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14:00
DiscoTech Summit & Expo
SUMMIT
14:10-15:00 Epicenter Impact Report Launch
15:15-15:40 Into the Metaverse: Avatar Tech – Will avatars change our lives?
15:55-16:20 Hired: Finland we have a problem! How to attract and retain foreign talent.
16:30-16:55 Web3: (CR)eaLity – Who owns It?
Max capacity 100 people per the theme.
EXPO
Find inspiration for your next big idea by exploring the DiscoTech Expo.
Get to know Elisa, Mazhr, Velbi, Tespack, Winemill, Stafftribes, Rehaboo, Rentokil, Ambius, Synergi, Varjo, SubSoccer, and Sinako.
CREATIVE COACHING SESSIONS
Sinako's Creative coaching is suitable for any topic and they tailor it to any team's needs. Painting is a powerful tool that facilitates thinking and deepens conversations, leading to powerful and quick breakthroughs.
Join one of the 3, 30 minute session throughout the day.
1. Change at 14:00
2. Solution at 15:00
3. Impact at 16:00
Max capacity 20 people per session.
17:00
DiscoTech Party
Join the creative Epicenter community for an unforgettable evening of networking, socializing, and boogieing. We guarantee some surprises that will make this an unforgettable evening.
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Alexandra Pasternak-Jackson CEO, Amcham Finland
A dual-citizen of Finland and the United States, she has 15 years of transatlantic business experience, working to promote international business and foreign direct investment to Finland, as well as providing opportunities and networks for Finnish companies heading to the US market. Pasternak-Jackson is a frequent public speaker and moderator, addressing senior leadership audiences in both the United States and Finland on topics ranging from foreign direct investment and the transatlantic economy to networking and women’s leadership topics. She lives in Helsinki with her two children.
Amcham Finland is the voice of international business in Finland and the home of transatlantic success. We are a nonprofit association, representing 200 multinational companies and working directly with their leadership teams. We advocate for a business environment that encourages Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Finland and provide Country Managers with the tools, networks, and exclusive best practice sessions they need to grow their business. We also work with Finnish companies to help them enter and succeed in the U.S. market, saving our members time, money, and risk with our proven Launchpad U.S.A. program. Our programs help leaders reach their full potential through our focus on best practices, networking, cross-industry collaboration, and leadership development.
Dominique MoralezFounder, Convergent Reality
Dominique is a dynamic multi-lingual multi-cultural co-founder of startups in sectors including LanguageTech, InvesTech and LegalTech, with over three decades of experience in the creative industries worldwide. Founder of Convergent Reality (CR), Dominique Moralez has introduced a new field of study, dedicated to increasing human capacity for perceiving new emergent realities. In 2022, Dominique was selected to participate in the 90 Day Finn programme, organized by Helsinki Partners and the City of Helsinki.
Emma KirjavainenFounder, Emma Kirjavainen
Emma Kirjavainen is the founder of her own marketing agency, which was created to be the luxury marketing agency of the future. With her long background in luxury and deep knowledge in storytelling, digital marketing as well as Web3, her agency's focus is on digital luxury marketing. Companies specializing in luxury goods have been forced to expand beyond their historical boundaries, moving into “experiential” spaces. Emma's goal is to drive this change towards the future.
Jenni PasanenNFT Artist
Jenni is creating in the new medium and the era of art, where creativity of machine & human unite as one. Instead of canvas painted by a brush, Jenni uses generative adversarial networks. This tool frees the imagination, to create something unprecedented & fascinating.
Jessy S.NFT Artist
Jessy is an artist, collector, curator, and founder of three web3 projects. She is of French/Lebanese descent and currently lives in Helsinki. One of her projects is Art From Future, which is a DAO that concentrates on digital art and decentralized curation. Another project she co-founded is Gxrls Revolution, a collective that empowers women artists in web3 through yearly catalogs, online/offline education, and events
Katri PakulaSustainability Designer, Exove Design
Katri is a service designer with a strategic mindset and a strong moral compass. As a designer of digital services and products, communication concepts and more, it is her passion to drive positive impact for people and planet: to include and serve all audiences and bring the environmental aspects into consideration. In her Master’s thesis (spring 2022), Katri studied digital carbon footprint / green ICT in public procurements. “In building a more sustainable world we need cross-institutional collaboration, a state of will to continuously learn and, despite the incompleteness, courage to act.”
Exove Design is designing a sustainable and humane future. Together with their clients, they design and implement bold solutions that serve the needs of end users and are sustainable for the future. Exove strives to create human-centered experiences, user-friendly digital services, impactful communication, and insightful concepts that build more people-centric and therefore sustainable business. Exove values diversity, empathy, and dare to immerse themselves in their clients' world, which enables them to gain deeper customer understanding. With their help, their clients can utilize digitalization as a tool to offer better services to people. In their own operations, they strive to create a fair working environment where people can be themselves and develop freely.
