PROGRAM OF THE DAY

14:00 Experience begins - Be one of the first ones to see our amazing venue
14:00-18:00 Dash Forest - Come and find out what it's all about
14:00-17:40 Executive Area - Next-level networking
14:00-17:30 Meeting Area - Headhunters, company and startup representatives, you
14:20-17:30 Keynote Stage - Over 20 speakers sharing their thoughts
14:20-17:40 Workshops - Concrete skills, learn from the best
18:00-20:00 Stage Show - Be prepared for the show of the year
21:30-04:00 Afterparty - Venue of the party will be published later, you will be surprised...

WORKSHOPS

In FallUp, we aim to give each student something concrete about success. You will be able to develop your skills in hands-on workshops held by industry leading companies and experts. This is your chance to learn from the best!

INFORMATION & REGISTRATION

DEMO BOOTHS

Demo booth area is built for meeting new people and getting connected with them. The area will be filled with industry leading companies and innovative startups who are eager to share their thoughts and experiences with students.

STARTUP PATH

MEETING AREA

Are you looking for concrete advice on how to succeed or contacts to help you take your next step? In addition to our Demo Booths, we have a meeting area for you to get to know the right people. You even have a chance to book one-on-one meetings via Deal Room application!

DEAL ROOM

STAGE SHOW

The event day culminates in the stage show where inspiring entrepreneurs and influencers take over the stage. They want to share their stories behind the success and give some concrete advice on how to find one's way to succeed.

2018 SPEAKERS

AFTERPARTY

FallUp Afterparty is said to be one of the best ones. We truly know how to throw a party that you will never forget. Our pre-event MashUp was held in the hidden tunnels under Maria hospital. So what you can expect from our Afterparty, is an unforeseen experience.

WORKSHOPS

#1 FIRST STEPS TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR

By Cherryontop ventures

"Last year we’ve met 100 startup cases and entrepreneurs as sweat equity and angel investors and now we want to share this knowledge with you. In this workshop we want to offer fresh angles for future entrepreneurs. We’ll talk about different ways to be an entrepreneur, workshop around your ideas and share our 13 takeaways from early stage startups. We feel that as an entrepreneur you develop ideas, and ideas develop you back, which makes this work so interesting. Come and join us, bring your new product or service ideas, and let’s develop all together for a fun 1.5 hours!"
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- Tiina Zilliacus, Founder of CherryOnTop Ventures
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Note: To participate this workshop you don't have to know anything about entrepreneurship, but having an idea of your own is recommended. If you have already started planning something, that is fine too!

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#2 MESSENGER MARKETING. DRIVING SALES WITH MESSENGER BOTS

By REBOUND MOBILE

"Many companies struggle with sales because they still use outdated, competitive, and low-reputable practices. Whereas there are multitude of new techniques and tools, that can automate either the whole sales cycle or a huge part of it. In this workshop we will take a look at the newest and by far one of the most effective tools emerged recently - Messenger Marketing. You will learn how not only to use your favourite Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Telegram as a tool for your business growth, but also what strategies to implement to get the highest ROI while making customers your business advocates."

- Timur Kulbaev, Managing Director of Rebound Mobile

Note: You may want to take laptops with you to the workshop

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#3 VALIDATION GROWTH HACKING

By #DIGIROCKSTARS

Validation Growth Hacking - 25 ways to find early customers. Learn to use different channels to find early adopters whilst testing your growth engines. We will cover simple and more complicated actions you can use to get your first paying customers or users.

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#4 HOW TO SUCCEED IN B2B SALES

By VAINU

Vainu will share with you the secrets of how to succeed in sales and find the right customers.

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#5 SPEAKUP-LEARN THE SECRETS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING

BY STUDENT TALKS

Learn the ways of public speaking, by building up your confidence and setting up the grounds for your inner speaker, through a fun and practical session.

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#6 PSYKOMETRINEN ANALYYSI TIIMINRAKENNUKSESSA JA OMIEN VAHVUUKSIEN TUNNISTAMISESSA

BY STUDENTWORK

Workshopissa keskitytään tiiminmuodostukseen ja oman työminän kehittämisen työkaluun, joka perustuu psykometriseen arviointiin. Osallistujat saavat sähköpostiin lisätietoa ennen workshoppia tapahtuvasta ennakkoarvioinnista.

