If you are busy at work, every day, every week, it might be easy to neglect the core areas of our life such as nutrition, sleep and understanding what is going on in your body and your mind. Luckily, you can upgrade yourself and your performance with the latest biological and technological tools — the Biohacker’s Handbook is a must-have resource to do that successfully. In their presentation, technology specialist Teemu Arina, medical doctor Olli Sovijärvi, and nutrition specialist Jaakko Halmetoja will introduce how you can learn to understand your nutrition, sleep and mind and how you can affect and upgrade them using various methods and technologies. Check out the full video with plenty of practical tips and you can start upgrading yourself today! There are still a few Biohacker Summit ’15 early bird tickets available, but if you want to get something really special, VIP tickets are available here. With VIP tickets you will not just get the best out of the two-day event, you will also attend Upgraded Dinner and learn the latest biohacking techniques while preparing a 6-course dinner. Get your tickets today!

At the age of fifteen, Martijn Aslander — Lifehacking veteran, Co-founder at SHIFT and Lifehacking.nl — discovered that you can make money by doing the same stuff that he was doing at Scouts. By the age of seventeen Martijn was running a company of 60 people from the back of his classroom. At the age of 21 he was managing 140 people. Martijn has always had a fascination with being able to do more in less time, with less stress, lower cost and more impact. Over the years of his career, Martijn has mastered the art of lifehacking, which is all about leveraging your talents and your time to accomplish more in less time. At Biohacker Summit ’14 Martijn Aslander shared some of the life hacks he uses himself in work space and work life, as well as interesting approaches to working with people, information, failure and ideas. Check out the full presentation for the great lifehacking tips and inspirational story of Martijn Aslander. Biohacker Summit ’15, to be held 23-24 September, is all about becoming better, faster, stronger! More lifehackers will be on stage including Ari Meisel from Less Doing and Ben Greenfield from Ben Greenfield Fitness Systems. Join the event and get your early …

One of the most exciting parts of the 2014 event was the on-stage installation of implants into two volunteers. Before the installation, technologist, author, and double RFID implantee Amal Graafstra explains how he ended up having a chip in his hand and all the things it can be used for, such as: access control, mobile payments, loyalty programs, in-store marketing, location-based services, targeted marketing, information exchange and social networks. The idea of moving RFID chips from your pocket to your hand is pretty straightforward, but fundamentally it transforms the concept of interacting with and experiencing the world. This is exactly what Amal and others have observed ever since they got the implants. Pekko Vehviläinen, who had given his presentation earlier, was one of the brave volunteers to get his implant live on stage. To make the procedure even more interesting, Pekko’s heart rate and stress level were measured while having the chip implanted. Check out the full video to learn more about the story behind RFID implants and see for yourself how easy and painless it is to get them installed! Are implants the real future of biohacking? Join Biohacker Summit ’15 and see for yourself what the future of biohacking holds — get your tickets here!

Last year’s event gathered leading pioneers in biohacking, lifestyle designers, health and wellness experts, and successful entrepreneurs. Biohacker Summit ‘14 was all about upgrading your work week and featured a number of impressive tools, practical techniques and technologies to upgrade your day. We have some excellent videos from last year’s event that we will post weekly, so stay tuned and keep your eye on our newsletter. Last event was so successful that we ran out of seats, so now it is time for an upgrade. This year Biohacker Summit will take place at the Cable Factory in Helsinki, Finland. Experience a grander event, inspirational speakers to learn from, an amazing crowd to hang around with, upgraded food, and a solid ending party with DJs and art performances in an industrial setting. Dislike sitting? Not a problem! Biohacker Summit ‘15 takes conference experience to a brand new level and offers the “Playground”, where you can try out new wearables, fiddle with biohacking equipment, and exercise while you watch the inspiring presentations. If you prefer sitting, then you can make sure you get a seat in the front row with the VIP ticket. The VIP ticket also includes a place at the Upgraded Dinner, held at Teurastamo (the “Butchery”), where you …

Biohacker Summit 2014 was held on 10 December at Wanha Satama, Helsinki, Finland. The event gathered 250 participants from 6 countries and 15 companies exhibiting their latest technologies, tools and services regarding biohacking, quantified self, genomics and digital health. The photographs from both Upgraded Dinner (9 Dec) and Biohacker Summit (10 Dec) are available here. Don’t miss the great interviews we did with our key speakers. Video recordings of the talks are coming soon. Join our mailing list to be notified when they are available. Welcome back in 2015! Super early bird tickets already available here.  

