David Garpenstahl
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Serial entrepreneur, advisor and guest speaker
David Garpenstahl, is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience founding and leading more than 10 companies. He has a successful track record from the music, gaming and events industries. One of the pioneers in the gaming and e-sports industry on an international level, David is a former owner and CEO of DreamHack, who led DreamHack to becoming the world’s largest digital festival. He has also been involved in companies such as ESN Social Software (acquired by Electronic Arts) and Inferno Online (world’s largest gaming center).
David is holding guest lectures on the topics of Entrepreneurship, Gaming, Gamification, Project leading, Leadership and other.
Examples of engagements include:
- Cyberjaya Tech Talk on ‘Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries’, Malaysia
- Projektnäring, “Project leading”, Sweden
- “Nordic Gaming Industry”, Brazil
- Stockholm School of Economics, “Entrepreneurship”, Sweden
- Tie Nordic, “Financing your growing venture”, Sweden
- Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, “Entrepreneurship”, Sweden
- International Digital Entertainment Forum, “Gaming”, China
- Royal Institute of Technology, “Gaming and e-sports”, Sweden
- E-sport Symposium, Korea