TEDxEBSHelsinki

Speakers

Speakers may not be confirmed. Check the event website for the latest lineup.

• Andreas Veispak

  Former Head of Unit for Space Data for Societal Challenges and Growth at the European Commission

  Andreas has worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and at the European Commission dealing with a range of areas from industry to the environment to space to digital. He was educated at the University of Oxford where he studied modern history.

• Essi Weseri

  Leadcast founder, co-host

  Essi Weseri and Maria Wasastjerna are the founders and co-hosts of Leadcast, one of the most popular podcasts in Finland. In Leadcast, Maria and Essi talk to inspiring business leaders from different sectors about their career paths and leadership. With around 100 episodes published and more than half a million total plays, Leadcast is today an established brand in the Finnish podcast market and a passion project for the two friends.

• Georgiana Grudinschi

  CEO & Co-founder of Owow

  Master Graduate of Estonian Business School. Founded a digital-driven beauty brand in 2019 from zero and built it to a million euro business in under a year.

• Helena Mustikainen

  Project Director, Lifelong Learning, Sitra

  Helena Mustikainen is in charge of Sitra’s Lifelong learning project. She has a master’s degree in economics and business administration. Her work has given her a broad knowledge of the entire public sector, including local authorities, the social welfare and healthcare system, banking and, most recently, the education sector.

• Maria Wasastjerna

  Leadcast founder, co-host

  Essi Weseri and Maria Wasastjerna are the founders and co-hosts of Leadcast, one of the most popular podcasts in Finland. In Leadcast, Maria and Essi talk to inspiring business leaders from different sectors about their career paths and leadership. With around 100 episodes published and more than half a million total plays, Leadcast is today an established brand in the Finnish podcast market and a passion project for the two friends.

• Panu Mäenpää

  Chairperson for Helsinki Pride Community

  Panu Mäenpää is a keen advocate of equal rights and diversity and inclusion being standard practices at the workplace. Panu is the current chairperson for Helsinki Pride Community, a non-profit organization that promotes LGBTIQ+ rights at the capital area, working with social and youth services, promoting and coaching companies on diversity and inclusion and organizing the biggest Pride festival in the Nordic countries each year. Panu was also the chairperson for the National LGBTI organization SETA in 2015-2016.

• Perttu Pölönen

  Futurist, Author

  Perttu Pölönen is a multitalent – composer, inventor, futurist and author. He has studied future in Silicon Valley, co-founded an ed-tech company in Myanmar and written two books about future skills and identities. Pölönen argues that the next revolution will be a human revolution.

• Peter Vesterbacka

  Founder of Finest Bay Area

  Peter Vesterbacka is an entrepreneur from the Finest Bay Area at the Heart of Eurasia, Helsinki, Finland. In 2011 Time Magazine named Peter one of the 100 most influential people on the planet.