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Riku Mäkelä,
CEO, SLUSH Helsinki
28.4 Tln & 29.4 Riga
Slush is the largest investor event organised in Europe. Last year’s event was attended by more than 750 investors. Slush takes place in wintery Scandinavia and is organized every fall to bring the Eurasian tech ecosystem together to help new things get started and go forward. In 2014, Slush gathered 14,000 attendees and 3,500 companies for the two-day event in Helsinki.
www.slush.org
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Christina Forsgård,
PR & Startup Coach, Founder of Netprofile, 14.4
Communications and communications technology (ICT) are her passion. She have been consulting hundreds of ambitious technology startups in public relations strategy and tactics, and helped impress target groups spanning from various business and consumer audiences to specific influencers and decision-makers in Finland and abroad.
www.netprofile.fi
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Lilita Sparane,
Initiator and Manager, Demola Latvia, 29.4 Riga
Working within the BSR StarDust project, Lilita has gained unmesserable experiece in innovation system development and establishment of start-up communities. She initiated to open in Latvia a innovative cooperation platform DEMOLA, which roots are coming from Finland, Tampere. Since January 31, 2104 Latvia’s students and enterprices also have a great opportunity to collaborate and to develop new innovative products and services within the scope of DEMOLA Latvia and become world-wide known players.
www.demola.lv
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Timo Salli,
designer, professor at Aalto University, 31.3
Timo’s background is that of a metalworker and welder. He has studied at the Lahti Design Institute and University of Art and Design Helsinki.
design.aalto.fi/en/
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Eeva Mägi,
Attorney at law & film director, 31.3
Eeva is specialized in intellectual property law. She obtained her master’s degree from Maastricht University and continued her PhD studies also obtaining her second master’s degree in directing documentary film at Baltic Film and Media School. At the moment she’s working at Maria Mägi Law Office and is teaching copyrights at Tallinn University of Technology.
www.mmab.ee
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Kristian Brøndum Kristiansen
Research assistant, Aalborg University, 28.4 Tln & 29.4 Riga
Kristian calls himself a ‘Business Model Expert’. He has been working within the field of business models for the last five years – both from an academic and practical perspective. He is currently a Project Manager at the Business Model Design Center (www.bmdc.aau.dk) at Aalborg University, where he is managing several business development and innovation projects with local SMEs and start-ups; teaching about business models at different study programs; organizing and facilitating the applied entrepreneurial course called New Venture Creation; and doing research about business models in larger research projects.
www2.business.aau.dk
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Tanja Sipilä,
multitalented designer, Lightship Helsinki, 31.3
Tanja has studied design and worked in Design Forum Finland for years. She has initiated many successful projects and this time she will present one of them: We Live Here.
www.we-live-here.org
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Seren Eilmann,
Founder, CEO of Heelosophy, 14.4
After a decade of helping entrepreneurial environment to flourish in Tartu Science Park, Seren decided to grow a business of her own and founded Heelosophy with the team met at Garage48 hackathon. Now they are following the dream of changing the way how women feel in their shoes, collecting victories from startup events as they go.
www.heelosophy.net
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Martin Kõiva,
Head of Customer Support, Pipedrive, 28.4 Tln
Pipedrive is a tool for active dealmakers. Pipedrive's roots are in direct sales. As sales managers and trainers, two of the co-founders experienced an increasing amount of pain with CRM software. There simply was no good solution for managing the company's sales pipeline.
So in 2010 they teamed up with talented developers to create Pipedrive, a simple and yet powerful tool for managing sales. They have offices in Menlo Park, CA and Tallinn, Estonia.
www.pipedrive.com
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Jeanette Lennartsdotter,
Glass artist and designer, 31.3
Jeanette works as the creative director and as a designer and artist at Sweden’s oldest glass studio, Glasets Hus. She also turns her ideas into reality in her own personal workshop in Gothenburg and in her summer studio on a farm just outside of the town of Kalmar.
In fashioning her pieces, She pays careful attention to every stage, and anything that does not work out is reused. In order to realise such a vision and ideology you have to manage processes from concept to product, says Lennartsdotter. In selling ideas to large companies the profit margin of the person behind the idea remains very modest and an overview of environmental impact is lost.
www.jeanettelennartsdotter.se
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Kalle Viira
Co-Founder, Faralong, 14.4
Kalle has been a travel professional with creative focus for the past 15 years and has been successfully running the Finnish company Mandala Travel for the past six years. Faralong is a travel technology company developing a new platform and pricing model for guided tours and adventure holidays, with direct online sales.
www.faralong.com
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