It’s a future proof breakfast and you’re invited!

Join us over breakfast as we discuss and debate business opportunities within a Circular Economy. Sharing the spotlight are Grow’s Sebastian Tarkowski, Innovation Catalyst and Inspirational Speaker and special guest, Dr. Mats Linder, Circular Economy Expert at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. We have a few seats open, so please confirm your attendance here latest 16th Feb and we’ll see if we can make room for you!

Our Senior Advisor of Future Research and PhD Candidate, Elin Rudberg, shares her thoughts on today’s “desire for convenient and efficient solutions”, and insight into how “businesses could benefit from reflecting more about the consequences for consumer control with increased digitalisation in services and products.”

Earlier this month, our Innovation Catalyst and public speaking champion, Sebastian Tarkowski, participated in the Sustainability and packaging conference 2017 in Barcelona. Here are some reflections he’d like to share with you!

With almost a two-year break from NINE, where Julia worked at Spotify, we are happy to have her back to head up our Insights for Innovation capabilities. With over six years of experience working with trends and cultural insights, Julia was part of Spotify’s global Marketing Team, working with Innovation Insights and most recently, leading Spotify’s trends and cultural relevance work. All with the purpose to educate the teams on wider implications of trends and cultural shifts that can fuel innovation, service development and marketing strategies.

This week, NINE attended the Sthlm Tech Fest 2017. Bustling with tech-heads, start-ups, and innovators of all sorts, the yearly event not only reinforced how much Stockholm’s “Unicorn City” status continues to grow, but also how much challenging the conventional, and designing with “human” at the heart of it all leads to great innovations. Here are some highlights of what we saw and what we learned!

This week, on a bright and sunny day on the island of Gotland, our energy-packed Client Director, Sebastian Tarkowski gave a thought-provoking talk at Svenska Retursystems Food Waste Seminar in Almedalen. Here, Sebastian talked trends, industry responsibility, and how need-based innovation is the key to success!

With a story that dates back to a small rented unit in Kumla, Lithells carries a long history of making great sausages. But, a lot has happened since then, and consumers aren’t the same as they were way back when.

Way before the daily grinds of the 9-5 workday began, NINE welcomed a crowd of dynamic guests to WAKE UP! @NINE, our new Breakfast Seminar initiative which aims to educate and inspire brand leaders with some early morning food for thought about topics driving innovation.