Keynote
Daria Saharova – General Partner, World Fund

Investor Panel: Climate Tech Funding Landscape

Moderator: Pauliina Meskanen ― Entrepreneur in Residence, Lifeline Ventures
Heidi Lindvall ― Founder and General Partner, Pale Blue Dot
Ben Joffe ― Partner, SOSV

Panel: Why does decarbonizing supply chains matter?

Moderator: Lasse Köhler ― Investor, Maersk Growth
Sebastian Heitmann ― Co-founder, Extantia Capital
Johannes Mella ― COO, Ignite Procurement
Therese Lundquist ― CEO & Founder, Green Little Heart

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

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

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

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

Panel: Purpose of Deep Tech Startup Creation
Moderator: Verneri Valimaa ― Event Specialist, ArcticStartup
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fireside Chat
Moderator: Taneli Tikka ― Angel Investor
Caritta Seppä ― Co-Founder, COO, Tespack

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

Networking event at The Plaza, Wine & Craft Beer

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

Opening words for Day 2

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

Investor insights on Web3 bottlenecks and opportunities
Moderator: Sointu Karjalainen ― Head of Platform, FOV Ventures
Riku Seppälä ― Founder and General Partner , Icebreaker VC
Camille Zivre ― Principal, byFounders

Keynote
Laura K. Inamedinova ― Founder, LKI Consulting

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

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

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

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

Pitch + Q&A ― Coursy.io
Pitch + Q&A ― Audicin
Pitch + Q&A ― LightCode Photonics
Pitch + Q&A ― Nanordica Medical
Pitch + Q&A ― Probiont

Fireside Chat: Are you happy with your startup, or not?
Moderator: Yoad Mick
Heikki Väänänen ― Founder and Executive VP Growth, HappyOrNot

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

Investor Panel + Q&A: Transforming industry towards sustainability
Jacob Bro ― Partner and Co-Founder, 2150
Mikko Huumo ― Investmen Manager, SEB Greentech Venture Capital
Namratha Kothapalli ― Principal, Speedinvest
Adam Chirkowski ― Investment Director, Albion VC
Andreas Winter-Extra ― Partner, Kompas VC

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

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

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

Panel + Q&A
Moderator: Catherine Luckoff ― Co-founder & CEO, 20fifty
Sarah Al-Hussaini ― Co-founder and COO, Ultimate.ai
Karen Bach ― Chair in Growth Tech, IX Acquisition Corp.
Herman Kienhuis ― VC, Curiosity VC

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Finalist 2
Finalist 3

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

At The Plaza, Wine & Craft Beer

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