Enough Let’s talk. go!
You can attend an innovation conference every single day, year round, all over the world. So why would you choose Oslo Innovation Week? The short answer? We believe in not only talking about change, but actually changing the world we live in. We bring speakers, experts, entrepreneurs, investors, startups and innovators together, and challenge them to solve problems, collaborate and move forward. No more endless talks on what has been done before. No more wishing, hoping, or speculating in how things should be. Oslo Innovation Week brings forward new voices and innovation in action.
Enough talk. Let’s go!
This is how we make things happen! We meet, we talk, and make progress. – Jeanne Sullivan, Angel Investor
Forbes has cited Sullivan as “one of the women VCs changing the world - grooming the next generation of female entrepreneurs.”.
Oslo Innovation Week is an annual, five-day series of events held in Oslo each October. From seminars and talks, pitching contest and hackathons, to workshops, breakfast meetings and company crawls, you will find events all over Oslo.
Keynote speakers
Participants
Events
Setting the tone for Oslo Innovation Week 2015:
It was only hours later that I realized that all the speakers had been women. – Jan Ameri, Arctic Startup, Finland
The official opening How do we set the tone for Oslo Innovation Week? Take a stage full of inspiring speakers, add an audience full of innovators, investors, experts and entrepreneurs, the crown prince, and a performance by Susanne Sundfør, as well as the Government’s launching of the first ever ‘gründerplan’.
Yes, you should have been there.
Oslo Innovation Week had a reach of
Some of the themes adressed at Oslo Innovation Week:
Edtech Medtech Startup Vertical Farming all around the world, and
Internet of Things Female Entrepreneurship GirlTech Marine Innovation Going Global
visitors to the webpage, oiw.no
TechFugees
100 pitches
I bet you’ve already heard about Tidal, Kahoot!, Xeneta and Unacast. But who’s next? Is Norway’s first Unicorn impatiently waiting to enter the scene during Oslo Innovation Week? The 100 most talented and promising startups join the battle in the 100 pitches competition, alongside with international entrepreneurs. High profiled international investors pick the final winner. In 2015 the jury was lead by Jeanne Sullivan (New York based VC), accompanied by Sean Percival (Partner at 500 Startups), Ekaterina Gianelli (Investment Director at Inventure), Tellef Thorleifsson (Founder and Partner of Northzone), Kristin Riise (Head of Strategy for the SME Segment in DNB) and Bård Stranheim (Director Entrepreneurs & Startups at Innovation Norway).
100 pitches winner Health-tech startup, Skin Analytics, won the Oslo Innovation Week’s 100 Pitches competition last October 15th. “Every 10 minutes someone dies from melanoma. Almost everyone should survive, but often diagnosis comes too late. A Speaker at TEDx and recipient of multiples grants & awards, Skin Analytics makes screening of melanoma at home possible with a phone and specially designed lens.”
Oslo Innovation Week sets a new standard for the Nordics. – Daniela De Lorenzo, Nordicstartupbits.com
Anita Krohn Traaseth CEO of Innovation Norway
Bas Lansdorp
Co-founder and CEO of Mars One
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Osaka University & ATR
Johan Brand
Jonas Kjellberg
Saul Singer
Sean Percival
Co-founder and CEO of Kahoot!
Teacher at Standford University, prev. VP of Global Sales at Skype
– A few of our previous speakers
Jeanne Sullivan
Angel Investor, founding principal of StarVest
Maria Strømme
Professor of nanotechnology, Uppsala University
Journalist and author of ‘Start-up Nation’.
Partner at 500 Startups
Orit Hashay
Founder and CEO of Brayola
Company Crawl
A curated selection of big, pioneering businesses opens their doors during Oslo Innovation Week. T ​ hey have been chosen for their outstanding work with innovation and cutting edge development. Startups and delegates get the chance to learn how these large companies innovate through talks, presentations, workshops, office tours and networking sessions with executives and team members alike. The companies get the chance to bond with entrepreneurs, innovators, startups and journalists. In 2015, Statoil ASA held an engaging innovation breakfast, Opera Software shared how they compete with global tech giants, Snøhetta and Finn both held trans-disciplinary workshops, and OSL gave a sneak peek into the upcoming new airport pier.
In 2016, we hope to build even stronger ties between established companies and the startup scene.
The global economy needs a bridge between large, established companies and the startup scene. Innovation, particularly radical innovation, happens when connecting previously unconnected bodies of knowledge. By organizing workshops, debates, hackathons and crowdfunding, we are involving our audience before, during and after the events; inviting everyone to participate, contribute and to be an active part of Oslo Innovation Week.
Oslo Innovation Week 2016: Power Couples
Oslo Innovation Week really stepped up its game this year. Oslo is gearing up to face the challenge. – Johan Brand, co-founder and CEO of Kahoot!
Design by Metric metricdesign.no / Photo by Gorm K. Gaare
See you at Oslo Innovation Week 2016
17 – 21 October
Contact: Siw Andersen, project manager of OIW siw@oslobusinessregion.no // +47 997 21 004.
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