Liisa OhtonenHead of Learning and Relocation Services, Acolad
Liisa leads the Learning and Relocation Services business unit at Acolad and has over 20 years of experience in the language and learning industry. She is passionate about culture & language, integration and life-long learning. Together with her team she assists organizations to relocate and integrate new hires and facilitate more culturally inclusive and language aware workplaces.
Nadia FarooqIT Talent Advisor and Partner, Finder Seekers
Nadia is an energetic and inquisitive IT Talent Advisor at FindersSeekers! With a passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion, she is a skilled recruiter who always puts the candidate's experience first. Originally from Lahore, Pakistan, she loves to connect with people over a good cup of coffee and is known for her curiosity and great conversation skills.
Recently, she conducted a survey to better understand the motivations and requirements of international tech talent working in Finland. Her findings will help her create even better experiences for her candidates and make a positive impact on the recruitment process.
In addition to her work as a recruiter, She loves to travel, explore different food cultures, and listen to music. With her fun-loving and adventurous spirit, she approaches life with a sense of joy and enthusiasm that is contagious to those around her.
Rosa ThurmanDirector of Foreign Affiliate Services & Sustainability, Amcham Finland
Rosa works with around 100 foreign direct investors to gather insights for improving Finland’s business environment for international companies and talent alike. Rosa began her career at Financial Times and then worked 10+ years for financial data and media companies in London, UK, including Thomson Financial and Bloomberg before moving back to Finland.
Silvia Ruz-AnjalaProject Planner of the Spouse Program, City of Helsinki
Silvia is a Chilean talent and learning specialist turned into a knowmad, with 15 years of international experience helping organizations to grow and people to develop their skills. She is passionate about cultural integration, life-long learning, innovation and creating social impact. Silvia got a degree in Social Psychology from the University of Helsinki, is the mother of a young Finnish citizen and just returned to Finland after 20 years abroad. Works as a project planner in the City of Helsinki, under the Talent Boost Ecosystem, offering and creating services to improve the life and job opportunities of highly skilled international talents.
Sverker SkogbergSenior Vice President, Public Affairs, PAF
Sverker has extensive knowledge about the political gaming industry development in Finland, as well as in Sweden. Before joining PAF Mr. Skogberg came from a long career in the aviation business, working with government and industry affairs for the airline Finnair. He has extensive experience in the lobbying and contract negotiating area.
Paf was founded in 1966 and offers games on the internet and on board cruise ships in the Baltic and the North Sea. Paf's mission is to generate funds for the public community. Every year, around €20 million in Paf funds are distributed by the local Åland government to a range of projects within health, culture, education and sustainability. Paf is one of the leading companies concerning responsible gambling, frequently implementing new tools to protect players gambling habits.
Tim GorreeCEO, Digistars
Tim is an experienced Graphics Technician, who has been involved with the internet since the early 90s, and has several decades of experience in designing digital and mobile B2B and B2C environments.Previously he worked as Nokia's Virtual CEO for the Virtual World of Second Life. As a recognized speaker and innovator in this category, he has a deep passion for technology and creativity, which led him to found Digistars, a next-generation creative digital agency.
Wesa AaproMetaverse Lead, Yle Innovations
Wesa believes in the possibilities of new technology and tries to ignore the impossibilities. Lately he has been knee-deep in The Metaverse, which is already here BTW. But guess what? Also AI sparks joy: It has no ego, which makes it hallucinogenic. Some use chemicals to kill ego, to transcend. AI uses data: It is created in our own image! We have summoned the divine by removing ego with neural networks. AI is not sentient, not omnipotent. It is naïve, it is pure. I love it!
Patrick MestertonCEO & Co-Founder, Epicenter
Before founding Epicenter, Patrick served as CEO for innovations consultancy outfit Result. Patrick has been an advisor on innovation and growth projects to global organizations such as Santander Consumer Bank, Grant Thornton and the Egyptian Central Bank. Patrick serves as an advisor to and is part of the board of Altera, a Fintech hub in Egypt founded by the Central Bank of Egypt.
Moderator / Joey BayerHead of Community, Epicenter Helsinki
Joey Bayer has been responsible for creating conversations that matter for more than 16 years.
From creating the space, to connecting key players, to driving and setting the agenda, Joey brings together individuals for moments that both transform and inspire.
Over the course of his career, Joey has hosted the world's most fascinating and influential people - from world leaders, like Bill Clinton, to iconic legends like Liza Minelli, to the CEOs of today's Fortune 500 companies.
