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.

Connecting Passion and Talent We connect leading Finnish Studios with talented tech professionals in the Games Industry At Games Factory Talents we are dedicated to nurturing resourceful methods in sourcing talents for our clients within the games industry. Our values and process resonates in the talents that are successfully placed from across the globe with the Finnish Studios. Games Factory Talents is all about matching the right talent with the right opportunity. To be able to achieve this we strongly believe in going through the journey along with our talents in helping them reach their career goals. OUR SERVICES Recruitment: We help leading Games studios from Finland to acquire top talent from Finland and abroad. We have been working with all the leading Games studios from Finland and helped them to recruit for multiple open roles. Games Job Fairs: Recruitment events where studios get to screen, interview and recruit talents for multiple open roles during one or two days of intensive networking. We organised the Finland Games Job Fair in April with 1778 talent from across the globe and 16 leading Games studios. GameDev Talent Board: An anonymous talent board where Games industry professionals can showcase their talent, specify seniority level, skills and technologies and tell us more about themselves without disclosing their personal data.

Flyhjælp er en dansk LegalTech virksomhed, der hjælper passagerer med at indhente den kompensation, de har krav på ved flyforsinkelser, -aflysninger og overbookinger. Flyhjælp, der har eksisteret siden 2014, har hjulpet over +150.000 kunder med inddrivelse af kompensation for mere end 200 mio. kr. I 2020 blev Flyhjælp kåret til nr. 2 på Børsens Gazelleliste, hvilket betyder at Flyhjælp var en af de hurtigstvokstende virksomheder i hele Danmark.

Humanitrack is creating volunteering driven science and tech knowledge hubs tackling global challenges and empowering the global STEM community. We are tracking impactful technologies in our hubs while aligning, guiding, and inspiring the students and researchers driving them via our volunteering platform. This is to accelerate tech solutions to global challenges and lead humanity to a healthy, sustainable future. Volunteering via our platform or in our organization: -Constantly brings information to the surface in our open-source knowledge hubs -Creates roadmaps of tech solutions to identify knowledge and innovation gaps -Gives feedback and guidance to students and researchers in our community Check out how we are also empowering corporate employees via digital volunteering: https://youtu.be/npJE5tyoXxg

SALT is an independent consultant company with knowledge about and for the coast. We deliver services within research, consultancy and outreach related to the coast and sea. SALT is dedicated to working for the future of the coast – our interests span from sea urchins to human capital! Our company consists of high professional competence on marine ecosystems, coastal industries and entrepreneurship - especially considering northern issues. Our unique and untraditional team represent your connection between the marine resource and value creation.

Quandify develops an intelligent water meter system for residential property owners that enables sub-metering cost-efficiently. The company’s platform uses machine learning to break down water usage data into outlets and diagnoses an entire homes water and hot water energy usage from a single, patented, non-invasive sensor. In our smartphone app, tenants then receive individually tailored nudges on how to efficiently lower usage, without sacrificing comfortability. The result is an up to 40 % decrease in water usage on average, and as a result, an energy usage reduction of 8 - 16 %, paving the way for a more sustainable and aware public and private residential real estate industry. Watch our video presentation below: https://quandify.com/about/

B’ZEOS develops novel, flexible, and home-compostable films based on seaweed extracts which can replace conventional and bio-based single-use plastic films in food-contact applications. B’ZEOS’ solution will contribute to reduce the use of non- or hardly recyclable plastic materials for single-use food packaging, thus reducing CO2 emissions. We are a team of 8 people with complementary backgrounds. One engineer in environment, two material scientists, one graphic designer, one supply chain analyst, one quality engineer advisor, one PR and marketing advisor and one CFO advisor.   Each of us are concerned by environmental issues and wanted to contribute to make a change.   We have joined this project because we are all fed up with:    - Contamination of world's drinking water with plastic fibres   - Seeing marine animals dying because of our plastic trash   - Increase of plastic packaging around fresh aliments   - Increase in plastic debris along the coast   - Both burning plastic and sending plastic to landfills   - Finding plastic while making with our kids sand castles   - Contamination with the chemicals in plastic. These chemicals are said to cause obesity, on-set puberty, and even cancer.   - Direct contamination of our kids by chewing various objects in plastic.   - Being exposed to plastic every single day and not having the chance to choose an alternative   We, at B’ZEOS and as consumers, believe in a sustainable alternative to current plastic and we have been working on the elaboration of a sustainable alternative without forcing the consumer to change dramatically his habits.

Vaskehjelp er en digital markedsplass som knytter kunder med renholdere i sitt nærområde. Vi er en fullfinansiert startup med solide eiere. Vi har på 6 måneder 1000 bestilte oppdrag og 300 registrerte renholdere. Selskapet har brukt mye tid på å tilpasse systemet til norske lover og regler, slik at alle renholdere har en komplett leveranse via appen med full oversikt over økonomi og moms. Vaskehjelp er nå et team på fem personer som gjør seg klare for å skalere.

Hello Ruby is the world’s most whimsical way to learn about technology, computing, and coding. We are all about curiosity, playfulness, and logic. We provide tools for kids, parents, and educators to learn to understand programming in a fun and creative way. Our story started off with a book that is now published in over 22 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Dutch and even Finnish.

TargetEveryone is a specialist in multi-channel marketing, and offers a high-end marketing platform. Recruit and collect all your data into one place. Segment your data into groups, so that you can easily target your valuable customers with all your relevant campaigns. Distribute personal messages through your preferred channels like SMS, E-mail, Mobile Native Apps, Social Media and more. Automated insight-driven 1 to1 marketing just got easy!

MazeMap is a global provider of indoor map and navigation services. We are a 4-year- old start-up from NTNU with offices in Trondheim, Palo Alto, Melbourne, London and Odessa, and we already work with customers on all continents. Our goal is making indoor maps as ubiquitous as outdoors maps. The only way to achieve this is through automation, and we aim to be the first provider fully automating the process of creating indoor maps. As of today, our machine learning fueled service helps our users close to 300 000 times per month across 13 countries.

eSmart Systems has developed a scalable software platform that can process, analyze and visualize large amounts of data in real time. The platform enables the future of the digital energy industry and smart cities. The company was established in 2012 and many of its key resources has more than 20 years experience of establishing and leading IT and energy-related companies in and around the energy markets in Norway, Europe and the United States.

There are over 120 millions Chinese with diagnose Diabetes and another 100 millions with various types of cardio vascular diseases. China ranks highest with new cancer incidence in the world. India, Brazil, USA, Germany and the middle East countries all top the diabetes statistics. Life-style diseases are causing heavy burden on the health budget in the developed countries and the emerging economies. A business idea rooted in the genius interests of helping people occurred. Lion Healthcare believes that Europe and Norway have valuable experiences and innovations that can help tackle the challenges. One of the important resources in this battle is natural synergetic health products with marine ingredients and proven health functions. Norway as a large fishery nation has long experience in developing marine resources and possesses high technology in inventing and manufacturing high quality, clean health products with marine and other nutrients. Norway can take a unique position in this global trend. Lion Healthcare Europe was born on the inspiration of improving the quality of life of the people through providing innovative and documented functional health products with high quality marine ingredients from the cold and clean Norwegian sea and the beautiful spectacular Nordic natures.

Atelier is a digital platform that lets you discover and buy art directly from professional and emerging artists. Our goal is to make art more accessible and contribute to a richer art market and better economic conditions for the artists.Since launch in April 2018 nearly 300 of the most exciting and promising artists from Oslo and Bergen have created profiles and uploaded over 1000 artworks.View their art by downloading the iOS app:appsto.re/no/vuVTib or visit atelier.as

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.