Introducing three stages, three startup tracks and the 500 most promising
early-stage companies from Northern Europe, Russia and beyond.
Breakfast will be served from 8 am to 11 am and lunch from 12 am to 4 pm on both days and it's included in the ticket price. Slush takes place at the Cable Factory (Kaapelitehdas), Tallberginkatu 1. You can order a taxi by calling to +358 1000 700 or use public transportation.
Wednesday Afterparty begins at 9 pm at the same venue as the conference. Evening is brought to you by Supercell.
Day 1 – Wednesday – Nov 21st
| Main Stage | |
| 10:00 | Opening words with Finnish prime minister Jyrki Katainen |
| 10:10 | Keynote by Kristian Segerstråle (Glu, Playfish, EA) |
| 10:30 | Lightning talk by David Gardner (EA, Atari, LVP) |
| 10:45 | Lightning talk by Jason Chein (Amazon) |
| 11:15 | Product Launch: Jolla UI and Sailfish OS by Marc Dillon and the crew |
| 12:00 | Humble beginnings - fireside chat with Niklas Hed (Rovio) and Peter Vesterbacka (Rovio) |
| 12:20 | How high can you go - looking at the Rovio ecosystem in Finland with Rovio, Fazer, Olvi and Lappset |
| 12:45 | Middleweight Pitching |
| 13:00 | Fireside chat with Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures) |
| 13:15 | Lightning talk by Esther Dyson (Angel investor) |
| 13:30 | Fireside chat with Monty Widenius (founder of MySQL and Open Ocean Capital) |
| 13:45 | Journey to building a global technology company from Eastern Europe - talk by Serguei Beloussov, founder of Parallels and Runa Capital |
| 14:10 | Fireside chat with Eric Wahlforss (SoundCloud) |
| 14:25 | Fireside chat with Ilkka Paananen (Supercell) |
| 14:45 | Product Launch: Chris Thür (Ovelin) |
| 15:00 | Middleweight Pitching |
| 15:15 | Lightning talk with Nikolaj Nyholm (Sunstone Capital) |
| 15:30 | Lightning talk by Pekka Viljakainen (Skolkovo) |
| 16:00 | Fireside chat with Ivan Nechaev (RNT) |
| 16:20 | Lightning talk by Sitar Teli (Connect Ventures) |
| 16:30 | Keynote by John Lindfors (Digital Sky Technologies) |
| 16:50 | Startup Announcements: Transfluent, Blaast and Ductor |
| 17:05 | Concluding first day of Slush |
Day 2 – Thursday – Nov 22nd
| Main Stage | |
| 10:00 | Openings words for second day of Slush |
| 10:05 | Keynote by Marko Ahtisaari (Nokia) |
| 10:25 | Design talks by Karri Ojanen (Influitive), Sami Niemelä (Nordkapp) and Duncan Lamb (Skype, MeeGo) |
| 11:00 | Not another Internet startup with Julien Fourgeaud (Scarlet Motors) |
| 11:15 | From Northern Europe to Y-Combinator and back with Karri Saarinen and Jori Lallo (Kippt) |
| 11:30 | Lightning talk by Ulla-Maaria Engeström (Thinglink) |
| 11:45 | Disrupting a hundred-year-old institution with Tuula Teeri (Aalto University) |
| 12:15 | Keynote by Sami Inkinen (Trulia) |
| 12:40 | Fireside chat with Leonid Volkov (Yandex) and Michael Ilyichev (RuTube) |
| 13:00 | Engaging the Rich - a look at a startup company building a luxury brand with Anssi Vanjoki (Vertu) |
| 13:15 | Lightning talk by Andreas Ehn (Spotify, Wrapp) |
| 13:45 | Lightning talk by Ike Lee (Angel investor) |
| 14:05 | Product Launch: Marko Anderson (Futureful) |
| 14:20 | Middleweight Pitching |
| 14:30 | Lightning talk by Veera Sylvius (Space Systems Finland) |
| 14:45 | Lightning talk with Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (Podio) |
| 15:00 | Middleweight Pitching |
| 15:15 | Panel discussion with Nenad Marovac (DN Capital), Roberto Bonanzinga (Balderton Capital), Maximilian Niederhofer (Accel Partners) and Christian Leybold (e.ventures) |
| 15:45 | Slush finals on the main stage |
| 16:30 | Day after the VC round by Kim Pessala (Evli) |
| 16:45 | Announcing the winners of Slush 2012 |
Map of the Venue
Venue design: Jenni Kääriäinen / Sun Effects