Program

Arctic15, June 1-2, Helsinki

Kaapelitehdas / Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1, 00180 Helsinki, Finland
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Arctic15 tracks are carefully curated for you to discover new insights from your field and connect with industry leaders and relevant investors at Deal Room. Tracks focus on various industries, technologies and topics. Impactful founders, thought leaders and top investors from Europe, Asia and US share their views and tell stories about latest tech and innovation.

Program consists of talks, panels, workshops and speed dating sessions. Plan your schedule efficiently to get the most out of Arctic15!

Venue open:

8:30 – 17:30

Welcome to the Arctic15 !

Day 1

Program

9:00

Event Opening

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The Arctic15 Helsinki 2023 – Event Opening
Bikash Gurung― Event Director, ArcticStartup

09:10

Climate Track

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09:25

Investor Panel: Climate Tech Funding Landscape
Heidi Lindvall ― Founder and General Partner, Pale Blue Dot
Ben Joffe ― Partner, SOSV
Dr. Mark Winderknecht ― Investment Manager, World Fund
Moderator: Pauliina Meskanen ― Entrepreneur in Residence, Lifeline Ventures

09.55

Panel: Why does decarbonizing supply chains matter?
Sebastian Heitmann ― Co-founder, Extantia Capital
Johannes Mella ― COO, Ignite Procurement
Therese Lundquist ― CEO & Founder, Green Little Heart
Moderator: Lasse Köhler ― Investor, Maersk Growth

10:30

Founder Hotseat

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Keynote: Lessons learned from 20,000 pitches
Angela Lee – VC Professor, Columbia Business School

10:45

Fireside Chat: Unicorn Founder Grilling Game-Changing Hospitality Entrepreneur
Niko Karstikko – CEO and Co-Founder, Bob W
Moderator: Elias Aalto – Co-Founder & Angel Investor, Ex-Wolt

11:05

LP  Summit

Keynote: A day in a life of a Venture Capitalist
Adeo Ressi ― CEO, VC Lab

11:25

Panel + Q&A: Driving Returns Through Diversity
Sarah Chen-Spellings ― Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Beyond the Billion
Mohadeseh Abdullahi ― Investor, Molten
Ramzi Rafih ― Founder and General Partner , No Label Ventures
Moderator: Jan Ameri ― Executive Chairman, ArcticStartup

12:00

Deep Tech Track

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Panel: Purpose of Deep Tech Startup Creation
Lotta Partanen ― Manager Incubation and Acceleration VTT Technical Research Center of Finland
Anton Adamovitch ― co-director & Investor, Commercialization Reactor
Tommi Ullgren ― Angel Investor, ATRA Innovations
Moderator: Verneri Valimaa ― Event Specialist, ArcticStartup

12:30

Panel: Are you even a deep tech investor?
Tanya Horowitz ―Partner, Butterfly Ventures
Mårten Skogö― Partner, node.vc
Pontus Stråhlman ― Partner, Voima Ventures
Moderator: Michael Björnlund ― Managing Partner, Emerging Tech Fund, Rockstart

13:05

Health Track

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Keynote: My Intimate Relationship with Cancer
Dr. Orna Berry― Technical Director, The office of the CTO at Google Cloud

13:20

Panel: Investors Insights on Hot Trends in Health Tech
Aline Vedder ― Principal, Lakestar
Pekka Simula ― Partner, Innovestor
Moderator: Gunita Bhasin ― Investor, Unilever Ventures

13:50

Panel: Innovation to Enable Better Health and Less Medicine
Dr. Inga Deakin― Principal, Molten
Anttoni Aniebonam ― Co-founder and CEO, Veri
Moderator: Aki Koivistoinen― Ambassador, Startup Health

14:20

Founder Hotseat

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Fireside Chat: Behind the Scenes – Raising over $30 Million for Scaling
Darren Glenister ― Founder and CEO, Material Exchange
Moderator: Jenni Kynnös ― CEO & Co-founder, Moretime

14:35

Fireside Chat: Scaling the World’s First MaaS Operator
Sampo Hietanen ― CEO, MaaS Global Oy
Moderator: Ekaterina Gianelii ― Partner, Inventure

14:55

Scaling Track

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Fireside Chat
Kristo Ovaska ― Founder & CEO, Smartly.io
Moderator: Moaffak Ahmed ― Angel Investor

15:15

Fireside Chat: Should Nordic Startups Scale Directly to the US? 
Imran Akram ― General Partner, AXA Venture Partners
Moderator: Luke Pappas ― Principal, NEA

15:35

Investor Panel + Q&A: Investor Insights on Main Scaling Steps for Tech
Andreas Helbig ― Partner, Atomico
Maxine Rior ― Principal, Northzone
Jacob Fellman ― Principal, NGP Capital
Moderator: Claes-Mikko Nilsen ― Principal, NordicNinja VC

16:10

Female Founders

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Panel: Early-stage Bottlenecks for Female Founders
Tessy Antony de Nassau ― ex-Princess of Luxembourg
Kaidi Ruusalepp ― Founder & CEO, Funderbeam
Anne Ravanona ― Founder and CEO, Global Invest Her
Moderator: Liina Laas ― Founding Partner, The Better Fund

16:40

Fireside Chat: Obstacles and Opportunities for Diverse Founders
Caritta Seppä ― Co-Founder, COO, Tespack
Moderator: Taneli Tikka ― Angel Investor

17:05

Wrapping up Day 1 at the Arctic15 Helsinki
Bikash Gurung ― Event Director, ArcticStartup
Verneri Valimaa ― Event Specialist, ArcticStartup

19:00 - 00:00

Arctic15 Networking

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Networking event at The Plaza, Wine & Craft Beer

Location: Annanaukio 1, Helsinki.
Free event for all Artcic15 attendees bringing your wristband and badge.

