Meet our moderators and speakers

The event will be moderated by and feature international experts from across our organisation, as well as an external expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Read more about the moderators and speakers.

Our Moderators

Sofia Öquist

Innovation Lead, SEB

Sofia works as Innovation lead in SEB, with the responsibility to develop the culture and processes required for innovation to succeed. Exploring the future of finance is part of the work done together with some of the participating experts from SEB and together with customers and partners.

Viktor Maisey

Learning Specialist, SEB

As a Learning Specialist Viktor is always looking for ways to combine his passions for entrepreneurship and learning. He brings his curiosity and willingness to learn to a wide variety of initiatives aimed at helping people grow at SEB. He is yet to have a boring day in 6 years at SEB.

Ecosystems Panel Speakers

Martina Wallenberg

Head of R&D and Transformation, SEB

Martina’s responsibility includes the areas Open Banking, Cloud strategy and Research & Development, with the purpose of leading and supporting all divisions of the bank in their journey of transforming and future proofing SEBs products and services.

Johannes Breivik

ScaleCenter Coordinator, SEB

Johannes works with Sustainable Finance Products in the Sustainable Debt Capital Markets team in Norway. He is the creator and coordinator of SEB’s pro-bono incubator in Oslo called ScaleCenter. The incubator focuses on sustainable Scale-Up companies within the Ocean and Energy Space.

SEBx Demo

Christoffer Malmer

Head of SEBx, SEB

The SEBx-project is a strategic initiative to explore new technologies and new customer offerings. Christoffer has overseen the unit since 2018 as it launched its first product, UNQUO, the first card+app service to sort between work and life expenses.

Martina Nordenson

COO of UNQUO, SEB

Martina was one of the first people to join the new SEBx team, and she is currently COO of for UNQUO, SEBx’s first business concept, and part of the SEBx Management team. She has experience making strategies for overall change processes connected to both technology and business.

Embedded Finance Speakers

Camilla Laitinen

Head of Business Development Finland, SEB

In her current role, one of Camilla’s responsibilities is to lead the co-creation work with Finnish clients where one of the current hot topics is Asset as a Service, also known as Embedded Finance. She is also a member of the country management group.

Caroline Berg von Linde

Product Owner for Bank 4.0, SEB

Caroline is an engineer and intrapreneur with extensive experience in finance. Caroline is leading the new ‘Bank 4.0’ concept which pioneers change on how to connect customer’s core business with SEB’s financial services in new innovative ways.

Big Data and AI Panel Debate Speakers

Danica Kragic

Prf. of Computer Science and Comm. at KTH

Danica works with research in the areas of robotics, computer vision and machine learning. She is on the Board of Directors of SAAB, H&M Group and FAM AB, and has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University and INRIA Rennes.

Harri Rantanen

Business Developer Transaction Services, SEB

Harri looks to the future of SEB, end customers, and application suppliers where new, sustainable and digital business models will apply through customer co-innovation and practical experimentation.

Gintaras Sakalas

Product Owner Technologies/ Services, SEB

Gintaras has over 25 years of experience in IT, including 20 years in financial sectors, driving enterprise level initiatives in 5 countries and 8 different companies. He has a Master’s degree in statistics and is very passionate about data and the value it can bring to the financial industry.