THE URGENT ISSUE IN TODAY'S JOB MARKET IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES: ✪ Traditional recruitment prioritizes CV algorithms and keywords over human potential, by an astonishing 90%. When ATS/AI control who gets seen, we lose the most important factor: the human behind the CV. This creates not just unemployment, but social exclusion - when people can't find work, they lose connection to society and experience profound isolation. ✪ Todays recruitment methods are narrowly fixated purely on qualifications and historical experience, relying heavily on algorithms to sift through CVs. This approach overlooks the unique talents and motivations of individuals, drivingforces, personality and thus missing out on valuable opportunities for growth and success. ✪ THE RESULT: People are often using ChatGPT or Copilot to write their applications + HR are using AI to read them = nobody is getting hired. ✪ Sweden struggles with high youth unemployment and urban-rural divides. Refugee integration remains uneven, and platform work is eroding traditional protections. Union influence is waning, especially in tech and service sectors. ✪ Denmark’s famed flexicurity model is under pressure. Women are overrepresented in part-time roles, and older workers exit early. Gig work is expanding faster than regulation, challenging collective bargaining norms. ✪ Finland faces persistent long-term unemployment and mental health-related exclusion. Industrial restructuring is shifting jobs to tech hubs, leaving peripheral regions behind. Labor mobility remains low despite retraining efforts. In conclusion; the Nordic countries face mounting labor market exclusion despite strong welfare models. Norway leads with 700,000 adults outside the labor force, driven by regional stagnation, immigrant underemployment, and early retirement. The green and digital transitions are creating jobs—but not where displaced workers live. THE PERFECT STORM FOR US! TURNING THE RECRUITMENT MARKET UPSIDE-DOWN «From employer initiated to 100% talent focused.» Our Solution: Talentity.ai = AI meets empathy! Nordic's first community for job seekers, where talent takes center stage. Meeting the talents, rather than relying on historical data on a piece of paper. Creating an empathic AI, that combines human expertise with technology, supporting decision making and not taking over the entire process.

Our mission is to enable people to own their own health ❤️‍🩹. The current healthcare system is based on a model of system-first treatment, where the doctor 👨🏻‍⚕️owns the care and the patients comes in for consultations. The system is overwhelmed and people need to take more ownership of their health. But all solutions are based on a system-first 🏛️ thinking and people are feeling left out 🤷🏻‍♀️. Systems keep failing, health platforms never deliver. We bring the patient and doctor together with a single pane of glass 🪟 on your health and make it a conversation on equal terms. We believe that the future of healthcare and medicine is dependent on an inverted healthcare journal on the patients side 🚀. Our team 👭👭 has a proven track record building best in class products in companies like Google, Babylon Health, Oda, Schibsted, Finn, VG, AirHelp. We are experienced in building AI based 🧠 healthcare services scaling to global reach. As an early member of our startup, we offer ownership of shares, as opposed to options in other startups.

At GoGood, we work towards developing a reuse economy for office furniture that will be preferred to the consumer economy. Our solution consists of a digital reuse-platform that aims to become a driving force in the reuse economy for used office furniture. We have taken a concrete approach, starting with office interiors as our initial focus. In Norway alone, the office furniture market is worth over 4 billion annually, yet we discard 140,000 tons of furniture valued at 400-500 million Norwegian kroner each year. This cannot continue. That's why we have developed a reuse-platform for furniture, including a marketplace for the professional furniture market, making it incredibly easy for businesses, interior architects, and other stakeholders to sell their furniture while also simplifying the process of purchasing used furniture for interior projects, as well as making old furniture look new again. Over the past two years, we have made significant progress in developing modern reuse solutions, products, and services. With public support totaling over 15 million Norwegian kroner from the Research Council of Norway, Innovation Norway, and the Oslo municipality, as well as partnerships with industry players such as Flokk, Aarsland, Ope, Norsk Gjenvinning, Glomma Industrier, Hannah Nordh, Oslo Waste and Recycling Agency, NORSUS - Norwegian Institute for Sustainability Research, Norsk Regnesentral, and OBOS, we are now ready with our reuse-platform making the circular economy for office furniture on a large scale possible-

InfoTiles’ innovative digital analytics platform spans the water value chain, simplifying and automating the tedious steps of consolidating data and applying real-time analytics and machine learning for water management. InfoTiles provides software that combines and enriches data from different silos - including legacy water utility systems. When enhanced with public data, utility companies discover new insights and make sustainable decisions based on facts, leading to sustainable water use in communities. Ageing infrastructure, inadequate investment, and a changing climate are all contributing to unsustainable water use and supplies globally. Data can help address these challenges in a connected and coherent way that is fit for purpose for decisions makers. For more information, visit https://www.infotiles.no/

Factlines' digital solution and expertise make supply chain mapping efficient by supporting the entire process, from requirements and code of conduct to risk analysis, follow-up, and dialogue. Our mission and vision: We are dedicated to helping businesses manage CSR compliance in their supply chains. Our web-based solutions, and execution services, ease the burden for our customers and turn their efforts into value. We unite supply chains into a meaningful symbiotic collaboration, empowering both a better world and increased profit. CSR Reporting: Secure and time-saving solution for meeting the Socially Responsible Public Procurement (SRPP) criteria for non-financial reporting. Supply Chain Management: Follow each supplier and sub-supplier individually at as many levels as you want. Maintain information on every actor in the chain and share it securely. Contract Management: Manage the risks, and keep track of all the compulsory documentation, statistics, contracts' expiration dates, and other qualification documents. Contact us: info@factlines.com

3D Estate is a 3D design agency based in Oslo. We offer photo-realistic 3D rendering, animation and VR experience. We work with some of the greatest architects and developers in Norway. We’re now also open to the U.S. market. Our in-house 3D designers provide our clients with high-end visualizations.

