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​The Plant will be Finland's first industrial scale builder space for ambitious hardware engineering: autonomous vehicles, robotics, manufacturing and energy systems. If you are ready to delve into building something physical and reality altering, you're exactly who we're looking for. We're currently looking for 1–3 pilot teams to kick off the projects. The Plant: Chapter One event on Monday 29.6. at 18.00 at Startup Sauna is for you to explore an idea and build with potential teammates. The team who makes the most progress will receive a 100e reward. Pilot program interviews are conducted during the event. ​If you are unable to attend this event but you're interested in The Plant, you can fill in this application. TLDR; What? The Plant: Chapter One & apply to the pilot program Where? Startup Sauna When? Monday 29.6. at 18.00 Who? For anyone passionate about building big https://luma.com/aaltoes-lro8

Prompt Workshop 4 — Intro to Agentic Coding Tools For our fourth Prompt Workshop, we're tackling something powerful: how to build real products and systems using AI as your development team. We'll learn how agentic coding tools work and how to use them to go from idea to working build — no coding or AI experience needed. Join us for a hands-on workshop on: • What agentic coding tools are and how they work • Using AI to build products and systems without writing everything by hand • A live build-along: everyone gets something working end-to-end • A challenge round: build your own project with support + feedback • Demos + next steps Skill level: Beginner June 15th — 18.00 Startup Sauna Sign up now: https://luma.com/aaltoes-zk2r

Our friends at Junction are recruiting Head Volunteer Roles for Junction 2026 Main Event Ready to help build Europe’s leading hackathon? This is your moment. We’re looking for Heads for: Program – own speeches, keynotes and everything happening on stage. Production – help build a venue that is both beautiful and functional. Experience – create memorable moments and bring the Junction spirit to life. Hospitality – keep volunteers, partners, hackers and visitors cared for through smooth operations, lounges, food and snacks. Communication – work with the CMO and lead the info desk + platform info teams. Great for fast, service-minded communicators. Content – work with the CMO and lead partner + general content teams. Perfect for someone with an eye for viral content, detail and fast execution. Apply here 👉 https://form.typeform.com/to/UUiMfnP6

Join us at Startup Sauna for the Harbor Closing Fair, where the 18 teams and 52 participants of this summer’s Harbor program present what they built over the past 6 weeks. Harbor brings together ambitious early-stage teams to work intensively on projects across agentic engineering, product development, and market research, turning ideas into concrete progress in a short time. At the fair, you'll meet the teams, see what they tackled, and hear how their work took shape. June 15th 13-15 Startup Sauna https://luma.com/aaltoes-wppp

See you tomorrow at 18.00! luma.com/3mn7nl9t

Here is a summary of Prompt's events for June 8th – Workshop 3: AI Agents for Sales 9th – Build Night 1: Build Agents for Your Life 13th – Sales Hackathon 15th – Workshop 4: Intro to Agentic Coding Tools All events are hosted at Startup Sauna Signup here: https://luma.com/aaltoes-calendar Join Prompt's Info Channel: @promptaaltoes

Prompt Build Night 1 — Build Agents for Your Life For our first Prompt Build Night, we're skipping the slides and just building. Build Nights are our recurring evening sessions where you show up, pick an idea, and ship a working AI agent by the end of the night. This Build Night's theme is agents for your life. Planning a trip, sorting your week, scouting an apartment, figuring out dinner — if it's personal and useful to you, it's a great agent to build here. Join us for an evening of building: • A quick theme brief to get everyone going • Pizza and refreshments to keep you fueled • Demos to close the night + a small prize for the Build of the Night Leave with at least one working AI agent you actually want to use. Skill level: All levels — beginners welcome June 9th — 17.00 Startup Sauna Sign up now: https://luma.com/aaltoes-wjer

We're excited to announce a challenge partner for the Prompt Sales Hackathon: Immersive. Immersive is the platform that lets anyone build, fund and launch a startup entirely in a virtual world. Spin up your company with the Immersive Platform and Immersive AI, generate everything you need with built-in generative tools, and publish straight to the community. The Challenge: Virtual Startup. This is your chance to apply to the hackathon. June 13th-14th Startup Sauna Cash prize pool Sign up now https://luma.com/aaltoes-7dvo

Prompt Workshop 3 — Agents for Sales For our third Prompt Workshop, we're getting hands-on with one of the most practical uses of AI yet: building agents that automate your sales work, so you can stop doing the repetitive stuff by hand. We'll learn how to set up AI agents that chase leads, draft follow-ups, and handle the busywork — and give you the basics and practical tips to get started. Join us for a hands-on workshop on: • What AI agents are and where they fit into a sales workflow • Turning manual sales tasks into automated, reusable workflows • A live build-along: everyone sets up one agent end-to-end • Build an agent for your own use case with support + feedback • Demos + next steps Skill level: Intermediate June 8th — 18.00 Startup Sauna Sign up now: https://luma.com/aaltoes-5qiu

We’re excited to launch our new program called Summer of Something running from June 22nd to early September. Read more, get excited and apply below👇 sos.aaltoes.com

