THE URGENT ISSUE IN TODAY'S JOB MARKET IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES: ✪ Traditional recruitment prioritizes CV algorithms and keywords over human potential, by an astonishing 90%. When ATS/AI control who gets seen, we lose the most important factor: the human behind the CV. This creates not just unemployment, but social exclusion - when people can't find work, they lose connection to society and experience profound isolation. ✪ Todays recruitment methods are narrowly fixated purely on qualifications and historical experience, relying heavily on algorithms to sift through CVs. This approach overlooks the unique talents and motivations of individuals, drivingforces, personality and thus missing out on valuable opportunities for growth and success. ✪ THE RESULT: People are often using ChatGPT or Copilot to write their applications + HR are using AI to read them = nobody is getting hired. ✪ Sweden struggles with high youth unemployment and urban-rural divides. Refugee integration remains uneven, and platform work is eroding traditional protections. Union influence is waning, especially in tech and service sectors. ✪ Denmark’s famed flexicurity model is under pressure. Women are overrepresented in part-time roles, and older workers exit early. Gig work is expanding faster than regulation, challenging collective bargaining norms. ✪ Finland faces persistent long-term unemployment and mental health-related exclusion. Industrial restructuring is shifting jobs to tech hubs, leaving peripheral regions behind. Labor mobility remains low despite retraining efforts. In conclusion; the Nordic countries face mounting labor market exclusion despite strong welfare models. Norway leads with 700,000 adults outside the labor force, driven by regional stagnation, immigrant underemployment, and early retirement. The green and digital transitions are creating jobs—but not where displaced workers live. THE PERFECT STORM FOR US! TURNING THE RECRUITMENT MARKET UPSIDE-DOWN «From employer initiated to 100% talent focused.» Our Solution: Talentity.ai = AI meets empathy! Nordic's first community for job seekers, where talent takes center stage. Meeting the talents, rather than relying on historical data on a piece of paper. Creating an empathic AI, that combines human expertise with technology, supporting decision making and not taking over the entire process.

Winnershape laver sportstøj til kvinder i høj kvalitet. Vi arbejder hele tiden på, at designe og producere tøj der sidder perfekt og er så behageligt at have på, at man ikke kan lade være med at gå i det selv, når man ikke træner. Vi tester alt vores tøj grundigt sammen med vores brugerpanel inden, at der lanceres noget for, at sikre at vi kan stå inden for kvaliteten.

At GoGood, we work towards developing a reuse economy for office furniture that will be preferred to the consumer economy. Our solution consists of a digital reuse-platform that aims to become a driving force in the reuse economy for used office furniture. We have taken a concrete approach, starting with office interiors as our initial focus. In Norway alone, the office furniture market is worth over 4 billion annually, yet we discard 140,000 tons of furniture valued at 400-500 million Norwegian kroner each year. This cannot continue. That's why we have developed a reuse-platform for furniture, including a marketplace for the professional furniture market, making it incredibly easy for businesses, interior architects, and other stakeholders to sell their furniture while also simplifying the process of purchasing used furniture for interior projects, as well as making old furniture look new again. Over the past two years, we have made significant progress in developing modern reuse solutions, products, and services. With public support totaling over 15 million Norwegian kroner from the Research Council of Norway, Innovation Norway, and the Oslo municipality, as well as partnerships with industry players such as Flokk, Aarsland, Ope, Norsk Gjenvinning, Glomma Industrier, Hannah Nordh, Oslo Waste and Recycling Agency, NORSUS - Norwegian Institute for Sustainability Research, Norsk Regnesentral, and OBOS, we are now ready with our reuse-platform making the circular economy for office furniture on a large scale possible-

Sellintu ApS is a Danish startup from Copenhagen in Denmark, established in 2023. The idea behind Sellintu, is to help physical product brands and companies to sell intelligently into marketplaces. By marketplaces, we mean programs require "approval" to get into, that a retail store run for third party suppliers, that allow to list their products on their store, to dropship to their customers. This is in contrast to "open to all" marketplaces like Amazon and Ebay, where there is little to no approval process to go through. We focus on three areas in this journey: 1: Matching brand to partner channel, by using inhouse data anytics to guide the process. 2: Onboarding with partner channel, by doing it on our clients behalf, or develop tools to increase the onboarding time. 3. Sell more and earn more with partners, by automating processes relating to daily operations, such as fulfilment of orders. Why do we do this? Because we went through the steps above, and encountered numeruous processes that we thought could be optimized with the right tools, to 10x the experience selling through these channels. With the main tools in hand, we want to offer them to other companies who already suffer, or are about to suffer what we went though.

