Join the pioneers of health and wellness

Join the pioneers
of health and
wellness
Finland is the hottest spot in Europe for
health and wellness innovations. Finnish
companies´ solutions cover all aspects of
quantified self-technologies from fitness
to sleep, stress management, healthcare
and nutrition.
Tekes The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation
www.tekes.fi/en
Sitra The Finnish Innovation Fund
www.sitra.fi/en/self-care
Why Finland is the hottest
spot in Europe for health and
wellness innovation?
Photo: Paula Myöhänen
Finland is flexible, innovative and cooler than you think. Within Europe we
have a very promising future for R&D and business in health and wellbeing
sector. The Finnish innovation system is internationally recognized as one of
the world’s most developed ecosystems. That’s a pretty good starting point.
However this is not enough for us in Finland. We have set a clear goal in our
National Health Sector Growth Strategy - we want to become a leader and a
pioneer in everything that has to do with research, innovation, investments
and business in the field of health and well-being. Both public and the
private sector have committed strongly for the cause.
The most recent statistics show that healthtech has become the largest hitech sector in the sophisticated Finnish market. We are an ideal location
for genomics research and development. We are strongly on our way to
become the hotspot of healthIT and personalized-medicine in the world
largest single market - Europe and the European Union. This would be
a good addition to the world class sectors like life-science, ICT, let alone
biobanks and mobile games that Finland is already so well known for.
We want to make Finland the best possible environment for companies to succeed
We offer an easy operating environment for businesses, minimal bureaucracy and stable as well as competitive economy.
For example the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report in 2014-2015 has ranked Finland as the fourth most
competitive nation in the world. The strengths of Finland are innovation and higher education and training - both areas where
Finland ranked number one in the study.
Finns love statistics and rankings. Maybe because we do so well in them. Nordic Growth Entrepreneurship Review in 2012 pointed
out that Finnish environment for entrepreneurship is the best out of Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark - a very competitive
market as a whole. Within the European Union Finland has been recognized as an innovation leader by the Innovation Union
Scoreboard 2013.
Add the fact that our educational system constantly ranks on top ranks in the PISA test that measures the level of primary
education and that Finland is the best country to be a mother - we remain friends of numbers.
I wish sincerely that your cooperation will be mutually beneficial and profitable. I wish you all the best!
Lenita Toivakka
Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade of Finland
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Contents
Why Finland is the hottest spot in Europe for health and wellness innovation?
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Companies
Attendo6
Beat2phone7
Beddit8
Cuckoo Workout
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Digital Identity Solutions Europe (DISE)
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Emfit 11
Emotion Tracker
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Fjuul 13
Guideradar14
HappyOrNot15
Health Puzzle
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HealthOperator 17
HeiaHeia18
Heltti19
HH Technology
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HLD Healthy Life Devices
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Janssen-Cilag22
Kaufmann Agency
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Kirontech24
Medical Investment Trust Oy
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Medi-IT 26
MediSapiens27
MediWare28
MetaWatch29
Nolla Antimicrobial
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Nordic Healthcare Group
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Pfizer32
Relaxbirth33
RemoteA / SuperECG
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Sports Tracker
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Taltioni 36
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Other Organizations
Aalto University
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Auria Biobank 38
Business Oulu
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Central Finland Central Hospital 40
City of Espoo 41
City of Tampere 42
EIT ICT Labs 43
Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa 44
Invest in Finland
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Laurea Living Laboratory 46
Ministry of Employment and the Economy
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Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
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National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) 49
SOSTE Finnish Society for Social and Health 50
EPTEK51
The Finnish Medical Association 52
The Social Insurance Institution of Finland 53
Turku Science Park 54
www.turkusciencepark.com54
University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, Health and Wellbeing 55
U.S. Commercial Service 56
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 57
Organizers
AmCham Finland
Consulate General of Finland in Los Angeles
Consulate General of Finland in New York
Helsinki Business Hub
Sitra - the Finnish Innovation Fund
Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation
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Enterprise
Attendo
Attendo is the leading provider of outsourced social and health care
services in the Nordics. We support the public health care, and we
are the pioneer in producing housing services for the elderly, the
disabled, and mental health patients.
Our goal is to support overall health care services and secure
equal well-being to everyone.
Our service offering includes:
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Outsourced health care services; health care centers, public
dentists and specialized medical care
Staffing for health care
Private dentals
Occupational health care
Own nursing homes, home care and rehabilitation
We have more than 18 000 employees working for us in the
Nordics. During the last five years, we have built more than
3 500 nursing home apartments for older people and we have
more than 20 000 clients in care.
Hundreds of people all across the Nordics choose Attendo
every day. Local authorities reach out to us to help us challenge
them and to help their citizens. We provide them the care they
need, the way they want it.
www.attendo.com
Contact:
www.attendo.com
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Antti Ylikorkala
Vice President
+358 50 505 3434
[email protected]
Enterprise
Beat2phone
VTT VENTURES LTD
Beat2phone is a device that allows consumers to take an electrocardiogram (ECG) in
the comfort of their own homes. The pocket-size heart monitor communicates with a
smartphone. The device allows patients suffering from e.g. arrhythmias to begin recording
ECG as soon as symptoms appear. It can also be used in home nursing. The objective is to
launch the device within a year.
The device has global market, and the number of potential
users continues to grow with population ageing. Approximately
five per cent of the world’s population suffer from arrhythmias
or irregular heartbeat. Irregular heartbeat often develops with
age: 12 per cent of people over the age of 60 suffer from the
condition. The number of people interested in endurance
sports is also rising. Conditions associated with overtraining,
such as myocarditis, palpitations and irregular heart beat, can
be prevented with the help of this effective personal heart rate
monitoring device.
Potential customers are elderly people, people with cardiac
symptoms, and cardiologists, medical doctors, health, home
and elderly care providers. The system is suited for telemedicine.
The device provides medical quality ECG signal, it is easyto-use and safe, it detects motion, posture and location for
automatic diary keeping, it allows long-term monitoring and
followup, and cloud-based full data access to the users and
medical experts.
VTT Ventures Ltd is a part of VTT Group. VTT Ventures
Ltd.’s mission is to focus on extracting value from
VTT technology in developing VTT based high-tech
companies with international growth potential.
Dr Timo Varpula
Research Team Leader
+358 40 5811134
[email protected]
Panu Helistö, DTech
Principal Scientist
+358 40 578 3577
[email protected]
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Enterprise
Beddit
Sleep smart. Live Better. ™
The Beddit Sleep Monitor is a leading solution for sleep
monitoring. It’s completely non-intrusive meaning that the
user doesn’t have to wear anything, thus ensuring undisturbed
sleep. The Beddit Sleep Monitor is used together with the
Beddit-app available on the App Store and Google Play.
The ultra thin sensor film is placed into the bed, directly
under the bed sheet. The Beddit Sleep Monitor is connected
wirelessly to a mobile device via Bluetooth. In order to provide
a daily sleep quality analysis for the user, Beddit tracks the
following measures:
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Average heart rate
Average breathing rate
Movement and bed exits
Total sleep time
Sleep cycles
Sleep latency
Snoring detection
Lasse Leppäkorpi
CEO & Co-founder
+358 50 582 6074
[email protected]
Beddit, Finland
Annina Pierson
Marketing & PR
+1 (408) 457 4500
[email protected]
Beddit, USA
The Beddit API is also soon available for integration to 3rd
party platforms and services as well as for developing new
applications. Beddit has offices in Finland and California, is VCfunded and its products are available globally.
Beddit has also partnered with Misfit Wearables to provide
a 24/7 self-tracking solution coupled with the Misfit Shine
activity tracker.
Beddit is looking for new talent, new retail channels
and partners, such as bedding companies and mattress
manufacturers, to make sleep-monitoring an everyday activity
for the masses.
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www.beddit.com
Enterprise
Cuckoo Workout
Start your daily exercise routine with the fun and energetic
Cuckoo Workout. Challenge and follow your Facebook friends
through tens of exercise levels. Expand your network and
exercise with other users.
Cuckoo Workout is a web-based service that combines play,
community and well-being. At Cuckoo Workout we want to
get people exercising throughout the working day. Our users
are reminded to take exercise breaks by an alarm and short
videos guide them through groovy workouts.
Cuckoo includes three different
kinds of workouts:
CARDIO TRAINING 1-3 minutes
Why?
Cardio exercises raise your metabolism
and make you more energetic.
POSTURE TRAINING 1-3 minutes
Why?
Incorrect posture is a burden that can
lead to pain in your back and shoulders.
BRAIN CHALLENGES 1-5 minutes
Why?
Such workouts help you to concentrate
on your work as well as be more creative.
Veera Lehmonen
CEO
+358 44 9923 744
[email protected]
Ida Mänty
Head of design
+358 40 7474 540
[email protected]
What are we looking for?
