Hello, I am Heidi Harman, a board professional, tech advisor, investor, and UX researcher. I reside in Sweden and advises as a board member, due diligence, and technical investment advisor.

I serve as a board member at Sistris, a music rights company. Previous board positions include Athanase Innovation (an AI and robotics fund on the stock market).

Previously, I co-built a UX research software company @lookback in San Francisco with clients like Facebook, Google and Ebay, @scrive (electronic signatures, exit in 2011), international speaker and founder at GeekGirlMeetup in Sweden and London.

The longer version

Heidi Harman is a tech entrepreneur, board professional advisor, UX researcher and business developer. Currently, Heidi resides in Sweden and serves as a board member at Sistris. Heidi also held a board member position at Athanase Innovation (Traded AI and robotic fund on the stock market, First North), ProgressData.io, a DEI (Diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality) data SAAS (Software as a service).

At the podcast “HOW – the pod” Heidi picked the brains of change-makers in tech and society.

Previously, she has worked with startups in London, San Francisco, and Stockholm where she resides today. Heidi is an ILVP Alumni (a US State Department program for international women in STEM).

Founded RunAlong.se (2008-2011), was an owner at Scrive electronic signatures (Exited 2011) co-founded GeekGirlMeetup.com (2008-current), and later Director of UX Researcher at Lookback.io in San Francisco (2014-2016).

Heidi Harman started her career as a technical project manager and interaction design and strategic planner at Bleed, Bazooka, LBI, and SSE Exec education at Stockholm School of Economics.

With a BA in Creative Business Design from the Kaospilots in Denmark and over ten years in the Stockholm, London, and San Franciscan creative environment with both commercial-, and government web projects and start-up ventures before starting her own companies. Heidi has also studied programming/development at KTH.

She founded the longest-standing female tech network in Sweden, GeekGirl Meetup, a network for women in STEM, code, design, and startups, which now has chapters in 17 countries. Ms. Harman has been awarded as an “Innovative and Trailblazing Role Model of the Decade” by the Women’s Economic Forum and has been a speaker at several events, such as the Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education, General Assembly London, Spotify and TEDxYouth.

Awards

2016 “Iconic innovative trailblazer of a decade” – Women Economic Forum.

2016 Internet museum by IIS- making internet history with GeekGirlMeetup

2016 Sollos prize 2016

2013 Super talent of the year – Veckans Affärer

2011 GeekHall of Fame, Stockholm Science Museum

2011 Mavericks List of 2011 The Maverick list, Uppstickarna by Shortcut.se elevates the inspirators of Sweden annually

2009, Heidi was one of the youngest to receive the Vinnova inventors project (Var dags IT-innovationer) funding (in 2008) with the RunAlong project, together with PhD. Robin Teigland, from the Stockholm School of Economics. Read About it in CS, TechChrunch, Programmable web and have a look on TV.

Public speaking

Heidi Harman works as a board member professional, tech advisor and UX researcher. Previously, she founded the longest-standing female tech network in Sweden, GeekGirl Meetup, a network for women in STEM, code, design and startups, which has had chapters in 17 countries. Ms. Harman has been awarded as an “Innovative and Trailblazing Role Model of the Decade” by Women’s Economic Forum, and has been a speaker in several events, such as the Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education, General Assembly London, Spotify and TEDxYouth.

Keynote topics

Robotics for children.
The ABC of API’s – monetising with API’s.
UX research as a competitive advantage

Workshops

Robotics for children
Prototyping for diversity
End-to-end UX research and prototyping from an explorative state to qual and quant data

The ABC of Api’s and monetisation

We explore the field between technology and business in the modern World of API’s. A course for executive in the digital economy, whether you are going through a digital transformation or building new services. API’s (application programming interfaces) – the most prominent bread and butter of digital businesses today and the carrier of these times gold – data.

Participants learn

What API’s are, what they are, when and when not to use them.
When to use them and how to build a strategy for monetization using API’s.
Understand when to build your own or use other services API’s.

Diversity data in tech hiring

Based on research and experience Heidi explained diversity and inclusion in plain English (or Swedish) and get in to the grit of measuring and to apply structure and maintain progress.

Participants learn

Understanding what diversity and inclusion means, how the science of it works and affects our daily work and business.
How to go from diversity benefits to inclusion benefits.
Optional workshop: let’s look at focus points to set a diversity and inclusion strategy for your company.

UX Research as a competitive advantage

User-driven innovation & UX research [Talk and workshop]

Based on Research based UDI (User driven innovation) Heidi helps engineering departments, product managers and business units in tech and finance companies to work on the competitive advantages of prototyping, working close to the user with a range of methods the company later can incorporate into their daily practice.

A tailored talk depending on needs:

What is UX research and how can it lead to growth
The in’s and outs of Qualitative vs Quantitative research,
How to advance with user-involvement and co-creational methods

Dancing robots for children workshop

With robotics as a means for building kids self-confidence, Heidi teaches kids how to build dancing robots. Together we create, program and build robotic creatures and top it of with a dance-off for the robots! Sign up to the newsletter be notified about future workshops.

History
The workshop began with 8-15 year olds at the KTH Tekla event in 2016 and 2017 held by GeekGirlMeetup, and continues the tradition with KTH collaboration with Music Tech Fest during 2018.