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Only four months has passed from the launch of NBForum 2017 and with less than 100 tickets left, we’re close to selling out the event. The 2017 Nordic Business Forum will host 7,000 business executives and entrepreneurs at the Helsinki Expo & Convention Center in October 2017. This will be the biggest audience the conference has ever gathered under the same roof. Since the launch of the event in October 2016, the ticket sales have rocketed. Already 6,100 tickets were sold in one day and now four months later, we are down to the last 100 tickets. The First Class tickets including meet&greets with some of the speakers were sold out immediately, but there are still a few regular and VIP

At this year’s Nordic Business Forum we had some very interesting discussions with the speakers and event guests at the Mercedes-Benz Live Stage. See the live studio recordings now on our YouTube channel. Olli Muurainen, Founder, COB, Management Events Frida Boisen, Head of Digital at Bonnier Tidskrifter Jani Penttinen, CEO & Founder, Transfluent Mikko-Pekka Hanski, Co-Founder, Idean Juha Laakkonen, CEO, Nortal Oy Hans-Peter Siefen, Co-Founder & CEO, Nordic Business Forum Päivi Lonka, CSO, Marimekko Plc. Fredrik Rydin, Managing Partner, Roschier Marianne Vikkula, CEO, Slush Eka Ruola, CEO, hasan & partners

At this year’s Nordic Business Forum we had some very interesting discussions with the speakers and event guests at the MTV Live Stage. See the live studio recordings now on our YouTube channel. Continuous Development Mikko Manner, Partner, Roschier Petri Rajaniemi, Founder, Future Works How Digitalization Affects Brand Building Scott Galloway, Clinical Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business Alf Rehn, Professor of Management and Organization at Åbo Akademi University Yrityksen haasteet digitalisoituvassa maailmassa (in Finnish) Tiina Alahuhta-Kasko, CEO, Marimekko Kirsi Piha, Chairman of the Board, Ellun Kanat Exponential Technologies Transform Industries Peter Diamandis, Chairman & CEO of XPRIZE Des Traynor, Co­Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Intercom How Internet of Things Will Revolutionize Business Joseph Reger, CTO,

On Friday, Oct 7th we revealed the speakers and themes of Nordic Business Forum 2017. Only a day later 6,100 tickets were sold. We’ve been extremely lucky with the ticket sales before, but we’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s been now a bit over a week since we announced the names and themes of Nordic Business Forum 2017. To this day we have now sold over 6,300 tickets. With the new floor plan we will have seats for 7,000 people, so already 90% of the seats have been booked. In 2017, the themes are Responsibility, Purpose and Leadership and speakers include Sir Richard Branson, George Clooney, James Hansen, Patrick Lencioni, Adam Grant and Severn Cullis-Suzuki. (Read more: www.nbforum.com/nbf2017).

George Clooney, Sir Richard Branson, James Hansen and Severn Cullis-Suzuki among others will be taking the stage of the 8th annual Nordic Business Forum on October 2-3 in Helsinki. Nordic Business Forum announced today the speakers and themes for their 2017 annual main conference. In 2017, the conference will focus on the themes of responsible and purposeful business and leadership. Hans-Peter Siefen, CEO of Nordic Business Forum:”We are very happy with the amazing line up which we have for 2017. Many people remember when we brought Al Gore to Jyväskylä in 2011. The main theme that year was responsibility and now it is time to bring that topic back as the main theme on our agenda. Our mission is to