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Investment to expand to the US
Incubators / accelelators
Partners and resellers for selling our software to US market
Agents / distributors to support us in entering US market
Customers
www.cuckooworkout.com
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Enterprise
Digital Identity Solutions
Europe (DISE)
Digital Identity Solutions Europe specializes in supporting organizations,
especially in healthcare, in resolving the challenges they are facing with digital
identity management. Our unique solutions are not limited in technology –
we always approach the problem from the view of the organization’s business.
With our help, user access to services can be simplified while taking into
consideration the tightening demands of information security.
We know how to implement secure identity and user access
management solutions which strengthen your business by
innovatively combining expertise and the newest technology
available.
www.digital-identity.com
Our largest clients are in healthcare sector and they choose us
because we do what others can’t – simplify the complex.
Products & Services
DISE DATAMASTER
• Manages identity related master data processes related to
employees and external users within healthcare industry
DISE LOGMASTER
• Provides a centralized view for monitoring logical and
physical access in systems and on premises
DISE SCREEN
• Self-Service processes – location and context related
• Digital identity and attribute management
• Data gathered from humans, sensors and systems
• Situation awareness and artificial intelligence
• Self-service processes, attribute management and
situational awareness can be provided by identity and
device sensor data and enriched with smart triggers and
process intelligence
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Contact
Juha Kunnas
[email protected]
+358 40 139 9999
• Founder, managing director
• Over 20 years of management
experience in the software industry
Enterprise
Emfit
Better sleep, better you™
Emfit, operating in Finland and USA, is world pioneer in non-contact vital
signs monitoring with under mattress sensor. With our experience from
tens of thousands of bed monitors sold for epilepsy and elderly care, we
have developed a new consumer sleep monitor with full 3-stage sleep
classification.
We all know that lack of good night’s sleep makes us feel
terrible the following day, but it also causes severe mental and
physical problems - even accidents! Our mission is to improve
our customers’ wellness by enabling them to quantify their
sleep and track how behavioral lifestyle changes affect it.
Our solution
www.emfit.com
Our proprietary and patented sensor technology is backed
up by hundreds of non-biased scientific publications. Emfit
QS consists of discreet, under mattress installed thin sensor
and small electronics that operate over Wi-Fi or cellular data
network connection to Internet. It is non-contact, always on,
and uses pure mobile optimized web application instead of a
phone app that has to be turned on every night.
Heikki Raisanen
CEO, Co-Founder
Emfit Ltd, Finland
Investor Relations
+358-500-678767
[email protected]
You can monitor your sleep onset, the amount of REM and
DEEP sleep, heart and respiratory rate, snoring, recovery level,
and turns & tosses. You can also view the long-term trends.
So, when you decide to start improving your wellness and start
tracking life habits, and how they affect your sleep, you can see
what are the best things for you!
What we look for
Emfit looks for new industrial OEM customers, such as mattress
manufacturers, distributors and VAR’s.
We are wholly owned by original founders and staff, and are
also seeking series-A investors. The proceeds would be used
to strengthen the sales and technical team.
Pekka Rintala
CEO
Emfit Corp., Austin, TX
USA Customer Relations
+(818) 601 0129
[email protected]
Peppiina Raisanen
Vp., Marketing
Emfit Ltd
Media Relations
+358-50-492 1475
[email protected]
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Enterprise
Emotion Tracker
Know yourself and you will win all battles
Sun Tzu 500 B.C.
Do we know ourselves in today’s hectic life?
”How can we be innovative and creative if we don’t even have time to
figure out what we are thinking or feeling?” We have trackers for sports,
food and sleep, but why was there no serious tracker for the most
important part of our being: the Mind?
Emotion Tracker is an easy-to-use mobile tool that helps you
identify and analyse your true emotions. It has been created
with sincere passion to help individuals to know themself
better, so they can start creating health and happiness inside
and around themselves. We believe that healthy, happy
individuals create prosperous organisations and – ultimately
– a prosperous society.
Emotion Tracker 1.0 was launched in B2B sector in Finland
January 2014. It is currently offered through selected health
care professionals and organizations. The first results have
been encouraging as Aalto University teacher and psychologist
Eerikki Mäki wrote:
“Students used Emotion Tracker for identification of their
emotions in spring 2014. Most of the students had awesome
insights about the role of the emotions in their thinking and
actions”
Company was founded 2013 by four experienced professionals
from management consulting, psychology and start-­
up
background. First angel investors were invited on board in May
2014.
The passion and the vision of the company is to quantify
the emotional data of the world: first to individuals, then to
organisations and finally to society as a whole.
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Camilla Tuominen
CEO and co-founder
[email protected]
+358400439604
emotiontracker.fi
Emotion Tracker @facebook
Emotion Tracker @twitter
Enterprise
Fjuul
The easier way to an active day
Fjuul is an activity- and fitness tracking app like no other and goes beyond
simply counting steps or calories. It measures the most important element
of any activity – the intensity of your movements. While you walk, work, run,
dance, jog, shop, party...
This metric, known as ‘Fjuul Points’, is a simple but meaningful
way to understand and compare your activity, work out what’s
best for you and how you can improve – alone or with others.
Featured by Apple as
*Best New App in 47 Countries*
Benefit
Fjuul turns your everyday movements into exercise. Just keep
your phone in your pocket - move – and get your healthy dose
of daily activity, no matter what you do!
What are we looking for?
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Market- and media exposure in the US
Partners: developers, service providers, brands
Channels and direct customers for B2B offering
Establish relationships to local VC community
Contact:
Sascha W. Wischek
Founder & CEO
+358 40 838 2078
[email protected]
www.fjuul.com
http://vimeo.com/97543303
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Enterprise
Guideradar
VTT VENTURES LTD
Wearable assistive tool for the visually impaired
Guideradar is VTT’s commercialization project aiming at establishing new spin-off company in 2015. Our mission is to
serve visually impaired people by increasing their independent living capability as well as personal well-being and safety.
Guideradar will offer a novel, wearable and affordable personal
assistive tool developed for visually impaired. It is also compatible to smartphone ecosystems.
By using Guideradar visually impaired can reliably avoid
collisions to other people and objects, move proactively,
confidently and faster in variable build environment.
We are looking for business partnerships for
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VTT Ventures Ltd is a part of VTT Group. VTT Ventures Ltd.’s
mission is to focus on extracting value from VTT technology in
developing VTT based high-tech companies with international
growth potential.
Tero Kiuru
Senior Scientist
tel. +358 40 176 8566
[email protected]
Mikko Utriainen
Business Development Specialist
tel. +358 40 753 7415
[email protected]
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Customer engagement and acceptance
Developing relations to public health care sector
Collaboration for business development, sales channels
and market entry
Enterprise
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HappyOrNot
Multi-Award Winner HappyOrNot® provides service chain organizations with
strategic customer satisfaction KPI integration and analytics
HappyOrNot is a combination of patented data collection units
and intelligent cloud based satisfaction reporting and analytics
service. The concept is used by leading global and local
organizations such as Samsung Electronics, Carrefour, Dixons
Retail, Domino´s Pizza, Office Depot, Citgo, NHS, Ochsner Health
System, GE Healthcare, IKEA, Delhaize, Orlando International
Airport, Heathrow Airport, AVIS, Lloyds Pharmacies and nearly
1000 other organizations and chains. The concept has been
awarded several times and recognized by leading news papers
and customer service experts, including but not limited to Mr.
Bob Phipps (The Retail Doctor), Mr. Shep Hyken, USA Today,
Daily Finance and Huffington Post.
HappyOrNot:
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Provides enterprise-wide data fast to support and enhance
decision-making.
Improves customer satisfaction, reputation, customer
loyalty and the service motivation of the employees
Helps your organization improve its competitive position
and customer satisfaction and loyalty.
The wireless data collection units are ready to use out of the
box, requiring no external power source. End-customers
answer the question by pressing the smiley button that
represents their perception of service quality that day. The
unit is always located where the customer experience takes
place which results the unprecedented high daily volumes
of feedback. Results are transmitted via mobile network to
HappyOrNot cloud. Set up and brand customization options
makes it easy to incorporate HappyOrNot into the brand and
operations of the client organization.
Automated, quick to read reports are delivered with the required
content at the right intervals, providing timely information and
analytical data, which can be accessed with any internet device
anywhere, anytime. The web based HappyOrNot dashboard
provides historical data, in depth reviews and data exports. Net
Promoter Score compatibility and Application Program Interface
makes it possible to include continuous customer satisfaction
data as part of the enterprise data, making HappyOrNot the
must have solution for every service organization.
HappyOrNot is looking for sales channel partners
and new client organizations in the US.
www.happy-or-not.com
Video presentation (4 min)
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=uxn6ZfrCnlg
Contact:
Ville Levaniemi
President (HappyOrNot
Americas), Co-Founder
[email protected]
+1-561-452-4799
HappyOrNot Americas Inc.
Todd Theisen
EVP, Sales & Business Development
[email protected]
+1-408-472.3248
HappyOrNot Americas Inc.
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Enterprise
Health Puzzle
Health Puzzle is a company based in Helsinki, with huge global
ambitions. We are building YOU-app, a mobile service to be reachable
for, loved by and useful for millions.
