SHIFT Business Festival is a two-day Business Festival hosting radical innovators and decision makers who want to shape a better future through intelligent business. SHIFT brings together groundbreaking technologies with leaders of traditional industries. The program provides glimpses of the future of intelligent tech and its business applications to accelerate sustainable change while making profit. SHIFT Business Festival is grounded and owned 100% by the non-profit organization Shift ry.

Want to help create and work behind the scenes in the most intelligent business event in Finland? Great, read more below!

SHIFT Business Festival takes place on 27-28 October in Visitor and Innovation centre Joki (Turku, Finland) and simultaneously in virtual platform VirBELA. Please note that the whole festival production takes place in Turku, Finland. The opportunities for remote work for volunteers are very limited.

The event program consists of workshops, keynotes, matchmaking and networking in a laid-back festival atmosphere. You can read more about the event on our website: https://theshift.fi/

People are the heart and soul of SHIFT. Thus, we’re looking for good, a bit awkward yet cool people to join us. The duration of the volunteering is something between 1 week and 1 month - what suits best for your schedule! There’s plenty to do when organizing a business event. Here are the descriptions of some of the teams that make it happen.

Leave your application here: https://theshift.fi/positions/event-volunteer/

INFO TEAM

Your main task will be to assist and communicate with the participants as they arrive. You are the knowledge masters of the event – you have a visual of the event venue and know where and what is happening at each spot on the map at each time. The info team will also have runners on the grounds.

REGISTRATION TEAM

At the registration desk the volunteers will welcome guests, register the tickets, and help guests with general issues.  You will work together with the Info Team helping guests with any challenges they might encounter. 

CLOAKROOM TEAM

The cloakroom team is responsible for taking care of guests possessions such as coats, bags or any large luggage once they have entered the premises.

MATCHMAKING TEAM

The matchmaking  area’s main purpose is to host meetings that have, for the larger part, been pre-arranged on our matchmaking platform.

As the host you will oversee the meeting area to make sure everything runs smooth and that the guests keep to their allotted time slots.

BEVERAGES TEAM

At every event, the coffee is of great importance. Business people are creatures, that transform coffee into money, and they will need a lot of it. This is why the beverages team is part of creating one of the core factors of our customer experience. The Beverages Team is also responsible for providing other areas at the venue with beverages: lounges, stages, and matchmaking.

PARTNER HOSTS

Partner Hosts will be the contact persons for our partners, who are the main exhibitors during the event. The Hosts will keep the partners up to date and make sure that they have everything they need. 

SPEAKER HOSTS

The hosts works as concierges making sure that the speakers are happy. The tasks can be anything from making sure that the speakers are at the right place, at the right time, provide them a lift to the hotel or fetching beverages.

INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM

This team will be responsible for building and deconstructing the event areas. During the event the team will be free to enjoy the program without any extra responsibilities.

SUSTAINABILITY TEAM

The volunteers in this team will be responsible for the upkeep of the venue and the event areas. Tasks include light maintenance, setting up and clearing chairs and tables, and making sure the area is neat and tidy.

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS TEAM

Volunteers will be responsible for photography, social media content for our Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram feeds. 

AFTER PARTY

This team will create an awesome party to wrap up the first festival day. In other words, the main effort is solely during the evening, leaving the day free to explore the festival. The tasks for this team vary greatly, as the volunteers will make sure that the evening runs smoothly.

IT-SUPPORT

Since SHIFT 2020 is a hybrid event which combines on-site and virtual experience, IT-support Team plays an important role. Their area of responsibility concerns everything technical.

Leave your application here: https://theshift.fi/positions/event-volunteer/