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The main stage at Stavkroa seen from the gallery: the SX logo on the screen, a packed hall, a disco ball and timber pillars.

On stage since 2015.

Panels in a timber hall, pitches in a tent, talks by the bonfire. Long dinners, a ski race and karaoke on the main stage.

Photo: Zygimantas Vaicaitis. The main stage at Stavkroa, 2023.

Not your typical tech conference

Politicians on a mountain. A regional final with a million-dollar prize. Fuckup stories over dinner, and Voss rebuilt in Minecraft the year everyone had to stay home.

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  1. Politics shaping the future of Norway

    The pivotal crossroad for innovation

    With Alfred Bjørlo, Ingvild von Krogh, Laura Foster and Merete Nygaard

    Format
    Panel Session
    Where
    Main Stage - Afterski

  2. Ikea's Innovation Wins

    With Carl Aaby

    Format
    Keynotes Session
    Where
    Main Stage - Afterski

  3. Founder to Founder

    Stories that explore challenges and opportunities, stories that inspire!

    With Kristin Lorange, Lars Erik Fagernæs, Merete Nygaard, Trym Nordgaard and Ulla Sommerfelt

    Format
    Panel Session
    Where
    Main Stage - Tent

  4. Innovation within limitation

    The challenges and opportunities that led to Solstorm

    With Halvor Bakke-Veiby

    Format
    Bonfire Conversation
    Where
    Bonfire 1

  5. Look to space

    We all want to go! Find your business opportunity of space-entrepreneurship!

    With Jo Bjørnstad

    Format
    Bonfire Conversation
    Where
    Bonfire 2

  6. Harnessing Endless Intelligence

    AI opportunities that provide solutions to the big problems facing humanity

    With Ajay Goyal, Anastasia Trofimova, Hanne Ek, Heidi Lee, Lars Rinnan and Tomasz Kowalczyk

    Format
    Panel Session
    Where
    Main Stage - Tent

  7. AI in Action

    Strategies, Challenges, and Real-World Insights

    With Silvija Seres

    Format
    Bonfire Conversation
    Where
    Bonfire 2

  8. Guardians of the Digital Age

    A Pioneering Cyber Security Session

    With Alina Lapina, Awais Aziz, Guro Storlien Evensen, Lars Erik Fagernæs, Ole Tom Seierstad and Royce Mason

    Format
    Panel Session
    Where
    Main Stage - Tent

  9. Righting the gender-imbalance in the venture industry

    Who's job is it anyway?

    With Anette Miwa Dimmen, Diogo Del Gaudio, Donna Kastrati, Jørn Haanæs, Regine Larsen Lindtvedt and Sarah Lerche

    Format
    Main Conference
    Where
    Main Stage - Afterski

  10. Crossing the Valley of Death for Climate Tech Innovations

    Reaching the 2023 goals

    With Jørn Haanæs, Katherine Mellis, Nick Catania, Simen Malmin and Stefan Maard

    Format
    Panel Session
    Where
    Main Stage - Tent

  11. Norway Demo Day

    A showcase of some of the impressive start-ups and scale-ups in Innovation Norway’s portfolio

    With Arne Tonning, Camilla Frydenbø, Frode Opdahl, Helene Friis, Hermann Schips, Hilde Hukkeberg, Joachim Vie, Kaja van den Berg, Marie Sunde, Marit Wetterhus, Rebekka Stumpf and Synne Sauar

    Format
    Pitching Session
    Where
    Main Stage - Afterski

  12. Venture Cup Finale

    FINALE OF VENTURE CUP IN THE EXTREME ARENA!

    With Hilde Støle Pettersen, Kaja van den Berg, Lea Ho, Lise Fulland, Olga Mozhayskaya and Paulius Kvedaras

    Format
    Pitching Session
    Where
    Main Stage - Tent

  13. Startup World Cup

    $1 million startups regional competition

    With Arve Fresvik, Christian Horn Hansen, Helen Agering and Lise Fulland

    Format
    Pitching Session
    Where
    Pitching Stage

  14. Fuckup Stories

    With Lise Ekanger

    Format
    Dinner
    Where
    Fausko

  15. Pillars of Power - Mental Health

    With Sara Grette, Marcus Nickelsen, Kristoffer Finnson and Trym Nordgaard

    Format
    Dinner
    Where
    Huso Lodge

  16. Official Ski Race

    With Ingar S. Bentsen, Marte Rise and Pia Merkesdal

    Format
    Extreme
    Where
    Ski Slopes Arena

  17. Investor’s Chocolate Tasting with NorBAN

    With Svein Magnus Sørensen

    Format
    Extreme
    Where
    Stavkroa

  18. Singa Karaoke Chaos

    Format
    Fun
    Where
    Stavkroa

  19. Network in Minecraft

    “We have rebuild Voss inside Minecraft. Login together with investors and startups and explore the landscape, or build your own space.”

    Format
    Digital networking

  20. Experience BASE jumping with the world’s best skydivers

    “The jump lasts for seconds, but the journey to the top lasts for hours. Join the worlds first Slow-TV show with the worlds best basjumpers and the Startup Norway team.”

