Business
Closing companies, sunsetting products, founder exits and restructuring.
Why this exists
Every conference celebrates beginnings.
Nobody talks about endings.
Launches, growth and scale get all the stages. Yet every company, product, career and system also ends, and how that ending is handled decides what comes next. FALL / SPRING gives both halves of the cycle a stage: one gathering on the autumn equinox, as the light fades, and one on the spring equinox, as it returns.
2equinoxes a year
1ticket for both
6months apart
12 / 12hours of light and dark
Who it's for
People who know that every ending is also a start.
Going through it
In the middle of a transition
Founders closing or selling a company. Leaders restructuring a team. Anyone whose job, product or plan is ending.
Been through it
On the other side
People who lost something, failed at something or let something go, and kept moving. They bring the stories.
Helping others through it
Guiding the change
People leaders, HR, coaches, advisors and cities who help others end things well and start again.
What you leave with
You won't leave with slides. You'll leave with three things.
- Perspective
Stories from people who ended something, lost something or failed at something, and kept going. A reminder that for things to start, others have to end.
- Practice
How to close a project, a product or a company well. How to lead people through change, and how to have the hard conversations.
- People
A room of people who are going through it, have been through it, or help others through it. Some of them will matter to you for years.
Autumn equinox · September 2027 · Helsinki
FALL
An event about endings.
FALL · Endings
The ending decides what comes next.
A day for everyone who has closed something, is closing something, or will have to. Honest stories, practical know-how and the rituals business forgot. Tone is the whole job: jokes about dead products one hour, real loss the next.
Careers
Quitting, layoffs, retirement and starting over.
Systems
Decommissioned plants, legacy tech and fossil infrastructure.
Life
Death, digital legacy and grief, handled with care.
On the programme
- The wake
The evening drink becomes a wake. Raise a glass to what is gone.
- A funeral for dead ideas
Founders bury the products that didn't make it, properly, with eulogies.
- The honest stage
What an ending felt like, told by the people who lived it.
Spring equinox · March 2028 · Helsinki
SPRING
An event about regeneration.
SPRING · Regeneration
It starts smaller than you think.
Six months after FALL the light comes back, and so do we. SPRING is about the moment something new still fits in your hand: the first hire, the first prototype, the first day back. Oaks drop their acorns in autumn and they sprout in spring, and nothing about an acorn looks like an oak. A day for people starting again, and the stubborn faith it takes.
First things
First customers, first hires, first days back.
Second acts
Careers and companies started again, bigger than before.
Slow growth
Things built to outlast a funding round.
Reuse
What old material becomes next.
On the programme
- The planting
Every guest plants an oak sapling in a Helsinki park. At the next SPRING it is still growing, and so are we.
- No hindsight
Stories told from inside a beginning, before anyone knows how it ends.
- The thaw
We open where FALL closed, and turn the lights on.
Why the equinox, why Helsinki
A country that knows how to end things and start again.
12 h
Polar night, midnight sun
At FALL the dark gains speed. At SPRING the light races back, with new energy and drive.
60.16° N
The Cable Factory
When cable production ended in 1990, parts of it were due for demolition. Artists moved in, organised and saved it. Now one of Finland's biggest cultural centres, and our first-choice venue.
60.18° N
The last shift
Hanasaari, Helsinki's coal plant, was switched off in 2023 after almost 50 years. Now open for new uses, and a venue option for FALL.
1991
Just a hobby
A 21-year-old in Helsinki announced a free operating system: "just a hobby, won't be big". It became Linux.
61.24° N
Onkalo
A nuclear waste vault built to last 100,000 years. The ultimate ending, engineered.
80 °C
Sauna, then ice
Heat, then the cold plunge. Every Finn knows the ritual of letting go and starting fresh.
The Full Circle pass
One ticket. Both sides.
- One pass for FALL and SPRING. Two halves of one cycle, so we sell them as one.
- A pass in two halves. You get the first at FALL and complete the circle at SPRING.
- Single tickets cost more. The pass is the smart way in.
For partners
Partners buy the whole year.
Every organisation ends things: products, plants, teams, careers. Few are known for doing it well. A FALL / SPRING partnership puts your name on both halves of the cycle, in front of the people who are living it.
Who partners with us
- Companies that end things well
Organisations that have closed a plant, sold a business or reshaped a workforce, and want to be known for doing it decently.
- Companies built on the cycle
Reuse, repair, recycling and second life. Businesses whose whole model is what comes after an ending.
- Public mission
Cities, agencies and foundations working on how places, industries and people renew themselves.
- Employers looking for talent
A room of experienced people deciding what comes next is the best hiring pool there is.
- Hosts of a moment
The sauna, the wake's toast, the last and first suppers: small partnerships people remember.
What partners get
Reputation
Known for transitions
Be seen as the organisation that handles endings and new starts well, inside and outside your walls.
Access
The right people, at the right time
Time with leaders, founders and professionals at the moment they decide what comes next.
Story
The whole arc
A presence from autumn to spring, with stories, content and moments that carry across both events.
Ways to partner
Both events
Partner of the year
One annual package across FALL and SPRING, with your name on the whole cycle.
One event
Season partner
Own your side of the year: endings in autumn or regeneration in spring.
One moment
Moment partner
Host a single moment: the wake, the thaw, the sauna or the pass itself.
Partner spaces
No stands. Every partner space is an experience: five minutes, something to leave behind or take home, hosted rather than pitched.
Everything that ends at FALL begins again at SPRING, including the materials. Nothing goes to landfill: we build from reused material, carry what we can over to SPRING, and recycle the rest.
Talk to us about partnering
Founding partners shape the first edition.
The road to the first equinox
First FALL in September 2027.
- Q4 2026Conversations with partners and future guests
- Q1 2027Venue and founding partners confirmed
- Spring 2027Full Circle passes on sale
- Sept 2027FALL, first edition
- March 2028SPRING, first edition
Join the list
Be there when the light fades.
Get first access to Full Circle passes, the programme and partner places.