FinNode Future Session YOUR LIFE

FinNode Future Sessions are designed to make people think, focus and reframe. They activate inner thinking allowing people to create and solve problems, even the ones they did not know existed.

LIFE, the FinNode project, was developed to clarify the uncertainties that lie between the technology and consumption gap in today’s healthcare, wellness and technology markets. And, it begins to investigate the “new healthcare marketplace,” apps, devices and gaming. Social media and social health are rapidly joining hands.

The market is saying that accurate and intelligent self monitoring of health, body functions and activities at the employee health, wellness and home levels is seen as the wave of the future and will enhance quality of life and reduce the cost of care.  Monitoring of one’s health has become a new means to determine if we will live longer and healthier by knowing more about our daily health and activities. Yet, there are many open questions as the ecosystem matures.

Join us to see the new LIFE Map and hear the signals. Your input is valuable.  We want to share our finds but also want to hear your thoughts on the future business of wellness monitoring and connected health.

We want you to benefit and grow. We want to jointly Live In the Future Easily with you.

Gain a competitive and strategic advantage and join us November 22, 2011 from 09.00-11.30 for “YOUR LIFE” Finnode Future Session!

FinNode Future Session will take place simultaneously at several ELY centers around Finland (in Helsinki at Finpro premises). All locations are linked to each other using videoconference facilities. The event is free of charge and the presentations will be in English.

To register please select ANY city where you would like to join the session by clicking the name of the city:

Helsinki – Finpro RY, Porkkalankatu 1, HELSINKI (Ruoholahti)

Helsinki Tekes – Tekes, Kyllikinportti 2, HELSINKI (Pasila)

Joensuu – Pohjois-Karjalan ELY-keskus, Kauppakatu 40B, JOENSUU

Jyväskylä – Keski-Suomen ELY-keskus, Cygnaeuksenkatu 1, JYVÄSKYLÄ

Kajaani – Kainuun ELY-keskus, Kalliokatu 4, KAJAANI

Kuopio – Pohjois-Savon ELY-keskus, Viestikatu 1, KUOPIO

Oulu – Pohjois-Pohjanmaan ELY-Keskus, Viestikatu 1, OULU

Pori – Satakunnan ELY-keskus, Valtakatu 12, PORI

Tampere – Pirkanmaan ELY-keskus, Pellavatehtaankatu 25, TAMPERE

Turku – Varsinais-Suomen ELY-Keskus, Ratapihankatu 36, TURKU

Webcasting – if your city is not listed here, you can also join via webcasting.

Instructions: In order to participate please select the ”participate” button on the event page. If you are participating for the first time, please fill in the required information in the pop-up window and press “attend”. If you already have registered for the Signals –page you can join the session by signing in with your username and password.

Deadline for registration: Thursday 17.11.2011 at 16:00

Signals

What are signals and what can they tell us? More important, how can you benefit from them?

The signals tell the story. They have allowed FinNode to begin to map the health-wellness-quality of life ecosystem. This is a new reference that will allow you to see the future in a different light and from a new perspective. Signals lead to the all the information, especially that which you did not know you did not know.

During the LIFE project, a wide range of signals were collected -- children to seniors, childhood obesity to active citizens, from how to mange diseases to how to plan healthy meals, from how to exercise to how to change behavior and a whole lot in between for that 80% of the population that is neither chronically ill nor physically fit.

Food signals were also captured. Do you know about HERO foods? Food is a driver.

What ever you wish to call the integration of health and technology – connected health, m-health, e-health, telemedicine – it is the Future. And, as much as we see and hear about great advancements, many new questions and challenges arise – what should we be measuring, who gets connected and why?

Education at all levels is needed and a new lifestyle based on the most suitable balance between the elements of life – work, play, nutrition, exercise – is necessary. 

Please join us for this interactive learning session.  It is your LIFE.

Goals

LIFE was developed to define the new direction of the healthcare-wellness ecosystem vis-a-vis monitoring and connectivity. Its output will serve as a foundation for companies, researchers, institutions, etc. to gain new insight that will add value and efficiency to their work.  In essence, to better inform and prepare Finnish companies, labs and universities allowing them to refocus R&D and grow globally and profitably.

YOUR LIFE is the first in a series of business development and growth initiatives.  By taking this first step, you are creating a new start for the future generation of globally successful Finnish companies and technologies that will help position Finland as a new health science and healthcare technology resource and trusted player.

Who Should Attend

Finnish life and health science companies, ICT companies that cross pollinate healthcare and wellbeing, healthcare informatics companies and those active in the sensor and measurement space. University researchers and VTT. Venture capitalists, Tekes and angel investors. SHOK and OSKE players and Tekes program managers. Finpro Life Science CIT members and local and regional Finpro consultants. And, our hosts from the ELY Centers.

About FinNode Future sessions

FinNode Future sessions provide foresight information in form of concrete examples from around the world to the Finnish companies and organizations. The concept has emphasis on interaction which gives the participants added value in a new way. The goal for each session is to create value networks around a certain topic and to find concrete business opportunities for this network. FinNode Future sessions are organized simultaneously in several different ELY centers which are linked to each other using videoconference facilities. The duration of the session is approximately 2,5 hours and it is free of charge.

See you at the session!

Also coming up:

SAVE THE DATE: February 6-7, 2012

LIFE Seminar and Workshop in Helsinki
Feel the real market pulse!
What’s Hot and What’s Not In US Health and Wellness
Hear all research findings
Meet US market leaders
Get ready to do business

Gaselli Market Entry Bootcamp, May 2012

Best regards,

Val Kratzman
Director, Head of Finland Trade Center
Finpro Washington, DC
Tel: +1 202 298 5864
Email: val.kratzman(at)finpro.fi

Ulrika Björkstam
Foresight Specialist
Finpro Helsinki
Tel: +358 40 3433 367
Email: ulrika.bjorkstam(at)finpro.fi

Saara Hassinen
Managing Director
SalWe
Tel: +358 405311 661
Email: Saara.hassinen(at)salwe.fi

Ilpo Kuronen
Program Director
National Health and Well-being Cluster Program
Mobile: +358 45 139 3757
Email: Ilpo.kuronen(at)kuopioinnovation.fi

Kari Ruutu
Program Director
LIFE Liaison
Tekes
Mobile: +358 50 5577 733
Email: kari.ruutu(at)tekes.fi