YOU is the action-oriented wellness coach.
Wellbeing is not a dashboard, a number or
a gymscore. Wellbeing is experiences, play,
good actions. That is YOU.
www.health-puzzle.com
@healthpuzzle
@nellieliina
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Nelli Lähteenmäki
CEO & Co-Founder
Health Puzzle
+358 40 700 5105
[email protected]
Enterprise
HealthOperator
One step ahead. Preventive remote health monitoring services
for you and your family.
The next big transformation is about to happen in Healthcare. The existing technologies:
cloud, mobility, big data, health sensors and predictive algorithms will bring along next
generation of healthcare: real time bio data with remote monitoring, more informed
medical decisions, predictive actions. New services, new business models and new cost
structures. We in HealthOperator Ltd are building that future: transformation towards a
preventive, proactive and personalized healthcare.
The magnitude of the healthcare transformation will be huge.
In ten years, one third of the western population is using
health services based on remote monitoring solutions. In 30
years, the entire population in developed countries are able
to use these services. The existing actors in the healthcare
provision are experts on medicine, not in IT, data warehousing,
data security or application integration. The transformation
requires players who build and operate the solutions needed
by the healthcare sector. Therefore, there is a need for new
service provider market.
www.healthoperator.com
Our vision is to be the driver, the pioneer, in this market. Our
goal in HealthOperator is to deliver comprehensive solutions
that addresses the diverse connected health needs of private
citizens, healthcare companies and public health sector.
Riitta Tiuraniemi
M.Sc. (tech)
Leena Jaakonmäki
M.Sc. (tech)
Experienced leader with 9 years
tenure as a CEO in telecom
operator DNA Group, DNA
Finland and DNA Networks
and 4 years as a CTO in DNA
networks. 9 years as a Business
and Telecom consultant.
IT- product & service Business
leader & Productizing
specialist, International Sales
& marketing. Last 20 years
in Tieto Ltd in various P&L
business responsibilities.
riitta.tiuraniemi@
healthoperator.com
leena.jaakonmaki@
healthoperator.com
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Enterprise
HeiaHeia
Happier, healthier employees
with casual and approachable wellness tools
HeiaHeia is an all-in-one wellness motivation platform for the modern employer.
HeiaHeia’s gamified, customizable and social wellness platform
improves wellness program participation rates by even 5X,
delivers measurable, healthy behavior changes, and creates
a new, positive social fabric among employees. HeiaHeia has
been chosen by over 250 corporate wellness programs in tens
of countries worldwide, including PepsiCo, Microsoft, and IKEA.
HeiaHeia’s customer footprint covers hundreds of thousands
of employees in several countries, in companies ranging
from 20-employee pharmacies to 20,000-employee logistics
organizations.
With 80% of our users changing their health behavior and 94%
customer satisfaction, we are consistently delivering results to
employers – at a cost that ensures superior ROI to any other
wellness program in the market.
HeiaHeia’s product especially caters to the needs of
• small and medium companies: customizability and simple,
volume-based pricing
• insurance and benefits brokers and other partners offering
wellness solutions: customizability, co-branding, and
attractive price point
www.heiaheia.com
Jussi Räisänen
Co-Founder & CEO
HeiaHeia.com - powering employee wellness at
hundreds of companies worldwide
+1 650 209 7844
+358 50 386 6550
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Enterprise
Heltti
Heltti provides occupational health services to knowledge workers
against flat monthly rate.
Heltti has brought a new business model to the Finnish
occupational health services market. The flat-rate business
model efficiently encourages Heltti to focus in preventive
health services. Also treatment of sicknesses is carried out in a
modern way by using new ways for communicating between
the end-users and healthcare professionals.
www.heltti.fi
Twitter: @HelttiHealthly
Heltti is developing a new information system, to which
different applications can be integrated enabling the endusers to share their health and wellbeing data with their
health coaches.
Heltti was founded in Helsinki on 2013 and opened its first health
clinic in February 2014. Heltti’s team consists of experienced
healthcare professionals and growth entrepreneurs.
Contact:
Tanja Lappi
Co-Founder
+358 40 521 7981
[email protected]
Timo Lappi
CEO
+358 40 756 7809
[email protected]
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Enterprise
HH Technology
HH Technology provides a solution that improves coaching quality and
productivity in sport and fitness coaching sectors, called coach4pro.
The coach4pro solution provides all the necessary tools
for coaches and athletes, to cover all coaching needs and
activities. Coach4pro helps maximize the time of sport coaches
by allowing them to focus more on using their expertise in
coaching. The solution has been tested to achieve better
productivity and higher quality of coaching.
Coach4pro is designed for professional use with high security.
This cost-efficient solution provides top generic coaching
tools as well as sport-specific solutions. Coach4pro’s flexible
platform also allows the possibility of implementing customtailored proprietary solutions to the existing platform, based
on the requirements of top sports.
Athletes benefit from using the mobile application of
coach4pro in daily activities and from getting instant feedback
from their coach.The mobile application provides a real-time,
easy and present-day way of training, helping to reach best
possible results.
HH Technology, an innovator in the sport coaching business,
was founded in 2009, in Espoo, Finland.
The HH Technology team holds strong experience in mobile-,
web- and sensor technology, as well as building service
solutions.
Coach4pro is built on a flexible platform and fully utilizes
modern web-, mobile- and wireless sensor technology. In
addition, it is on lead position to utilize the latest near field
communication interfaces as well as smart-watch technologies.
Furthermore, this modern and agile platform is independent
of any equipment manufacturers.
www.coach4pro.com
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Mikko Koskela
CEO and founder
+358 504867492
[email protected]
Enterprise
HLD Healthy Life Devices
PhysioTouch
PhysioTouch is a therapeutic massage device for the treatment of pain, fascia and
lymphedema. The device is designed and manufactured in Finland by HLD Healthy
Life Devices Ltd. PhysioTouch is targeted for healthcare professionals, such as lymph
therapists, physiotherapists, massage therapists, and chiropractors.
The device was launched in 2009 and the first US customer,
Johns Hopkins Medicine, deployed PhysioTouch in their
clinic in 2012. Today, over 350 clinics world-wide are using
PhysioTouch. HLD sells PhysioTouch in the US through its
independent sales rep network that covers all the major states.
We are looking for investors for HLD
Healthy Life Devices Ltd’s 1.5M USD
round. The funding is used to increase
PhysioTouch device sales in the USA.
Tissue swelling may reduce recovery after a trauma or surgery.
In some cases, e.g., with lymphedema, the swelling may
significantly hinder or even prevent the person’s normal daily
activities. It is estimated that the number of lymphedema
patients in the USA exceeds 6.8 million people.
PhysioTouch creates a precisely controlled pulsating negative
pressure above skin helping . The treatment is comfortable
for the patient and for the therapist. PhysioTouch treatment
has been clinically proven to activate the lymphatic system,
improve lymphedema, and reduce pain and swelling faster
than manual therapy. For example, Johns Hopkins Medicine
has reported that they have achieved 3 week (50%) reduction
in in-patient treatment times by using PhysioTouch in Johns
Hopkins lymphedema clinic.
PhysioTouch is FDA Class I Exempt in the USA and HLD
Healthy Life Devices Ltd. is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003
certified company. PhysioTouch device IP is protected by four
international patents. HLD has a 100% subsidiary in the USA,
PhysioTouch Inc.
Kalle Palomäki
CEO
+358 50 5422 645
[email protected]
www.physiotouch.com
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Enterprise
Janssen-Cilag
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies
of Johnson & Johnson are dedicated to
addressing and solving some of the most
important unmet medical needs of our time
in oncology, immunology, neuroscience,
infectious diseases and vaccines, and
cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
Together, we share a vision of providing innovative solutions
that bring value to people, healthcare professionals and health
systems around the world.
Our strategy is to harness the best science in the world,
whether from our own laboratories, or through strategic
relationships and collaborations with academia, biotech and
other pharmaceutical companies.
Our Global Organizations drive our research and development
efforts and commitment to innovation:
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Janssen Research & Development
Janssen Healthcare Innovation
Janssen Diagnostics
www.janssen-cilag.fi
Contact:
Petteri Järkkä
Head of Customer Engagement
+358 (0) 40 559 7956
[email protected]
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Enterprise
Kaufmann Agency
Kaufmann Agency is a healthcare
consultancy specialized in digital self-care
services.
We live and breathe at the center of the
North European healthcare ecosystem in
close cooperation with leading healthcare
service providers, businesses, government
officials, patient advocacy groups and
universities.
We are known for our patient-centered
approach to design and for the ability
to combine the interests of different
healthcare players with transparency and
the highest ethical standards.
Jani Ahonala
Managing Director /
Partner
[email protected]
+358 40 5837377
Petra Jäntti
Planning Director /
Partner
[email protected]
+358 40 7684759
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Enterprise
Kirontech
Big In, Simple Out
Kirontech is a machine learning technology company focused on healthcare
and drug discovery. Our mission is to unlock the insight hidden deep in the
deluge of genomic/proteomic data through the use of powerful machine
learning algorithms: “Big In, Simple Out”.
