CSW Summit Arctic Circle 2017
Luleå 15-16 March | Vuollerim 16-19 March
Travel to the Arctic Circle with Crowdsourcing Week in the exotic remoteness of Swedish Lapland. Discover new solutions for growth and sustainability through the CSW Summit program, focused on local crowd movements and innovative business for the common good. The summit will combine speaker keynotes with live-case studies and workshops, connecting you with the latest ideas and best practices in crowdsourcing and crowd innovation globally. Participants will explore, share and deepen their understanding across crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, impact investment, sharing economy and neighborhood economics. CSW Summit Arctic Circle takes place in partnership with Lapland Vuollerim Welcomes You.
Who Should Attend?
Speakers
Our speakers are open Internet pioneers, enterprise leaders, and disruptive innovators who understand the fundamental shift towards the new crowd economy.
Agenda
Luleå, 15-16 March
Venue: Luleå University of Technology, Conference Room A117 in Section A
971 87 Luleå
Vuollerim, 16-17 March
Venue: Hotel Vuollerim Gästgiveriet, Bodenvägen 9, 960 30 Vuollerim
Arctic Expedition, 18-19 March
Venue: Hotel Vuollerim Gästgiveriet, Bodenvägen 9, 960 30 Vuollerim
11:00am | Registration
12:00pm | Buffet lunch
1:00pm | Why Crowdsourcing Week in Arctic Circle?
Niklas Nordström, Mayor of Luleå
1:15pm | Global Pulse of Crowdsourcing. Are You Ready for the Second Wave?
Epi Ludvik Nekaj, Founder and CEO of Crowdsourcing Week
1:40pm | The Bridge Between California and the Nordics
Kaj Embren, Neighborhood Economics
2pm | Cross industrial innovation through crowdsourcing
Emmi Kaipio, CEO of Nordic Innovation Accelerator
2:25pm | Green business opportunities in Northern Sweden – community shares,
equity crowdfunding or venture capital
Inger E Pedersen, Project manager and business advisor Energikontor Norr
2:45pm | Coffee Break & Networking
3:15pm | Opportunities and Challenges of Crowdsourcing for Smart Regions
Anna Ståhlbröst, Luleå University of Technology, LTU
3:35pm | Design Thinking Process & Crowd Innovation
Carolina Salazar, Founder of Design Thinking Institute
3:55pm | Participatory Urban and Rural Design
Victoria Bengtsson, The Foodprint Lab
4:15pm | PANEL: Crowdsourcing for Smart City and Region Development
Moderator: Helena Karlberg
Panelists: Anna Ståhlbröst, Inger E Pedersen, Niklas Nordström, Epi Ludvik, Emmi Kaipio, Carolina Salazar
4:45pm | Closing Remarks
Epi Ludvik Nekaj
5:15pm | Bus to the Makerspace of Ice instruments
5:30pm | Makerspace for Ice Concert Instruments (Outdoors)
Tim Linhart – Innovator & Creator of Ice Music
Location: Vetenskapens hus, Storgatan 53, 972 31 Luleå
6:15pm | Dinner
Presentation of Ice Music
Tim Linhart – Innovator & Creator of Ice Music
Location: Vetenskapens hus, Storgatan 53, 972 31 Luleå
DAY 2 – MARCH 16: INNOVATION & ENERGY
8:30am | Coffee & Registration
9am | Opening, Highlights of Yesterday’s Outcomes and Introducing Today’s Programme
Epi Ludvik Nekaj, Founder & CEO of Crowdsourcing Week
9:15am | The Roadmap of Fossil Free Sweden
Svante Axelsson – National Coordinator, Fossil Free Sweden
9:35am | Connecting Smart Cities with Crowdsourcing
Samar Singla, Founder of Jugnoo, India
9:55am | Lessons Learned from Crowdfunding Campaign
Hanna Wallo, Co-founder Wyilda af Norden, Haparanda
10:10am | Coffee Break
10:30am | Electric car Start-Up Uniti Sweden AB exceeded their equity-crowdfunding campaign target after 36 hours
Introduction: Matz Engman from Luleå Näringliv
Speaker: Lewis Horne, Founder of UNITI
11am | COLAB SESSION: Job Creation and Sustainable Growth
Co-Creation of a White Paper
Thomas Norrby, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
11:55am | PANEL: Second Wave of Crowd Economy is Here – Are We Ready?
