The National Economic Council. She was responsible for financial market issues and handled Enron and Sarbanes Oxley. She served on the President’s Working Group on Corporate Governance and The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. After 9/11 she was also responsible for assessing Terrorism Risks to the Economy and technology as a source of geopolitical competitiveness. Before joining the White House, she ran the Bankers Trust Asset Management business in Asia and was then appointed as the Global Chief Currency Strategist. She was then named the Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS.

Her most recent bestseller, The Infinite Leader, won the International Press Award for the Best Book on Leadership for 2021. Her previous book, The Leadership Lab, was named Business Book of the Year and Best Book on Leadership in 2019 and won the International Press Award 2020 and the NYC Library Big Apple Award. She is also the author of: Geopolitics for Investors (2015) and Signals: How Everyday Signs Help Us Navigate the World’s Turbulent Economy a crowd-funded Amazon bestseller (2016). She has been named one of the Fifty Top Inspiring Women in the UK and one of the Top 100 in Tech by @WATC_WeAreTech and longlisted by Computer Weekly as a Most Influential Women in Tech for 2019, 2020 and 2021. She serves as a judge on The Queen’s Enterprise Business Awards and was a member of the Board of Directors for The Department for International Trade in the UK from 2017-2019. She is a Senior Associate Fellow of RUSI. She is also an advisor to the BSA Huxley Summit.

She has a BA from Mount Vernon College and an M.Sc. and PhD from LSE. She completed the Harvard Program on National Security. She lectures at Sandhurst and the Duke Fuqua Global Executive MBA Program and has lectured at the U Texas Austin and INSEAD. She gave the graduation address at the London School of Economics in 2013 and 2016. Firms like Google, American Express, major banks and military leaders retain her to speak.

Global Decarbonisation Advisor,
Former UK Climate and Energy Minister,
Former COP26 President-Designate

Claire O'Neill is considered a global expert on sustainability and decarbonisation with a particular focus on practical action and the leading role of the private sector.

She served as a UK Member of Parliament from 2010. As Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth she created the UK’s Clean Growth and Green Finance Strategies, established the global Powering Past Coal Alliance, oversaw the deployment of £3 billion of international Climate Finance and £200 million of cleantech innovation funding, negotiated the world’s first public-private Offshore Wind Sector Deal and led the UK Carbon Capture and Storage taskforce. In 2019 she brought forward the country’s ground-breaking Net Zero legislation and led the UK’s winning bid to host COP26.

She served as COP26 President-Designate until she left politics in 2020 to lead the Climate and Energy team at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the world’s leading corporate sustainability organisation. She now co-chairs the WBCSD global Imperatives Advisory Board and has several non-executive Director and Advisory roles. She is a Senior Global Advisor to McKinsey and Company.

Claire grew up in the UK, studied Geography at Oxford University followed by an MBA at Harvard Business School and had a transatlantic career in consultancy and finance before entering politics. She is a member of the UK Privy Council, a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and the Energy Institute and Is a Business Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford University.

Hege Skryseth is an Executive Vice President for Technology, Digital & Innovation (TDI) at Equinor. She is one of Norway’s foremost experts on the use of technology and digitalization to create future business and is deeply committed to driving change through technology. She focuses especially on digitalization, industrial disruption, and transformational business development.

As an EVP of TDI she holds responsibility for technology, digitalisation, innovation and venture investments as fundamental enablers to improve safety and security, increase value creation and reduce emissions from oil and gas, as well as drive profitable growth in renewables and low carbon solutions.

Prior to joining Equinor she has been the CEO at Kongsberg Digital and EVP at the Kongsberg Group. Skryseth has many years of experience as a senior executive from international tech companies such as Microsoft Norway and Geodata (ESRI). She is a member of the board of AutoStore ASA and Tomra Systems ASA.

Hege Skryseth holds an MBA in financial management and leadership from Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), a bachelor’s degree in management from The Norwegian Business School (BI) and is a college graduate from the Norwegian School of Information Technology (NITH).

Melati is a 22 year old full time changemaker. She has founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags with her younger sister & has been leading the movement driven by youth since 2013 at the age of 12. She has also started the people movement One Island One Voice and the social enterprise, Mountain Mamas.

Melati has given two global TED talks before she turned 21 and has spoken on world stages such as the UN & has also been selected as FORBES top ten most inspiring women in the country. She graduated from high school one year early & has since been honored by TIME as part of the annual list of most influential teens in the world along with CNN Heroes Young Wonders & FORBES 30 under 30.

Recently, Melati has co-chaired the World Economic Forum GPAP committee, sat on the inaugural Expert Advisory Panel for the Earthshot Prize, & has had her film, Bigger Than Us, premiere at the 74th Cannes Film Festival 2021. Today, Melati has launched her new company, YOUTHTOPIA, which is all about youth empowerment through short & meaningful peer to peer programs & providing them the tools they need to be changemakers. Melati believes that young people can accelerate change & her vision is to make YOUTHTOPIA the go to platform for young people to learn about frontline skills.

The vision at YOUTHTOPIA is to be the global number one “go-to” HQ for young people. The mission at YOUTHTOPIA is to provide space that brings young people together, ignites their passions and grows their skills to become active changemakers. We will achieve this by creating short and meaningful peer to peer programs off and online. These programs are made by the frontline young changemakers in YOUTHTOPIA’s unique network of Circle of Youth members (200 changemakers globally in 50 countries). YOUTHTOPIA already has a first phase learning platform up and running on the website with 1600 users.