SHIFT Business Festival is a platform that has brought together C-level decision-makers, business developers, and tech-heads from growth companies across the board since 2016. The highlight of the year is a two-day business festival in Turku, Finland. We encourage and support our festival attendees and partners to find their competitive advantage in new technology applications and sustainable business. Our company is based in Turku and is the most important business event in the region and a solid actor in the local business ecosystem. Behind SHIFT is a non-profit organization driven by volunteers and supported by network with firm supporters like Turku Science Park, Boost Turku, JCI, Creve, Turku Chamber of Commerce and Federation of Finnish Enterprises.

Where change comes to work! Part innovation lab, part business incubator, and part membership community: Impact Hub Bergen provides a collaborative work, meeting and learning space for people who seek to create positive impact. We believe in the power of innovation through collaboration. Our members come from a variety of backgrounds but are united in their quest to create sustainable solutions for the biggest issues of our time.

The number of people on the move is growing globally because of armed conflicts, climate change, and economic inequality. Startup Refugees exists because the solution for the fast integration of newcomers to the labour markets needs to be created now. Startup Refugees offers asylum seekers, refugees, and other immigrants support in finding employment, skills development, and starting a business. We have a network of more than 1000 members, including companies, government officials, NGOs, universities, congregations, research institutes, communities, and individuals. Welcome to create change.

Recap Power is an innovation company that creates advanced systems and products that contribute to a more sustainable future. Our mission is to simplify the development of connected and smart products and make it easier to create sustainable solutions, while also adding to profitability. Our offer includes services, platforms, tools and products that enable development of IoT systems and solutions.

Bridge Technologies creates advanced systems for ensuring high-quality, profitable digital media service delivery in broadcast, cable, satellite, OTT and telecoms applications. Providing a sophisticated platform for converging digital media services, the company’s award-winning products and solutions include analysis, measurement, and monitoring systems, intelligent redundancy switching, and comprehensive analytics solutions for TV-Everywhere providers. Compatible with all major industrial standards, ruggedised for reliability in challenging environments, and built for low-energy operation, Bridge Technologies systems bring greater efficiency to digital media businesses by making it simpler to manage complexity.

Krown is the ultimate dating app for those who love going out and making real connections. We link you with people attending the same events, so if you're heading to a concert, festival, or local hotspot, why not make it a date? Swipe to find others who are going to the same place at the same time and elevate your night out. Key Features: Pre-Planned Dates: Meet up at events you're already excited about. Live Mode: Discover other singles at your favorite spots in real-time. Tailored Venue Suggestions: Get personalized recommendations for the best places to go out. Virtual Revisits: Missed a connection? Revisit past venues virtually to reconnect. Find Things to Do Together: Explore and share amazing events and experiences. Krown makes meeting new people fun, easy, and spontaneous. Turn your next night out into a memorable adventure with Krown!

1 — The pitch Tactplan is developing a location-based scheduling and production control platform to help construction contractors solve the chronic problem of schedule chaos and workflow collisions on site — with a purpose-built planning method that combines Takt Time Planning, real-time progress tracking, and actionable production alarms into one connected tool. 2 — The what Construction projects don't fail because people stop trying. They fail because no one can see what's actually happening — until it's too late. The construction industry is one of the least productive sectors in the developed world, and the root cause is hiding in plain sight: scheduling. Traditional Gantt-based project plans are disconnected from the physical reality of building. They don't reflect how work actually flows through a building — floor by floor, zone by zone, trade by trade. The result is trades colliding, buffers eroding, foremen firefighting, and project managers spending their days in status meetings instead of solving real problems. This isn't a niche problem. It affects virtually every multi-trade construction project, from residential developments to hospitals and infrastructure — representing hundreds of billions of euros in lost productivity annually across Europe alone. 3 — The how Tactplan replaces the Gantt chart with a location-based schedule — a plan structured around where work happens, not just when. Using Takt Time Planning principles, project teams define a steady production rhythm across locations: the right trade in the right place at the right time, with no overlaps and no idle zones. The schedule becomes a live production system. As work progresses, Tactplan captures actual production rates, detects deviations early, and surfaces prioritised alarms so planners and site managers know exactly what to act on. Instead of a plan that gets outdated the moment it's printed, teams get a continuously valid picture of their project — with the tools to keep production moving and catch problems days before they become delays. 4 — The why The construction industry has tools for everything except the thing that matters most: keeping work flowing. The team behind Tactplan comes from civil engineering and construction project management. They've experienced firsthand the frustration of planning systems that look sophisticated on paper but fall apart on site — schedules that no one trusts, updates that never happen, and meetings where everyone knows there's a problem but nobody has the data to act on it. Location-based scheduling and Takt Time Planning have strong academic and practical evidence behind them, but the tooling has never matched the method. Tactplan exists to close that gap — to give construction teams a planning tool that actually reflects how buildings are built, and to make flow-based production control the new standard for the industry.

Mimir automates customer service for e-commerce using AI. We resolve up to 90% of support inquiries. Not by deflecting customers, but by actually helping them. We've been heads down building and making Mimir the best AI agent for customer support the last 20 months. Now we're scaling fast, breaking into several new markets, and we need all hands on deck.

