On Wednesday, 22.05.2013, Aalto University Professional Development – Aalto PRO is organizing a free of charge workshop aimed at the development of SME competences. The workshop will be held in the Innoclub of Innopoli 1, in Otaniemi, Espoo from 9.30 to 13.00.The topic of the workshop is Management Challenges of SMEs – success factors, defining and identifying employee capabilities. The event is arranged as part of the TOP Leader-project that is concerned with the development of leadership and recruitment skills of SMEs.

Registration is required to participate in the workshop, which is possible through the following link. Register! There are only 30 places available in the workshop so act quickly.

Doctoral student Jari Laine of the Business, Innovation, Technology (BIT) research unit of the Aalto Universty School of Science will be hosting and moderating the event. For more information and the program of the event visit www.aaltopro.fi/top (in Finnish) or contact Anne Kallio.

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The MoneyTalks® Forum event on the 11th of October, 2012, featured a multitude of interesting start-ups with novel innovations seeking funding. Alongside the pitches of these ambitious new companies, the event also featured interesting takes by Finnish and foreign Venture Capitalists on their investment approaches as well as the current fundraising situation in Northern Europe.

The most anticipated presentation was given by international investor Paul Murray, Managing Partner at DFJ Esprit, an independent member of the largest venture capital network in the world, the Draper Fisher Jurvetson Global Network, with 140 investment professionals and over 600 portfolio companies. Below you can find the slides on DFJ Esprit’s approaches to the Finnish market and early stage companies. Enjoy!

For more presentations from companies and VCs visit http://www.slideshare.net/TechnopolisOnline. Pictures of the event can be found from the MoneyTalks® Forum 11.10.2012 album in Technopolis’ Facebook page.

Technopolis also invites you to the next MoneyTalks® event, the second edition of MoneyTalks® Tallinn. The event will be held on the 29th of November, 2012, and registration is open until November 22nd at www.technopolisevents.fi. Pitching applications and instructions are found in the event calendar. See you there!

On November 15^th 2012, TalentTalks® resumes to bring you the brightest talents and ambitious companies in a structured matchmaking event. Participants will get to hear interesting keynotes, company and individual professionals pitching, and engage in pre-organized 1:1 meetings. Your window to the new era of recruitment is www.talentmatch.fi.

The event is free of charge*, registration is required by November 10th, 2012. 

COMPANIES: please register HERE 
TALENTS: please register HERE

Here is the official Invitation in pdf format!

For more information, contact melissa.arni-harden@otaniemi.fi or ludmila.niemi@technopolis.fi

The autumn edition of the Bi-Annual MoneyTalks® Forum networking and matchmaking event was held on the 11th of October, 2012 in Innopoli 2 in Otaniemi, Espoo. The event had a special focus that featured spin-off companies from Innovation Mill, a program run by Tekes and Technopolis Plc to develop spin-offs from the leading technological enterprises in Finland: Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Kemira, Metso, Ruukki, and Wärtsilä.

The forum gathered a rich attendance of enthusiastic entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists from Finland and abroad to create and find the next Finnish success story. As the main event, companies where given the opportunity to pitch their business concept in time slots of 2 and 7-minutes. Two-minute power pitches were given non-Innovation Mill participants, Scarlet Motors Ltd and Earth House Ltd. The 7-minute company presentations featured novel spin-offs, which are presented below and also accessible on www.slideshare.net/TechnopolisOnline, with the exception FilmMe Group Ltd.

Presentation of Retrail Ltd

Presentation of Simplofon Ltd

Presentation of Trelab Ltd

Presentation of Cloudstreet Ltd

Presentation of Booxmedia Ltd

Presentation of Finembe Ltd

Presentation of Lausumo Speech Technologies Ltd

Presentation of Exaget Ltd

For pictures of this event and others visit the Facebook page of Technopolis Plc.

Technopolis also invites you to the next MoneyTalks® event, the second edition of MoneyTalks® Tallinn. The event will be held on the 29th of November, 2012, and registration is open until November 22nd at www.technopolisevents.fi. Pitching applications and instructions are found in the event calendar. See you there!

