Konrad Olsson

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And a snowy Monday it is…

Things we are working on this week:
📑A new report on the future of digital fashion
🎙️Editing our Innovation Talks recorded at CIFF (we’ll start publishing this week)
📸The cover stories for Scandinavian MIND Issue 4, out in April

And more… Grateful for so many exciting projects.

❄️❄️❄️

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⚡️ (at Stockholm, Sweden)
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Last week at the Polestar showroom in downtown Stockholm…

Good times with a brilliant quartet of speakers: Emma Olbers, Designer & Creative director, Jennie Rosén, CEO Swedish Fashion Council, and Maria Uggla and Komal Singh of Polestar Design.

The conversation circled around the need for collaboration between fashion, design, and mobility industries, and the importance of material decisions in every aspect of the design journey. ⁠

Listening was the international delegation of design journalists and editors.

Thanks for having me @polestarcars and @grandrelations

🙏🏻💫
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#polestar #stockholmdesignweek #scandinavianmind (at Polestar)
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Thanks @jlindebergofficial for a great evening. ⚡️

@neil_lewty
@karinelwin
@aakerlind_pr

👌🏼 (at Bleck)
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Retail Tech Talks at CIFF by @scandinavian.mind and powered by @getimpulso ⚡️ Thanks to all the brilliant speakers and an attentive audience.

Hear our observations from Copenhagen Fashion Week in this week’s podcast. Link in bio. 🎙️
(at Bella Center, Copenhagen-Denmark.)
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I had so much fun hosting the Polestar Talks in Helsinki back in November. Great insights on design from the Finnish design community. All conversations are now live in our podcast feed. Link in bio. Thanks again for having me. 💫

@polestarcars
@polestardesigncommunity
@wearebou

#polestar #polestartalks (at Helsinki, Finland)
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Happy AI holidays, part 2…

Here is a series of Christmas greetings in the style of myself in Santa garbs, courtesy of @lensa.ai 🧑‍🎄

This year marked several breakthroughs in generative AI. On our latest @scandinavian.mind podcast, we talked about how AI is now a tool in making everything from code to music videos, and the opportunities and challenges it imposes. Link in bio. 🎙

Hope you are enjoying twilight week. See you on the other side! ✨

#aiart #lensa #artificialintelligence #aiimages (at Stockholm, Sweden)
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Happy AI holidays, part 1…

This year, I used Open AI’s new text generator @chatgpt to create some of my Christmas gift rhymes. Swipe for my delivery of “a rhyme in the style of Shakespeare about a gift containing earrings for a teenage girl” to my nephew Ebba. 🎄

2023 marked several breakthroughs in generative AI. On our latest @scandinavian.mind podcast, we talked about how AI is now a tool in making everything from code to music videos, and the opportunities and challenges it imposes. Link in bio. 🎙

Hope you are enjoying twilight week. See you on the other side! 💫

📷 @michaelahallenius (at Stockholm, Sweden)
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Good times talking about the future of fashion and the need for recycling, new business models, and digital alternatives, at Stockholm Creative Tech Week.

🙏🏻 Thanks @stockholminnovation @sthlmmusic for having me.

📣 Shout out to my fellow panelists @helenawaker @linkowalska and @juliass92

@stockholmfashiondistrict
@popswap.app
@returboab
@scandinavian.mind
@kulturelle

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(I’m wondering what imaginary thing I’m holding in all these pictures?!) (at Hasselbacken)
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With @agate.s.freimane, one of several voices in our latest podcast, a special report from @slushhq

On top of personal observations on the state of VCs and investments in the Nordics and new announcements from the European Innovation Commission, we share insights from:

👥Reetta Pesonen, head of communications at Slush, the reason why she wants fewer visitors.

🌎The latest developments in the metaverse, with Zoan founders Miikka Rosendahl and Laura Olin.

🖇️Sebastien Borget, Sandbox co-founder, on how brands should use the metaverse.

💰Agate Freimane, General Partner at Norrsken VC, shares the current investing climate.

🎧Listen via link in bio.

@scandinavian.mind
@zoanvr
@norrskenfoundation
@laurapauliinaolin
@mrozen
@thesandboxgame

#slush2022 (at Messukeskus)
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Slush, day one. So much insight and inspiration (and lasers).

💰Prime minister Sanna Marin, on why Finland invests 4% of GDP in R&D and innovation
🪚Niklas Zennström on why we need to close bad businesses to free up capital and talent
✏️Sophia Bendz on Nordic leadership.

This and more in the podcast on Friday.

@scandinavian.mind

#slush2022 #startup #innovation #nordicstartup (at Messukeskus)
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Learning absolut the latast metaverse technologies by the geniuses at @zoanvr

🤖AI will play big role in shaping the metaverse SOG tomorrow.
📝Zoan are building @cornerstone_land on Nordic values
🖥️ Brands need to get their own game developers

#metaverse #slush2022 (at Helsinki)
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Flying cars are here! 🚀🚙 My latest column in @svdperfectguide is out now. Link in bio (in Swedish). Thanks @huggelitor for having me. (at Stockholm, Sweden)
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Good times at the launch of @collage_mens at @nordiskakompaniet 💫 Thanks for a great dinner. 🙏🏻 (at Nordiska Kompaniet NK)
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Weekend bliss: sunset and wood work. Don’t get any better than this. Squeezing the last of beautiful October.

🍃☀️ (at Utö, Stockholms Län, Sweden)
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Throwback to Design Week and the celebration of my friends @madebychoice and their collections by @bernadottekylberg and @thomassandell at the residence of the Finnish ambassador to Sweden. (at Finska Residenset)
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