January 26–27th 2023 | Free Virtual Event

Viexpo Virtual Export Event is coming again!

On January 26–27th 2023 we will again bring together experts from different markets, inspiring speakers, interesting company cases, and most importantly, companies that plan to export or are already exporting. Join for a free top event, get ideas and help developing your company’s exports

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This time Viexpo Virtual Export Event will be built around four themes

We reserve the right to make changes to the program.

Thurs, January 26

9:00
Welcome

 

9:10
Ulkoministeriön tietoisku

–Tietoisku ulkoministeriön vienninedistämisponnisteluista ja ulkoministeriön edustustoverkon palveluista.

Jyrki Nissilä, UM

The Theme for the Morning Session

Differentiation in digital channels

9:30

Verkkokauppiasklubit yrittäjien tukena

–Business Finlandin Experience Commerce -ohjelman avulla on käynnistetty jo 11 alueellista Verkkokauppiasklubia. Klubi on 6–10 yrityksen vertaisoppimisryhmä, joka auttaa yrityksiä kasvamaan ja kansainvälistymään. Leevi Parsama kertoo klubien toiminnasta ja tarkoituksesta.

Leevi Parsama

 

10:00
TikTokilla kansainvälistä näkyvyyttä – Case: Vilpe Oy           

Katarina Hellén

 

10:30
Case SporttiRakki, verkkokauppa Isokyröstä

–Miten yrittäjästä tuli koiratarvikkeiden ja -palveluiden verkkokauppias, ja millä opeilla yrityksen liikevaihto on kasvanut jopa yli 40 % vuosittain.

Heidi Hendrell

The Theme for the Afternoon Session

Nordic market opportunities

12:00
Dronet ja sähkölennot

–Tulevaisuuden liikkumis- ja logistiikkamahdollisuudet Pohjoismaissa

Elisabet Kivimäki, Into Seinäjoki

 

13:00

Kansainväliset messut viennin edistäjänä
Marketta Järviluoma, Veljekset Ala-Talkkari Oy

Timo Rossi, Jakamo

 

14:00
Investments in Västerbotten and Norrbotten
–Export opportunities for Finnish companies

Anders Hjalmarsson, Västerbottens Handelskammare

Fri, January 27

The Theme for the Morning Session

Experiences from food export

9:00
Yritysryhmähankkeen hyödyt pk-yritykselle
–Yritysten kokemuksia Luomuelintarvikeyritysten vientiprojektista

Keskustelemaassa Horst Neumann, Suomisen Maito Oy, Pramod Jayaprakash, Spices Chef, Gallina ja Jan-Ole Sandås, Ab Finnish Superberries Oy, Matti ja Tuuli Kotaja, Finnish Plant, Tuomas Olkkonen, Alavuden öljynpuristamo, Tuukka ja Mervi Turunen, Mood Food Company Oy.

 

10:00
Birkkalan tila – pk-yrittäjän kokemuksia viennin aloittamisesta.

Yritys on erikoistunut luomuspeltin tuottamiseen ja tuotteita tehdään sekä kuluttajille että teollisuuteen. Vientiin yritys on satsannut enemmän viime vuosina ja kasvua haetaan viennin kautta tulevaisuudessa.

Simo Larmo, Birkkalan tila

 

10:30
Vientistrategian ja toimenpiteiden suunnittelu elintarvikeyritykselle

Kåre Björkstrand, Viexpo

13:00
Tietoisku Pohjoismaiden markkinanäkymistä | Business Finland

–Business Finland Ruotsi, Norja ja Tanska esittäytyvät ja kertovat oman maansa ajankohtaisista markkinanäkymistä.

Christa Elmgren, BF Tanska, Nima Jokilaakso, BF Ruotsi ja Kaisa Nikkanen, BF Norja

The Theme for the Afternoon Session

Cluster building

14:00
Klusterirakentaminen ja klustereiden tuomat hyödyt 

Kristian Schrey & Lauri Laaksonen, NordicHub, Viexpo

Fredrik Sandelin, Pietarsaaren seudun Kehittämisyhtiö Concordia

The invited experts all have versatile experience of their own field.

