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.

Sustainability Hub Norway aims to be the leading community for sustainability in Norway.     We will empower people with relationships, information, and tools to create actionable change. This is a direct response to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 17; partnerships.   What do we do: People, organizations, and companies in Norway need to get better at sustainable leadership and sustainable business in Norway.

SiteSage is developing an AI co-pilot for e-commerce customer support teams to help them resolve tickets faster and with higher quality by integrating directly into their existing systems and automating repetitive workflows with secure, action-based AI. In practice, we give support agents “superpowers”. SiteSage connects ticketing platforms with shop systems, WMS, ERP, shipping providers, and other operational tools, so agents no longer have to switch between systems or manually search for data. The AI retrieves context instantly, categorizes cases, suggests structured replies, and can execute predefined actions such as pausing orders or validating shipment status, all within controlled, role-based permissions. Instead of replacing people, we remove friction. Agents focus on exceptions and customer experience, while repetitive tasks and cross-system lookups are handled intelligently in the background.

Elysium Energy is building the AI-enabled platform that accelerates energy decentralization by unifying distributed energy resource (DER) projects with developers, capital, and expertise in a marketplace ecosystem. We're eliminating the fragmentation that kills 90% of DER projects by creating a single source of truth across the entire project lifecycle—from concept to operation. We have 5 active design partners across US, UK, and Indonesia, 2 pilot projects converting to paid customers, and have raised $150K SAFE from ERA plus $100K in non-dilutive grants. Our MVP is live and demonstrating 18% CAPEX reduction and 20% OPEX savings for energy projects. We're addressing a $16B software opportunity in the rapidly growing DER market.

A revolutionary solution to tackle your daily limescale problems: The Limescale Crusher (Kalkknuser). Our unique and innovative device is designed to be easily attached to the exterior of your water pipes, effectively 'crushing' limescale buildup without the need for any chemicals. Not only does our solution eliminate limescale issues, but it also enhances the lifespan of your kitchen appliances.

Tenet is a regulated prediction market exchange, which issues and offers trading of Prediction Contracts allowing investors to trade directly on the outcome of future events. Tenet is introducing this novel financial instrument designed to unlock the power of financial markets in a simple and intuitive format.

At VertaaEnsin.fi, we are on a mission to make personal finance simple and help consumers make better decisions. Every day we produce insightful and educational content on personal finance management, financial products, and so on, or we help consumers to choose e.g. the best credit cards, savings products or personal loans through our free and helpful comparison tools. We are proud to say that close to 2 million Finns have already turned to our objective and insightful advice in making better decisions in personal finance. At VertaaEnsin.fi we are passionate about our work and want to achieve great things. We think people are our greatest assets and want to share the journey with people who share our principles; We never settle for status quo, We commit to idea meritocracy, We love data not opinions, We always take full ownership of what we do.

Fixing and repairing of consumer goods are declining, and have been for many years. It can seem cheaper and more convenient to buy a new product and throw away the broken one. At the same time, repair shops need more customers. We will create a digital booking system to make repairing easier and convenient. Consumers can choose their preferred repair shop and order repairs directly from their couch and have it sent and delivered. At the same time, we help repairers reach new customers online and a CRM system optimised and co-created with repairers. Our mission is to build a culture for repair and inspire people to take care of what they already have. Our main SDG is number 12 - Responsible consumption and production. Increased volume of repair will lead to lower consumption and inspire consumers to buy less and better products. This is a big goal for Fikse and with our digital system, we know that it will lead to more reuse. In addition, Fikse is also contributing to goals 8, 11, 13 and 17. We care about the environment and will always work for these goals. In other words: We make repairs easy and convenient. Problem Today, repair and maintenance of consumer goods are a real hassle. It can seem cheaper and more convenient to buy a new product and throw away the broken one. In addition, repair shops need more customers and better margins. They also lack a customized system for managing orders and communicating with customers. Retail businesses have a hard time creating a solution for handling warranty and refund. Research shows that the inconvenience of repair is just as high an obstacle as the price. On the other side, repairers struggle to get customers. They do not have the time, money or resources to be active on social media or promote on digital platforms. They are also lacking a good system for managing orders and communicating with customers. Solution We help repair businesses and retail owners reach out to customers and respond to the emerging market for repairs and circularity. We are in the process of creating a digital booking system to make repairing easy, fast and convenient for all segments above. And we know that this sustainable concept is a service they actually want. At Høyer Paleet in Oslo, you can see for yourself. Together with the high-end retailer, we launched our MVP here in mid may. And what a response. We have over 800 bookings as of september 20, as well as the retail itself. This winter, we will start developing a fully digital version. This way, you can choose your preferred repair shop and order repairs directly from your couch and have it sent and delivered. At the same time, we help repairers reach new customers online by creating a CRM system optimized and co-created with repairers. We can manage all cases of repairs connected to warranty and refund for businesses to ensure the consumer a sustainable practice on all levels. Our dedicated team is ready to help you take care of what you have - so that your stuff can live longer and you can continue living your life.

