Formex

The Nordic region’s most important design and interior design marketplace.

Formex – August 2026

Sting Open House. An informal event for founders and startups interested in learning about the Sting Core program. Meet the team, explore the space, and get an overview of how the program works, who it’s for, and how to apply. Includes a presentation and Q&A. Focus on assessing program fit.

Meet-up

Sting Logo Green

Sting

Organization Development

Innovation

Business & Growth

Sting Open House

The Digital Futures Resilience Workshop brings together academia, industry, and the public sector to explore resilience in a digitalized world. The focus is on cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and societal preparedness. Through presentations, discussions, and networking, participants will identify collaboration opportunities and help shape future research in this strategically important field.

Workshop

KTH Press Image Borggården Jann Lipka

Science & Research

Tech & Digitalisation

The Digital Futures Resilience Workshop

Mind the Gap: What I wish I’d known before raising. A small roundtable for founders (Seed to Series A) focused on fundraising. Topics include key metrics, investor expectations, storytelling, and common pitfalls. The session is based on real experiences, offering practical insights into what prepares companies for a successful funding round.

Epicenter-1

Epicenter

Mind the Gap: What I wish I’d known before raising

Conference / Congress

Aula Medica in Autumn

Karolinska Institutet

Health Care & Life Science

EPICOH 2026

Nordic Life Science Days will be held in Stockholm in 2026.

Kistamässan Exterior Press Image

SwedenBIO

Nordic Life Science Days

NLSDays 2026 is the fastest-growing life science event in the Nordic region, bringing together startups, investors, established companies, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies. The event creates opportunities to find investors, build partnerships, and explore promising business and investment opportunities within life sciences. A meeting place for innovation, growth, and international collaboration.

Kistamässan

Sweden BIO

NLSDays 2026

Health Care & Life Science / Vård & Life Science

Presentation of the National Lead Time Index 2026. A seminar on trends in planning and building permit lead times across Swedish municipalities. The report highlights increasing delays as well as successful practices. Focus on concrete measures to improve efficiency, support housing development, and strengthen growth through collaboration among stakeholders.

Seminar

Social hållbarhetslunch - Stockholms handelskammare

Fastighetsägarna

Urban Development & Real Estate

Sustainable Transition

Presentation of the National Lead Time Index 2026

The seminar will be held in English and will be available to participate in both on site at the German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce's premises in Stockholm and online.

Meeting in Stockholm

Tysk-Svenska Handelskammaren

Finance

Anniversary seminar: How do we ensure sustainable energy production by 2045?

Work norms in vulnerable areas. Launch of a new report based on unique Sverigebarometern data examining differences in work norms between disadvantaged areas and the rest of Sweden. Gain insights into links between norms, employment, and background, and what is needed to strengthen incentives to work and long-term self-sufficiency.

Lecture

Svenskt Näringsliv

Education & Talent

Work norms in vulnerable areas

Sustainability

Nätverksträff

Education

Trade Show

Codifying Complexity: The Rolling-out of Artificial Intelligence and the Governance of Discretionary Planning. A guest lecture at KTH examining AI’s role in planning. Based on interviews, it shows that AI has not resolved key dilemmas in decision-making and may reinforce existing challenges. The talk explores future reform paths for aligning AI and planning systems.

Codifying Complexity: The Rolling-out of Artificial Intelligence and the Governance of Discretionary Planning

The Nordic region’s most important design and interior design marketplace.
Welcome to Formex! National and international visitors and exhibitors come here twice a year to do business, discover industry news and network. In addition to a wide range of current products, Formex always presents inspiration, trends and knowledge-enhancing workshops, as well as exciting speakers and influential exhibitions.

Retail

Culture & Creativity

Identify your company’s intangible assets. Learn what intangible assets are (ideas, brands, know-how) and how to identify, protect and leverage them to increase value and competitiveness. Gain practical insights on IP, contracts and strategy. For SMEs across all industries. Free for companies with turnover below SEK 2 million.

Almi

Almi Stockholm

Identify your company’s intangible assets

Who owns companies – a unique study on women’s and men’s entrepreneurship. A seminar presenting new data on ownership and control of Swedish limited companies. Gain insights into trends over time, differences across sectors, and factors affecting women’s entrepreneurship. Includes discussions with business leaders, researchers, and experts on implications and policy needs.

Who owns companies – a unique study on women’s and men’s entrepreneurship

Agentic Commerce live: AI BAREN Stockholm. An event exploring how AI agents are transforming e-commerce and the customer journey. Participants will experience a live demo of an AI completing a purchase and discuss implications for marketing, product information, checkout, and payments. Focus on practical insights and peer discussions for decision-makers in digital commerce.

Marketing

Agentic Commerce live: AI BAREN Stockholm

Introduction meeting for international researchers: Practical information about living in Sweden. An interactive online session with a brief introduction to Swedish authorities and a Q&A. Topics include migration issues, personal identity numbers, and Swedish language courses.

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Introduction meeting for international researchers: Practical information about living in Sweden

Step up! Preparing Sweden for the next leap in knowledge. A breakfast seminar on how to strengthen business investment in R&D amid global competition and technological change. Learn about industry research policy priorities for the coming term and discuss how to secure Sweden’s position as a leading technology and innovation nation.

Step up! Preparing Sweden for the next leap in knowledge

Innovation Tuesday is a series of interactive mini workshops on innovation and entrepreneurship at the Digital Futures hub, KTH. Sessions are held from 15:00–17:00 on the first Tuesday of each month. Each workshop focuses on a new theme with invited guests and researchers experienced in innovation and commercialization. Open to researchers, partners, and the wider network. Upcoming dates: Oct 6, Nov 3, Dec

Innovation Tuesday

Female Angel Breakfast. A curated breakfast for women investing or exploring early-stage startup investing. Focus on decision-making, evaluating founders, and how AI is shaping value creation. Includes an investor panel and networking with experienced investors. Designed for knowledge exchange and building relationships within the Nordic early-stage ecosystem.

Female Angel Breakfast

The 10th International Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) takes place in Stockholm on September 2–4, 2026.

Stockholm University

European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies

EAM 2026 10th International Conference at Stockholm University – Avant-Garde and Migration

Unlocking the next wave of growth: How today’s talent attraction and entrepreneurship will shape the future of Stockholm as a tech hub. A report launch and panel discussion exploring the talent, capital, and policy reforms needed to secure Stockholm’s position as a leading European tech hub. Featuring founders, investors, and policymakers discussing the future conditions for growth and scaling companies.artnerships, and new solutions.

Stockholms Handelskammare

Stockholms handelskammare

Unlocking the next wave of growth: How today’s talent attraction and entrepreneurship will shape the future of Stockholm as a tech hub

A shift in skills policy – unlocking the potential of private education. A seminar on how Sweden can address skills shortages through a more flexible and relevant education system. Focus on how public and private actors can jointly strengthen skills supply, with quality, clear frameworks, and better use of private education initiatives.

A shift in skills policy – unlocking the potential of private education

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