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October 27th Epicenter Oslo co-hosted an event with Sopra Steria about the Metaverse in relation to the retail industry. The topic at hand was: will the Metaverse disrupt the retail value chain? And if so, how? We welcomed Sopra Steria’s very own experts on virtual reality, Erik Eskedal, Jelmer Verhoog and Scott Leaman, Meta Vertical Lead, Nina Hareide, and CEO of Wilfa, Morten Hoff to the stage to share their…

At Epicenter we believe that we reach more impact when we collaborate within and across industries, businesses and even competitors. With our clusters we gather companies and individuals around a common challenge or question that we innovate around together.  One example of this is our PropTech cluster REDI.City - a group of companies and individuals with passion that have launched an initiative with a mission to make real estate better,…

On November 15th, Entra hosted an event at Epicenter about turning the office into a destination. We were there, of course, and as we already think Epicenter is in fact a destination, we felt right at home. Here’s a short summary of the event and the topic at hand: How do we get people back to the office?     After a huge transformation related to how we all think about…

During Oslo Innovation Week this year SMOC.ai and Epicenter co-hosted an event about the power of modern business ecosystems. This event sought to both educate and inspire the 200 people in the audience to get a deeper understanding of what a business ecosystem is, and how we are both responsible for (and reliant on) them to thrive, both in business, and as a species.    Event host, Matt Smith, introduced…

Stockholm, home to companies like Spotify, iZettle, and Minecraft. Oslo, home to EcoOnline, Ignite Procurement and Spacemaker. Helsinki, home to Wolt, Supercell, and Aiven. The Nordics is a unique place for innovation and producing global tech unicorns. South Korea and Singapore are now teaming up with Nordic Innovation House Epicenter to provide their most promising local startups with a scaleup program designed to gain insights into the Nordic model for…

Over the past ten years a lot has happened to how we view the workspace as a result of multiple factors, such as the tech race, the pandemic and digitisation. What these factors have in common is that they have contributed to shifting what your most important resources - your employees - require from the workspace, and how it should fuel innovation and growth within your business.   What is…