Dr. Riina Komonen

Medical Doctor & Sports Medicine Practitioner · Medical Director, Hintsa Performance

Riina Komonen is a physician and sports medicine specialist serving as Medical Director at Hintsa Performance. During her medical training, she was struck by a critical gap: while medicine excels at treating disease, the transformative potential of preventative care for long-term health and longevity remained largely unaddressed. This insight led her to train as a Performance Coach with Hintsa, where she now bridges the worlds of clinical medicine and human performance.

In her role, Dr. Riina helps high performers extend not just lifespan, but years of peak cognitive and physical capability – through cellular health and sustainable behaviour change.

Frank Martela

Philosopher, Researcher & Author

Frank Martela is Finland's leading researcher on inner motivation, wellbeing, and meaningful living. He serves as Associate Professor at Aalto University and has published in journals including Academy of Management Review, Nature Human Behaviour, and Perspectives on Psychological Science. His book on the meaning of life has been translated into 29 languages, and he has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, and universities on five continents.

Martela pursues a question as old as philosophy itself: what is a good life? His answers challenge easy assumptions and invite you to think again.

Visa Viljamaa

Pastor

Visa Viljamaa is a pastor from Helsinki's urban Kallio, equally at home in the church and in the local community beyond it. He believes that life's biggest questions are not meant to be faced alone – and encourages himself and others to meet their own incompleteness with openness. A believer in the power of encounter, he brings to this conversation a perspective that reaches beyond the boundaries of biological life.

Moderator: Kaarle Hurtig

Journalist & Entrepreneur

Kaarle Hurtig is a journalist whose business plan reads "problem-solving and storytelling". He claims to "know something about some things", and is mostly interested in a little bit of everything. Hurtig facilitates the evening's conversation with curiosity rather than direct expertise.