• Waves Summit 2022

Making waves for social innovations

Waves is a one-day hybrid summit that brings together our society’s forces of change, actors committed to social innovation and systems change: changemakers, innovators, academia, impact entrepreneurs, private and public actors, and investors.  

Waves summit creates a platform for increased collaboration across sectors, encouraging everyone to take part in accelerating the creation of a sustainable future. If you are passionate about learning new ideas and tools in addition to connecting with people interested in tackling the most significant challenges we face, Waves is for you.

We hear keynote speeches, presentations, panel discussions, take part in workshops as well as connect, network and enjoy each other's company.

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Agenda

This year's theme is enabling change:

9.00-10.05
Pine Stage + Online
Societal transformation: Together we can
Pine Stage + Online

9.00-9.10 Welcome by Ashoka

9.10-9.30 Setting the Scene, Hannah Kuper (Professor in Epidemiology at LSHTM, The Missing Billion initiative)

9.30-9.50 First Ashoka Fellow in Finland, Markus Raivio (CEO at Kukunori)

9.50-10.00 Q&A session facilitated by Agata Stafiej-Bartosik (Co-Director at Ashoka Poland and Interim Director at Ashoka Nordic)

10.00-10.05 Greetings from the YYO Soft Lion's Den by Katja Anoschkin (Development Manager at ARVO ry), in Finnish

 

10.15-11.30
Pine Stage + Online
Capabilities for societal transformation
Pine Stage + Online

Hear a session led by Sara Lindeman, Co-founder and CEO of Leapfrog Projects, on "Head, Heart, Will: Building capabilities for transformative change" together with Tomas Björkman (Founder of Ekskäret Foundation and Co-Founder of among others the Inner Development Goals initiative) and Per Olsson (Professor at Stockholm Resilience Center).

 

Birch Stage
Rethinking investment strategies
Birch Stage

10.15-10.45 “Partnering for Pleasure: Passionate Investments in life-saving work”, Cristina Ljungberg (Co-founder, The Case for Her) and Anne Philpott (Founder of The Pleasure Project)

10.45-11.15 “Creating something new from shared history and values – Changemaker’s story”, Maria Ahlström-Bondestam (Chair of Unicef International Council, Chair of Ahlström Collective Impact, Co-founder and Honorary Chair, Eva Ahlström Foundation)

11.15-11.30 Discussion and questions facilitated by Evita Chiang Zanuso (Head of Strategic Partnerships, Katapult Foundation)

 

Online
Introducing systems thinking tools for changemakers
Online

Session facilitated by the board members of Systems Change Finland: Gunta Krumina, Dora Hietavirta, Iina Santamäki and Kari Mikkelä.

 

12.30-13.15
Pine Stage + Online
Creating ecosystems for change
Pine Stage + Online

“Collaborating for impact - Reflections on corporate social responsibility and partnership”, Åsa Skogström-Feldt (CEO of IKEA Social Entrepreneurship) & Liisa Smits (CEO and founder of Ignitia)

Discussion facilitated by Agata Stafiej-Bartosik (Ashoka)

 

13.20-14.20
Pine Stage + Online
Empowering young changemakers
Pine Stage + Online

Youth panel with Benjamin Pitkänen (Co-founder, Viral Vegans), Ronny Eriksson (Co-founder, Ambitious Africa; Co-founder Norders), Salaado Qasim (Co-founder of the Peace and Well-being organization), Milja Kalliosaari (Member of the Lennons CMI Crisis Management Initiative), moderator Eli Ingvarsson (Ashoka Nordic)

 

Birch Stage
Workshop: An exercise for impactful collaboration (In Finnish)
Birch Stage, in Finnish

This workshop guides changemakers to look at their endeavour from various perspectives and opens up glitches for new connections, Hanno Nevanlinna (Co-founder, Creator of New at Futurice)

 

Online
Workshop: "What do changemakers need to flourish?”
Online

A hands on online session facilitated by Zeynep Falay von Flittner (Board Member of Systems Change Finland and Jari Ala-Ruona (Co-founder of Oxygen ry)

 

14.45-16.00
Pine Stage + Online
Innovation in financing for impact
Pine Stage + Online

Moving people, capital and tec for good”, Evita Chiang Zanuso (Head of Strategic Partnerships, Katapult Foundation)

Panel discussion with Evita Chiang Zanuso (Head of Strategic Partnerships, Katapult Foundation), Anna Herlin (Head of Development at Tiina and Antti Herlin Foundation and Security Trading) and Henrietta Moon (CEO and co-founder of Carbo Culture), moderated by Sara Lindeman (Co-founder and CEO, Leapfrog Projects)

 

Birch Stage
Workshop: Imagining and making futures (In Finnish)
Birch Stage, in Finnish

What are alternative futures? How can images of the future generate action towards a better future? What kind of change would you like to start making right now?

