Richard van Hooijdonk
Trend watcher, futurist and international keynote speaker Richard van Hooijdonk takes you to an inspiring future that will dramatically change the way we live, work and do business.
Deborah Berebichez
Deborah Berebichez is the first Mexican woman to graduate from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Physics, and she uses her education and background to make complex topics approachable to a wide range of audiences. Deborah co-hosts Discovery Channel’s Outrageous Acts of Science TV show, where she uses her knowledge of physics to explain the […]
Dakota Robin
Dakota is half Turkish half Finnish transgender man who was born in Switzerland but raised by Finnish war veterans in a small town in Finland. He was a child that never knew how to adapt to the roles of society. Dakota was different from others, which is why he had to learn how to connect […]
Mary Juusela
Mary Juusela is one of the Nordic region’s foremost experts in values, tolerance and humane sustainability. She lectures on human behavior and on how individuals and groups go further by being open, more inclusive and empathetic. Mary is often hired as an inspirational lecturer during leadership conferences, staff days and many tailor-made events throughout Sweden, […]
Kirsti Laasio
Kirsti Laasio is a Customer Experience Management executive, a board professional, advisor, partner, thought leader and a keynote speaker with extensive international experience in building customer centric brands, leading cross-functional teams, managing SaaS business and product portfolios for both B2B and B2C data and tech brands. She has been living half of her life abroad […]
Mikko Alasaarela
Mikko Alasaarela is an impact-focused AI entrepreneur. He has founded and invested in several tech startups that have raised over $30M and employed over 700 people in Finland, Germany, and the USA. Mikko has lived a significant part of his life internationally in London, San Francisco, and Berlin. He has authored multiple international patents, won […]
Annastiina Hintsa
Annastiina Hintsa has closely observed during her career – and also personally experienced – the challenges relating to sustainable performance in an uncertain, high pressure, fast paced global context. Working in top management consulting and experiencing burnout, Annastiina was faced with profound questions of balance and meaning. She found answers in a transformation that involved […]
Eka Ruola
Eka Ruola is a seasoned professional in marketing, creative storytelling, customer insights and brand building. He is one the most awarded creative directors in the Nordics. In 2015 he was the first Finn being awarded the Agency Innovator Award by the Internationalist. Eka Ruola has 25 years of experience in marketing and has worked with […]
Leigh Ewin
“I believe in flexing, or even stressing things, to where they can move or be shaped in new ways…….” Leigh Ewin is a fun loving Australian who now lives in Finland. Quite a contrast. Since arriving in Finland, Ewin´s story has been one about adaptation, resilience and growth. He is someone who certainly pushes the […]
Henri Tuomilehto
Dr. Henri Tuomilehto is one of the rare full-time sleep physicians in the world. Besides clinical work he has been involved with sleep research for the last 15 years. He works with everyone from Finnair pilots to elite professional athletes – helping them use sleep to optimize all aspects of their lives. Tuomilehto has studied […]
Paula Immo
Paula Immo is a success coach and speaker, who challenges you to consider how profoundly your thoughts, words, actions and values actually affect your life. She turns your attention into the ever necessary inner work, in order for you to be a truly constructive part of the society, organization, enterprise, or even a family. For […]
Natalia Rincon
Natalia Rincon, an influencer, woman in tech, is the Founder and CEO of CHAOS, a Helsinki-based prop-tech startup. CHAOS is an urban-analytics and forecasting company for real estate investors and developers. We merge urban databases and crowd insights to analyze and predict investment and development opportunities in order to create livable cities. “Be strong and […]
Emilia Lahti
Emilia Lahti is an international presenter on topics of courage, compassion, and excellence in leadership. In her Ph.D. she is pioneering the research on the Finnish construct of sisu, which denotes deep embodied fortitude in the face of adversity. Emilia holds a master’s degree in social psychology from the University of Tampere in Finland and […]
Jukka Ala-Mutka
Jukka Ala-Mutka is a noted thought leader in nordic leadership, agility, organizational culture, and innovation, as well as a keynote speaker, and an appreciated contributor in social media. He speaks at various events, ranging from keynoting conferences or events for companies to giving interactive sessions and workshops for smaller groups and startups. Jukka has gotten […]
Mika Sutinen
Mika Sutinen is an enterpreneur and seasoned CEO recognized for creativity and passion for excellent leardership. After selling his last company Musti Group to swedish PE company EQT, Mika took the third career and works as a professional chairman in total 7 companies and as industrial partner at PE firm Vaaka Partner. Mika Sutinen has […]
Laura Kankaala
Laura Kankaala is a Security Researcher, white hat hacker and a keynote speaker. Laura became familiar to the Finnish TV audience in the documentary series Team Whack, in which she and two of her friends hack into different targets, such as a YouTuber’s life, car and IoT devices. “World can be fixed– one hack at […]
