Snapshot Breakfast: The Culture Cure for Digital

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  Frida Pemer

  Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Organization, House of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics

  Frida Pemer is a leading authority within professional services and digitalization and leads a research project on digitalization of expertise in incumbent firms and start-ups. Frida has a demonstrated history of working with organizational change and educates future and current leaders in digital transformation and digital leadership.

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  Euan Davis

  VP Center for the Future of Work
  EMEA Cognizant

  Euan has guided many Fortune 500 firms into the dynamics surrounding business, technology and sourcing with his thought-provoking research and advisory skills. At Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, Euan examines how work is changing in response to the emergency of new technologies, new business practices and new workers.

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  Lars Ederström

  Head of Business Innovation, Sandvik Materials Technology

  Lars is responsible for business innovation at Sandvik Materials Technology and has experience from a variety of leading roles within purchasing, business development, and consulting at companies like Andersen Consulting, Pfizer/Pharmacia and Sandvik. Lars focuses on areas such as growth strategies, innovation, change management and leadership.

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  Jan Amethier

  Head of SEB Singular

  With a background in international corporate finance, Jan has held various leading positions at companies like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Handelsbanken and Doughty Hanson Private Equity. He also ran the Swedish government’s privatization program in 1992–94. He now leads SEB Singular, a corporate finance advisory unit focused on the digital ecosystem.

Schedule

• TIME
  AGENDA
  SPEAKERS
• 08:00–08:30
  Registration & Breakfast
• 08.30–09:15
  Snapshot presentations from the expert speakers.
• New roles, new processes, new organization – when AI becomes the company's new expert
  Until now, automation has predominantly transformed and driven new processes and business models with a focus on production, logistics and operation. With AI, however, digitization enters companies’ expert domains, where skilled specialists are responsible for analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
  What happens within the organization when AI becomes the expert? What’s the impact on the specialists, on talent demand, knowledge culture, and top management? Frida Pemer leads a three-year project from which she shares exciting indications of what happens when AI becomes reality in expert intense organizations' most qualified departments.
  Frida Premer, Assistant Professor at the Department of Management and Organization, Stockholm School of Economics
• Shaping a Culture for the Future of Work – six ways to get ahead
  The rules for work are changing, quickly, and people all around the organization are under pressure to cope. New research from Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work shows that many companies are finding their culture at odds with the rapid emergence of technology and the sheer variety of work styles now prevalent in the workforce. New cultural mores need building to help people survive and thrive in the fast changing world of modern work with its focus on platforms, data and algorithms. Euan Davis walks through a blueprint for the modern firm—these are the levers that can be pulled to shape a culture fit for the modern age and enable people to thrive.
  Euan Davis, VP, Center for the Future of Work, Cognizant
• SEB Singular – new contact areas between big companies and talents of the digital ecology
  How can a major company secure development capability and growth by cultivating contacts outside the organization? Talent networks, open collaboration or startup acquisition; the options and strategies behind the winners in the digital ecology are many and requires adaptation to each unique situation. The same dilemma applies to the startup scene; how does talents/startups want to interact with big companies? What’s their view on collaboration, partnerships and acquisitions? Newly established SEB Singular addresses just that – the contact area between large companies and creative initiatives/startups, to contribute to equally strong solutions for both parts.
  Jan Amethier, Head of SEB Singular
• Business innovation – part of the culture! New ways to work and tools in internal change
  For a global enterprise like Sandvik, expanding talent capital and gearing up business innovation are some of the most important strategic goals. What’s the true definition of business innovation of today? Where are the talents, how do you reach them and get their commitment? How can external openness be matched by internal initiatives to open up the culture and create new ways of working, across internal boundaries? Lars shares his long experience from Sandvik and its journey into the digital world and describes how external innovation efforts interact with internal initiatives to shape a culture and an open arena for the overall business development.
  Lars Ederström, Head of Business Innovation, Sandvik Materials Technology
• 09:15–09:30
  Panel discussion
• 09:30–10:00
  Continue the conversations directly with the experts.