Speakers at the 2024 Autumn meeting

Agnes Palinski

Deputy Mayor (M) and 1st Vice Chair of the Environment and Urban Planning Committee, as well as a member of the municipal council in Nacka.

Her interest in societal issues was sparked during her teenage years in Norrköping and has since shaped her engagement and professional life. She is passionate about working at the intersection of politics, business, and society, focusing on important issues and assignments that make a difference.

In her free time, she longs to carve down white slopes or relax on sun-warmed archipelago cliffs. However, much of her time is devoted to everyday tasks and family.

She is currently on leave from her position as Communications Manager and holds degrees in Economics (M.Sc. in Economics) and Political Science (B.A. in Politics) from Örebro University.

Lisette Hallström

Board member MoveByBike. Former CEO of MoveByBike 2020-2024

Lisette has extensive experience from work in logistics. Previously, she has, among other things, worked as operations manager for established logistics companies such as Jetpak, NH Logistics, PostNord and others. Today she is commercial manager at Early Bird.

MoveByBike

MoveByBike is the Nordic region's leading logistics operator for citysmart last mile. With efficient delivery flows, MoveByBike meets the customer's demands for convenient and fast deliveries all the way to the door. With electric transport bikes, they get around on double infrastructure and save time by not having to look for parking or take into account the cities' car-free zones. The logistics solution of the future – environmentally friendly and cycle-borne.

Environmentally friendly delivery directly to the customer

With electric bikes, MoveByBike delivers faster, more efficiently and greener than what is possible with an electric van. Their vehicle has an electricity consumption that corresponds to one tenth of the electricity consumption of an electric van with the same load capacity. All this combined with advanced software and dedicated drivers creates city-smart logistics for the future.

Roos Mulder

Project Manager, The Loop Factory

About Texscale – project to drive systematic change through scaling up

Project participants: Rester, Sysav, Tväteriförbundet and others

The project's main goal is to increase the resource-efficient use of textiles by bridging the gap between nonwoven production on a pilot and industrial scale, optimizing logistics and increasing the knowledge and ability within the industry to convert to a circular economy.

The project's sub-goals are to:

1. Demonstrate viability of at least four (4) scalable processes or products from design to recycling, including validated system value chains.
2. Develop at least three (3) concepts with a business plan ready for implementation.
3. Lead at least 10 seminars and workshops aimed at reaching at least 100 companies and organizations with a focus on increasing knowledge and stimulating circular innovation that goes from plans to action.
4. Develop a roadmap for sustainable and economically feasible logistics in the Nordic countries.

Simone Fuchs

Head of Legal & Sustainability @Eniro

Eniro exists for companies that want to achieve success and growth in their market. Today, Eniro optimizes the opportunity for companies to create local presence, searchability and marketing digitally.

Allan Larsson

Former Minister of Finance and Director General

This year, Allan Larsson has published "Memory pictures - instead of memoirs". It is a new form of memoir writing. He describes in pictures and a short text 51 events from his childhood and a long life in public activities.

The memories range from the eight-year-old's fear that the nuclear weapons tests in 1946 would blow up the whole world, to the first meeting with Olof Palme in 1956, the work as a journalist at Arbetet, Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, SVT and Tidningen Vi as well as the experiences as one of "Tage's boys" 1967–69, six years as AMS director, five years in the government and the Riksdag in the 1990s. He describes Sweden's path to the EU "From Metal speech to membership" and how in the 1990s he came to collaborate with Jacques Delors and Jean-Claude Juncker on a European employment strategy and a social pillar. In a commemorative picture, he compares the experiences from his work for four prime ministers: Tage Erlander, Olof Palme, Ingvar Carlsson and Stefan Löfven.

Jan Nicolay

Head of Business Development, sewts

sewts is pioneering the century of Physical AI. We are accelerating the development of agile robotics perfectly tailored to bridge automation gaps in the textile service industry.

Our brain-in-a-box approach to building advanced robotics spins out intricate and new use cases, positioning sewts as the go-to company to address complex automation tasks in the future.

Our systems rely on high-quality visual data, utilizing advanced 2D and 3D vision systems. We use this data to enhance our AI, enabling robots to perform tasks with human-like cognition. Our AI algorithms adapt to varying scenarios, translating complex sensor data into precise robotic actions.

Briefly about Jan:

• 12+ years of experience in industrial automation (including mobile robots, machine vision, industrial robots)
• Automation Expertise from various industries (Automotive, Logistics, Healthcare, Pharma, Textile Service Industry)
• Global customer and market experience

Yvonne Augustsson

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

Textiles – an area in change

Yvonne will talk about a lot happening in the textile area with a focus on three pieces of legislation, which will affect the members of The Swedish Textile Service Association.

Two pieces of legislation that have been decided:

Eco-design for sustainable products and separate collection of textiles from other waste.

In addition, there will be a brief status update on the ongoing negotiations regarding possible producer responsibility.

There will be opportunities to ask questions.

Michael Bo Jensen

Senior Fellow, Alumichem

Michael has worked with water treatment for more than 30 years. He was the owner of one of the leading Danish companies serving the municipal and industrial wastewater treatment market with a solution-oriented approach. For the past 20 years, he has implemented solutions for industrial laundries and continues to do so. More recently, he has worked with sludge solutions for land-based fish farming facilities, so-called Recirculating Aquaculture Systems.

He is an avid outdoorsman; His passion is flying vintage aircraft. His gold is the grandchildren.