Otaniemi Forum

Welcome to Otaniemi Forum website. Otaniemi Forum in is meeting place for business, technology and design enthusiasts. Every year we welcome speakers from various backgrounds with intresting stories, ideas and a message to the world.

Held in Otaniemi Technology Hub, one the World’s leading hot spots for innovation as a collaboration of the Otaniemi area companies, research organizations and universities. Each year the event has a theme to set the stage, but in the end it is the discussions, ideas and networks created at the event that make Otaniemi Forum one of those must attend event.

Otaniemi Forum 2011 – Prelude to World Design Capital 2012

Otaniemi Forum 2011 will be held on the 3.11.2011 in Aalto University Design Factory 15:30 – 20:00. As Helsinki metropolitan area will be the World Design Capital of 2012, the main theme of this year’s event is “World Design Capital 2012 Prelude” offering a glimpse of the WDC themes:

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15.30 Registration

16.00 Welcome by Kalevi Ekman, professor, Aalto University

16.10 Open City – free movement of information, ideas, thoughts and people

* Tuula Antola, Director for Economic Development, City of Espoo

16.40 Global responsibility – the new role of design

* UNICEF Finland and Aalto University pilot project in Uganda

* Miriam Azar, UNICEF Finland

17.10 Wash peg pile-up

17.40 Roots of new growth – Embedded design

* Pekka Korhonen, Head of the People Flow, KONE Corporation

18.10 Networking buffet