What if we start to co-create beautiful Futures with Education and VR / AI / XR?
Welcome to Hanken School of Economics and the Future Gravity Venture Nordic Impact Week 2019 Launch in Helsinki.
We are heading into a new renaissance and one of the biggest business opportunity in mankind, from now and up to 2050.
What will VR / AI and XR mean for Education and practical use for our basic industries and cities?
Meet some of the International and Nordic leaders in AI / VR / XR, Sustainability and Climate Change, City Economic Development and Education.
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What if we start to co-create beautiful Futures
with Education and VR / AI / XR?
H A N K E N S C H O O L O F E C O N O M I C S
D E C 3 , 2 - 4 P M
Photo credit Lars Ling. Model Atte Leskinen, Head of International Relationships for Start North, Next Generation Education Community platform. The photo is
taken during the Global Start North Launch tour, at one stop from Highway 1 the Big Sur in California
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2.00 - 2.10 Welcome, Introduction, & Nordic Impact Week 2019.
Markus Wartiovaara, Dr. Econ.
Director of Hanken Business Lab &
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Director of Hanken Business Lab incubator involving 40+
members, including both companies and associations. In
addition, I am working as a chairman of the board, board
professional and advisor for existing growth and start up
businesses.
Living in Helsinki, Finland, with my wife and two children. In
my free time I enjoy reading, running, tennis, chess and
downhill skiing.
Specialities: Board Professional, Management Advisory,
Stakeholder management and Corporate Venturing.
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2.00 - 2.10 Welcome, Introduction, & Nordic Impact Week 2019.
Lars Ling, CEO & Founder
CleanTech Region Impact Group.
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Entrepreneur | Change-maker | Speaker. Mission: Solving
global Climate Challenges with Tech, Education &
Financing.
Vision: Before 2030. How: Facilitating business and matching
climate tech with customers, projects, partners, and
investors globally.
Believe that Co-creation & education will inspire
communities to be regenerative. Customers, colleagues, &
partners say; Lars is a specialist in Clean Energy Technology.
"He is a Rock Star of CleanTech in Northern Europe"
How can I help you?
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2.10 - 2.20 How VR / AR / AI will change Education?
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Rikard Steiber, President HTC Viveport & SVP Virtual Reality.
Passionate Internet, technology and media
executive with extensive experience from
successfully growing businesses, teams and
delivering great results at companies such as
Google, MTGx and now HTC Vive.
Founder of "WIT Global - Women In Tech" and
future astronaut with Virgin Galactic. Angel
Investor and Virtual Reality evangelist - looking
for great start-up teams that want to change
the world.
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2.20 - 2.30 How the Future of Education with VR will empowering rural areas?
Dr Ashok Khosla, FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN, DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES
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Dr Ashok Khosla is a pioneer and expert of
sustainable development and the first Phd in
Sustainaility at Harvard with Al Gore.
Mission of the organisation is to eradicate
poverty and regenerate the environment
through the creation of sustainable
livelihoods Specialties: Designing sustainable
technologies, institutions and resource
management methods
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2.30 - 2.40 Next Generation Education Community platform?
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Atte Leskinen, Head of International
Relationships, Start North
High School student with an extremely strong mindset in
the future worklife and possibilities.
With strong fields in influencing, community relations,
customer service and media, I am always interested in
new possibilities for co-operation and getting to know
interesting people!
I’ve been told that I am very efficient and trustworthy at
what I do. As we are surrounded by awesome creative
people, I love to be there, and bring those ideas to life.
Currently working on Next-Gen Education with awesome
team at Start North. Throw me an email and I’ll tell some
more about what we think education will be all about!
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2.30 - 2.40 Next Generation Education Community platform?
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Lauri Hollo, Head of Community, Start North.
I’ve been part of building and
empowering new innovations and many
new startups. Right now I'm working with
sales and my team is calling me Sales
Wizard. My strengths are in the area of
sales, meeting new people, creating new
ideas and thinking outside of the box.
I also do an adventure racing and
scouting during my free time.
Head of Community at Start North. Sales
Manager at Vertics oy. Adventure racer at
Northern Adventure team
F E E L F R E E T O C O N TA C T A N D
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2.40 - 2.55 Why is Helsinki a functional City?
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Tommo Koivusalo, Head of Unit, NewCo Helsinki
I have a versatile business background and have
been founding five companies in different fields
of business. Most of my working life I have been
in managerial positions and of that time 10 years
as a managing director.
In addition to that I have pedagogical
experience. I live a healthy life and do a lot of
sporting.
Basically I like challenges and developing new
cases with new approaches.
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2.40 - 2.55 Why is Helsinki a functional City?
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Henrik Keinonen, Partnerships, Gaming, XR & Blockchain, NewCo Helsinki
Having worked several years hands-on with mobile and web
startup firms in sales, business development and GTM, I have
acquired a deep understanding of what it requires to make a
digital service successful.
Specialties: Startups, digitalization, platform economy,
business development, gaming, sales (solution based IT,
channel, international), partnerships, startup ecosystems,
networking, fundraising, corporate governance, board work.
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2.55 - 3.05 Solving our Future & Industry needs with VR/AI/XR?
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Petri Saarinen, Future Gravity Ventures Partner.
Key mantras in Petri's life:
# Interested to Know, What we Don't. # Learn from
People, Who know It less. # Team up with People,
Smarter than Me. # Avoiding People, Who know it
All...
Demo Africa Top 40 Finalist 2013 Demo Africa
Innovation Challenge. Best African Digital Tech
company 2013 Demo Africa Innovation Award 2013
Top 30 Most Promising European Energy Startup
2015 By Vaasa Energy Week
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2.55 - 3.05 Solving our Future & Industry needs with VR/AI/XR?
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Mikko Armila, Future Gravity Ventures Partner.
I am passionate to learn new. Sustainability and
future of the ecosystems are my inspiration with
the right kind of Leadership, Business Planning &
Development, Relationship creation, Innovation
management, new tech - XR, VR, AI and tech
recruitment
" Execution will make the difference - that leads
to development"
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3.05 - 3.20 Beautiful Futures Storytelling
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Hasse Eranka, President at Republic of Communications
Every day, we work with fascinating companies and
brands, ranging from the large to the small and the
well known to the soon-to-be well known.
We have experience of communications planning
and implementation in over 20 countries.
We have carried out communications projects in
many different parts of the world, from Finland to
Nepal and Chile to China.
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Photo credit Lars Ling. Model Atte Leskinen, Head of International Relationships for Start North, Next Generation Education Community platform. The photo is
taken during the Global Start North Launch tour, at one stop from Highway 1 the Big Sur in California
Future Gravity Ventures
2019 Launch
Thank you Co-Creators
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