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The 29-year-old visual artist Emmi Mustonen will display her artwork at NBForum 2016. Her pieces cunningly present a combination of Renaissance style and modern digital communication. We always want to bring new experiences to our customers, which is why we invited Emmi Mustonen to delight the eyes of the attendees at NBForum. Mustonen is a visual artist who mixes history and modern time in her work. In her series displayed at the event, Mustonen combines the aesthetics and the highlighted individualistic portrayal of people typical to the Renaissance period, with the ongoing change in our ways to communicate and personalise ourselves driven by digitalization. As digitalization is such a broad concept, Mustonen has focused on positioning social media in her

Hot Seat Session with Frida Boisen and Pia Kalsta will replace Anita Krohn Traaseth at Nordic Business Forum 2016. The two powerful women of media publishing, Frida Boisen, Head of Digital and VP of Bonnier Media, and Pia Kalsta, CEO of Sanoma Media Finland, take on the challenge and climb on the Nordic Business Forum stage to address the question “Are we dead?” in a Hot Seat Session moderated by Professor Alf Rehn. The session takes place right after marketing professor Scott Galloway’s presentation “The Death of The Advertising Industrial Complex” and is expected to be a great discussion where Boisen and Kalsta, the two leaders of the biggest media companies of the Nordics, meet head on with Galloway’s predictions and

This year we wanted to pay even more attention to the sustainability of our conference menus and went full on vegetarian. The guests will be served with different veggie delicacies like the Finnish Pulled Oats. The food we serve has always played an important role in our events. This year we want to offer our Nordic Business Forum 2016 guests a healthier and more sustainable menu by serving only vegetarian food at the seminar. Our staff has carefully designed the menu together with the famous TV chef Jyrki Sukula and Fazer’s Anne Lundqvist. Local food products also play a role in the menu and the guests will get to taste for example the new Finnish meat substitute ‘pulled oats’. Hans-Peter

Anita Krohn Traaseth, CEO of Innovation Norway and No. 7 of Thinkers 20 joins Nordic Business Forum 2016 speakers. We are super excited to announce that our Nordic Business Forum 2016 speaker line-up is now complete. Anita Krohn Traaseth, who is seventh on the recently published Thinkers 20 in Northern Europe ranking, will be joining the event to speak about digitalization. She is the highest ranking woman on the Thinkers 20 ranking. Krohn Traaseth’s impeccable business degree includes roles as Managing Director of Hewlett-Packard’s Norwegian country operations, CEO of research commercializing company Simula Innovation and strategy director of the international certification company DNV Software (now DNV GL). In 2014 she was appointed CEO of the Norwegian government’s most important tool

Jyväskylän Kongressikeskus Oy will organize a licensed Nordic Business Forum 2016 live stream event in Paviljonki on October 6 – 7, 2016. We are happy to inform that the live stream of Nordic Business Forum 2016 will available this year also in Jyväskylän Paviljonki, the place where the story of Nordic Business Forum began in 2010 and where the seminar was held until 2013. This is the second year Jyväskylän Kongressikeskus organizes the licensed live stream event in Paviljonki. Tickets to the event and other event details on the licensed live stream event in Jyväskylä are available here » The licensed live stream events are independently organized events with the approval of Nordic Business Forum. You can find a list

Finnkino brings the 2016 Nordic Business Forum to eight cinemas in Finland through live stream. We are excited to announce that this year Nordic Business Forum 2016 can also be watched in the cinemas. Finnkino will be organizing licensed live stream events in eight cinemas around Finland. The live stream can be watched in the following cinemas: Helsinki Tennispalatsi Vantaa Flamingo Espoo Sello Turku Kinopalatsi Lahti Kuvapalatsi Kuopio Scala Lappeenranta Strand Oulu Plaza Marjut Apilo-Olson, Head of Event Cinema at Finnkino: ”We are very excited to offer our customers around Finland a possibility to enjoy a top business event like Nordic Business Forum. The seminar complements our versatile Event Cinema offering; we bring quality live experiences to even smaller places

We are happy to announce more confirmed partners of Nordic Business Forum 2016. Mercedes-Benz, Barona Group and Procountor will join our general partners for the 2016 forum. Altogether 18 partners are now on board with us in making the seminar an unforgettable experience to all our seminar guests. Delingua Language Services will be also partnering with us to provide the simultaneous translation service to Finnish and English. We are very grateful for all the support we have received and we are excited to build the event together with such an amazing group of partners. Get to know all our partners here »