iiterate at Slush 2026 in Helsinki

Slush is a conference for start-ups and investors in Helsinki that began in 2008 as a gathering of 250 people. It is not-for-profit, owned by the Finnish Startup Foundation and organised by students and recent graduates together with a large team of volunteers.

The event takes place on 18 and 19 November 2026 at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre (Messukeskus), with a Day 0 programme on 17 November. According to the organiser, more than 12,000 people attend, around three quarters of them start-ups or investors. The focus is on curated European start-ups, international investors and tech media, and Slush explicitly names the DACH region as a core region. Programme and details are on the official Slush website.

iiterate brings to Helsinki the work we do every day: AI for environments in which data should not leave the company. We are an AI consultancy from Adenau in Rhineland-Palatinate and are travelling as part of the German delegation. Our focus areas:

• On-premise LLM. Language models that run on your own infrastructure.
• RAG and knowledge management. Retrieval systems that derive answers from a company's documents and cite the sources.
• AI with EU data residency. Architectures in which processing and storage remain within the European Union.
• Computational design. Parametric models and configurators in which rules generate the geometry.

In conversations we focus on concrete questions: which data a project touches, where processing may take place and which architecture follows from that.

Above all, investors, companies and founders who deal with AI and sensitive data should talk to us.

• Investors who assess AI projects in regulated or data-sensitive industries.
• Companies that want to use AI on confidential documents and need data residency in the EU or on their own premises to do so.
• Founders who work on AI with sensitive data and would like to talk about architecture, operations or collaboration.

A project that has not yet been fully thought through is no obstacle, but a good starting point for a conversation.

The best way to arrange a meeting in Helsinki is in advance through our contact page. Briefly mention your topic and the days you will be on site. Conversations can be held in German or English.