The Data Innovation Summit 2026 Speakers
The
Data Innovation
Summit Chairman
Anders Ynnerman
Executive Chairman | Sferical AI
&
Anders Arpteg
VP AI & Data | Saab Group
The Data Innovation Summit
Keynote Speakers
Fredrik Reinfeldt
Former Swedish Prime Minister
Andy Cotgreave
Data Entrepreneur
How To Speak Data
Joe Reis
Best-selling author of
Fundamentals of Data Engineering (O’Reilly)
Kevin Shin
Head of Information Security
Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
Maria Wiss
Regional Vice President
Snowflake
Angelo Rivano
Director, Speciality Presales, Europe North
DELL Technologies
David Pontoppidan
Head of Business AI for Nordics & Baltics
SAP
Dael Williamson
Field CTO
Databricks
The Data Innovation Summit
Stage Moderators
Sara Hajian
Director of Applied AI
Trustpilot
Albin Blum
Data Enthusiast and Co-Founder
Theodora Tech
Karima Makrof
Founder and Chief Adviser – Data Governance
AKLYON Consulting AB
Anastasiia Glebova
Founder and CEO
Datu
Giovanni Leoni
AI Governance
Evangelist
Kenneth C. Kleissl
Group Technology Director
COWI
Stefan Wendin
Head of Intelligent Systems
RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden)
Robert Luciani
Founder, AI Wizard
Nerv Dynamics
Dácil Hernández
Credit Analytics Director
Resurs
Stephan Erne
CEO
Evolvarion
Luiza de Lange
CRO Enthusiast
Patrick Eckemo
Senior Advisor/Strategist
Bolagsverket
The Data Innovation Summit 2026
Speakers
Henrik “Henok” Lindström
Product Lead
Spotify
Dr.-Ing. Susan Wegner
ex Head of Group Data AI (SVP) Allianz
Altaf Patel
VP Data Analytics & AI
PepsiCo
Christelle BOURDEU
Head of Data office for Operations
Airbus
Shreyansh Daftry
AI Research Scientist and Group Leader
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Vasileios Lakafosis
Software Engineer
Meta
Dave Kurtzberg
Software Engineer
Meta
Julian Bright
Former Member of Technical Staff at xAI
Shruti Khanna
Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI
Andre Lopes
Senior Software Engineer
Tesla
Shantam Mogali
Sr. Data Engineer
Google
Natalie Halimi
Principal Product Manager
Booking.com
Erim Sezer
Director for Data Enablement & Digitalization
Bayer
Saurabh Atri
Staff Software Engineer
LinkedIn Corporation
Julie Siezing
Director, Global Data & Analytics
GN
Ralph Foorthuis
Global Domain Architect Data
HEINEKEN International
Ewa Szulc-Wodarska
Lead Technical Product Manager
Maersk
Robert Børlum-Bach
Head of Data Architecture and Transformation
JP/Politiken Media Group
Max Schultze
Director of Data Engineering
HelloFresh
Jacqueline Berger
Data Scientist
Raiffeisenbank International
Juha Vesanto
Director, Quantum and AI Research Centre
OP Pohjola
David Dadoun
VP Data, Analytics and AI Innovation
BRP
Martin Dlask
Senior Principal AI/ML Engineer
King (part of Microsoft
Raquel Castro
UX Lead
Visma Software International
Christian Sundman
Innovation Manager
Wärtsilä
Tony Savander
Senior Data Scientist
Wärtsilä
Joe Arun Mathews
Solution Architect
Scania CV AB
Robert Ciborowski
QING MDM Solution Manager
Scania CV AB
Maria O. Christiansen
Head of Product Management, AI Engagement & Tech Adoption
TDC NET
Guillaume Blaquiere
Group Data Architect
Carrefour
Panagiotis Kakosimos
R&D Senior Principal Scientist
ABB
Davide Pigozzi
AI & Data Governance Manager
Securitas
Jeanette Nilsson
AI Ecosystem Expert
RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden
Dan Nordell
AI Strategist, Project Manager – AI Verkstaden
Skatteverket
Aline da Silva Souza
Business & Analytics Manager
Yara International
César Soto Valero
Data Scientist
SEB Group