Our offer
Our flagship prediction and pattern discovery engine, Sherlock,
helps reduce drug discovery and development costs by:
• Reducing attrition rates through machine learning
powered prediction,
• Generation of credible leads for New Molecular Entities
and,
• Accurate side-effect prediction prior to clinical trials
Tarek Nassar
Founder
+358 44 251 2759
[email protected]
Using our proprietary technology, pharmaceutical companies,
contract research organizations and research institutions can
decrease the duration of the drug discovery phase by at least a
factor of two and decrease overall drug development costs by
as much as 15%. Our technology is generic: it requires virtually
no expert input outside the data to be analyzed. Our product
is a cloud-based user friendly API, available on application to
clients.
What we are looking for
We are currently looking for clients generally interested in
exploring the capabilities of Sherlock (particularly in the field
of interactomics and its applications to rational drug design)
and for investors with deep expertise and connections in the
pharmaceutical industry.
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Omar Chebli
Founder
+44 7787 1173 90
[email protected]
Enterprise
Medical Investment Trust Oy
Medical Investment Trust is a Finnish Investment Company specializing in
pharmaceutical and health care sector. Finnish Orion and Danish Novo Nordisk
are amongst our largest investments.
Contact:
Harry Brade
Chairman of the Board
Tel. +358 40 844 6704
[email protected]
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Enterprise
Medi-IT
Healthcare IT-Solutions
Medi-IT is founded in 2002 and we are one of the largest
ICT-solution providers of social and welfare sector in Finland.
We are a municipal corporation owned by the 8 healthcare
districts, with 25.000 professionals and population of 1,3
million people.
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Central Finland Healthcare District
Healthcare and Social Services District
of Kymenlaakso (Carea)
South Savo Healthcare District
East Savo Healthcare District
Southern Ostrobothnia Healthcare District
Tavastia Proper Healthcare District
Päijänne Tavastia Social- and Healthcare District
Our main Business focus is on the development and
maintenance of welfare ICT services. We produce highquality welfare services cost-effectively for professionals and
citizens. Medi-IT is today 143 people Specialist and Service
Organization, which strong expertise and agility to create
successful Customer experience.
Timo Koivu
CEO
Medi-IT Oy
+358 44 223 1514
[email protected]
Jani Kariniemi
Development manager
Medi-IT Oy
+358 44 223 1574
[email protected] We are searching for new high quality innovations,
solutions and partners.
More information: www.medi-it.fi
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Enterprise
MediSapiens
Founded in 2009, the company focuses on the fields of bioinformatics,
genetics, software development or graphics design.
The common problem in the area is how to store and make
sense out of data. The situation is especially challenging
in personalized medicine and cancer genetics – areas of
MediSapiens’ core expertise – where multiple currently noncomparable datasets, multiple platforms, study designs and
medical nomenclatures are used, making it impossible to
integrate the data produced by the global research community
and making conclusions on medical significance. Whether you
are a physician treating a cancer patient, or a researcher in the
industry trying to find a predictive biomarker for a new drug,
you are faced with the same problem: how can I conclude
anything from the present scattered evidence? Developing
means to answer these fundamental questions are the very
essence of MediSapiens.
Contact:
Sal Situ
347-320-5455
[email protected]
The company has been under the Vigo program of Tekes
(Lifeline) and was accepted to the NIY program of Tekes
etc. Medisapiens will receive 1 m€ over the next two years
from this program, aimed particularly for increasing sales
and marketing efforts and building a wider global customer
base. Medisapiens has been invited to participate in EU
projects along with eminent EU research institutes, providing
another strong public support for the company. Overall, one
can already state that Medisapiens has become a prominent
bioinformatics startup in the EU, and is perhaps the most
successful bioinformatics company in Finland, and the only
one that has been active in the genomics and personalized
medicine area.
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Enterprise
MediWare
Customer centric Maternity services
Finland is #1 place to be a mother (Save the Children’s report 2014). In Finland we have
highly developed process for maternity care and it covers every citizen. Already 1/3 of
pregnancies and childbirths are handled in our systems.
iPana-Maternity cloud-service for mothers-to-be bring the
worlds leading maternity care process to next decade. iPana
includes everything pregnant mother needs. Service includes,
collects from and gives to mother, all information used in
Finnish maternity care process. iPana maternity also gives to
mother a lot of information about pregnancy, a peer network
and highly developed ways to communicate electronically with
professionals. With our customer service mother becomes an
active participant in her treatment during pregnancy.
Our professional systems include also systems for midwifes,
childbirth hospital, delivery room, prenatal screening and CTGarchive. Everything is working seamlessly together including
machines as CTG- and ultrasound- devices.
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Mika Niemelä
CEO
[email protected]
+358 40 750 7676
www.mediware.fi
Enterprise
MetaWatch
Meta Watch is one of the pioneering developers of smart watches,
being based in Finland and Dallas. It introduced successfully it’s first
generation through Best Buy in the US, and will start to ship it’s second
generation premium designs in Sep 2013. We are transitioning into
an OEM business model currently offering design and manufacturing
services to known brands that want to enter into the wearable
business.
Juha Pinomaa
Chairman, Meta Watch
+358 40 500 0281
[email protected]
www.metawatch.org
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Enterprise
Nolla Antimicrobial
Nolla Antimicrobial Ltd. is a pharmaceuticals development company
with a proprietary antimicrobial technology based on silver polymer
The technology has endless applications in cosmetics, biocides,
pharmaceuticals and in industrial use. It can be used for
anything from deodorants for ultra-sensitive skin to biocides
like alcohol-free hand sanitizer foam, which reduces MRSA
and coronavirus (SARS, MERS) >99,99%. Nolla polymers are a
very narrow group of ionic polymers with high antimicrobial
activity. Nolla polymers act against many viruses, bacteria,
fungi and mold species.
We are looking for:
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Licensees for our proprietary Nolla technology
Collaborators who can assist in market entry to the US
Partners and resellers for selling our license to US and
global markets
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has several ongoing early-stage pharmaceutical product
development projects. The first public drug development
program is against Tinea Pedis (athlete's foot).
Technology licensing. Biocide and cosmetics businesses.
The Nolla license enables global production of over 40
products, several of which have already been market
tested. The Nolla product range grows steadily.
Industrial applications. Textile and fiber coatings having
>99.99% reduction of MSRA.
Jyri Nieminen, Ph. L.
Founder
jyri.nieminen@
nollaantimicrobial.com
+358401544225
+376677344
www.nollaantimicrobial.com
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Enterprise
Nordic Healthcare Group
NHG – designing future of healthcare
NHG is the leading healthcare management consulting and analytics company
in Nordic countries.
We are specialised in analysis, planning and development of
healthcare and social welfare service processes, quality and
structures. Our 60 experts are based in Finland and Sweden,
and we operate in Northern and Central Europe.
Our clients include hospitals, municipalities, diagnostic units,
private healthcare providers, venture capitalist, start-up
companies and pharma industry.
Examples of what we can offer to our clients:
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Process planning and management
Hospital planning
Market analysis
Operation theatre planning
Master planning
Productivity of health operations management
Go to –market planning
Benchmarking of different specialities
NHG is looking for new ideas, innovations,
partners and customers who want to have
access to European market.
Vesa Kämäräinen
CEO
+358 50 5459025
[email protected]
www.nhg.fi
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Enterprise
Pfizer
Good health is vital to all of us, and finding sustainable solutions to the most
pressing health care challenges of our world cannot wait. That’s why we at
Pfizer are committed to applying science and our global resources to improve
health and well-being at every stage of life.
We have a leading portfolio of products and innovative
medicines that support wellness and prevention, as well as
treatment and cures for a broad range of diseases. We also
have an industry-leading pipeline of promising new products
that have the potential to challenge some of the most feared
diseases of our time. Pfizer Research & Development focuses in
oncology, inflammation and immunology, cardiovascular and
metabolic diseases, vaccines, rare diseases, pain, Alzheimer’s
disease and schizophrenia.
Research & Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer’s
purpose as we work to translate advanced science and
technologies into the therapies that matter most. We
historically have invested more than 7 billion dollars annually
in research and development, and work with more than 250
partners in academia and industry.
For more than 150 years, Pfizer has
worked to make a difference. And yet,
we believe this is just the beginning.
Contact:
Teija Kotomäki
Head of Health and Value
& Corporate Affairs
+358 40 553 3994
teija.kotomaki@pfizer.
com
Focus on the future
Consistent with our responsibility as one of the world’s premier
innovative biopharmaceutical companies, we collaborate with
health care providers, governments and local communities.
Our goal is to ensure that people have access to safe, effective
and innovative treatments and affordable, quality health care.
From our point of view, Finland has all the assets and promising
opportunities – not only to further develop our own health
care – but also to find world-class new solutions and business
ideas to fulfill existing global needs. This certainly requires
innovative, courageous and open-minded attitude – and most
of all, dynamic co-operation.