Pitch It is not taking a summer break 🌿 People still have ideas. People still need rooms where trying feels easier. So we’re keeping the mic open. Come watch a few pitches, meet people, or try something yourself if you feel like it. Thursday, June 4 · 18:00 Startup Sauna luma.com/3mn7nl9t

A message from our friends at Junction: We are launching Junction Platform. For a decade, Junction has brought together builders, companies, and communities through hackathons. We have seen thousands of people build, test, fail, learn, and create something real in just a short amount of time. Now, we are turning everything we have learned into a platform for running hackathons. From applications to communications, from challenges to participants, from teams to submissions. Junction Platform is built for companies that want to experiment faster, engage new talent, and turn real problems into concrete outcomes. Book a free demo: https://hackjunction.app/host-a-hackathon

From our friends at Robotics Nation: Your own embodied ai robot assistant for 3 months? Not for a weekend hackathon. Not for a month, but quarter of a year In your house. For free. No strings attached. There is time to play around, dive deep and actually learn. And if you manage to use it for something useful* there is money to be won. If youve been looking to get into Robot Learning, RL or Sim2real, this is it. This. Is. It 🦾 https://luma.com/yyushsqi 🦾

Prompt Workshop 2 — Managing Agents For the second Prompt Workshop, we'll help you build a mini team you can run anytime. We’ll build a simple “agent assembly line” with Claude skills/custom commands (and Claude Code for the build), so you can split a real task into specialist agents. Join us for a hands-on workshop on: • How to think in specialist agents • Turning a messy real-world task into a repeatable “agent pipeline” you can trust • A live build-along: we’ll set up the workflow end-to-end together • A challenge round: pick your own case (or use ours), run the pipeline, and iterate • Share-outs + next steps so you can reuse the system for your own work Skill level: Intermediate (best if you’ve played with skills/custom commands before) June 1st — 18.00 Startup Sauna Sign up now: https://luma.com/49l16tec

Prompt Sales Hackathon — June 13-14th We’re hosting Prompt's second hackathon, focusing on sales: a 2-day build sprint to explore what it takes to create agents that can support real business work in the sales function. Stay tuned for our upcoming announcements on challenge partners and more. This will be a similar format to the Finance hackathon taking place this weekend! Apply now to secure your spot. June 13-14th — Startup Sauna Sign up now https://luma.com/aaltoes-7dvo

Navigating Vertical AI Startups 3 — GTM Strategies for Vertical AI Startups Supported by Wave Ventures For the final event in Prompt's "Navigating Vertical AI Startups" series, we’re joined by Mikko Alasaarela (Agion) and Oona Suominen (Inven) to break down how vertical AI startups actually win GTM. When the product is changing fast, buyers are skeptical, and “AI” alone isn’t a strategy. Join us for a fireside chat on: • What the best wedge products look like in vertical AI • How to sell outcomes and price in a way that scales • The GTM traps 26th May - 18:00 Startup Sauna Sign up now https://luma.com/jz5l7uun

Reminder to sign up for tomorrow's Prompt event! This is the first event in the "Navigating Vertical AI Startups" series. We will discuss business models, joined by investors Mikko Silventola and Pirkka Palomäki. Tuesday 19th - 18.00 Startup Sauna Sign up now https://luma.com/2xrmutoc

From our friends at Founder School: Founder Talks #8: Maija Itkonen, CEO & Co-Founder of Onego Bio 🥚 From wireless charging to Pulled Oats to egg proteins without the chicken, Maija Itkonen is a three-time founder with two exits and a rare mix of design, business, and deep tech thinking. Now she's reinventing one of the most ancient foods on the planet with Onego Bio. In Founder Talks #8, we get into what it really takes to innovate in the food industry, how a diverse background becomes your biggest asset, and what's next in her journey. This is your chance to ask the questions that matter to you. Don't miss it 👇 📆 21.5.2026 | 16:00–17:30 📍 Marsio, Otakaari 2 👉 https://link.webropolsurveys.com/EP/AE7BAE13E15A289E

We’re excited to announce our final challenge partner for the Prompt Finance Hackathon: Aiven. Aiven is the Helsinki-born data platform powering many builders' production AI: open source based, fully managed, multi-cloud. Deploy PostgreSQL, Kafka, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, or Valkey on AWS, GCP, or Azure in a few minutes and get back to building. pgvector for RAG, Kafka for agent event streams, ClickHouse for fast analytics on whatever your agents produce — it's all there, no infra to babysit. Wolt and Supermetrics run production on Aiven. So do thousands of other teams that need real data infrastructure without the operational tax. The Challenge: Engineering Aiven's Infra Economics This is the final chance to apply to the hackathon! https://luma.com/81o7pkb7

Navigating Vertical AI Startups 2 — Is the AI Market in a Bubble? Supported by Wave Ventures For the second event in Prompt's "Navigating Vertical AI Startups" series, we’re joined by René Kromhof (Cloudberry VC) to go deep on whether we’re in an AI bubble. And if yes, what still ends up being true and valuable after the hype resets. Join us for a fireside chat on: • What looks inflated vs what’s actually structurally changing • How investors separate “demo magic” from real product + distribution • What kinds of AI companies survive a downturn (and why) 21st May - 18:00 Startup Sauna Sign up now: https://luma.com/3xmn5pj0