Speakers

For more than thirty years, Thierry Carlier held key positions within the French Directorate General of Armaments (DGA), from nuclear deterrence to strategic international cooperation. He led the ASMP-A missile programme, air-defence missile programmes with Italy and the UK, and later the Sub-Directorate for European Cooperation. He served as Deputy Director for Strategic Affairs at the SGDSN (2014–2017), then as DGA Director of International Development (2018–2022) and Deputy Director General (2022–2025).

Martin has almost two decades of experience helping organisations improve how they use technology and data across retail, financial services, energy and manufacturing. He has developed a strategy for AI in software development, advised a major bank on AI use cases and governance, and led an IT cost-reduction programme for a Nordic retailer. As moderator, he will explore what it really takes to achieve ROI from AI.

With a background in strategic innovation, digital transformation and cross-sector collaboration, Petra shapes partnerships that enable inclusive and trustworthy AI development. She has extensive experience leading initiatives at the intersection of technology, policy, regulation, business and societal impact.

Appointed National Industry Coordinator and Head of the Acceleration Office in 2024. Former CEO of Airport City Stockholm, manager of the Värtahamnen revitalisation project, and Vice Mayor of Stockholm for Urban Planning and Real Estate. She has served on the European Committee of the Regions and holds several board assignments in construction and real estate.

More than 10 years working with enterprise organisations across the Nordics and Europe on complex digital transformation, with expertise in SAP, enterprise data management, governance and AI readiness. At Syniti she focuses on the role of trusted, business-ready data in driving successful outcomes. Fluent in four languages.

Former founder in gaming and blockchain, Rémy leads Sales & Partnerships at Hivenet, part of the Antimatter group — a distributed, sovereign cloud offering GPUs, storage and inference on open-weight models. His focus: giving AI teams faster compute for less, without the usual trade-off on control.

Former strategy consultant and energy infrastructure financier, Sébastien is Chief of Staff at Policloud, the modular infrastructure arm of the Antimatter group, which designs and operates air-cooled, waterless micro data centres optimised for AI inference. HEC Paris and ENSAE Paris graduate.

Gaetan Coisne is CFO for Visa Nordics & Baltics, leading the finance agenda across eight markets. Based in Stockholm, he works alongside senior leaders, banks, fintechs and merchants to shape strategic priorities, accelerate growth and help drive the evolution of digital payments and value-added services.

Throughout his career at Visa, Gaetan has held a range of finance leadership roles across the UK & Ireland, France, Belgium and Luxembourg. He brings broad experience in strategic planning, investment governance, complex dealmaking, growth and transformation, with a strong focus on turning financial insight into business impact.

Jan Malmborg is a global marketing leader at Dassault Systèmes, driving Global Geo Marketing and Digital Online Sales. Before joining in 2016, he was Sales Director EMEAR at Logitech / 3Dconnexion. An entrepreneur with broad international experience, he brings strong expertise in sales, marketing and business development.

He is President of the French Chamber of Commerce in Sweden, a Foreign Trade Advisor to the French Government (CCEF), a board member of several international trading companies, and an MBA lecturer in Sales Excellence at EM Lyon business school. He holds an MSc from IPAG Business School and Linnaeus University.

Outside work, he enjoys sailing and mountain biking and is passionate about technology’s role in building a more sustainable future.

With more than twenty-five years in technology, Kristin Berg brings a perspective shaped by successive waves of digital transformation. Most recently at EG, she led software solutions for energy and facility management, connecting technology strategy with the realities of operating buildings. Her focus is on embedding AI strategy across the organisation, supported by clear ownership, trusted data and robust digital infrastructure. As moderator, she will explore how infrastructure, capital and industrial collaboration must come together to scale European AI, and what France and Sweden can build together next.