Hanna Nova Beatrice Moderator

Project Area Manager Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair/Stockholm Design Week & Creative Director, The New Era Magazine.
Stockholmsmassan

Hanna has worked as a design writer, moderator, and creative director in design and publishing her entire career and has a past as Editor in Chief for titles such as Residence and Form. Amongst her published books are Behind the Scenes in the Design Industry

Konrad Olsson Moderator

Curator, Stockholm Design & Architecture Talks and Editor in chief, Scandinavian MIND
Scandinavian Mind

Konrad is one of Sweden’s most established magazine editors within fashion and design and the founder and editor-in-chief of Scandinavian MIND, a magazine and platform covering the intersection of lifestyle and technology. He’s an experienced speaker, moderator, and podcaster and regularly advises brands and organisations on content strategy and digital transformation

Marcus Fairs Moderator

Editor in chief,
Dezeen

Dezeen is widely regarded as the most influential and popular design website in the world, attracting over two million unique visitors every month. Marcus is the author of four books and the first digital journalist to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Ana Cristina Quiñones Panelist

Founder
Materia Madura

Ana is a Material, Product, and Furniture Designer from Puerto Rico who specializes in sustainability and material innovation. She creates effective and meaningful solutions to environmental issues by designing sophisticated objects that have a story to tell through their materiality.

In 2012, Ana started to create an innovative plantain and coffee waste-based material composite and continued to further develop and refine it through research and design until finally establishing it in 2015 under the name Materia Madura. Since then, she has developed a wide range of products that have been exhibited globally throughout galleries, museums, and acclaimed design fairs. Her work has also been published throughout a variety of international publications. In 2020, she expands Materia Madura into a brand and a business; offering sustainably designed products made with local, innovative waste-based materials to be accessible to all through an online platform.

Anna Holmquist Panelist

Designer & Co-founder
Folkform

Anna Holmquist is a Swedish designer and member of Stockholm based design duo Folkform, formed in 2005 by Anna Holmquist and Chandra Ahlsell. With a penchant for “low” materials such as chipboard, synthetic leather and fake marble, the design duo likes to challenge our pre-conceptions of what we consider valuable.

Anna Lindgren Panelist

Co-founder
Front

Anna Lindgren is one of the members and Co-Founders of the Swedish design studio Front. Front’s works are based on common discussions, explorations and experiments and they collaborate in all projects from initial ideas to the final product. Front’s design objects often communicate a story to the observer about the design process, about the material it is made of or about conventions within the design field. In their work they have assigned part of the making of design to animals, computers or machines. They have made a constantly changing interior, created objects with explosions, robotic furniture and a range of furniture inspired by their fascination with magic.

Beatrice Galilee Panelist

Curator and Critic

The New York-based critic, curator, and cultural consultant is the founder and executive director of the architecture conference The World Around and author of Radical Architecture of the Future, which was published by Phaidon earlier this year

Duncan Baker-Brown Panelist

Architect and Activist
Baker Brown, founder

Baker-Brown is a practising architect, academic, and environmental activist. He’s also the author of The Re-Use Atlas, published by RIBA and Climate Literacy Champion at the University of Brighton. He has practised, researched, and taught around issues of sustainable and closed-looped systems for more than 25 years.

Emanuele Stamuli Panelist

Founder & CEO
Stamuli

Stamuli is a design studio made of a collective of creative and technical people. We love rationalism and we always try to conceptualize decorations in our projects. Color plays often an important role in our design. We have a construction-oriented mindset and we like to project-manage what we design. Our expertise focus on materiality with an eye on sustainability and how to use materials of the future.

Emma Olbers Panelist

Designer and Creative Director
Emma Olbers

The award-winning designer has worked with a focus on sustainability for the last 20 years, designing products and interiors with a circular mindset. She’s a frequent speaker on topics concerning sustainable design practice and for Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2022, Olbers curates the climate exhibition One kilo CO2e.

Ivana Kildsgaard Panelist

Director of Sustainability and Quality
Tengbom

Ivana Kildsgaard has over twenty years of experience as architect, researcher, and sustainability specialist. Her experiences stretches from practicing interior designer and architect, researcher, and member of national and international innovation projects, to being a sustainability leader responsible for developing sustainability strategies for architectural practices.

