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The first partners of Nordic Business Forum 2016 are now confirmed. The partners will play a key role in building the seminar and making it an unforgettable experience to all our seminar guests. The main partners of the event are PwC, Roschier, Fujitsu, Canon Finland, and Elo & LähiTapiola with a joint partnership. The already confirmed general partners are Elisa and Nordic Morning, and media partners are Äripäev and Kapitāls. Nordic Business Forum wants to thank all the partners for supporting the event! You can read more about the partners here » Nordic Business Forum 2016 will be held October 6 – 7, 2016 at the Exhibition & Convention Center in Helsinki, Finland. The speakers of the event include Tony Hawk, Ed Catmull, Seth Godin and

Already over 5,600 people have registered for Nordic Business Forum 2016 and having both Seating Section 1 and 2 fully booked, we are close to selling out the event. The prices will rise after Sunday Jan 31st, so this may be your last chance to get a ticket. The ticket sales of Nordic Business Forum 2016 have exceeded our expectations. Only three weeks after the launch of the event, Seating Section 1 was already fully booked. We expanded Seating Section 2 to fit in 200 extra seats (read more ») and now also Seating Section 2 is fully booked. This means there are now only VIP and First Class tickets available. The 2016 forum will be held October 6 – 7, 2016

Continuing Nordic Business Forum’s Christmas gift tradition, we have donated tree plants via Finn Church Aid to compensate the computational carbon footprint of Nordic Business Forum 2015 for all 5,500 guests who attended the event. Donating tree plants has become our Christmas tradition. Over the years, we have donated altogether over 18,000 tree plants. We started the donations already back in 2011 after our first official Nordic Business Forum event. With the yearly donations, we fulfill one of our core values – cross-generational thinking – which is based on the following idea: We didn’t inherit this world from our parents, we merely lease it from our children. The donation is also our way to say ‘thank you’ to all our customers and

In 2016, Nordic Business Forum will be hosting 5,700 attendees, which is 200 more than initially anticipated, thanks to a new floor plan. NBForum 2016 was published a bit over three weeks ago and with already Seating Section 1 fully booked, the event is getting close to being sold out entirely. The original capacity of the venue was 5,500 seats, but luckily a new kind of floor plan made it possible to fit in 200 extra seats in Seating Section 2. “Increasing the capacity is always something which requires careful consideration. Based on our experience three weeks ago at Nordic Business Forum 2015, we together with the Exhibition Centre found a good way to add 200 seats in Seating Section

The business festivities of Nordic Business Forum 2015 are about to be kicked off soon at Messukeskus Helsinki. The forum continues today on strategy related themes with Simon Sinek, Garry Kasparov, Mette Lykke, and Keith Cunningham. The day will end with one of the forum’s history’s most awaited moments when Dr. Ben S. Bernanke and Björn Wahlroos sit down to discuss on finance and the future of the world economy. 5,500 business executives and owners from over 20 countries gather for the second day of the Nordic’s most significant business event. The event is also followed by thousands of viewers via live stream. This year the forum’s reach is greater than ever, thanks to the live stream. The speakers of the

Jon Henrik Fjällgren performed today at Nordic Business Forum 2015. Fjällgren is a Swedish-Sami Joik singer, who was born in Columbia, but after being orphaned he was adopted by a Swedish-Sami family to Sweden. On top of Fjällgren’s singing, the audience got to enjoy an aerobatic performance by Pauliina Räsänen, one of the most successful Finnish trapeze performers. Jon Henrik Fjällgren took part in the Sweden’s Got Talent 2014 (Talang Sverige 2014) and won the competition. He also participated in Melodifestivalen 2015, the competition that selects Sweden’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, and was placed second after the jury and televoting results in the finals. Nordic Business Forum discovered Fjällgren on YouTube and was touched by his story. Here’s

Lawnmowers at a business event? Many guests of Nordic Business Forum 2015 blinked their eyes when the Finnish viral sensation took the stage with their lawnmowers today at Messukeskus Helsinki. The band is called Steve ‘n’ Seagulls. They took the YouTube by storm with their videos of bluegrass versions of well-known hard rock and metal songs. Their version of Thunderstruck by AC / DC has received already over 16 million views on YouTube. More about the band here »

For the next two days, Nordic Business Forum 2015 will make Messukeskus Helsinki the focal point of the Nordic business scene. This year the forum is reaching more people than ever before. Thousands of business people both on the spot and online gather to network and to hear the latest thoughts on strategy, disruption and influence from the world’s top business minds. The year-long wait is finally over and the action is about to begin. The sold-out seminar will fill up the halls of Messukeskus with 5,500 growth oriented business people from over 20 countries. In addition to the top of the line speakers, the days are filled with numerous meetings and connections. Many ideas and insights will be shared

The opening performance of Landfill Harmonic, an orchestra which plays music from instruments made entirely out of garbage, took the audience by surprise at Nordic Business Forum 2015. The Landfill Harmonic is a Paraguayan musical youth group of kids that live next to one of South America’s largest landfills. Last year Sir Ken Robinson brought up their story on his presentation about creativity at Nordic Business Forum 2014. Quickly after the 2014 forum, the Nordic Business Forum contacted the orchestra and invited them to perform at the 2015 forum. Here’s the teaser of the upcoming documentary film “Landfill Harmonic”. More about the orchestra here »

Nordic Business Forum 2015 is held this week on Thursday and Friday at the Exhibition & Convention Center in Helsinki. The Finnish media company MTV will be broadcasting post-presentation discussions live from the forum at the MTV Live Stage. Some of the seminar speakers and the most interesting seminar guests will join Peter Nyman on the MTV Live Stage. All the MTV Live Stage discussions can be followed free-of-charge at www.mtv.fi/nbf. The MTV Live Stage discussions will be also broadcasted through the live stream. Check the preliminary schedule of the program here » Nordic Business Forum 2015 will be held on October 1 – 2, 2015 in Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Center, Finland. Altogether 5,500 business executives and entrepreneurs from