A global movement to make it fun & easy to break the ice between people to find true love, friendships, and social activities with an optimal mix of high-tech & high-touch organized as a Master Franchise. The top management team at Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA bought the idea in 2006 as a social benefit. Love & Friendship locally & globally - health & peace! Personal matchmaking, online dating, friendships, mingling! Improving relationship health! Looking for: mentor(s), companies to co-create (pilot project), team members, business partners, investors, etc. Storytelling frame (the truth): Svalbard: Here you can still risk meeting polar bears in the streets. Every semester the university (UNIS) has an icebreaker party! Since 2004 I have tested out different ideas and found them possible to succeed. For more information read this paper: ALYTUS COLLEGE, ISSN 2029-9311, October 30, 2013: 50 % of the world population lives in big cities worldwide - how will this affect our social relationships -- and how to improve these? 50 % of the world population lives in big cities worldwide --and this will increase (globalis.no) - how will this affect our social relationships, and how to improve these? Several statistics underline the challenges of the modern world: 50 % or more are single. 50 % are cheating. 50 % or more break up or divorce. 25 % on sick leave as a result of a relationship breakup. Low libido is now a public health problem. 48 % have only one friend, but not a reliable one in a crisis. 50 % of the population wants more friends. We become more sick from our private lives than our work lives (Modesta Olsen, 2007), and the modern family is the most common family structure (Almendingen, 2010). Which social structures can survive the strain of losing the qualities of faithfulness, honesty, and decency? Cynicism becomes our defense. Depression and feelings of emptiness are the prices we pay. Giving hugs, care, and trust to others not only bring greater happiness - it can also lead to better business. Icebreakercard.com is a new world movement to solve these social challenges. It fights for its vision: Love and friendship locally and globally! Our big goal is to improve your life quality. As social entrepreneurs, we are called the fourth sector which cooperates with the other three: private, public, and civic (Ellis, 2006) with an optimal mix of high tech & high touch! In this paper, I will present my research findings in the Western world (mainly Norway and USA) and my part of the solution as a social entrepreneur of Icebreakercard.com. A social entrepreneur has been described as our time's hero and heroines. We create solutions where none of the sectors have succeeded well enough. Bad relationships lead to health problems in the population across age and gender. Mental health conditions are now the key concern in all of the OECD countries. The employer and the community take the economic bill when the employee is on sick leave. The disease is a private matter, but absence is not. Links: http://alytauskolegija.lt/Dokumentai/2013/38_Soreide.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/AnneSreide/ib-fb-2012 https://independent.academia.edu/AnneS%C3%B8reide https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_G._S%C3%B8reide

We’re an independent game studio based in Oslo, Norway, which was founded in February 2013 by a group of students at the Norwegian School of Information Technology (NITH). In January 2014 we consisted of 7 members of the team who all have different experiences in their own fields of expertise. Our common goal is that we want to contribute to the indie scene with story-driven games, without compromising the gameplay. Starting up a new company (let alone within gaming) is no joke, and we hope to make it easier for future companies to make games. It’s a small pond, and as soon as we announce our projects, our vision is to have an exposed development during production. So keep an eye on our development blog on our page, or contact us if you want to know anything! We are currently working on a third-person horror game, set in a forest inspired by Norwegian nature.

På YouWish.no finner du Norges største utvalg av opplevelsesgaver. Sammen med landets beste arrangører tilbyr vi flere hundre opplevelsesgaver som du enkelt kan kjøpe i gave til de du er glad i. Med en opplevelsesgave gir du bort kvalitetstid og minner for livet. Vi er stolte av å tilby deg en platform der du trygt, enkelt og raskt kan gi bort minneverdige gaver til den som har alt.

FeltGIS AS er et teknologiselskap grunnlagt i 2016 og som har spesialisert seg på M2M kommunikasjon og digitale kart. Med et kjerneteam på 7 personer utgjør FeltGIS en unik kombinasjon av spesialisering innenfor GIS-teknologi og mobilkommunikasjon, med lang erfaring fra -og kunnskap om moderne skogsdrift. Selskapet utvikler en digital samhandlingsplattform for planlegging og gjennomføring av hogst, og som digitaliserer rapportering av data for kommersiell anvendelse og ift. miljø- og kvalitetssertifisering. Selskapet har betydelige aktører i bransjen på sin kundeliste. Med FeltGIS sine kart- og datadrevet løsninger får aktørene, private som offentlige, unike muligheter til å optimalisere skogens sirkulære forretningspotensiale og bærekraftige natur ved å dele, samarbeide, og dra nytte av skogkultur, miljø- og produksjonsdata, fra planting til hogst og transport, og videre til resten av næringen.

