Over 3 days in May 2024, more than 250 business leaders, investors, innovators, and policy delegates from all over the globe, gathered in Northern Sweden for the third edition of Demo North Summit.
Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is a Swedish journalist, moderator and program host focusing on sustainability. She is program host for We Don´t Have Time in collaboration with UNDP where she hosts online TV-broadcasts for audiences of up to 50 million people. She is also Content Director and moderator for A Sustainable Tomorrow and a TED-X speaker. Catarina has moderated for 20 years for a broad range of clients like the EU Commission, the Swedish government, international corporations, academia and for NGO´s. Her expertise is on all aspects of sustainability, but primarily climate action. Catarina has worked as a journalist since 1991, based in New York, Stockholm, Singapore and Malmö, Sweden. She has published 12 books in the field of sustainability and she lectures in Sweden as well as internationally. Catarina is co- founder of the international NGO “Our Kids´Climate” with groups in 23 countries. Her academic background is in political science, cultural science and journalism.
Public Affairs consultant, specializing in inward investment. Former Inward Investment Director for the City of Luleå and Chief Development Officer at The Node Pole, the Norrbotten region’s former marketing and investment agency to attract data center investments to northern Sweden.
Working with regional development in one of the most interesting regions in the world is exciting. We are the frontrunner of the green transition. Our job is to co-finance projects and investments in businesses, culture, science and innovation and in our municipalities, bring different actors together in order get progress in a great variety of aeras and influence different stakeholder and those who holds power both nationally and in EU to make decisions that benefits the development of our region.
Fredrik is a driven entrepreneur within the energy sector and has spent the last 10 years developing large scale energy projects to create symbiotical solutions based on waste heat. Prior to founding WA3RM, Fredrik was an integral part of the team designing and securing the energy flows at ESS, where the world’s largest linear proton accelerator ever is being built.
Study manager with more than 7 years of experience in explorationn and mine development in Sweden. Trained Engineer in Natural Resources Technology from Luleå University and Applied Geology from Plymouth University. In 2016, Tom moved to Norrbotten from the UK, where he started his professional career at Talga and during the past 8 years worked in various leading roles in exploration, planning and permit process.
Daniel Kronheffer is the investment director responsible for all infrastructure and green transportation-related projects at Polar Structure AB. Daniel has 20+ years of experience of working with business development, mainly in the real estate industry but also including energy and infrastructure. Previous experience includes Newsec, Cushman & Wakefield, Fasticon, Alecta and Boston Consulting Group.
