Today was ripe with knowledge, and fun. The team was woken early in the morning to run to city hall for a presentation by the Deputy Mayor of Helsinki Pekka Sauri. Seated in a regale, and ornate conference room we listened to the deputy mayor on topics ranging from city planning to central heating, and Finland's place as the world leader in innovation technologies.
From the meeting the group briskly walked past the Presidential manor, to have a chance encounter with 2008 Nobel Peace prize winner, and former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari. Following our encounter the team attended a meeting underneath Helsinki in reguards to Finnish centrally located server systems, and the innovative techniques in effect for energy conservation. we also got a fist hand look at the underground tunnel system that in some places stretched in excess of 300 meters underground.
For the rest of the day the team and I wandered around downtown Helsinki visiting local coffee shop, to coffee shop. Around dinner time we briskly walked several blocks to our dinner that would consume the next three hours, and the resst of the night
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