City Pitch: Helsinki
Matias Korhonen • October 04, 2023 • Vilnius, Lithuania • Talk

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00:00:09.880 well I'm matius and first question who
00:00:12.920 was at Yoku in
00:00:15.720 2019 yes a lot of you these slides might
00:00:18.880 be quite
00:00:20.519 familiar so some
00:00:23.960 background I used to organize the Frozen
00:00:26.160 rails conference back in the
00:00:28.679 day uh by four times over the years
00:00:32.559 Finland is the home of home and
00:00:34.640 birthplace of rails girls and I was a
00:00:36.760 coach at the very first
00:00:39.280 event oops and I also help organize the
00:00:43.520 Helsinki Ruby Brigade Meetup in
00:00:46.039 Helsinki and I'm a one of the founders
00:00:48.360 of hubi which is a nonprofit based in
00:00:52.600 Finland so
00:00:55.879 Helsinki this would be the most northern
00:00:58.120 EUR uh Yoku ever
00:01:02.920 again uh we get flights from 150
00:01:05.920 different destinations so it's really
00:01:07.360 easy to get to and that includes flights
00:01:10.360 from five different cities in Japan in
00:01:13.360 case you know somebody wants to give a
00:01:14.640 keynote or
00:01:18.040 something and it's quite a compact City
00:01:20.400 so it's very easy to get around and if
00:01:23.079 you don't like walking we have an
00:01:24.400 excellent public transportation system
00:01:26.079 as
00:01:27.280 well plus you're not going to get lost
00:01:29.560 on the Metro System
00:01:33.720 either and we might not have a party
00:01:35.880 train but we do have a tram that is a
00:01:38.439 bar so you can take
00:01:41.880 that and there's plentiful karaoke
00:01:44.399 available for those who like that sort
00:01:46.399 of thing and the aband the abundance of
00:01:49.119 karaoke might be why Finland is the
00:01:51.439 happiest country in the
00:01:53.119 world and it's also known for its design
00:01:55.719 like
00:01:56.600 this like this AI library in Helsinki
00:02:01.200 and these cool dudes from our Central
00:02:03.600 Railway
00:02:04.680 Station and the aror Rex
00:02:09.119 Museum and we have great coffee and also
00:02:12.920 we have the most coffee to the tune of
00:02:15.560 12 kilograms per person per
00:02:18.160 year plus of course we're the home of
00:02:20.519 sauna which means that we know oops
00:02:24.319 which means that we know how to keep
00:02:25.840 hydrated so there's lots of good beer as
00:02:28.560 well and you might know Finland from
00:02:31.160 some of our previous hits such as
00:02:34.519 Linux
00:02:36.519 IRC SMS and
00:02:39.440 Nokia
00:02:40.959 M and of course
00:02:54.000 Yoku oh and also you know if you don't
00:02:56.800 select Helsinki we are also organizing
00:02:59.319 another Conference next month it's
00:03:02.000 called o the humanity and it's uh
00:03:04.840 something a little bit different it's a
00:03:06.120 human- centered software developers
00:03:07.519 conference so think Tech conference but
00:03:10.599 only the so-called soft talks which are
00:03:13.159 about you know humans which are you know
00:03:15.400 famously
00:03:19.440 easy yeah we have a great keynote by
00:03:22.280 annel
00:03:23.400 Dash and if you use the code Yoku 20
00:03:26.879 during Yoku you get 20% off tickets but
00:03:32.200 yeah thank you and no vote for Helsinki
00:03:36.280 again thank you
00:03:44.840 m
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