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.

Fischer Lighting is a sustainable front-runner who has developed a unique circular business model where waste is transformed into new beautiful lamps that make buildings more sustainable and people healthier. In 2023, Fischer Lighting saved more than 53 tons of discarded lamps from being thrown away, and with the concepts ReUse, ReDesign, and ReCreate, unique lighting solutions are created in a beautiful and industrial design that meets all the requirements of a new lighting fixture. In addition to environmental sustainability, social sustainability is also an important part of the concept. Therefore, all the old lamps are separated and assembled by people on the edge of the labor market in Denmark. At the same time, the lamps are equipped with the latest technology, which, among other things, enables circadian lighting, which can stimulate the production of hormones in our body and create better well-being for people in buildings.

We are a software startup from Gothenburg. We develop tools for businesses that leverage data. Currently, we are developing a software tool for legal and accounting professionals to efficiently manage their projects and business. Further, we plan to develop an integrated platform for small and medium-sized businesses and organizations.

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).

It’s high time to free the healthcare system from intrusive staffing companies. Once and for all. Eppow is a service that makes it easier for healthcare professionals and healthcare units to find each other for job opportunities. Eppow enables healthcare units to publish vacancies. And on the other side of that, there are healthcare personnel, such as clinicians and nurses, looking for new jobs. When they find each other, they communicate directly and sign straightforward contracts without middlemen. The assignment may be very short, very long, or transition into permanent employment. The goal is continuity and quality within healthcare.

Sammikka Security is an independent auditor for advertising data. Our scalable tools will audit, validate and verify data behind digital advertising focusing on ad data compliance, digital risks and business opportunities. Publishers are our customers and 78% of publishers say that they have no knowledge of which and how many third-party companies are accessing their data. Sammikka Security will make the ad data ecosystem visible with our extremely experienced team having global networks. The current team of seven specialists is led by Suvi Erjanti, the digital media pioneer and rewarded visionary.

Connex elevates the work desk to a whole new level. A solid desk with a simple, minimalist mode of expression, makes suitable for many types of offices and styles. A mix of contrasting sharp and soft lines adds both edge and modernity to the desk. The exclusive materials make the desk a real stand out piece that will look wonderful in any modern space. Connex desk is an ideal workstation for the office and home environments. A beautiful and functional desk ideal for everyday work use. Looking for people that want to make real innovation and with a proactive attitude Work Hard Play Hard!

Openrecruit er en rekrutteringsplatform. Med vores platform kan du tiltrække kandidater naturligt gennem moderne jobinvitationer og en karriereside, der fortæller hvem I er, ikke kun hvad I søger. Den gamle måde kender vi alle. Lukket rekruttering med CV’er, ansøgninger, ventetid og gætteri. Ansøgning. Det er tungt, langsomt og ofte uretfærdigt, for både kandidater og organisationer. Åben rekruttering vælger en anden vej. Her starter vi med en jobinvitation, hvor alle kan vise interesse. Kandidaten introducerer sig selv gennem et kort, digitalt interview. Der gives feedback, så ingen står i stilhed. Og matchningen sker på kompetencer og potentiale, ikke baggrund, titel eller netværk. Det er hurtigere. Det er mere menneskeligt. Og det er mere retfærdigt. For når vi ændrer måden, vi møder mennesker på, ændrer vi alt.

NOREXECO is a regulated commodity exchange specialised for the global pulp and paper industry. NOREXECO offers trading in cash settled financial futures. These instruments are used to manage price risk for market participants like producers and consumers as well as being a trading opportunity for financial institutions and commodity trading firms. Together with strong partners like the European Commodity Clearing AG, Deutsche Boerse Group and FOEX Indexes Ltd, NOREXECO brings market participants from many regions together around a common liquidity pool in an otherwise fragmented trading environment. Anonymous trading, transparency, guaranteed settlement and investor protection within a regulated environment makes NOREXECO an attractive marketplace for optimizing risk.

Corpay One is only nine years old, and though we’ve grown fast and are now financially backed by Corpay, a major US payments company, we remain true to our founding values. Working here means revolutionizing how thousands of business owners, finance teams, accountants, and bookkeeping professionals across the globe handle everyday finance tasks like payments, expense management, and bookkeeping. We save our customers valuable time by acting as an automated layer on top of their accounting software. Since day one, passion and drive has been the core tenets of our organization. Curious minds and execution experts will like the organizational maturity, love the entrepreneurial spirit, and stay for the inclusive culture. We face challenges as a unit and pitch in whenever our help is needed. Whether we suffer defeat or rise triumphantly we offer honest feedback to keep growing professionally. While the organizational scale has changed, our agile way of working has not.

Lett Synlig er et digitalt markedsførings byrå, som hjelper bedrifter å skille seg ut på digitale medier og nå frem til nye kunder. Vi hjelper selskapet ditt å utmerke seg ved å legge en klar strategi for vekst og digital synlighet. Vårt fokus på ny teknologi skal gi deg konkurransefortrinn samt gjøre deg klar til å møte utfordringene på nett. Vi ønsker å skape suksesshistorier og å være en del av prosessen. Vi lykkes når vi kan levere løsninger som kundene våre kan være stolte av. Våre ansatte har lang erfaring i bransjen og brenner for å lage gode, digitale løsninger. Vi elsker å lage tilpassede løsninger, skreddersydd etter dine – og selvfølgelig brukernes – ønsker og behov. Det er nemlig i dette skjæringspunktet man finner de smarteste, og mest vellykkede løsningene. Vi tar fatt på alle prosjekter med samme mål: Å levere et resultat som engasjerer og som møter de målene vi har satt oss. Vi Jobber forøvrig uten noe form for bindingstid.

From the center in the Norwegian maritime cluster, Seastate 7 has the advantage of being close to our customers, collaborating partners and day-to-day users in our quest to innovate the ultimate system solution to relevant difficulties in the industry. The ocean made us who we are, and we make systems to handle it. We know the ocean, and we use our knowledge to protect it. Seastate 7 creates values for our customers in form of increased safety, sustainability and savings in operation. Smart Aqua We work with the industry, for the industry towards the future. Seastate 7 has made a new solution for the aqua industry to cope with many of the issues that they are facing at present time. We are harvesting the ideas and solutions that is already in use, making new products and improving and implementing them in a new way and a total package that is leaning towards the future. Let's call it Aqua 4.0. For the years to come!

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!

Paptic Ltd was founded in 2015 to replace oil-based plastics with a new renewable, recyclable and reusable Paptic® material. It answers the multi-billion requirement of global brand owners for sustainable packaging materials. Paptic Ltd currently employs 25 people and is based in Espoo, Finland, and has an experienced global sales network. We are very proud of our company culture. The hierarchy is low, and the decision-making is fast. We respect openness, the atmosphere is encouraging, inspiring and you have close to 30 team players to support you in your work.

Ripple Aerospace is a Norwegian aerospace company developing the oceanic Sea Serpent launch system. Leveraging Norway's long history of seafaring, shipbuilding, and maritime technology, we are developing a rocket class capable of being built, launched and recovered on the sea. Given the inefficiency of the space economy and launch service industry, our goal is to bring to market a mobile, reusable and scalable launch system capable of delivering medium, heavy and super heavy payloads into space. With industrial and commercialization partners from across Norway and abroad, the oceanic Sea Serpent launch system aims to be the preferred method of cargo transportation into space, providing the global economy a low-cost and accessible launch system.