Join this first (virtual) meetup for the Oslo chapter and become a founding member of our local community, where we will share knowledge and discuss best practices about the Slack platform. The event is held in English and is open to anyone.
A year ago, I contacted Slack to help create an Oslo chapter for the Slack Platform community. I wanted to have a local place where people could meet, exchange ideas and talk about how we can take Slack to a higher level by tapping into the platform. Once the Covid-19 pandemic hit full force, the platform meetup initiative was put on the backburner. As it now looks like we won't be able to meet in-person for a while, we'll start with virtual meetings and take it from there.
I am a software entrepreneur based just outside Oslo. I started building software more than 30 years ago, and created a software development framework called Qt (which is still popular today; https://qt.io). After many years of running a business and being an investor, I'm writing code again. About five years ago, I became an investor and co-founder in a company called Conclude that built a decision-making bot for Slack. I've always been looking for better ways to collaborate, and we started on a journey with several pivots where Conclude has now become a development framework for building business apps that run inside Slack. In order to bring my ideas to life, I had to get rid of the business suit and go back to my roots. For the last three years, I've been deeply involved in fullstack development and have worked full-time with the Slack platform.
Hope to see you on Wednesday!
Haavard Nord
PS: I'm looking for someone to run the Oslo chapter together with me. Let me know if you're interested
Slack
Community Manager
Niamh is a Community Manager for Slack Platform Community.
Niamh is a Community Manager for Slack Platform Community.
Conclude
Founder and CEO
Haavard is a passionate entrepreneur, investor, and software innovator based in Oslo, Norway. He started writing code early and founded his first company as a teenager, building custom apps for local businesses in his home town in the 1980s. Haavard is the original inventor of the C++ software framework Qt (qt.io) and spent 15 years building a company that made Qt an industry standard. He retired from software development in 1997 to take the role of CEO and focus on the business. After taking the company public and selling it in 2010, he spent the next few years as an investor and business angel.
In 2017, Haavard was involved in a company, Conclude, that created a decision-making app for Slack. Customers loved Conclude but wanted to use it for more than just making decisions. Haavard decided to turn Conclude into an app development framework. He went out of software developer retirement and embarked on a journey to become a full stack developer and spend the next three years creating the product he was dreaming about.
When he doesn't work or spend time with his family, he likes to spend his time kitesurfing in the summer and steep backcountry skiing in the winter.