Artic15, the annual conference for Nordic and Baltic growth entrepreneurs, will be held on the 17th and 18th of October, 2012. Hundreds of founders and investors will again gather in Helsinki for two days of startup action. The event will host some of the most sought after speakers in the startup community. These speakers include Phil Libin from Evernote, Marko Ahtisaari from Nokia, Niklas Adalberth from Klarna and more. In total the event will exhibit around 45 interesting speakers. Like last year, the Helsinki Exhibition and Congress Center will act as the venue for this exciting event.

The 17th of October event is an exclusive invite-only day for founders, investors, C-level executives and sponsors. This adjustment in the concept was made to enable enhanced networking opportunities between international investors and Northern European entrepreneurs. The day will contain panel discussions and keynotes from recognized people in the startup segment.

The second day, 18th of October, is open to the general public. This day will feature two tracks, 80 demo booths and close to 1000 attendees, making the event a must for everyone interested in growth entrepreneurship. This day will also feature the Startup Competition where 15 companies will be on stage pitching for the grand prize. The full program of the conference is visible at http://arctic15.com/program/.

As a bonus, on the 16th of October, Open Ocean Capital and Artic15 have teamed up to create the largest gathering of data scientists and startups in Finland. During this one day ‘hackathon’ the attendees are going to work on a unique dataset that will be released at the event.  This event will take place in Open Innovation House in Otaniemi and is aimed at data scientists, developers, designers and students regardless of skill level. To attend this Free add-on event visit http://arctic15.com/program/hackathon/ .

If you are a founder, entrepreneur or a C-level executive – please apply for the invite-only, exclusive first day event, it will be worth it. For investors the ticket is priced at €250 (incl. VAT) and enables entry to both days of the conference. Ticket information for students, press and other guests regarding Thursday can be found in http://arctic15.com/tickets/.

Broadband World Forum 2012 is the world’s largest Broadband event attracting thousands of decision-makers from across the globe. Now celebrating its 12th anniversary year, the event is the only place to meet the entire broadband industry in one place at one time. The event will be held from the 16th to the 18th of October, 2012 in the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, in Amsterdam. The event provides a great opportunity for new technology companies to showcase their products and services.

The Emerging Technology Showcase opportunity provides FREE entry for one delegate and 5 staff members, a free exhibition pod (1X2 meters) in the Showcase complete with company logo, electricity, etc. in the main hall, a 100 word company profile with logo and website address in the Event Guide which will be distributed to all delegates, an own microsite at the event where you can showcase company presentations, press releases and company brochures, a 5-minute slot pitching slot during one of the breaks and more. The offer is as good as it sounds, and there is no hook. Each new technology company only has to contact Donna Kivirauma, CMO Varaani Works Oy (donna.kivirauma@varaani.com) and cover travel expenses to and from the conference.  There are only two slots left so please hurry if you want to secure your place.

With 200+ exhibitors and almost 10,000 attendees the world class exhibition will showcase ground breaking broadband technologies, applications, solutions and services. Furthermore the show floor consists of private meeting rooms, a networking zone and a dedicated media zone allowing you to make the most of networking opportunities available to you.

For further information on the event and more compelling reasons to attend, visit http://www.broadbandworldforum.com/

The 52nd MoneyTalks® event held last week in Espoo gathered a rejuvenated crowd ready to get back to business for the coming fall. The event held on the 30th of August, 2012, assembled over 50 enthusiastic entrepreneurs, company representatives and financiers into attendance with agendas ranging from fund raising and financing to sheer networking.

The event kicked-off at 9 in the morning, after registrations and morning coffees were concluded, with Jukka Jokinen, Director of Funding and Innovation at Technopolis Plc, giving a few opening words on the first halves fundraising activity in Finland and the post-recession trends in venture capital. From there, the company presentations ensued with four 7-minute and five 2-minute pitches allotted into three broad solution categories of Health, Business and Life.

First off the bat was health with TinnOff Inc, presented by Antti Koivula, followed by Matti Kari for Pieni Piiri. Business solutions followed with 7-minute company pitches by Charles Sederholm of Ubisecure Solutions and Kristoffer Lawson of Holvi Payment Services. These presentations were followed by five 2-minute power pitches from Ziliot, Reflect Career Partners, Valkio, and Life category solutions of Musopia and Rewindy. Three of the 7-minute presentations are already available in http://www.slideshare.net/TechnopolisOnline and will also be posted on TechnopolisOnline shortly.

