Thank you for all the New Factory Open registrations – we have a full house now! Keep following the website for more updates and news. We are looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday! It’ll be a great show!
Ajankohtaista
15.05.2012
One week to go to New Factory Open 2012!
We are happy to welcome you to New Factory Open to experience a showroom of experts and fresh minds, the best of New Factory and friends.
New Factory Open is a one-day event about what’s going on in the core of the innovation and startup scene - and what’s next! The event is held in New Factory, a historic cotton factory turned into a startup center invested in the future. New Factory Open shares the stories behind this award-winning innovation platform.
In the demo area, you can see
- The latest from the startup scene
- Exciting prototypes created by Demola student teams alongside leading companies
- Demos from partners pushing the edge of innovation in Finland
In addition to the demo area, we will welcome on the stage inspiring speakers and startups, not to forget about proudly launching our upcoming partnerships. The day will end with chatter, music and fun in a networking party for all event participants.
The seats are going fast! Register by May 17
See you there!
Questions? Contact us.
Tiina Rinkinen Producer, New Factory Open
tiina.rinkinen (a) hermia.fi
+358-50-570 2324
08.05.2012
COSS and Ubuntu Finland celebrate the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating system in New Factory on Tuesday May 15 at 14:30-20:00. Come and enjoy the free event packed with interesting speeches & demos with food and drinks.
Read more and register quickly to book your seat! Event will be in Finnish.
Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions and is available for free of charge in many languages. Ubuntu has more that 12 million users worldwide.
07.05.2012
Protomo Pitching Clinic is here again to present our best cases and organising time to network between teams! There will three example pitches that have been refined to the finest at Inka 2 Innovation workshop hosted by SRI, the creator of NABC model.
Join the clinic on Wednesday May 9 at 9:00-10:00, New Factory Backstage (Protomo Tampere). Protomo Pitching Clinic is a bi-weekly morning event on Wednesdays welcoming pitchers to step on the stage and get valueable feedback from the community. No registration required.
Contact Protomo staff to sign up to pitch and to get more informations.
Sointu Karjalainen
+358 40 823 5371
sointu.karjalainen(at)hermia.fi
Kimmo Rouhiainen
+358 40 583 1100
kimmo.rouhiainen(at)hermia.fi
03.05.2012
New Factory turns into a showroom on May 22, 2012!
New Factory Open is a one-day event about what’s going on in the core of the innovation and startup scene - and what’s next! It takes a dive into out-of-the-box creativity and turning innovation talk into real life action. The event is held in New Factory, a historic cotton factory turned into a startup center invested in the future.
New Factory Open shares the stories behind this award winning innovation platform. New Factory Open gathers a bold mix of experts and fresh minds, the best of New Factory and friends. It offers exciting demos, intros and launches from startups and partners, in addition to inspiring keynotes.
Come and experience a new take on innovation work! Get a close look at the co-creation and community-based business development, and the strong industry ecosystem around it.
02.05.2012
Mearra, Tampere University of Technology (Hypermedia Laboratory) and New Factory join forces and organize a free Drupal in a Day -training session on May 25, starting at 10 am.
Get a solid introduction to Drupal 7 in just one day. Learn about the most essential features and concepts of Drupal through hands-on activities. By the end of this day you will be familiar with Drupal terminology and be able to identify how many Drupal sites are constructed. You will know how to identify and choose modules to get the functionality you need. Because this class will be an overview and not an in-depth course, it is perfect for people who are on the fence about using Drupal or who are looking for a hands-on introduction.
Prerequisites:
Experience using and building websites using systems such as Wordpress, Joomla!, or good ‘ole handmade HTML and CSS. An understanding of a Content Management System is helpful. Participants should bring their own laptop computer and have access to install software (Apache, MySQL, PHP) on it.
By the end of the training you will be able to:
- Understand Drupal terminology such as blocks, taxonomy, aliases, and more.
- Create and manage content and users.
- Add images and add automatic image resizing.
- Choose and configure the most popular Drupal modules.
- Be able to identify how Drupal sites are constructed and the modules used.
Teaching language for this class is English unless all the participants are Finnish-speaking.
The training itself is free of cost - food and drinks are not included. Registration is required.
Note, that the purpose of the training is to improve both the knowledge of and talent in Drupal as extensively as possible, so we reserve the right to limit the attendence from one company. We will send a confirmation e-mail to each approved participant within the first 30 a week before the event.
