Joakim has contributed to most of the leading newspapers in the Nordics, including a few years as a staff reporter for the business daily Dagens Industri and as a Columnist for Aftonbladet, the largest daily in the Nordics. Contact Joakim if you are interested in having a guest column or an opinion piece written for your publication. 

Are you interested in finding out more about how podcasting can benefit your business and your clients? Joakim Båge has hosted and co-hosted two of the top business podcasts in Sweden, Kvadrat on EFN, the award-winning financial news network owned by Handelsbanken, and Realtid ESG-podden on the independent online financial news outlet Realtid.

Have you explored a form of digital media which thousands of people are spending hours with daily? Audio books have exploded in popularity over the last few years. The undisputed leader in the category is Storytel, with over 400 000 paying subscribers in Sweden alone. Joakim Båge has authored a highly rated  audio book, Bostadsskolan, exclusively published by Storytel in association with EFN.

Are you interested in getting a top-rated moderator or presenter at your next event? Joakim Båge, lately often together with co-host Petra Bergman, has curated, moderated and presented at top tech industry events around the world including:

• Realtid ESG-dagen (Co-moderator and Curator)
• Dagens Media Rörligt, Stockholm (Co-Moderator)
• Breakit Game tech, Stockholm (Curator)
• Film- och TV-branschens Samarbetskommitté, Almedalen (Presenter)
• VidCon EU, Amsterdam (Panel Moderator)
• Whispr Influencer Marketing Meet-up, Stockholm, Oslo & Malmö (Curator and Moderator)
• [a]list Summit, Los Angeles & Seattle (Curator)
• Big Ideas at Idealab, Pasadena (Curator and Moderator)
• Game Developers Conference, San Francisco (Panel Moderator)
• Nordic Film & Game Lounge at E3, Los Angeles (Curator)
• Digital Hollywood, Los Angeles (Panel Moderator)
• Silicon Beach Fest, Los Angeles (Panel Moderator)
• Games @ CES, Las Vegas (Curator)
• NY Games Conference (Curator)
• LA Games Conference (Curator)
• Millennials Conference, Los Angeles & Toronto (Curator)
• Film Technology Summit and Future of Film Summit, LA (Co-Curator with Variety)
• Future of Television Conference, Los Angeles & NYC (Curator)
• Digital Music Forum East & West, Los Angeles & NYC (Curator)
• LA Film Festival (Panel Moderator)
• Canadian Music Week, Toronto (Panel Moderator) 

Joakim Båge can share advice on CSR strategies with extensive experience of working with non-profits such as Mindshare LA, New Filmmakers Los Angeles and Innovate Pasadena. 

Joakim started out his career as a financial journalist in Sweden at Thomson Reuters, Dagens Industri and TV4 as well as a reporter for Aftonbladet and Expressen.

He has since then expanded his skillset over a decade in the United States as an Executive Director at Ayzenberg Group, one of the largest independent ad agencies in Los Angeles; Vice President of Content at Digital Media Wire; as well as Founder of Viking Digital Media, which produced award-winning online video content for IKEA. 

In the last three years, Joakim has been an  advisor and consultant to progressive companies and organizations such as Wildeco, Lifesum, Whispr Group, Speqta, VidCon, LightFlex, Breakit, EFN and Bonnier Broadcasting.

Joakim also served on the Board of Directors for Speqta, listed on Nasdaq First North Premier, during it's turnaround. He was part of a small team which repositioned the company,  successfully raised new capital, made three strategic acquisitions and ultimately brought in new main owners in Optimizer Invest.

Thriving on being a catalyst for innovation at the intersection of content, technology, ideas and people, Joakim has been awarded Streamy and Webby Awards as well as fellowships from the Wallenberg Foundation, Investor AB and the Sweden-America Foundation.

He has authored an audiobook for outsiders on the real estate market, Bostadsskolan, a Storytel Original, and he has previously been a contributing author to three regular books about digital media and millennials. He is hosting the top podcast ESG-podden on Realtid.se and has co-hosted the popular show "kvadrat" on EFN, the Swedish financial news network.

Joakim has a Masters Degree in Media, Entertainment and Technology Management from The Gallatin School at New York University and a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the School of Business and Commercial Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.