At Encontros com Futuro, held on Portugal’s National Sustainability Day, organized by Publico and REN, I shared why ESG must move beyond compliance and become a driver of innovation, strategy, and value creation—and how integrating sustainability with innovation is key to future competitiveness.
A new edition of the book AI Leadership for Boards offers practical guidance for board directors navigating the convergence of artificial intelligence and sustainability—making the case that responsible AI governance is now a strategic imperative.
On May 15, 2025, I was a keynote at BCSD Portugal 2025 (Portuguese chapter from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, WBCSD) exploring how integrating innovation and sustainability creates long-term value and builds strategic advantage.
On March 20, 2025, I participated in a discussion hosted by Chapter Zero France on the evolving EU policy landscape. Chapter Zero France is the french chapter of the Climate Governance Initiative, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. This webinar
Both me (Fernanda Torre) and my business Next Agents have been featured on the book Innovation Stockholm. Stockholm is globally recognized as a hub for innovation, particularly in sustainability, and Next Agents plays a pivotal role in advancing this ecosystem.
Facilitating Board Peer Insight Exchanges In this podcast episode, board directors Fernanda Torre, and Liselotte Engstam, dive into the evolving role of board leadership, highlighting the importance of facilitation both inside and outside the boardroom. In this podcast episode, board
It is predicted that artificial intelligence [AI], and the “big data” on which Al is based, will become one of the most challenging board issues in the next ten years. It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch
On the 11th of February, I moderated a panel on the Sthlm Fintech Week around the challenges in Insurthech in Sweden. The discussion was lively and many great points were made, my key learnings are the need to build more bridges
On the 6th, 7th and 8th of March 2020, I had the pleasure to facilitate a hackathon to address sustainability in the fashion industry in Portugal, a project developed for Moda Lisboa. A hackathon is a design sprint event where
For the first time the author of Rapid Learning Cycles methodology, Katherine Radeka, was presenting her work and methodology in Stockholm, in an event organized by me with support from FCG. The Rapid Learning Cycles framework is a synthesis of
It is with great pleasure that I announce that the book chapter of which I am the principal author “AI leadership and the future of corporate governance: changing demands for board competence” is now published! This chapter is part of
On the last 15th of November 2019, I had the honor of sharing my thoughts on the future of health-care on an inspiring lecture at the Innovation day in Karolinska Institutet. My talk was one of the three inspiring talks to
I was invited to activate and inspire Spotify employees with a lunch presentation. Rapid advancements in technology, together with increasing socio-political unrest and the challenges of climate change, generate increasingly dynamic, complex and uncertain competitive environments. Today, it is an advantage
Last Thursday, the 26th of September 2019, I had the honor of giving an inspiring talk on innovation and a Design Thinking workshop to the Marketing and Communications team from Business Area Technologies and Emerging Businesses (BTEB) at Ericsson. The
My opinion on “Is Paris the next start-up hotspot?” article was published in the Financial Times under the segment “MBA view” where business school students discussed what it takes for Paris to become Europe’s tech hub. My published opinion was:
Our research project 4boards.ai had the pleasure to present at the celebratory event for IMIT’s 40 years, on the 24th of October 2019. IMIT, a partner in the 4boards.ai project, is a foundation that aims to support research and development
I participated in a panel discussion on the gig-economy, which took place in Almedalen 2018. Almedalen week is known as as the time when different actors in politics an civil society get together in Visby, in the island of Gotland, to
On the 30th of March I had the honor of spending the morning presenting my thoughts on innovation and strategy to a group of key Lithuanian companies in Vilnius. This event was an organisation at Challenge Accelerator.
My interview in Swedish National Radio on my experience starting Frames, the Portuguese Film Festival in Sweden.
My interview in the Virtual Innovation Sofa podcast from Mihaela Biti, preceeding the Digital Innovation Hub conference in London (Juanry 2018).
My TEDx Matosinhos talk is finally available! TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” It supports independent organizers who want to create a TED-like event in their own community.
My TEDx Matosinhos talk is finally available! TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” It supports independent organizers who want to create a TED-like event in their own community.
On the 25th of April we premiered in Kulturnatt the newly re-created Experience Design Group with the project “The democratic future of Hammarby Sjöstad”. This was a dynamic evening where a select group of influential citizens, politicians and other officials were
Algorithms increasingly permeate all aspects of modern life and are transforming the way we humans interact with non-human species and the biosphere. In this manifesto, we gathered a small group of thinkers and doers – scholars, programmers, artists, entrepreneurs, game
LEAD was a leadership programme designed to make participants think deeper and differently on technology shifts, innovation processes and sustainable development. The four month long LEAD programme was a joint initiative between the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University) and the Swedish
Balticlab is an innovation programme, which brings entrepreneurs and creatives in the Baltic Sea region together to explore new perspectives and sources of inspiration and to together prototype the future. The aim of the programme was to the create a community
“After extended consideration of all submissions I am delighted to let you know that the Programming Committee would like to invite you to present your final paper at our international Designing Experience-conference to be held at the Academy of Visual Arts,
Nov2k – Future of Science and Medicine is a yearly symposium that is organized and run by graduate students at Karolinska Institutet and Södertörn University. The 14th edition of Nov2k had the sub-theme Creativity, having comics as the element that created
My illustration Odd Job Live in Bremen just one of the world’s most prestigious design awards: the Red Dot Design Award 2014. The illustration for the Swedish jazz band Odd Job was made together with the prestigious design studio Gábor Palotai (Gabor
We Have Company was a co-creation space, created to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space where work was to be catalyzed by the exchange of ideas, sharing of knowledge and work together. We Have Company acted as a cushy nest designed
In 2012 I won the design competition “Beam me up Scotty” together with the mentor Hrafnkell Birgisson, a competition organised by the Helsinki design studio Diagonal and taking place in Habitare Design Fair. Three teams, each consisting of two designers, a mentor and
Nov2k is a yearly symposium that is organized and run by graduate students at Karolinska Institutet and Södertörn University. Mixing playfulness with inspiration for interaction, the team brought Experience Design insights to the planning of the event, creating intimacy and the
Forecasting the Experience of Opera was a strategic partnership between the New York City Opera,the Experience Design Group at Konstfack, R1 KTH Experimental Performance Space, the Operahögskolan, and the Stockholm School for Entrepreneurship. Forecasting the Experience of Opera –
Last October 2013 I was invited by the Creative Association of Curators TOK in St.Petersburg (Russia) to give a talk in the International Conference “Socially Integrated Design: New Ideas for Familiar Spaces”. My talk was called “Collaboration Design, the path