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Alvénsalen F1
Lindstedtsvagen 22
Stockholm, Stockholms län, 10044
Sweden

Anna Isoz

Coordinator & Project Manager

Anna has spent the past three years working on finding the underlying reasons for gender inequality in entrepreneurship. Why don't women feel they belong?

Astrid Linder

Research Director at VTI, The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute

Astrid has over 20 years experience of traffic safety research, most of which has been focused on female security in traffic. Astrid and her team have developed EvaRID, the first and so far only female crash test dummy in the world, to help increase traffic safety for women

Catja Carlson

Engineering student

Catja is a 4th year engineering student at the Royal University of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. After being top of her class all the way through high school, she reflects on why no one ever suggested she should (or could) become and engineer.

Eva Helén

CEO at EQ Inspiration and Epiquette, Author

Eva has over 20 years experience in the tech space. She has co-founded, built and sold two software companies - most recently Sanbolic founded in 2000 and acquired by Citrix in 2015. These days she runs EQ Inspiration (on insta @eqinspiration2018), which started as "women in tech - an event for guys", focusing on improving equality and advancing women to leadership in tech by inviting men to the conversation.

Pernilla Sustovic

Head of automation, Volvo Group

Pernilla leads a multidiciplinary team at Volvo Group, designing next generation transport solutions. Her groups has created the design study "Vera", a fully autonomous and electric truck.

Vania Ceccato

Professor of Urban Planning and Built Environment at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden

Vania Ceccato's research is on urban and community safety. Ceccato is coordinator of the network SafePlaces (SÄKRAPLATSER) that aims at improving the knowledge on situational conditions of crime and crime prevention in Sweden, see https://www.sakraplatser.abe.kth.se/ She is interested in the geography of crime and perceived safety, transit crime, rural crime and community safety, safety as a public health issue, safety and gender, quantitative methods and spatial data analysis. She has conducted research on spatial patterns of crime in Scandinavia, Brazil, UK and the Baltic countries particularly on the relation between crime and socio-economic neighborhood dynamics and land use characteristics. Her current research projects deal with safety as a commodity and a public good, places of outdoor rape, crime and fear of crime in Stockholm’s underground stations and safety in Swedish rural areas. She has published in international journals, mostly in Geography and Criminology.