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FEB 1, 2019. Day One

Today was my first day at RISE Viktoria. Every other Friday there is an office-wide breakfast, and I was lucky to arrive on such a day. The entire office was involved in what seemed like a mini-challenge to come up with a ''moon shot'' idea on teams and present them to everyone else. As I understand it, the challenge was issued last week or two weeks ago, and presented today. I could tell some teams worked pretty hard on the challenges. Others clearly spent less time. Matlida introduced me to the entire room, I had a quick chance to say 'hi' and even said a few sentences in Swedish before the teams launched into their presentations. Nothing that I saw seemed to rise to the level of moon launch, but I got a small taste of what everyone is working on. It ranges from reusable clothing applications (circular economy etc) to energy to 'x-pods' that will carry everyone on a public transit all over the place. It became clear to me fast that I'm going to h...