Participating

Ben Telfer is Chief Membership Officer at ICMIF, responsible for member engagement, growth and retention across ICMIF’s global network. Previously Ben has led ICMIF’s Business Intelligence function and ICMIF’s Knowledge Hub as well as been a research analyst for the corporate finance arm of a global information service provider.

Henry Lane Fox is Cofounder & CEO of Founders Factory, a startup studio and accelerator with operations in London, Paris, Johannesburg and New York. He is also a partner at Founders Forum Group, a global community for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow, and at firstminute capital, one of Europe's leading early-stage venture funds. Previously Henry cofounded Founders Intelligence, a specialist digital consultancy that advises many of the world's leading brands, SmartUp.io (a micro-learning platform) and Grip (an AI driven professional matchmaking platform). Henry was one of the founding team at lastminute.com, where he served as Head of Product Development.

Magnus Mähring is Professor and holder of the Erling Persson Chair in Entrepreneurship and Digital Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics. He currently serves as Director for SSE’s House of Innovation and Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology. He is also appointed to the Swedish Government’s Digitalization Council and to Microsoft Sweden’s AI Insight Council. He is also a Fellow at Cambridge University. Magnus’s research focuses on digital innovation and artificial intelligence, particularly in relation to organizational decision-making, transformation processes and work practices. Recent and current projects address AI implementation and value creation, AI distrust dynamics in the workplace, venturing and design of societal digital infrastructures, and remedies to algorithmic injustice. He has published extensively and consults for large firms, public and government organizations and NGOs. He serves on the jury for the Swedish CIO/Tech Awards since more than a decade.

Marika Amartey is the Counsellor for Innovation and Science for the Swedish Ministry of Climate and Enterprise at the Embassy of Sweden in London, building and managing strategic collaboration between Sweden and the UK in the areas of research, innovation and higher education. Marika was seconded national expert to the European Commission in Brussels at the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, managing multi-national research and innovation collaboration projects, as well as projects for individual researchers and SMEs. Previously Marika worked as a management and technical consultant in the private sector in the Baltic and Benelux regions, covering areas of strategic business development, market expansion and global sales growth. Marika has a seat at the bilateral working group for the MoU for the Life Sciences between Sweden and UK, is an active evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission Expert Management Team and is an executive board member for the Society of Swedish Engineers in the UK. She holds an M.Sc. in Economics and Public Administration and speaks Swedish, English and French.

Markus Perkmann is Vice-Dean and Professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. He has published widely on topics including science-based entrepreneurship, technology commercialization and organization theory. Markus is the founding Academic Director of the Imperial Enterprise Lab. He has collaborated with organizations including Frog (CapGemini), Reply Digital Services, GlaxoSmithKline, Syngenta, Shell, Rolls Royce and Imperial Innovations. He was previously head of innovation at start-up firm Greychip.

Per Kristensson is Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Service Research Center at Karlstad University in Karlstad, Sweden. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Gothenburg in 2003 and turned professor in 2012. Since then, he has also been a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen, Arizona State University in Phoenix, USA, and Mälardalen University in Sweden. Additionally, he has held the position of Senior Research Fellow at Hanken, Svenska Handelshögskolan, in Helsinki, Finland. Kristensson’s research primarily focuses on value creation, innovation, and organizational change, with a typical emphasis on the customer. His work has been published in nearly all of the leading service journals. He has won the Grand Prix speakers award at Karlstad University and delivered a TEDx talk on the topic of creativity during the Karolinska Institute’s 100-year anniversary in 2011. In 2024, he received the Christan Grönroos Service Research Award.

Trevor Maynard is the Vice-Chair and Director of Systemic Risk at the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His work has involved risk modelling in various guises from Pensions and Life Assurance to general insurance, working for firms such as Lloyd’s of London and Mercer. Whilst at Lloyd’s his team produced risk reports on subjects including Pandemics, Climate Change, Deep tail Marine disasters, Nano Technology, Geopolitics, AI, Robotics and IoT. Trevor also advises insurtech firms on risk and data science.

Ylva Baeckström is a former banker and fintech entrepreneur, now a psychotherapist, and academic at Kings College London and Gothenburg University. Ylva is the sustainable finance theme lead at the King’s Centre for Sustainable Business. Ylva delivered a TEDx in 2020 and her book Gender and Finance was published in 2022. Ylva’s research has contributed to the 2024 UK government inquiry Sexism in the City. She collaborates widely with financial service institutions as an expert on financial advice, gender and sustainability in financial services. Ylva has published extensively and features regularly in the media. Together with two colleagues from Gothenburg University Ylva is a Länsförsäkringar Research foundation grant holder.