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.

Congrid is a digital solution for construction management and was founded in 2013 in Helsinki, Finland. Our headquarters is located in Helsinki but we also have offices in Turku (Finland) and Stockholm (Sweden). We have a staff of 25 employees. Our mission is to improve construction site productivity with modern technology. Take your documentation management to a whole new level.

Impact Mapper is an online software tool for donors and nonprofit organizations to keep all their social change data, surveys and stories in one place. We make data analysis and visualization efficient so you can more clearly communicate your impact and invest your time and money in what counts: seeding social transformation around the world.

After working together since 2012 in game development company Henchman & Goon, we launched Goontech in January 2015. Our background in game development has given us a ton of knowledge and a special mindset that we apply to our projects. We continue to look to the game industry for inspiration, techniques and technology, and bring this with us into other industries. Our vision is “Visualizing Great Ideas”, no matter what industry or format, and our mission is to make smarter and more user-friendly visualization solutions. Goontech is located in Bergen, Norway, in short distance from a growing entrepreneurial environment, and some of the biggest players in the oil and gas industry. We also have a small office in Oslo, Norway.

Tapad is home to the team that cracked the code on cross-device marketing technology. Our groundbreaking, proprietary tech assimilates billions of data points to find the human relationship between smartphones, desktops, laptops, tablets, connected TVs and game consoles. With 91.2% data accuracy confirmed by Nielsen, Tapad offers the largest in-market opportunity for marketers and technologies to address the ever-evolving reality of media consumption across devices.

Meetio is a software company based in Malmö, Sweden. We provide solutions for undisturbed, efficient meetings and better utilization of room resources. Thousands of companies around the world use a meeting room manager from Meetio on a daily basis.  Our most prominent product is Meetio Room. Meetio Room is an extension of your current scheduling environment (i.e. G Suite or Exchange).

We are Nordcloud and we're on a mission to help organisations gain te maximum benefits of the cloud. As a global leader of cloud services, we deliver cloud strategy, migration, automation, management, capacity, and training. Since 2011 we,ve completed over 200 projects to help our customers harness the power of the cloud. Nordcloud is an AWS premier consulting Partner, a Google Cloud Platform Strategic Partner, and a Microsoft Azure Gold Cloud Partner. As an independent cloud-native organisation, our team of experts delivers objective advice and builds solutions on all the leading public cloud platforms.

Moonbase is a fast-growing software delivery platform and Merchant of Record designed exclusively for developers selling plugins and software. We handle payments, licensing, affiliate programs, and VAT compliance, allowing our clients to focus on building great products. With a usage-based model, we're already profitable and growing rapidly.

At Hybird, we operate at the intersection of hardware and software where we are bringing the electrical panel online and transforming it into a data platform. This gives us an opportunity to improve tooling for installers and facility managers, as well as surface actionable insights to a variety of stakeholders. The objective for us is to increase our understanding of power consumption and use that to help curb consumption.

About ARTificial Mind: ARTificial Mind is an art-tech studio founded by artist Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm. For over eight years, we have been pioneering the creation of interactive AI art using machine learning techniques, particularly large language models (LLMs). Our work has gained international acclaim, with exhibitions at some of the world's most renowned museums, and even in space aboard NASA’s section of the International Space Station. www.artificialmind.ai About NobodyWho: NobodyWho is an open-source software platform designed to empower game developers, even those with no experience in large language models (LLMs), to create offline-first, locally processed, and compute-efficient dialogue systems for non-player characters (NPCs) in video games. Our core product is a copyleft-licensed plugin compatible with several game engines. https://gitlab.com/nobodywho/nobody NobodyWho is a spin-out from the art-tech studio ARTificial Mind. We share office space in the heart of Copenhagen.

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.

At Clix Productions, we’re all about making real connections through video. We know the digital world is crowded, so we focus on telling stories that not only get noticed but also felt. Working hand-in-hand with marketing pros and industry leaders, we turn your complex messages into clear, relatable stories. We’re not just about flashy videos; we’re here to make your message hit home and stick. With a knack for digital strategy and storytelling, we help your brand stand out and speak directly to hearts and minds. Your story is our mission—let’s share it with the world.

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.

Get 20+ quality meetings and more sales every month without the hours of manual prospecting grind. The problem: Agencies waste 20+ hours a week hunting for leads on static databases. It’s manual, it’s soul-crushing, and most "leads" are already happy with their current partner. You’re working harder for fewer sales. The solution: Siggle replaces the manual grind with Signal-to-Meeting automation. The Now: Real-time alerts on pixel resets, SEO shifts, and hiring. Spot 'ready-to-buy' signals and reach out yourself while they're hot. The Next: 100% automated outreach. Siggle finds the decision-maker and triggers the LinkedIn flow for you. Signal-to-meeting, end-to-end. Scale your agency without the manual work. You show up to the meetings and close the sales.

Aker-owned industrial scale-up seeking to industrialize and digitize the operations and maintenance (O&M) in the energy sector. Out business model is based on being the orchestrator in the value chain and reduce sub-optimal decision making and value-leakage during the project phase. Føn has offices in Oslo, Stavanger, Sweden and Denmark and soon also UK.