Chairperson of the City Council, City of Tampere
Smart Tampere program builds Tampere into internationally known, attractive, smart city where companies and citizens are involved in developing the city. The aim is to develop the cooperation of different parties in order to enable economic growth and the daily lives of the citizens easier by developing digital solutions.
Through city planning Tampere has been able to ensure private investments of over 6 Billion for the next 10 years. Smart Tampere program’s one key goal is to make sure these investments are used to build a smarter city and to secure economic growth.
The first seven themes of Smart Tampere are Smart Health, Smart Education and know-how, Smart Industry, Smart Building, Smart Infrastructure, Smart Mobility and Smart Government and Citizen.
Tampere region is the second largest urban area in Finland with a population of 505 000. In comparison to bigger cities Tampere can offer great advantage with high quality research, education and talent in cost effective way. Tampere is a great place to do business offering also a more human scale and making it easier get around and to meet the right people - and to collaborate with other businesses.
12.00 Welcome
by Ms. Anna-Kaisa Ikonen, Chairperson of the City Council, City of Tampere
12.15 Lunch
13.30 Lunch is followed by the UK-Finland Trade Roundtable
Dress code: Business attire
Interested companies and individuals are kindly requested to fill in the registration form below.
3-days all-inclusive Pass is a personal and non transferable pass to access all events during the visit. Price includes:
Flights not included.
3-days all-inclusive pass is designed for members of the UK / Commonwealth business delegation.
Companies from Finland are advised to register to each event individually.