Talk Town er en folkelig debatfestival; en samtaleby om køn, ligestilling og feminisme; et forum for dialog på tværs af faglig og personlig erfaring; et sted for nysgerrighed, netværksdannelse og dialog. Festivalen er aktørbaseret i stil med folkemødet på Bornholm. Det vil sige, at den fungerer som en tværfaglig, social og kulturel ramme for organisationer, erhvervsliv, foreninger, græsrødder, aktivister, uddannelsesinstitutioner, engagerede borgere og internationale meningsdannere m.fl., hvori de kan bidrage med netop deres mærkesager. Talk Towns formål er at skabe en platform for netværk og dialog, hvor der er plads til uenighed og forskellige perspektiver, der kan mødes på kryds og tværs, men som alle peger ind i samme hovedvision; ligestilling. BAGGRUND Festivalen udspringer af Danmarks værtsskab for konferencen Women Deliver i 2016. Kulturproduktionskollektivet Indgreb ønskede at give den almene københavner adgang til de mange Women Deliver-delegerede, som repræsenterede ligestillingssagen globalt, og forankre de globale ligestillingsproblematikker, der blev behandlet på konferencen, i en dansk kontekst. Derfor kontaktede Indgreb Kvinderådet og gennem et stærkt samarbejde løb den første Talk Town af stablen i Kødbyen i 2016. Festivalen var egentlig kun tænkt til at finde sted en enkelt gang, men fremmødet og opbakningen var så stor, at festivalen vendte tilbage på Hovedbiblioteket i 2017, og igen i 2018 i Huset-KBH. I 2019 blev festivalen afholdt i Den Brune Kødby, hvor Talk Town samarbejdede med 75+ internationale og danske aktører, som præsenterede 100+ arrangementer for 3000 gæster. De sidste fire år har vist, at Talk Town er kommet for at blive. Således blev 2019 også året hvor Talk Town fik vokseværk, og foreningen Talk Town stolt kunne præsentere både 3-dagsfestival i København i maj og 1-dagsfestival i Århus i september. Derudover kuraterede Talk Town i 2019 talkprogrammet til projektet Kvinder I Centrum, som arrangeredes af spillestedet Forbrændingen i Albertslund. Som afslutning på dette projekt og samarbejde, præsenterede Talk Town en 1-dagsfestival på Forbrændingen d. 30. november

Passbuy is about freedom. Time is limited and we believe one should be able to spend time on things that matter. By making everyday life a little more convenient & delightful we hope to do just that. It should be easy to make the right choice and we believe Passbuy can help people make better purchasing decisions and thus help make the world more sustainable. That is why we designed a checkout where consumers can use their phone to check out in seconds. We’re moving the point-of-sale into everyone's pocket allowing for completely new shopping experiences.

Beetroot Academy is a Swedish IT school that provides intensive practical education to train valuable skills for the 21st century. Today we operate 16 academies in Ukraine and have educated over 2400 people as per 2019. Now we are expanding outside of Ukraine with the first location being Sweden in 2020.

At the end of 2013 there was few guys talking about what they would like to do because of the passion of tech and doing things right. About that idea a couple months later Restbyte was founded, we were working on few proof of concept ideas for some time but because of the funding we ended up working on consultancy business.  Anyway we decided keep the initial idea of working on interesting projects which we actually care about and wanted to offer likeminded people a place to work.

ProgressData.io helps companies measure their paygap, diversity and get practical research based improvement suggestions.  Companies wanting to measure their paygap, diversity often find that it is more expensive and time consuming than anticipated. Collection of relevant data can take weeks depending on the size of the company. Companies rarely have in-house staff with experience in measuring diversity, so even if the data is available it can be difficult to analyse and apply methodology based in research. Progressdata provides a dashboard and a reports, measuring improvement over time.

We were founded in February 2018 with the idea that giving plastic a value, we could get it removed from nature. A bit like the bottle deposit system, but for all kinds of plastic! We have gained amazing traction since we started, from being featured in Forbes and The Independent and invited to a panel at the first OECD forum on Blockchain to winning awards and being the only Nordic initiative among the 25 development projects/ SDG solutions selected to be showcased at Expo 2021 Dubai’s Global Best Practice Programme. We have done cleanups and pilots in more than 15 countries, proving that this really does work! Now we are building a global plastic waste ecosystem to incentivize cleanup and track where the plastic ends - most of it ideally back to reuse! The next step is to bring our vision to more places and create a truly innovative system than can help solve some of the big problems with plastic waste (of which there are more than you might imagine).