Facts
GlobalFinland
Established:
18491959
Turnover:
52 billion dollars
125 million euros
Personnel:
77 000150
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Jaakko Parkkinen
Medical Director
+358 50 539 6806
[email protected]
Enterprise
Relaxbirth
Relaxbirth® is a unique, socially-oriented and prize-winning
innovation and method. Relaxbirth makes the birthing process
more flexible for all parties involved – the mother, baby,
professionals and hospital. It is a combination of the patented
Relaxbirth Birthing Support Device (and the associated
consumables) and its safe and effective use (Method) and
Training Services. Relaxbirth has benefited from the skills and
know-how of a wide cross-section of specialists from the
healthcare sector.
Feedback from mothers is extremely positive and confirms
the following benefits of the Relaxbirth:
• ease and fasten the delivery process, less exhaustion
• make the best of her own capacity and strength
• feel empowered and have a positive birthing experience
• reduce fears related to childbirth
Relaxbirth Ltd. targets into global markets. We have already
established ourselves in the European & Middle East market
and are taking first steps into the US.
We are looking for investors, pilot customers and distributors
capable of working with hospitals and clinics that are progressive
in their thinking and methods providing alternatives for their
customers.
Ms. Marianne Ehrnrooth, M.Sc.(Econ.), Chief
Business
Development Officer, has worked 15 years for international
companies (among others Sun Microsystems) and has
extensive experience in international business to business
operations, team leadership and sales & marketing.
Relaxbirth has received a lot of recognition, among others, the
Red Herring 2012 Top 100 Global Winner and the Red Herring
2012 Top 100 Europe Winner Awards, the winner prize of the
2012 HealthPort Innovation competition for innovative SMEs
in the Baltic Sea Health Region and the Best European Woman
Innovation and Invention for 2009-2010 prize awarded by
EUWIIN.
www.relaxbirth.com
Relaxbirth Oy
Innopoli 1,
Tekniikantie 12
FI - 02150 Espoo,
FINLAND
Marianne Ehrnrooth Chief Business
Development Officer
Marketing and Sales
+358 44 7150170
marianne.ehrnrooth@
relaxbirth.com
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Enterprise
RemoteA / SuperECG
10 % of all people suffer from heart
arrhythmias, which can cause stressful
symptoms such as feeling your heart
flutter or skip a beat. Arrhythmias can
even prove to be life-threatening.
SuperECG, a subsidiary of RemoteA, has
developed the HeartBug, a product that
anyone with an internet connection
can use to conveniently and privately
investigate their own heart.
www.remotea.com
www.superecg.com/en/
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The HeartBug is the world’s most easy to use long-term
ECG solution and it costs only a fraction of what long-term
ECG devices usually cost. With the HeartBug you can record
your own ECG for up to 24 hours at a time and anonymously
examine the functioning of your heart. You can also share your
reports with for example your doctor.
We are looking for investors and partners to join us
in our quest to make high quality heart monitoring
easy and accessible.
Tuomas Harju
Director,
Business Development
+358 45 131 5510
[email protected]
Enterprise
Sports Tracker
Sports Tracker turns your mobile into a social sports computer.
No matter whether you are an active hobbyist, weekend
warrior, casual mover or a semi-pro athlete,
Sports Tracker provides workout statistics, analytics, cheer
and encouragement that help you to track your progress and
keep you and your friends motivated. Optional accessories for
measuring heart rate and cycling details help you to get even
more out of your exercising. Seamless exercise photo sharing
from the coolest achievements helps to store the memories for
your own and other Sports Tracker’s joy and inspiration.
Millions of runners, cyclists, hikers and more are using Sports
Tracker world-wide to track their workouts and to feel better
through Sports Tracker’s extensive sharing and analysis
functionalities. Close to a billion kilometers tracked already –
and counting, faster than ever!
Jussi Kaasinen
CEO, Co-Founder
+358-50-523 4497
[email protected]
Skype: jussi.kaasinen
www.sports-tracker.com
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Enterprise
Taltioni
Your health account
Taltioni cooperative
Taltioni is a new Finnish national-level concept in the field
of healthcare and well-being. The concept is a cooperative
between public and private sectors and ICT service providers.
The cooperative parties independently provide complementary
services, which enable citizens to monitor their health and to
proactively improve it. The Taltioni ecosystem is built around a
single platform solution, and an extensive database, offering a
rapid and cost-efficient development of versatile services.
In Taltioni, health and well-being information can be shared
and combined across different service providers. It is a system
where everyone can save, collect, produce, use and share
information about their own health and well-being. The data is
accessible from various devices and user interfaces, regardless
of time and place. Privacy is Taltioni’s most important feature.
Ownership of the information remains with the individual who
decides who has access to the information and to what extent.
Taltioni provides citizens with a personal health account which
will be available to the user throughout their life. Taltioni offers
the opportunity to add appropriate services according to the
information provided by individuals, health care and welfare
services. Health account data is held safely and securely.
The non-profit Taltioni cooperative consists of 55 member
organizations.
Tuomas Teuri
CEO, Taltioni cooperative
+358 40 7549 507
[email protected]
Hiilikatu 3, 00180 Helsinki, Finland
www.taltioni.fi/en
www.facebook.com/Taltioni
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
Aalto University
Aalto Health Factory
Aalto University is a multidisciplinary scientific and arts
community, working in the fields of technology, business, and
art and design. The university is developing itself ambitiously
towards a position as a leading research university, providing
excellent education in its area and being actively engaged with
innovations and business life. Multidisciplinary collaboration
within the university and with key academic and business
partners is an emphasis. The goal is to become one of the
world’s top universities for new sustainable technology for
addressing pressing societal issues – such as healthcare. Aalto
strives to become a key location for future game changers to
reside in, whether faculty or students.
Aalto University’s solid expertise in its fields of activity creates
a foundation for both diverse scientific breakthroughs and
significant innovation. Aalto builds on its strengths and
develops profound competence in carefully selected areas
within these fields. The university’s activities are based on
ambitious research and artistic activities as well as on highquality teaching. It wants to enhance its expertise in all its
areas of specialization and eventually rank among the top
universities in the world.
www.aalto.fi
Aalto University was founded in 2010 when three leading
Finnish universities, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki
School of Economics, and the University of Art and Design
Helsinki were merged. It educates bachelors, masters, and
doctors in the fields of science and technology, business
and economics, arts, design, and architecture. The university
employs about 5000 people, 350 of whom are professors. It
has 20,000 students with 3500 doctoral students and 2300
foreign students.
Aalto Health Factory is an all-university institute that takes
together the healthcare-related departments of the university
and fosters and supports innovative business development,
including entrepreneurship as central focus area. The factory’s
mission is to improve opportunities for increasing people’s
quality of life by means of viable new business and technology
transfer, thereby creating opportunities for new knowledge
creation, business development, societal cost savings, and the
broader development of the university.
Markus Mäkelä
Aalto Health Factory
+358 94 7001
[email protected]
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
Auria Biobank
an innovation platform
For nearly a hundred years, public health care in Finland has collected millions
of human tissue samples that can be linked to data from the hospital’s patient
records or the government’s population register system. This combination of
samples and data creates a unique national asset for Finland that should be
utilized.
Auria Biobank is the first hospital-integrated biobank established
in Finland by University of Turku and the hospital districts of
Southwest Finland, Satakunta and Vaasa and accredited under
Finnish biobank legistlation on 2013. It represents a globally
unique concept, in which population-based diagnostic tissue
samples will be connected with clinically relevant information
including treatment modalities and follow up, with a focus
on providing a research and innovation platform for both
academic investigators and pharma/biotech companies.
Currently, Auria Biobank holds over 800 000 human samples with
information from hospital and certain national health registries
in a decoded fashion to protect the identity of the sample
donors. The unique aspect of Auria is the implementation of
the so-called “capture all-comers” approach, an ambitious and
innovative plan to collect an extra biobank specimen at each
incident patient visit. The number of annual patient visits in
the catchment area being approximately 300,000, the biobank
is expected to grow rapidly. Sample collections on repeat visits
will be ascertained on a discretionary basis.
Our offering and interests
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The aim is to cover the operations of the biobank
through its own profits, such as usage fees and publicprivate partnerships. In such a case, private partners will
include e.g. representatives from the biotechnology and
pharmaceutical industry that can develop new medical
innovations with collaboration of Auria Biobank.
Biobanks create common benefits for Finnish social,
health and innovation policy. Samples storage in the Auria
Biobank will be used for the development of products
and services that promote public as well as personalized
health.
In Auria Biobank, the interests of the researcher, the
research subject and society are equal. In addition to
the creation of new business, Finnish well-being is
based on the development of new innovations and their
implementation.
Contact:
Director Heli Salminen, Adjunct Professor, [email protected]
Pirkko Kortekangas, CMIO, MD, [email protected]
Hospital District of Southwest Finland
www.auriabiopankki.fi/en
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
Business Oulu
BusinessOulu aims at creating a business climate that supports
entrepreneurship and boosts the creation, operation, growth and
competitiveness of businesses.