Winfried Adalbert Etzel
Data Governance Professional
Winfried Etzel AS
Ankur Bansal
Credit Risk Analyst
T-Mobile USA
Maria Zelkovskaya
Business Data Governance Transformation Director
Danone
Fredrik Thuring
Head of Operational Analytics
Tryg
Damian Taranto
Principal AI/ML Engineer
King
Nikita Maslennikov
Data & Analytics Specialist
Arla Foods amba
Carmen-Ramona Ancuta
Master Data Governance Manager
Arla Foods amba
Viktoriia Kniazeva
Technical Architect
Omnevo GMBH
Adam Greco
Product Evangelist
Hightouch
Lars Hove Goswami-Christiansen
Principal SQL Server Database Administrator
PFA
Sebastian Herold
Senior Principal Data Engineer
Zalando SE
Timur Yüre
Engineering Manager
Zalando SE
Marcus Bräutigam
AI Enablement Lead
Skatteverket
Thore Bücking
Staff Data Scientist
Truecaller
Liniker Seixas
Associate Director – Recommendations
Truecaller
Shubhangi Goyal
Senior Analyst
Admiral Group Plc
Soumy Jacob
Specialist in Connected Ecosystem Strategy & Interoperability
BMW Group
Åge Ingierd
Head of Digital Transformation & AI
Telenor Norway Consumer
Jakob Thrane Godtfredsen Mainz
Director AI Governance
Novo Nordisk
Annie von Heijne
Manager Wholesale Analytics
ICA Sverige
Öykü Yilmaz
Business Intelligence Developer
Aller Media Denmark
Øystein Endal
AI Risk Officer
Gjensidige Forsikring ASA
Magnus Kjellberg
Director
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Rickard Brännvall
Senior Researcher
RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Carlos Paz von Friesen
Marine Remote Expert
County Administrative Board of Västerbotten
Charlotte Runberg
Business Development @ RISE Center for Applied AI RISE
Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Gabor Harsanyi
Head of M&CR Data Office
Ericsson AB
Åke Edlund
Chief Architect – Analytics & AI
Head of AI & Exploration (acting)
Telia Company
Tarek Abouzeid
Lead AI and Data Platform Engineer
Telia Company
Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz
Software Architect
Scania Group
Filippo Remonato
Project Leader
Skatteetaten
Snorri Árnason
Executive Producer of EVE Online
CCP Games
Kajetan Sygula
Senior Data Scientist
CCP Games
Geir Myrind
Chief Information Architect
Norwegian Tax Administration
Thore Dankert
Executive Director
Novo Holdings
Mattias Fras
Group Head of AI Adoption
Nordea
Anastasiia Stefanska
Senior Data Analyst / Solutions Architect
TUI
Mallika Rao
Engineering Manager
Netflix
Luis Martinez
AI Product Compliance Expert
ASSA ABLOY Group
Luba Weissmann
Ai & Data Director
Epiroc
Christel Füllenbach
Global Operations Manager
Epiroc
Antonio Martiradonna
CISO
Orkla ASA
Milap Patel
Head of AI Transformation
Ericsson AB
Annette Hultåker
Technical Manager
TRATON
Ole Olesen-Bagneux
VP, Chief Evangelist
Actian, a division of HCLSoftware
Johannes Sunden
Senior Manager, Solution Engineering
Snowflake
Marc Winkelmann
Managing Consultant
Scalefree International
Karsten Kristoffersen
Head of BI
Sparebank1 Sør-Norge
Lars Gudbrandsson
Chief Commercial Officer
Ritzaus Bureau
Viviane Santiago Coelho Gomes
Data Ingestion Manager
Xeneta As
Ilko Masaldzhiyski
VP Data Science
Xeneta As
Caroline Ohlsson
Data & AI Director
Verdane
Hanna Isacson
Product Manager AI & Automation
ICA
Julia Paulsen
Director of Ecommerce
Elkjøp Nordics
Teemu Jokinen
AI Expert
SAP Finland
Jimmy Renström
CIO
Stockholm Exergi
Martin Brolin
AI Lead
Stockholm Exergi
Olof Granberg
AI Strategist & builder
DataMentor
Erik Horsting
Principal Solutions Consultant
Reltio
Sudeep Das
Head of Machine Learning & AI, New Business Verticals
DoorDash Inc.
