Lene Marie Fossen

Lene Marie Fossen decided to stop time 20 years ago. She was then 10 years old and stopped eating. Her personal story is unfortunately relevant and concerns many. Today Lene Marie uses photography as her way out of the disease. She is self-taught – and has a unique talent. Lene Marie creates soulful portraits, including […]

Anne Lise Kjær

Anne Lise Kjaer is a leading global futurist, author, entrepreneur and Copenhagen Goodwill Ambassador. She specialises in detecting and analysing socio-economic and cultural drivers. Her design thinking background and deep insight into the Nordic Model are instrumental to spotting influential trends and mapping their impact on tomorrow’s people, organisations and society. Her career began in […]

Aase Helene Fidje Ødegaard

During a period of 2 years, Aase Helene Fidje Ødegaard made 25 national costumes out of garbage – mainly from her own household. She wanted to focus on the joy of recycling rubbish. Most of us have to look closely before we realise that the costumes in fact are made of chocolate paper, plastic bags, […]

Mike Troxel

Mike Troxel is born and raised in Denver, Colorado, but moved to Chicago as a young man. There he met and married a lovely Norwegian lady and now has 4 children. He has worked for over 25 years with culture, social and entrepreneurial-related projects and startups. From music festivals to poverty and justice issues to […]

Æli Manouchehri

Æli Manouchehri is an IT Engineer with a passion for technology and the future use of tech to help improve the quality of living for all. Æli was born in Tehran, Iran, but his entire family fled to Norway during the revolution when he was just 5 years old. He got his degree in IT […]

Svein Wilhelmsen

Svein Wilhelmsen founded Basecamp Explorer & Basecamp Foundation in 1998. The Basecamp Group has since worked to preserve one of the world’s most important ecosystems for our larger mammals; the world-famous Masai Mara wildlife area in Kenya. The Mara ecosystem is also vital for the preservation of Serengeti, Tanzania – and vice versa. The conservation […]

Venke Knutson

Venke Knutson is a songwriter, a teacher and the founder of Poprommet.no, a fast-growing music school in Norway. She is also the head behind the philosophy «Mappeløs», which encourages everyone to be met with the same expectations no matter where they come from; We will not let your past decide what you can do or be […]

Angela Luna

Angela Luna is the founder & CEO of ADIFF, a humanitarian outerwear startup that utilizes the fashion industry to provide aid for global displacement. Coming from a background in design, she saw the massive unrealized potential of the fashion industry and sought to create change. She is a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 […]

Thomas Idem

Thomas Idem, also known as the ADHD coach (ADHDCoachen), has extensive experience in fields like journalism, tourism and the event industry. He himself has the diagnosis of ADHD and thinks it suits him well. Thomas puts prejudices and myths about ADHD to question and gives us an insight and how we can focus on the […]

Oskar Blakstad

Oskar Blakstad is a clinical psychologist and tech enthusiast from Norway. He focuses on implementing internet technologies in healthcare units. Blakstad founded Explorable.com, a website about science for students, which has been visited by more than 50 million users. Blakstad is currently working on creating an automated online treatment for individuals with mental health problems, […]