Hot Events Coming Up!!!!

TechBBQ, 5-6 September, Copenhagen

We’re very excited to have partnered with TechBBQ in Copenhagen, who are supporting our #SmarterCitiesNOW event 11-12 October in Copenhagen (got your ticket yet? see link) and our #SmarterCitiesNOW Solution Challenge (startup competition) – submitted your proposal yet? see link)

As Denmark’s largest tech launch and innovation summit, TechBBQ expects some 3,500 stakeholders from right across the Danish and international tech startup ecosystem. As TechBBQ partner, TNA are delighted to offer Advocates a 30% discount on last-minute tickets. To secure your exclusive discount, available to Advocates only, email the Secretariat.

For more information on the event visit the TechBBQ website here

High Tech Summit, 20-21 September, Copenhagen

Also in Copenhagen, the High Tech Summit on 20-21 September, showcases the latest leading technologies and shows you how to start using and benefiting from these technologies. DTU is Denmark’s largest technological platform, as well as a university with extensive, daily contact to the business community. The High Tech Summitis part conference/part exhibition, with focus on digitization. Come meet us at the TNA stand, Smart City and Digital Health Tracks along with TNA Business Member JA Kemp for a chat about how you can best secure and protect your idea/innovation/assets. For more information and to get your tickets, click here.

IP EXPO Nordic, 20-21 September, Stockholm

IP EXPO Nordic and Cyber Security Nordic, is part of Europe’s number ONE enterprise IT event series, designed for those looking to find out how the latest IT innovations can drive business growth and competitiveness. The events showcase new exclusive content and senior-level insights from across the industry, as well as unveiling the latest developments in IT. They cover everything you need to run a successful enterprise or organisation. IP EXPO Nordic incorporates six IT events under one roof – Cloud, Networks & Infrastructure, AI, Analytics & IOT, DevOps, Open Source and Cyber Security Nordic, the latter focusing on the threats the enterprise faces now and in future. This year’s events will be the most comprehensive business-enhancing experience for those across the IT industry, including IT managers, CTOs, CDOs, network and storage engineers, CISOs, data analysts, developers and communications specialists. IP EXPO Nordic and Cyber Security Nordic 2017 will feature over 80 exhibitors and100 speakers with free to attend seminars from national and international industry leaders. More here: Register FREE before 19th September 2017 here.

Nordic Edge Expo, 26-28 September, Stavanger, Norway 

We’re excited to partner with Nordic Edge Expo, 26-28 September, Stavanger, Norway, around our #SmarterCitiesNOW Programme and 11-12 October Event in Copenhagen (see below).  Come meet us at Nordic Edge Expo  (tickets via link)- the largest smart city event in the Nordics. Then, when you have met everyone at Nordic Edge Expo, and your head is full of issues and challenges and interesting topics you would like to discuss and work with others on, come along to our #SmarterCitiesNOW 11-12 October HANDS ON, INTERACTIVE OUTCOME FOCUSED COLLABORATION Event in Copenhagen  (below).

OUR VERY OWN: #SmarterCitiesNOW, 11-12 October, Copenhagen

Ever thought, wish there was a truly interactive smart city forum (rather than traditional conference), where you can meet people working on the same issues/areas as you, to knowledge share, discuss your challenges, smart solutions, what works/doesn’t, learn from each other, find customers and partners – a forum, where the coffee break, lunch and networking discussions continue in the main sessions because talking to each other is THE WHOLE POINT OF THE EVENT ? If so, you share that with most other colleagues in the smart city space. So, we’ve created #SmarterCitiesNOW: A Sustainable Urban Development Collaboration Forum – an ambitious, ongoing, Nordic smart city/sustainable urban development collaboration initiative, led by Copenhagen, working with the UK, led by London, chaired by our Smart City/IOT Working Group, led by Michael Ferm, Global Head of Public Lighting, Zumtobel Group and the #SmarterCitiesNOW Steering Group.

Info on the SmarterCitiesNOW Programme, 11-12 October event @BLOXHUB, Copenhagen and how to get your Tickets HERE 

To join NEW! #SmarterCitiesNOW business members/event sponsors CLEAN – a world-leading cleantech cluster based in Denmark with an international foot print and focus on SMART Energy, Environment, Smart City and Internationalisation and DONG Energy – a leader in sustainability and energy transformation; TechBBQ, High Tech Summit  and Nordic Edge Expo, click here for partner/sponsor options.

OUR VERY OWN: TNA Annual Summit “Growing the Nordics and Baltics into a Global Tech Hub”, 28 November, Maria 0-1, Helsinki

This year, we’re excited to be in #Helsinki for our 2017 Summit. And where else to host our pre-SLUSH Summit than our Helsinki home, the one and only – Maria 0-1, in collaboration with Arctic Startups. Going to Slush Nov 30 -Dec 1? (see below), make sure you arrive in time for our 28 November Summit, focused on “Growing the Nordics and Baltics into a Global Tech Hub. Tickets and draft programme here.

Slush, 30 Nov to 1 Dec 2017
Heading to Slush – Europe’s biggest tech event? For exclusive TNA discounts on tickets, email the Secretariat 

For other TNA and Partner events planned for Summer 2017, see the Event page on the TNA website 

Latest from the Working Groups

Smart City/IOT 
The Smart City/IOT Working Group, led by Michael Ferm, Global Head of Public Lighting of Business MemberZumtobel Group, is in full swing with the planning of the SmarterCitiesNOW: A Sustainable Urban Development Development Collaboration Forum @BLOXHUB, Copenhagen 11-12 October (see above)

CALLING ALL STARTUPS/SCALEUPS: Have you got what it takes to win the #SmarterCitiesNOW Solution Challenge? 

