The Nordic Women and Data Summit (NWD Summit) is envisioned as an annual event bringing together the community of women data practitioners to share ideas, discuss ways to harness the full potential of data and accelerate data- and AI-innovation across organisations.
On stage, we are bringing some of the most forward thinking female data practitioners of different positions and responsibilities in organisations from both private and public sector in the Nordics, covering topics that will provide a holistic approach to value creation of data and information, and turning this information to action.
The NWD Summit is a place for all women practitioners working with Data Management, Analytics, Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, IOT and Artificial Intelligence.
Who should attend
The NWD Summit is tailor made for any female data practitioners and organisations working with:
Data-Driven or AI-Driven Business Strategy
/> CHIEF DATA OFFICER
/> CHIEF DIGITALIZATION OFFICER
/> HEADS OF DATA AND
INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
or utilisation of
/> DATA SCIENCE
/> MACHINE AND DEEP LEARNING
/> NLP AND AI TO INNOVATE AND
IMPROVE BUSINESS
Why attend
BASED ON INSPIRATION AND DOMAIN INSIGHT
Why is it important
It goes without saying that there is a deficit of talent and gender inequality in data practice across domains and industries, an issue that we want to remedy by creating a community platform for female data practitioners and organisations to recognise and foster female talent.


Dacil
Ullman
Group data analytics manager at intrum
For over 20 years, Dacil has worked within the field of analyzing data and transform it into insights. Today, she is responsible for driving Advanced Analytics within Intrum Group. Her team of Data Scientists and Data Analysts works all across Europe, improving the efficiency of the current processes, implementing new ways of working and are an important player in the launch of new products to the market. This is done by applying analytics, from simple algorithms to advanced AI, whatever is most cost efficient, always with ethics and compliance as a guidance.

Katarina
Hansson
retail industry lead at teradata
After 25+ years in the retail industry I changed my path to the IT industry. From business to business development based on data and analytics. With my extensive experience in sales, marketing, e-commerce and customer loyalty I guide customers in their digital transformation. Im the analytical translator guiding customers in how to transform their business by recommending how to over come business problems through data and sophisticated analytics. How to deliver on their strategic business vision in a step-by-step approach.



Farnaz
Motamediyan
Data analyst at izettle
Farnaz is a part of the Data Analytics team at iZettle. She holds a master degree in computer science and has done Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing prior to her current role at iZettle. Farnaz is a board-member of PinkProgramming organization which aims to inspire and educate women to enter the IT industry.

Anna
Metsäranta
business strategist at solita
Anna has a computer science and business background, having studied Operations Research (M.Sc. Econ) and worked in various roles within systems development for 15 years. She repatriated to Finland five years ago, having spent a decade as a management consultant in London. After working in industry for five years, Anna recently gave into the call of consulting and joined Solita, a Finnish technology, design, and strategy consultancy.

Maria
Ovchinnikova
founder and ceo of womenhackcph
Empower and encourage women to be more active and engaged with tech community via hackathon events

Agnes
Sävenstedt
Co Founder and Director Level Consultant of innovation360 group
Agnes Sävenstedt’s expertise is in how to establish innovation as a habit in the organizations she works with. She is a Co-Founder of Innovation 360 Group, whose mission is to support and strengthen the global innovation capability needed to address humanity’s grand challenges.

Elin
Allison
Head of New Product, Data Insights, division x at Telia Company
Elin has +15 years of international experience across Telecom and IT software sectors working for multinationals such as Microsoft, Hutchison Whampoa before joining Telia Company in 2015. She has a background in product management, business development and incubation sales for retail, IoT and public sector. Today Elin heads up Telia’s Division X New Products portfolio team for data insights products and is a regular speaker at industry events.

