Portrait of Yikang (Ekon) Chen Portrait of Ekon in an MiH Student T-shirt Ekon on the red-carpet steps at Cannes Ekon introducing the Service Management master's programme as a student ambassador

Hi, I'm Yikang (Ekon)

Marketing, PR & event management

I build marketing strategies, shoot and edit photos and videos, create social media content, and manage campaigns and events.

Based in Helsingborg, Sweden
UTC +1 · English, Swedish, Chinese

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Open to roles in

SE / DK

Selected works

Student–industry events

Apr' 25 – Jun' 26

Awards on stage at the MiH annual gala, with guests at round tables
MiH annual gala, Helsingborg
Students around a table listening to an architect from FOJAB
Study visit to FOJAB architects, Helsingborg
30+Corporate partners across Helsingborg and Skåne, built and managed as event manager

Managed three large events end to end (workshops, lectures and networking coffee chats) connecting 100+ students with companies, with 80%+ attendance at every event.

EventsB2B partnerships
x Marknadsföreningen i Helsingborgsregionen · @mihstudent ↗

Compliance course launch

Jul–Oct' 25 · Lund

0 → 1A corporate compliance course, from market research to launch

Benchmarked platforms like Udemy and Coursera, wrote a 6,000-word industry report to guide positioning, co-designed course content, and helped run a campus ambassador rollout with local universities.

Go-to-marketContent
x GPC

Brand & CEO Douyin

Jan–Jun' 24

100k+Customer interactions
Factory-tour episode for the founder's Douyin account · 2:21

Ran the brand's and the CEO's Douyin (TikTok) accounts, scripted product-launch videos and worked with 20+ KOLs across platforms.

PRSocial content
x Zhouheiya

Nordic social media

Jan–Mar' 25 · Stockholm

Planned and ran social media strategy across platforms for an edtech company, kept web and social content up to date, and tuned content to Nordic market trends and audience feedback.

Social mediaDigital marketing
@coursfy on TikTok ↗

Advertising agency work

May–Sep' 22 · Hong Kong

AwardChina Outdoor Media Advertising Golden Wall Award, for a campaign I worked on

Worked on station and airport advertising campaigns, including one for Zhuhai airport, plus branded new-media content for major clients including Tencent.

AdvertisingBranding
x Asiaray Media Group

Brand consulting case

Apr' 26 · Helsingborg

“Scale your story, localise your impact.”

Group project with four classmates: we reframed the value proposition for an AI localisation company and proposed this slogan, which landed well with the client.

Brand strategy
x Mindpark · Contentor

Photography, video, research & writing

Photography

Film festivals, live music, theatre and travel, shot and edited by me.

Video

Brand content for Douyin, and reels I made as a Lund University student ambassador. My personal edits on Bilibili have reached 220k+ views.

Journalism

Co-reported economy stories for Hubei's provincial daily as a reporting intern, turning data into news for a general readership.

About me

How does a journalist, PR and marketing specialist, and Chinese girl, dropped in the middle of a Scandinavian winter, become the next hire who transforms your team?

Short answer: I've reported for a regional newspaper in China, worked in advertising media, and handled PR for a major brand. I come up with ideas, produce creative content and vibe-code. I hold a Swedish master's degree, and I study and work in Chinese, English and Swedish. The long answer is everything on this page.

Ekon on a hike below the Matterhorn Ekon beside the Festival de Cannes palm sign at night
Ekon at a whiteboard introducing the Service Management master's programme as a student ambassador Ekon on the red-carpet steps at Cannes
ChineseNative
EnglishProfessional
SwedishConversational

Education & skills

Education

  • Lund UniversityMSc, Culture and Creative Management2024–26
  • Wuhan UniversityJoint bachelor, Journalism2022–23
  • Hubei UniversityBA, Journalism2020–24

Skills

Event management B2B partnerships Social media strategy PR & KOL collaboration Content production Market research

Tools

Premiere Pro InDesign Photoshop Excel Vibe coding

Let's work together

chenyikang4@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/yikangchen1984

Email me

Photography

Press conference at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Press conference, Cannes Film Festival 2026
Musician silhouetted in green and pink stage light
Live concert
A journalist stands to ask a question at a Cannes press conference
Question from the floor, Cannes 2026
Two actors walk upstage as the ensemble faces them, seen from above
Theatre curtain call
The Matterhorn above Riffelsee lake
Matterhorn, Switzerland
Full cast of a musical taking a curtain call
Musical curtain call

Video

Zhouheiya factory tour · Episode for the founder's Douyin account · 2:21
Cooking reel: Qishan saozi noodles, filmed in a student kitchen Watch on Instagram ↗
Cooking reel: Qishan saozi noodles · Made as a student ambassador for Lund University's Master's in Service Management, posted on the programme's Instagram

Contentor pitch deck · Mindpark case, 2026

Slide: Scale your story, localise your impact Slide: Value — localisation, one-stop-shop partner, AI and human integration Slide: Recommendations on communication clarity and value clarity Slide: Recommendations — focus on key talking points, sync channels, feature Lexi

Hubei Daily · selected stories, 2023

  1. 18 Aug
    Qixi's "sweet economy": Hubei ranks 8th in China for flower and chocolate sales甜蜜经济升温 湖北七夕鲜花与巧克力销量全国第八
  2. 12 Aug
    Hubei publishes its first 100 digital-economy use cases我省发布首批数字经济典型应用场景
  3. 10 Aug
    Each 1 yuan in consumer vouchers drives up to 15 yuan of spending投入1元最高撬动15元 湖北消费券强力提振供需两端
  4. 30 Jul
    Wuhan's Yifei Laser lists on the Shanghai Stock Exchange武汉逸飞激光登陆上交所
  5. 25 Jul
    Four trends in Hubei's consumer market in the first half of the year上半年湖北消费市场呈现四大特点
  6. 10 Jul
    Renewables now make up over 60% of Hubei's installed power capacity湖北晒节能成绩单 可再生能源装机量占总量超过六成

All stories ran in Hubei Daily (湖北日报), co-bylined with the paper's economy reporter. Full clippings, in Chinese (PDF) ↗