#KeepTheTalent: Deportation in Swedish Tech sector.

Swedish migration laws are draining the talent from Startup scene. Companies are losing valuable team members due to massive deportations. This has been the case for more than 3 years, with many organizations getting involved, yet very little has changed. What can we do differently?

Aniel Bhaga is a Business Developer at H&M Group and driving passion projects on a side as Head of Marketing at Venue and Marketing Manager of Startup Grind Stockholm.

After coming to Sweden from Australia 6 years ago, he has worked in digital transformation & marketing at companies including Electrolux, Telia, Nova, Flic, Ungapped, Nyden and H&M.

Two days ago (October 9th) he received a letter from Migrationsdomstolen with a decision about deportation and a request to leave Sweden within 5 weeks.

Aniel is not a single case. There has been a growing amount of skilled labor deportations, affecting the Swedish economy and the costs companies bear to keep the people they have chosen to grow their business. Sweden is striving to be the best environment for companies & entrepreneurs and we cannot achieve that without having the right people grow the companies.

What can we do differently? October 25th we meet in central Stockholm to learn how to #keepthetalent. See you there!

Joining:

Resad Zacina - Co-founder of Ministry of Programming, deported from Sweden in 2016 and building Swedish startup scene from Sarajevo.
Matt Kriteman - Chief Operations Officer of Diversify Foundation.
Maxim Moneta - Managing Director of Startupers.online, left Sweden partially due to Migrationsverket's long waiting period.
Other guests to be announced.

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