Elena
Kell
Innovation and Change manager, AI Centre of Excellence at Telia Company
Elena Kell is an Innovation and Change manager with a passion for exponential tech, diversity and sustainability. Elena co-leads AI Center of Excellence and drives AI/ML initiatives in Telia Company. Elena is involved in the work with operationalizing principles for ethical and trusted AI, future skills training for employees and other initiatives. She is an ambassador for Sweden for the global non-profit “Women in AI” working towards gender-inclusive AI that benefits global society with the mission is to increase female representation and participation in AI.

Celine
Xu
Senior Data Scientist at axel johnson
Celine works as a senior data Scientist at Axel Johnson group, responsible for inspiring and supporting the companies within the group to develop and execute the advanced analytics, and applied AI capability.
Celine is passionated about applying ML/DL algorithms and new technologies to improve companies’ business performance and to steer companies to a more data-driven way.

Sara
Sylvan
Product owner | data science team at Connected Intelligence Scania
Sara has 10+ years’ experience of analytics within the manufacturing industry and has therefore acquired knowledge about the processes and methods you must master before you can create value with big data analytics at a traditional company. On this conference, she will talk about how she has lead a project with a cross functional team enabling business to take data driven decisions utilizing a modern, scalable data pipeline.

Ellie
Dobson
director of ai engineering at graphcore
Ellie has 15 years experience building data-driven solutions in engineering organisations. She is a particle physicist by training, having worked as part of the Higgs discovery team at CERN. She has worked for the past decade for software companies in variety of industries, but with the focus on the application of advanced analytics and digitalisation to engineering disciplines. She is currently a Director of AI Engineering at GraphCore, a British company that has developed a new processor to support new breakthroughs in machine intelligence.
Programme
08:00
Registration, breakfast and mingle
08:40
Chairwomen’s Opening Remarks
/> Linda Borelius – CEO of Sparks & Dacil Ullman – Group Data Analytics Manager at Intrum
08:50
MAKING INNOVATION A HABIT – and how to navigate strategic uncertainty
/> Agnes Sävenstedt – CoFounder and Director Level Consultant of Innovation360 Group
09:20
Open and Round table Discussions: AI Innovation, Ethics and Diversity – How is your organisation working with these topics
10:00
Coffee & Networking
10:30
Towards diversity one woman at a time
/> Maria Ovchinnikova – Founder and CEO of WomenHackCPH
11:00
Morning Panel: AI Innovation, Ethics and Diversity
/> Elena Kell – Innovation and Change manager, AI Centre of Excellence at Telia Company; Katarina Hansson – Retail Industry Lead at Teradata; Anna Metsäranta – Business Strategist at Solita
11:30
AI in the real world – combining the best of tech with the best of humanity
/> Elin Allison – Head of New Product, Data Insights, Division X at Telia Company
12:00
Light lunch
13:00
Round Table Discussions: Diverse Themes
13:45
Excited to innovate through data? But, do you have a Business Case?
/> Katarina Hansson – Retail Industry Lead at Teradata
14:15
14:45
The Importance of Human Onboarding in Data and AI Driven Transformation
/> Lena Noaksson & Gustav Roth – People Expert & Doer at Doings by House of Impact
15:15
Coffee & Networking
15:45
Innovation Panel: Bridging the Gaps between Business, Data Science and IT
/> Celine Xu – Senior Data Scientist at Axel Johnson; Sara Sylvan – Product Owner | Data Science Team at Connected Intelligence Scania; Ellie Dobson – Director of AI Engineering at GraphCore
16:15
A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist – DataDriven marketing attribution model, the power of Game theory
/> Farnaz Motamediyan – Data Analyst at iZettle
16:45
From prototype to production: how to build data-driven solutions for engineers that stick
/> Ellie Dobson – Director of AI Engineering at GraphCore
17:20
Chairwomen’s Closing Remarks and Networking Cocktail
/> Linda Borelius – CEO of Sparks & Dacil Ullman – Group Data Analytics Manager at Intrum
Pictures from 2019 edition
Pictures from Nordic Women and Data Summit 2019 can be found here























Venue: Vasa Theatre
Located only one minute walk from the Central Station, Vasa Theatre is one of Stockholm’s first private theatres.