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This workshop, co-hosted by the Nordic think-tank Demos Helsinki and Meeting of the Minds, will gather urban leaders from cities, corporations, start-ups, non-profits and academia to explore state-of-art methods on urban foresight. The workshop demonstrates how the Nordic way of using foresight in urban regeneration creates better, smarter and more…

Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter here LATEST THINKING FROM THE NORDIC THINK TANK This is Demos Helsinki’s bulletin on the most curious ideas shaping the future.   Permafrost? No worries, the spring is just around the corner! Earlier this year The Economist wrote how Finland, as the euro zone’s only Nordic member, struggles to…

In what ways does sensor abundance change work and organizations? What are the new opportunities in the hyperconnected business? How does the disruptive innovation theory fit to the development of the hyperconnected society? What are the new ways of value creation in the Internet of Things? How does Internet of…

Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter here LATEST THINKING FROM THE NORDIC THINK TANK This is Demos Helsinki’s bulletin on the most curious ideas shaping the future. This month we highlight some of Demos Helsinki’s freshest as well as reintroduce few of our most successful cases from ten years of designing urban life….

Helsinki Challenge finalists have been chosen. The five teams that will be heading towards the Grand Finale are: Biodiversity now, Helsinki Sleep Factory, Moralities of Intelligent Machines, NEMO and Safepreg. Read more about them here. Demos Helsinki congratulates!

Demos Helsinki has been around since 2005, here is the decade in numbers! You can also lurk from here what went down in our ten year anniversary party 10th of September 2015.

CoReorient, the company behind the PiggyBaggy crowdsourced delivery service that has been part of Demos Helsinki’s Smart Retro project, has been selected as a finalist in the SXSW Eco Startup competition taking place on October 5-7, 2015 in Austin, TX. The world-famous South by Southwest events have been organized since 1987. For…

Eight to ten Finnish teams will be picked for an accelerator program starting in Helsinki on monday the 31st of August. The teams will receive expert coaching in Finland as well as in-kind funding to travel to Frankfurt am Main, Germany to meet local startups and develop their own business…

Calling all urbanists! Flow Festival and Demos Helsinki proudly present: Flow Talks: Urban Life – an inspiring Friday afternoon free to all Flow Festival Friday ticket holders. Join us for mind-expanding discussions, insightful co-creation and electrifying talks with a set of international urban influencers. We promise you will never look at…

Planet Earth is becoming hyperconnected. This transformation is called the Internet of Things, Connected Devices, Programmable World, and many other names. As a result, we are at a major crossroads. What are the conditions under which this change becomes the guiding development of our time? How can we support positive…

Would you like to tackle climate change with entrepreneurship? Do you have an idea related to energy sector, consumer behaviour, smart mobility, food? We have great news for you, the world’s biggest cleantech business competition Climate Launchpad is here again! Apply here! Climate Launchpad is for early stage teams and…

THE LATEST THINKING FROM THE NORDIC THINK TANK This is Demos Helsinki’s bulletin on the thoughts and ideas shaping our futures. This month we look at where cleantech is heading next, and why it’s a very Nordic phenomenon. CLEANTECH IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE (CONSUMER) CLEANTECH We asked leading economists to have…