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Marianne Hamilton – Inspirational Speaker
The Swedish Chamber is proud to welcome Marianne Hamilton as our inspirational speaker at our next Mentorship Program on March 16, 2023. Owner & Author, Advice to my dear daughter. Marianne was a member of Atlas Copco’s Executive Management team for 16 years. She has served on several corporate boards. Advice to my dear daughter is her fifth book and the first to be translated into Dutch. Follow the link for more information about Advice to my Dear Daughter: 
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Tech Talent- Meet our next Speaker

The Swedish Chamber of Commerce welcomes you to this year's first Tech Table "A Changing Tech Landscape – New Strategies to Attract and Maintain Tech Talent" on March 28, 2023. In this tech table we have gathered tech specialist from Sweden and the Netherlands to discuss which lessons of the recent development in the tech sector can be learned. Are you as an employee a good fit for the company and is the company as an employer a good fit for you? Companies also have to rethink how they reskill and upskill their teams. People are the most important factor for a company’s growth. How to find the right people and which strategies do you need to build stronger, more innovative and inspiring teams, and How to maintain and attract new tech talent? Who should attend: • HR Managers and Director • Managing Directors and CEOs • Anyone wanting to know more about new strategies to maintain and attract Tech Talent • Anyone looking to improve their Tech Workforce Meet our next Speaker: Armanda Willems, Country Manager at Lime Technologies Netherlands. Armanda Willems has worked at Lime Technologies as a Country Manager since 2020 and has been working within IT for over 10 years. Lime Technologies is a Swedish company with its HQ in Lund. Selling CRM is the company's core business, and this is what has made them big in Scandinavia. Lime Technologies expanded to the Netherlands in 2020, and to Germany in 2021. After joining the company, Armanda was introduced to the Swedish Chamber which led to Lime becoming a member. Her focus is on growing the company on the Dutch market and making it one of the biggest CRM suppliers in The Netherlands. With their Swedish influence and quality, she truly believes this to be possible. For more information click .

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Welcome New Patron Member Getinge Netherlands B.V.
We are very proud to give a warm welcome to our new Swedish Chamber Patron Member Getinge Netherlands B.V. Getinge is a leading global provider of products and systems that contribute to quality enhancement and cost efficiency within healthcare and life sciences. Saving lives is the greatest job in the world. Everything they do, from architectural planning to the equipment, therapies and solutions aim to secure the safest and most reliable care. As a leading medtech company, they focus every talent and resource towards helping their customers save as many lives as possible. Getinge was founded in 1904 in the small town of Getinge, Sweden and provides products and has more than 10,000 employees worldwide, operations in 44 countries and sales in more than 150 countries with a total revenue of 22.5 billion SEK (2017). For more information, click .
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Member Campaign- Join our Network
Join the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in 2023 and expand your business opportunities! The Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the Netherlands is a non-profit organization connecting Swedish and Dutch companies and entrepreneurs. With over 60 years of experience, we are one of the most active foreign Chambers in the Netherlands. Our Members come from various sectors and industries, from large corporates to SMEs, entrepreneurs, and start-ups in both the Netherlands and Sweden. We offer valuable networks and ecosystems, informative events and roundtables, and first-class business services tailored to your business needs. Don't miss this opportunity to grow your business with us! Networking – We offer a dynamic business network with +200 members. Membership of the Chamber provides you with a unique platform to meet and foster new business contacts, build stronger networks and to keep informed on updates, news and innovation in the Swedish -Dutch community. For more information about memberships, please click .
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Welcome to Global Economic Outlook by Christina Nyman, Handelsbanken
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Handelsbanken Netherlands are pleased to invite you to a Global Economic Outlook by Christina Nyman, Head of Economic Research and Chief Economist at Handelsbanken. The presentation will be held digitally on March 7, 2023, from 10.00 – 11.15 and is open for registration for Members of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Young Professionals. At this digital meeting, Roland van Pooij will introduce Christina Nyman who will discuss take-aways from Handelsbanken’s latest Global Economic Forecast such as the effects of tighter monetary policy, the recession many countries face in 2023, which is expected to be followed by a global turnaround next year and a recovery in 2025, the forecast that central banks will keep policy rates higher than neutral up until 2025, and the shift to green energy that will be inflationary over the next decade.   For more information about the event, click .
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Tech Talent- Meet our first speakers
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce welcomes you to this year's first Tech Table "A Changing Tech Landscape – New Strategies to Attract and Maintain Tech Talent" on March 28, 2023. Meet our first speakers: • Paula Bruneheim is the Head of Enterprise Sales at Proxify. Paula has been part of this Swedish scale-up since 2021. Proxify is a company based on the idea that Talent has no borders. What started as a Talent-as-a-Service company for the SMB segment has in the past years also developed into a partner for global enterprise companies such as Getinge, EA Sports and Electrolux. With clients such as BAM and Medline in the Netherlands, this market is a major focus for Proxify. Many companies today are struggling to find qualified and affordable developers locally, as a growing percentage of software developers nowadays expect to be able to work remotely. Proxify developed a network of top-of-the-line experts within tech and data from all over the world to try and solve this issue. In 2022 Proxify was among the top 10 fastest-growing companies in Sweden (nominated by DI Gasell). • Jan Sundelin is the CEO of TIE Kinetix as of 2008. TIE Kinetix focuses on the 100% digitalization of the supply chain, eliminating all paper between seller and buyers. Thanks to this, TIE Kinetix saved, with the FLOW SaaS (Software as a Service) platform, over 81 million pages and 10.000 trees last year. TIE Kinetix is a Dutch international company with offices in Europe, USA and Asia and are listed on EURONEXT in Amsterdam. Jan Sundelin is also a Board Member of Partinc Capital, which is a Swedish investment company with investments in the Nordics and Benelux, focusing on SaaS scale up companies. For more information about the event and our other speakers please click .
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Live “fika” with Sweden’s Minister of Migration, Maria Malmer on March 8, 2023
Sweden's Minister of Migration Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) is a guest of Swedes Worldwide Live "fika" on March 8. During this digital Live "fika" we will find out how Sweden can become better at facilitating the process for Swedish families abroad that want to move back home. The Live "fika" is open for everyone. Date: March 8, 2023 Time: 11.00-11.45, Swedish time Location: Zoom Click to register.
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Swe-Cham Member Telia Carrier Rebrands as Arelion
With a New Brand, Arelion is Poised to Deliver Premium Quality Global Connectivity. Stockholm, 19 January 2022 – Telia Carrier today unveiled its new brand, Arelion, reinforcing its goal to provide premium global connectivity services to the world's largest operators, content providers and enterprises. Arelion is the world's best-connected network spanning Europe, North America, and Asia, with more than 70,000 km of optical fiber and 1,700 MPLS endpoints, connecting customers in 125 countries.  Enterprises from gaming to finance depend on the operator’s business-critical services, including Global Internet Transit, Wavelengths, Ethernet, Mobile Data, and Wholesale Voice Termination. Arelion stands for world-class customer care and premium global connectivity. Over the past 30 years as Telia Carrier, Arelion built the number 1 Internet backbone, AS1299, which today powers nearly 65 percent of all Internet routes. Arelion leverages an award-winning legacy and relentless focus on customer excellence made possible by a unique culture, from an experienced executive team, technical experts and global service managers that care about every customer service interaction. Arelion puts people in the forefront, fixing 80 percent of customer issues at the first line for an effortless experience and industry-leading customer satisfaction. To learn more, click .
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