Finns in the Nextweb Conference

By Antti Vilpponen, April 07, 2008, 3 Comments

Due to lack of time, I was unable to write about this earlier, but the Next Web 2008 was organised during the end of last week. There were a lot of companies there from Finland as well. I'm counting at least XIHA Life, Scred and Floobs were present.

Timo Paloheimo from Startupbin.com was also there and has some coverage of the two days of activity as well as some photos.

Juhani Polkko from XIHA Life, sent us an e-mail that they released a new language-based search feature in Amsterdam during the conference.

Update: TripSay was present as well, so quite a good presentation from the Finnish startup scene, I must say.

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Tuomas Toivonen April 07, 2008

Yeah, it was a good conference and it was nice to have our bunch of Finnish compatriots there. While the "web 2.0"-ish startup scene in Finland is relatively small that has the positive side effect that there is more complementarity than competition. So it is easy to be supportive of other local startups.

Also Bar Camp Amsterdam IV on the Saturday following The Next Web was surprisingly enjoyable. Good (technical) content and nice people. There is a lot of positive to say about the startup scene in the Netherlands. Hopefully the first Finnish Bar Camp next month will be equally successful.

Tuomas Toivonen April 08, 2008

Just to make the list of Finnish attendees a bit more complete: Jouko Tossavainen from Innosonic was also at The Next Web.

vilpponen2 April 08, 2008

Cool, it begins to look that this was even bigger event possibly than LeWeb3 in Paris last year? Nice to see these conferences picking up momentum in Europe as well.