Timo Toivanen
Timo Toivanen is an economist and a multi-faceted business economist. Toivanen’s goal is to bring economic insights to listeners. Timo wants to challenge people to become more solid experts in economics, entrepreneurship and business. As a coach, his theses are part of your business, interaction bites, enthusiasm, wireframes and insight. Timo Toivanen is an experienced […]
Tomi Kaukinen
The name, “the man with a Licence to fail”, stems from when Tomi sat on his balcony in the summer of 2018. He had left the company he founded due to burnout and its accompanied depression. He finally had to admit it to himself that it was ok to fail. But instead of clinging on […]
Timo Kiuru
Timo Kiuru is a global creative director. He travels the world to speak to professional audiences and his observations are published in a number of international publications. Timo Kiuru was recognized with the global 40 under 40 industry award in 2016. “Beauty is the highest form of hope.” -Timo Kiuru Timo Kiuru is a marketing […]
Teemu Karppinen
Teemu Karppinen is a professional coach who is specialised to mental and physical performance, stress management and interaction skills. He leads executive teams and employees to better results in his coaching, training and lectures. According to his coaching philosophy, success of a company is a by-product of wellbeing. The performance of a company starts from […]
Terhi Majasalmi
Terhi Majasalmi is a serial entrepreneur, an influencer in the money and investment world and a real estate investor. In 1995 she became interested in managing her own finances due to her father’s unemployment. Terhis own wealth story began on March 31, 1998, when she deposited her first FIM 1,000 in an ASP account. Over […]
Sani Leino
Sani Leino is an advocate of social selling, and he is known as an energising and engaging sales coach and motivational speaker. He is a pioneering coach in emotionally intelligent and social selling. Sani has a successful track record of over ten years of award-winning achievements in B2B and B2C sales, with special expertise in […]
Saku Tuominen
Saku Tuominen founded Broadcasters, one of the most succesful Finnish independent tv production companies with Juha Tynkkynen in 1989. They sold the company twice, both times to Sweden but to different buyers, first to MTG and then to Zodiak Entertainment. In 2009-2010 Saku Tuominen was the Chief Creative Officer of Zodiak Entertainment, the world’s 3rd […]
Perttu Pölönen
Perttu Pölönen has been given many titles, such as inventor, author, composer, keynote speaker, futurist and visionaire. He’s at the intersection of technology, art and science. Perttu is a classically trained composer by education, however, he has also won the biggest science fair in Europe, the European Union’s Competition for Young Scientists. Perttu has studied […]
Reetta Heiskanen
With her roots in the Finnish startup scene and journalism, Reetta Heiskanen (M.Soc.Sc) writes and talks about the future of work, equality and digital solutions. She co-launched programming and robotics courses in Nordic highschools with the Mehackit team in 2015 and truly believes in democratizing technology skills for the future generations. Today, based in Brooklyn, […]
Risto Kuulasmaa
Risto Kuulasmaa is a prolific entrepreneur and executive in media and startups. He is a senior advisor connecting the dots between the worlds of business, entertainment, and arts. Risto is working between Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and Helsinki. Risto has co-founded Tubecon influencer event network organizing arena-sized YouTuber events and influencer marketing services in multiple European markets. The […]
Robson
Robson is positive, competitive and goal orientated. Due to his attitude, at 30, he had already completed a lot of things in his life and was working tirelessly to achieve the goals he had set. All of a sudden, his life came to a halt. A clean check in a hockey game led to Traumatic […]
Mikko Hyppönen
Mikko Hyppönen is Finland’s most renowned security expert. He has been investigating cybercrime for over 25 years. Hyppönen acts as advisor to EUROPOL and consults the Finnish senior government. Hyppönen has lectured at Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge Universities. Hyppönen also acts as an curator at Internet Archive malware museum. Mikko Hyppönen is working at F-Secure. Hyppönen […]
Mikko Eerola
Mikko Eerola is one of the authors of the book The Block Chain Roadmap for decision makers (2019). He has worked throughout his career in business digitalization, both as a management consultant and as a business leader in growth and listed companies. Europe and the United States. Mikko has extensive experience in developing business globally […]
Pekka Hyysalo
Freeskier Pekka Hyysalo (born 2.9.1990) was at the early stage of his Professional Skier Career when the direction of his life was changed in one second. Having just finished the college studies at the Alpine Gymnasium in Kuusamo and the best competition season by so far, he crashed in his final jump of the season. At that […]
Patrick “Pata” Degerman
Patrick “Pata” Degerman is Finland’s only professional explorer. Pata has planned and led several expeditions, which have taken him from the extremely cold polar areas to the deepest jungles of our world. Nine of these expeditions have been to unexplored areas. In addition to this Pata have climbed over 200 mountains which 22 have been […]