BusinessOulu promotes the internationalization of local companies and
handles the international business marketing of Oulu.
One main focus of BusinessOulu is LifeScience (bio, health and welfare).
Tuula Palmén
Key Account Director (LifeScience), Ph.D
Yrttipellontie 6
PB 22, FI-00015 City of Oulu, Finland
[email protected]
+358 50 461 7290
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
Central Finland Central Hospital
Contact
Mauno Vanhala
Professor/UEF and Senior Physician/Unit of Family Practice
Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyväskylä
[email protected]
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City of Espoo
The Powerhouse of Finland’s Innovation Economy
City of Espoo is the second largest city in Finland.
The city provides health care for 260 000 inhabitants
and wants to stay at the forefront of health care.
Contact
Eetu Salunen
Director of Health services
+358505446535
[email protected]
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
City of Tampere
Tampere is the third largest city in Finland and the largest
inland city in the Nordic countries. Currently there are
around 223 000 inhabitants in Tampere, and close to half
a million inhabitants in Tampere Region. Tampere is one of
the three most rapidly developing regions in Finland. It is
a centre of leading-edge technology, research, education,
culture, sports and business.
The City of Tampere is a forerunner in reforming municipal
management models in Finland with a unique governance
model. The present management model of Tampere separates
the service purchasers from the providers. The services are
produced by using a multiple-provider model. This means
that external companies and communities provide services
alongside the city’s own service provision.
The vision of the Tampere city strategy extending to 2025
is “Tampere, Working Together for a Bright Future”. The
city strategy’s main priorities are creation, growth and
internationalization of businesses, efficient use of ICT and
courage to make innovative reforms as well as balancing the
finances by carrying out structural changes.
The city is developing innovative procurement processes
especially in social and health care services including outcomebased procurement models. The residents are also crucial codesign and co-production partners for service innovations.
www.tampere.fi
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Kari Hakari
Executive director, PhD
+358 50 590 2197
[email protected]
O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
EIT ICT Labs
EIT ICT Labs’ mission is to drive European leadership in ICT
innovation for economic growth and quality of life.
One of the eight Innovation Areas of EIT ICT Labs is Health
& Wellbeing: It aims to create and support innovations that
sustain a healthy lifestyle in Ambient Assisted Living and Active
Healthy Ageing. Focusing on ICT based primary prevention and
‘Quantified-Self ’ solutions.
Health & Wellbeing Business Community is part of the
Innovation Area and it aims to grow European Health &
Wellbeing ICT SMEs internationally through new business
contacts, knowledge sharing and co-creation.
Contact:
Outi Toijala
International Business Development, ICT Accelerator
Leader, European Health & Wellbeing Business Community
European Institute of Innovation and Technology
+358 50 4000 846
[email protected]
[email protected]
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
Hospital District of Helsinki
and Uusimaa
Contact:
Visa Honkanen
Development Director
Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa
[email protected]
+358 50 427 5023
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Invest in Finland
Invest in Finland is the government agency that
promotes foreign investments into Finland.
Invest In Finland provides a full set of professional consulting
services – hands-on investment services that are always
tailored according to your specific needs. The services cover
every stage of setting up a business in Finland, ranging from
initial data collection and opportunity analysis to networking
and the actual business launch.
Invest In Finland has investigated Finnish health care and
life sciences sectors from foreign investor´s perspective and
recognized that the most prominent area for foreign investors
is eHealth supporting living at home. Forerunner areas in
Finland are mHealth and –wellness, Wireless vital sign and
health monitoring and Data mining.
Visa Järvinen
Senior Director,
Business Development
+358 50 486 7754
visa.jarvinen@
investinfinland.fi
www.investinfinland.fi
Invest in Finland, Finpro ry
Porkkalankatu 1,
FI-00180 Helsinki, Finland
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
Laurea Living Laboratory
together with the CIDe cluster (Care Innovation and
Design Companies) for better eHealth solutions
Laurea is a research- and development-oriented University of
Applied Sciences that focuses on service innovations, which
produces high-quality professional competence and better
business opportunities for companies. Laurea’s focus areas
of Service Business, Expertise in nursing and coping at home
and Security and Social responsibility provide a platform
for research, co-designing, testing, assessing, modelling,
implementing, commercialising and distributing various
service innovations. The design and development of services
is a shared RDI process between companies, the public sector
and Laurea, in which research, development, innovation and
commercialisation are implemented as a reflective continuum.
Laurea has a long history of multidisciplinary user-driven
approach to regional development and RDI activities in parallel
to the practice-based, award winning Learning by Developing
(LbD) model (integrating students in real-life projects with
the companies and SMEs in the region). Laurea efficiently
involves different actors in the region (students, innovative
start-ups and businesses, end-users, public authorities and
organizations, regional policymakers and HEIs) to co-design
business relevant services and social innovations within its
focus areas.
Tuija Hirvikoski, PhD
Director
+358 400 940 804
www.laurea.fi/en/Research
twitter @Laurea_RDI
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In terms of end-user communities, Laurea is involved
in establishing several physical and virtual test-bed,
simulation and living lab environments for private
and public actors for product and service development
purposes (for example the Smart Hospital environment in
Helsinki or Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Centre in Japan)
We search for world-wide co-operation with companies,
policymakers and universities that have a similar aims in
their regions
We search for new business opportunities for Care
Innovation and Design companies
www.laurea.fi/en/Research/
O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
Ministry of Employment
and the Economy
The Ministry of Employment and the Economy (MEE) is responsible
for the operating environment underpinning entrepreneurship and
innovation activities, securing the functioning of the labour market
and workers’ employability, as well as for regional development.
The sphere of authority of the Ministry of
Employment and the Economy includes:
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industrial policy;
energy policy and integration of the national preparation
and implementation of climate policy;
innovation and technology policy, internationalization of
enterprises and technical safety;
employment, unemployment and public employment
service, working environment issues, collective agreements
and arbitration of labour disputes;
development of regions;
functionality of markets, promotion of competition and
consumer policy
Contact:
Dr. Petri Lehto
Head of Division, Ph.D
Ministry of Employment and the Economy
Enterprise and Innovation Department Innovation Policy
+358 50 387 8068
[email protected]
P.O. Box 32
00023 Government
Finland
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
Ministry of Social Affairs
and Health
The purpose of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is to ensure
that everyone has equal opportunity to lead a healthy and safe life.
The duties of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health are
• to promote the health and functional capacity of the
population,
• to promote healthy workplace and living environments,
• to ensure sufficient social welfare and health care services,
• to safeguard a reasonable income at various stages in life,
and
• to promote gender equality.
Contact:
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health manages the
preparation and implementation of Finland’s social welfare
and health care policy, gender equality policy and occupational
safety and health policy. As part of the government, the
Ministry puts the Government Programme into practice,
determines development guidelines, drafts legislation and key
reforms and guides their implementation.
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
P.O. Box 33, FIN-00023 Government
Finland
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has a broad mandate.
It supervises several independent agencies and institutions
which implement the social welfare and health care policy
goals laid out by the Ministry and participate in Government
Programme projects.
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Päivi Salo
Ministerial Counsellor, Legal Affairs
+358 50 364 7597
[email protected]
www.stm.fi
O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
National Institute for Health
and Welfare (THL)
THL is an expert agency in Finland
The National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) is a research and expert
institute. We influence work that promotes the health and welfare of people in
Finland by providing extensive and high-level expert knowledge for use in the
field and in decision-making in the health and welfare sectors.
Guides the implementation of the patient
data services
The National Institute for Health and Welfare supports the
national reform of the electronic patient data system in social
welfare and health care. Development work of hospital districts,
health centres, private health service providers as well as of
pharmacies and social services are steered towards changes
that enable successful implementation of the National Archive
of Health Information (Kanta) as well as a reform of the social
welfare information systems.
The Kanta Services include the electronic prescription, the
Patient Data Repository, My Kanta (for viewing one’s own
information) and the Data Management Service (a part of
the Patient Data Repository; allows citizens to control access
to their personal information and communicate wishes about
their medical treatment and gives health care professionals
access to key information about patients).
www.thl.fi/english
The Unit for the Operational Management of Health and Welfare
Information is responsible for planning and coordinating the
use and implementation of electronic prescriptions and the
national information system services referred to in the Act.
“We ensure that information about customers’ health
and welfare is available when it is needed”.
In The National Institute for Health and Welfare International
co-operation is an important and statutory part of THL’s
activities. We have close international contacts in regard to
development projects, health promotion project, expert and
scientific collaboration, as well as monitoring and surveillance.
Dr. Vesa Jormanainen
Head of Unit
Unit for the Operational Management
of Health and Welfare Information
The National Institute for
Health and Welfare (THL)
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
SOSTE Finnish Society for
Social and Health
SOSTE, the Finnish Federation for Social Affairs and Health is a
national umbrella organisation that gathers together nearly 200
social and health NGO’s and dozens of other partner members.