Discussing how different stories and narratives about the future help us challenge our assumptions about the future and imagine different kinds of futures. The discussion inspired by Mikko Dufva, Sitra's future expert and future docent at Aalto University, leads us to the game arena of the Change Game, where a common understanding and situational picture of the chosen social change is created.

Welcome to challenge and imagine futures - and make them come true!

A workshop led by Mikko Dufva (Leading Specialist Foresight, Sitra)

 

Online
Pioneers in impact financing
Online

Building impactful new business models to power social change. Mark Cheng (Founder and Managing Partner, Social Innovation Circle)

Creating a thriving ecosystem for social innovation by boosting impact finance. Building bridges between social entrepreneurs and investors. Dr. Markus Freiburg (Founder and CEO, FASE - Financing Agency for Social Entrepreneurship GmbH)

A session moderated by Jussi Nykänen, Founding Partner of GreenStream Network Ltd. and of Epiqus Ltd. (currently FIM Impact Investing Ltd).

 

16.10-17.15
Pine Stage + Online
YYO Soft Lion's Den recap
Pine Stage + Online

16.10-16.15 YYO Soft Lion's Den recap by Tom Tarvainen (Programme Manager at ARVO ry), in Finnish

 

Pine Stage + Online
Panel: In Finland, how can we become great at transformative social innovation?
Pine Stage + Online

16.15-17.15 Panelists: Elisa Vepsäläinen (StartUp Refugees), Mårten Knuts (Krogerus), Mari Tikkanen (Scope Impact), Neslihan Dane (SKY ry Suomen kulttuurienvälinen yhteisö ry), Ari Evwaraye (Head of Strategy, Ministry of the Interior) with Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski (INNOCAMP PL, Ashoka Fellow & Advisory Board, President of International Sustainable Education Foundation in The Hague) as moderator.

 

17.15-17.20
Pine Stage + Online
Thank you and what next?
Pine Stage + Online

Please note that this year’s Waves Summit is a hybrid event.
This means that some of the content during the day will only be available in person.

The sessions that are held on the Main Stage will be live streamed online throughout the day. There will also be sessions that are accessible online only. Links to the online sessions together with the Main Stage sessions will be sent to all attendees after the Summit.

How are we doing? Let's take the pulse on the well-being of the innovators

There is no innovation without innovators. What is the state of the innovators' well-being at the moment? Where can we find peace of mind at our workplaces? What is wrong, what is good and how should we build a better culture of well-being in the innovation sector?

Markus Vähälä, Development Manager at Kulttuurin ja hyvinvoinnin liitto, will interview some of the participants at Ashoka's Waves Summit, because we have the opportunity, responsibility and obligation to create a more sustainable well-being together. The interviews will be published in Kukunori's podcast series.

Grab Markus by the sleeve at Waves summit on September 15

Markus Vähälä

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Attend the live event* with 200 attendees for a full in-depth experience in Helsinki, Finland. The summit creates a space for collaboration across sectors where you will experience new connections and gain insights on pathways towards a sustainable future. 

Live tickets* 49 €
Online tickets 19 €

You will receive the instructions for participating after registration.

* You can also attend the summit online. Please note that the amount of tickets is limited.

For any inquiries, contact us here.

During the summit, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with innovative impact entrepreneurs and organisations who are already building a sustainable future. 

Live tickets* 139 € 
Online tickets 49 €

The event is especially intended to support and accelerate social innovation in Finland. We warmly welcome investors and funders, business leaders, policymakers, as well as researchers to answer the needs and strengthen the field of changemaking in Finland.

*Please note that the amount of tickets is limited.

For any inquiries, contact us here.

Do you want to attend the Waves summit as a media representative or influencer?

Sign up quickly, as there is a limited amount of media-passes available.

You can participate at the summit either in person or online.

Anyone passionated about societal change and innovative ways of creating sustainable impact is invited!