In today’s age there is an increasing emphasis placed on keeping a healthy balance in life. We often find that we’re pushing ourselves harder and harder to maintain a high level of performance, whether that be in the office, gym or daily life. There are many advocates for the “8+8+8=24” lifestyle. This simply means, we know that eight hours of sleep is “optimal” according to doctors, we generally work eight hour days in office and that leaves eight hours of “free time” (what is that anyway?). It happens far too often, that we find ourselves in the position of sacrificing nutrition, exercise time and rest in order to push performance levels in other areas of our lives. This is despite experiencing that “buzz” or “satisfaction” when eating a wholesome meal, exiting the gym after an intensive workout or waking up in the morning with a full tank of gas and ready to kick things off with loads of positive energy and enthusiasm. The good news is that Finland has a long standing history of using technology and innovative products to help keep the balance in life which in the end helps one to lead a truly fulfilling life and leads to maximising …

Biohacker Summit 2014 brings together a group of top companies from sports, wellness, nutrition, stress management and digital health to exhibit their products and services to biohacking enthusiasts. Heltti, Medigoo and Woblab are ambassadors of modern healthcare that focus on personal and preventative measures in the virtual environment. Heltti Heltti is an occupational healthcare provider from Finland, redefining the industry by focusing on virtual services, health coaching and quantified self to promote wellbeing and preventative measures for knowledge workers. Founded in 2013, Heltti serves organizations who are genuinely interested in the wellbeing of their personnel and eager to use online services to save their employees’ time. Heltti’s customers are coached toward independent wellbeing management with a yearly online checkup and a personal wellbeing program that is supported by Wellmo, a mobile wellness app. In case of an illness, up to 80% of cases can be handled over the phone or online on Heltti.me platform. A team of physicians, nurses, psychologists and physiotherapists serve customers in person in the company’s first clinic in Ruoholahti, Helsinki.   Medigoo Medigoo.com is a free online health information service for consumers. Launched in 2014, the website responds to the rising global trend of self-diagnostics and biohacking, aiming …

Amal Graafstra is a double RFID implantee, author of the book RFID Toys, and TEDx speaker. His interest in biohacking, RFID, and NFC began in 2005 as a simple solution to a problem. He wanted easy access to his office. He explored biometric options only to find they were too expensive, klunky, and vulnerable to vandalism. BIOHACKER SUMMIT: Amal, we are big fans and after hearing from Ruben Horbach about his experience of having the chip you created in his hand, we’re even more curious. AMAL GRAFSTRAA: The chip is built on NFC and RFID so the primary purpose is to identify the individual. What that means for most applications is access control. As in, is that person allowed to do this thing, or open this door or be here. Unlocking doors, starting vehicles, logging into computers – all of that is typical. Where it gets interesting with NFC is an application where a smartphone is everywhere which is becoming more popular. Like iphone 6 has NFC. NFC is a whole standard that allows applications to be built on that standard. What’s possible … I can’t even tell! People are building applications for NFC that I could never even think of. BIOHACKER …

Biohacker Summit 2014 brings together a group of top companies from sports, wellness, nutrition, stress management and digital health to exhibit their products and services to biohacking enthusiasts. Polar, an industry leader in heart rate sensors, activity trackers and wearable sports technology, has decades of experience in a category that has seen rapid growth over the past few years. From physical performance to daily activity and health monitoring, wearables integrate technology seamlessly into our everyday lives and drive a new wave of biohacking as it becomes better known to the general public. “As wearable technology itself has taken leaps forward, people have become aware of the harmful effects of inactivity and more readily adopt new technologies that help them take care of their health,” said Katja Malkki, Marketing Manager of Polar, about the factors behind the wearables boom. “Smart phones have further speeded up the process as people are able to browse and analyze data on the go.“ V1bes, a sensor kit and app that measures several bio-signals from brain waves to heart rate, sees biohacking as a key factor influencing the future of healthcare. “Biohacking is all about self-diagnostics,” Gustaf Kranck, founder of V1bes, said. “People will increasingly measure, …

Jaakko Halmetoja is a well-known nutritionist in the Finnish health food scene in addition to lecturing in the Baltic Countries. In 2011 he gave almost 150 lectures and more than 100 interviews to newspapers, radio channels and television. At the moment he is advising various health food companies, writing books and studying to extend his knowledge. He is also an advisor to LUONTOlife and a writer of recently published book about Chaga-mushroom; Pakurikääpä. He is the co-author of Biohakkerin käsikirja with technology specialist Teemu Arina and medical doctor Olli Sovijärvi. Jaakko has always been interested in health and nutrition, not least because both of his parents are P.E. teachers. He used to be one of the top submission wrestlers in Finland and his daily routines included two training sessions during his teenage years. Biohacker Summit: What does a health expert eat on the morning when an important day is to begin? Jaakko Halmetoja: Basically I do a big elixir that is kind of an updated version of a smoothie that I can drink during the day. The base of an elixir is tea with medicinal mushrooms or other local herbs. Especially during the winter time I also add around 1 dl …