Ella Carlsson Sjöberg

LtCol, Dr Ella Carlsson Sjöberg is currently with the Swedish Air Force where she is Head of Air Power Concepts and Doctrine Branch. Ella has a degree in Physics and a MSc degree in Space Engineering and is a specialist on the planet Mars. She has worked with NASA Ames Research Center, been a crewmember  on Mars Arctic Research Station in the Canadian High Arctic and the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, where preparations are being made for future manned trips to the moon and Mars are implemented. Further Ella has authored many publications including the book ”Framåt Mars” about the red planet and the ongoing work to reach and conquer it.

Ronald Jones

Ronald Jones is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He is a member of the Nobel Foundation’s Science and Humanities Program Committee.  He is a member of the Board for Change Lab, the d. School, Stanford University. He also serves as an External Examiner at the Royal College of Art, London. As a participant with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera investigation, he assesses the significance and value of Exploration and its visual representation within a broad historical context. He writes regularly for Artforum, frieze and numbers of other cultural journals and magazines.  An artist and critic, he is represented by Metro Pictures and the Sonnabend Gallery in New York City. A retrospective of his work recently opened at the Grazer Kunstverein.

Robin Teigland

Robin Teigland is an Associate Professor at the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and the caretaker of SSE’s island in Second Life. She is also the Program Director for SSE's Ph9.40 0D Program in Business Administration and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Agder in Norway with their International Management PhD program. In 2013 and 2014 she was nominated one of the Global Top 50 Business Professors on Twitter (@robinteigland), and in 2008 she received the “Researcher of the Year” award at the Stockholm School of Economics. Robin's research interests reside at the intersection of strategy, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. In particular, she focuses on how the internet, social media, virtual worlds (3D internet), and other emerging technologies such as 3D printing enable self-organizing communities to create value outside of a firm’s traditional boundaries as well as challenge long-standing institutional structures. 

Sven Grahn

Dr Sven Grahn is a senior space technology and satellites expert. Active in the space industry since 1962 Dr Grahn is a true space pioneer and his efforts have contributed vastly to Sweden’s prominent international position within space. Sven holds a Master of Science degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and is the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at SSC and has receive numerous awards for his work, including H.M The Kings Medal. Today he is a senior advisor and involved in the development of commercial human suborbital spaceflight and teaches at KTH where he’s also coaching a student satellite project. Sven has authored several books and blogs at http://www.svengrahn.pp.se - describing himself as ”hopelessly romantic about spaceflight”.