Nicklas Bergman is a straight-talking Swedish entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and thinker. He understands and interprets the technological megatrends shaping business, society, and culture. He works with forward-thinking leaders and organizations, established and new, to help them navigate an increasingly uncertain future. Nicklas Bergmann has spent the last 30 years working as a serial entrepreneur and investor focusing on emerging markets and technologies. His focus has mostly fallen on investments in emerging markets, web services, nanotechnology, computing, tourism, new materials and new media art. He is the co-founder and largest investor in several companies including the Volvo trucks and buses distribution network in Romania, an electron microscopy company with a unique patented technology for movement and interaction on the atomic scale, and a Scandinavian ski resort development that has attracted investments of over US$100 million in the past few years, and invigorated a whole region in the north of Sweden. He uses this hard-earned experience as one of six investment committee members at the EIC Fund, an EUR 5 billion deep tech VC fund investing in more than 100 European startups annually. For more than ten years Nicklas is working as a futurist has turned him into the most pragmatic futurist in the tech space. As a tech bubble collector, Nicklas lives with technology 24/7 and meets with scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and fellow investors daily. He's optimistic about the promises emerging from new technologies but is also concerned that society is not ready for the upcoming techstorm. Some years ago, he cleared his schedule and embarked on a journey to understand where technology takes us. The result was Navigating the Techstorm: The Business Impact of Technology Beyond the Hype (Lid Publishing, London). The book was listed in Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 10 business books to read in 2018. He’s the perfect guide to take an audience from neglect and skepticism to curiosity and preparedness for the challenges and opportunities the future might hold. In other words, inviting Nicklas is a fool-proof way to future-proof your organization. He takes pride in customising his talks to his audiences and present credible facts in an entertaining manner, always with the goal to surprise and provide insights as well as useful tools. Nicklas Bergman is an insightful business leader and passionate technology adopter who has a broad knowledge base – including the latest technology trends as well as the latest market research trends, Big Data and different aspects of entrepreneurship. Nicklas is guided by personal ethics and a deep-rooted desire for a sustainable future.