Saturday
Welcome to the second day of the world’s largest sauna event! We have an exciting program full of the interesting presentations, fantastic speakers and plenty of sauna activities - find all the details here.
Global Sauna Culture
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Stage host: Monica Milch Gebhardt
9:30 Becky Pelkonen
Sauna as Common Good: How the Boom Can Become a Regenerative Force For Communities Across the Globe
10:10 Mikkel Aaland
Sauna Aid
10:30 BREAK ☕️
11:00 Eda Veeroja
Developments and Impacts of UNESCO Inscription on Estonian Smoke Sauna Culture
11:30 Anna Talasniemi
Towards more inclusive sauna culture
12:00 PANEL Inclusive sauna: How to help everyone feel the heat
Anna Talasniemi, Polly Wilson, Sif Lauritsen & Michael Calcagno (moderator)
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 Rolf-Andreas Pieper
Löyly and Aufguss – characteristics that distinguish different sauna cultures
14:00 Katsuki Tanaka
The Evolution and Future of Japanese Sauna Culture
14:30 Māra Zute
Steam with Memory: When Everything Becomes a Ritual
15:00 BREAK ☕️
15:30 Sustainable sauna boom: How to keep sauna hot forever
Becky Pelkonen, Robert Hammond, Knut Lerhol & Mikkel Aaland (moderator)
16.15 End of program
Sauna & Health
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Stage host: Erik Ankre
9:30 Ashley Mason
Warming Up to a New Paradigm in Mental Health Treatment
10:00 Eva Hilland
Sauna and mental health – a pilot study
10:30 PANEL Can sauna solve the mental health crisis?
Rune Jonassen, Nina Magatova, Emilia Vuorosalmi & Haakon Thuestad (moderator)
11:00 BREAK ☕️
11:30 Polly Joy Wilson & Charlie Duckworth
Sauna as Social Prescription: Evaluating an NHS-Linked Community Sauna Programme in the UK
12:00 Rachael McGrath
Sauna culture improves physical and mental wellbeing in the UK through social connection and ritual
12:30 PANEL Prescription wellness: Sauna as a public health tool
Rachael McGrath, Hans Hägglund, Rune Jonassen & Becky Pelkonen (moderator)
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14.00 Stephen Jaye
Designing the Hormetic Sauna™: Redefining Sauna as a New Architectural Standard for Measurable, Prescribable Heat Therapy
14:30 Nina Magatova
Holding Space: Women and the Unseen Labour in Sauna
15:00 Victoria Arnhold
What We Wear in the Sauna Matters
15:30 End of program
Architecture, Technology & Sustainability
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Stage host: Mia Bergmann
09:30 Levi Westerveld
Sauna as third places: when maps and communities come together
10:00 TTNE: Dai Matsuo, Daisuke Akiyama, Kenichiro Kasai
Japanese Sauna Culture to the World
10:30 BREAK ☕️
11:00 Corentin Macqueron
Computational Sauna Dynamics: What Numerical Simulation Brings to the Sauna World
11:30 Lassi Liikkanen
A novel method for assessing the durability of sauna stones
12:00 PANEL On the rocks: What are the best sauna stones?
Lassi Liikanen, Lasse Eriksen, Gard Lilledal Andersen & Callum Scott (moderator)
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 Perttu Rönkkö
From Ancient Practice to Smart Sauna: How Technology Can Support Experience, Health and Sustainability
14:00 Peter Jeitler
Wellness facilities for public use - Climated rooms requirements
14:30 PANEL Hot saunas and clean air: Next generation wood heaters and why it matters
Timo Harvia, Mihkel Ilp, Jesse Hämälainen & Jake Newport (moderator)
15:00 BREAK ☕️
15:30 PANEL Is technology enhancing or ruining the sauna experience?
Perttu Rönkkö, Marcus Holth Rønneseth, Jake Newport & Valtteri Rantala (moderator)
16:15 End of program
Sauna LIVE
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In partnership with:
Welcome to Sauna LIVE
See and hear from some of the sauna world’s most prominent personalities! Sauna LIVE gives you a “behind the sweat” experience that only International Sauna Congress can provide, with contributions from our favorite sauna podcasts and sauna authors.
Sauna Twins by Finnmark Sauna (UK), hosted by Max and Jake Newport
Kivia: The Spirit of Sauna (Canada), hosted by Alan Jalasjaa
SaunaTalk (USA), hosted by Glenn Auerbach
Spirit of Sauna (Finland), hosted by Laura Foon
Badstuprat (Norway), hosted by Stig Arild Pettersen
On the big screen, ISC26 partner Sauna Channel is showing some of its most epic sweat bathing productions from around the world, including the premiere of a brand new documentary about the Norwegian badstue boom.
Most of the programming happens in the Sauna Live stage (Auditorium 0100, ground floor), but some happens in EXPO Arena (ground floor) and Skraa Bar (ground floor). The latter two are marked in the schedule.
Each program slot lasts for maximum 30 minutes.
Saturday program
09:00 BOOK LAUNCH: Mikkel Aaland Sweat + Naked Sweat - Legacy Edition (LOCATION: EXPO Arena)
9:30 “Fire Between the Fjords - Norway’s Sauna Revival” Sauna Channel (LOCATION: EXPO Arena)
10:00 Lasse Eriksen, Farris Bad Spirit of Sauna
10:30 Erlend Klette & Svein Erdogan, Lokalkontoret Kivia: The Spirit of Sauna
11:00 Kate Butchart & Bjørnar Skaar Haveland, KOS Sauna SaunaTalk
11:30 “Tampere, the Sauna Capital of the World” Sauna Channel (LOCATION: EXPO Arena)
12:30 Sami Rintala Sauna Twins by Finnmark Sauna
13:00 “Fire Between the Fjords - Norway’s Sauna Revival” Sauna Channel
13:00 BOOK TALK: Kaarina Kailo Sauna Culture, Sweat and Spirituality: On the Architectonics and Cosmology of Sacred Space (LOCATION: Skraa Bar)
14:00 “Löyly” + Q&A James Mugavin & Jan Nåls (LOCATION: EXPO Arena)
14:30 Robert Hammond, Therme Group Badstuprat
15:00 Charlie Duckworth, Community Sauna Baths Kivia: The Spirit of Sauna
15:00 BOOK TALK: Rosanna Cooney Sweathouse: The Rediscovery of Ireland's Ancient Sauna Tradition (LOCATION: Skraa Bar)
Skraa Bar is open until 18:30