    Format
    Slow-TV

From Voss to Hemsedal

  1. 2024Hemsedal

    April 24-25 - 2024 - hemsedal - norway

    CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

    The worlds most unique startup event in the alps of the Nordics. connecting startups, investors and supporters the Norwegian way.

  2. 2023Hemsedal

    26-27 April, 2023

    Extreme Times. Extreme Opportunities.

    Where the world meets the Nordic startup ecosystem in the mountains of Norway.

    Basecamp outside Stavkroa in the sun: a crowd around a fire pan, with snowy peaks behind.
    Photo: Zygimantas Vaicaitis

  3. 2022Hemsedal

    Hemsedal 27 - 28 April, 2022

    The world's most extreme startup event - in the MOUNTAINs of norway

    Next Extreme Bets - future growth catalysts for the next decade

    A speaker on a low stage in front of a tightly packed crowd in the dark timber hall at Stavkroa.
    Photo: Zygimantas Vaicaitis

  4. 2020Voss

    Live from Voss - Norway - June 22-23

    Online · live TV

    Shape the Future

    For the 6th year we flock to Voss -Norway, for Startup Extreme. This year to create the worlds most extreme live TV startup festival.

  5. 2019Voss

    VOSS, NORWAY — JUNE 24-26 2019

    A step into the unknown

    For the fifth year in a row we invite the world to push our boundaries with the best players in the Norwegian startup ecosystem.

    A big tent stage in blue light, a speaker between two Startup Extreme screens, seen from the back of a full house.
    Photo: Jan Khür

  6. 2018Bergen & Voss

    June 12-14th - Bergen & Voss - Norway

    SO YOU THINK SKY DIVING IS EXTREME? TRY BUILDING A FAST GROWING STARTUP!

    FROM STARTUP TO SCALEUP - Norway has become a startup nation, now lets build a scaleup nation.

    About fifteen people on a mountain in summer holding up giant letters that spell EXTREME, a tipi tent behind them.
    Photo: Fredrik Steen

  7. 2017Bergen & Voss

    June 13-15th - BERGEN & VOSS - NORWAY

    WHERE THE WORLD MEETS THE NORWEGIAN STARTUP ECOSYSTEM

    Kickstarting the Norwegian Investment Scene

    A kiter on the sea under two kites, with the text Kiting Stavanger - Bergen, 11 hours - 190 km.

  8. 2016Bergen & Voss

    Bergen June 15th 2016 / STARTUP EXTREME SUMMIT is at VOSS from June15-17th

    THE STARTUP INNOVATION CONFERENCE

    JOIN THE NORDIC LEADERS IN STARTUP INNOVATION

    A woman with a microphone talks to a full, purple-lit tipi tent with long wooden tables and sheepskins.
    Photo: Dan Taylor / Heisenberg Media

  9. 2015Voss

    JUNE · 17 - 19 · 2015

    THE WORLD'S MOST EXTREME STARTUP FESTIVAL

    A Festival designed to create meaningful long lasting relationships between hand picked founders and investors, by sharing experiences in the extreme and beautiful Norwegian nature.

Watch it back

Aftermovies and trailers from the Startup Norway channel. Turn the sound up.

Startup Extreme 2022 - The Aftermovie2022
  • Startup Extreme 2023 - Aftermovie2023
  • Welcome To Startup Extreme – The Worlds Most Extreme Startup Festival2019
  • Shape the future at Startup Extreme

From the archive

Stories from The Extremer, the SX blog, that still hold up.

Simen Malmin of Nysnø next to a photo taken while kiting across a snowy mountain plateau, with the words Kiting to Startup Extreme.

Norways large public climate fund travels with the wind to Startup Extreme

Close to nature, Simen Malmin from Nysnø kites to Startup Extreme

The Extremer, 2024

  • SX2024 - Challenge Accepted!

    Startup Extreme's topic of 2024 - Taking on the extreme challenges ahead!

    The Extremer, 2024

  • First time Extremer? Here's what you need to know!

    Wool socks? Check. Waterproofs? Check. Boring conference suit? Leave it at home!

    The Extremer, 2024

  • How 8 full-time-students are organizing Norway's biggest student pitching competition

    This year marks the 20th anniversary of the competition being hosted by Start Norge, and celebrates so by a new format. Five different cities in Norway will host regional qualifiers where participants can pitch with an idea or startup - to potentially advance to the semi finals at Startup Extreme, the largest startup tech conference in Norway set in the beautiful Norwegian Alps of Hemsedal.

    The Extremer, 2024

    Two students laughing in front of a Start Oslo banner and a wall of startup logos, one carrying the other.

  • The World’s Longest Distance Autonomous Drone Consumer Delivery Service Launches In Norway

    MIT Alumni, Now Drone Pioneers, to Inspire at Startup Extreme 2024. Lars Erik Fagernæs, CEO of Aviant, a pioneering drone logistics startup founded by former MIT students will share his wealth of startup experience as a featured panelist at Startup Extreme 2024. Aviant's recent expansion into Lillehammer signifies a groundbreaking leap in autonomous delivery, offering groceries, restaurant meals, and medicine with pinpoint accuracy via drones.

    The Extremer, 2024

    An Aviant delivery drone on a wooden stand on a snowy frozen lake at dusk.

The people on these stages

Founders, investors, politicians and people building for space.

Meet the speakers