In today’s episode: New report: Last year, Swedish startups secured a record €7,8 billion in VC investments — Scandinavian MIND Unique exhibition gathers four young designers combining high fashion and upcycling this week — Scandinavian MIND Web 2.0 investors aren’t cut out for the web3 world — The Information Is this the real reason Epic Games acquired Bandcamp? — Music Business Worldwide Gallery: The Mandalorian special — Disney With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philip...
Mar 18, 2022•37 min
In this episode we discuss: Our visit to the NFT festival Otherlands . Key technology trends in resilience . How beauty brands need to operate in digital worlds, and how gamers are not only interested in gaming . This episode is guested by Nick Buckley, chief digital & marketing officer at L'Oréal Nordics. With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor. Scandinavian MIND Weekly is our show about current trends a...
Mar 11, 2022•41 min
In today’s episode: Michel Elmenbeck, joins as co-host. He is the founder of CFHILL Art Space and Bon Magazine , a renowned art advisor, collector and trend expert. OVRs (online viewing rooms); all major auction houses, art trade fairs and blue chip galleries seem to take away the option to view art online. What are the implications? NFTs and artist estates; what role will digitalisation of art and assets play for the future of artists and also dead artists’ estates? Special guest: Destinee Ross...
Mar 09, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 1
In today’s episode: How Scandinavian fashion and tech communities are supporting Ukraine. High-end fashion’s hits and misses in their support. Are the big tech companies doing enough? The launch of our new podcast KONST, launching next week. With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor. Scandinavian MIND Weekly is our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. F...
Mar 04, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 8
In today’s episode: Sneak-peeks into our third printed issue, being sent to the printer this weekend. Inside the new Avicii tribute museum — Scandinavian MIND LinkedIn debuts its own podcast network — Tech Crunch With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor. Scandinavian MIND Weekly is our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. Hosted ...
Feb 25, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In today’s episode: Fashion and art photographer Elizaveta Porodina’s new exhibition at Fotografiska in Stockholm Roland’s hands-on review of Kanye West’s Stem Player. We talk about Generation Mute – why silence is worth more than gold. Also special guest: Olof Lindh, founder and CEO of the Swedish startup Kive, an AI powered library for creators. Shownotes: Stem Player Kive AI Generation Mute: when silence becomes a trend Elizaveta Porodina — окна With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Foun...
Feb 18, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 6
In today’s episode: Our boots on the ground observations from Copenhagen Fashion Week. The joint design and fashion week running in Stockholm right now. Sneak peek on our virtual fashion special in the coming issue 3. Shownotes: Standout local talents, diversity and Nordic collabs — 8 takes from our visit to Copenhagen Fashion Week With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor. Scandinavian MIND Weekly is our show ...
Feb 11, 2022•34 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Today is a special episode in collaboration with NOMS, a newly launched impact-tech startup that challenges the way we produce, deliver, and experience fashion. NOMS is is a digital platform where consumers can order contemporary, fair trade garments, produced on-demand around the corner from where they live. In this episode we talk to the founders of NOMS: Siri Vikman, CEO, and Rodrigo Gutierrez Benavente, Creative Director. Exclusively, listen to the podd to get early access to the debuting dr...
Feb 08, 2022•16 min•Season 3Ep. 5
In today’s episode: How will a metaverse fashion week actually work? Our observations from Copenhagen Fashion Week The Nordic fashion prize winners Highlighting 5 phenomena from The Meta Trend Report of 2022 Inviting Karolina Lisslö Gylfe, secretary general at Ekomodernisterna, to talk car-free cities, nuclear power, and more. Shownotes: UNXD and Decentraland to host virtual Fashion Week in March The Meta Trending Trends: 2022 Boram Yoo wins the Designers’ Nest Award 2022 Svenska Ekomodernistern...
Feb 04, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 3
In today’s episode: Gucci and Superplastic’s use of ”animated synthetic celebrities” like Guggimon and Janky to push their new NFTs. Our observations on Scandinavian fashion, digital speakeasy afterparties, and more at Paris Fashion Week. Kanye West’s Stem Player. Andrew Tuck, editor-in-chief of Monocle, guests us to discuss The Monocle Book of the Nordics. With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder, Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large, and Erik Sedin, Junior Editor. Scandinavia...
