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All the 7,500 seats for Nordic Business Forum 2017 are now sold out. In case you don’t yet have a ticket, you can sign up for our waiting list or register to watch the live stream. We are beyond thrilled and humbled to announce that the 2017 forum has been sold out with record breaking 7,500 tickets. By moving the entire event into new exhibition halls, we were able to increase the capacity with 1,800 seats from last year. It’s going to be quite a crowd – people are coming from over 30 countries. Hans-Peter Siefen, CEO of Nordic Business Forum: “Selling out a business conference with 7,500 seats more than 4 months prior to the event would be a miracle anywhere

Will Smith will be one of our speakers at this year’s Nordic Business Forum! As an actor, producer, and musician, two-time Academy Award® nominee and Grammy Award Winner Will Smith has enjoyed a diverse career encompassing films, television, and multi-platinum records. Smith’s vast filmography includes transformative portrayals of true-life icons in “Ali”, “The Pursuit of Happyness”, and “Concussion”. He has headlined an extraordinary list of films including “Hitch”, “I am Legend”, “I, Robot”, “Independence Day”, and “Men in Black I ,II, & III”, “Suicide Squad” and most recently appeared in “Collateral Beauty.” His next project is the upcoming fantasy cop drama film “Bright” which is scheduled for release in December exclusively for Netflix. He began his career as a musician

We are excited to share that Mika Anttonen, Founder and Principal Shareholder of the Nordic energy company St1, will take part in the discussion on climate change together with James Hansen and Petteri Taalas. Anttonen joins the two climate experts to provide views on global energy systems. Mika Anttonen M.Sc.(Tech.) is the founder and principal shareholder of the Nordic energy company St1. He began his career as a private entrepreneur in the fuel trade in 1996 and rapidly built up a diverse energy company which today pursues its vision to become a leading producer and seller of CO2-aware energy. The company is investing heavily in industrial wind power and renewable energy generation. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Mika was employed at

Most of the partners of Nordic Business Forum 2017 are now confirmed. Nordic Business Forum conferences are built together with a bunch awesome partners, many of which have been with us for several years. We are very grateful to all our partners for their support and help in making Nordic Business Forum 2017 an unforgettable conference. The 2017 conference will be the biggest we’ve organized so far – 7,500 attendees thanks to relocating the conference to new halls in the Helsinki Expo and Convention Center. This gives us and the partners new possibilities to upgrade the partner area and the whole attendee experience. Main partners PwC Fujitsu Smartblock & Cramo Adapteo Partners Helsinki Airport, Finavia Tekes Business Jyväskylä, City of Jyväskylä Enterprise Estonia Ccea

Due to the changing family obligation, George Clooney has now canceled his participation in Nordic Business Forum 2017 in Helsinki. Many of you might have read the happy news that George and Amal Clooney are expecting twins. As a responsible father-to-be, Clooney has now decided to prioritize his family in this special time of their lives. Although we are very sorry for the cancellation, we are extremely happy for Clooney and his family and wish them health and happiness. We appreciate Clooney’s decision to prioritize family, which is also a very Nordic thing to do. To congratulate the expectant parents, we are sending them two Finnish Baby Boxes, the product Finland has become world-famous for in making life easier for

Both VIP and First Class seats for Nordic Business Forum 2017 are now fully booked. We have been extremely happy with the ticket sales of Nordic Business Forum 2017. Now both the VIP and First Class seats are fully booked. Those who would wish to still get VIP or First Class ticket can sign up for the waiting list to get a ticket through possible cancellations. Last week we announced the 500-seat addition to the conference. At this moment we have 250 seats still available. The 2017 forum will be held October 2 – 3, 2017 at the Exhibition & Convention Center in Helsinki, Finland. The event gathers 7,500 top executives and business leaders from over 30 countries for two days of

With close to selling out the 2017 conference, we are happy to announce we have now 500 more tickets available thanks to the new floor plan. The ticket sales of Nordic Business Forum 2017 has taken us totally by surprise. Originally, we had a 1,300 seat increase in the capacity from 2016 thanks to moving the conference to a new exhibition hall. However, even with the 1,300 extra seats, we started running out of the tickets quickly and were sold out by the end of last week – six months prior to the conference. Due to the high demand, we have been working with the Expo & Convention Center and the authorities in Helsinki to add seats to the floor