We enable the green shift to happen in new markets! TioTech is a Norwegian producer of titania (TiO2) nanomaterials and a developer of titania-based technology. We know how to optimise the production process and properties of titania nanoparticles. After successfully developing and commercialising a series of photocatalytic surface treatment products (www.joma-int.com), we are directing our R&D efforts towards a new area; the use of titania as anode-material in Lithium-ion batteries (LIB). A battery with our material on the anode will charge faster, last longer, be safer and tolerate temperature variation better than conventional batteries which have graphite on the anode, and outcompete LTO-batteries on capacity. The development work takes place in our in-house laboratory in Bergen, where our dedicated team (Hjørdis, Marthe, Rob, Anders) play around with titania, giving life to innovative solutions.

Norse er et digitalt produktstudio som definerer, designer og utvikler digitale produkter og tjenester, både for etablerte aktører og utfordrere.Norse er et norsk selskap med kontorer i Oslo og i Ukraina. Vi teller 60 digitale stifinnere innen forretnings- og tjenesteutvikling, teknologi, design og forvaltning av digitale tjenester. I Norse jobber vi for å skape sømløs interaksjon mellom mennesker og teknologi. Vi gjør alltid et poeng av å identifisere kjernen i en utfordring for å levere digitale produkter eller tjenester som tilfører verdi for både brukerne og bedriften bak.Som hovedleverandør av teknologien til startupene i Norselab har vi bygget en rekke digitale produkter som danner kjernen i suksessfulle selskaper. Teknologien vi skaper hjelper blant annet fruktbønder å optimalisere avlinger, og eiendomsaktører å måle og rapportere på hvor bærekraftige byggene deres er. I tillegg står vi bak BUAs digitale utstyrsbibliotek, og jobber med både kommersielle og ideelle aktører.

Anteroz is the story of friends who found a flavour and a secret known by few but worth sharing with the whole world: Mamajuana, a botanical rum-based drink aged on a 500-year-old Dominican tradition hailed as a source of vitality, the cure to whatever tortures and an aphrodisiac. The stories behind Mamajuana and the joy and passion with which the Dominicans serve and enjoy this exotic drink personify the way they take life itself: as if it is not lived to its fullest unless you do what turns you on. To share this message with the world, we set out to create a global brand and spread this message in a bottle. As a company, we believe in bringing something unique to the world in a sustainable way, never forgetting our roots: just the way we learned in the land of the Midnight Sun and the Northern Lights. It is also fundamental to Anteroz to never forget our products’ roots. Crafted in the Dominican Republic, Anteroz is named after Anteros, the Greek God of love and son of Aphrodite, following the legendary Mamajuana property of manifesting amorous desires. We are determined to honour the Mamajuana tradition with an evolutionary drinking experience and are on a mission to live up to the reputation and be a real turn-on for both those who sip and those who pour our unique blend of fiery herbs and luscious honey-infused spirits.

Skypass aims to make returns in e-commerce more economically and environmentally sustainable through smart, data-driven decisions. In order to do this, we need to create an end-to-end digital platform that facilitates the shipment and customs process for online retailers. Today, we have created an MVP that reads and systematizes customs data on behalf of retailers, allowing them to save money on returned goods from Norway. In the time ahead we wish to grow our company and work towards the broader goal of revolutionizing e-commerce returns.

OM RUBYNOR AS Kontakt Ole Morten Amundsen på oma@rubynor.com Vi bygger startups! Vi er en dyktig gjeng med utviklere som har troen på seg selv og våre skills med lean startup. Det eneste som mangler er om vi også er hyggelige og har det gøy. team in office Humor er viktig, for startups are hard! Med oss på laget har du startupproffer med god track-record. Med oss som dine kollegaer har du et åpent og ærlig miljø som omfavner utfordringer og usikkerhet, med pågangsmot og trygghet om "dette klarer vi".

Hundreds of thousands of movies and television series are released every year to the joy of local audiences, but to the annoyance of global audiences who have to wait a long time before these are available in their country. This is because distributors need to take them through an intensive and complex compliance check for every market before they distribute. Our company, Visualyst, is helping publishers get more movies and series cleared for distribution to consumers faster using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

iO Data is here to help companies build their digital businesses. Only 33% of companies rate their level of digitalization as advanced today, but 70% expect they will get there by 2020¹. This transformation process will be critical for future success. Our core business is hosting, conversion, QC, and accessibility of Big Data. Bundled with Security Audits, Embedded Development, Destruction, Consultancy, and Innovation.

Today, legal services are provided on the premises of the legal industry. We believe in making legal services available to everyone. We do this by automating legal processes by connecting law with design and technology. So that more people are able to be their own lawyers. We are testing our solutions in the Norwegian market at the moment, but all services are built to scale internationally. Stay tuned to receive more info when the legal products built to provide access to justice is ready to launch.

TradingFoé is a Norwegian marketplace platform which connects Norwegian and Asian businesses. We are providing the best sales methodologies and international portal that help company approach right and on-time partners, increase sales and open new markets. Building a fully integrate platform across the country border, from the product in warehouse of a seller, to the inventory of the buyer, federated in trustful system, right and in-time partners, transparent smart contracts. This is Vikr™. TradingFoe platform is using matchotify algorithms, the most powerful and simple solution called Vikr™.