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Dr. Ben S. Bernanke, FED Chairman (2006-2014) and former Economics Professor at Princeton comes to Finland for Nordic Business Forum 2015 on October 1 – 2, 2015. Bernanke has been listed by Forbes magazine the seventh of “The World´s Most Powerful People” just right after the presidents of Russia, the United States and China. There will also be other very remarkable world’s top thinkers joining Dr. Bernanke in the line-up of Nordic Business Forum 2015. Garry Kasparov, the youngest World Chess Champion ever, strategy expert and human-rights activist; a bestselling author, coach and speaker John C. Maxwell; the co-founder, president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group Arianna Huffington; business advisor Nilofer Merchant who has launched 100 products amounting

Nordic Business Forum 2014, one of the most significant business seminars in Europe, begins today at the Exhibition & Convention Center in Helsinki. 5,300 attendees will gather to hear presentations from the world’s top thinkers for two days. The first seminar day provides the guests with presentations from Jim Collins, one of the greatest business author alive, Matti Alahuhta, the former CEO of Kone and the 38th Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger. In addition to the speakers, there will be panel discussion with four 30 Under 30 stars. Governor Schwarzenegger and Jim Collins are probably two of the most anticipated speakers in the event. The second day is also full of remarkable speakers including Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, Danish entrepreneur

The Finnish media company MTV will be broadcasting post-presentation discussions live from the MTV Live Stage from Nordic Business Forum 2014. 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. Check the preliminary schedule of the program here » In addition to the discussions, MTV will be broadcasting the Hot Seat Session live from the main stage of Nordic Business Forum 2014 seminar. The Hot Seat Session is a panel discussion with four 30 under 30 in Northern Europe stars including Pavel Durov, Vladimir Funtikov, Linda Liukas and Anna Nyboe. The theme of the session is Developing the Future.

The annual Nordic Business Forum seminar will begin tomorrow on October 9 at the Exhibition & Convention Center in Helsinki, Finland. The two day seminar gathers some of the world’s top thinkers including Jim Collins, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sir Ken Robinson and Tony Fernandes just to name a few. The seminar is organized now for the fifth time and it is the biggest Nordic Business Forum seminar so far. There will be 5,300 seminar guests from over 20 countries attending the event. The amount of attendees has increased from last year with 2,000 people. In addition to the attendees on the spot, there will also be people watching the seminar through a live stream. This is the first time the seminar

Pavel Durov, the number one on the Northern European 30 under 30 ranking, will be one of the debaters of the Hot Seat Session at Nordic Business Forum 2014. The Hot Seat Session is a panel discussion with four 30 under 30 stars including Pavel Durov, Vladimir Funtikov, Linda Liukas and Anna Nyboe. The theme of the session is Developing the Future. The moderator of the session will be professor Alf Rehn, who aims to challenge these young entrepreneurs on their views on future trends, to get the most out of these brilliant minds. The Hot Seat Session will take place during the first seminar day on Thursday 9th. You can see the agenda at www.nbforum.com/2014/agenda/. The debaters Pavel Durov,

We are glad to announce that Tony Fernandes, the founder and CEO of AirAsia, will be able to attend Nordic Business Forum 2014 after all. Fernandes will be giving his presentation on Friday October 10th instead of the original October 9th. You can find the preliminary program here » We informed yesterday that Lord Alan Sugar will be replacing Tony Fernandes in the line-up. Last night (August 11th) we received an email from Lord Sugar’s PR manager with bad news. They had just received the dates for the broadcast of the next series of the Apprentice, and it clashed with the already confirmed engagement at Nordic Business Forum 2014. Now, luckily, as the original speaker is able to attend the seminar and the

We are happy to announce that even the quota for international guests to Nordic Business Forum 2014 is now sold out over 4 months prior to the event! There will be 5300 guests attending the seminar with over 700 international guests. This is the biggest audience we have ever had in Nordic Business Forum seminars. Waiting list If you haven’t got a ticket, but you would like to join Nordic Business Forum 2014, you can sign up for a waiting list. We will contact the people on the waiting list in case there are customers with leftover tickets they would like to sell forward. You can sign up for the waiting list here » We are looking forward to a great event in October at the Exhibition