Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto has six schools with nearly 11 000 students and a staff of more than 4000, of which 400 are professors. Our campus is located in Espoo.

Workintra is a NextGen intranet and communication platform dedicated to startups, small and medium-sized businesses. It allows for improved communication and work productivity along with high-level Document Governance in one easy to integrate and cost-effective solution. Workintra is built to be super intuitive, which means that it can be integrated into any organization within a matter of a few hours, unlike traditional intranet solutions that often require months and considerable resources, both human and financial. We aim to democratize the cloud intranet space, specifically for small businesses and scaleups, and enable users to increase productivity, improve team spirit, and reduce time waste, by providing our award-winning intranet cost-effectively and fast. Our roadmap includes a list of exciting and unique new features as well as native iOS and Android APPs and full accessibility compliance (WCAG 21 - AA) to cater to our public and government customer base.

Poikilingo is developing a language learning app for small children (2 - 6 years old), where social and cultural awareness are at the heart of our concept. Our program focuses on the cultural aspects of the language being learned, as we believe that cracking the social code is as important as learning vocabulary and pronunciation. This promotes a sense of belonging which will positively impact the child's learning process. Each child is unique, so each of them deserves a study program that takes into consideration their peculiarities. The customized study plan that childre get at Poikilingo mixes activities, videos, songs and games, and if the child makes mistakes, she gets feedback in her native tongue. We follow a consolidated learning approach that teaches different subjects through the language, all created by educational experts and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. But the game-changing experience that Poikilingo brings into the market is based on animated stories where an avatar of the child goes through everyday situations that children go through, including when they move to a new country and have to start into a new kindergarten.

Online Marketing Agency - from creating the media strategy to campaign execution. We offer unbiased digital media consultancy within a variety of marketing channels. We create digital media strategies, we do the research and choosing segments and audiences as well as execute the actual campaigns. On Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and almost every other channel which is programmatic buying.

We are HEMBOO: an early stage start-up with the vision of making low emissions, renewable materials the norm in construction. Besides fossil fuels, the production of concrete is the worst emitter of CO2 in the world. However it is the most used material within the construction sector. But not for long: climate legislation is about to make concrete a whole lot more expensive, by introducing a CO2 TAX. This leaves the construction companies with a problem as there is no valid sustainable alternative they can use. HEMBOO offers an easy solution: prefabricated walls for new construction made of hemp and bamboo with a reduction of 80% CO2 emitted compared to the traditionally used concrete walls. BUT the construction industry is very conservative and risk-averse. Therefore getting to market is a long journey. We built our first prototype are now preparing for the second one and are gathering data on the needs of our customers. Our aim is to provide a solution similar enough in prefabrication and installation methods, to make the transition from concrete fast and easy. Our element is designed for large scaled production so that we can have the largest impact. Recently we have received a total of 520.000 dkk in soft funding for product development and are participating in multiple startup support programs so it is full speed ahead! The team behind it all: We are a diverse team of three, Elsa Maria Iuliano, Helena Brandt Rejndrup and Michael Hallam. Helena and Elsa graduated as architectural engineers from DTU while Michael is finishing up his studies in design and entrepreneurship. We started HEMBOO because we are all very passionate about making an environmental impact. As a team we have a lot fun together, while still being productive. We emphasize a friendly environment where we help each other even though everyone has individual responsibilities. Currently looking to expand and we want you to be a part of it! Reach out if you are interested in getting on board. We are particularly interested in commercial, communication and financial competencies. Based in our joint office spaces in the center of Copenhagen and at CBS in Frederiksberg. And yes they do they do have Friday bars :-) Feel free to contact us with any questions! E-mail: info@hemboo.dk

SynergyXR is the leading no-code XR and Spatial Computing SaaS platform for the industrial, manufacturing, and energy sectors, enabling companies to build, operate, and optimize safe immersive learning programs at a scale, speed, and cost not previously possible. SynergyXR sees a present and a future where extended realities, like augmented and virtual reality, will continue revolutionizing how we work, live, and play. With extensive expertise and experience within the manufacturing and energy sector, and specialized solutions for technical training and onboarding, we are committed to helping these technologies become the norm. By designing and building people-first solutions, we help bring XR technology, such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, to businesses today, not tomorrow.

