SPEAKING, PANELS, PITCHES, DELEGATIONS & ROUNDTABLES
Where opportunity meets consequence
Across stages, panels, pitches and delegations, I have contributed to conversations about emerging technology, business, inclusion, skills, identity and the future of work. What connects them is a belief that the most important questions rarely sit inside one discipline. They require us to bridge commercial opportunity with human consequence, ethics with execution, and different perspectives with the action needed to move forward.
Featured appearances
Six moments that say the most about the range — then the wider record beneath them.
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SME Assembly
The European Commission’s flagship gathering for Europe’s SME and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Awarded an Inclusive Pioneer for my work with Diwala and shared lessons from building and scaling inclusive technology across emerging markets.
2024
European SME Week
INCLUSIVE
Pioneer
SXSW
One week, four rooms with almost nothing in common but the same argument running through all of them.
- Startup competitionSelected to pitch Diwala.
- Norwegian delegationRepresented Norway alongside the Crown Prince.
- SaaS NordicPanel on building software companies from the Nordics.
- ConsenSysConversation on real-world use cases for blockchain, beyond speculation.
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contexts, one week
Mastercard Financial Inclusion Summit
A room built around one question: what has to exist before people can participate economically at all.
Contributed to conversations on inclusion as infrastructure — payments, identity and the systems underneath market access.
Oslo Innovation Week
Norway’s primary platform for entrepreneurship, technology and new models of value creation.
Headlined an official programme event, one of three women featured as headliners.
1 of 3 headline women
Inter-American Development Bank
Development finance thinking several years ahead of the labour markets it lends into.
Contributed on skills for the future: how technological change reshapes work, learning and who gets to take part in it.
Slush 100
Diwala came through three competitive rounds from a field of 100 to reach the final Top 10. Pitched the company two months after founding it.
TOP 10 of 100 · 3 rounds
What I am asked about
Different rooms, three recurring conversations.
01
Emerging technology, once it leaves the lab
- Digital identity and verifiable credentials
- Blockchain and interoperability in practice
- AI, adoption and where it actually lands
- Responsible technology and trust infrastructure
02
Who gets access to the market
- Financial inclusion and economic participation
- Skills, work and the future of employment
- Entrepreneurship across African and European markets
- Inclusion as a commercial question, not a moral one
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Building what comes next
- Company building from zero
- New business models around emerging shifts
- Innovation ecosystems and public–private venture
- Translating early signals into commercial decisions
Delegations & wider rooms
NORWAY → NEW YORK · LAGOS · ACCRA
Selected onto official Norwegian delegations, representing the country in international business, innovation and entrepreneurship contexts.
Podcast · Long form
Building Trust Through Digital Identity
An hour on the whole arc — why verified skills matter, what breaks when identity systems meet real markets, and what it takes to build a company around that question.
Happy to be invited into the next one.
Keynotes, panels, fireside conversations, moderation and closed workshops.
Working on something that doesn’t fit neatly into a box?
Those tend to be the conversations I find most interesting. Most of them start with a venture to build, a product that has outgrown its original shape, or a market that doesn’t have a category yet.