Hybrid Futures Conference was part of the Digital@Idag initiative that took place on October 15, 2021.

This video is part 4/6 and includes the Panel Discussion 3 & Keynote Session with Makoto Fujimura.

Panel:  Hybrid Ventures: New Firms, Large Firms, Social Equity and Cross-sector Collaboration

This panel offers a conversation about how new firms like for example, social enterprises, NGO’s, can come together with larger organisations and manage cross sector collaborations in a way which can help us to build a better future for all. It will also consider how such collaborations might be financed and offer possible innovations and practices we might engage in.

Panelists:

Donna Hanafi - Product Manager, Lassie; Admissions Board Member, SSE Business Lab

Jonas Wettergren - VP and Head of People & Organization, Combient

Helena Thybell - Secretary General, Save the Children Sweden

Moderators: Sarah Jack (Professor, SSE) and Roxana Turturea (Assistant Professor, SSE)

Keynote by artist Makoto Fujimura: Hybrid Imagination/Disruption/Renewal/Making/Newness: An Artist’s Perspective on Value-Creation, Boundaries, Aesthetics, and Hope

Makoto Fujimura is leading contemporary artist whose process driven, refractive “slow art” has been described by as “a small rebellion against the quickening of time”. Makoto Fujimura will address essential aspects of artful creation, creativity and innovation, with a particular focus on renewal the blending of elements.

This digital conference was arranged by the House of Innovation together with the Wallenberg Foundations and Digital@Idag, the Future Work Forum, SCDI (Swedish Center for Digital Innovation), MISUM, and SSE Business Lab. The conference was also part of the outreach program of the Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Center for Innovative and Sustainable Business Development, and the Scania Center of Innovation and Operational Excellence, at the SSE House of Innovation. The SSE House of Innovation is co-funded by the Erling Persson Foundation.