Joey's intuitive ability to connect with others, his passion for people and dialogue, and ability to get directly to the heart of the discussion have earned him a reputation of trust and respect with leaders around the world, and made him a central figure in today's most important conversations.
ambius
Ambius is the global leader in creating healthy and inspiring spaces. Our vision is to enhance the total workplace by engaging all the five senses to create harmonious environments that are more creative and productive.We are experts in scent marketing, biophilic design and interior and exterior landscaping. We also supply plants for workspaces and events, create seasonal decorations and deliver fresh fruit to delight your employees, guests or customers.
Nokia 3D Arena & 5G Video Robot
Elisa is proud to present two groundbreaking exhibits that will change the way you experience reality: Nokia 3D Arena and 5G Video Robot.
How does it feel to watch an ice-hockey match through VR-glasses? With Nokia 3D Arena, you can step into a virtual world and watch an ice hockey game like never before. 5G enabled high-quality 360-live streams gives you the power to choose your favorite camera spot and feel like you're right in the middle of the action.
With Elisa's 5G Video Robot, you can take remote presence to the next level by not only seeing and hearing what's happening , but also having control over your viewing experience.
Mazhr
Mazhr is a Finnish startup that helps organizations optimize teams to drive productivity, performance, and well-being. We have developed our digital platform and algorithm on top of AON work-related psychological assessments.
At Mazhr, we are passionate about ensuring that every team has a suitable and functional composition based on motivation, natural characteristics, and working tendencies. Our objective data helps our customers evaluate the dynamics, interaction, and strengths of their teams and organization and provides important additional information as a basis for decision-making.
By optimizing teams and understanding the potential of current and future employees, we maximize efficiency, productivity, and inclusion while ensuring employee well-being.
Rehaboo!
Rehaboo! Active is an exercise game where the player's body is the game controller, Motion Sensing over AI with any device that can do Xoom or Teams. Come and play, win prizes and #FightInactivity with us.
Rentokil Initial
Rentokil Initial is a world-leading hygiene services provider. Whether you work in real estate, hospitality, manufacturing or any other sector, we create safer and healthier environments for your employees, guests and customers.Our services include air purification, scenting, washroom and cubicle hygiene, disinfection and pest control. We are driven by technological innovation and our values of protecting people, enhancing lives and preserving our planet.
Sinako
Sinako's Creative coaching is suitable for any topic and we tailor it to any team's needs. Painting is a powerful tool that facilitates thinking and deepens conversations, leading to powerful and quick breakthroughs. Painting together also improves the team's creativity, problem-solving and interaction skills, building a stronger team spirit and developing better trust. It also unifies the team from the challenges brought by work pressures or remote working and strengthens the common direction towards business goals.
Peppi Stünkel and Minna Pietarinen are solution focused coaches and Minna is also an artist and an art-therapy director. We work with teams and individuals with and without creative tools, to help find solutions, overcome challenges and move faster towards the desired goals.
During the DiscoTech eExpo they will guider you through the following 3 creative coaching sessions
1. Change at 14:00
2. Solution at 15:00
3. Impact at 16:00
Each session will be for 30 minutes and open to 20 persons.
Staff Tribes
Staff Tribes enables Team Building every day! With Staff Tribes high-tech platform, you connect with your colleagues, stay healthy and active, and agree on meet-ups quickly and with near zero distraction from your normal work!
Join the Epicenter Stafftribes: epicenter.stafftribes.com
Subsoccer
Subsoccer is a unique and exciting bench soccer game that originated in Finland. In this game, players sit on a bench and use their feet to kick a ball toward the opponent's bench, with the aim of getting the ball underneath it, thus scoring a goal.
Subsoccer has gained immense popularity since its inception, with the game being sold to 66 countries worldwide. Its popularity has been further fueled by the numerous video clips showcasing the game on social media platforms, which have garnered over 700 million views.
Synergi
Synergi is a Finnish technology company accelerating the transition toward sustainable energy sources with smart software solutions for consumers and businesses. We do this through our smart electricity platform covering all major home electrical devices, allowing households to optimize their consumption to happen when it’s cheapest and produced from sustainable energy sources.
Tespack
We combine software and hardware for a complete energy experience. Our customers range from the United Nations and governments to companies like Audi and Ernst & Young. Our latest Energy solution, "Smart Solar Media System" can transform any place into a smart classroom and bring access to digital education to the most remote areas.
Velbi
Velbi is a digital wellbeing assistant to prevent burnout and improve workplace wellbeing for millions of professionals.
We're currently experiencing a global burnout crisis and it's expected to get worse. Velbi uses the latest scientific research and partners with the best training providers to prevent burnout, build sustainable working practices and dramatically improve workplace wellbeing for the masses.
WineMill
WineMill's innovative technology transfers ethanol from existing alcoholic beverages, offering healthier and more sustainable drinking options. Their sleek, multifunction unit adjusts the strength of existing products without compromising flavor. This solution minimizes excess ethanol consumption and reduces packaging and transportation. WineMill offers a sustainable and customizable alternative for businesses and consumers alike. See it yourself!
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