Hansen, Kristoffer Vik

“Kristoffer Vic Hansen may have been born in Stavanger Norway but it doesn’t sound like he’ll be going home soon. He chose to study at UBC because it looked a lot like Norway but soon fell in love with the city and plans to always have a home here. After years of hard work, high risk and bootstrapping he may have found what he was looking for. It’s all been “seat of the pants” and exciting and with a recent injection of cash they are on the fast track to success. Come hear about the good and “not so great “ moments and what the future might hold.”

Kristoffer is the co-founder and CEO of Spare. Spare is on a mission to help accelerate the global shift to efficient and autonomous mobility by enabling anyone to realize, launch, and analyze a smart transportation network in seconds. Spare’s customers and partners include Dallas Area Rapid Transit (Texas), Denton County Transportation Authority (Texas), Ruter (Norway), Kolumbus (Norway), Toyota, and more. In the United States, Spare is most known for powering DART GoLink, the largest publicly funded microtransit system in North America. Find out more on sparelabs.com

 

 

Kristoffer Vik Hansen spoke to us in April 2019.

Midsummer Festival

Each June we have a booth at the Midsummer Festival on the grounds of the Scandinavian Community Centre. In addition to handing out information about our club, we also sign up new members. Everyone is invited to come out to enjoy this fun annual event. If you have time available, why not consider volunteering to help with our booth?

Christmas Party

 

In December, instead of our usual monthly dinner meeting, we have our annual Christmas party. Our guests are welcomed into the hall by the cheerful sounds of the Runeberg Choir. We have a fabulous Scandinavian Christmas dinner, followed by dancing to live music.

Monthly Dinners

Our dinner schedule for 2024 will be: Feb 14th, Apr 10th, TBD. Social hour starts at 6:00pm, dinner at 7:00pm and the dinner speaker starts at about 8:00pm. The dinner is Scandinavian and usually starts with herring and salmon open-faced sandwich appetizers and ends with coffee/tea and delicious Scandinavian desserts. The theme for the after dinner talk is usually business related and hopefully with a Scandinavian connection but we also schedule other speakers of interest. Two meetings of the year we have no speaker. Instead, in February we have our Annual General meeting where we discuss business for the upcoming year and elect our new board of directors. In June, we have our annual joke-telling contest and discover who, among us, is the best teller of jokes.