MEDIA INVITATION: International SHIFT Business Festival on August 29–30, 2019

Welcome to SHIFT Business Festival, an international business event where the future is present today. The 2019 theme Shapeshifting Intelligence explores how socially and ecologically sustainable business no longer needs to mean diminishing profits and productivity. 

Instead of AI hype, at SHIFT you'll witness how new technologies can be implemented to solve real-life problems. You can also meet the thought-leaders of our age, with backgrounds in business and technology, science and philosophy. Altogether SHIFT attracts 3000 tech and industry frontrunners to meet at the picturesque shipyard in Ruissalo, right where the archipelago begins.

EVENT DATES: August 29–30, 2019

PLACE: RUISSALO SHIPYARD, TURKU, FINLAND

MEDIA ACCREDITATION:https://www.lyyti.in/SHIFT_2019_Media_accreditation_7543/en 

This is your invitation to join the forefront! At the event, media representatives will have their own lounge area with refreshments, working space, quiet corners for interviews, and a chance for 1-1-interviews with keynote speakers.

Program highlights:

• Deep Tech For Future: Deep technology means technological innovations with the potential to impact the world we live in. SHIFT 2019 focuses on the operational opportunities of deep technologies. The Future track brings together the AI ecosystem players, experts, and thought-leaders, academic knowledge and the best practices of business leaders implementing deep technologies to stay ahead of the competition.

• Deep Tech for Industry: The industry program is focused on circular economy and the maritime industry. SHIFT 2019 dives into cases of deep technologies that bring competitive advantages to the companies. The expert-level program provides you with a vision of what’s coming next and how the world might change as a result. 
  
  

Find out more about the program and the festival experiences on our website:https://theshift.fi/ .

Highlights of the keynotes:

• Future of Human-Machine Interface explores the future possibilities of Neurotechnology. Discussion about big data to human augmentation to Emotion AI. Learn about the challenges and opportunities this blended future will produce.

• Speakers: Bestselling author of Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence, Richard Yonck, and Neuroscientist and serial entrepreneur, David Bach, who is also known for upgrading his own brain with a rigorous scientific approach.

• EXIT official book publication –EXIT is a book full of incredible success stories, deep insights, and never-before-published anecdotes. With 15 different stories about Finnish entrepreneurship.

• Authors: Anssi Kiviranta and Matias Mäenpää

• From AI promises to operational achievements focuses on the challenges companies face when moving from the research and prototyping phase to the operational phase.

• Speakers: Christian Guttmann, Executive Founding Director, Nordic Artificial Intelligence Institute and Oliver Molander, Head Of Sales & Partnerships, Peltarion

• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence explores why we should maintain control and responsibility of AI and what practical tools we can use to develop it ethically.

• Speakers: Joanna Bryson, Associate Professor , University Of Bath and Catalina Butnaru, Global Ethics Lead, City Ai

All speakers: https://theshift.fi/program/

And timetable as it appears: https://theshift.fi/schedule/ 

Around 100 international media representatives are expected, so please sign up here asap. If you need help with travel arrangements or accommodation, please let us know, we are more than happy to help.

If you can not attend the festival but would still like to write about it, please register for media releases here. And if you feel your colleagues would also be interested in SHIFT, let us know their contact details by email at communications@theshift.fi, and we will send them the information needed. 

See you at SHIFT!

For more information, you can also contact 

Miia-Tatjaana Salakka

Marketing & Communications Manager

miiatatjaana@theshift.fi

+358 50 375 4141