Mozhgan Tavakolifard

Mozhgan Tavakolifard holds a PhD in Machine Learning and started her career as Data Scientist. She founded her first company, DharmicData, in 2015. The company, consisting of 12 world-class employees, became one of the first and biggest Nordic Data Centres of Excellence. The main product of the company was a personalisation platform to collect data […]

Espen Wallin

Espen Wallin is a multitalented man who started his career working with insurance. After his father suddenly passed away, he understood that life is too short to not follow your dream. So he went on to explore his passion for photography at the age of 30. After working for major magazines and commercial agencies in […]

Morten Krogvold

Morten Krogvold is a Norwegian photographer and lecturer, especially known for his portrait of artists, writers, politicians, and other celebrities. Morten Krogvold and Lene Marie Fossen had a heartwarming talk on stage at TEDxArendal 2017.

Dave Troy

Dave Troy is a serial entrepreneur and community activist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently CEO and product architect at 410 Labs, maker of the popular email management tools, Chuck and Mailstrom. He has been acknowledged by the founding team at Twitter as the first developer to utilize the Twitter API, with his project “Twittervision,” […]

Svend Heier

Svend Heier is a technological optimist who loves the combination of technology, making things work, management and social contexts. He first gained technical experience through disassembling alarm clocks and pens – purely disassembling, never reassembling. The only thing that still worked when he was done, were loose gears, now being used as spinning tops. Now, he […]

Rachel Thomas

Dr Rachel Thomas is a medical doctor and healthcare innovator, with a special interest in mental health. After full recovery from an accident that broke her back and neck, she is focusing on empowering people to increase their wellness – in mental and physical health – through technology. She studied Medicine and Surgery at Oxford […]

Miguel Valenzuela

Miguel Valenzuela is a Mexican-born American who moved to Norway in 2010 and created a ’Pancake Machine out of LEGO’ for his daughters. He is an Engineering graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and teaches Making in Norway. As an artist and inventor who struggled with learning throughout his life, he travels the world […]

Giuliana Galati

Giuliana Galati is involved in an underground physics experiment to hunt ghostly particles called neutrinos, which have been making scientists crazy since 1930. According to her, studying the elusive neutrinos is worthwhile not only from the physics point of view but also because they can teach us valuable life lessons. After graduating in Nuclear, Subnuclear […]

Jokke Sommer

Jokke Sommer is a true thrillseeker mostly known for airy flights and a fearless lifestyle. Looking back, he has always been fascinated by everything that could fly and dreamed of one day flying himself. When he matured, his childhood dream faded and he started a career in motocross. This sport became his biggest passion and […]

Tara Shears

Tara Shears joined the LHC Beauty experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in 2004, where she started a programme of electroweak physics – seeking answers as to why there is so little antimatter in the universe.