Aurora Live was founded in 1994 as Kontakti.net and became Management Events in 2004, when our international expansion began. For more than 30 years, our purpose has stayed the same: creating high-value connections and insight for the executives leading Europe’s largest companies, and giving solution providers the chance to meet the right decision-makers at the right time and share their expertise.
We started with in-person events, bringing members together face to face for curated networking and introducing them to the companies solving their most pressing challenges. What began in Finland soon grew beyond it: Sweden followed in 2005, and the Netherlands, Denmark and Austria in 2006.
When Covid-19 hit in 2020, we made our biggest change yet. We took parts of our services virtual and turned our events into a peer-to-peer executive network that goes well beyond traditional networking. Today, Aurora Live combines virtual and live experiences, but at its heart it is about relevant, meaningful connections: between the decision-makers in our network, and with more than 1,000 solution providers around the world.
In 2025, the company took the name its members already knew and became Aurora Live. The same year, we opened our Barcelona office, and in 2026 we entered the Italian market.
Three decades in, our purpose remains the same, and our network keeps growing across Europe.