Slush has grown from a 300-person assembly to a world-renowned event, now spreading globally. The philosophy behind Slush has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.
The world’s leading startup and technology conference Slush was organized for the 10th time this year in Helsinki. The event gathered up to 20,000 attendees from over 130 countries including 2,600 startups, 1,500 investors and 600 journalists to Helsinki. This thrill led to nearly 10,000 meetups between startups and investors. Our 2,400 volunteers made all of this possible.
During the Slush week Helsinki attracted tech-heads from around the globe. The stage was taken by the most prominent influencers in tech such as Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures, Martin Lau, President of Tencent, Leila Janah, Founder & CEO of Samasource & LMXI, and Adena Friedman, President & CEO of Nasdaq. Prestigious appearances were also seen by President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, former Vice President, Al Gore, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Prince Daniel, and France’s digital minister, Mounir Mahjoubi. The narrative of Slush 2017 was focused on the balances between utopia and phobia, and how entrepreneurs can solve the biggest problems of the world with the help of technology.
As every year, the goal was to help startups to succeed. This was accomplished by setting up almost 10,000 meetings between investors and startups. Each speaker also contributed at least one hour of their time to help the early-stage startups through 1-on-1 mentoring and roundtable discussions.
The "SmartUP, CleanUP” is dedicated to exchanging visionary ideas about a Net Positive Future, as well as encouraging actions to start doing more good than less bad. This initiative brought together innovators, thinkers and likeminded professionals looking for solutions, ideas and partners into one room to network and learn more.
OiER with its experience from long established industrial, economic and political networks across more than 60 countries was invited to the panel to talk about the importance on PPP Private Public Partnerships and how cities need to be transformed in the future and what are the solutions therefor.
