Lars Rossen, an accomplished leader, currently holds the prestigious position of Chief Architect and Senior Vice President for Engineering, overseeing shared services and components at OpenText. He manages the digital factory for OpenText's engineering and oversees hyper-scaler and platform strategy.
Lars Rossen's exceptional academic background is a testament to his profound knowledge and expertise. Holding an MS in engineering, an executive MBA in tech management, and a PhD in computer science from the Technical University of Denmark, Lars Rossen is a key figure in OpenText's innovation.
Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Vice President and Head of Design & User Experience Gapminder
Together with Hans Rosling and Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund founded Gapminder in 2005. Gapminder’s mission statement is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based world view everyone can understand. Together they also wrote the book Factfulness, launched in April 2018.
She designed the user-interface of the famous animating bubble-chart tool called Trendalyzer, used by millions of students across the world, to understand global development trends. The tool was acquired by Google, and Anna worked at Google in Mountain View, CA as a Senior Usability Designer from 2007 to 2010. At Google, Anna improved search results for public data, developed data exploration tools for Public Data
and made a bubble tool gadget (Motion chart) in Google Spreadsheets. In 2010, Anna came back to Gapminder to develop new free teaching material. Anna is now Vice President and Head of Design & User Experience at Gapminder. She also sits in the Gapminder Board. Anna holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Photography.
Anna founded Dollar Street, the biggest systematic image bank with representative home documentations based on data. At the moment we have almost 30,000 photos and 10,000 video clips, which are free to use under Creative Common license.
Mats Hultin
Chief Information Officer & Head of Enterprise IT Ericsson
Ericsson Enterprise IT is the trusted digital business partner to Ericsson, building and operating Ericsson’s internal digital platforms for business innovation and user experience. Along with keeping the Ericsson EIT engine running globally, Mats Hultin leads the Enterprise IT organization within Ericsson to continuously improve the company’s internal digital capabilities. Before becoming CIO of Ericsson on August 12, 2019, Mats Hultin was CIO at Saab for 10 years since 2009. Hultin is a member of several boards and holds multiple advisory board engagements. Mats has spent 10+ years in R&D in different roles – 7 years in aircraft aftermarket business including advanced logistics and supply chain management. Hultin spent 4 years in Swedish Air Force. He has been a delegate and European chairman of ASD Customer Support Committee (Aerospace & Defence Europe) for 5 years. Mats hold a master’s degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering as well as a MBA in Global Business Management.