I Adaptic tror vi på teknologi og data, i kombinasjon med menneskelig kunnskap og kompetanse. Vi er et teknologiselskap i stor vekst med en unik miks av fagkompetanse innen teknologi, programvareutvikling, økonomi, energi og drift av næringsbygg. Vår digitale tilnærming til energibruk og drift av næringsbygg bidrar til å digitalisere eiendomsbransjen! Hos oss handler "alt" om produktet vårt som heter Adaptic Cloud. Dette er en norskprodusert og moderne skyløsning som er godt tilpasset eiere av næringsbygg sine behov for rapportering, analyse og kontroll med kostnadene rundt energiforbruk og effekt i egne bygg. Kundene våre er de ledende eiendomsselskapene i Norge. I Oslo er dette bedrifter som Aspelin Ramm, Møller Eiendom, Mustad Eiendom og Selvaag. Vi kan også nevne Oxer (Asker), Union (Drammen) og Recreate og Bratsberg (Porsgrunn) som store og viktige kunder hos oss. I Bergen er Bara, Frydenbø, Odfjell, Zurhaar og GC Rieber eksempler på store og viktige eiendomskunder. I tillegg er en rekke industrivirksomheter som f.eks. Tide, Lerøy, Mesterbakeren og Wärtsila på vår kundeliste. Adaptic er nå over i en fase som "scaleup-bedrift", noe betyr at vi ikke lengre er en oppstartsbedrift, men er i ferd med å bygge strukturer og tenker digitalisering, kvalitet og skalering i alt vi gjør. Vi vokser kraftig i omsetning og utvikler markedet ved å levere gode produkter og sikre fornøyde kunder. Dette er krevende og spennende på samme tid.

Retrade is a leading online marketplace for used industrial equipment and machinery. Our platform connects buyers and sellers across various industries, facilitating the efficient and secure trade of pre-owned machinery. With a global presence and a diverse range of listings, Retrade plays an decisive role to extend the lifetime of thousands of machines every year. We help establishing a more responsible and sustainable ownership of machinery, and make sure machines from Nordic companies gets a second life somewhere relevant across the world.

Bringing innovation to the street food market through Pop Ave, a digital platform that helps food trucks optimize their day to day activities and services to customers. Food trucks face a number of challenges such as low visibility, limited space, high competition, and low profit margins. Pop Ave helps food trucks reach more customers by providing an online presence, live location tracking, order management, and connecting food trucks with street food events & festivals. - And with our Self-service feature, we allow customers to quickly order food through their phone or a the food truck tablet for an overall improved customer experience, especially useful in areas with high foot traffic where long queues can be a problem.

Visibuilt is building fossil-free alternatives for pavement materials. Our core technology, visiBINDER, is a 100% bio-based binder developed from mycelium and designed to reduce energy use and CO2 emissions in infrastructure materials. We are based at Alfa Laval Innovation House in Søborg, just outside Copenhagen.

The building industry alone accounts for 40% of the global CO2 emissions. We believe that reducing this number starts with looking at materials we already have. Reuse of building materials is however not easy to coordinate and execute. Our mission is therefore to make this information available, and facilitate the process from design to construction. Through a series of web-applications and integrations with Building Information Modelling (BIM) software, we’ve started to form synchronized and comprehensive solutions to help the building industry reduce its climate change. Tvinn Solutions Enables Circular Economy through Reuse-oriented Solutions for rchitects, Real-estate developers and owners.

Kleda is a platform that allows users to share their personal styles and earn money from it. The platform allows users to create a profile to showcase and share pictures of their clothing style, as well as add links to where the clothing items were purchased. These links are then transformed into "deep links" that enable tracking of purchases made through a given user's clothing style. Users who share their styles on the platform will receive a commission of approximately 10-20% on sales made through these links. Kleda facilitates transactions between users and clothing stores, with the aim of making it easier for users to shop for clothes and get inspiration to create a good clothing style. Kleda solves several problems in the fashion industry. Consumers often experience friction when they have to visit multiple different stores or websites to find the clothes they want. Kleda provides a seamless and user-friendly experience by offering multiple stores on one platform. Additionally, Kleda provides publishers with a platform to build their own brand and earn money through collaborations with clothing stores. Kleda provides clothing stores with an easy way to sell products directly to consumers on a platform that already has a large and engaged user base, thereby increasing their visibility and revenue. Kleda has three different customer groups. The first group is shopping customers who use the Kleda app to find and purchase clothes from various stores on an easy and user-friendly platform. The second group is publishers who share their clothing styles and inspire other users. Kleda offers publishers the opportunity to build their personal brand and earn money by collaborating with Kleda's clothing store partners. The third group is clothing stores that want increased visibility and accessibility on a new platform. Kleda provides clothing stores with the opportunity to sell their products directly to customers and collaborate with Kleda to promote their products through campaigns and marketing. Overall, Kleda is solving the problem of the friction and inconvenience that consumers experience when shopping for clothes, while also providing opportunities for publishers and clothing stores to benefit from the platform.

