Speakers

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  Dora Palfi

  imagiLabs

  Co-Founder & CEO

  See Bio
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  Mikaela Larsell Ayesa

  Hack Your Closet

  Co-Founder & COO

  See Bio
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  Isabella Palmgren

  Mimbly

  Co-Founder & CEO

  See Bio

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Dora Palfi

imagiLabs

Dora is Co-Founder and CEO of imagiLabs, an Ed-Tech company making products that empower girls with the skills, confidence, and community to create with technology. She has a bachelor's degree in Neuroscience with a minor in Computer Science from New York University Abu Dhabi and has studied Human Computer Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, as part of the European Union’s EIT Digital Master School. She has worked as a developer at Morgan Stanley and as a UX Designer at Cisco, and has years of experience teaching programming to children and teenagers as well as advocating for women in technology. Dora is Hungarian, and true to her fictional namesake Dora the Explorer, has lived, studied, and worked in 10 countries across four continents. In addition to her work to bring technology closer to girls, Dora is also a yoga instructor, bringing mindfulness closer to engineers. Dora has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 list as one of Europe’s leading social entrepreneurs and as a Cartier Women’s Initiative Fellow.

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Mikaela Larsell Ayesa

Hack Your Closet

Mikaela is the Co-Founder and COO of Hack Your Closet, a digital personal styling service that prolongs the life of underutilized clothes and reduces waste in the clothing industry. Her background is in Engineering, with a master's degree in innovation management and product development. She focused her master thesis on Circular Economy and developed a framework called Lean Circular Framework for SMEs who want to integrate Circular Economy methods, tools, and principles in their innovation processes. This framework was later used when designing the processes used at Hack Your Closet, which was founded in Sweden summer of 2019 by Mikaela's co-founder Lisa Gautier and herself. The company has rescued over 28,000 clothing items from becoming waste and has now launched the service in France. The goal is to build the largest shared closet in Europe, reducing and preventing waste in the clothing industry by closing the loop.

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Isabella Palmgren

Mimbly

Isabella has a MSc in Bioengineering and Entrepreneurship and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mimbly, a Gothenburg based startup focusing on sustainable laundry solutions. Recently on the Forbes 30 under 30 list within Social Impact, she has raised 30 MSEK in funding. Mimbly has created the ‘Mimbox’, an add on water-recycling device for professional laundry machines that saves water, energy and captures micro-plastics. Isabella was awarded the SKAPA-priset with her co-founders Nicolas Maxant and Emil Vestman from the Alfred Nobel foundation.

Panelists

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  Dora Palfi

  imagiLabs

  Co-Founder & CEO

  See Bio
• 

  Isabella Palmgren

  Mimbly

  Co-Founder & CEO

  See Bio
• 

  Mikaela Larsell Ayesa

  Hack Your Closet

  Co-Founder & COO

  See Bio

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Dora Palfi

imagiLabs

Dora is Co-Founder and CEO of imagiLabs, an Ed-Tech company making products that empower girls with the skills, confidence, and community to create with technology. She has a bachelor's degree in Neuroscience with a minor in Computer Science from New York University Abu Dhabi and has studied Human Computer Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, as part of the European Union’s EIT Digital Master School. She has worked as a developer at Morgan Stanley and as a UX Designer at Cisco, and has years of experience teaching programming to children and teenagers as well as advocating for women in technology. Dora is Hungarian, and true to her fictional namesake Dora the Explorer, has lived, studied, and worked in 10 countries across four continents. In addition to her work to bring technology closer to girls, Dora is also a yoga instructor, bringing mindfulness closer to engineers. Dora has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021 list as one of Europe’s leading social entrepreneurs and as a Cartier Women’s Initiative Fellow.

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Isabella Palmgren

Mimbly

Isabella has a MSc in Bioengineering and Entrepreneurship and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mimbly, a Gothenburg based startup focusing on sustainable laundry solutions. Recently on the Forbes 30 under 30 list within Social Impact, she has raised 30 MSEK in funding. Mimbly has created the ‘Mimbox’, an add on water-recycling device for professional laundry machines that saves water, energy and captures micro-plastics. Isabella was awarded the SKAPA-priset with her co-founders Nicolas Maxant and Emil Vestman from the Alfred Nobel foundation.

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Mikaela Larsell Ayesa

Hack Your Closet

Mikaela is the Co-Founder and COO of Hack Your Closet, a digital personal styling service that prolongs the life of underutilized clothes and reduces waste in the clothing industry. Her background is in Engineering, with a master's degree in innovation management and product development. She focused her master thesis on Circular Economy and developed a framework called Lean Circular Framework for SMEs who want to integrate Circular Economy methods, tools, and principles in their innovation processes. This framework was later used when designing the processes used at Hack Your Closet, which was founded in Sweden summer of 2019 by Mikaela's co-founder Lisa Gautier and herself. The company has rescued over 28,000 clothing items from becoming waste and has now launched the service in France. The goal is to build the largest shared closet in Europe, reducing and preventing waste in the clothing industry by closing the loop.

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Naimul Abd

Coompanion Stockholm

Naimul is a business advisor at Coompanion Stockholm

- Coaches more than 500 startup founders every year

- Responsible for partnerships, events, and ecosystem development

- Speaks at startup events and mentors at workshops and hackathons

- Also an early-stage impact entrepreneur and investor in startups

Before coming to Sweden he has been a marketing director for a fast-paced retail chain and has also consulted more than 20 multinational companies on consumer insights and strategic brand building. 

In his spare time he makes music, you can follow him on Spotify.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/naimulabds

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naimulabd/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naimulabd/

Facebook (public page): https://www.facebook.com/naimulabdofficial

Facebook (profile): https://www.facebook.com/naimulabd   

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/12ZU7uLgBc09oZzfcqWzwS