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#smartcitynordic

Step into the city of the future!

The way we think about Smart Cities will undergo a major re-think. By 2050, 75% of the world’s population will live in urban areas that are increasingly connected and powered by smart technologies.   

Our living standards have improved and the surrounding has gone to the age of digitalization. Changes take place faster than ever. What makes homes, offices, traffic and cities of the future attractive to consumers, businesses and investments? 

We have taken a giant leap to bringing improvements to life through technology and innovation. What was considered science fiction becomes rapidly everyday life. Increasing number of sensors, data and analytics create a new era of connected cities. Technology companies, public sector and home economies work together to improve sustainability and bring a more efficient future.

The event gathers experts from cross industry covering the whole ecosystem. This unique platform gives you the best chance to hear the best practices and to find new business models and strategies to improve your competence. 

Where Great Minds Unite 

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Speakers 2019

KARI LIUKKO

Kari Liukko, Head of Sales, Digital Energy, Schneider Electric

Finland

 Kari works currently as Head of Sales, Digital Energy Business Unit at Schneider-Electric Finland Oy. He is based at Schneider-Electric’s head office in Espoo, Finland. He holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in forest sciences from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 

Pakarinen is a former marketing and sales professional, entrepreneur, CEO of Helsinki Entrepreneurs and director of Helsinki Region Chamber of Commerce. Pakarinen is graduated as a Master of Laws and a Master of Political Sciences at University of Helsinki and as a Master of Science (Economics) at Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.

PIA PAKARINEN

Deputy Mayor, Education Division, City of Helsinki

Finland

Hanna Sillanpää

Ecosystems Owner, Abloy

Finland

Hanna works in Abloy as an Ecosystems owner ensuring that the technology collaboration with digital solutions is smooth. She is building digital ecosystems around different smart locking products in collaboration with different stakeholders from ASSA ABLOY group. 

TONI LUHTI

CEO, Platform of Trust

Finland

Toni is a digital difference maker combined with 20 years experience from IT and latest research knowledge of economics. Toni has worked across multiple global and local technology companies on top leading positions. 

Development Director, City of Kokkola

Finland

JONNE SANDBERG

Janne is specializing in large UPS system solutions for datacenters and special applications. He has more than 15 years of experience with large three phase UPS products and has been working in after- and pre-sales organizations providing tailored UPS solutions, support and in-depth product trainings for Eaton’s personnel and customers world-wide.

JANNE PAANANEN

Technology Director, Eaton Electrical
Europe, Middle East and Africa Region

Finland

LASSI TOLONEN

Director, Product & Development, Clear Channel Finland

Finland

Lassi has led the implementation of the latest innovations in the smart city field for Clear Channel Finland as the head of business development for the past eight years, such as city bikes, electronic vehicle charging stations, and parcel delivery kiosks, that add long lasting value to cities and partners as well as creating a positive social and environmental impact.

Head of Marketing, Ensto

Finland

Paavo Ritala

Paavo is a sales and marketing professional with wide experience also in product management and -development. He's working fluently in B2B, B2C, H2H or in whatever combination with human contact as a strength. He speaks a lot about solutions and benefits in seminars, webinars, trainings and other events and closes a deal in the between. Motto: Better life. With electricity.

Solutions Manager, Ensto

Finland

Päivi Linteri

Päivi develops new business through products, solutions, services and platforms. She's experienced in commercializing opportunities into true business cases in medical or electrical companies. Päivi has a passion for new technologies and learning somethings new, every day. Päivi is an engineer, but has a very human approach to matters at hand. 

Antti Koskelainen

CEO, Co-Founder, Solarigo Systems

Finland

Antti is helping Finnish companies to utilize solar power in large real estates and factories. He has over 20 years of experience working in the field of energy in a variety of different capacities from electricity trade to promotion of interests, power generation and new business development. He has leaded, developed and executed several large scale energy projects.

Ken Dooley

Technology Director, Granlund

Finland

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Ken Dooley is a Technology Director at Granlund. He has over 15 years’ experience as a consultant in the built environment and has worked in London, Sydney, Dublin and Helsinki. His current role in the innovation and development department involves research, lean experimentation, collaboration with startups and the development of Granlund’s future products and services. 

Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts

Program Director, IoT, Forum Virium Helsinki

Finland

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(MA in New Media) works as Director leading teams working on Forum Virium’s IoT projects. IoT portfolio includes large scale pilot projects such as mySMARTLife, SynchroniCity and BIoTope as well as pre-commercial procurement of IoT platform R&D. 

Ilkka Suojanen

CTO, Esri Finland 

Finland

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Ilkka is an experienced professional with over 19 years of experience on wide range of geospatial technology. He has seen the migration from mainframe to mobile, the cloud and today’s app culture. Ilkka's special area of expertise is an innovative use of GIS technology in various industries. Ilkka tells how smart cities and buildings can be created by using a geographic approach.

Sakari Karppinen

Senior Advisor, Business Finland

Finland

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Sakari works in the Finnish government organization Business Finland helping businesses go global and by supporting and funding new innovations. His current role involves also ecosystem development and boosting collaboration between research, companies and public sector.

CTO, Roboride

Finland

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Mikko Hurskainen

Mikko Hurskainen has background in embedded solutions, telecommunication, software and research. He holds MSc in software engineering. Prior joining Roboride, he worked in Girdit, unmanned aviation company, and Link Motion, automotive computer company. Mikko started his career in Nokia Research Center in 2001 and has been working since with software.

Research Team Leader, VTT

Finland

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Jyrki Huusko

Jyrki Huusko is research team leader on 5G and Beyond Networks research at VTT Ltd. focusing especially on telecommunication network resource management and 5G vertical industry use cases. Jyrki Huusko is currently acting also as a vice-chair for EC Networld2020 technology platform’s expert advisory group. 

Product Marketing Manager, M-Files

Finland

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Mika Kemppi

Mika Kemppi's main experience comes from defining and implementing a large variety of information management solutions around the world in various verticals. Currently working within product marketing, his main responsibilities are collecting information from the customer base to help drive product development and shaping the product messaging of the M-Files platform to key focus areas.

Make valuable connections and set up meetings during Smart City & Buildings 2019 with Brella. Input your business needs and availability and Brella will recommend participants who have complementary skills and needs. Brella will also suggest available time slots and reserve tables for you in the Brella Networking Space.

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