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Slush 2026

Slush 2026 is the world’s most founder-focused event, attracting early-stage tech founders, investors, and ecosystem partners from 70+ countries. With highly curated networking, hands-on company-building advice from global leaders, and over 20,000 meetings held across the two-day event, Slush connects the people who matter most for startup growth. The event…

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117Speakers
7Sponsors
0Sessions
121Companies · in total

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Speakers

Programmed at Slush, in alphabetical order.

Aarthi Ramamurthy
General Partner · Schema Ventures
Alexander Stubb
President of the Republic of Finland · President of the Republic of Finland
Alexandre Prot
Co-founder & CEO · Qonto
Anders Forslund
Founder & CEO · Heart Aerospace
Andrea "Annie" Kritcher
Co-founder & Chief Scientist · Inertia Enterprises
Andreas Klinger
Investor · PROTOTYPE
Andrey Khusid
Founder & CEO · Miro
Andy Beam
Co-founder & CTO · Lila Sciences
Antti Vasara
Board member · European Innovation Council
Artem Sokolov
CEO and Founder · Humanoid
Baiju Bhatt
Founder & CEO · Cowboy Space Corporation
Benedetto Vigna
CEO · FERRARI
Benedict Evans
Principal · Independent Researcher
Benoit Lemaignan
Co-founder & CEO · Verkor
Brett Gibson
Managing Partner · Initialized
Carla Gómez Cano
Co-founder & CEO · THEKER
Carles Reina
Managing Partner · Baobab Ventures (ex ElevenLabs VP Revenue)
Carlos Espinal
Managing Partner · Seedcamp
Carmen Alfonso Rico
Founder / VP of Business Operations · Cocoa Ventures / Fractile
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero
Founder & CEO · Nu Quantum
Chad Edwards
Co-founder & CEO · CuspAI
Chetan Puttagunta
General Partner · Benchmark

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AaltoMain Partner
Aalto UniversityMain
AWSMain Partner
FortumMain Partner
GoogleMain Partner
PSMain Partner
VTTMain Partner
Company intelligence

An audience of 121 companies, parsed from the program.

121 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
7Sponsoringsponsor only
114Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

91% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite7060%
  • Founder / Owner3429%
  • Director / Head of33%
  • Manager / Lead22%
  • Research / Science11%
  • Advisor / Investor33%
  • Other roles43%

Of 117 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AaltoSponsor · Main Partner-
2Aalto UniversitySponsor · Main-
3AWSSponsor · Main Partner-
4FortumSponsor · Main Partner-
5GoogleSponsor · Main Partner-
6PSSponsor · Main Partner-
7VTTSponsor · Main Partner-
8Aaru2
9European Commission2
10Index Ventures2
11Accel1
12Aikido Security1
13Aire1
14Airwallex1
Sponsors by tier
main1
14% of 7
main partner6
86% of 7
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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