The FotoWare Group FotoWare is a Norwegian software company that enables businesses and organizations with complex workflow needs efficiently store, manage, distribute, and re-use digital files. With more than 25 years of experience, FotoWare is a world-leading provider of Digital Asset Management (DAM) and content management solutions with more than 1,400 customers in 40 countries around the world. FotoWare has employees of more than 23 nationalities and has a strong presence in Europe, the US, and Australia. With international customers and a fast-paced work environment comes a demand for business conduct, compliance, and responsible behavior, and we're proud of our efforts to ensure a high level of diversity, equality, and sustainability within our organization. FotoWare has built one of the most efficient and productive solutions found on the market today for finding, processing, and sharing videos, photos, graphics, audio, presentations, and documents. The solution is praised among users for the user experience and functionality, and the modular system is very cost-efficient for both small and large companies and is available as-a-Service, for private-cloud, hybrid, or on-premise deployments. FotoWare is a software company based in Oslo, Norway, with employees from all over the world, and a global partner network. Established in 1994 as a result of the growing demand to handle large volumes of digital photos and videos, the company has since then provided 2000+ companies with enterprise-class Digital Asset Management solutions.

Vulkazas vision is to revolutionize *how things are made* by connecting a global cooperative manufacturing community of 3D print makers with amazing product developers and ecommerce sellers. The world needs a more sustainable way of production, and we want to be the force that sets things in motion.Our software platform has so far been used by several pilot customers, including 3D artists, influencers and ecommerce experts who want to sell new and unique products. We are also steadily growing our network of makers who support our vision and want to be part of the change.We are in the pre-seed stage, with a secured initial investment from Antler, a global VC investor.

Flow Insights is a data, insights, and analytics partner for physical retail. We work with some of the most recognized brands and retailers in the world. Clients use us to make faster and more accurate assortment and space decisions to improve shoppability, reduce waste, simplify operations, and increase profitability.

Overview We are committed to developing and distributing user-friendly and intelligent software assisting ship owners, cargo owners, and operators optimize and manage their portfolio of commercial decisions. Norway is a small country but has a good functioning maritime cluster consisting of companies providing different services to the global marine industry. This makes Norway an excellent place for maritime R&D projects. Our Purpose We started Maritime Optima because we wanted to assist people working in the maritime industry in unlocking their digital potential. We believe useful and user-friendly software should be made available to everyone working in the marine sector. We want to show that people working in teams, collaborating, exchanging data and knowledge, create higher profits because they attract talent and make better decisions, and working in a team is also more fun. Our Ambition We are building affordable, intuitive, and useful software where you can decide with whom you want to share your data. Maritime Optima aims to help you or your team to be more productive, reduce stress, improve the quality of your decisions, and have more fun. We also believe Maritime Optima can assist you in unlocking your digital potential.

MIRAGE is a year-round initiative and a film festival for the art of the real. We want to give our audience the best of international cinema, handpicking around 30 films every year. Most importantly MIRAGE is a social festival and a place to share experiences and a place to be fascinated. Through cinema, parties, and concerts, through mind-opening conversations and intimate meetings with the most interesting artists and filmmakers of our time. Showcasing the latest premieres and hottest titles from the most important film festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Venezia, Rotterdam, etc. The typical MIRAGE film will make you travel, will make you captivated and curious, and open your eyes to new perspectives about the world around you. Last year we launched our MIRAGE Satellite concept which is a project to reach out beyond Oslo with our program. In collaboration with several screening arenas, we have extended our festival to all parts of Norway, from east to south. Our satellites this year: Verdensteateret in Tromsø Kirkenes Filmklubb Alta Filmklubb Bodø Filmklubb Strømmen Filmklubb Grenland Filmklubb Cinemateket i Trondheim Sandnes Kulturhus Fagernes Kulturhus Florø Kulturhus