Meet the speakers

Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski

Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski

Adam is a Higher Education lead and a social innovator (INNOCAMP PL, Ashoka Fellow and Advisory Board) who co-founded and ran 5 NGOs, currently he is the President of International Sustainable Education Foundation in the Hague. He has worked as an expert on social inclusion such for institutions as European Parliament, UN, European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam, Open Society Institute (Soros USA & Europe), M&B Gates Foundation, 92nd Street Y, and many national governments.

As a researcher and Higher Ed executive (Dean and Head of International Office at University of Gdansk) he has led numerous projects and residencies to establish changemakers’ campuses.

Agata Stafiej-Bartosik

Agata Stafiej-Bartosik

Country Representative at Ashoka Poland and Interim Director at Ashoka Nordic. Before working for Ashoka she has worked for PwC, co-leading the Sustainable Business Solutions Advisory Team. She was part of the Child Malnutrition Working Group at Minister Michał Boni's team of advisors to the Polish government.

She co-founded The Foundation for Social Communication in Poland and SMartKolektiv in Serbia – organizations helping NGOs to use the tools of marketing in order to support their social mission.

Anna Herlin

Anna Herlin

Anna is a philanthropy professional, sustainability promoter and a mother of three. She splits her working hours between the philanthropic Tiina & Antti Herlin Foundation and the investment company Security Trading.

She has a generalist academic education with two master's degrees from the University of Helsinki, and an incurable tendency to digress. Anna's most recent pet project is Puistokatu 4 - a Space for Science and Hope.

Anne Philpott

Anne Philpott

Anne Philpott is a public health professional, pleasure propagandist and ‘guerrilla girl’ of HIV prevention. She founded ’The Pleasure Project’ in 2004, in frustration of endless AIDS meetings where no one talked about people’s motivations for having sex, or even pretended sexually transmitted infections were airborne.

Anne has over 20 peer-reviewed articles in respected health journals and more in the mainstream media, and has been a speaker at international conferences, promoting pleasure in sex education and as the ultimate indicator of female empowerment. She has also published articles on nutrition and disease prevention services.

Ari Evwaraye

Ari Evwaraye

Ari Evwaraye has strived to be a changemaker and impact evangelist in government and the field of human security. As Head of Strategy at the Finnish Ministry of the Interior, Ari has furthered initiatives related to equality, human rights, feelings of safety and social impact within the policy area of internal security.

Phenomenon- and human-centric approaches, as well as co-creation, foresight and systemic solutions, get him excited. In addition to his professional engagement, Ari has been active in a few NGOs aiming for a brighter future for people in vulnerable positions.

Åsa Skogström Feldt

Åsa Skogström Feldt

Åsa Skogström Feldt is leading IKEA Social Entrepreneurship BV. Åsa has been the global president and CEO of The Hunger Project in New York and the CEO of The Hunger Project Sweden.

She has also established social entrepreneurship in the supply chain at IKEA of Sweden, being the head of marketing for Sony Ericsson in Germany, corporate communications director for Aspiro and marketing communications manager for Ericsson Mobile Communications in the Middle East and Africa.

Benjamin Pitkänen

Benjamin Pitkänen

Benjamin Pitkänen is a passionate vegan activist and one of the founding members of the Viral Vegans Animal Rights Association. Benjamin's work in front of animals has been covered in the big Finnish media outlets.

Benjamin runs Viral Vegans with his team, holds speeches at various events, and does social media activism. He wants to wake people up to think about how our consumption habits relate to animals' exploitation and killing.

Cristina Ljungberg

Cristina Ljungberg

Cristina Ljungberg is a Co-founder of The Case for Her, a philanthropic investment portfolio addressing the key women’s health issues of menstruation and women’s sexual health & pleasure. Before The Case for Her, Cristina established the foundation Giving Wings in 2010.

She is also an active board member for the global non-profit, Acumen, focused on poverty alleviation through impact investing and leadership development, as well as AFRIpads, a manufacturer of reusable cloth menstrual pads.

Dora Hietavirta

Dora Hietavirta

Dora Hietavirta is a professional who is always curious and thinks beyond the obvious or accepted. Her most recent interests are complex systems, regenerative systemic design, and urban development.

The lenses that Dora constantly sees the world through are learning and community development.

Elisa Vepsäläinen

Elisa Vepsäläinen

For the past five years, Elisa Vepsäläinen has led the rapidly growing Startup Refugee, which supports people with refugee status in entrepreneurship and employment.

