Investor House : Slush

Across Helsinki during Slush, Investor House will host a series of side gatherings built around the people, ideas and tensions shaping the next generation of companies. Some will happen around long tables. Others in saunas, private rooms, studios, hotel suites, boats and late-night corners of the city. Expect founder dinners, investor roundtables, fireside debates, walking conversations through Helsinki, sauna salons, and the occasional intellectual ice bath — where a provocative idea is dropped into the room and everyone has to decide whether it survives contact with reality. Each gathering will have its own host, partners and muses: founders, investors, artists, scientists, operators and cultural outsiders chosen because they change the temperature of the room. One city, briefly filled with some of the most ambitious people in Europe — and a few places for them to actually think.