Ida Kymmer
Frontier technology now arrives faster than corporate strategy, regulatory frameworks, or supply chains can absorb it. Boards face decisions about immersive platforms, defence-adjacent tools, and contested AI applications with no precedent to draw on. The cost of waiting is ceded ground. The cost of moving without judgement is reputational and ethical exposure that does not unwind.
Ida Kymmer advises boards and leadership teams on emerging technology decisions where commercial opportunity, defence implications, and ethical exposure intersect.
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Why organisations work with Ida Kymmer
- Brings a working knowledge of how the same technologies are deployed in commercial, defence, and peacebuilding contexts, so leaders see the full surface area of a decision rather than one face of it.
- Founder of House of PeaceTech, the ecosystem platform connecting investors, startups, governments, and NGOs working on conflict prevention and recovery technology, which gives clients access to a network most strategy advisors cannot reach.
- Has shaped immersive technology programmes for BMW, H&M, Clinique, and Shiseido during her tenure at Journee, so the perspective is built on real brand deployment, not theory.
- Active across MENA, Korea, and the Nordics through Infinite Reality, Hub71, and Vinnova, giving organisations a read on emerging technology adoption beyond the usual US and Western European frame.
- Publishes Tech for War and Peace weekly, so the analysis a client receives is built from continuous primary research, not refreshed every booking cycle.
Biography highlights
- Director of Business, MENA at Infinite Reality
- Founder of House of PeaceTech, the ecosystem platform for technology in conflict prevention and recovery
- Former Director of Global Affairs at Journee, working with BMW, H&M, Clinique, and Shiseido
- Author of Tech for War and Peace, a weekly newsletter on defence, conflict, and peacebuilding technology
- Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies
- Startup judge for Vinnova (Sweden) and Hub71 (Abu Dhabi); speaking record at World Economic Forum, SXSW, Gitex, TechBBQ, and Deloitte Innovation Day
Biography
Emerging technology rarely arrives with a clean use case. The same systems that power immersive retail can be repurposed for surveillance, defence, or disinformation. Most advisors look at one face of that surface. Few look at all of them.
Ida Kymmer’s work sits across the commercial, defence, and peacebuilding applications of the same technologies. She holds a Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies and founded House of PeaceTech, an ecosystem platform connecting investors, startups, governments, and NGOs working on conflict prevention and recovery. Her weekly newsletter, Tech for War and Peace, tracks how defence-adjacent technologies move between sectors.
Her commercial credibility is built on deployment, not theory. As Director of Global Affairs at Journee from 2021 to 2023, she shaped immersive technology programmes for BMW, H&M, Clinique, and Shiseido. She now serves as Director of Business, MENA at Infinite Reality, and judges startups for Sweden’s Vinnova and Abu Dhabi’s Hub71.
The geographic and linguistic range matters here. She has lived in nine countries, speaks five languages, and reads emerging technology adoption from Seoul, the Gulf, and the Nordics as fluently as from Silicon Valley. Boards in any of those markets get a perspective that the usual American or Western European advisory pool does not provide.
Key speaking topics
- Emerging technology and innovation strategy
- Defence and peace technology
- Immersive technology and commerce
- Disinformation and information integrity
- Sustainability and the green transition
- Korean innovation systems and soft power
- MENA technology ecosystems
Ideal for
- Boards and executive teams making frontier technology investment or deployment decisions
- Chief innovation, strategy, and digital officers in consumer brands, automotive, and luxury
- Government, defence, and policy audiences engaging with dual-use technology
- Sustainability and ESG leads scrutinising green-transition supply chains
Audience outcomes
- A clearer map of how a single technology operates across commercial, defence, and humanitarian use cases
- Specific examples of immersive technology deployment from named global brands
- A working view of innovation ecosystems in Korea, MENA, and the Nordics
- Sharper questions to put to internal teams on dual-use exposure, supply chain ethics, and emerging technology partnerships
Talks
A working analysis of battery mineral extraction, mining emissions, and what major automotive companies are doing about both.
Key takeaways:
- The scale of mining emissions relative to global greenhouse gas output and what that means for net-zero claims
- Where current battery supply chains expose corporate sustainability narratives
- Concrete responses underway inside major automotive manufacturers
A field report on how AI, drones, and automated systems are reshaping contemporary conflicts and the peacebuilding response.
Key takeaways:
- How the same technology stacks are deployed for conflict and for conflict prevention
- What corporate leaders need to understand about dual-use exposure in their supply chains
- The emerging PeaceTech ecosystem and where commercial actors fit
An account of Korea’s emergence as a technological and cultural power, and what other economies can take from it.
Key takeaways:
- The institutional and political conditions behind Korea’s innovation system
- How soft power and hard technology reinforce one another in the Korean model
- What the Korean playbook offers organisations operating across Asia
A working argument for aesthetic and human craft as differentiators in a world of frontier technology.
Key takeaways:
- Where automation hits a ceiling in consumer, brand, and entertainment contexts
- How leading brands are using immersive technology without losing human texture
- The strategic role of craft and design in technology-saturated markets
A read on African startup ecosystems and what global investors and corporates are missing.
Key takeaways:
- Where fintech, mobile commerce, and infrastructure plays are concentrating across Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Egypt
- The structural advantages African ecosystems hold over more mature markets
- How to enter, partner, and invest without importing assumptions that do not fit
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Testimonials
Fees
| EUR | GBP | USD | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Country | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| Asia Pacific | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| Europe | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| Middle East & Africa | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| South America | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| United Kingdom | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| US East Coast | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
| US West Coast | €12000 to €40000 | £10,001 - £35,000 | $15000 - $50000 |
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