John Löfgren Panelist

Form us with love

Katarina Graffman Panelist

PhD Cultural Anthropology & CEO
Inculture

As a doctor of Cultural Anthropology, Katarina Graffman has a vast knowledge and understanding of culture within business, media, and consumerism. Over the last 15 years, she has provided extensive ethnographic research and analysis on contemporary culture, trends and branding

Katie Treggiden Panelist

Writer & Speaker

Treggiden champions a circular approach to craft and design and focuses on creativity as a positive agent for social change. Having written four books, established an independent magazine, and contributed to publications such as The Guardian, Design Milk, and Monocle24, she undertook a master’s degree in the history of design at the University of Oxford.

Lay Koon Tan Panelist

Co-founder
Nature Squared

Nature Squared is an ethical business, leveraging heritage craft skills in emerging countries to transform waste natural materials into luxury surfaces for diverse applications. It’s found in the most exclusive surroundings – from the dashboard of a Rolls-Royce Phantom to superyacht, residential, hospitality, and commercial interiors. Their maxim: “Trade not aid”.

Lisa Bergstrand Panelist

Founder
A NEW SWEDEN

A NEW SWEDEN creates quality garments made in Sweden from Swedish wool and was founded by Lisa Bergstrand and Anthony Lui in 2019.
Lisa has worked more then 15 years in the fashion industry, both for luxury companies (YSL, Celine, Givenchy) and small start ups. Lisa started A NEW SWEDEN to prove that is was possible to make clothing in a truly sustainable way, with natural material found locally and a production as locally as possible. A NEW SWEDEN buys the wool directly from the sheep farmers and control all steps in the manufacturing process to ensure it is made as locally as possible. Our production chain is less then 1/5 of the avarage wool garment. A NEW SWEDEN makes timeless garments that leave no trace.
Lisa also works as a sustainability consultant in fashion and textiles (Bergstrand Consultancy).

Maria Uggla Panelist

Senior Design Manager
Polestar

Maria has a strong focus on sustainable materials and is one of the main drivers of Polestar’s sustainability work which focuses on climate, circularity, transparency, and inclusion. In Polestar Precept, winner of the Eyes on Design award 2021 for Innovative Use of Color, Graphics, or Materials, she introduced a number of sustainable material solutions

Paola Bjäringer Panelist

Founder
Misschiefs

Paola Bjäringer is a Cultural entrepreneur & curator. She holds a degree in gender studies, journalism, and sociology.
She grew up in Paris, where she opened Gallerie Slott in 2009, focusing on conceptual contemporary design. Moving to Stockholm, she started the project Misschiefs, an ongoing feminist exhibition of contemporary collectible design. Misschiefs was first shown in 2020 at Bångska våningen in Stockhom.

Simon Anund Panelist

Founder & Creative Director
Verk

Simon Anund is the Co-Founder & Creative director of Verk, a Swedish furniture company focusing on local production and long lasting design. Simon founded Verk togheter with Jacop Merlini in 2020. Simon has a background in furniture design and teaching, as well as 10 years of experience as an artist focused on sculpture.

Simon Ballen Botero Panelist

Product Designer

Passionate about cultures and local traditions, the Colombian has travelled and worked closely with artisans, communities, and indigenous cultures in Europe and Latin America. His work focuses on the use of local resources and materials to create sustainable solutions for the local community and has been published in the likes of Dezeen, Domus, and Wallpaper Magazine

Sofia Lagerkvist Panelist

Co-Founder
Front

Sofia Lagerkvist is one of the members and Co-Founders of the Swedish design studio Front. Front’s works are based on common discussions, explorations and experiments and they collaborate in all projects from initial ideas to the final product. Front’s design objects often communicate a story to the observer about the design process, about the material it is made of or about conventions within the design field. In their work they have assigned part of the making of design to animals, computers or machines. They have made a constantly changing interior, created objects with explosions, robotic furniture and a range of furniture inspired by their fascination with magic.

Susie Jahren Panelist

Director of Circular Solutions
AION by Aker

With a long background as a sustainable plastics researcher and innovator in the transition to a circular economy, Jahren now leads AION’s pioneering Circularity as a Service (CaaS). It’s industrially scaling a circular plastic economy by offering a data-driven solution for reporting together with a physical circular product replacing existing linear product value chains

Yrsa Lindberg Panelist

Human Ecologist
Greenwashing i Sverige

Yrsa is a human ecologist who specializes in sustainability communication. Through her Instagram account Greenwashing i Sverige she advocates against greenwashing and educates her followers in sustainable communication and marketing regulations.