Robin Teigland

Robin Teigland (PhD) is Professor of Strategy and Management of Digitalization in the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Division at Chalmers, in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she was recruited to build bridges between technology and the development of society. She is also the Director of Ocean Data Factory Sweden – Sweden’s national initiative for AI-driven innovation based on ocean data.

Recently Robin published three books with Routledge on fintech, the future of labor, and digitalization’s impact on public services. In 2017, 2018, and 2019 Robin was listed by the Swedish business magazine, Veckans Affärer, as one of Sweden’s most influential women, primarily in technology and also ranked as one of Sweden’s top 100 public speakers. She is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

Teigland is currently leading several projects investigating AI and its influence on value creation in society and how the convergence of disruptive technologies including AI is transforming long-standing institutional structures leading to new organizational and labor forms. She is an impact entrepreneur and has co-founded Peniche Ocean Watch and Ocean Tech Hub in Portugal, through which she is running several blue circular economy projects, such as the Plastic Chain, Peladrone, the Ocean Community Challenge, and Ecowaterdrone. Robin is a passionate ocean lover and firmly believes that anyone – no matter their age, education, or location, can participate in making our oceans happier and healthier. She strives to understand how we can use disruptive technologies, such as the blockchain, drones, 3d printing, and artificial intelligence, to empower coastal communities to improve their symbiosis with the ocean for a sustainable future.

Here’s a link to her TEDx talk Peniche and a link to Peniche documentary on RTP Portuguese national TV in August 2019.