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.

Workfeed was founded six years ago after noticing that no one seemed genuinely happy with their existing employee scheduling solutions. They were either too complicated, too slow, or the vendors were horrible to work with. We decided to build the ideal solution: A scheduling tool that's easy to use, beneficial to the entire team, and time-saving. Fast-forward to today, 1,000+ companies across 15 countries use Workfeed to create work schedules that strike a perfect balance between the needs of their workforce and the demands of their business. Meanwhile, we help companies with a lot more than just employee scheduling. With features for time & attendance, communication, data analytics, and compliance - we've grown into a complete workforce management solution.

Valpas transforms hotels and hospitality providers visibly into the cleanest places to stay when away from home by making them safe from the dirtiest creatures: bed bugs. The Valpas bed bug safety standard is loved by over 60 award-winning hotels like Le Pigalle and the F6, groups like Autograph Collections and Esprit de France. Founded by passionate travellers who got attacked by bed bugs while traveling. More info: https://www.valpashotels.com/

Based in Stavanger, Norway, Desert Control is a clean tech company that specializes in turning deserts to green land using our patented Liquid NanoClay. Through a patented mixing process, LNC combines clay and water and is then spread onto sandy soil.

We're building the future of digital health and we insist on having the best time together doing it. We expect high quality in our work as much as we take good care of each other. We make a software platform for remote care of heart patients with implanted devices. We combine software engineering with nordic design aesthetics to ensure meaningful products for our customers. This means we actively involve clinicians and patients in the design process. We're proud that hospitals use our platform daily, but we have much more we want to achieve.

Noora is a Norwegian climate tech company scaling Nature Based Solutions (NBS) in the Nordics, using technology to quantify the forest’s potential for carbon sequestration and biodiversity improvement, and measure the actual impact for climate and nature. We deliver credible, transparent climate action to organizations ready to take responsibility and create real impact. Our ambition is to scale the impact of Nordic forestry in global climate mitigation. We are now strengthening our commercial team with a committed and experienced Commercial Director to help build and drive Noora’s commercial strategy and hands on work together with the rest of the Noora team.

Retail AI-planning that maximises sales and reduces costs while automating HR and administrative tasks – all built in Copenhagen to maximise profits in retail, used by international retailers such as Bestseller, Normal, Pandora and Søstrene Grene. In short, we ensure the future of physical retail by creating better customer experiences at lower cost.

Propane is building the operating system for AI-native Customer Intelligence. We're transforming the way businesses collect, analyse and act on customer insights, with purpose-designed AI Agents that understand the context of your business and of every customer. Use this entire context to run fully branded and embeddable AI-led voice interviews with your customers, when it works for them, to uncover the insights you won't ever get from a survey. Propane is building always-on, compounding intelligence. Rid yourself of manual, time-consuming, one-off research projects that fail to capture the nuance in your customer portfolio.

What would it look and feel like to live in a neighborhood that was designed in a way that welcomed everyone, from every culture? We created nabo to find out. nabo, which means “neighbor” in Danish, is an app-based community for international people living in Denmark and their Danish friends. It is designed from the ground up for belonging. Joining nabo means committing to being a true neighbor to the others in it, to choosing to connect more deeply with one another, to take care of each other, and to share our beautiful differences until they become part of the gorgeous fabric of our community. Learn more about nabo at https://mynabo.dk

GreenFish is a software company that uses artificial intelligence, big data analysis, machine learning and supercomputing to predict the location, quality and quantity of pelagic and groundfish species with an eight-day forecast period. The forecasts reduce vessel time at sea, lowering costs and carbon. GreenFish recieved the 2025 Seafood Innovation Award at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Bergen and was awarded the Icelandic Seafood award in 2024.

We are a subscription-based journalistic media outlet that works uncompromisingly to uncover important stories, expose abuses of power, and set agendas that would otherwise be overlooked—always with the individual citizen and society as a whole in mind. We believe in transparency, integrity, and the courage to say what needs to be said. We are not friends with anyone, and we reject media subsidies and advertisers, making us accountable only to our subscribers. Only in this way can we produce completely independent, critical journalism for the benefit of both the individual citizen and society as a whole. We were founded in June 2021 by, among others, Mads Brügger, and we currently operate in Denmark and the Faroe Islands, where we publish articles and podcasts on our own platforms (web and app), as well as on social media and via newsletters. In both countries, we have experienced significant growth in the number of paying members.

No one deserves a poor education. Period. We offer tailored tutoring programs customized to each student's needs. It's not the quantity of correct answers that matters, but rather the desire to learn! Tutora was founded the summer of 2023, with an aim to create the BEST tutoring team in Denmark and share a teaching method centered around passion and self-learning.

Strive is a project revolutionizing the Finnish job market to one where startups are the best place for students to thrive in a high-growth environment. Students don't recognize the potential that startups offer as places where you can quickly and efficiently learn and grow. On the other hand startups are innovators whose success depends on their ability to find and engage the best talent. We're changing the status quo and connecting students with rapidly growing growth companies. Our main event is held in the fall and is a startup crawl connecting students to the best startups in Finland.

We keep quality high and prices low by making our products ourselves and selling them directly to consumers, with no need for costly middlemen. We are Europe’s largest producer of windows and doors sold directly to consumers online. Our more than 700 employees are spread across corporate HQ in Denmark and our manufacturing sites in Estonia, Poland, and Romania. We currently sell our products in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the UK. At JABS Group, we support the important Sustainable Development Goals defined by the United Nations. We place particular emphasis on Goal 12 (responsible consumption and production), Goal 13 (climate action), and Goal 17 (partnerships for the goals). These Sustainable Development Goals help us to be ambitious and strive for more responsible production and development. We take on shared responsibility as a manufacturer and actively seek to support the United Nations’ goals. OUR MISSION We manufacture affordable, sustainably produced, made-to-measure windows and doors and sell these directly to consumers via our online channels, which provide a best-in-class consumer experience. OUR VISION To be the first choice for every consumer in Europe who buys windows and doors online.

At Hups, we're dedicated to enhancing organizational efficiency through innovative technology solutions. We're on a mission to create self-improving organizations through our transformation programs which we host on our platform. Our end goal is to equip every company with the tools and capabilities they need to take control of their own transformation helping every employee adopt a mindset of continuous improvement.