In her work, she has focused on promoting social responsibility and effectiveness, while also building relevant brands and bringing together different actors to address societal challenges.

Evita Chiang Zanuso

Evita Chiang Zanuso

Evita is Head of Strategic Partnerships and also leads on the Impact Academy at Katapult Foundation. Prior to Katapult, she was part of the Senior Management team at Big Society Capital, a leading UK social investment institution.

She has served on a number of Boards including the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, RCB plc and Bethnal Green Ventures.

Gunta Krumina

Gunta Krumina

Gunta Krumina is an innovative, professional business development consultant, as well as a systems change facilitator and advocate.

She designed and led systems thinking workshops and training together with team members from Systems Change Finland. One of her visions is to bring forward the best of systemic innovation for a better, sustainable, and inclusive world.

Hannah Kuper

Hannah Kuper

Professor Hannah Kuper is a Co-founder of the Missing Billion Initiative. She is also the co-director of the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is an epidemiologist by training, having attended Harvard University and Oxford University. The main focus of her work is on health and healthcare access of people with disabilities in low and middle-income countries.

Hanno Nevanlinna

Hanno Nevanlinna

Hanno Nevanlinna is one of the founders of Futurice. He has walked the path from a startup to an international company. Hanno is one of the masterminds of the Futurice culture as well as Lean Service Creation methodology.

During 2004-2009, Hanno innovated, planned and built Finland’s largest photo sharing service Kuvaboxi. From 2008 to2010, he founded the Futurice UX consultant team and during years 2010-2013, Hanno led as head of HR Futurice to be the first company ever to be selected as Europe’s best workplace twice in a row.

Henrietta Moon

Henrietta Moon

Henrietta Moon is the CEO and co-founder of Carbo Culture. Henrietta is recognised as a World Economic Forum ‘Global Shaper’ and from 2016-2018 she was a board member of a publicly traded electronics company (Nasdaq omx Hel: YEINT). 

Her prior experience includes growing two organisations in edtech and founding Mehackit, a creative technology company. She’s an alumna of Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program held at NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford’s founder community StartX.

Jari Ala-Ruona

Jari Ala-Ruona

Stressless and abundant entrepreneurship. Jari is a serial entrepreneur seeking to support regenerative and socially transformative technology businesses to significant growth.

Jari Ala-Ruona is Co-Founder of Oxygen2050 and Founder of (among others) Aion Sigma Inc.

Kari Mikkelä

Kari Mikkelä

Kari has over 30 years pioneering academic, corporate and NGO experience of learning, innovation and business ecosystems. He has acted e.g. as an executive producer, programme director, consultant, mentor, senior fellow and impact entrepreneur in the contexts of international RDI projects, digitally enabled services co-design, learning technology development, global living lab movement initiation and sustainable societal transformation among others. 

Katja Anoschkin

Katja Anoschkin

Katja Anoschkin is a Development Director and an Impact Specialist at ARVO – the Finnish Association of Social Enterprises. She has been creating tools for impact modeling and measurement for impact companies and public sector organisations. At the moment, she also works as the administrative lead of the Centre of Expertise for Social Enterprises.

Lina Santamäki

Iina Santamäki

Iina Santamäki is a regenerative leader, systems thinker and bridge-builder with a vision to co-create a just and sustainable future for all.

Her latest degree, an M.Sc. in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, combines systems thinking and complexity science, strategic leadership and sustainability science, and thus provided her with the skills and knowledge to facilitate and lead processes for systems change. Currently, Iina is an entrepreneur and a Specialist at The Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra.

Liisa Smits

Liisa Smits

Liisa Smits has developed an accurate and reliable weather forecast system for the tropics. By making it accessible to smallholder farmers the service empowers them to make educated decisions to increase efficiency and agricultural yield. 

While monitoring climates in different parts of the world as part of a NASA research project, she discovered that the formula for calculating weather patterns and forecast for the tropics was extremely unreliable. Liisa then decided to use her skills and background to make a sustainable impact and founded Ignitia.

Mari Tikkanen

Mari Tikkanen

Mari Tikkanen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Scope Impact. She is also the Co-Founder of Innovation Lead, Missing Billion. Mari leads the Scope by developing new ways of delivering social impact.