Paavo Beckman
Mr. Paavo Beckman has been a CEO and Co-Founder at six companies and led teams in San Francisco, New York, London and Finland. He is an expert in startup & corporation collaborations and a visionary in an innovation field who knows what is happening on the market. Paavo Beckman has been a speaker at business conferences […]
Pekka Pohjakallio
After 20 yeas in high tech Pekka Pohjakallio is passionate about us humans. How to flourish at work? Is change possible? How to move from coping to excitement and flourishing? Therefor, his engineering degree has bee amended by studies of logotherapy and positive psychology. During his 19 year Nokia career Pekka lead business units, marketing […]
Nora Rosendahl
Nora Rosendahl is a startup entrepreneur and researcher specialising in work and stress. Nora is passionate about productive, human-centred ways of working – how can you fulfil your potential without exhausting yourself? Nora has previously worked as a business consultant focusing on transformation in high-tech companies. She became interested in the relationship between the individual […]
Markku Wilenius
Markku Wilenius is a professor of Futures Studies in Turku University Business School. He is also an Unesco Chair in Learning Society and Futures of Education. He has worked over 20 years with Futures Studies. In 2015 he co-founded Turku Complex Systems Institute at the University of Turku. His latest research program is the future […]
Marjo Rantanen
Marjo Rantanen is a licensed coach in mood design and leadership, keynote speaker and writer. She believes that mood is the foundation on which all the success of a business is built. The days of managing issues instead of people is over. People – whether customers, partners or employees – need the right mood to […]
Mika Poutala
Mika Poutala is a four-time Olympic speedskater, a motivational speaker and one of the most positive people in Finland. Poutala’s professional sporting career lasted over a decade, with 130+ days of travel each year. He has celebrated huge successes and suffered painful losses. He came fifth in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010, and […]
Maria Ritola
Maria Ritola is a Finnish entrepreneur, a visionary, and an experienced speaker. She is a co-founder of Iris.ai, a technology company that she established at Singularity University, Silicon Valley in 2015. At Iris.ai Maria builds an AI Science Assistant with her 15-strong team to help researchers make far better use of scientific literature than what […]
Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä
Dr. Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä is Academy of Finland postdoc Fellow at Aalto University, a Newton Fellow at Royal Society (UK) and a visiting scholar at Stanford University who can visualize academic cutting-edge research for a non-scholarly audience. Jukka-Pekka not only integrates his content with research but speaks through his experiences as a leader complex projects that […]
Kalle Ulff
Kalle Ulff is a young creative, designer and keynote speaker. With a energetic and curious attitude, Kalle has been working with big and small organisations on branding, identity design and consulting in different forms for over a decade. Kalle is a sought after keynote speaker on creativity and branding. Kalle Ulff shares his thoughts and […]
Katja Toropainen
Katja is the founder of Inklusiiv, a non-profit with a mission to advance diversity and inclusion in working life. Katja is also an angel investor part of Atomico Angel Programme 2020, award-winning public speaker, writer and columnist. Prior to Inklusiiv, Katja was the Chief Curator in the leadership team at Slush, European startup and tech […]
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Henri Hyppönen
Henri Hyppönen is a creative director, author, speaker, TV host, and serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of five companies, including his latest start-up that designs data and AI-enabled products and services. Henri regularly speaks about AI, the future, business, leadership, creativity, and the intersection of human and machine intelligence. What drives him now is […]
Helena Åhman
Helena Åhman is a passionate observer of the human mind and expert on leadership, pressured situations, situational awareness and conflict management. She describes these phenomena through captivating stories. Her stories may involve hostage negotiators, scientists or film stars, but they are all based on solid scientific background and knowledge. Her ability to combine science, stories […]
Henrik Tötterman
Dr. Henrik Tötterman is an international entrepreneurial leader with over 20 years experience from building and transforming organizations, as an entrepreneur and employed executive. He is seasoned in building teams and creating, implementing, and adjusting global strategies in highly competitive and regulated regional settings. Henrik Tötterman is a serial entrepreneur and his experience spans across […]
Henrietta Moon
Henrietta Moon is the CEO & Co-founder of Carbo Culture, a clean technology company aiming to draw down a million tons of carbon within the next five years. Her company has a novel technology to manufacture a biocarbon product from waste. The product is used as a platform to reinstate health and productivity to destroyed […]
Christina Dahlblom
Christina Dahlblom is an entrepreneur, CEO, Board professional and leadership coach on a mission to improve worklife through better leadership. She works as the deputy CEO of Miltton and CEO of Miltton Sparks, and has served on several boards, three of them being stock listed companies. Her original focus was on understanding customer behavior and […]
