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

    Select one of the following workshops

    Founders Growth Workshop with Niclas Carlsson

    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

    Longevityb by Design with Rob Lake

    Longevity by Design: A Data-Driven Operating System for Founders, Leaders, and Investors of the Future

    We’ve engineered our tech stacks and capital strategies. Now it’s time to engineer ourselves. This keynote delivers a forward-facing roadmap using the latest in longevity science: biomarkers, behavioral protocols, and scalable systems to help high-performers thrive inside the chaos of modern leadership and build a future where performance and health compound together.

    Duration: 120 minutes

    Format: High-engagement, personalized, science-based strategy session

    We’ve mastered code. We’ve scaled capital. Now it’s time to architect the most vital system of all - ourselves.

    In this dynamic, hands-on workshop, you won’t just learn about the future of longevity - you’ll build your own custom strategy to lead from it.

    Guided by cutting-edge research from Eirloom, the world’s first longevity and leadership company, this session unlocks a new framework for performance: one that blends biomarker intelligence, behavioral data, and leadership resilience protocols into a scalable, personalized roadmap for thriving inside high-pressure environments.

    And for the first time at Founders World Summit, we’re adding science to the stage -literally. Participants will have the exclusive opportunity to engage with on-site biomarker testing and next-gen diagnostic tools to better understand their current state of biological readiness. This includes:

    • Optional on-site blood and saliva diagnostics via elite micro-sampling kits
    • Experimental access to wearable data capture, cognitive tracking, and recovery assessments
    • Live insight stations to explore how real-time physiology can shape future-proof strategy

    This is not a keynote. It’s a working lab, and you’re the experiment.

    Over 120 high-impact minutes, participants will:

    • Complete a rapid biological self-assessment using Eirloom’s proprietary Vital Threads™ profiling system—no needles, no fluff required
    • Map their current biological patterns to three core domains of high-performance aging: physical healthspan, mental healthspan, and leadership lifespan
    • Explore research-backed levers that extend energy, cognition, and decision-making capacity for founders and investors under pressure
    • Use intelligent prompts, peer dialogue, and real-time feedback to co-design a precision-based 120-day Longevity Protocol
    • Walk away with a clear, customized operating plan - not a to-do list, but a behavioral OS designed to stack healthy years and scalable results

    This is a workshop for the future-fit - those ready to evolve not just their companies, but their capacity.

    Whether you’re fundraising, scaling, exiting, or starting again, this session gives you the science, strategy, and system to lead longer, stronger, and smarter in the AI age.

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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.