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SHIFT organizers got tired of the double standards prevailing in corona-time behavior and bring 1000 CEOs, startups, and investors together. Safe meetings are possible in the business world, too.

  SHIFT Business Festival has established its position among the biggest growth company events in Finland and is organized in Turku again, on 25-26 August 2021. The event kickstarts the autumn season of business events. Join the festival as a media representative by filling the accreditation form by 20 August: https://theshift.fi/media/.   Choose your preferred form of participation: on-site,...

SHIFT 2020: Real encounters in a virtual environment

SHIFT Business Webstival 2020 started today in the VirBELA event platform. Already in its fifth year, the international intelligent business event is now entirely virtual and fronted by a new CEO. The first festival day has proven the virtual 3D venue to be a successful concept. “Although organizing an event in the current world situation was certainly not easy, it was clear to us that SHIFT...

SHIFT 2020 - a virtual festival unlike any other you have experienced

SHIFT Business Festival is known to be one of the biggest international business and tech events in Finland. In 2020, SHIFT transforms into a full-on virtual experience in a 3D event platform. There will be a group of almost 50 international forerunners in sustainable business, catering inspiration and networks to potentially thousands of participants. The expo hall booths are already sold out...

MEDIA INVITE: SHIFT Business Festival, taking place on 27-28 October, has fully shifted to online – the event is organized on a pioneering 3D-platfrom.

The business event shed its festival-skin and turned into a webstival – the event is organized at the end of October as a virtual 3D event, led by a new CEO. The virtual realization of SHIFT is one-of-a-kind in Finland and internationally pioneering. Virbela, the Californian producer of the event platform, has emphasized social interaction and the users’ shared experiences when designing the...

Tekoälyhypestä operatiivisiin saavutuksiin

SHIFT Business Festivalin perjantaissa kuultiin, mitä tekoälyn pitää pystyä tekemään ollakseen hypen sijaan hyödyllistä. Teema huipentui tämän vuoden festivaalin viimeisessä lavaohjelmassa, jossa kuultiin “syväoppimisen isää”, Yoshua Bengiota videoyhteyden välityksellä. Puheensa jälkeen Bengio keskusteli Peltarionin Luka Crnkovic-Friisin, Tieton Christian Guttmannin ja Silo.AI:n Peter Sarlinin...

SHIFT starts tomorrow to kickstart the business autumn

SHIFT Business Festival begins at the Ruissalo Shipyard on Thursday, August 29. The program features intelligent business for building a better future, with world-class business speakers. The festival crowd will be treated to thought-provoking art and experiences, with a view of the archipelago. Read more about the program in the media invitation. Find the official schedule here. Accreditation...

Deep technologies transform the world, companies set the standard

Deep technology is technology with the potential to cause a fundamental change in the world. Consider artificial intelligence: we’ve read varying estimations of how many jobs may be lost because of AI and heard about how data about us is being bought and sold for the profit it may yield. AI can even be used to influence elections or predict human behavior with precision beyond human. Deep...

SHIFT Business Festival side event to hack loneliness through 5G technology

The city of Turku and the Finnish telecommunications company Elisa are organizing a 5G Hackathon for teams of 2 to 4 people as an official side event of SHIFT Business Festival on Wednesday, August 28. The hackathon participants will use 5G technology to create solutions to loneliness and social isolation. An expert jury will select the top three teams to compete in the final, part of the...

SHIFT Business Festival to collaborate with the first community-based climate fund in Finland

SHIFT Business Festival and Hope Fund begin collaboration to allow festival attendees to compensate for the carbon footprint of their festival trip by making a donation of corresponding value to Hope Fund. With these donations, Hope Fund, the first community-based climate fund in Finland, carries out reforestation programs to bind carbon dioxide. By community-based, Hope Fund means planting the...