Ramon Chen
CPO
Acceldata
Lana Kader
AI and Strategy Manager
Matas Group
Angela Carpenter
Senior Solution Engineer
Snowflake
Adeiza Yisa
Business Information Security Office (BISO) Advisor
Shell
Martijn Bauters
Chief Data Officer
NEO Belgium
Nina Alias
Head of Data & Analytics Engineering
NOBA Bank
Sahar Tahvili, PhD
Head of Verification and Validation
Einride AB, Autonomous Technology
Deniz Minican
VP, Data & AI Office
H&M
Mathias Holm
VP, ML Engineering & Data Science
H&M
Reza Abedi
Senior Solution Architect | Data Governance & Architecture
Fortum
Nour Qweder
Senior Data Scientist
Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden
Hanna Häger
Data Scientist
Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden
Christina Finlay
Global Head of Data & AI, Industrial Operations
Volvo Cars
Vanessa Eriksson
AI and Cybersecurity Strategy Expert
Vanessa Eriksson AB
Olli Kilpeläinen
Principal Consultant, Data & AI
Futurice
Nicolas Averseng
CEO/Founder of YOOI
DataGalaxy
Katsimanis Thodoris
Technology Manager – Operational & Distributed Database Systems
KaizenGaming
Paul Fulton
VP – Regional Data Owners, Global Data & Analytics
Dun & Bradstreet
Faye Murray
Field CDO
Dataiku
Andreas Lundin
VP Data Engineering
H&M
Janne Lautanala
Chief Ecosystem and Technology Officer
Fintraffic
Tim Föckersperger
Account Executive
One Data GmbH
Christian Stadlmann
Chief Revenue Officer
One Data GmbH
Arjan Hijstek
Solution Architect
ClickHouse
Somil Gupta
Co-Founder and Agentic Operations Expert
Kovant
Dr. Chris Hillman
Global AI Lead
Teradata
Per Myrseth
Senior Researcher, Cyber Security
DNV, Research and Development
Claudia Chiţu
Engineering Manager
Arrive
André Westerlund
Business Solution Architect
Handelsbanken IT
Frej Örnberg
Sustainability Analyst
Handelsbanken Fonder
Dr Christopher Royles
CTO – EMEA
Cloudera
Adam Segal
Senior Solutions Engineer
Cloudera
Matthias Stahl
Head of Data & Visualizations
Der SPIEGEL
Nicola Holmes
Lead of the Data, Analytics & AI Center of Excellence
Kemira
Janne Sipilä
Director Business Development
Twoday
Gregor Bauer
VP Customer Engineering
CrateDB
Tamara Tatian
EMEA Technical Leader & Architect
IBM Data Platform
Antti Kajala
CIO
WiseDigi Oy
Gudrun Anna Atladottir
Leading Data & Analytics Platform Engineering – AI Foundation
Novo Nordisk
Henry De Rudder
Head of Data, AI & IT
Ceres Pharma
Rajesh Ananth
Account Management Senior Director
EPAM
Jon Palmer
Field CTO
Omni
Laura Malins
Head of Product
Sifflet
Roland Wammers
Field Architect
MinIO
Victoria Palacin
Research Team Leader
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Carolyn Cole
Research Scientist
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Ericka Johnson
Professor, Founder
Fair AI Data
Joel Vanhalakka
AI Advisory Studio
Solita
