Introducing Crush Speaker
Priyanka Banerjee is an experienced diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant. She works closely with companies to kick-start and advance their DEI journey by helping them with their DEI survey, analysis, strategy development, learning development, facilitation and consulting.
Priyanka has a background working in the tech industry supporting the HR and people operations. She has been actively working in DEI industry for over 6 years and has helped hundreds of leaders in their DEI journeys.
Her mission is to help leaders and companies understand the power of div...
Introducing Crush Speaker
Aaro Angerpuro is a Sustainability Analyst at Impaktly, dedicated to integrating sustainability at the heart of businesses to encourage regenerative growth. He has been recognized as one of the top young change-makers of 2024 in Finland by Ashoka. Aaro led the Nordic Business Diversity Index 2024 by Impaktly, a research initiative on leadership diversity of over 600 Nordic Nasdaq-listed companies.
His commitment extends into advocacy as he is a member of the Nuorten Agenda 2030 group, promoting sustainable development under Finland’s Sustainable Development Commit...
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Planning a life together? Take these legal issues into account to secure your financial peace of mind.
Financial awareness between partners or spouses and open money talk are important contributors to a financial peace of mind. In addition to discussion and planning, legislation can have a surprisingly large impact on couples’ finances at the various stages of their relationship and life.
Read about the legal issues you should prepare for when planning your life together.
Life surpri...
Thank you so much for everyone who joined us for the Akateeminen x Crush event at the Akateeminen bookstore last week - despite the April snow storm weather.
We hosted two panel discussions, moderated by Crush founders Anna Pyykkö and Katja Presnal. Crush is an equality-promoting movement that breaks patriarchal norms in the corporate world, and our goal is to make Finland the first country where the gender gap has closed.
Our panel discussions at Akateeminen focused on two topics: importance of networking and how to make big goals a reality.
Co-founder of Crush, and the owner of the F...
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Be You, Be Successful
In the business world, authenticity often takes a backseat to professionalism. Especially for women, it can be challenging to become visibly authentic. However, research shows that embracing authenticity can be a game-changer for women leaders, entrepreneurs, and businesswomen, increasing their freedom to be themselves in the office.
Authenticity is a powerful tool for success, enabling women to build genuine connections, inspire collaboratio...
Shevestments SPARK at Crush
Shevestments SPARK is an exciting Shark Tank-style Pitching competition for female and non-binary founders, held at Crush Event on May 8th, 2024. You will need an event ticket to participate.
The pitching competition is facilitated by Hanna Nyholm and Mirva Nevalainen of Shevestments.
Shevestments is an educational investment platform and scaleup service powerhouse with the aim to connect female entrepreneurs with investors and capital, educate more women to become business angels and VCs, create more opportunities for women to make an impact in the business wo...
Virtual Crush? No! But also yes!
We have received this question from a few people, so we wanted to provide you an answer, and test if there is an interest...
Q: Will Crush Event 2024 be live-streamed or available online?
A: No, it will not be live-streamed and we do not sell virtual tickets.
The Crush 2024 event will be in person, but we will record it, and potentially offer it for a fee later on.
To test the interest of virtual access to our conference content, we have a surprise for you: you will get all of Crush 2023 panels and keynotes for FREE when you sign up to our newsletter.
Our 20...
Tervetuloa Helsingin Akateemisen Kirjakaupan Kohtaamispaikalle seuraamaan paneelikeskusteluja ja verkostoitumaan. Paneelit moderoivat Crushin perustajat Anna Pyykkö ja Katja Presnal.
Crush on tasa-arvoa edistavä liike, joka murtaa patriarkaalisia normeja yritysmaailmassa, ja jonka tavoitteena on tehdä Suomesta ensimmäinen maa jossa sukupuolten välinen kuilu on sulkeutunut.
Ohjelma
16:30 Tervetuloa
16:35 Paneeli: Miksi tarvitsemme verkostoja?
Kuule parhaat vinkit miten verkostot auttavat luomaan unelmien uran ja menestymään liike-elämässä. Menestyneet verkostojen superrakentajat kert...
Introducing Crush Speaker
Shadia Rask (she/her) is a PhD with more than a decade of professional experience working on diversity, equality and non-discrimination.
She is a Research Manager at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), but on her second year of study leave, studying Corporate Responsibility at Hanken.
Her PhD in public health examined diversity and health in the population. Shadia has led research and development projects focusing on diversity and inclusion in working life. She was responsible for the diversity-promoting recruitment experiment of THL that was awar...
Introducing Crush Speaker
Dr. Aura Pyykönen, a mother of three, an obstetrician-gynecologist, and a serial entrepreneur has mission is to tackle the underestimated challenges in women’s health.
Aura’s background lies in clinical work complemented by academic research, focusing on healthcare quality, and she is a strong advocate for equitable health care access.
Her entrepreneurial journey has lead her to found two startups focused on women's health within just two years of transitioning from hospital work.
In 2022, Aura founded Isla, an online women's health clinic, pioneering in the rea...
Crush Speaker Introduction
Rasheka Scott is a distinguished multilingual Jamaican-Finnish lawyer with 15 years of experience in private practice, specializing in intellectual property, commercial contracts, data protection, and immigration law. Renowned for a business-focused approach, a pedagogical style and approachability, Rasheka ensures tailored solutions for both Finnish and international startup and scaleup companies.
Ms. Rasheka Scott, previously the head of intellectual property practice in a tech law firm, brings years of expertise in the same domain. With a focus on branding, cop...
Introducing Crush Speaker
We welcome Janiina Lammi, investment director of Vendep Capital to speak at Crush 2024.
From a marketing and communications agency background to being a SaaS Co-Founder, CMO, and marketing team lead, Janiina has gained wide-ranging experiences that cover everything from listed companies to startup life. With a specialization in leading international marketing and communications, Janiina brings a wealth of experience to Vendep’s investment team.
Janiina is also a mountain climber, blogger, and author, whose autobiographical book ‘Suuri huiputus’ (in Finnish) will be...