Mia Santala is the new Head of Sales of SHIFT

SHIFT Business Festival’s team is getting a new member in mid-April, as Mia Santala takes the position of Head of Sales. Santala has a long career in sales, having started her first sales job at the age of 14. She has studied Legal Management and held previous positions as Sales Manager. Santala started in the SHIFT team after Sini Toivonen left to pursue new challenges in the capital region.   ...

If P&C Insurance and SHIFT to cooperate on solving work-related mental health issues

  SHIFT is planning and co-facilitating a challenge competition for If P&C Insurance, a leading Nordic insurance provider, for new solutions to work-related mental health issues. The call for innovative startups and teams to participate in the challenge is now open. The winner of the challenge competition will have the opportunity to work alongside If as a part of their service solution...

SHIFT Events Oy elected a new Board of Directors

  A new board has been selected for SHIFT Events Oy. The Board of Directors includes the Chairman of the Board, CEO Joonas Suominen Loikka, and members of the Board of Directors Noora Keskievari OneMind Dogs, Product Manager Elina Uutela Icebreaker VC, Managing Director Antti Korhonen Liveto, Managing Director Mikko Lehtinen Technology Properties, Futurist, Partner Niko Herlin Great Minds and...

Glimpses of the future: SHIFT 2019 is more than a festival

Next year, SHIFT Business Festival will be moved to the end of August, making SHIFT the kick-off event of the autumn season. The next festival is going to be held on 29th and 30th August 2019. The new timing will allow for collaboration with other events taking place around the same time. The venue of the next SHIFT will be disclosed later, but during Wednesday’s press conference, CEO Alexander...

Sammanfattning samt SHIFT 2017

SHIFT översteg förväntningarna och fördubblas igen till nästa år   Dagen öppnades av cyborgen och artisten Neil Harbisson, som många hade väntat på och huvudscenens tält var fullt. Harbisson talade om den nya tiden för människan: en tid då vi kan påverka vår biologiska evolution. Harbisson har en antenn fast i sin skalle, som hjälper honom att höra färger som ljudvågor, vilket han även...

SHIFT hämtar konsten närmare entreprenören

Tillväxtföretagens, investerarnas och påverkarnas gemensamma evenemang SHIFT ger sina deltagare en unik möjlighet att göra sig bekanta med olika slags utformningar under evenemangsdagarna. Tvådagarsevenemanget ordnat på Åbo slott gömmer inom sig konstföreningen Artes konstnärers skapelser.   Art Incubator är en typ av Kickstarter utställningskoncept, som prövar SHIFT-evenemangets åskådare genom...

SHIFT bryter generationsgränser

100 Grand people är SHIFTs Finland 100-projekt till äran av Finlands hundraårsjubileum, som ämnar att hämta in omfattande kunskap från våra äldre medborgare tillbaka till affärsvärlden. SHIFT bjöd in hundra pensionerade seniorer till business festivalen, för att dela med sig av sina erfarenheter från business såväl som livet i allmänhet med de andra festivaldeltagarna.   SHIFT hämtar tillbaka...

SHIFTs runda bord förde med sig nya perspektiv

SHIFTs paneler behandlade socialt påverkande teman, såsom utbildning, hälsovård och energiproduktion. Sammanlagt fördes arton olika round table-diskussioner om olika teman och de fokuserade på perspektivet samarbete.   En panel med temat “Från utbildning till livslångt lärande” modererades av mobilbranschens veteran och entreprenör coach Aape Pohjavirta från Aalto Universitet. Temat...

På SHIFT smakades ett nytt inhemsk och lokalt mousserande äppelvin

SHIFT samarbetspartners hade en unik möjlighet att onsdagen den 31.5. smaka på ett nytt mousserande äppelvin på Åbo Slott som ska lanseras på den finländska marknaden. Det är frågan om en produkt som kommer på marknaden till midsommar 2017 av Brinkhall Sparkling Oy som grundades år 2015 av Jean-Marc Hering tillsammans med Juhani Salovaara.   På tillfället var även champagneexperten Martin...