Who to meet?
Since 2007, the MatchPoints conference series has been a meeting place for leading scientists, journalists, business leaders and politicians, and this year is no exception. The focus on digitalization brings together researchers from computer science, the humanities, political science, and the medical sciences, as well as ministers and ambassadors, IT frontrunners, and award-winning journalists. Among the many speakers you can expect to meet at MatchPoints 2021 are:
Nicolai Wammen
Danish Minister of Finance
Marianne Dahl
Board Member and former Director of Sales at Microsoft
Tommy Ahlers
CEO, Danish MP and former Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education
Rosa Lund
MP for the Red-Green Alliance in the Danish Parliament
Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen
Tech Ambassador at the Danish Foreign Ministry
Ulrik Haagerup
Founder and CEO of Constructive Institute
Frederik Stjernfelt
Professor of Intellectual History, Aalborg University Copenhagen
Lars Seier Christensen
Founder of Saxo Bank
José van Dijck
Professor of Media and Digital Society, Utrecht University
Lars Rasmus Lundgaard Pedersen
CIO, Danske Commodities
Mark van Vugt
Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Anne Applebaum
Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University
Lotte Bøgh Andersen
Center Director and Professor, Crown Prince Frederik Center for Public Leadership
Thomas Lund-Sørensen
Director of the Danish Center for Cyber Security
Lene Tanggaard
Professor of Psychology, Aalborg University
Rikke Zeberg
Head of Digitalization at the Confederation of Danish Industry
Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier
Journalists at Süddeutsche Zeitung
Steen Hildebrandt
Professor Emeritus in Management Studies, Aarhus University
Peter Kaufmann
Strategic Initiatives, Office of Open Learning, MIT
Karen Melchior
MEP for Denmark in the European Parliament
Francis Fukuyama
Senior Fellow at Stanford University
Natasha Friis Saxberg
CEO at the Danish ICT Industry Association
Morten Sodemann
Professor of Medicine, University of Southern Denmark
Anja Bechmann
Professor of Media Studies, Aarhus University
Stefan Hermann
Rector, University College Copenhagen
Axel Bruns
Professor of Digital Media Research, Queensland University of Technology
Moderator: Jacob Rosenkrands
Journalist, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)