SOSTE, and its member organisations, is a courageous opinionleader and specialist whose goal is to improve the wellbeing
of people. In cooperation with our members and different
operators, SOSTE builds the preconditions for social wellbeing
and health, the participation opportunities of people, as well
as a fair and responsible society. Only a socially sound, healthy
and genuinely participatory society can create sustainable
success in Finland and abroad.
Investments in wellbeing and health are long-term joint
decisions, and NGO’s must have a strong role in implementing
them. SOSTE’s goal is to increase the impact of social and
healthcare organisations in society and achieve a situation
where the implementation of the preconditions for a good life
are realised for all. SOSTE operates at the regional, national
and international levels.
www.soste.fi
Vertti Kiukas
Secretary General
+358 40 592 4287
[email protected]
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Filling the purpose SOSTE
• influences social and health policy and other relevant
sectors of societal policy;
• strengthens the operating conditions for its member
organisations and for civic action in the social and health
sectors;
• develops the cooperation between social and health
organisations and their cooperation with other parties;
• conducts research and offers information to support its
efforts to influence opinion.
• communicates and publishes;
• develops organisations’ activities and the social and
health sector;
• offers its members training, consulting, evaluations and
other auxiliary services;
O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
EPTEK
South Ostrobothnia Health Technology Development Centre, EPTEK, is a regional
development organisation specialized in project management, health technology
consultations, education and technical support. EPTEK works on a non-profit basis
and is owned by 7 companies and public organisations.
EPTEK’s key areas are assistive living technologies and
videoconferencing solutions. We facilitate the processes and
communication between health technology companies and
health/social care sector. Additionally, EPTEK provides technical
expertise on assistive living technologies to hospitals, home
care facilities and individual customers. We have a long
experience on developing new solutions and approached
through development projects on both national and European
level.
Sami Perälä
Executive Director
EPTEK
+358 44 332 2270
[email protected]
We’re interested in:
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Health technology
Home Care solutions
Self Care solutions
www.eptek.fi
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
The Finnish Medical Association
The Finnish Medical Association (FMA) is a professional organization
of which almost all doctors practising in Finland are members. The
Association represents members’ common professional, social and
economic interests.
The Association also works in numerous ways to develop
health care and advance medical expertise, on the basis of the
professional knowledge of its entire membership.
The Association is active in relation to ethical issues and
safeguarding of the interests of doctors and patients, in Finland
and internationally. FMA was established in 1910.
Lauri Vuorenkoski, M.D., D.Med.Sci.
Health Policy Adviser
Finnish Medical Association
P.O. box 49
FIN-00501 Helsinki
+358-44-5630556
[email protected]
www.laakariliitto.fi
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The Social Insurance
Institution of Finland
Kela, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, operates under the supervision of
Parliament. Kela has a nationwide customer service network to carry out its mission.
It decides more than 4 million claims for benefit every year.
Kela, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, operates
under the supervision of Parliament. Kela has a nationwide
customer service network to carry out its mission. It decides
more than 4 million claims for benefit every year. Over 16
million customer contacts are made each year – online, by
phone, and face-to-face at local offices. For medical expenses
there is a direct-reimbursement option which allows clients
to be compensated at the pharmacy or private medical centre
without first having to file a claim. Kela employs a staff of
approximately 6100 employees.
Kela looks after basic security for all persons resident in Finland
or covered by Finnish social security through the different
stages of their lives. The schemes administered by Kela cover
such areas of social security as family benefits, health insurance,
rehabilitation, basic unemployment security, housing benefits,
financial aid for students and basic pensions. In addition,
Kela provides disability benefits, conscripts' allowances and
assistance for immigrants. In relation to health insurance Kela
provides reimbursements for the cost of medical treatment
and pays sickness allowances on account of loss of earnings.
Kela is also responsible for providing the National Archive of
Health Information (Kanta) services. Kanta is a collective term
used for a range of national health care information systems
including electronic prescription , Patient Data Repository, The
Pharmaceutical Database , and a portal for citizens to access
their own health information online (My Kanta pages). The
services are intended for health care providers, pharmacies
and citizens throughout Finland and they will be opened in
stages.
Liisa Hyssälä
Director General
The Social Insurance Institution
of Finland (Kela)
+3582064311
[email protected]
Professional background:
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Director General of the Social Insurance Institution of
Finland (2010=>)
Minister of Social Affairs and Health (2007 – 2010)
Minister of Labour (2007)
Minister of Health and Social Services, (2003 – 2007)
Member of Parliament (1995 – 2010)
Before her political carrier she was a lecturer and
researcher in public health and dentistry.
Doctor of Dental Science and Master of Social
Sciences
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
Turku Science Park
Turku Science Park Ltd is a regional development company
and promotes the utilization of university-based expertise
and competitiveness of enterprises as well as generating
new business in the fields of biotechnology (BioTurku® Life Science and materials technology) and information and
communication technology (ICT Turku). The mission of Turku
Science Park Ltd as the business policy company of the City of
Turku is linked to the well-being of enterprises. Developing
of research-oriented and expertise-intensive business is the
engine of success for the Turku economic region.
For the biotech actors BioTurku® cluster is the leading biocluster in Finland including about 90 biotechnology companies,
3 universities and several educational and research institutes.
The focus areas of BioTurku are cancer and hormonal diseases,
inflammatory and infectious diseases, diseases of the CNS and
diagnostics and imaging. Also nanotechnology and material
science and technology within bioscience are areas of expertise.
Invest In Southern Finland (IISF) initiative focuses on Connected
Health and Personalized medicine solutions and attracts and
supports international companies to establish presence in
Finland and start collaboration with Finnish partners. The
initiative is a joint collaboration of Turku Science Park Ltd and
Helsinki Business Hub.
Tero Piispanen
Director
International Business Services
+358 400 781683
[email protected]
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www.turkusciencepark.com
Tero Karhi
Project Manager
International Business Services
+358 40 5361344
[email protected]
O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
University of Jyväskylä,
Agora Center, Health and Wellbeing
The Agora Center is a high-standard, interdisciplinary special research institute within
the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Its passion lies with leveraging human technology to
create value for individuals, organizations, business, and society at large. Care & Wellbeing,
IT-driven Service Solutions, and Innovation Management are three of Agora Center’s core
focus areas.
The approach lies on promoting effective health & wellbeing
management to improve people's quality of life by marrying
the potential of emerging technologies with innovative service
concepts through a multi-partner approach across disciplines,
end-users, service providers, and other stakeholders. With
methods such as scientific computing and data analysis, we
enrich our long-standing expertise in information technology
and human behavior, to creating novel products and service
solutions that can translate state-of-the-art human motion
analysis into effective end-user health services.
During the past twelve years we have participated in numerous
health care and wellbeing R&D collaborations with public
and private organizations and the end-users. One of our
latest project is 3D-4C, in which cost-efficient service models
for human 3D-motion analysis are developed towards endcustomer commercialization.
3D-4C -project
We are looking for
• commercial partners
• collaborators
Sami Äyrämö, PhD
Research group leader [email protected]
+358 50 3255685
3D-4C (3D Motion Analysis For Customers) is an ongoing
commercialization project, funded by TEKES - The Finnish
Funding Agency for Innovation. The project aims at investigating
and preparing the possible commercialization of a new
biomechanical running analysis service based on a 3D-motion
analysis method. The employed method goes beyond the
limited analysis of movements of the runner, as it also utilizes
joint loading data. In order to reach the overall project goal,
a prototype model of the customer service process, including
market needs and demands, as well as software components
for generating customer feedback reports will be developed.
The method can be applied for the analysis of running
biomechanics in sports coaching, coach education, running
shoe business, clinical services etc.
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
U.S. Commercial Service
The U.S. Commercial Service is the trade promotion arm of the U.S. Department
of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. U.S. Commercial Service
trade professionals in over 100 U.S. cities and in more than 75 countries help
U.S. companies get started in exporting or increase sales to new global markets.
Katie Janhunen
Commercial Specialist, US Commercial Service,
Helsinki Finland
+358 40 652 6227
[email protected]
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O t h e r O r g a n i z at i o n s
VTT Technical Research
Centre of Finland
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a globally networked
multitechnological applied research organization. VTT provides
high-end technology solutions and innovation services.
We enhance our customers’ competitiveness, thereby
creating prerequisites for society’s sustainable development,
employment, and wellbeing.
www.vtt.fi
We have deep domain knowledge in areas such as:
• mobile health
• wearable technology
• sensor technologies
• diagnostics
• communications
• printed electronics.
Dr Eero Punkka
Head of Research Area
+358 50 369 9540
[email protected]
Kari Kohtamäki
Key Account Manager
+358 40 512 7611
[email protected]
Dr. Tomi Räty
Principal Scientist in Intelligent Data
+358 40 520 7639, +1 510 229 2452
[email protected]
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Organizers
AmCham Finland
Who we are
The Nordic region’s key international business hub working to
promote the interests of its 300+ members by developing the
business, and networking, environment.
Ranging from small startups to global corporations the
membership includes Finnish companies and foreign-owned
subsidiaries from more than 20 countries.
Amcham Finland is non-profit, and non-governmental.