Prior to co-founding Scope in 2008, Mari worked for 15 years on women’s and children’s health and rights, including for WHO South-East Asia Region, UNFPA, IPPF, AMREF and Aurat Foundation in Pakistan. She has more than 25 years of experience in the field of development and health.

Maria Ahlström-Bondestam

Maria Ahlström-Bondestam

Maria Ahlström-Bondestam co-founded The Eva Ahlström Foundation in 2010 and have since continued the work for underprivileged women, and children that began in the late 19th century.

Maria Ahlström-Bondestam initiated, co-founded, and chaired the HAPPY and TOGETHER projects, working for a more equal and sustainable world. In 2020, Maria initiated a collaboration called Ahlström Collective Impact with the aim to make strategic investments with impact to support the realization of the United Nation’s SDGs together with UNICEF. In 2021, she was elected Chair of the UNICEF International Council.

Mark Cheng

Mark Cheng

Mark Cheng is the Founder and Managing Partner of Social Innovation Circle, a global coaching platform for social innovators. Mark is an impact investor who has raised and invested over $250M into social impact organizations around the world.

Since 2010, he has been the Senior Advisor on Social Finance at Ashoka, and has coached and mentored many social impact founders in how to create sustainable business models for social change. Mark is the author of the ‘Social Investment Toolkit’, a free online guide for impact entrepreneurs on how to raise finance for social innovation.

Markus Freiburg

Markus Freiburg

Together with Ashoka, Markus Freiburg has founded the Financing Agency for Social Entrepreneurship (FASE) in Germany. FASE helps leading social enterprises across Europe in raising hybrid growth capital so that they can scale their social impact. 

Markus is recognized as a thought leader for social finance in Germany and beyond. He has an active presence in public discourses and wrote a wealth of articles, reports and case studies on best practices in social finance. Prior to this, Markus worked for more than 7 years as consultant for McKinsey & Company.

Markus Raivio

Markus Raivio

Markus Raivio is a leading social entrepreneur who co-founded Kukunori in 2012 to design an entirely new way of working with mental health clients through culture. Through his organization, Kukunori, Markus is championing social welfare through an approach centered on promoting human and civil rights.

Kukunori ultimately aims to develop new and innovative solutions to challenges in the mental health and cultural sectors. In addition, Markus is taking the unique Guided Functional Peer Support model (GFP) that he developed to 43 organizations across the health sector. 

Mikko Dufva

Mikko Dufva

Mikko Dufva is Leading Foresight Specialist at Sitra (The Finnish Innovation Fund) and docent in future studies at Aalto University. In his work, he examines future trends, the tensions between these trends and mental images connected with the future. In addition, he seeks to identify signals that may be weak now but which nevertheless are significant for the future.

Mikko has extensive experience in foresight studies and he has a doctorate in Science (Technology) on creation of futures knowledge and systemic foresight.

Milja Kalliosaari

Milja Kalliosaari

Milja is a future expert of changing societies. She has been working with the Lennons, a group of young peace ambassadors founded by CMI (Crisis Management Initiative), since 2019. The heart of the Lennons' activities is to convey a message and know-how of everyday crisis management from a young person to another young person - and that is also the absolute strength of the group. Milja has an academic background in political science and works in research and strategic consulting. Her future goal is to specialize in issues concerning the world that is changing at an accelerating pace and under new uncertainties.

Neslihan Dane

Neslihan Dane

Neslihan Dane is Vice-Chair of SKY (Suomen Kulttuurienvälinen Yhteisö), the Finnish Intercultural Community. By profession, she is a Mathematics teacher with 11 years of experience teaching in Thailand, which also served her to widen her networks, meeting new people and learning their cultures. That was actually the reason why SKY attracted her as it aligns with her enthusiasm to support volunteering for multicultural initiatives.

Per Olsson

Per Olsson

Per Olsson is Associate Professor, Principal Researcher and Program Director at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. In 2019, 2020 and 2021 he was recognized by the Web of Science as one of the world's most influential researchers of the past decade. Per has designed and facilitated programs for changemakers such as BALTICLEAD, Transforming Change, Catalyzing Change, The Rockefeller Global Fellowship on Social Innovation, and the SRC Executive Education Program.

Ronny Eriksson

Ronny Eriksson

As the co-founder of Ambitious Africa, Ronny is connecting, inspiring and empowering young people in all African and Nordic countries to work together, lead the change and create transformation.