YSE Capital Management is a pan-European growth equity platform investing in tech and AI-enabled businesses across Western Europe. We are in the process of building an AI-first technology stack to power our investment operations, LP experience, and portfolio monitoring, and are embedding AI across every layer, from deal sourcing to portfolio value creation - we are looking for a software engineer to own that effort from the ground up.

Qallio is an AI-powered receptionist platform built for small and medium-sized businesses. We help businesses never miss a customer call by providing a 24/7 multilingual AI phone agent that answers calls, books appointments, handles customer inquiries, and sends follow-up reminders via SMS and email — all without hiring extra staff. Most SMEs lose significant revenue because they miss up to 40% of incoming calls, especially outside working hours or during peak periods. Qallio solves this problem by replacing manual call handling with a smart, always-available AI receptionist. Customers hear natural, friendly voices in their own language, making every interaction feel personal and professional. Key features include: - 24/7 inbound and outbound call handling - Automated appointment booking, confirmations, and rescheduling - Multilingual support (English and Swedish, and many more languages) - SMS and email reminders to reduce no-shows - Google Calendar and Google Sheets integrations - A simple dashboard to track all calls, bookings, and customer interactions - Full GDPR compliance with data hosted on secure EU servers Qallio works for any business that relies on phone bookings — including clinics, salons, car repair shops, law firms, restaurants, and education centers. Setup takes less than 30 minutes with no hardware required; businesses can forward their existing number or get a new one instantly. Founded by Rafi Mohammad, Johannes Gontrum, and Mattias Karlsson, Qallio is on a mission to make world-class customer service accessible to every small business in Europe. Qallio is part of the Bling Incubator and is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden.

Folke Furniture is a D2C furniture brand from Copenhagen. We design, produce, and sell modular sofas made for real life, for people who move, change plans, and live in homes with staircases, doorways, and shifting needs. Most sofas are built for a forever home. But many of us live in apartments, move often, and need furniture that can follow along, without drama. So we’re replacing bulky, one-shape-for-life sofas with a simple system: tool-free modules that ship in boxes, zip together in minutes, and rearrange whenever life does. Our modular sofa is built from four core modules, giving customers the freedom to: • start small now • switch between sofa, lounge, guest bed, or conversation corner in seconds • add more modules later, instead of replacing the whole thing Folke is a Danish name with a simple meaning. It comes from “folkelig,” meaning "for the people," and nods to folklore: the everyday stories we share and pass on. Because home isn’t just walls and furniture. It’s movie nights, long talks, kids on the cushions, and friends who stay a little longer. Folke began in 2024 out of personal need. When our founder, Christoffer, became a family of three, he didn’t want “a sofa.” He wanted a living space: a soft spot for board games, wrestling, scrolling, reading, real conversations, and overnight grandparents. In 2025, he left his CEO role to build Folke. If you value practical design, honest products, and building something that lasts, join us in shaping Folke.

Kleen Hub is a Copenhagen-based circular tech company building Tap & Reuse™ — a frictionless reuse system that makes reusable packaging work at scale. Our platform combines simple hardware with a lightweight software layer to enable fast, reliable reuse without the usual barriers: no app, no user registration, and no deposit handling required. We help venues and operators (cafés, campuses, stadiums, airports, corporate sites and more) replace single-use packaging with reusable cups and containers through an operationally simple setup. Tap & Reuse™ supports multiple return flows (smart return stations, return bins, handheld scanning and washing-site verification), delivers high return rates in closed and semi-closed environments, and provides clear reporting for operations and ESG. Kleen Hub works with leading partners and distributors across Europe and has deployed systems in high-volume environments, proving that reuse can be convenient for users and manageable for staff. Our mission is to remove friction from reuse and accelerate the transition away from single-use packaging — by making reuse as easy as tapping a card.

At Innovation Roundtable, our focus is on helping large multinational companies navigate one of their biggest challenges: innovating in complex, fast-changing environments. While most corporates understand the need to innovate, a lack of cross-functional collaboration, and difficulty translating new ideas into real business impact. We bring senior executives together across industries and geographies to share experiences, learn from each other, and explore practical approaches to innovation, digital transformation, and organizational change. By creating a trusted, peer-to-peer network through our Summits, workshops, and online community, we solve the problem of isolation and limited perspective that innovation leaders often face in their own companies. Our mission is simple: to make innovation in large firms less of a struggle and more of a shared journey, supported by learning, collaboration, and real-world insights.

Blackwall is an AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company dedicated to safeguarding web ecosystems from automated threats. Deployed across 2.3M+ websites and applications, GateKeeper, the company’s flagship product, is trusted by 100+ service & hosting partners globally to enhance performance, reduce operational costs, and maximize revenue by protecting SMB customers worldwide against emerging threats with simplicity, affordability, and scalability.

At Clause Out we know that it’s impossible to make good decisions, when policy makers are out of touch with real life consequences - and this didn't start with the current administration. We aim to give people in the U.S. an easy-to-use platform that provides them clear insight into all things moving about in the policy space, as well as a channel to voice their opinion on these developments. At the same time, we offer political advocacy groups the opportunity to test their policy drafts with the public and keep up with important updates on the policies close to their cause. In short, we're building a platform to bring people and policy closer together.