VIA SMEs Working Session: Shared Knowledge, Compounded Value!

​Vantaa Innovation Activator — Event 02

​SMEs Working Session · 12 May 2026 · Morning · Vantaa, Finland

​Innovation is rarely a solo act.

​VIA (Vantaa Innovation Activator) 2026 brings together Finnish SMEs and founder-led companies to work across boundaries, sharing real challenges, surfacing cross-sector patterns, and building knowledge that grows with every session.

​This is not a conference. It is a structured working session where what you bring to the table compounds into something larger than any single company could build alone.

​AGENDA

• ​07:30 Networking Breakfast

• ​08:15 Welcome and Opening with Tommo Koivusalo (Director of Economic Development)

• ​08:45 Economic Frame : Dr. Elina Pylkkänen (Under-Secretary of State)

• ​09:10 : Opening Provocation : Reino Meriläinen (Director, Helsinki Region Chamber of Commerce)

• ​09:30 Roundtable collaborative discussion

• ​11:30 : Closing & Next Steps

​Topics on the table:

• ​Growth & Reinvestment

• ​AI & Work Challenges

• ​Innovation through Collaboration in Ecosystem

• ​Commercialisation & International Scenarios

• ​Compounding knowledge and Research

• ​...

​Limited seats!

​Full details, guests and program coming soon.

​Stay tuned.