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7 December 2021 12:00PM-04:00PMHotel Kämp, Helsinki, (UTC+02:00)

Welcome to Founders International Forum!

You are VIP invited to exchange with select Founders headquartered in Finland for valuable exchange with large scale founders among Founders Alliance members.

The exchange will be designed to maximize exchange with the other Founders through: Lunch with mixed round tables, one to one Business Meetings and Interactive Workshops with 5-12 founders some with themes and some for general introductory exchange.

To inspire, we also have the pleasure of presenting Monty Widenius in a Q&A at our 30 min Founders Talk.

This is an unique opportunity in which founders with the power to bring about change connect with each other as part of Founders Alliance 20 years work to add value to the world's large scale founders and owners, currently with 400 members in Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA, and India.

Please mark your participation and confirm the various activities and your challenges and goals ahead to enable the best possible value for you. For those of you that have already confirmed participation, Founders Alliance has already pre-registered you.

Prior to the Forum you will receive details on your specific agenda and profile of Founders you will exchange with.


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Overview

Participants. Founders Alliance consists of large scale founders as members who pay an annual membership fee for participating in collaboration at Founders Group Conferences, Founders World Summit and the Founders Gala. There are no sponsors or other contributions. 

Founders Groups are the core of the Founders Alliance collaboration forum. All members belong to a Founders Group. During the Founders Conferences, the groups meet and work on common issues and bring value to each other.

Your participation. Over the day you are given opportunity to exchange with peer group large scale founders and "test-out" Founders Alliance including:

  • Collaboration Lunch at Hotel Kämp
  • Interactive workshops in exchange with peer founders in groups of 5-12 founders each to introduce and exchange on strategic challenges and opportunities ahead 
  • One-to-one business meetings

Purpose. Founders Alliance's purpose is to develop more large (medium-sized and large) sustainable companies started and owned by founders and through them generate a positive impact on society.

More specifically the purpose of Founders Groups is for successful founders to meet to help each other become even more successful through new, deep and long-term relationships that inspire, develop and enable more and better business. The members must contribute with a high and active presence at the meetings and a genuine desire to help each other both at the meetings and in between.

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    Program (UTC+02:00)

    11:45 AM

    Registration and check-in at Hotel Kämp

    Hotel Kämp
    12:00 PM

    Collaborative Lunch

    Lunch is served at Hotel Kämp with small group round tables with exchange between Founders Alliance members & VIP invited founders in Finland.

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    01:00 PM

    1-1 Business Meetings

    Short 1-1 meetings to introduce and find potential common business. Coffee is served.

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    02:00 PM

    Founders Talk with Michael "Monty" Widenius

    Michael "Monty" Widenius is the main author of the original version of the open source MySQL database - the worlds most popular open source database and Founder of the MariaDB Foundation. Additionally, he is a founder and general partner at venture capital firm OpenOcean.

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    Michael "Monty" Widenius
    02:30 PM

    Interactive workshops

    Mixed parallel interactive workshops between 6-12 founders to introduce and deep dive into relevant strategic challenges and opportunities for each participants.

    Founders Alliance will group participants according to phase of its entrepreneurship, industry and interest i.e. Investments, Social Impact, SaaS, International Expansion, Cross Border, Industrial Technology or General. 

    Please describe your strategic challenge/direction ahead by registration and we include this in the grouping of workshops.

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    04:00 PM

    Collaborative Coffee conclusion

    Coffee is served at the venue for those of you that stay longer together with all participants

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    04:30 PM

    Thank you!

    Speaker

    Michael "Monty" Widenius

    Michael "Monty" Widenius is the main author of the original version of the open source MySQL database - the worlds most popular open source database and Founder of the MariaDB Foundation. Additionally, he is a founder and general partner at venture capital firm OpenOcean.

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    Founders Alliance at a Glance

    Founders Alliance was established in 2002 by Niclas Carlsson. Today Founders Alliance is a premium collaborative business forum for founders of large-scale corporations, owners of international growth companies and engaged in multiple social impact initiatives around the globe.

    Founders Alliance facilitates a platform for collaboration for Founders (members) including Founders Boardlike Groups, 1-1 introductions, closed online communities, international business trips and events (virtual & physical) including the annual Founders World Summit, which is the annual culmination delivered for the 8th time Sept 21-22 in 2022 in Stockholm ending with the 21st Founders Gala at the City Hall of Stockholm (Nobel Prize venue).

    Its membership comprises over 400 high performing founders owning over 2000 companies in all parts of the world stretching across all industries and areas of expertise. 

    The core of Founders Alliance is independent from state funding, financial actors, advisory firms and academic institutions.

    For membership requests please contact niclas.carlsson@foundersalliance.com.

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