Day 2

Program

Friday June 2nd, 2023

9:25

Event Opening for Day 2

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Opening words for Day 2

9:35

Pitching Competition – Batch 1

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Pitch + Q&A ChordChord
Pitch + Q&A ProppU Oy
Pitch + Q&A Machineric
Pitch + Q&A Klu

10:10

Web3

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Panel: Navigating the Metaverse for Startups and Investors
Riku Seppälä ― Founder and General Partner , Icebreaker VC
Camille Zivre ― Principal, byFounders
Tarun Sharma ― COO, Nokia Ventures
Moderator: Sointu Karjalainen ― Head of Platform, FOV Ventures

10:40

Keynote: Web3 Community Building: The Art and Science of Engaging Users
Laura K. Inamedinova ― Founder, LKI Consulting

11:00

Founder Hotseat

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Keynote: Why mental health is the tech industry’s biggest problem, and how to solve it
Stewart Rogers ― Co-Founder, Digital Mental Health Alliance

11:15

Fireside chat: Becoming the fastest growing startup in Europe
Sami Marttinen ― Co-founder & CEO, Swappie
Anni Tuulos ― Principal, Verdane

11:40

Pitching Competition – Batch 2

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Pitch + Q&A Wield VR
Pitch + Q&A Commu App
Pitch + Q&A Hotelbuddy
Pitch + Q&A InspectWise Oy
Pitch + Q&A Woamy

12:15

B2B SaaS

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Panel + Q&A: Investor insights and current trends in B2B SaaS
Anton Norrman ― Venture & Growth Investor, Kinnevik
Florence Yates ― Investor, Mosaic Ventures
Martin Ericsson ― Principal, Eight Roads
David Zwagemaker ― Partner, Peak
Moderator: Alexandra Balkova ― General Partner and Head of Portfolio, Startup Wise Guys

12:50

Pitching Competition – Batch 3

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Pitch + Q&A Coursy.io
Pitch + Q&A Audicin
Pitch + Q&A Infine
Pitch + Q&A Nanordica Medical
Pitch + Q&A Probiont

13:25

Founder Hotseat

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Fireside Chat: The Role of Happiness in building a successful company
Heikki Väänänen ― Founder and Executive VP Growth, HappyOrNot
Moderator: Yoad Mick – Founder, IMAGYM TRAINING

13:45

Sustainable Industry

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Keynote: Data economy driving sustainable business
Jyri Arponen ― Project Director, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra

14:00

Panel + Q&A: Transforming industry towards sustainability
Jacob Bro ― Partner and Co-Founder, 2150
Mikko Huumo ― Investmen Manager, SEB Greentech Venture Capital
Andreas Winter-Extra ― Partner, Kompas VC
Moderator: Annika Sjöberg ― Principal, Anthesis

14:35

Food Tech

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Panel + Q&A: Future of proteins and beyond!
Maija Itkonen ―CEO and Co-Founder, Onego Bio
Simo Ellilä ― CEO, Co-founder, eniferBio
Keith Bonnici ― Investment Director, Tesi
Moderator: Louise Heiberg ― Senior Investment Manager, PINC

15:10

Fintech

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Panel + Q&A: Future fintech transformations
Helga Valfells ― Founding Partner, Crowberry Capital
Henrik Torstensson ― Partner, Alliance VC
Moderator: Magnus Bergman ― Founding and General Partner, Luminar Ventures

15:45

AI + Data

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Fireside Chat: How startups can benefit from Generative AI
Peter Sarlin ― CEO and Co-Founder, Silo AI
Mattias Holmström ― Partner and Head of the Tech Sector, Altor

16:05

Panel + Q&A: Building, scaling and investing in AI
Reetu Kainulainen ― CEO & Co-Founder, Ultimate
Karen Bach ― Chair in Growth Tech, IX Acquisition Corp.
Herman Kienhuis ― VC, Curiosity VC
Moderator: Catherine Luckoff ― Co-founder & CEO, 20fifty

16:40

Pitching Competition Final

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Finalist 1
Finalist 2
Finalist 3

17:00

Keynote: Mobilising entrepreneurs to work on meaningful innovation
Paula Schwarz ― CEO, StartupBoat

17:10

Announcing the winner

19:00 - 03:00

Arctic15 After-Party

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At The Plaza, Wine & Craft Beer

Location: Annanaukio 1, Helsinki.
Free event for all Artcic15 attendees bringing your wristband and badge.

Arctic15 Helsinki on 1th – 2nd of June, 2023

In 2023 the most effective networking startup conference in the Nordics and Baltics will raise the bar again for your business growth and success.