WASP career program 2026: Commercialisation and entrepreneurship

Interested in starting your own venture or bringing research to market? This session explores different paths into entrepreneurship and commercialisation, with insights from experienced founders and practitioners. Through the Wallenberg Launch Pad (WALP) researchers are offered support in exploring and validating what impact their idea could make in industry or in society. Speakers: Sandor Albrecht, Director Innovation, Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation and responsible for Wallenberg Launch Pad (WALP), Frank Jiang, Co-Founder & CEO, FleetMQ and Sonia Horchidan, Co-founder & CEO, OrbDB Labs AB. This session was part of the WASP Career Program 2026.