Questions and concerns in regards of this training can be sent to contact@mearra.com
Drupal in a Day Tampere is sponsored by Työväenmuseo Werstas
17.04.2012
FiBAN and New Factory are strenghtening the co-operation in business angel network locally in Tampere, co-organizing an event targeted for investors and people interested in business angel investing in New Factory on April 19 at 5pm.
The New Factory Stage will be the venue for pitches by growing local companies and a panel of experienced business angels.
The pitching session starting at 6pm is open for audience. Join to follow the pitches and feedback to get a closer look of the investor point of view for the art of pitching!
Finnish Business Angels network (FiBAN) is a Finnish association of private investors that aims to improve the possibilities for private persons to invest into unlisted potential growth companies. The association’s work is based on contributions of the development of Finnish businesses and to the birth of new jobs via potential growth companies.
16.04.2012
Find out what Demola Academy teams have accomplished in the first two months! Demola Academy mid-pitching event is taking place on Wednesday, April 18 at 4 pm. It is a great chance for the teams to present the value in their projects.
This is what happens: 3 minute pitches from all 32 Academy teams 4 Pitching tracks 2 rounds of pitches. Snacks and drinks are provided. All teams pitching need to register online.
16.04.2012
The biweekly Startup Club gathers in New Factory again on Tuesday, April 17 at 17:00, Protomo Stage. That's tomorrow!
The topic of the night is the Lean Startup philosophy and planning meetups for likely minded startups and people interested in the ideas behind Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Lean Startup meetups are happening around the world - be part of the phenomenon in Tampere!
No sign up needed - join the movement that is transforming how new products are built and launched!
13.04.2012
Every year, Demola is the home for around 100 projects and some 400 students. Since the beginning of a new semester of Demola Academy two months ago, the teams have been busy putting together projects with their company partners.
– The quality of projects has been really high, and the results were achieved efficiently. It has been a positive surprise for the project partners to find out about the ideas students can come up with. This spring, we have a number of new project partners, as well as familiar ones who have seen what the students are capable of, say Demola facilitators Jarmo Tuominiemi and Antti Salomaa.
Students after real life solutions
The first round of Demola Academy projects last fall created great results. The first Demola Academy winner project was Live-Manual, a project ordered by Metso to develop a more user-friendly manual. Members of the Live-Manual team, Jussi Ahola, Eero Ojanperä and Tomi Turtiainen, say they could have achieved their credits with a lot less work…
– … but that would not have been as rewarding. It would not have motivated us. And the opportunity of doing something in a new way offered by Demola was more important than the credits: a possibility of learning, using new tools and nimble techniques, getting experience in project work.
– We learned by doing. Hitting on a solution that worked had a great energising effect on us.
Jussi, Eero and Tomi agree that a project forces you to put yourself at stake, but it was worthwhile.
– It gave us a taste for a self-directed, independent way of working. We were allowed to decide what to do, what tools to use and when, we were highly motivated and progress was nimble. I became interested in working like this all the time. I have just found a job and I believe that the Demola Academy project was a good reference. Of course, you also got to know people and gained good contacts, Jussi assesses.
The team was international, and it involved students of fields ranging from software, interactive, automation and materials technology.
– Once you have sat together for long enough, you start discovering the dynamics of the group and a shared language. And once you have agreed to do a good job, everybody must chip in.
Straight benefit to companies
Metso has completed three projects with Demola, and the fourth one is underway.
– When the final results were presented to us, I really was like, wow! Research Manager Mika Karaila from Metso Automation describes his experience. He feels that students with their fresh information and skills help to revitalize the company.
– Our own employees are intensively engaged in their everyday work, the job has them in its grip. The students lend the perspectives of new techniques and the latest technology to an experienced work environment, and if we are able to make the most of this combination, we may have innovations in our hands.
Metso has installed the Live-Manual on a demo and included it in their training.
– The requirement is the same as for a top-class athlete or musician: a wish to practice at every opportunity and a wish to be the best in the world. This is the recipe for peak performances.
– A customer installation might come on-stream towards the end of the year. In a couple of years we will see how this innovation has been received by customers, Karaila notes. Assessing the entire process, Jari Seppälä says that the results were extremely positive.
– The honour for this goes to the students, they were the greatest impetus for innovation.
You learn by doing, as Live-Manual team members Tomi Turtiainen (from left), Eero Ojanperä and Jussi Ahola discovered. The innovative user’s manual system Live-Manual improved the user friendliness of Metso Automation’s manuals, and it was awarded the best project of Demola Academy.