PESITHO Pesitho is a Danish based enterprise, committed to providing affordable and clean energy solutions for cooking to marginalized and vulnerable people around the world. We have developed the ECOCA solar powered electric cook stove, to meet the daily cooking and energy needs to families living in off grid areas. Pesitho has established a locally run co-operative outside of the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda, from where stoves are assembled, distributed, and serviced by refugee residents and members of the host community. The company was founded in 2018 and has a combined experience of more than 30 years in the renewable energy industry. The Problem we are solving Currently, 4 billion people around the world lack access to clean, efficient, and affordable access to energy for cooking. Polluting fuels and technologies for cooking have a detrimental impact of health, nutrition, gender, and the environment, hindering the process of a sustainable development, in many cases, in already fragile settings. The lack of progress in clean cooking, reportedly costs the world more than $2.4 trillion each year, driven by adverse impacts on health, climate, and gender equality. Left unaddressed, communities will continue face multiple adverse consequences, that are further amplified by poverty, climate change and future global pandemics. To solve this problem Providing access to an affordable and sustainable technology for cooking with the ECOCA solar powered electric cook seeks to address energy security not just for cooking but also to reduce environmental issues like deforestation, pollution, also gender inequality and poverty. Research and design for our stove was conducted with residents of the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda, where pilot testing permitted additional adjustments, allowing for a stove specifically designed to meet the cooking needs of vulnerable groups of people living in off grid areas. The ECOCA comes with a solar panel, insulated 6l cooking pot, 1 LED rechargeable household lamp, 1 LED rechargeable torch and USB ports for charging small items. Studies conducted with end users by organizations such as Caritas and World Food Program, have shown improvements to overall health and wellbeing, reducing exposure to harmful pollutants from smoke and usage of firewood, improvements in taste of food, income generation from USB port charging station and hours saved from collecting firewood being reinvested in education and skills training. The Spark Pesitho was founded on the belief that all should be able to have access to modern clean energy for cooking. Seeing a map over Africa showed that a large portion of the continent is without access to modern energy. This sparked a willingness to learn why. Understanding the why lead to the understanding of scale of lacking modern energy in that region of the world. While other continents where mowing a positive direction in relation to rural electrification sub Sarah Africa is still mowing in the wrong direction with the number of people living without access to electricity growing. This knowledge inspired the team to pursue the development of the ECOCA, off grid E-cooker

Our goal at Fox Documentaries is to bring the impacts of climate change closer to those who see it as a distant problem. We take viewers around the world and show them first hand how climate change is already bringing devastating challenges for the worlds most vulnerable communities. Fox Media Documentaries is a forward-thinking and pioneering Danish Documentary company based in central Copenhagen (Christianshavn). We work on developing artistic VR documentaries that have both an emotive and educational impact on audiences. Our newest venture, Biosphere VR ( www.biospherevr.com ), consists of five different cinematic VR-experiences that connect spectators with the climate change crisis through immersive technology. Each of the five experiences is seen through the eyes of a particular local individual (narrator) in Beijing, Jordan, Ethiopia, Kiribati and Morocco. See more here: https://www.biospherevr.com/#biosphere. Each VR-experience runs between 5 and 10 minutes and engages audiences on a deeply personal and emotional level. Simultaneously, the five VR-experiences effectively tap into the fundamental consequences of global warming and provide clear and engaging educational content. These experiences have already received a significant commendation at many highly acclaimed international film festivals including VR Days, COP: DOX and Cinequest Film and VR. In addition, Biosphere’s five individual VR experiences have so far been tested in two different educational institutions: Maglegaard School in Denmark, and Learning Lab at Tsinghua University in Beijing (China). Both tests have produced impressive results, with all spectators reporting an increased motivation for learning following their engagement with Biosphere VR. We have also conducted workshops in the US and at COP-summits. For further information about our educational project, please visit ://www.biospherevr.com/introduction-in-the-school#new-page-35https. In addition to the five existing experiences we have produced, we are interested in producing more stories in other parts of the world: including Germany, the Netherlands, the Arctic, among many others. We also intend to conduct more workshops in order to raise awareness of the climate change crisis, as well as to encourage and inspire more climate change initiatives. We are also looking to expand into museums and to conduct exhibitions. Our current focus is to establish partnerships with foreign governments to provide funding for future productions related to climate change in the developing world.

Squire is a service marketplace that facilitates the connection between freelancers providing their services and customers in need of service help. If you want to work on Squire, you can experience true freedom and flexibility as you can choose when you work, what services you provide, and how much you charge. For customers looking for service help, Squire offers a variety of categories to choose from. Here they can find freelancers and businesses ready to offer their services. We have experienced that many people around us have lost their jobs. We want to build a solution to this, providing people who have lost their income a means to earn a living. Efficient access to services is something we believe the danish economy lacks, by facilitating new demand and supply for service jobs, we hope to stimulate the economy by creating a platform that encourages spending and income generation opportunities during a time of suppressed economic growth.

Videography – video editing and photography services in Odense and in Fyn area. Myra provides professional video production services within the most customer-friendly prices on the danish market. We make wedding videos, film interviews and business events, while also create visual stories, advertisements and promotional videos for companies. Creativity is our key – number one. We adapt ourselves to customer needs and possibilities, and no matter what, we get the project done. We constantly work on developing our competencies in video production, and our talented team is always ready to create the highest visual value for your product.