Have you got – or are you working on – a smart solution to one or more of the 8 #SmarterCitiesNOW Sustainability Challenges? If so, hurry up and join the #SmarterCitiesNOW Solution Challenge NOW for a chance to win one year’s free workspace at the Good Hotel in London AND a place on the shortlist of the BLOXHUB/Rainmaking Loft accelerator programme in Copenhagen or a year’s free membership of BLOXHUB (runner-up prize). Click here  to  join the competition. Deadline: 15 September 2017.

Would you like to join the #SmarterCitiesNOW Collaboration Forum?
Want to join our #SmarterCitiesNOW collaboration forum, share know how, experience, challenges, best practice, find customers/partners or promote your solution to the only pan-Nordic smart city/sustainable urban collaboration network around, email the Secretariat for access to our dedicated Smart City/IOT Community platform

Health Tech 
If you would like to join the TNA Health Tech Working Group and the Health Tech Working Group Community Platform to connect with other Working Group members and collaboration initiatives, please email the Secretariat.

Please also come meet us at the Hight Tech Summit, Digital Health Tracks, where we will be speaking.

FinTech 
On 23 August, Simonsen Vogt Viig and Oslo Business Region hosted a Nordic #FinTech  Meetup.

A lively debate was had on the key trends and amazing working taking place across the Nordic #Fintech capitals. So much scope for collaboration to truly lift the Nordics to a global FinTech Hub. Email the Secretariat to join our Fin Tech Working Group and Community Platform 

Introducing new Business Members

We are very excited to welcome as new Business Member:

CLEAN is a world-leading cleantech cluster based in Denmark with an international foot print. CLEAN’S mission is to accelerate the green and sustainable transition while realizing growth for the Danish cleantech sector.

News from Existing Business Members

Invesdor
Would like to share the latest news from their blog see below:

https://home.invesdor.com/en/blog/tubecon-heading-to-new-international-markets-launches-crowdfunding-campaign
https://home.invesdor.com/en/blog/social-impact-start-ups-from-around-the-world

Goodwille Ltd
The Modern Slavery Act obliges companies who are carrying out business in the UK, and whose global turnover exceeds £36m, to publish an annual transparency in supply chain statement. To find out more or to see it applies to you, please contact Goodwille. http://goodwille.com/our-latest/modern-slavery-act-2015/

JA Kemp
UPC and Unitary Patents: Practical Tips for Technology Transfer, 5 October, London The patent system in Europe is set to undergo its biggest change in decades with the introduction of a new Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the availability of a new pan-European “Unitary Patent” (UP).  With the UK having recently taken steps towards ratifying the Unified Patent Court agreement, we could see changes starting to come into effect before the year is out.  Patent owners and applicants should be considering both what action to take with their existing portfolio and whether they want to obtain unitary patents in the future.

Join us for a late-afternoon session where we address this topic, providing some practical advice on managing these up-coming changes in the technology transfer arena, and taking a look at how the implementation of the UPC and the Unitary Patent might affect your day-to-day decision making. Click here to register

Gillamor Stephens 
The Nordic Summer break is over and we have just completed the Chairman of the Board (CoB) role for a Finnish radio technology company, the CoB a Norwegian SaaS company and started a CEO search process for a Norwegian telematics company. Can we help your company to build their exec and non-exec teams? We have operations in Europe, US, Canada and Asia.

BLOXHUB
Join BLOXHUB in Copenhagen in two interesting tech debates in the beginning of september:
10101 Copenhagen – the digital city: New technology is changing our cities radically. Smart cities, big data and driverless cars will become part of our every-day-life in future Copenhagen. It may be difficult to predict what new technology will lead to, but one thing is sure: it is already changing the city that we know. How smart is the smart city, and does it bring us closer together or further apart?
Ane Cortzen will be your host, when we throughout the evening present a number of ideas on what the future digital capital will look like: From a philosophical view on mankind and technology to the digital future. At the same time, the food performer Augusta Sørensen will make sure, that you get a taste of future Copenhagen. More info and sign up: http://bloxhub.org/event/10101-copenhagen-digital-city/

Future of urban mobility and meetup at techfestival: Smart phones entered our lives about 10 years ago. Today, it’s hard to imagine exploring a new city without asking your favorite mobility aggregation App where to go, and increasing number of mobility services can be purchased on that same phone. In the meanwhile, commuters continue to either feel stuck in their cars hitting daily traffic queues, or they take train plus a bus or a bike to get to work. Either way, there is room to improve our daily commute experiences.
IN THIS MEETUP, THE FOCUS WILL BE ON THE FOLLOWING THREE QUESTIONS:

• What would be a dream scenario for urban mobility in the next 10-20 years?
• What are the key challenges to get there?
• What is the role of government in terms of both regulation and how it spends its money?

More info and sign up: http://bloxhub.org/event/future-urban-mobility-meetup-techfestival/

Zumtobel Group
Zumtobel Group are delighted to chair the Smart City/IOT Working Group and #SmarterCitiesNOW Sustainable Urban Development Collaboration Forum

Click here for details on how to become a TNA business member and business benefits.

TNA Media Partner – The Nordic Web
 offers exclusive, original, data-driven insight on the Nordic startup scene. Their latest newsletter, which features a roundup of the news in the Nordics and a number of interesting reads, is available on the TNA Blog.

Our Global Tech Advocates family
It’s awesome.It all started in London with @Russ Shaw launching Tech London Advocates, we then launched our very own Tech Nordic Advocates. And now our Tech Advocates family is global (see image below). Tech Singapore Advocates  launched in July. Next up is Tech Spain Advocates  – launching September 17. Stay tuned for news on that on @TechNordicAdv.

As ever, if you haven’t already done so, register here to join Profinda – your gateway to our Global Tech Advocates – family

Stay tuned for more exciting news in September!