On Tuesday, December 4, two social progress-oriented entrepreneurship events will begin in Helsinki, Finland.

Slush Global Impact Accelerator is a world-renowned startup and investment conference aimed at promoting new companies with a positive global impact. The events aims to create a global startup community and change attitudes toward entrepreneurship around the world.

Dr. Ravi Kanbur, a member of the IPSP Scientific Council, will be a featured speaker at a Slush workshop on sustainable entrepreneurship.

At the same time, the Oxygen 2018 « Transformative Business Unconference » will be held at the Kilta-Sali, also in Helsinki. The theme of Oxygen 2018 is « Rethink! Ventures for a better world. » Structured as an « unconference, » the event calls for open participation and crowd-sourced ideas to discuss the future of transformative business.

Dr. Kanbur is one of two keynote speakers at the event, and he will present the central take-home message of the IPSP report: « A better society is possible. »

You can now view the slides from the event:

 

For more information, see the Slush website and the Oxygen website.