carryon.bike - Fun without Fuel carryon.bike is developing an AI based online platform to bring the cycling community under one roof. I found that there is no platform where the cycle community can find varied information that is relevant and uptodate and exactly as per their needs and behaviour. At the same time the patience level to comb through websites for relevant information is decreasing. The objective of carryon.bike is to provide and suggest information that is helpful to anyone from the cycling community. There will be many who have started considering cycle for commuting, exercising , or weekend gateways. Even tourists would prefer bike tours. So a global platform to cater to needs of all and encourage more and more adoption of cycling to adhere to the new norms post COVID outbreak and at the same time contribute to a greener planet Example, if a visitor to the portal is looking for renting bikes for touring a city during the weekend and wishes to rent an e-bike for few hours, showing the person a shop that rents mountain bikes and Race Bikes ONLY, would irritate the person. This also gives more exposure to the shops and brands. Another example to explain how we wish to solve problems: When casual office commuters wish to buy a bike, they would feel comfortable getting advise from an expert. Carryon.bike becomes the platform where domain experts would answer to practical questions and guide them to make the right choice in current scenario based on the person’s age or city or road conditions etc. This idea sparked during the corona times when I found friends and family and even celebrities getting anxious to go out of their houses for exercising, sightseeing and some fresh air. The regular office goers who were dependent upon public transport were thinking of walking down to office but felt it was time consuming. The young adventurous population like the high school students or university students wanted to take up cycling tours during weekends and felt they could not find enough bike routes. It was evident that there will be even more needs for cycling and with demands will be a need to get more and more info, or consult people for unexplored or unknown topics. So why not build carryon.bike - the Craigslist of cycling industry.

Athlee is an award-winning global sports-tech company in the Swimming industry. The customized hardware and software camera system helps coaches coach better, and swimmers learn faster. Powering new swimmers and Olympians, Athlee is democratizing how we learn to swim. Athlee is based in Hørsholm, Denmark, but has a very international and talented team (the full team is not listed at thehub). We serve a global market and work with some of the best coaches and swimmers in Europe and the US.

1. In Mutual Benefits Group we aim to improve properties and society’s climate impact by AI. The tool DEEP (Digitized Energy Efficiency Portal), has been developed by Smartergy* to optimize buildings and its equipments energy performance with Machine Learning in real time to help property owners and tenants to understand and improve their energy consumption. Today we work together with Chalmers (Digitalisation/AI) and RISE (Energy Management) with support from VGR and EU. *Organized under MBE until investor is chosen. 2. DEEP utilize adaptive AI control instead of manual analysis and control. Results in lower energy consumption, lower cost, risk mitigation if co-workers quit and less climate impact. Investments in energy efficiency also stimulate the economy, in particular the construction industry, which generates about 9% of Europe’s GDP and directly accounts for 18 million direct jobs. MBE together with other SMEs(Small and Medium sized Enterprizes) would particularly benefit from a boosted renovation market, as they contribute more than 70% of the value added in the EU building sector. (EC, Energy performance of buildings) DEEP stimulates to tangible optimization in the company Time saving - relieves employees up to 60% to do other important things. Energy & Cost Savings - in addition to 15-50% energy savings, data collection and "automatic facility manager" pointing out next equipment to update. DEEP contributes concretely to Agenda 2030 goals: 7 - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. 7.2 - Substantially increase the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix. 8 - Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. 13.3 - Improve education, raise awareness and human and institutional capacity for adaptation, early warning indication, climate change mitigation measures and its consequences. 3. We have committed co-workers (MSc, PhD) within SW-dev, Test&Verification, Project management, Power Electronics and Quality assurance. We support the automotive industry amongst other technologies with Machine learning for Autonomus driving vehicles. We have performed a demo version of the DEEP tool at a sawing mill and are since 2019 performing a Pilot Case for one a big facility owner (revenue 10,6 B€) for an office building of 4500 sqm in Gothenburg. The DEEP tool optimizes buildings energy efficiency by measurement, logging, analyzing and control the buildings equipment and manufacturing machines by AI. Large buildings* HVAC system are usually controlled by a PLC. DEEP communicates (read&write) with the PLC by OPC server, API or other interface. The data is stored in the MySQL database which is read from the AI-unit, who analyse the data through a data driven Deep Reinforcement Learning, DRL algorithm. The control signal is communicated to the PLC who controls the equipment. The DRL gets a positive or negative reward depending on the step. *Offices, Schools, Hospitals, Hotels, Industrial facilities, enough sized condonomiums. 4: The DEEP story 2017 we wanted to create an easy-to-understand product, with advanced technology, giving our property owners and tenants lower costs, improved climate impact and more time for important value-adding things. After several years in climate-smart real estate solutions, we found that property management could receive valuable support from AI-based tools that automatically identify the optimal where and when it shall control, and automatically does it. MBE has experience of technical assignments in autonomous driving vehicles. We are confident with AI algorithm development. We would like to transfer our knowledge to the real estate industry, as it nevertheless contributes to almost twice as much climatic impact as road transport (IEA, Digitalization & Energy, 2017) Therefore we develop DEEP (Digitized Energy Efficiency Portal)…

LETZLEATHER create stylish quality interior that provides smart and sustainable solutions. We are passionate about our products always being of the highest quality, and it is important for us that the products gives good conscience all the way. We strive to consider the evironment in everything we do, and to be good at the earth that we have been given. As a combination of ecological leather and FCS-certified wood our products fit into the modern Nordic home. All products are designed and made by hand i Denmark.

Nature Preserve (www.naturepreserve.co) is a foodtech company that re-engineers avoidable food surplus into a range of healthy ingredients and products, including LOVI (www.lovismoothies.com), a smoothie brand made from 100% natural and upcycled ingredients. Fighting food waste never tasted better.