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Ola Ahlvarsson
Drive innovation and international growth with Ola Ahlvarsson, speaker, innovation and internationalisation expert.
Ola Ahlvarsson has been working with and managing leading internet ventures since the early days with Spray, Boxman, Blocket, Letsbuyit, and SIME to later ventures like FON, Best Secret, Blocket, Epicenter, and many more. As a specialist in innovation and internationalization, Ola has been an advisor to world-leading organizations like Google, Ericsson, Samsung, Microsoft, Schibsted, Deutsche Telecom, Telenor, and many more.
Being the founder of over 20 companies, his current portfolio consists of international expansion and innovations advisors Result, Swedish media house Keynote Media Group, owning and selling portals, magazines, events and online ventures, Star Stable, the world’s largest game for girls passionate for horses, Sellbranch, a leading Nordic advertising technology agency (managing Twitter and Yahoo in Scandinavia), Epicenter, a 30 000 m2 innovation house, and Ahlvar Gallery a fashion brand. In addition, he holds a portfolio of angel investments in a select range of companies, from psychology clinics to castles.
Ola has a unique background in martial arts, having won a World Championship and European Championship gold in Goju Ryu Karate, a bronze in Taekwondo World Championships, and a World Championship in Kick-Boxing.
He combines his martial arts experience with his 25-year experience in entrepreneurship, fuelled by a relentless passion for creating. Ola holds an MBA from the University of Stockholm, has guest lectured at Harvard Business School, and is also the course director for the Executive MBA program E-Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.
Topics, sessions and talks
Ola Ahlvarsson's talk "Mindchange" explores the transformative power of altering one's mindset to adapt and thrive in the rapidly evolving digital and entrepreneurial landscape.
Ola Ahlvarsson's talk, "Silicon Valhalla," explores the fusion of Scandinavian innovation culture with Silicon Valley's tech-driven entrepreneurship, highlighting the potential for global impact and collaboration.
Ola Ahlvarsson's talk on Digital Disruption explores how technological advancements are reshaping industries, emphasizing the need for businesses to adapt and innovate in the face of rapid digital change.
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Ola Ahlvarsson structures his talks around a cross-domain framework that draws direct parallels between his martial arts discipline and his 25-year track record in building and scaling internet ventures, using this pairing to ground strategic concepts in lived operational experience.
Ola Ahlvarsson speaks on mindset change, Scandinavian innovation culture, and digital disruption in business. He has founded over 20 companies and has advised organisations including Google, Ericsson, Samsung, and Microsoft on innovation and internationalisation.
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