Eeva Jaakonsalo
Eeva Jaakonsalo is the founder and CEO of the leadership consulting and coaching company Andas Oy. She is a lively, compelling, and highly professional speaker that presents her themes in a capturing way. She receives constantly ecstatic feedback on her lectures and speeches. Andas Oy delivers leadership development programs for management teams and leaders. It […]
Christoffer Weiss
Christoffer Weiss is a dynamic and energetic speaker who has an extensive experience in the event world, spanning over 17 years, as a producer, speaker and as a participant. With over 300 produced events, in about 40 countries, on six continents, Christoffer has received over 1000 presentations, from beginners all the way to some of […]
Daniel Rahman
Daniel Rahman (M.Sc. Econ., CEMS MIM) is a technology entrepreneur, innovator and experienced speaker both in Finland and abroad. He is the CEO and founder of Integrify. Integrify trains coders and guides them to work. The award-winning and highly acclaimed company takes impact to a whole new level by touching the individual, the corporate field […]
Camilla Tuominen
Camilla Tuominen (M.Econ, basic studies in psychology) is a keynote speaker, author, speaker of the year 2021 and business influencer of the year 2019. She worked for years as a management consultant but resigned in 2012 after she understood that leading of emotions is the core skill of the future. She founded emotion startup (Emotion […]
Emma Kimiläinen
Emma Kimiläinen starting her racing career at the age of 3. She is also a business woman and a mother. She is popular radio host and F1 commentator for MTV Sport. Emma is a sought-after host for sports and racing broadcasts and events and she is also a predictive driving instructor for the Finnish Road […]
Emilia Vuorisalmi
Emilia’s motivational speech helps the listener to support and build sustainable well-being and thereby harness the full potential. The building blocks of sustainable well-being are always individual and you can only find your own inner, body and mind by listening to them. In her inspiring speeches, Emilia combines her own story, science, emotions, and actionable […]
Belinda Gerdt
Belinda Gerdt has built a successful international career in some of the world’s leading technology firms. She has almost twenty years of experience of developing digital customer-oriented businesses. Currently working for Philips at their headquarters in the Netherlands, she leads global marketing for Connected Care Informatics and helps digitize the healthcare industry. Previously she has […]
Antti Merilehto
Antti Merilehto is an author on AI, his book (available in English in Feb 2019) is the bestselling business book in Finland. Antti is ex-Googler and currently Country Manager for Finch Finland, having done most of his career in digital B2B. Finnish event organizers awarded Antti Merilehto as the Speaker of the Year 2018. Antti’s […]
Antti Niittyviita
Antti Niittyviita is best described as a source of energy in everything that he does. In his book and many talks Antti shares his story of how a nerdy software boy set out on a perilous journey by founding a business at the worst time of the millenium. Through the financial crisis and adversities that […]
Anssi Rantanen
Anssi Rantanen is an entrepreneur, ex-Google employee and strategist, that won the 2019 Noridc Business Forum speaker competition. With his win, Anssi Rantanen became the first finnish speaker on the Nordic Business Forum stage in five years. In October 2019 Anssi spoke in front of 7600+ people and received the 4th highest score from all the 13 Nordic […]
Arman Alizad
Arman Alizad, the great fan of heroic tales, speaks about life through personal experiences and shares his thoughts on how he has decided to experience and see life. With his own story, he highlights a number of turning points where his own choices and attitudes have played a major role in future development. Arman has […]
André Noël Chaker
André Noël Chaker is one of Finland’s leading business speakers and writers. He was voted Speaker of the Year 2012 by the customers of Speakers Forum Finland and Speaker, Moderator and Coach of the Year at the Finnish Evento Awards in 2014. In 2015 he received the Business Moderator of the Year award by the […]
Anssi Tuulenmäki
Anssi Tuulenmäki aims to activate the innovation creation skills in the individual, and in teams and organisations. The ability to innovate in a rapidly changing world is becoming more important by the day for survival and success. Practice innovation first with daily, commonplace things – if you can create new value for yourself, you can […]
Alf Rehn
Alf Rehn is a globally noted thought leader in innovation, trends, and creativity; a sought- after speaker, an author and a columnist, as well as a well-regarded commentator on leadership and organizational culture. Alf Rehn has written several bestselling books and given some 1000 keynotes all over the world – including in North Korea. His […]
Aino-Mari Kiianmies
Future is being created today. Build a strong foundation. Ensure resources. Keep your focus. Act smart. Since 2007, Aino-Mari Kiianmies (LLM, M. Sc. (Econ. & Bus. Adm.), M. Soc. Sc., CBM Chairman, Ph.D. Candidate in leadership) has spoken to thousands of people about leadership topics, such as change, growth, smart decision-making, and optimizing performance and wellbeing. She […]