Aktarr Community Summit – From Local to Global
Aktarr Community Summit — Evening Session
We at Aktarr are incredibly proud to present the Community Summit, a full day gathering with morning and evening sessions, bringing together professionals, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and community members to connect and talk about the future and Malmo.
We've curated both the stage and the room because when the right people connect, real partnerships form and lifetime connections are made.
What Makes Malmö Special?
Malmö ranks in the top 5 most active startup cities in Europe and is the 3rd most diverse city globally with people from 187 countries a global village with worldwide connections.
Throughout the Aktarr Summit, we will explore Malmö's future from city planning to families and civic leaders. Malmö's startup and business scene is a key foundation of this global village, where ideas become companies, problems find solutions, and local dreams achieve global impact.
Malmö is truly unique, young, diverse, innovative, and full of people who dare to build something meaningful.
That's why we're closing the Aktarr Summit and 2025 with a celebration highlighting the people who've shaped our startup scene. We're inviting friends, community members, startups, investors, and visionaries to connect and inspire each other.
We believe the people of Malmö can solve the world's biggest problems, and Aktarr can be the bridge.
We look forward to hosting you and creating lifetime connections for the future.
The Journey
17:30 – Welcome
Doors open. Guests arrive, register, and connect informally.
18:00 – Opening Note Talk: Untold Story (15 min)
Why stories matter, why Malmö matters, and why this room is important tonight.
18:20 – Part 1: Daisy Ma – From Local to Global and Global to Local (30 min)
From helping out at her parents' small grocery store at Möllevångstorget to leading one of the Nordic region's top Asian food importers.
19:00 – Part 2: Jeanette Andersson (FemOwn) – Opening Ownership and Closing the Capital Gap (10 min)
Former CEO of Minc, investor, and co-founder of FemOwn, working to help more women in Scandinavia become investors and business owners.
19:10 – Part 3: Nino Subotic (Mashup & Karaoke Club) & Pamela Nunez Wallgren (Finch) – Building the Future Together: Money, Startups & What's Next (30 min)
How Malmö's most connected founder helps startups raise millions, and how an architect turned frustration into a global AI platform.
19:40 – Networking Break (30 min)
Coffee, mingle, homemade soup and bread, and many great people to connect with.
20:10 – Surprise Speaker (15 min)
Hint: "Men".
20:25 – Part 4: Erik Rask (Medbeat) – Innovation from MINC Malmö Startup House (20 min)
A Malmö startup helping doctors monitor heartbeats, going from local innovation to global offers.
20:45 – Part 5: Taher Azizi (Shah's Halal Food) (20 min)
Supreme halal quality food worldwide. From family recipes to 200 million SEK revenue in two years, a unicorn started in New York and as of now expanding to the globe from Malmö.
Last-Minute Update
Unfortunately, the Oatly founders had a last-minute cancellation. However, we might have a surprise guest with a very impressive story too.
Part 1: From Local to Global and Global to Local.
18:20 – The Daisy Ma Story (30 min)
We begin with our most iconic story of the evening: Daisy Ma, awarded Pioneer of the Year for Southern Sweden by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf in 2024.
Daisy's story is what you only see in movies. A child who started helping her parents at their small Asian grocery store in Möllevångstorget, now leading one of the Nordic region's leading importers of Asian food products CT Food AB, with 4,000+ products and 50+ employees serving all of Scandinavia.
Daisy worked internationally in London, Hong Kong, and Bangkok before returning to Malmö with deep experience in international business. We'll talk to Daisy about everything from local to global and global to local.
19:00 – Part 2: Jeanette Andersson (FemOwn) – Opening Ownership and Closing the Capital Gap (10 min)
Jeanette Andersson is a leading voice in Scandinavia's business community and is co-founder of FemOwn. As former CEO of Minc and an active investor, she's spent her career working to close the capital gap and open up ownership opportunities.
Jeanette believes real change happens when knowledge and networks reach beyond the usual circles, helping more women in Scandinavia move from the sidelines to become investors and business owners who shape the region's future.
Part 3: Building Malmö's Future Together – Money, Startups & What's Next
Nino Subotic (Mashup & Karaoke Club) & Pamela Nunez Wallgren (Finch). 19:10 (30 min)
Nino Subotic: A father, a teacher, a friend to many, an advisor, sometimes a psychologist, a business coach, serial entrepreneur and founder, and most importantly one of Malmö's most connected humans with both great founders building mind breaking products and investor networks across Europe through communities he founded with others like Mashup and The Karaoke Club.
Nino also works with the startup house of Malmö MINC as the head of accelerator Fast Track Malmö, and has helped countless entrepreneurs raise millions of dollars. We'll talk with him about Malmö, his story, but we'll go one step further and talk about money. How did he help so many startups raise millions?
Joining Nino on stage: Pamela Nunez Wallgren, Co-founder and CEO at Finch. An architect, entrepreneur, and visionary transforming how we design buildings. Based in Malmö, Pamela turned frustration into opportunity after experiencing how slow and manual early-stage architecture workflows could be. She just raised funding and has many practical insights to share.
Networking Break
19:40 – Coffee, Mingle & Connect (30 min)
We will connect great people with great people.
20:10 – Surprise Speaker (15 min)
Hint: Men.
The Next Big Thing: Malmö Startups Going Global
20:25 – (20 min)
A great example of what's happening behind the doors of MINC Malmö startup house.
Erik Rask, founder of Medbeat, a Malmö startup supporting healthcare and becoming a global company with offers from across the world. Medbeat is one of the most unique innovations helping doctors monitor patients' heartbeats.
Part 5: Shah's Halal Food – Supreme Quality Worldwide
20:45 – (20 min)
Taher Azizi, Partner at Shah's Halal Food. How a brand built on family recipes grew to 200 Million SEK revenue in just two years without taking a single investment. Expanding across Scandinavia and the UK through a franchise model that creates jobs and empowers people to start their own businesses.
Last-Minute Update
Unfortunately, the Oatly founders had a last-minute cancellation. However, we might have a surprise guest with a very impressive story joining the evening instead.
From Niche to Global — The Oatly Story
Redefining an Industry (30 min)
We close with Rickard and Björn Öste, Co-founders of Oatly, the brand that transformed from a niche allergy product into a global lifestyle movement.
How did they grow from obscurity to worldwide phenomenon? What were the crucial steps that led to global expansion? What was the strategy behind working with small cafés in those early days?
Extended Networking & Connection Time – Continue conversations, build relationships, and enjoy more sweets (30 min)
Curated by Aktarr and its friends
Aktarr means "More" in Arabic.
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We look forward to seeing you!