Discussion Panel, Riga

Discussion series for creative entrepreneurs

Panel Discussion

April 29

The Finnish Institute in Estonia, Radi! Latvia, the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Estonia, Creative Estonia and Finnish Embassy in Latvia organize a creative panel discussion for entrepreneurs from the creative industries.

The purpose of the discussion panel is to share best practices in creative economy development, comparing views and experiences as well as getting to know different ways of practice.

April 29, 2015
10.00 - 12.00

Finnish Embassy in Latvia, Kalpaka bulvaris 1, Riga

Presentations and conversation
Cafe and snacks

Please register before 11am on April 27th

Business Models Without Borders

In order to rise above your competitors, you need to stand out, find new ways to enter the market and export your products, and really put your smarts to work. Numerous creative and tech enterprises have come out with new business models. What can we learn from them? What are the business model trends of the start-up world? Some of the examples might just prompt you to review your own business model in a situation where the resources are limited but the market is global.

Speakers: Riku Mäkelä (FIN), Kristian Brøndum Kristiansen (DK), Lilita Sparane (LV).

SPEAKERS

Kristian Brøndum Kristiansen

Aalborg University
Kristian calls himself a ‘Business Model Expert’. He has been working within the field of business models for the last five years – both from an academic and practical perspective. He is currently a Project Manager at the Business Model Design Center (www.bmdc.aau.dk) at Aalborg University, where he is managing several business development and innovation projects with local SMEs and start-ups; teaching about business models at different study programs; organizing and facilitating the applied entrepreneurial course called New Venture Creation; and doing research about business models in larger research projects.
www2.business.aau.dk

Riku Mäkelä
CEO of SLUSH, the startup conference

Slush is the largest investor event organised in Europe. Last year’s event was attended by more than 750 investors. Slush takes place in wintery Scandinavia and is organized every fall to bring the Eurasian tech ecosystem together to help new things get started and go forward.
www.slush.org

Lilita Sparane,
Initiator and Manager, Demola Latvia

Working within the BSR StarDust project, Lilita has gained unmesserable experiece in innovation system development and establishment of start-up communities. She initiated to open in Latvia a innovative cooperation platform DEMOLA, which roots are coming from Finland. Since January 2104 Latvia’s students and enterprices also have a great opportunity to collaborate and to develop new innovative products and services within the scope of DEMOLA Latvia and become world-wide known players.
www.demola.lv

Moderator

Signe Adamoviča

Signe calls herself constructive, logical and creative and does things from the heart or not at all. In her previous role at the Ministry of Culture in Latvia she was managing Creative Industries Unit. Now involved in various creative industries and design related processes, including Design for Europe platform, DEMOLA and others, Signe is also planning her own business.

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