NEW NORDIC initiatives are on this year’s agenda. 200 + people on stage (ministers, ambassadors, key business and public decisionmakers, key specialists from all Nordic countries) and several tech- and solution demonstrations plus exhibitions. Complete program with timeslots is published end of May. Unique agendas:
• New Nordic Energy System
• New Nordic Energy & Data key competence areas with export targets
• New Nordic “MIT” level R&D, with impact
• New Nordic Defense: main issues and targets
• New Nordic Logistics in world economy
• New Nordic Forest Economy
• New Nordic Culture 3.0 with impact
• AI implementations for leaderships
• New ambitions in Healthcare, Education, Circular Economy, Neurology (we-they in politics), Quantum Tech, Space Economy
• Unique new Exhibition: Everything is Energy – Energy is everything
Please note that topics, speakers, schedules and venues are subject to change.
Monday 10.08 -
Circular Economy
Forest Economy: national and Nordic
Forest values and investment potentials
Hall of Energy Grand permanent Exhibition opening ceremony: Everything is Energy – Energy is Everything. Facts, presentations and art
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Wasa Innovation Center: Mind Square
12:00 - 15:00
New value chains – Forestry in wartime – New politics for the future of forests and forestry
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Catacombs
17:30 - 19:00
Hall of Energy Grand permanent Exhibition opening ceremony: Everything is Energy – Energy is Everything
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Tuesday 11.08 -
Nordic “MIT” (Vasa University, Kvarken University, Fintech, Energy & Data)
AI execution and drama: AI for company decision makers
YoungTalk26
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Wasa Innovation Center: Mind Square
09:00 - 10:30
AI-Driven Business Transformation
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10:30 - 12:00
Startups fuel for Economic Growth
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Wasa Innovation Center: Right Wing
10:30 - 12:00
Ai’s transformative Forces: A Foresight Workshop for Decision-Makers
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Wasa Innovation Center: Mind Square
13:00 - 15:00
Energy Transition & Comprehensive Resilience
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16:30 - 21:00
YoungTalk26 - From Potential to Belonging – Unlocking Talent into Regional Success
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Wednesday 12.08 -
Energy& Data (EnergySampo, Giga, Energysystems)
New Tech:
- Photonics,
- SpaceEconomy,
- Quantum tech
- Local Battery Energy Storage
Biology/Neurology (we and they, why political parties criticize other parties more than create together)
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Wasa Innovation Center: Mind Square
09:00 - 11:00
“Simulating the Future” – EnergySAMPO
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11:00 - 12:00
EnergyVaasa, Change is the New Normal
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12:00 - 12:30
Launch of the Finland Investment Institute & AI Cubic for Economic Growth
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Wasa Innovation Center: Right Wing
13:00 - 15:00
Space Wednesday – From Orbit to Opportunity: The Economic Impact of Space on Finland and the Nordics
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Wasa Innovation Center: Mind Square
13:00 - 13:40
Resilient Energy Solutions for a Secure Future, VASEK + Merinova
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14:20 - 15:00
Energy Storage, Infrastructure, and the Strategic Role of Data Centers
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15:00 - 17:00
Maximized R&D Impact with University-Industry Collaboration – Shaping Future Energy Systems Together
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Wasa Innovation Center: Right Wing
15:00 - 16:00
Future Energy System: Real-Time Scenarios and Validation with Digital Twin
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15:00 - 15:40
Laskentakeskukset kasvun moottorina
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15:40 - 16:20
Next-Generation RDI Infrastructures for Energy Transition
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16:20 - 17:00
University–Industry Collaboration to Maximize R&D Impact – Tackling the Energy Flexibility Challenge
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Thursday 13.08 -
Theme: “Lisää riskiä – kiitos”, ”More Risk – thank you”. Taking risks is main element in market economy!
For all: management, researchers, private capital, public sector.
NEW NORDIC:
• NC, logistics including Atlantic harbors
• New Energy & Database
• New Export Industry region through collaboration, innovation,
• Culture and integration
• Success Stories
Suomen Taiteilijaseura
Dinner
Two initiatives with huge impact on wealth creation
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10:45 - 11:30
Awards Ceremonies
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13:00 - 16:15
Framtidens Norden – globala spänningar och tillväxtmöjligheter (Kvarken Counsil EGTS & FIN-SVE Chamber of Commerce)
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Friday 14.08 -
Nordic Defence: New reality and new Horizons
Health
Education
Culture
• Aiming as forerunners in Europe: 4 million Eur Vaasa-Umeå collaboration project Culture 3.0.