The
Speakers
Get a front-row seat to the diverse minds of most the forward thinking designers and innovators in Stockholm
Diego Mechaca
UX designer
Product Alchemy
Diego is lifelong traveler and tech entrepreneur. Previously he was the founder and CEO of Teamscope, a company he started, scaled to thousands of users and sold after 9 years. Now, he is a freelance UX designer, exclusively advising tech companies on how to enhance their product designs so they are visually appealing and easy to use.
Kinley Tenzin
Chief Social Enterprise Officer
Youth Development Fund
Kinley has across 16 years of experience in the social sector in Bhutan and Australia, with hands-on business comprehension. He was a co-founder of a Business Clinic Centre in Bhutan that conducts business health checkups providing cutting-edge business development solutions. He has also been part of community support projects with Disability Services Australia and currently he leads Bhutan Youth Development Fund (YDF’s) social enterprise division with a mission to build businesses for people and the planet by leading social and environmental enterprises. He has a masters of Social Entrepreneurship from Macquarie Business School in Australia and also has a diploma studies in Alcohol and Drug Studies from University of Amsterdam.
Jacques von Benecke
CTO
Druk Holding & Investment
Is the Chief Technology Officer for DHI Group of companies and consults for the Royal Government of Bhutan’s as a member of the Government Technology Commission. Jacques comes with over 35 years of experience and have focused on business transformation since completing his Master’s in Business Administration in 2008. He has experience working for large global tech giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS), British Telecoms, BHP Billiton, and Woodside Energy alongside working in education for Murdoch University and health as the Chief Architect for the Spine Programme for the National Health Service in the UK. Jacques is also a member of the Open Wallet Foundation's Government Advisory Committee as the official representative of RGoB.
Jigme Thinley
Sr. Program Officer
DoEE, MoICE
Mr. Jigme has been working as a Sr. Program Officer in the Entrepreneurship Promotion Division, Department of Employment and Entrepreneurship, MoICE since 2014. He graduated from Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Geography in 2012 and completed the Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Administration (PGDPA) from the Royal Institute of Management (RIM) in 2013. He is also a certified CEFE (Competency-based Economy through Creation of Enterprise) trainer experienced in entrepreneurship development.
Karma, 49 years old from Kabesa Punakha is presently working as the Project Manager for the construction of JSW School of Law at Pangbisa, Paro. Having completed a diploma in Civil Engineering from the then Royal Bhutan Polytechnic (now JNEC), he started his career as an instructor. He then did his degree in civil engineering from the then Regional Engineering College, Warangel, Andra Pradesh, India (Now NIT Warangel) and worked as Lecturer at the then Royal Bhutan Institute of Technology (now CST), Rinchending, P/Ling from 2001 to 2002. From 2003 to 2011 he worked as the Principal of Construction Centre and then as the Chief Programme Office of the Vocational Education and Training Division under the Department of Human Resources from 2011 to 2013. Between 2007 to 2008, he also availed master’s degree in public administration from Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Besides his professional career, he is a person who likes keeping himself always busy doing something. Of the many, his greatest passion is to keep venturing into some kind of business.
Is the Chief Technology Officer for DHI Group of companies and consults for the Royal Government of Bhutan’s as a member of the Government Technology Commission.
Jacques comes with over 35 years of experience and have focused on business transformation since completing his Master’s in Business Administration in 2008.
He has experience working for large global tech giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS), British Telecoms, BHP Billiton, and Woodside Energy alongside working in education for Murdoch University and health as the Chief Architect for the Spine Programme for the National Health Service in the UK.
Jacques is also a member of the Open Wallet Foundation’s Government Advisory Committee as the official representative of RGoB.
Mr. Jigme has been working as a Sr. Program Officer in the Entrepreneurship Promotion Division, Department of Employment and Entrepreneurship, MoICE since 2014. He graduated from Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Geography in 2012 and completed the Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Administration (PGDPA) from the Royal Institute of Management (RIM) in 2013. He is also a certified CEFE (Competency-based Economy through Creation of Enterprise) trainer experienced in entrepreneurship development.
Diego is lifelong traveler and tech entrepreneur. Previously he was the founder and CEO of Teamscope, a company he started, scaled to thousands of users and sold after 9 years. Now, he is a freelance UX designer, exclusively advising tech companies on how to enhance their product designs so they are visually appealing and easy to use.
Kinley has across 16 years of experience in the social sector in Bhutan and Australia, with hands-on business comprehension. He was a co-founder of a Business Clinic Centre in Bhutan that conducts business health checkups providing cutting-edge business development solutions.
He has also been part of community support projects with Disability Services Australia and currently he leads Bhutan Youth Development Fund (YDF’s) social enterprise division with a mission to build businesses for people and the planet by leading social and environmental enterprises. He has a masters of Social Entrepreneurship from Macquarie Business School in Australia and also has a diploma studies in Alcohol and Drug Studies from University of Amsterdam.
Is the Chief Technology Officer for DHI Group of companies and consults for the Royal Government of Bhutan’s as a member of the Government Technology Commission.
Jacques comes with over 35 years of experience and have focused on business transformation since completing his Master’s in Business Administration in 2008.
He has experience working for large global tech giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS), British Telecoms, BHP Billiton, and Woodside Energy alongside working in education for Murdoch University and health as the Chief Architect for the Spine Programme for the National Health Service in the UK.
Jacques is also a member of the Open Wallet Foundation’s Government Advisory Committee as the official representative of RGoB.
Mr. Jigme has been working as a Sr. Program Officer in the Entrepreneurship Promotion Division, Department of Employment and Entrepreneurship, MoICE since 2014. He graduated from Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Geography in 2012 and completed the Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Administration (PGDPA) from the Royal Institute of Management (RIM) in 2013. He is also a certified CEFE (Competency-based Economy through Creation of Enterprise) trainer experienced in entrepreneurship development.