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#7 CV-WORKSHOP FOR APPLYING TO STARTUP

By STARTUPLIFERS

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#8 Agile methodologies and how to scale those into a large organization

By ACCENTURE

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KEYNOTE STAGE

14:15 Nasim Selmani Chief Inclusion Officer at Slush
14:22 Anton Backman CEO at Wave ventures
14:28 Jessica Blechinberg Country Manager at Hub
14:34 Joni Pakarinen Startuplifers Director
14:40 Tomi Kaukinen Serial Entrepreneur
14:45 Toni Koutu Founder of Anaxeos
14:52 Jan-Patrick Haikkola Investment analyst at Tesi
14:58 Tomi Grönfors CEO & Co-Founder at Sniffie
15:04 Kalle Salmi CEO & Founder at Kodit.io
15:10 Emmi Jouslehto CEO & Co-Founder & Arilyn
15:16 Zsuzsa Megyery Spacecraft Engineering Projects Manager at Iceye
15:22 Konsta Leskelä Co-Founder at Saavu
15:28 Kimmo Kaitala CEO & Co-Founder at 360Visualizer
15:40 Mikael Thuneberg CEO & Founder at Supermetrics
15:46 Markus Merilä R&D Engineer at Teraloop
15:52 Studentwork Heini Kuusisto Event Coordinator
16:00 Bruce Oreck TalktheTalk workshop
16:43 Mike Bradshaw Otaniemi impact
16:50 Henrik Husman President of Nasdaq
17:00 Matti Copeland EY Moonshot challenge
17:21 Jere Vento COO & Head of Marketing at Signhero

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THIS YEAR'S SPEAKERS

PETER VESTERBACKA

BRAND-BREAKER & CO-FOUNDER, LIGHTNEER

Best known as the Mighty Eagle of Rovio, Peter Vesterbacka has been listed among the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. After having worked on Angry Birds for multiple years, Vesterbacka left Rovio in 2016 for the role of Brand Breaker at Lightneer, which he co-founded in 2015. Thanks to his many business ventures at SLUSH, MobileMonday and Lightneer among many others, Vesterbacka is regarded by many as the father of the Nordic start-up revolution. This trailblazer is the one you do not want to miss. In his own words: "Nothing can stop us from being the best in the world, if we only want it".

MERVI PÄNKÄLÄINEN

FOUNDER AND CEO, MIGHTIFIER

After graduating from the Helsinki School of Economics in 1997 with a Master's in organisation and management, Mervi Pänkäläinen went on to found Mightifier in 2015. Mightifier is a positive education application and method to help students master their social and emotional skills. She created Mightifier alongside Finnish students and teachers. The app has been certified by EdTech and has won numerous prizes such as first place at SLUSH Japan 2016. Today Pänkäläinen works as the CEO of Mightifier and is known for her innovative approach, positive interaction and encouraging personality. Look out for her sparkling dialogue on the main stage.

RIKU ASIKAINEN

ANGEL INVESTOR

Around the age of 22, Riku Asikainen founded two companies one of which was a bookstore for high school students in Finland. He then went on to spend three years as a voluntary consultant in Tanzania in the beginning of the 2000's. Soon afterwards he spent another three years in France, where he founded the largest textbook distributor in the country. His career as an angel investor took off after he sold his bookstore in Finland to Sanoma WSOY. Today Asikainen is the best known in Finland for his role as an investor on the show Shark Tank (Leijonan luola). We are excited to be there when this driven investor shares his ideas ans experiences on the main stage of FallUp 2018.

HENRIETTA KEKÄLÄINEN

CEO & Co-Founder, Carbo Culture

Henrietta Kekäläinen is the Co-founder and CEO of Carbo Culture, a company using a novel thermochemical way to convert waste biomass to high value biochar. Previously, she co-founded Mehackit.org, which brings peer mentored creative technology courses to schools with visual arts, programming, robotics and music. She is a 2013 alumna of Singularity University’s flagship Global Solutions Program, and has received the Ruby Hero award. She’s one of the “32 Coolest Women in Nordic Tech 2018” and one of the IMAGE heroes of 2017 in Finland, and elected as a World Economic Forum global shaper. Come and find out more about her on the main stage of FallUp!

KIM NYSTRÖM

FOUNDER, SUMMIT VENTURES OY

Kim describes himself as a roll-up-your-sleeves kind of guy. Having climbed numerous mountains and completed a couple of Ironmans all while founding his own company, working in sales and marketing and raising three daughters, we have to agree. His work and hobbies have taken him around the world to 62 different countries. His expertise lies in sales development, team building coaching and relationships. Currently Kim is working as a board member at his own company, Summit Ventures Oy, which operates CrossFit 8000. In addition, he is promoting himself as The Sales Guy and helps entrepreneurs with growing their businesses. Having summited Mount Manaslu standing at 8163m, we are confident Kim will have no problem climbing the FallUp stage in October!

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