18 November 02:00PM-09:00PM CETHotel Hobo & Restaurant Nokka (UTC+02:00)

Welcome to Founders Workshop & Dinner in Helsinki, Finland!

We warmly welcome you to Founders Founders Workshop, on November 18, 2025, at 3 PM am at Hotel Hobo in Helsinki, followed by Founders Dinner at Restaurant Nokka.

This Founders Growth Workshop and optional Founders Dinner will offer valuable insights for all participants in their exchange with peer group large-scale founders. Please select your degree of participation by registering now. 

Warm welcome!

Overview

Participants. Founders Alliance Members, and personally invited Founders Guests.

Founders Growth Workshop: A workshop for founders to connect and explore key areas of company development. Share experiences, discuss challenges, and opportunities for scaling and sustaining businesses, with input from peer founders on growth, investments, impact, and ownership. Venue: Hobo Hotel

 Optional Dinner: This extra dinner is available. We will invoice 2700 SEK (240 EUR) for the Founders Dinner, inclusive of food and drinks. Venue: Restaurant Nokka.

    Program (UTC+02:00)

    02:45 PM

    Registration

    Hobo Hotel, Kluuvikatu 4, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
    03:00 PM

    Welcome Founders!

    Welcome, Founders! We're excited to have you at Founders Alliance. Before we dive into the Growth Workshop, let's kick things off with a quick introduction and a chance to connect with peer Founders Alliance members.

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    Hobo Hotel, Kluuvikatu 4, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
    03:30 PM

    Founders Growth Workshop

    Founders Growth Workshop

    A growth workshop to introduce founders to each other and dive deep into key areas of company development. The focus will be on exchange between participants' challenges and opportunities to scale and sustain businesses. Each of you will receive input and share experiences of your growth, including your operative companies and other engagements (investments, impact, and ownership) with input from others.

    Agenda

    1. Short Intro and Welcome: The workshop facilitator will welcome participants and introduce the workshop, and act as the moderator to ensure a great exchange for all participants.

    2. Participant Introductions and Input: Each participant will have time to introduce themselves and explain their number one challenge or opportunity for which they seek input from other founders.

    3. General Exchange on Key Challenges: An exchange on the key challenges identified during the introductions.

    Examples of Areas Covered in Earlier Founders Growth Workshops:

    • How to lead distributed organisations including merged/acquired companies
    • How to scale internationally and the role of the founder
    • Other ownership and engagements, such as investments in other firms
    • The business of doing good: our broader impact engagements within or outside our commercial companies
    • New innovation and what keeps me happy with entrepreneurship as a means: personal balance, health.

    Thank you, and get ready for the networking and Founders Dinner 

    A few days before the workshop, you will get further details on who participate.

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    Hobo Hotel, Kluuvikatu 4, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
    05:30 PM

    Founders Business Unit Meets

    Matched meetings with 3-5 founders based on the workshop to stimulate exchange around challenges and opportunities that are key to each participant - how to help each other to further accelerate impact and business success. 

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    Hobo Hotel, Kluuvikatu 4, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
    07:00 PM

    A short Walk to Restaurant Nokka

    Restaurant Nokka, Kanavaranta 7 F, 00160 Helsinki
    07:15 PM

    Founders Dinner

    3-course dinner with options for both alcohol-free and alcohol-based drinks. Matched seating at Restaurant Nokka.

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    Restaurant Nokka, Kanavaranta 7 F, 00160 Helsinki
    10:00 PM

    Thank you!

    Founders Alliance at a Glance

    Founders Alliance was established in 2001 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) incl. Founders Groups, one-to-one introductions, closed online communities, international business trips and events (hybrid). 

    The Founders World Summit, which is the annual culmination delivered for the 12th time, September 23-24 2026 interlinked with the 25th Founders Awards Gala September 24, 2026 at Berns Hotel in Stockholm.

    Its membership comprises over 300 high performing founders owning over 3000 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.