Events:
Future wooden architecture will turn apartment buildings into carbon stores
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: Students' visions show how beautiful, sustainable, and adaptable multi-story wooden construction can be.

Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025 exhibition
Aalto University’s biggest annual exhibition presents visionary cross-disciplinary work. Come explore prototypes, experiments and solutions.

AI accelerates seamless knitwear design
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: Technology brings new inspiration to creative textile design processes.

Nature’s wonder materials are entering everyday life
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025: What happens when material experiments move from the lab to stores and homes?
Artpreneurship – Reimagining the Role of Artistic Creativity in Business
What if the key to future business success isn’t what you know – but how boldly you imagine?

Designing workplace happiness
How to build workplaces where people can thrive? Come and hear what Aalto University researchers have to say about building happiness in working life!
Legacy Awakens: An inspiring journey through science and design
What happens when scientific expertise meets creative hands-on design in materials research? In what ways can these different approaches inform each other? Why is collaboration, in all its various forms, so meaningful? The seminar is organized by the Aalto University Bioinnovation Center to celebrate the long career of Aalto Distinguished Professor Tapani Vuorinen as a researcher, educator, and industry partner.

Science for Sustainability, a sustainability-themed event organized by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, will bring together science, innovation and change makers from diverse fields.The theme for the event is "Bursting the Sustainability Bubble" which aims to challenge sustainability myths and break down the barriers between disciplines and industries. The event will be organized in the Helsinki and Espoo in autumn of 2025.

Built Environments for a Cooler Planet: Sustainable Urbanization Pathways for the World of 2075
The event brings together academics, university students, government officials, and business representatives from Finland and abroad to identify innovative solutions, competence needs and opportunities for climate-sensitive urban growth.

Shaping Tomorrow with Smart and Living Materials
Welcome to explore future materials inspired by nature

Driving renewal – Live podcast
The Uudistajat (Driving Renewal) podcast shares stories and insights from leaders and experts on how organizations drive, adapt and create sustainable change.

Quantum Strategy: The path to making quantum technology Finland’s next success story
Finland's new quantum strategy paves the way to global impact—this event highlights key steps toward quantum supremacy.

Aalto Alumni Weekend 2025
Join the alumni event on 25.10.2025 to gain insights for shaping a sustainable future and reconnect with familiar faces!

Quantum Correlated Light and Matter | November 3-5, 2025
The workshop brings together leading experimental and theoretical research groups studying quantum phenomena in excitons, phonons, and magnons coupled to light, quantum states in Moiré materials, and light-induced strongly-correlated states in condensed matter and ultracold atomic arrays.

Slush is a not-for-profit organization on a mission to help and create founders to change the world. Based in Helsinki, Slush annually hosts the world’s leading startup event bringing together a curated crowd of European startups, world-class investors, and tech journalists. We stand by relevance over scale, bringing tangible value, and sharing actionable company-building advice. No fluff.
