The Data Innovation Summit (DIS) has announced that Anders Ynnerman, Executive Chairman of Sferical AI and Director of Strategic Research at the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, will deliver the Future Outlook Keynote at the 2026 Summit, held May 6–8 in Stockholm.
“In a world of exponential change, isolation is a liability. We are opening this year’s Summit with Sferical AI because they represent a fundamental example: The only way to speed up innovation is to share the journey. This is more than a company; it is Radical Collaboration in action – the moment where the Nordics decided to stop competing with each other and start leading the world together”, says Goran Cvetanovski, Founder of Data Innovation Summit.
Building on the legacy of previous Future Outlook speakers, including Marcus Wallenberg (2023), Carl-Henrik Svanberg (2024), and Erik Slottner (2025), this year’s session examines the transition from individual corporate silos to a model of collective intelligence.
The discussion will focus on the work of Sferical AI and the strategic necessity of “digital sovereignty” and “solving tomorrow by acting today”.
Joining the stage as moderator is Anders Arpteg, VP AI & Data at Saab Group. Arpteg brings a specialized background in national security and large-scale AI deployment, providing a pragmatic perspective on Sweden’s leading AI initiatives.