Jan 28, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Thank God it’s Friday, and we’re back from our Christmas hiatus! In this episode we discuss: Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard’s exciting approach to NFTs Visiting a metaverse rave Microsoft’s 68 billion dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard The nasty logistics of returning online purchases With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large for future and digitisation Erik Sedin, Junior Editor Scandinavian MIND Weekly is our show about current tren...
Jan 21, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 1
On the season finale, we discuss: Nike acquires the french digital sneaker brand RTFKT Chanel invests heavily in craftsmanship and artisans Swedish developer Hazelight wins Game of the Year with It Takes Two We wrap up our mobility special, looking at innovations on rail and road And we talk about what’s in store for Scandinavian MIND in 2022 Scandinavian MIND Weekly is our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective...
Dec 17, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 26
This week we're guested by Helsinki based Olof Hoverfält works as strategy & business design consultant at technology company Reaktor. Olof has made a name for himself as a writer and public speaker with expertise in artificial intelligence. In this episode, Olof talks about: How AI is used when facing problems we’ve never encountered before. The mystery of how machines learn to identify objects. How children and algorithms tend to just identify processes, even though we don’t know exactly h...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 25
On the show today: Former Christie’s boss Loïc Gouzer’s newly started company Particle. Banksy’s Love Is In The Air painting is being cut up to 10,000 digital pieces as NFTs. Is shared ownership taking away the value of an art piece? The ins and outs of Chinese car brand Nio ’s launch into the Norwegian market. With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, Editor-at-Large for future and digitisation Erik Sedin, Junior Editor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...
Dec 10, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 24
We revisit a live panel talk from the Swedish pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, which was part of our activities during space week earlier this fall. The panel discusses how space can act as an accelerant for good on earth — specifically in fighting poaching. Panel members are Professor Jan Staël von Holstein, Herman Stander, Peace Parks Foundation, Cecilia Hertz, Umbilical Design, and Tina Sjögren, CEO Pythomspace. The panel talk touches upon: How to stop poaching from a birds eyes view. Using sa...
Dec 08, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 23
On the show today: This week’s travel guide to Sognefjorden, the breathtakingly beautiful and big fjord in Norway. Our favourite memories and projects from Virgil Abloh. How Jack Dorsey’s tech empire is accelerating with Square’s name change to Block. The future of mobility via water travel. Takeaways from Slush 2021 in Helsinki, with mini-interviews from Urho Konttori, CEO and co-founder of Varjo, and Johanna Norrman, CEO and founder of It’s Re:Leased. Scandinavian MIND Weekly is our show about...
Dec 03, 2021•40 min
Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck has been an aeroplane pilot for more than a decade but is now taking another trajectory within aviation — airships. Lawaczeck is the CEO of OceanSky, a Swedish based aviation company that seeks to disrupt air travel through the reinvention of LTA, Lighter-than-air technology. In this episode, Carl-Oscar talks about: The safety of lighter than air technologies How airships are more similar to travelling on the water than in the air Why OceanSky is staring out in the luxury sp...
Nov 30, 2021•53 min•Season 2Ep. 21
We invite Scandinavian MIND editor-at-large Fredrik Ekström to speak on The New Sustainable Consumer, to be released on December 9. In the quantitative report, Fredrik clarifies sustainability with toolkits to thrive in this time of rapid transformation, highlighting areas where brands can win, directions for success, and consumer profiles we should be talking to now, and how to speak with them. Today on the show: A ground report from the newly opened digital culture hub Space in Stockholm, whic...
Nov 26, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Jakob Trollbäck is the founder of The New Division and Trollbäck + Company . On top of this, he is perhaps most famous as the main architect behind the communication language for the United Nation 's 17 Global Goals for sustainable development. Since its launch in 2015, the Global Goals agenda has been used by companies and organisations worldwide and has been a substantial contribution to the increased conversation around sustainability. In this episode, Jakob discusses: Taking help from Richar...
