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Jessica Jackley – KIVA and New Business Thinking – Nordic Business Forum

Jessica Jackley is the Co-Founder of KIVA, the world’s first peer to peer microlending website. KIVA lets users lend as little as $25 to poor entrepreneurs around the world, providing affordable capital for them to start or expand microenterprises. Named one of the top ideas of 2006 by The New York Times Magazine, and praised […]

Speaker of the week: Linda Liukas

Linda Liukas

The 30-year-old programmer and storyteller, Linda Liukas, will come to Nordic Business Forum Sweden to talk about using creativity to create the future. Liukas started her journey to programming and technology very early on. At the age of 14, she had, as she puts it, a “mad teenage crush” on an older man. This man […]

Kjell Nordström to Join Nordic Business Forum SWEDEN

Economist and author Kjell Nordström will be speaking at Nordic Business Forum SWEDEN in January 2017. We are pleased to introduce you with the latest addition to the speaker lineup of Nordic Business Forum SWEDEN, Dr. Kjell A. Nordström. Nordström has 20 years of experience working with multinational companies and has served as an advisor/consultant […]

Nordic Business Forum 2016 [AFTERMOVIE]

Relive the two event days! Nordic Business Forum 2016 was held on October 6.-7. in Helsinki, Finland, gathering together over 5,700 CEOs, top executives, and entrepreneurs. The speaker lineup included: Ed Catmull (Co-founder of Pixar) Seth Godin (Author & Entrepreneur) Gary Vaynerchuk (Co-founder & CEO of VaynerMedia) Dick Costolo (Former CEO of Twitter) Amy Chua […]

Speaker of the week: Chad Hurley

Chad Hurley

Chad Hurley is a successful entrepreneur behind the video sharing site Youtube. At Nordic Business Forum Sweden, Hurley will talk about managing and promoting rapid growth. Electronics and computers caught Hurley’s attention very early on and already in high school he was a member of the Technology Student Association. After high school, he studied design […]

NBForum Founders among the Finalists of EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2016

Nordic Business Forum’s founders Hans-Peter Siefen and Jyri Lindén were chosen as the Entrepreneurs of the Year of Central Finland. With this nomination, they are also one of the finalists of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 Finland in the Young Entrepreneur category. The judges of the competition were especially impressed with how passionately […]

Nordic Business Forum donated a skateboard ramp to City of Jyväskylä

At this year’s Nordic Business Forum our event partners TAPAUS and DDB organized a mini skating ramp competition which was judged by no other than the skating legend Tony Hawk. The mini ramp signed by Hawk was donated to City of Jyväskylä. Tony Hawk was one of the speakers of Nordic Business Forum 2016, so […]