Business Espoo’s Breakfast Club – Next stop: Global Growth

Business Espoo’s Breakfast Club – Next stop: Global Growth offers a practical morning session for companies considering their next steps towards internationalisation or looking for new growth opportunities in global markets.

During the event, you will gain insights into how to build international growth in a structured way, where to find new contacts, partners and potential customers, and what other companies have learned on their own growth journeys.

The morning will also include an interactive workshop, where you will work together with other companies and experts on theme related to international growth. You can expect concrete insights, new connections and support for taking your company’s next step towards global markets.

Join us to network, learn and accelerate your company’s international growth!

Program

8:15 Arrival, breakfast & informal networking

9:00 Program starts

• Welcome & Introduction – Petri Lautjärvi, Business Espoo
• Introduction to Sisu Factory Global Growth – Petri Lautjärvi
• Lessons Learned and Successes in International Expansion – Nora Tåg, Purosi 
• The best way to find potential contacts and customers with help of the Enterprise Europe Network – Johanna Niemistö, Senior Advisor, Helsinki Region Chamber of Commerce, Enterpise Europe Network (EEN)
• Workshop – two topics, 30min each 
• Summary & Closing

11:00 Program Ends – Time for Networking

We reserve the right to make changes to the program.

Registration

Register by 24 September: Registration link(external link, opens in a new window)

Speakers

Petri Lautjärvi is a business development and internationalization professional with more than ten years of experience helping companies, organizations and ecosystems build cross-border partnerships and pursue growth in new markets. In his current role with the City of Espoo and Sisu Factory Global Growth, he works with companies and partners across Finland and internationally to create concrete pathways to new customers, markets and business opportunities. His background spans international business, strategy, stakeholder engagement and project leadership, with a particular interest in turning international networks into practical commercial opportunities.

Nora Tåg is a serial entrepreneur, a certified business coach, and strategic communications advisor with extensive experience supporting global organisations and leadership teams. Norra Communications, a boutique communications agency, specialised in media relations and crisis comms, serves both local and global companies in the Nordic market. PUROSI, a management consultancy, brings Finnish leadership and wellbeing expertise into the Japanese market with its AI-powered coaching programs. Tåg also serves as Vice Chair of the Finland-Japan Chamber of Commerce (FJCC).

Johanna Niemistö, Senior Advisor at the Helsinki Region Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise Europe Network, has a long experience of helping Finnish small and mediums sized companies in their internationalisation journey by providing them different services and information on several networks. LinkedIn(external link, opens in a new window).

Arrival at Innopoli and parking

See instructions for arriving at Innopoli at this link(external link, opens in a new window). Free parking is available with a QR code, which you can obtain at the event registration desk.

Accessibility in Innopoli 2

There is a wheelchair ramp next to the main entrance. Accessible parking spaces are available in guest parking (marked squares). The facilities have barrier-free toilets on the entrance floor near the meeting rooms. For more information about accessibility, kindly contact: espoo@technopolis.fi, phone +358 40 1790050.

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Business Espoo’s breakfast club is a meeting place for entrepreneurs to get tips to develop their businesses and learn about free business services. The event is free of charge and open to all entrepreneurs based in Espoo and Kauniainen.

This event is organised in collaboration with the Sisu Factory Global Growth project, which supports companies in the Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa region as they pursue new growth in international markets. Read more.