Mike Steere
Thundermaps
Managing Director
Sweden
Biography: Mike Steere is a New Zealander who has ended up on the complete opposite side of the planet - in Sweden. There he founded ThunderMaps Sweden and led the company's application to the European Commission Horizon 2020 innovation programme. The €1m project application - in the mobile eGovernment category - brought Mike's concept for a combined, real-time, location-based city communication channel together with ThunderMaps technology and succeeded in winning. A political science major, Mike's career started as a journalist working around major Australasian media companies, before heading to the UK where he worked for The Times and CNN International.