Jyrki Nissilä, Chief Specialist, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Jyrki Nissilä works in the Team Finland export promotion unit at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, whose duties include promoting exports extensively as well as advising and assisting companies in export activities. Jyrki Nissilä's duties include working between the counties and the representative network of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He has a multifaceted experience from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and its representative network around the world.
26.1.2022
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Leevi Parsama, Digital Commerce Specialist, Experience Commerce Finland

Leevi Parsama is a strong influencer in e-commerce who is familiar with digital commerce in Finland, the USA, China and across Europe. Currently, Leevi works as an expert in Business Finland's Experience Commerce program.
26.1.2022
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Heidi Hendrell, owner and service manager, SporttiRakki (Dogomo Oy)

Heidi Hendrell has a strong background in communications and marketing and long experience in developing online services. Her e-commerce concept for dog hobby and accessories has been operating successfully both in Finland and to the international audience for several years.
26.1.2022
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Katarina Hellén, Marketing Manager, Vilpe Oy

Katarina Hellén has a strong background in marketing through both research and experience. As the marketing manager of Vilpe Oy, she has been involved in implementing the crazy idea of taking TikTok as a tool for marketing a B2B company. Today Vilpes TikTok account has about 100 000 followers.
26.1.2022
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Elisabet Kivimäki, Key Account Manager, Into Seinäjoki

Elisabet Kivimäki works with international affairs and attracts new companies to locate in Seinäjoki. Identifying new business opportunities for companies and helping companies oriented towards international markets motivates her.
26.1.2023
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Marketta Järviluoma, Export Manager, Veljekset Ala-Talkkari Oy

Marketta Järviluoma has a very long, more than 20-year experience in the export affairs of Veljekset Ala-Talkkari Oy and especially in international trade fairs, which the company has participated in as part of its export efforts for several decades.
26.1.2022
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Timo Rossi, CBDO & co-founder, Jakamo

Timo is responsible for the company's sales, marketing, business design and sustainability issues. In addition, Timo works as a visiting lecturer at several universities on various topics.
26.1.2022
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Anders Hjalmarsson, CEO, Västerbottens Handelskammare

As the CEO of Västerbottens Handelskammare, Anders Hjalmarsson works with creating a business-friendly environment in the region. Together with his team they work with questions related to especially economic growth, exports, competence supply and infrastructure.
26.1.2022
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Pramod Jayaprakash, CEO, Spices Chef

Led by Pramod Jayaprakash, Spices Chef is a company and brand specializing in organic food, founded in 2014.
27.1.2022
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Simo Larmo, CEO, Birkkala farm

Birkkala farm specializes in producing organic sheet metal and products are made for both consumers and industry. The company has invested more in exports in recent years, and growth is sought through exports in the future.
27.1.2022
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Kåre Björkstrand, Senior Advisor, Viexpo

Kåre Björkstrand is Viexpos internationalisation specialist, whose special expertise includes food exports. As an export manager, he has an extensive experience in export tasks in the industry and B2B export trade. His strongest expertise is export planning.
27.1.2023
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Christa Elmgren, Advisor, BusinessFinland

Christa Elmgren works at BusinessFinland i Denmark.
27.1.2022
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Kaisa Nikkanen, Senior Advisor, BusinessFinland

Kaisa Nikkanen works at BusinessFinland in Norway.
27.1.2022
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Nima Jokilaakso, PhD, Senior Advisor, BusinessFinland

Nima Jokilaakso works at BusinessFinland in Sweden.
27.1.2022
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Kristian Schrey, CEO, Viexpo

Kristian Schrey has several years of experience as entrepreneur in different fields, and of work with start-up companies. He also has been working with export for almost 20 years. With this background he can understand the situation of the companies and help them in all export related matters.
27.1.2022
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Lauri Laaksonen, Marketing and Communications Specialist, NordicHub Manager, Viexpo

Lauri Laaksonen, D.Sc. in Econ. and Bus. Adm. (Marketing)
He has also worked in marketing projects and sales, and has a strong marketing mindset and knowledge.
27.1.2022
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Fredrik Sandelin, Regional developer, Jakobstad Region Development Company Concordia

Fredrik Sandelin’s tasks at Jakobstad Region Development Company include working with regional development and development projects, promoting the region’s interests, brand and supply of competency. The work is done in active collaboration with different partners. At the moment, Fredrik is working actively e.g. with the ClusDe-project in which the regions boat and food cluster activity are being developed.
27.1.2022
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Feel the mood of the event from 2020 and 2022

At Viexpo Virtual Export Event experts from different fields came together to discuss and share their knowledge. 

News

Experiences from food export, Nordic market opportunities and cluster building

11.Jan, 2023

Viexpo Virtual Export Event 2023, the event that promotes export and internationalization, is now arranged for the third time 26.-27.1.2023. There are four themes around which the program of the coming event is built around: differentiation in digital channels, Nordic market opportunities, experiences from food

Differentiation in digital channels and Nordic market opportunities

23.Nov, 2022

The program for the Viexpo Virtual Export Event 2023 is starting to take form. This virtual event that promotes export and internationalization is now arranged for the third time 26.-27.1.2023. There are four themes around which the program of the coming event is built around:

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Lauri Laaksonen

Marketing and Communications Specialist, Viexpo

NordicHub Manager

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