Dr Anders Källström has spent his entire career with one foot in academia and one foot in the industry. Ever since his doctoral thesis about the effectiveness and characteristics of Swedish management, his focus has been to develop business and society as fast and sustainable as possible. He is still doing that as the executive chairman of the Industry Think Tank Sustainability Circle. Previous positions include CEO of West Sweden Chamber of Commerce, CEO and president publicly listed shipping company Transatlantic, Adj. Professor in digitalization at the University of Skövde.

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Sustainability Circle is an industrial think tank founded by Sweden’s largest industries in 2010. Today we are almost 50 connected and committed businesses. You will find many of Sweden's most well-known brands. Over the years, industries have been accompanied by infrastructure companies, healthcare, service companies and academia. Our mission is to develop knowledge and inspire action, in the area of sustainable production. Companies are faced with increasingly tougher challenges and need to be more long-term and sustainable to succeed and survive Digitization creates opportunities in the realization of sustainable development. Therefore, more and more are now investing in smart companies and a smart industry. However, digitization makes us increasingly technology dependent. If digitization is to succeed, technology must work and must last. By upgrading the traditional maintenance via Smart Maintenance to Sustainable Production, we can approach a zero vision regarding incidents and accidents, imbalances and losses. Which in the end will lead to effective autonomous production!