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Barents Entrepreneurs meetup in Oulu 15-16.2. and Lulea 17-18.2.2017
Barents Entrepreneurs seminar will take place in Oulu on 15-16.2. and in Lulea on 17-18.2.2017, where 40 young business leaders from Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia will get together to discuss current issues of doing business in Barents area, share experience and network. We are looking for...
Arctic Airlink invests in comfort and speed
From Oulu there will be direct flights to both Tromsø and Luleå, in addition there will also be a new flight route to Sundsvall and Gothenburg. Three times weekly on a 50 seated Jet-CRJ 200 Jet plane.
FinTech top influencer David M. Brear and Barrabes CEO Luis Martin at Technology Disrupting Finance seminar gather a full house to discuss the future of Fintech in Oulu, Finland
Financial technology, FinTech for short, is the great influencer of the financial disruption. Traditional finance is under great pressure for change due to changing consumer habits. Finland was amongst the pioneers of the previous bank and insurance disruption in the early 2000s with Europe’s first online banking services. While the new disruption has already begun, Oulu aims for a sprint to the top.
Pitching in an ice hole - Polar Bear Pitching is here again
Polar Bear Pitching will be organized for the fourth time on February 14-15th 2017 in Oulu, Finland. The two-day event gathers hundreds of participants from around the world to an arctic adventure, which will be live-streamed to a global audience. Polar Bear Pitching differs from all the other pitching competitions in two ways: there’s no time limit, and the pitches must be given while standing waist deep in ice cold water in the frozen Baltic Sea.
Russian cooperation with BusinessOulu
Karelia Cross-Border Cooperation Programme The first Calls for Proposals will be opened on 16 January and on 2 March 2017. Info event in Oulu is on 12 January 2017 starting at 10:00 (Technopolis, Sepänkatu). Karelia CBC is an EU funded project to support cooperation between the bordering regions...