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. The Startup Funding Report, which shows the inequality of how much investors invested in women versus men. Mips’ virtual testing lab for helmets. The no-brainer of investing and visiting Höga Kusten. With: Nora Bavey, General Partner & Cofounder Unconventional Ventures Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder Roland Phili...
Nov 19, 2021•36 min
Margot Barolo is a renowned product designer and programme director and lecturer at Beckmans College of Design. In recent years Barolo has delved into the issues of production and challenged the image of production, which has resulted in several books and projects. Most recent is the Kinship method, a book and project on changing a very stagnant and frustrating design process for designers. Talking points: Getting a more diverse team of designers and customers. Why it’s so hard to make a living ...
Nov 17, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. How Zara Larsson’s Roblox concert revenues surprised everyone (except gamers). The four pillars of mobility, and listing groundbreaking mobility companies within the aviation industry. How Espoo, Finland’s second-biggest city, is a mecca for design and tech startups. With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-Chief & Founder Roland Phili...
Nov 12, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Today we revisit our interview with Karinna Nobbs and Marjorie Hernandez from June 2021. Karinna Nobbs and Marjorie Hernandez are founders of The Dematerialised. A new marketplace for digital fashion, or as they call themselves a market space. They are pioneering the world of digital style, authenticated by blockchain technology. In this conversation, Karinna and Marjorie talk about: The common misconception that digital fashion is solely digital. Dematerialising a very physical industry. The am...
Nov 10, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. Today on the program: We go all in on the metaverse. After Facebook announcing their company name being Meta, the idea of the metaverse is entering the mainstream. Microsoft’s recently announced debuting metaverse products What is Web3? We are going to talk about this with our special guest, Emma Ridderstad, CEO of Warpin Media. ...
Nov 05, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Meet three founders of forward-thinking startups, and hear them talk about how to innovate traditional industries, running a company based on Swedish values, and the need for more female entrepreneurs. This podcast was recorded on stage at the Swedish pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, and is part of our Changemakers series. Speakers are: Claudia Rademaker, VP & Co-founder of Dugga Assessment. Annie Backman, COO & Co-founder of Care to Translate. Karin Ebbinghaus, CEO of Elonroad. In this e...
Nov 03, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. Today on the program: Did Facebook change its name to Meta to accelerate the metaverse development or to start fresh? The new Oura Ring 3 can measure and map your health 24 hours a day. What is a B-corp, and should companies even want to be one? Stockholm’s new tech week. With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief & Founder Roland ...
Oct 29, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Micael Dahlen is a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, with expertise in the intersecting areas of consumer behaviour, human happiness, welfare, marketing and creativity. He is also a speaker and an author, with the latest book Sifferdjur on shelves now, in which Micael and co-author Helge Thorbjørnsen discuss how numbers are running, and ruining our lives. In this episode, Micael talks about: How the times we live in are crammed with numbers. Getting a bad rating from an Uber driver...
Oct 27, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. Today on the program: The possible game-changing moment for cryptocurrencies after the US ETF boost. Dissecting Expo 2020 in Dubai, and ranking the different Scandinavian pavilions. Boots on the ground reporting from GiTech, including an out of body experience with haptic gloves. With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief & Founder...
Oct 22, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 10
At the start of this week, Scandinavian MIND presented the launch of Space Week at the Swedish pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai. On the opening day, we conducted a panel talk with Christer Fuglesang, astronaut, Cecilia Hertz, space designer and founder of Umbilical Design, and Mathias Sundin, founder of Warp Institute. In this podcast, the panel talk about: How human space flight drives technology development on earth. Learning to minimise waste and harvest resources from space engineering and tec...
Oct 20, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Our show about current trends and events within business, tech, fashion, design, culture, and more. From the Nordic perspective of our team of editors and contributors. Today on the program: We’ll talk about Swedish mobility company Lynk & Co new retail concepts. We go behind the scenes of our cover story with Google designer Isabelle Olsson. And we’ll talk about Scandinavian MINDs upcoming activities in Dubai. With: Konrad Olsson, Editor-in-chief & Founder Roland Philippe Kretzschmar, e...
Oct 15, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 8
