NFI | About Nordic Fnance Innovation

Nordic Future Innovation

Why we started NFI

All industries are experiencing significant challenges: new disruptive players, market boundaries changes, customers behaviours evolution, new challenger companies, and the next level of digitalization happening all around... We're in a continuous evolution.

With this backdrop, the networking group Nordic Future Innovation (NFI) was established in 2017. Born focused in the financial industry, but rapidly evolving to connecting all sectors. Because trust and collaboration is key to design the future, and diversity enriches all possibilities.

Our dream is to connect all companies in the Nordics, to generate business opportunities; to learn, think and do alongside each other, but also to play an active role in shaping the future, together with the most visionary players in the world.

Administration

The aim of NFI is to strengthen the Nordic collaboration environment connecting multi-sector industries with multi-players across the Nordic countries to unlock the power of innovation and bring value to the society.

Innovation board

Our Innovation Board will provide the direction, content and market offer of NFI. The members are all leading stars within their fields, selected on their ability to constitute a sustainable and relevant network, providing their own competence, experience and network. Our aim is that the Innovation Board will be an instrument of change within the industries.

Chris Skinner

Chairman & Co-Owner,

NFI

Cathrine Klouman

CDO,

Fredensborg

Luthon Hagvinprice

Head of Swedbank Innovation Community & Lab

Hege Toft Karlsen

CEO,

Eika Gruppen

Øyvind Appeland

CEO,

Aera

Ellen M. Hanetho

Founder and CEO,

Cercis AS

Anna-Lena Wretman

CEO,

Getswish

Dorthe Håhr Dupont

Head of Nordea Ventures

Irmelin Stølen

EVP Value Added Services,

Rema 1000

Kristian Luoma

Head of OP Lab,

OP Financial Group

Multi-country

NFI has members from all Nordic countries and expanding

Multi-players

Corporations, Startups, Hubs and Investors

Multi-sectors

Fintech, Insurtech, Retail, Proptech and Big Techs

Multi-country, Multi-sector and Multi-players is the three keys for the collaboration success

In three years we have built up the largest collaboration environment in the Nordics connecting the Multi-sectors, Fintech, Insurtech, Retail, Proptech and Big Techs with Multi-players Corporations, Startups, Hubs and Investors across the Nordic countries

NFI has grown steadily both in number and in variety, having our main milestone with the inclusion of the Retailers in 2019 and Real Estate in 2020.

Main sponsors

PricewaterhouseCoopers is a multinational professional services network of firms operating as partnerships under the PwC brand.

Nordea is a leading financial services group in the Nordic region and one of the biggest banks in Europe

Leading companies rely on a compass made from rock-solid values. Our values are driving us towards excellence, both with our employees and with our clients.

ForgeRock is a multinational identity and access management software company headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.A.

Connect

Connecting the right people

Think

Identify common opportunities

Do

Co-creation

Connect - Think - Do

In NFI we act in three dimensions CONNECT – THINK – DO

Connecting the right people – thinking and discussing common opportunities and through the DO`s dimension, focusing on delivering value added services and results through co-creations.

The power of NFI is the people,we walk the talk built on Trust! The NFI family want to be a part of something bigger than themselves representing the Nordics as a region to strengthen our position defining the future.