Moderator: Thomas Norrby
Panelists: Bert-Ola Bergstrand, Niklas Nordström,Eva-Lena Skalstad, Epi Ludvik, Lewis Horne, Samar Singla, Svante Axelsson
12:30pm | Lunch
1:30pm | Departure by bus to Vuollerim from Luleå
Welcome remarks in the bus by Vuollerim team (Colab Session)
3:45pm | Arrival in Vuollerim village
Outdoor energy booster. Introduction to the Village Vuollerim
4:45pm | Check in at Hotel Vuollerim Gästgiveriet, a crowdsourced hotel with 152 owners
6:30pm | House-jumping dinner
A local tradition
DAY 3 – MARCH 17: JOB CREATION & RURAL DEVELOPMENT
8:30am | Coffee & Registration
9am | Crowdsourcing, Sharing Economy and Job Creation in Rural Areas
Epi Ludvik Nekaj, Founder and CEO of Crowdsourcing Week
9:15am | Connecting Smart Cities with Crowdsourcing
Samar Singla, Founder of Jugnoo, India
9:35am | How Can A Makerspace Help Discover Your Talents and Future Skills?
Lekë Zherka, CEO of BONEVET Makerspace, Kosovo
9:55am | Crowdsourcing – A Game Changer for the Game Industry
Michael Stenmark, Arctic Game Lab
10:20am | Not Excluded But Exclusive – Migration and integration – Refugee App
Per Clingweld, Chief Marketing Officer of Just Arrived
10:35am | Coffee Break
10:55am | How much can a Village do with its own resources. And how can you run a crowd-based hotel with 152 co-owners?
Eva-Lena Skalstad
11:20am | Focusing on Common Good Development and Entrepreneurship
Success factors for common good collaboration and development
Karin Eksvärd and Gabriella Lönngren, Common Good Academy
11:50am | Lunch
1.15pm | Changemakers’ Room – CSW Live Stream Session: selected practical examples for cities and rural areas
Moderator: Kaj Embren
Participants:
– Smarta Kartan, Smart Map, Jonathan Mattebo Persson
– Solar Farm Luleå, Per Holmkvist
– Young Artist Challenge The Urban Norm, Sofie Skalstad
– Local Food Nodes, Albin Ponnert
– A Marine Craft Usable For All, Erik Vesterlund
2:15pm | COLAB SESSION: Job Creation and Sustainable Growth
Co-Creation of a White Paper
Thomas Norrby, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
3:45pm | Coffee Break
4pm | PANEL: Digging into the future Expectation of Change – Where Do We Go from Here?
Moderator: Kaj Embren
Panelists: Bert-Ola Bergstrand, Epi Ludvik, Thomas Norrby, Lekë Zherka, Samar Singla, Michael Stenmark, Elin Johnson
4:30pm | Closing Remarks
8:30am | Breakfast
11am | Optional: Arctic Circle Experience with outdoor lunch.
To inquire about pricing and to pre-book, contact Eva-Lena at [email protected]. Participants can pick from the following:
- A unique possibility to meet forest sami people and their reindeers
- Ice fishing
- Snowmobiling
- Snowboarding or cross-country skiing
2pm | Optional Sauna
6pm | Tepee dinner and conversations around the open fire
Keys for common good deepening conversations
DAY 5 – MARCH 19: CLOSING CONVERSATIONS IN VUOLLERIM
9am | Breakfast and closing conversations – What’s ahead?
10am | Departure to Luleå Airport
Exchanges
Tickets are non-refundable. To upgrade your existing ticket or transfer your ticket to another name, email [email protected].
Gain Crowd-Driven Insights, Connections & Perspectives.
Learn
Gain practical knowledge from the world’s top crowd practitioners, platforms & experts.
Disrupt
Get valuable insights on the growth opportunities being driven by the crowd, and what the shift means for your industry.
Connect
Built-in networking sessions with like-minded peers connect you with Europe’s leading innovators.
Execute
Build a roadmap for using crowdsourcing to accelerate your organization’s goals
Travel Information
Why Luleå and Vuollerim?
Both Luleå and Vuollerim are leaders with good reference in both local and global thinking, from Luleå’s ice culture arena to Facebook’s datacenter investment. Vuollerim, a 800 people rural village with 60 businesses, 40 NGOs and 7 crowd-based companies. Also with a record on sustainability and climate change, the region’s focus on people, planet and innovation make it an excellent host for CSW Summit Arctic Circle.
How to Get Here:
Airport: Luleå Airport, just 1 hour flying time from Stockholm Arlanda Airport.
Train station: Luleå or Murjek, overnight train from Stockholm and Gothenburg.
The team at Vuollerim can arrange transfer from either the train station or the airport. Let them know more about your travel plans so we can assist you in the best way.
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