The Nordic Venture Forum, taking place on October 19th in Copenhagen, will be showcasing high potential life science, ICT and clean technology companies. The OECD regards the Nordic region as the most entrepreneurial within Europe. Nordic Venture Forum was created to connect the highest potential companies with prospective investors. 

Furthermore, the top 10 presenters of this event will participate in the European Venture Summit and the Eurecan European Venture Contest to compete with other European top ventures for a hefty sum of � 90.000. Nordic potential was awarded last year as the top two of the European Venture Contest 2008 were Danish InMold Biosystems and Norwegian RPR Technologies. 

Presenting at the Nordic Venture Forum has been able to attract new investments for over 60% of the previous participating companies. The event is thus regarded as an important forum for fostering start-ups and high-tech, high-growth entrepreneurship as well as promoting the Nordic region as innovative, attractive and rewarding countries to do business or invest in.

The SIME awards were established to inspire the Nordic internet industry and give recognition to its rising stars and champions. The award ceremony will be held on 12th November alongside with the SIME09 Stockholm event. SIME brings together thought leaders and decision makers from Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish large scale enterprises and other makers and shakers within media, internet, advertising and IT industries. Past speakers include: Nicklas Zennstr�m, founder of Skype; Esther Dyson, EDventure, investor, author and the queen of US Internet; Michael Oreskes; Chief Editor of International Herlad Tribune and Joi Ito, CEO Creative commons.