Sofia Edvardsen

With a deep interest in law, technology and business strategy, Sofia Edvardsen engages passionately in understanding and explaining the world's emerging legal regulatory landscape for technologies. How can businesses prepare today for the regulations of the future? What should be done short term to position the industry for the long term considering what rules that then will apply?

With extensive experience as an attorney she has worked closely with a wide range of organisations. That enables her to provide practical and realistic solutions to emerging legal challenges, also aiming to help make the right decisions based on an understanding of what is possible today and what the future might bring. She is the founding partner of Sharp Cookie Advisors (https://www.sharpcookie.se/en), a technology and digitization law firm based in Stockholm, Sweden. In her role there she represents sellers and buyers of cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models), software licensing and other technology transactions.

She also holds the role as Data Protection Officer for several global companies as well as start-ups. In addition she provides services to Data Protection Programs for health care providers and companies in media, marketing, retail and tech. Sofia also leads the Swedish chapter of International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). In that role she facilitates the development of privacy enhancing practices for the Swedish industry and public sector.

Sofia Edvardsen graduated from School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg and has a degree from Chalmers University of Technology. She is a certified privacy professional and holds a CIPP/E certification. She has served as in-house legal counsel of a global telecom company, in-house legal counsel at a technology investment fund and as a lawyer in the Stockholm and London offices of Baker McKenzie law firm.