Ronny is actively building ecosystems both locally and globally, focusing on fields such as entrepreneurship, education, entertainment, food and communities.

Salaado Qasim

Salaado Qasim

Salaado Qasim is an author, columnist, teacher and Co-founder of the Peace and Well-being organization RAHY (Rauhan ja Hyvinvoinnin järjestö ry) a non-governmental organization founded in 2019 that aims to improve the living conditions of women and young people by providing opportunities in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The organization has been set up by university students with solid experience, especially young people and women.

 

Sara Lindeman

Sara Lindeman

Sara is an academic and social entrepreneur with a long background working with multi-stakeholder innovation processes for sustainable solutions in resource constrained settings, such as distributed energy, water and affordable housing mainly in East Africa.

Sara led the interdisciplinary research and innovation project New Global at Aalto University before founding the mission driven company Leapfrog Projects.

Marten Knuts

Mårten Knuts

Mårten Knuts is the Managing Partner of Krogerus, one of the leading law firms in Finland. He represents a wide range of clients in cross-border and domestic corporate transactions.

Mårten regularly advises boards in listed companies on corporate governance matters and assists in strategic disputes pertaining to complex regulatory matters.

Tom Tarvainen

Tom Tarvainen

Tom works as Programme Manager at ARVO ry the Finnish Association of Social Enterprises.

He is also responsible for the development and conceptualization of national counseling and guidance services at The Centre of Expertise for Social Enterprises.

Tomas Björkman

Tomas Björkman

Tomas Björkman is an author, social entrepreneur and the Founder of Ekskäret Foundation in Stockholm.

He is also the Co-founder of the research institute Perspectiva in London, the Co-creation Loft, the media platform Emerge in Berlin, and the 29k.com personal development platform.

Zeynep Falay von Flittner

Zeynep Falay von Flittner

Zeynep Falay von Flittner is an experienced design leader with a mission to accelerate sustainability transitions using the power of creative practices.

She is combining systems thinking, foresight and human centric design to develop new methods and approaches to support companies and networks to build new capabilities around sustainability transitions. She is the founder of Designer Activists for Regenerative Futures Collective.

Finnish eco-system for innovation is already a model to inspire the future. To me, Waves is a unique chance to actually become part of changemaking for peace and social inclusion. I want to be there to help flip the resources we have for empowering educational change.

Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski
INNOCAMP PL, Ashoka Fellow & Advisory Board
Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski

Individuals with passion and skills can change the world. I am so excited that this summit will be bringing together inspirational, clever and committed people who will spark new ways of Enabling Change and help us think outside of the box.

Hannah Kuper
Professor in Epidemiology at LSHTM, the Missing Billion initiative
Hannah Kuper

After learning of Waves, I never saw it as an option to not participate. Its aims are in line with making the world a safer place as a whole. Social sustainability, equality and the innovations that drive these are the spearhead agendas when working towards this goal.

Ari Evwaraye
Head of Strategy, Finnish Ministry of the Interior
Ari Evwaraye

Through the mentorship programme SFV Changemaker, we want to give young people the tools to create sustainable changes for a better society. By being part of Waves, the SFV Changemaker-participants will get a context of knowledge and valuable contacts to start their own social innovation.

Svenska folkskolans vänner
SFV

Tradeka is supporting the summit because we want to accelerate the birth of new innovations. Ashoka brings an international angle to the table, which can open new doors for Finnish innovations on their path to a wider utilization.

Tradeka Foundation
Tradeka

About

Waves summit is an event aiming at accelerating social innovation and networking among professional changemakers in Finland.

The summit takes place on 15 September at Miltton House in Helsinki.

You can also participate in the summit online*.

*If you participate at Waves online, you will receive directions on how to attend the summit in your confirmation email.

How to get there

Miltton House

  • Address: Haapaniemenkatu 5, 00530 Helsinki
  • Entrance is accessible

The Summit is held on the 1st and 2nd floors of the building. There is an elevator in the building.

Organisers

Funding Partners

tradeka
Krogerus logo; black letters all lower case saying "krogerus"
SFV
CapMan for Good

In collaboration with

Sitra Logo, Partner of Ashoka Nordics; Capital letters SITRA all in black
Systems Change Finland
Yhteiskunnallisten yritysten osaamiskeskus
LeapFrog Projects
Miltton
Eva Ahlström
Futurice
Arvoliitto
Aalto Design Factory