The 11th and 12th of November 2015, some students from Arcada had the opportunity to participate to the biggest business and innovation event in Helsinki, SLUSH. This event was organized almost only by volunteers to help startups and talented people to show their ideas and meet investors to allow them make their dreams come true; as well to have a collaboration with others startups and companies. This year, 15.000 attendees,…
This year’s Slush gathered thousands of early stage companies, hundreds of investors and thousands of other attendees to the convention center Messukeskus in Helsinki. In the end, the total amount of tickets sold to the event was somewhere around 15000. As with previous years, the event for this year was also sold out. We, as students, were lucky enough to get our hands on these highly desired tickets and got…
After a pretty stormy ferry ride, we finally got to Tallinn and started our journey through Tallinn with a light lunch in the old town. Our first stop at Estonia was a place called Technopol which was located at the campus of the University of Technology. Technopol is a big company with a general idea to combine technology, business and students. We only got to see a small area at…