After the pitches, Pekka Vartianen, Venture Partner at Sunstone Capital, gave his take on what they at Sunstone Capital look for in prospective companies. This speech provided a different angle compared to the company pitches, as the presenation provided a venture financiers perspective towards aspiring start-ups. This presentation concluded the common part of the event, and was immediately after followed by a brunch and networking, which then made way for the Marketplace part of the event with pre-booked one-to-one meetings commencing from 11.00 onwards until the end of the event.

Some pictures from the event can be found on the Technopolis Plc Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/technopolisplc1/photos and more pictures are available upon request.

The next MoneyTalks® event will be held in Oulu already on the the 13th of September, 2012 with the MoneyTalks® Forum in the horizon soon after on the 11th of October, 2012 with a special focus on novel spin-offs from Finnish corporations. Registration and more information about upcoming events can be found in http://www.technopolisonline.com/events.

Team Finland is a response to the export and internationalisation needs of Finnish companies. It brings together enterprises and public service providers. The goal of the network is to create a strong, dynamic team that facilitates the international breakthrough of Finnish companies.

Team Finland will be launched on Monday, September 10th at 8.00-16.30 at the Finlandia Hall. Companies and public service providers will gather to discuss the future of internationalisation services. The purpose of the event is to hear especially the views of SMEs on the challenges of internationalisation and how the Team Finland network should meet these challenges.

The event will be opened by Sauli Niinistö, President of the Republic of Finland. The speakers include Jyrki Katainen, Prime Minister of Finland, Jyri Häkämies, Minister of Economic Affairs,  and Alexander Stubb, Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade in addition to the company representatives,

Concrete suggestions for action, resulting from the speeches, panels and workshops, will be handed to the Team Finland steering group at the end of the day.

Participation in the event is free of charge, but requires registration. Please note that two of the workshops will be in English , but the event in itself will mostly be in Finnish. To register for the event visit http://www.ek.fi/TeamFinland/ilmo_teamfinland_10092012.php (Finnish) or http://www.ek.fi/TeamFinland/ilmo_teamfinland_10092012_english.php (English). The program of the event can be seen from http://www.ek.fi/TeamFinland/ohjelma.php (Finnish).

For further infromation contact: Simo Karetie or Outi Ervasti

As promised here are six of the 7-minute company pitches presented at the 11th MoneyTalks® Forum held in Lappeenranta past Thursday. The presentations provided offer a good variety of innovative start-up companies from Finland and Russia searching for venture financing in order to attain their growth expectations. The slides can be also viewed from http://www.slideshare.net/TechnopolisOnline.

Suomen Ostohyvitys Ltd

Ostohyvitys.fi is a Finnish cashback site. The company provides web shops with buying customers and consumers with bonus from their online purchases. The amount of users is growing strong and the company has also opened the service in Russia.

Newelo Ltd

Enterprise Mobility has become a critical cross-industry success factor in todays business environment. Newelo offers the most comprehensive solutions for integrating mobility into any business. Newelo Enterprise Mobility Solution is easy to use and simple to integrate.

 
Fairspectrum Ltd

Fairspectrum provides more spectrum capacity for mobile operators, new business opportunities for broadcasters, automated frequency selection for wireless microphone users, and communication and control tools for regulators as radio spectrum management services on the current TV broadcasting frequencies.

Ekogen Ltd

Ekogen Ltd offers innovative solutions, systems and services based on sustainable development. The products and services assists its clients in improving productivity and decreasing emissions created by energy consumption.

Carspa Ltd

Carspa Ltd has worked out the concept of unique and innovative mobile carwash container that is fully automatic, economically effective and environment-friendly. Product reaches to wholly new customer channels with new approach.

Kuznech Ltd

Kuznech has invented technology to index and compare billions of images online by 150 parameters, including composition, and plans to implement the technology with primary focus on in-image advertising, e-commerce and social communications.

For pictures of the event visit the Technopolis Plc Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/technopolisplc1. More pictures are available on further request. The next MoneyTalks® events are on the 30th of August in Espoo and on the 13th of September in Oulu. Further information regarding future events and registration can be found from http://www.technopolisonline.com/events.