FiBAN Startup Clinic with Danske Bank

Communal Reading meetup These regular meetups are low-threshold opportunities to check-in with our lovely community and for newcomers to familiarize themselves with our book club. So feel very welcome too if this is your first time joining the Asian Book Club Helsinki! What do we do 📖 We read together in silence for about an hour. You can read the book we picked for our upcoming Book Discussion or any other (Asian) book you’re reading at the moment. 💬 Before and after our reading hour there is time to connect & chat with each other. The program for this meetup: 16:30-17:00: Arrivals, ordering drinks & treats 17:00-18:00: Communal Reading (in silence) 18:00-18:30: Connect with fellow Asian Book Clubbies About the Asian Book Club Helsinki We are an open, diverse community of (aspiring) readers & lovers of Asian literature. In our book club we read and discuss: books by authors from an Asian background – including diaspora authors from all 5 Asian regions – East, Southeast, South, West, Central contemporary literary fiction (novels, short stories, novellas, biographical fiction) and memoirs Please follow the Asian Book Club Helsinki on Instagram! Support Asian entrepreneurs All Asian Book Club Helsinki meetups are free of charge. But we ask you to support our lovely (Asian) entrepreneurs of the venue by ordering drinks & treats/food from their cafe menu. NOTE: If you can't make it to our meetup, don't forget to cancel your registration to free up space for people on the waitlist! A fee will apply for: late cancellations (on the day of the meetup): €5 no-shows €10

EPICENTER VERGE | Deep Tech: Beyond the Screen. Into the Bedrock. - The Physics of Intelligence Digital intelligence is moving into physical systems. That changes the stakes. AI agents are beginning to operate real workflows. Quantum teams are working toward practical industrial advantage. Spatial technologies are changing how people understand and control complex environments. At the same time, advances in computing and cryptography are forcing leaders to rethink sovereignty, security, and technological independence. VERGE Deep Tech brings together the builders, researchers, and industry leaders working through these questions now. Over a focused half-day at Epicenter Helsinki, we will examine where the technology is ready, where the difficult questions remain, and what it takes to move from a promising experiment to something organizations can actually use. The program moves across five connected conversations: The race to build sovereign AI infrastructure Quantum computing’s path from research to industrial value What changes when AI moves from assistant to operator Preparing critical systems for the post-quantum security era How AI, quantum, and spatial computing are reshaping the R&D process This is not a conversation about what might happen in ten years. It is a chance to hear directly from people building, testing, and deploying these technologies today. Confirmed speakers AI sovereignty Pekka Manninen, Director, LUMI. CSC – IT Center for Science Quantum computing and industrial R&D Jouni Flyktman, Vice President, Defense and Security, IQM Quantum Computers Himadri Majumdar, CEO, SemiQon Teemu Uotila, Chief Operating Officer, Quanscient From Assistants to Operators Antti Nevalainen, Head of AI, Kaksio Labs Tapio Haaja, Chief Commercial Officer, Intentface Post-quantum security Suvi Lampila, SSH Fellow, SSH Communications Security Erik Hieta-aho, Research Team Leader, Advanced Cybersecurity and Cryptography, VTT Sini Ruohomaa, Cryptographic Signing and PKI