Past events

On June 25, 2020 the Swedish Chamber of Commerce hosted a 5G: the Gamechanger for Society and Industry in collaboration with the The Swedish Embassy the Hague and Ericsson.

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Webinar
June 15, 18.00 CET

Covid 19 – geopolitical competition or a renaissance for international cooperation – organized by the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in France 

With Christian Danielsson, Director-General for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations at the European Commission and Mats Isaksson, Head of the Corporate Affairs division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Christian Danielsson joined the European Commission in 1995 as a Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Anita Gradin. He held several positions in the Commission, including Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Verheugen and Director in DG Enlargement. From 2008 to 2010 Christian Danielsson was Permanent Representative for Sweden before he became Deputy Secretary-General of the European Commission in 2011. In 2013 he became Director-General for Enlargement and since 2015 he is Director-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations.

Before joining the Commission, he worked for the Swedish diplomatic service.
Christian Danielsson has graduated in Business Administration and Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Mats Isaksson is Head of the Corporate Affairs division at the OECD. His responsibilities include corporate governance, state-owned enterprises, equity markets, company law, corporate finance and privatisation among others. Mr. Isaksson has extensive experience from working with both OECD and Partner countries and most recently served as international advisor to the government of Japan.

Mats Isaksson serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia University and is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law. He is a founding Director of the Swedish Corporate Governance Forum and a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

This webinar will be moderated by Anders Fogelström, President Cercle Suédois, Board member Swedish Chamber of Commerce in France and Swedish Chamber International.

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Business Women Program 2020 – Session 2, Online

Program June 9, 2020:

Time: 15.30 – 17.00 

• How to build your confidence and stay healthy
• How do you build self-confidence and how do you maintain this confidence?

This session will address the importance of good mental and physical health on self-confidence. Being healthy will not only allow you to boost your self-confidence, it will also have a positive impact on your career. It starts with knowing what you radiate and the impact it has both on you and on others.

About the Swedish Chamber of Commerce Women Business Leadership Program 2020

As an ambitious hardworking goal-oriented businesswoman we invite you to participate in Swedish Chamber of Commerce’s Business Women Leadership Program 2020 to elevate your greatness. We know that coming together in a group with like minded people increases the inspiration and motivation to take the action steps needed.

The sessions will provide the tools and guidance for you to move forward and develop an effortless kind of leadership that gives you the inspiration and energy you want in your everyday life.

This year’s focus is HEALTH!

Example of Topics that will be discussed:

• Mental health and the correlation with finding your balance
• Self-confidence
• Exercise, what kind, why
• Morning rituals/routines
• Refill with fresh Energy

The following dates for the Swedish Chamber Woman Leadership Program this year are:
June 9, September 15 and November 24.

Read Malin’s latest Blog post from May 28, 2020 about having a positive mindset to bring energy to your day.

https://mhleadership.com/personal-growth/boost-your-body-boost-your-day/

Unprecedented times. But at some point, society and business will return to some sort of normalcy again. But what awaits us at the end of the pandemic? What will constitute the new normalcy? Welcome to this webinar, on how businesses and society can emerge strongly on the other side of the pandemic. What issues will we have to confront and what future opportunities will arise?

May 28, the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK hosted a webinar within our “Outer Thinking” series, focused on how businesses and societies can emerge stronger on the other side of the pandemic.

Lord Gerry Grimstone, UK Minister for Investment: “People did not understand their supply chains (…) It was a bowl of spaghetti”

Tom Johnstone, Chairman at Husqvarna Group: “We are going to see a much more regionalised and resilient supply chain”

Helene Barnekow, CEO of Microsoft Sweden: “The speed at which organisations have changed has been dramatic”, “let’s not lose that can do feeling” and “let’s not go back to drowning in complexity”.

Tove Lifvendahl, Political Editor in Chief Svenska Dagbladet: “What we are seeing now will create a new demand from citizens on their politicians”

Mikael Sorensen, CEO at Handelsbanken UK: “If you would have asked me two months ago if we could run a business with 2,500 people remotely, I would have said no. But it worked”

Roger Alm, President Volvo Trucks: “Huge investments need to be made, in 5G and so forth, to get the economy going again”.

Speakers: Roger Alm, President of Volvo Trucks, Helene Barnekow, CEO of Microsoft Sweden, Lord Gerry Grimstone of Boscobel Kt, Minister for Investment, Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Tom Johnstone, CBE, Chairman of the Board, Husqvarna Group, Tove Lifvendahl, Political Editor-in-Chief at Svenska Dagbladet, Mikael Sorensen, CEO of Handelsbanken UK Moderated by Nik Gowing, Director and Founder of Thinking the Unthinkable and former BBC news anchor.

More speakers and detailed agenda to follow. 

Time:

11:00-12:30

About the webinar

This Seminar is organized by the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK.

Read more and sig up on the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK’s website:

https://www.scc.org.uk/events/list/webinar-emerging-stronger-on-the-other-side/

Welcome to the Swedish Chamber of Commerce Mentorship Program Meetup IV.

Date: May 28, 2020
Time: 18.30 – 19.30
This is a Zoom meeting

For this meeting all participants are asked to prepare a 2 minute pitch on a Book, Training, or TEDX presentation you have read, done, seen.and that you would like to recommend and share with the participants of the Mentorship Program.

We will also meet in Break-.out sessions to discuss what influence the COVID-19 situation has on you, your work and on your work life balance.

Moderator Wilma Buis 

Program

18.30  Welcome by Kerstin Gerlagh, Swedish Chamber of Commerce

18.35  Start Webinar by Wilma Buis

18.40  Pitches by  participants

19.00  Break out Sessions – What influence has the COVID-19 situation had on you?

19.15  Plenary sharing and conclusions.

19.30  End of Meeting

The Mentorship Program is made possible by the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Mercuri Urval sponsored by
Inter IKEA Systems and Handelsbanken.

From plan to action: Green Recovery or going back to “Normal”?

Yesterday’s third and last webinar in the NordicCE2020 – What’s next series is summed up by these key takeaways:

• Despite the challenging times of COVID-19 and related economic decline, we need tool ensure that the recovery on the EU level is focused on advancing digital and sustainable transition
• European Commission is aware that it has a big role to play creating regulatory framework enabling such transition, building more resilient European Union that can be prosperous and reach its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050
• The European Commission is busy putting together a plan to help the EU economy recover from the COVID-19 crisis and its release is planned for 27th May. It will also include various financial instruments, social tools and employment boost programs
• Green Deal will play an important role in the economic recovery. Farm to Fork strategy aiming on making the the food system more healthy and sustainable as well as strategy to protect biodiversity have been launched last week and Circular Economy Action plan already in March 2020
• The Nordic ambassadors presented their respective country’s strategies and initiatives such as updated roadmap towards Circular Economy in Finland, commitment to electrification and product design in Norway, Circular Economy policy in Sweden and building two large green energy islands in Denmark
• The recovery and shaping the green future based on renewable energy and circular economy is not limited by the EU borders, collaboration among nations is needed to ensure a thriving planet for us all

The whole world was making plans for the year 2020. So much vision for a sustainable world, so many plans to push Circular Economy. When we discussed Circular Economy during our annual Nordic Circular Economy Summit in February, the future seemed bright.

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Instead of presents to the speakers a donation will be made to the Dutch Voedselbank.