Herizon Community Newsletter 9/2025
Happy September superstar! ✨ The heat is on (welcome back, summer?) both outside and in our event schedule with lots happening both in the Herizon schedule and beyond with our friends and partners 🔥
What's coming up? Read it all below 👇
Growing through career ups and downs 🎢
In this fireside chat, we’ll be chatting with Dinuka Lankaloka, Lead Product Designer at Basware, and dive into his journey as a product designer and international, the differences he’s experienced between working in a startup and corporate culture in Finland, and how to navigate difficult situations like layoffs while maintaining your mental health.
This session is all about how to navigate your career as an international through the good and bad, and identifying useful strategies to apply to your job search and career journey.
Get into sales with expert guidance 💪
Our popular boot camp with Customer Success Nordics is back! But this time we're training you to become a sales pro. We have two super practical events waiting for you. Details and registration for events below👇
Learn the ropes of sales in Finland and start building your skillset through a practical workshop with mentors.
Put your newly polished sales CV to the test and receive feedback and guidance from experienced recruiters in 1-on-1 sessions.
Breaking your career out the box 📦
Join us for an inspiring fireside panel where we get to learn from the unique founder's journey of IKKIO's Founder Iara Dias. Spanning two decades and encompassing product development, partnerships, business development, finance, international trade, and procurement, her career is full of diverse experience.
Expect sage career advice and learnings for future- and current Founders, as well as valuable insights for people whose professional identity doesn’t fit neatly into a box.
Unemployment fund or labor union? What's the difference, anyway? 🤔
Are you living and working in Finland and want to better understand how the unemployment security system works? Join our free online webinar to learn about the YTK Unemployment Fund and how it can support you.
We'll go through a list of FAQs and you'll get to ask anything from YTK's experts.
Insider scoop to Project Management in Finland 👀
Join us for an insightful fireside panel where we get to learn from our guest, Mervi Koivulahti, a veteran Project Manger, currently working as a Senior Project Manager at Digia. We’ll dig into her knowledge and experience to help us understand the field from the inside. What kind of companies to look for, what’s a must, and what’s not for a project manager.
If you’re a Project Management professional at any stage of your career and hungry to get the insider scoop into the industry here in Finland, this event is definitely for you.
Learn, meet and mingle with community builders 💪
We’ll be discussing how live communities are built and run with so many competitors for our time and attention. We have gathered a panel of veteran community builders who are known for building highly engaged live communities; Salla Uusitalo from HIVE Helsinki, Joey Bayer from Epicenter and Juha-Matti “Juhis” Santala from Reaktor.
Whether you’re into building communities, helping the people around you to grow and thrive or if you’re freshly community-curious—this event is for you!
LinkedIn boot camp is back 🥾🏕️
Ready to make LinkedIn work for you? Join LinkedIn boot camp—a course designed to boost your findability, refine your profile with a look into recruitment logic behind the scenes, and give you actionable strategies to become more visible through content and active skill-development.
Events by Herizon friends 💜
Welcome to Femcode Collective—a meetup and online-based community for women and non-binary people who are ready to build and launch their own AI-coded solutions. We’re learning by building, sharing our progress, and turning ideas and dreams into real solutions.
Together, we build, we share, and we launch.
This event is a beginner-friendly kick-off workshop led by vibe coding expert and Founder of Herizon, Mari Luukkainen. With Mari’s guidance, you’ll get to building your own tools and solutions during the workshop—no previous coding experience required.
Our friends at Aalto Univeristy welcome you to their first event in the Aalto Founder Talks series where they invite some of the brightest stars of the Finnish startup field to share their stories.
Monika Liikamaa is driving the fintech revolution at Enfuce, creating seamless and sustainable payment solutions. She’s here to share her entrepreneurial journey, reveal the lessons behind scaling a fast-growing fintech, and inspire with insights on innovation, leadership, and turning bold ideas into reality.
This Helsinki-based, 5-week group coaching and yoga program (Sep 30–Oct 28, 2025) combines the movement of yoga with guided reflection of professional coaching, helping you feel more connected, resilient and confident.
This program is led by Sagan Rossi (they/them), a Professional Certified Executive Coach with a ICF ACC and EMCC EIA Practitioner accreditations and 20 years experience in marketing, brand, and communications, and executive leadership experience, and Susanna Kohisevankoski (she/her), a Professional Certified Executive Coach with over 15 years of experience in leadership, HR, and communications across international and growth-oriented companies.
If your LinkedIn profile and presence needs a bit of brushing up but haven't made it to LinkedIn boot camp's online version or otherwise prefer live events and short format, this event is for you! Viivi from Herizon team is visiting Luckan Integration on September 16th at 17:00-19:00.
Codebar, a recurring code mentoring workshop is having their next Helsinki session at the beginning of October. Bring your code project to get paired with an experienced code mentor and receive support and advice in building your project.
🗓️ Upcoming Events
- 9.9. Hybrid / Fireside chat: Growing your career in Finland (event link)
- 11.9. Live / Sales Manager boot camp, part 1: workshop (event link)
- 17.9. Hybrid / Fireside chat: Project management in Finland (event link)
- 18.9. Online / YTK x Herizon: Unemployment funds—what are they? (event link)
- 23.9. Live / Sales Manager boot camp, part 2: CV clinic (event link)
- 30.9. Live / Community Collective x Hive Helsinki: live communities (event link)
- 1.10. Hybrid / IKKIO x Herizon: Founder fireside chat (event link)
🔁 Weeklies and recurring
- 14.8.→ LinkedIn boot camp / September cohort (event link)
- Mondays / Finnish online chat (event link)
- Tuesdays / Online meetup (event link)
- Wednesdays / Live meetup (event link)
Up to date event list always available at Herizon Portal.
Whew, that's a packed schedule! Hope to see you around a lot in the coming weeks at all these amazing events 🤩 Enjoy the last bits of summer! ☀️
-Viivi + Herizon team
P.S. Does your organization want to support our mission to find jobs for 10 000 global talent in the Nordics? We're always happy to find ways to collaborate through company excursions, internships and more! Reach out to viivi@herizon.io for collaboration opportunities 💜