Columbia Road is a digital growth consultancy challenging the old ways of running digital businesses. We exist to increase our clients’ revenue and help them get more customers in the digital era. Our team consists of business consultants who understand business-driven design, tech, strategy and growth. We believe in giving a lot of responsibility and freedom to our employees. There’s a common misunderstanding that happy and satisfied employees are automatically motivated employees. We don’t see things that way. Happy and satisfied employees are an important priority for us, but we think causal relationship is reversed: people are happy and satisfied when they have work that motivates them. For us, an employee’s happiness is the primary goal, not a tool for raising productivity or profitability. We want to empower our employees to become a better version of themselves and to have more of an impact on the world. We see happiness & satisfaction as end goals, not starting points. That being said we love to laugh a lot, play some tunes at the office and grab a few drinks after work. What kind of work is motivating in our context? People yearn for purpose in their work and want it to have meaning that creates value: purpose, for people and organisations, comes from making an impact on the world. Meaning & significance comes from providing value to someone else — in our case, clients. Clients (not us) define the value of our actions, always. Jobs at columbiaroad.com/careers

MAK is a social impact start-up organization working to build capacity and facilitate knowledge exchange between young professionals from diverse backgrounds. MAK consists of Scandinavia’s largest community of talented and diverse individuals, with 600+ members from over 35 countries. In the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, MAK works to become Norway’s most robust platform for diverse innovation and entrepreneurship.

At AddSearch, we are dedicated to helping your website visitors find exactly and instantly what they want, using awesome site search. Our solution can be installed with just a few clicks and does not require any technical knowledge from the customer's side. AddSearch is trusted by thousands of companies around the world.

Livid Jeans is a small manufacturing company from Norway, created from a simple love & passion for superior quality and true craftsmanship. Dedicated to honor old traditions in making jeans, and inspired by a time when superior quality, supporting local trade and taking care of own garments mattered.Since its establishment in 2010, Livid Jeans remains today the only apparel manufacturing company left in Norway, driven not from an economic point of view, but with a purpose. A purpose driven towards upholding old trade and conventional craft in a country where a once blooming textile industry is gone, and the fine craft with it. While continuously growing we strive to follow core values and to always create as unique and authentic products as we possibly can. And while doing so, sustain our responsibility against the competitive force of poor products being made unsustainably.Livid Jeans’ product portfolio today consists of two different production lines. One collection handmade the old fashioned way locally right here in Trondheim, Norway. And one ready-to-wear collection line made in Barcelos, Portugal. Both lines offering superior quality garments with equal purpose.

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!

The CrayoNano team is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading teams within next generation nanoscale semiconductor materials and devices for optoelectronics applications. CrayoNano is a nanotechnology company specializing in developing optoelectronic devices based on semiconductor nanowires on graphene. CrayoNano AS was founded in June 2012. The Company originates from several years of research at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

Our supply chain aims to revamp the way we consume fashion today. We are a complete supply chain that believes in products, that are made with respect for all living beings. Our products will be sold both online and offline in a totally transparent way. We aim to have total control of our supply chain, starting from fiber all the way to customer experience. There are no secrets regarding production or the way we do business.

Hardware Startup Finland ry is a non-profit organisation that brings together hardware entrepreneurs and HW-oriented people in Finland. Our most important events are meetups, during which people get to know each other, share ideas, get feedback and help and hear talks from international speakers. We want to build a thriving hardware community and support people with their wild dreams of building physical products. Let's make Finland the HW-hub of Northern Europe together!

Barn ska vara fria och trygga. Alltid, också på nätet. Men det finns faror på nätet som barn inte är rustade att hantera på egen hand. Tillsammans kan vi hjälpa och skydda våra barn mot Trast har lösningen. Och den är gratis.Trast kopplar ihop stark e-identifiering (BankID) med konton på t.ex. sociala medier och i spelchattar. På så sätt säkerställer vi att det finns en känd identitet bakom den man pratar med. Trast är ett nystartat initiativ som jobbar mot grooming via internet. Grooming online är män som på t.ex. sociala nätverk, spelchattar och i telefonappar lurar barn och ungdomar att dela med sig av avklädda bilder, filmer och annat. Detta är redan idag ett stort problem men det växer också snabbt. Grundproblemet är att det är så enkelt att vara anonymitet på nätet. Förövarna kan sitta hemma helt anonymt och därmed helt riskfritt. Det är det vi vill komma åt med Trast. Trast kopplar ihop stark e-identifiering (BankID) med konton på t.ex. sociala medier och säkerställer på så sätt att det finns en känd identitet bakom den man pratar med. Trast skiljer sig från andra liknande tjänster genom att vi övervakar inte barnen eller vad de chattar om, vi ser bara till att de kan vara trygga med vem de chattar med. Vår tjänst är också helt gratis så att alla barn ska kunna få del av den. Man kan läsa mer om hur på vår hemsida www.trastpånätet.se. Trast är en icke vinstdrivande insamlingsstiftelse. Vi finansierar tjänsten med bidrag från stiftelser, staten, privatpersoner och andra organisation samt genom sponsorsamarbeten med företag.