DIGITAL COPENHAGEN
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
TIVOLI HOTEL

The CEO of a UK startup pioneering deepfake technology thinks we're just three years away from having computer-generated versions of actors that are so good, they're indistinguishable from real humans.

Victor Riparbelli, 27, cofounded Synthesia two years ago. The company made its first big splash in 2018 when it used its technology to make a BBC news anchor appear to be speaking Spanish, Mandarin and Hindi.

More recently the company applied its tech to soccer legend David Beckham. In collaboration with the campaign Malaria Must Die, Synthesia manipulated Beckham's facial features so that nine malaria survivors were able to speak through him — in nine different languages.

My name is Andreas Ekström, and I am a journalist and an author, but most of all a keynote speaker working all around the world. I recently won the Swedish ”Speaker of the Year” award.

My passion is to educate for digital equality. I want to see a world in which we share the wealth – not only financially, but also in terms of knowledge and power. I am an author of seven books, a columnist and a commentator, and I often lecture and lead seminars, mostly on the digital revolution.

During the past few years, I have been a keynote speaker at conferences all over Europe and the rest of the world, approaching 30 countries, and I often serve as a digital thought partner for groups of leaders and boards of directors, trying to make use of ideas and knowledge I have collected over the past decade. Sessions like that are always tailor made, and thoroughly prepared with each client. I was a TEDx speaker in 2013 and again in 2015. That second time, the talk was distributed through ”big” TED, and has to date been viewed well over a million times. 

Susan Etlinger is a globally recognized expert in digital strategy, with a focus on artificial intelligence, technology ethics and data. In addition to her work at Altimeter, Susan is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, an independent, non-partisan think tank based in Canada and a member of the United States Department of State Speaker Program. She works with clients to assess the impact of AI and other advanced technologies on business, and to identify use cases, opportunities, risks and organizational and cultural considerations. She also works with technology vendors to refine product road maps and strategies based on her independent research. 

In 2020, Susan was named one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics by Lighthouse3, a strategic research consultancy focused on AI. Her TED talk, “What Do We Do With All This Big Data?" has been translated into 25 languages and has been viewed more than 1.3 million times. Her research is used in university curricula around the world, and she has been quoted in numerous media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times and BBC. Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley.

Lisbeth has 15+ years experience within Management & Tech. Award-winning Leader, Board Member, Speaker and building a Start-up. 

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Nina Hajikhanian leads the ecommerce business for Patagonia, throughout the EMEA region, bringing to life the company’s reason for being: We’re in business to save our home planet.

Based at Patagonia’s European Headquarters in Amsterdam, she is responsible for the holistic ecommerce customer experience, through the lenses of outdoor sports and environmental activism.

Prior to joining Patagonia, Nina worked in Australia, as Head of Ecommerce for Australia and New Zealand at Adidas Group. She has held senior marketing roles at brands including Red Bull.

Iranian-born Nina grew up in Austria. She has an MBA from the University of Western Australia and has worked and studied in countries including Spain, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, Australia and the UK. She is passionate about exploring wild places, all over the world, through ‘silent sports’ such as skiing, ski touring, surfing, kitesurfing, mountain biking, yoga, hiking and climbing. She is a licensed ski instructor and member of the Austrian Alpine Club.