Pauliina Suominen, the stage host for this year’s SHIFT, is a marcomms professional who is currently heading communications & PR at The Upright Project, a Helsinki-based deep tech company building an AI-driven quantification model for measuring how companies impact the world. She has a background in tech journalism and marketing communications, and has previously worked e.g. as the Editor-in-Chief at Slush and as an account director at the communications agency Ellun Kanat.