Invite: Finland Friday on Design and Entrepreneurship on Nov 24th at 1.30 pm
Dear sir/madam,
Embassy of Finland in Singapore, Suomi Finland 100 Singapore association and partners have shared Finnish experiences in Singapore this year already in 99 events. Welcome to our 100th event this Friday!
This Friday afternoon, we will be discussing design, design thinking and entrepreneurship. This is the last Finland – Singapore innovation and business-related dialogue before our Independence Day of Dec 6th and preparing for the next year. The event will take place in Huone Events Hotel, a good example of design thinking in hospitality and a wonderful partner of celebrating Finland’s 100th year of independence in Singapore. Huone Events Hotel started from Helsinki and they opened their second location in Clarke Quay in February this year.
Huone Singapore, Embassy of Finland and Suomi Finland 100 Singapore have pleasure to invite you to
Finland Friday on Design and Entrepreneurship
on Friday, 24 November 2017 from 1.30 pm to 6.00 pm
Venue: Huone Events Hotel, 3D River Valley Road, #03-01 Clarke Quay, Singapore 179023
Dress Code: Office Attire
RSVP: Here
Finland Fridays take place in November 2017 to link Finnish and Singaporean knowhow in key sectors of cooperation. The purpose is to wrap up the anniversary year celebrations of Finland’s 100 years of independence and to extend the bridges beyond 2017.
Program
13:30
Registration & networking coffee
14:00
Welcoming words by Ambassador Paula Parviainen
Designing Huone Events Hotel Concept
Evon Söderlund, Founder, Huone
Design in Singapore
Joanne The, Senior Assistant Director, Industry Development Office, DesignSingapore Council
How Finland Became a Design Nation
Kirsti Lindberg-Repo, Executive Director, Design Finland 100
Dialogue Session: Application of Design in Growing Businesses
Evon Söderlund, Founder of HUONE
Tuomas Peltoniemi, President, Asia Digital Arts Network, TBWA
Anna Ratala, Head of Slush Singapore
Dialogue Session: Design in the Future
Joanne The, Senior Assistant Director, Industry Development Office, DesignSingapore Council
Kirsti Lindberg-Repo, Executive Director, Design Finland 100
16:15
Networking Cocktails &
Discussions about design and business in action stations led by many of the speakers and other participants of the event, including a Let’s Go to Slush session for those who will travel to Helsinki for the following week, a deep dive into Huone Events Hotel concept, service design, digital transformation
and other interesting topics.
18:00
Closing
For more information on the event, please contact:
Riku Mäkelä
Counsellor, Innovation and Trade Affairs
Embassy of Finland in Singapore