We all know that the Fashion Industry has a terrible impact on the environment. It is the 2nd largest polluter and 10% of the global carbon emissions come from the Apparel Industry. 16 million tons of waste generated are textile waste and only 25% would be gathered by NGOs or other businesses in Europe. The rest mostly ends up in landfills and we don’t seem to really care! Our goal is to be the biggest and strongest community of Fashion lovers and makers. Join us to disrupt the way Fashion is made!

dQmetrics is developing a wearable wristband, which can track the calorie intake in food automatically. Our mission is to help people reach their weight loss goals by making it easy for them to lower or balance their calorie intake. We’re an early-stage deep tech startup and we are passionate about developing the next generation of wearables. We believe there is a big market opportunity in becoming the best wearable for diet tracking.

AQRisk is a danish fintech start-up - we bring new innovative fintech applications to market – that help solve fundamental analytical challenges in banking. We rethink optimized banking in close cooperation with customers and offer solutions for the future of banking by effectively utilizing data, quantitative methodology and fintech. Our solutions have received great validation in the Danish market and are now looking to scale internationally.

Hi, We are blankt - a fledgling art-tech startup from Stockholm, Sweden. The trend towards more personalization and customization is everywhere you look today. That's where blankt comes in. The vision is to be the platform where people, without any design experience, can create the art they want. It is then up to them to choose whether they want the art printed as a physical product or whether they want it digitally, e.g. in the form of an NFT.

At Frigg, we develop a research tool that creates tailor-made statistics, trends, and analyses to make sure that you don’t have to dig for the information you need. We monitor every person, company, and real estate property, so our clients don’t have to. By compiling, refining, and presenting large amounts of public data from external sources in a coherent and intuitive way, we make it simpler and faster for our clients to create overviews with the data most valuable to them in their projects.

Hos CloZer ønsker vi at støtte lokale tøjbutikker ved at skabe en ekstra online salgskanal for dem. CloZer skaber bekvemmelighed for forbrugere ved at identificere tøjet i de lokale butikker inden for et givent område. Endvidere giver CloZer mulighed for at forbrugere kan vælge at hente deres ordre eller få den leveret. Ved at samle et bredt udvalg af tøj under én platform, og dermed yderligere synliggøre lokale butikker, kan forbrugere bliver højere påvirket til at købe lokalt i stedet for via større platforme. Vi mener at sammen står lokale tøjbutikker stærkere. Kort sagt er CloZer en ”Just-Eat” udelukkende for de lokale tøjbutikker.

GENERAXION is a North European market leader in digital marketing and strategy. Driven by outstanding digital results, we’re a new generation of Demand Drivers - the next generation of marketing people. With +400 individual Demand Drivers in 10 Demand Studios across Northern Europe, we’ve helped drive demand for +8000 companies. Always with the purpose to realize business dreams.