Nordic-Baltic Impact Week

08/10/2026

04/10/2026

Welcome to San Francisco, Katja Kolehmainen! 🇫🇮🇺🇸

We’re kicking off Nordic Impact Week Silicon Valley with a Sunday Hike & Talk — combining one of San Francisco’s most beautiful walks with conversations about investment, research, and international collaboration.

Our special guest is Katja Kolehmainen, Research Director at the Finland Investment Institute at the University of Vaasa.

Katja is in Silicon Valley to meet investors, VCs, funds, and innovation leaders, bring Finnish investment research into an international dialogue, and explore a simple but important question:

What can Finland learn from one of the world’s leading innovation and investment ecosystems — and what can Silicon Valley learn from Finland?

We start at the Legion of Honor and head to Lands End, with spectacular views of the Pacific, the Marin Headlands, and the Golden Gate Bridge.

This is Nordic Impact Week at its best: walk, talk, connect, and exchange ideas — outside the conference room.

🇫🇮 Finland meets Silicon Valley
💰 Investors • VCs • Funds
🔬 Research meets real-world investment
🌉 Golden Gate views
🤝 New connections and new perspectives

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Join us for the walk — and the conversation.

21/08/2026

🇳🇴 Good Morning Oslo — Walk & Talk!

Some of the best conversations don’t happen around a conference table. They happen while walking.

This morning, we take Oslo Goes Silicon Valley outside — walking, talking and exchanging ideas about how Oslo’s entrepreneurs, companies and innovators can connect with Silicon Valley, global markets, capital and new partnerships through Nordic Impact Week 2026.

No stage. No long presentations. Just fresh air, new perspectives and meaningful conversations.

🚶 Walk. Talk. Connect.
🌉 Oslo → Silicon Valley → Oslo



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06/06/2026

The National Day of Sweden, 6 June, has only been a public holiday since 2005. On that day Swedes celebrate with waving flags and royals.

19/05/2026

🇪🇺 Today in Brussels: Europe’s clean transition moves from ambition to ex*****on.

CleanTech Region Group and Lars Ling are following the EU CleanTech Conference with great interest as Europe discusses transformative decarbonization, competitiveness, and industrial leadership.

On-site:

☀️ Joakim Byström, CEO of Absolicon Solar Collector AB — bringing the industrial heat story to Europe, and the vision of Africa’s first solar thermal factory together with ZESA Holdings in Zimbabwe.

💧 Calejo Hybrid Intelligence AB Intelligence — representing the future of Smart Water and AI-accelerated resource efficiency, contact Jonas Berggren, Carl Johard, or Leonard Johard for more info and start a conversation.

🌍 From Estonia, Zero Terrain / Energiasalv joins the dialogue on infrastructure, capital, and energy transition opportunities. Jaan Altmets Peep Siitam Hedwig Meidra

If you are in Brussels today, please connect with them.

The future of Europe’s cleantech leadership will not only be built in policy rooms, but through partnerships, pilots, factories, financing, and global collaboration.

The Nordic, Baltic, and international cleantech bridge is growing, from Europe to Africa, Silicon Valley, and beyond. 🚀 🌍 Build together. Scale impact.

Program: https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/programmes/innovation-fund/2026-cleantech-conference-advancing-europes-leadership-through-transformative-decarbonisation/programme_en

31/03/2026

From Vaasa to Silicon Valley, where AI accelerates the Energy Transition and Expands Globally.

Vaasa is building it. Silicon Valley is scaling it.

Join us today at Vaasa Startup Factory, University of Vaasa
📅 March 31 | 15:00–17:00 EEST time.

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Program slides: https://lnkd.in/d7Uv6vcT

Learn from our speakers: Anton Heinonen Iida Helin Jan Segerstam Jeff Wallace Jonas Berggren Philipp Holtkamp Moderator: Lars Ling

Vaasan kaupunki - Vasa stad EnergyVaasa VASEK Wasa Innovation Centerr Technology Centre Merinova Kvarkenrådet Sture Udd VAMK - Vaasan ammattikorkeakoulu Vaasa Insider VES - Vaasa Entrepreneurship Society

02/03/2026

Stanford University: A Decade of Nordic Impact in Silicon Valley.

For over ten years, Stanford University has been more than a destination during Nordic Impact Weeks — it has been a compass.

11/12/2025

13/11/2025

The Estonian government and Enterprise Estonia have implemented an incentive for major investments to increase the competitiveness.