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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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Welcome New Member EF Education First
A warm welcome to new Swedish Chamber Member EF Education First! EF believes that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, they have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Their culturally immersive education programs— focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities. In their Dutch office, they are focusing on language courses abroad in one of their 50 schools. Students between the ages of 13 to 100 can study English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin in one of their schools. These are flexible courses, starting from 2 weeks until a full year. Apart from language courses, they also organize High School Exchange Years in the UK, Ireland and USA and language courses for businesses. For more information about EF Education First, click .
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Welcome New Member Team5pm

A warm welcome to the new Swedish Chamber Member Team5pm!

 

Team5pm expands in the Nordics with a Stockholm-based team

After a one-year trial in Sweden in which YouTube agency Team5pm has been scoping the Nordic market, the company is now levelling up by opening its own Nordic office in Stockholm with a new Managing Director and native Co-founders. By bundling years of YouTube expertise with data insights and research, Team5pm brings their unique approach to video marketing to the Nordics.

Team5pm is Europe’s first YouTube agency and the strategic video partner to brands and publishers. By offering in-house strategy, content creation, paid and organic distribution and brand measurement – all based on data – the agency’s goal is to innovate how companies utilise video. With offices in Amsterdam, Cape Town and Stockholm, our team of +100 video experts are globally networked with national and international clients such as Prime Video, Unilever, Volkswagen and PlayStation. Our video cases have won prizes from (inter)national award shows, like The Webby Awards, The Global Search Awards and The European Video Awards.

YouTube Strategist Stijn Smulders runs the Team5pm Nordics location as Managing Director, together with former We Are Era Nordics CEO and COO Natalie Tideström Heidmark and Nicolin Lillhage – as Co-founders. The team of thirteen video specialists from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland combines in-depth knowledge from YouTube, TikTok and other video-driven platforms with a vast understanding of the Nordic market. Jelmer Wind, CEO of Team5pm, is proud of our Nordic expansion. “Team5pm is Europe’s first full-service YouTube agency and the strategic video partner to brands and publishers.” Jelmer Wind shares, “We help clients to innovate their use of video by offering strategy, content creation, distribution – both organic and paid – and brand measurement. We work data-driven, which means we conduct research on consumer behaviour, trends, platforms and relevant markets. We transform these insights into video products for YouTube, TikTok and video platforms. A combination, which is unique to the current market. ” Nicolin Lilhage and Natalie Tideström Heidmark join Team5pm Nordics as Co-founders Nicolin Lillhage has a Google background and spent the past years working closely with Sweden’s largest YouTube channels. “Being the second largest search engine in the world, 8 out of 10 Swedes use YouTube as their go-to source for entertainment, inspiration and information. The platform offers huge opportunities to brands who want to gain quality attention from their target audience through their own content and channels.” Nicolin continues, “I’m amazed by Team5pm’s data-driven approach which helps brands to serve their target group with video content that offers value. I am excited to put my ten years of YouTube experience into practice by helping even more clients thrive on YouTube and beyond.”

Being active in several boards of directors, Natalie Tideström Heidmark is looking forward to joining Team5pm Nordics: “I’m impressed by Team5pm’s journey so far. In just four years, they’ve added three offices and over a hundred employees to their name. After meeting the team for the first time, I knew right away that I couldn’t miss out on this opportunity. With their in-house expertise and data-driven approach to video marketing, they offer something new to the market. I can’t wait to expand this to the Nordics.”

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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, Christina Nyman 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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Welcome to first the Tech Table- Tech Talent on March 28, 2023
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. As we all know, the tech industry is changing at a fast pace. Big tech parties, including Microsoft, Meta, HP, Spotify and Amazon, have been laying off workers by the thousands in the last months. What lies behind the wave of layoffs? Is it a correction for the exponential growth of recent years or are there other underlying factors? Despite the recent layoffs in the tech industry human capital remains one of the most important factors for the growth of tech companies and there is still a great demand for tech talent. Employees still have the luxury to choose from offers from multiple tech companies. Employees are increasingly making decisions about their career based on the impact and the sustainable strategy of their future employer rather than the salary or bonuses they will receive. Other relevant factors are the ability to influence the policy of the company and to create a positive impact on society and on wellbeing instead of merely helping the company achieve its revenue targets. 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 employer a good fit for you? Labor has gotten a lot more expensive, companies have to hire the best, but is that enough? 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?
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Happy “Semmeldagen”!
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce wishes you a happy "Semeldag"! The semla – a small, wheat flour bun, flavored with cardamom and filled with almond paste and whipped cream – has become something of a carb-packed icon in Sweden. The traditions of semla are rooted in fettisdag (Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday) when the buns were eaten at a last celebratory feast before the Christian fasting period of Lent. At first, a semla was simply a bun, eaten soaked in hot milk (known as hetvägg). For more information about the Semla, click .
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