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Strategic Leadership, Transformation and Responsible Value Creation
International Board Leadership Workshop | Thursday 3 December 2026 | 09:00-17:15 CET | Internetstiftelsen, Hammarby Kaj 10D, Stockholm
By 2027, most boards will have an AI strategy on the agenda. Far fewer will be able to say which AI initiatives are building real operational capability, who is accountable when autonomous systems act, and how their ecosystems and dependencies are governed. This full-day International Board Leadership Workshop is built around those questions, from the supervisory board perspective.
The day moves from strategic foresight and value creation in the morning to governance, resilience and board action in the afternoon. Throughout, it looks at AI through a positive impact lens: what AI decisions mean for energy, infrastructure, people and long-term resilience, and how boards can turn that into advantage, not just risk. It brings together practitioners, researchers and directors who sit on boards, and ends with a facilitated boardroom simulation in which participants make an integrated decision on AI investment, ecosystems, autonomy, workforce, sustainability and risk.
What the day covers
- The board’s AI leadership challenge for 2027-2030, using the Boards 4AI framework, including AI’s sustainability impact
- Competing AI futures: geopolitical uncertainty, energy and infrastructure constraints, scenarios and strategic choices
- From AI strategy to innovation and value creation: data, investment priorities and competitive advantage
- Governing AI ecosystems and dependencies: agentic commerce, partnerships, concentration risk and sovereignty
- AI transformation in practice: organisational redesign and value realisation
- Agentic AI, accountability and security: the synthetic workforce
- AI regulation in motion: Sweden, the EU and global developments
- The board-management partnership: roles, trust, constructive challenge and decision rights
- A boardroom simulation and a closing session: what must change in the next 90 days
Speakers
- Stephanie Woerner, Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of MIT CISR. Her research on AI-savvy boards is a foundation of the Boards 4AI framework.
- Robin Teigland, Professor, co-author of AI Leadership for Boards, co-founder of Peniche Ocean Watch.
- Scott Newton, NED. Managing Partner at Thinking Dimensions and board member at Strategy Tools. Harvard Business Review Advisory Council Member and LinkedIn Top Voice 2024/2025.
- Francesco Burelli, NED. Partner at Arkwright Consulting AG, co-author of the Ecosystem Canvas and Learning Coach at INSEAD Executive Education.
- Susanne Hannestad, NED and Executive Chair of Fintech Mundi. Group NED at ClearBank (Chair of the Remuneration Committee), Supervisory Board Director at Triodos Bank (Audit and Risk Committee), and NED at Zimpler (a TrueLayer company) and Crunchfish.
- Martin Althén, NED. Former President of Securitas Digital and IDG’s CIO of the Year in Sweden 2021.
- Billy Jörgensen, NED. Head of Regulatory and Leadership Initiatives at AI Sweden.
- Henrik Forzelius, NED and researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
- Catharina Borgenstierna, Head of Ambea X Innovation hub at Ambea, the Nordics’ largest care provider. Co-founder and board member of Axontech. Former CEO of Camanio Care and former board member of Zafe Care Systems, HEPRO and Swecare Foundation.
- Liselotte Hägertz Engstam, NED and Chair of Boards Impact Forum. NED and Chair of the Remuneration Committee at Zalaris, and NED at Ografy. Selected by INSEAD as one of the world’s top 50 NEDs.
- Fernanda Torre, NED and Operations Director at Boards Impact Forum.
- Carl Piva, NED and CEO of the Swedish Internet Foundation. Chair of the Stockholm Green Innovation District and the Urban Twin Transition Centre.
Who should attend
Board directors, chairs and C-suite executives who want to understand AI governance from the supervisory board’s perspective. This is an in-person event: places are in the room at Internetstiftelsen, and there is no online ticket.
Working Agenda
Thursday 3 December 2026, Internetstiftelsen, Stockholm. Times may shift slightly before the day.
Morning: strategic leadership and value creation
| Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-09:20 | Opening: the board’s AI leadership challenge for 2027-2030. The Boards 4AI framework, including AI’s sustainability impact, and a pulse check of the room. | Liselotte Hägertz Engstam, NED, Chair of Boards Impact Forum, co-author of AI Leadership for Boards. Fernanda Torre, NED, Operations Director at Boards Impact Forum, co-author of AI Leadership for Boards. Carl Piva, NED, CEO of the Swedish Internet Foundation. |
| 09:20-09:55 | Foresight: competing AI futures. Geopolitical uncertainty, energy and infrastructure constraints, scenarios and strategic choices. | Fernanda Torre, NED, Operations Director at Boards Impact Forum, co-author of AI Leadership for Boards. |
| 09:55-10:35 | From AI strategy to innovation and value creation. Data, investment priorities and competitive advantage. | Scott Newton, NED, Managing Partner at Thinking Dimensions and board member at Strategy Tools. Harvard Business Review Advisory Council Member. |
| 10:35-10:50 | Break | |
| 10:50-11:30 | Governing AI ecosystems and dependencies. Agentic commerce, partnerships, concentration risk and sovereignty. | Francesco Burelli, NED, Partner at Arkwright Consulting AG. Co-author of the Ecosystem Canvas and Learning Coach at INSEAD Executive Education. |
| 11:30-12:15 | AI transformation in practice. Fintech transformation, organisational redesign and value realisation. | Susanne Hannestad, NED, Executive Chair of Fintech Mundi. Board director at ClearBank, Triodos Bank, Zimpler and Crunchfish. |
| 12:15-13:00 | Networking lunch |
Afternoon: governance, resilience and board action
| Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00-14:30 | Live from MIT: leading the strategic ambition. Two short presentations, then a poll and breakout discussions at tables in the room. | Stephanie Woerner, Director of MIT CISR and Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan, joining live from the United States. Her research on AI-savvy boards underpins the Boards 4AI framework. Robin Teigland, co-author of AI Leadership for Boards. |
| 14:30-14:40 | Break | |
| 14:40-15:10 | The synthetic workforce: autonomy, accountability and security. Agentic AI, workforce transformation and cyber resilience. | Martin Althén, NED, former President of Securitas Digital. IDG’s CIO of the Year in Sweden 2021. |
| 15:10-15:40 | AI regulation and governance in motion. Sweden, the EU and global developments, and what they mean for international boards. | Billy Jörgensen, NED, Head of Regulatory and Leadership Initiatives at AI Sweden. |
| 15:40-16:05 | The board-management partnership in AI transformation. Roles, trust, constructive challenge and decision rights. | Henrik Forzelius, NED and researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Catharina Borgenstierna, Head of the Ambea X Innovation hub at Ambea, the Nordics’ largest care provider. Co-founder of Axontech. |
| 16:05-16:50 | Boardroom simulation: the AI transformation dilemma. An integrated board decision on AI investment, ecosystems, autonomy, workforce, sustainability and risk. | Facilitated by Liselotte Hägertz Engstam, with faculty as expert advisers. |
| 16:50-17:15 | From insights to board action. Faculty dialogue and participant commitments: what must change in the next 90 days? | Faculty |
Price and registration
- Standard price: €530 (+VAT)
- Early bird: 30% off, €371 (+VAT), until 22 November 2026, with code FutureAIBoard30
- Free of charge for participants already enrolled in the autumn cohort of Boards Oversight of Responsible AI for Value Creation program and for Boards Impact Forum corporate members
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