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14:00
Tech Raveolution Expo
Discover innovations and technologies from exciting startups to established companies. The Expo showcases the boldest and brightest ideas that are driving real change and making a positive impact on the world around us. Come explore and find inspiration for your next big idea.
14:30
14:45
Brain Stretching with Reidar Wasenius
In this intense session on mental flexibility, you'll tackle brain teasers and adaptive thinking exercises designed to challenge and expand your thought patterns. This training aims to boost your creativity and resilience, equipping you to navigate and thrive amidst life's changes, fostering innovation in your work and personal growth.
Reidar Wasenius
Chief Creative Officer, Breaks Finland Ltd.
15:10
15:20
Brain Stretching with Reidar Wasenius
In this intense session on mental flexibility, you'll tackle brain teasers and adaptive thinking exercises designed to challenge and expand your thought patterns. This training aims to boost your creativity and resilience, equipping you to navigate and thrive amidst life's changes, fostering innovation in your work and personal growth.
Reidar Wasenius
Chief Creative Officer, Breaks Finland Ltd.
15:50
16:00
Brain Stretching with Reidar Wasenius
In this intense session on mental flexibility, you'll tackle brain teasers and adaptive thinking exercises designed to challenge and expand your thought patterns. This training aims to boost your creativity and resilience, equipping you to navigate and thrive amidst life's changes, fostering innovation in your work and personal growth.
Reidar Wasenius
Chief Creative Officer, Breaks Finland Ltd.
16:30
17:00
The Raveolution
Cap off the day with the ultimate rave experience in town - an electrifying afterparty where innovation meets celebration under dazzling lights and pulsating beats.
Andrew KolokolnikovCOO & Co-Founder, Curious Talent
Andrew Kolokolnikov is a distinguished full-stack HR professional with over a decade of experience in scaling high-growth tech companies and startups. Throughout his career, he has masterfully built in-house talent acquisition functions from scratch, from serving as Head of TA at MaaS Global (Whim), advancing to Chief People Officer at Rive (formerly Kodit.io), to the recent gig as a Talent Partner at Nightingale Health. His journey also includes significant roles at Yousician, where he was an early employee, HR Lead, Talent Business Partner, and Intrapreneur, gaining a comprehensive understanding of HR challenges and solutions in fast-paced environments. Currently, as the COO and Co-Founder of Curious Talent, Andrew is focused on enabling meaningful career transitions towards sustainability, demonstrating his commitment to leveraging his vast HR expertise to facilitate impactful and fulfilling career paths in the sustainability sector.
Anni HelinenCOO & Head of Tech Recruitment Services, Finders Seekers
Anni is a seasoned talent acquisition leader and strategist with 15+ years of versatile recruiting experience, both from in-house roles and consultancies. She is passionate about people and business development and sustainable worklife. Outside office hours she is an active basketball and soccer mum.
Ben HoldenSales Director, Europe & Oceania, Invafresh
UK native and now proud resident of Finland; Ben Holden is a dynamic and passionate leader in the field of sustainable retail. As Sales Director of Invafresh, a company dedicated to finding profitable, smart & efficient ways to help grocery retailers improve their in-store operations. Ben has led Invafresh’s global expansion which now spans from New Zealand to Yli-Tornio.
With over 15 years of experience combining sustainable tech, retail and retail tech, Ben is well versed in the intricacies of this ever-changing industry and how making sustainable choices can and should positively impact your retail business.
Marjukka LaaksoChief of Recruitment Services & Partner, Clevry
Marjukka has over a decade of experience in talent acquisition. She is the Chief of Recruitment Services at Clevry - a company helping organizations around the globe to find, assess and hire candidates easier, faster and more fairly. With a background in social psychology, she is particularly passionate about understanding the principles that impact hiring processes - such as unconscious cognitive biases.
Mikko J. SalminenPartner, Director Open Innovation, Spinverse
Mikko is helping companies to be more creative and to set up innovation ecosystems to solve their growth challenges. He drives this mission with over 100 colleagues in Spinverse. He has a long international business and product development career in Nokia Networks, Vaisala, Elisa, Omegawave and Wellmo before joining Spinverse 9 years ago.
Mikko holds M.Sc. (EE&CS) from Aalto University and has been lecturing in Aalto University for decades, in 7 professorships. He is also an ice-hockey coach and personal trainer (APT).
Oliver JamesDirector of Partnerships UK/Ireland, Seppo
Oliver is currently the Director of Partnerships for the UK and Ireland at Seppo, a company specializing in gamified solutions. Since leaving college seven years ago, Oliver has gained experience working in innovative and progressive companies across multiple industries in both his native UK and now in Finland, driving sustainable partnerships and fostering forward-thinking mindsets.
Oliver once participated in the UK's version of The Chase game show, hoping to win the money to move to Finland!
Reetta SödervikCommunications Manager, Paptic Ltd
Reetta Södervik, BBA, works as a Communications Manager at Paptic Ltd and is responsible for the company’s marketing and communications. Paptic Ltd is an innovation and growth company of sustainable and circular packaging materials focusing on replacing fossil plastics in retail and flexible packaging applications.Before joining Paptic in 2020,
Ms. Södervik had acquired extensive marketing and communications experience in the fibre-based materials industry over the course of two decades.
Reidar WaseniusChief Creative Officer, Breaks Finland Ltd.
Reidar Wasenius is the Chief Creative Officer of Breaks Finland Ltd. In the tech sector his past employers include Nokia (twice), Samsung, TeliaSonera/Telecom Finland, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and the Finnish funding agency Tekes (now: Business Finland). In the media industry, he has worked for the Finnish National Broadcasting Company YLE and on several commercial radio and TV channels. As an educator, he has worked at all levels of the Finnish education system - mostly in adult education. He was the founding Programme Director of the degree program in Media and Communications at Arcada UAS. Reidar studied computer science at the Helsinki University of Technology (now: Aalto) and mass communications at the University of Helsinki. His latest book is Personal Brainer (WSOY 2016) which he co-authored with neurobiologist Tiina Huttu. Reidar speaks to you on your phone in several languages every year and whenever you travel by train in Finland.
Ville SimolaCEO, Digital Commerce Finland
Ville is the CEO of Digital Commerce Finland, the leading digital commerce community in Finland. Previously, he was the CEO of the largest startup hub in the Nordics, Maria 01. Prior to that he has led innovation, digital transformation and digital commerce teams in larger stock listed organisations and has been co-founding Startup Sauna, one of the first startup accelerator programs in Finland. Ville is also a board member of The Shortcut, that helps foreign talent integrate into Finland.
Ville holds a degree is M.Sc. (Economics) from Aalto University.
Moderator / Joey BayerHead of Community, Epicenter Helsinki
Joey Bayer has been responsible for creating conversations that matter for more than 16 years.
From creating the space, to connecting key players, to driving and setting the agenda, Joey brings together individuals for moments that both transform and inspire.
Over the course of his career, Joey has hosted the world's most fascinating and influential people - from world leaders, like Bill Clinton, to iconic legends like Liza Minelli, to the CEOs of today's Fortune 500 companies.
Joey's intuitive ability to connect with others, his passion for people and dialogue, and ability to get directly to the heart of the discussion have earned him a reputation of trust and respect with leaders around the world, and made him a central figure in today's most important conversations.
