Grand Jury

What does Grand Jury do?

• Some of Grand Jury members are expert commentators during virtual collaboration
• Reading business plan drafts submitted by competition participants (between October 12th and 29th)
• Being available for questions, giving feedback and interviewing competition participants and listening to their pitches at Be a Change event October 30th - 31st (between 8:30 and 17 both days)
• reading final business plans (between 8 and 12) and attending Grand Jury meeting (between 12 and 15) to decide the winner(s) on November 1st, according to this criteria.

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Grand Jury members and their expertise roles

• Anu Vihonen, Naisyrittäjyyskeskus: potential of the business idea and the people behind it
• Pertti Linkola, Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö: Emerging forms of entrepreneurship, emerging industries and businesses, evaluation of business idea
  
• Mirjami Malleus, Remake EkoDesign: personal motivations and capabilities of the competition team members
• Janne Lemettinen, EBBF: value base of the business idea
• Liisa-Maija Harju, Suomen Luonnonsuojeluliitto: environmental impacts of the idea
• Tuula Colliander, Suomen punainen risti: social impacts of the idea
• Tomi Astikainen, Feelovation: facilitator