Lawo Lab is a startup company based out of a small town in the south of Norway with an international aim. Started by 4 main founders in 2018, our goal is to innovate and improve solutions for our clients. With a wide base of experience from several types of industries we offer a new look at old problems. Core business is software development and hardware prototyping with the capability to initiate projects from start to finish in house.

Ucommerce's goal is to scale brands while solving real-world problems for all people alike. With our CEO at the helm, and the team of industry professionals we believe we can change the future for the better and at the same time do it in a sustainable way where our footprint helps the planet instead of destroying it. Brands under our wings Megahoodie Ivylou

Korall Engineering AS is a design engineering firm part of StartupLab Bergen, a member of the GCE Ocean Technology Cluster, which employs the latest high-end design optimization technologies, our team develops automates product design workflows to reduce engineering and lead times and redesigns existing industrial products. Through the use of Artificial Intelligence, we help reduce material waste and production costs, increase efficiency, and lessen environmental impact. We help the reduction of carbon emissions, avoiding the transportation of parts demanded. Korall Engineering operates in various industries: oil & gas, maritime, automotive, and medical. Its team specializes in industrial design optimization for both additive and traditional manufacturing and uses machine learning design-to-manufacturing tools like Generative Design, mathematical finite element methods like Topology Optimization, and implicit modeling lattice-structure solutions for 3D-printing, both for metal and composite materials. Korall Engineering is betting on the future: smart design, additive manufacturing, and automated workflows are just a few of the many examples of how it is possible to disrupt the industry for the better, bring innovation, create value for our society at large, and tangibly take a step forward in preserving our environment. For more information visit https://korall.io/

Diggecard is a global provider of gift card expertise and technology. We work with businesses of all kinds within retail, leisure and hospitality who want to fully or partially outsource their gift card programme, working either directly or with a technology partner. We also provide gift card services for businesses and agencies to deliver reward, incentive, promotion, benefit and discount programmes.

Fremby is a software company delivering data-driven insight for an emission free construction industry. Fremby connects and shares data from construction machines and provides seamless overview of operational data through our Fremby platform. With Fremby, CO2 reduction and contract management in complex projects is made simple and time saving. Fremby enables easy, accessible and standardized environmental reporting, efficiency and operational optimization, energy planning and more.

VAMØ is a new approach to purchasing furniture in a era where online shopping is advancing at an enormous rate. The online market for funiture is only now getting started in Norway, and we are a part of it. Our main focus are four brands who focus on sustainability and recycled materials. And we are able to provide these to clients who live in such remote areas that they do not have access to these.

Wrepit is a Software-as-a-Service company with global ambitions, located in central offices in Oslo, Norway. With our software customers succeed with their written reports. They stay on brand, get quickly to market, and delight their readers with great readability, accessibility and interactivity on any device - even mobile. We are a young, growing company, and already have clients like KLP, Norconsult and Argentum.

Think of a bank, or telecom operator, or shipping agency, or an offshore business or even a power producer. Think of all those people working in these places. And their suppliers, and all their customers. Tens of thousands of people creates businesses and those establishments creates new networks every second. And how do they reach out to each other with all their knowledge, all their requests, all their solutions and all their counseling? They communicate with their fingertips. And between those fingertips - that is us, that is where we work.

Bio-Me's vision is to improve global health by unlocking the potential of our microbiome: the complex habitat of microorganisms in our gut. The microbiome is a crucial piece for understanding human health and diseases. We have developed Precision Microbiome Profiling (PMP™), an analysis technology that enables therapeutic developers and researchers to accurately quantify organisms of the microbiome in a fast and practical way that is suited for clinical applications. Combined with access to a world leading biobank and extensive patient databases, Bio-Me’s PMP™ platform will enable microbiome-based diagnostics, and discovery of novel drug targets to improve health and well-being worldwide. We are an international group with a diverse set of R&D, technical and commercial backgrounds who share the passion to solve the current challenges facing medical development by integrating the microbiome into medicine. Bio-Me is an early-stage company and we are now looking for the right resources to grow with us.

A boundless Music Metaverse with NFT Trading - The artistic condensation of the digital music world can be fixed by NFT and Token, which not only enables traditional music creators to meet the needs of circulation, revenue and reputation from the society, but also opens up users the access to Web3 music Metaverse. We launched Wave to allow music creators to reach end consumers through the NFTization of music assets, and to connect music works with chaotic copyrights in the physical world to the fresh Web3 music metaverse.

Pinovo AS is a Norwegian scale up that has developed, patented, proven and commercialised surface maintenance technology that stops Ocean Paint Microplastic emissions. Ocean Paint Microplastic emissions are a large but little known problem that we estimate could be generating between 1.5m and 2.25m tonnes of ocean pollution each year (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/how-to-reduce-microplastics-from-paint/). Pinovo has developed a clean, circular dustless grit blasting solution, which stops these emissions and which is also up to 60% more cost efficient than the traditional methods of surface maintenance for spot blasting.