Overseen by a Board of Directors its mission is to facilitate
connections, shape public policy, deliver critical business
information to members and provide them with a magnified
voice.
“Creates benefits for all involved,”
Oliver Rittgen, Managing Director, Bayer
“Our team on the ground in Finland. It’s easy and
efficient to get connections and follow policy
developments,”
Thomas Myrup Kristensen,
Head of Policy in the Nordics, Facebook
“Amcham has arranged an excellent forum for us to
make our company more familiar and visible
among member companies, business executives,
investors, and policy makers,”
What we do
Pasi Hurri, President and C.E.O, BaseN
Amcham Finland’s business agenda is supported by its flagship
programs, including ROI Finland and the New North Forum.
It facilitates business growth by engaging its members, key
decision makers and the media.
“Amcham provides us with a valuable venue for
connecting with a range of regional stakeholders,”
What our members say
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97 % recommend the membership to others
85 % say Amcham Finland gives them a great competitive
advantage
Robin Lybeck, Country Manager, Coca-Cola Finland
“I see Amcham as a unique enabler. the support
and access it provides for growth companies is a key
element for success,”
Risto Siilasmaa, Founder and Chairman, F-Secure
Mike Klyszeiko
Director, Transatlantic
Business Development
+358 45 140 4911
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www.amcham.fi
Organizers
CONSULATE GENERAL OF FINLAND
LOS ANGELES
Consulate General
of Finland in Los Angeles
The primary goal of Consulate General of Finland in Los Angeles is to find links between
the two world-class high tech communities, the Finnish and the American, and promote
partnerships and alliances between Finnish and US companies, organizations, universities
and research institutions. To implement this program we organize events and seminars,
conduct research projects and engage in extensive networking especially within the LA
tech entertainment, cleantech and health community. Promoting Finnish culture in all its
different forms is another major function of the Consulate.
The Consulate General in Los Angeles represents Finland
in thirteen Western US states, where we provide consular
services and information on Finland. The Consulate’s activities
are conducted by our small but capable and energetic staff.
Concerning trade and technology, the experts located in Palo
Alto at the Finpro North America, Finland Trade Center (Finpro)
and at the office of Finnish Funding Agency for Technology
and Innovation (TEKES) are also at your service.
Contact:
Juha Markkanen
Consul General
+1 (424) 465 5151
[email protected]
On our pages you will find information on Finland and high
technology, facts about Finland in general and information on
consular matters. The events calendar is an important source
of information for visitors as well as for us who live on the
West Coast.
www.finland.org
Jussi Salonen
Team Finland Coordinator
+1 (424) 298 0498
[email protected]
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Organizers
Consulate General
of Finland in New York
United States is the world’s largest economy and home to almost half of the world’s
innovations. New York is not only the financial capital of the world but an international
center of business, media and culture. Working with strong local partners, the Consulate
General of Finland supports Finnish companies in the US, participates in efforts to
attract investments to Finland and promotes Finnish culture and creative industries. We
cooperate with a range of companies from startups to traditional industrial corporations.
The consulate General of Finland in New York builds bridges
between Finnish and American individuals and organizations,
whether this means state or city level political decision-makers,
representatives of the business world, academia and research
organizations or cultural institutions. To promote technology
and other startup companies, we have created a series of
events providing a platform for Finnish growth companies to
connect with local VC funds, potential branding partners, and
media.
The jurisdiction of Consulate General of Finland in New York
includes 35 states on the U.S. East Coast, Midwest, and South
as well as two special administrative regions (Puerto Rico and
U.S. Virgin Islands). The size of this area equals that of the
European Union. Within that region, we work to strengthen
Finnish-US relations in close cooperation with our Team
Finland partners in the US. A network of 20 Honorary Consuls
provides an important support for the Consulate General’s
work.
In its jurisdiction, Consulate General oversees the interests of
Finland and its’ citizens. One of our primary duties is to provide
consular services to Finnish citizens according to Consular
Service Act. We also serve foreign citizens traveling to Finland,
granting several hundred visas each year. Overall, we serve
more than 6000 customers annually making us one of the
largest Finnish missions abroad in this sector.
Contact:
Jukka Pietikäinen
Consul General, Ambassador
+1 (212) 821 0201
[email protected]
Silve Parviainen
Commercial Attaché
+1 (212) 821 0204
silve.parviainen @formin.fi
www.finland.org
https://www.facebook.com/ConsulateGeneralFinlandNewYork?ref=hl
http://twitter.com/FinlandNY
http://instagram.com/finlandnewyork
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Organizers
Helsinki Business Hub
Helsinki Business Hub is the investment promotion agency
for the Greater Helsinki. We identify business opportunities
for international companies and help them thrive in the
heart of business in Finland, Russia and the Baltics. We help
international companies to connect and collaborate with
Finnish companies and organizations.
Kimmo Koponen
Senior Business Advisor
Indrek Vainu
Business Advisor
Juho Pirinen
Project manager
+358 44 757 2244
+358 44 746 3902
+358 50 585 7782
kimmo.koponen@
helsinkibusinesshub.fi
indrek.vainu@
helsinkibusinesshub.fi
juho.pirinen@
helsinkibusinesshub.fi
www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi
Twitter: @greaterhelsinki
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Organizers
Sitra
the Finnish Innovation Fund
The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra is a future-oriented organisation that promotes
Finland’s competitiveness and the well-being of the Finnish people. We anticipate societal
change, try out new operating models and accelerate business activities aimed at creating
sustainable well-being.
Sitra was founded as an organisation of the Bank of
Finland in 1967 to honour the 50th anniversary of Finland’s
independence. The fund was commissioned with the task
of promoting Finland’s stable and balanced development,
economic growth and international competitiveness and
cooperation. Sitra’s tasks are defined by law. In 1991, Sitra was
transformed into an independent fund that reports directly to
the Finnish Parliament. Sitra’s operations are funded from the
returns of endowment capital and capital investments.
Sitra’s operations are guided by a vision of Finland as a leader
in sustainable well-being. Sitra takes the view that well-being
is sustainable when it is shared by people, the environment
and the economy. Sitra’s strategy includes developing new
Antti Kivelä
Director
[email protected]
+358 40 482 7435
Eveliina Huurre
Senior Lead, Financing of
Social and Healthcare
[email protected]
+358 50 366 3573
Lea Konttinen
Senior Lead, Financing
of Social and Healthcare
[email protected]
+358 40 546 6428
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ideas of what the good life is, finding operational models that
build a new kind of society, and boosting sustainable business
operations.
Sitra identifies the need for social change and enable that
change. Sitra predicts, analyses and assesses the forces of
social change and their impacts on Finland. As an independent
operator, Sitra has the opportunity to react quickly to major
issues concerning Finnish society and accelerate changes that
promote well-being. Sitra carries out practical experiments,
compiles cross-boundary networks and develops and finances
business operations.
Antti Larsio
Senior Advisor
[email protected]
+358 50 383 4888
Mirja Gröhn
Senior Lead, Events
and Customer Relations
[email protected]
+358 50 351 3021
Tuula Tiihonen
Senior Lead, e-health
and genomics
[email protected]
+358 40 160 9070
Madis Tiik
Senior Advisor
[email protected]
+358 50 576 6200
www.sitra.fi/en/self-care
Organizers
Tekes
– the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation
Tekes is the most important publicly funded expert organisation for financing research,
development and innovation in Finland. We boost wide-ranging innovation activities
in research communities, industry and service sectors. According to an international
evaluation, Tekes is one of the world´s leading innovation funders.
Tekes works with the top innovative companies and research
units in Finland. Every year, Tekes finances some 1,500
business research and development projects, and almost 600
public research projects at universities, research institutes and
universities of applied sciences. Research, development and
innovation funding is targeted to projects that create in the
long-term the greatest benefits for the economy and society.
Tekes operates directly under the Ministry of Employment and
Economy and get its funding from the Finnish Government.
Tekes annual budget is approx. 711 million USD . Tekes
has offices in Helsinki (headquarters) and in 7 cities abroad:
Washington DC, Palo Alto, Brussels, Moscow, Saint Petersburg,
Beijing and Shanghai.
Minna Hendolin
Executive Director, Strategic
Programmes, Vitality of People
+358 50 557 7665
[email protected]
Pekka Kahri
Director, Large companies
and public organisations
+358 50 557 7684
[email protected]
Kari Ruutu
Senior Adviser
+358 50 557 7733
[email protected]
Harri Ojansuu
Senior Technology Adviser
+358 40 837 4322
[email protected]
Petteri Jääskeläinen
Senior Technology Adviser
+358 50 438 3192
[email protected]
Pia Mörk
Communications
Manager
+358 50 557 7713
[email protected]
Tiina Tanninen-Ahonen
Head of Office, Palo Alto, USA
+ 1 408 893 8237
[email protected]
Hanna Artman
Manager, Innovation
Cooperation, Palo Alto, USA
+1 408 464 2988
[email protected]
Hanna Vartia
Project Coordinator
+358 50 5577 435
[email protected]
www.tekes.fi/en
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