HENRIK JOHANSON

Senior Adviser, Program Manager Smart Region | Denmark, Copenhagen

Henrik is initiating and coordinating Smart City programmes and projects to develop a greener and more innovative metropolis with better quality of life for citizens in the Greater Copenhagen region. Before, he has been working with the national administration on Digital Growth, Big Data, IoT and Telecommunications policies.

INA HOMEIER

Leiterin Projektstelle | Smart City Wien

Austria, Vienna

Ina Homeier is an architect at the Urban Planning department,  heading the Smart City unit and coordinates the smart city activities of the City of Vienna with regard to strategy and content. She supervised the drawing-up of the Smart City Wien Framework strategy in 2014 and was responsible for the implementation of the first monitoring in 2017 and its updated strategy version in 2019.  

STEFAN HÅKANSSON

CEO, E.ON Business Solutions &

Global Director City Energy Solutions | E.ON SE Germany

Stefan was appointed CEO of E.ON Business Solutions in June 2020 and is globally responsible for E.ON City Energy Solutions. Up to 2018 he worked as MD of Heating Energy at E.ON Värmekraft AB focusing on local customer solutions such as heating, cooling, power and energy efficiency for City Customers. He joined E.ON in 1999 and during his first years he was dealing with Energy System issues in Northern Europe through large power plants operations.

CHARBEL AOUN

AI City Director, EMEA |  Nvidia 

United Kingdom

Charbel spent more than two decades in Fortune 100 and technology startups, bringing digital transformation to living & working conditions in urban environments. Charbel is currently helping customers & partners to realize the benefit of Artificial Intelligence. Previously he worked for Accenture, Cisco & Schneider Electric in global executive roles driving cutting edge technology transformation projects around the world.

Tuija Pakkanen

Senior Specialist, Digital Twin RYHTI project | Ministry of the Environment, Finland

Geographer and Analyst who handles data to make urban areas to people to thrive. As an enthusiast of making the world a better place, she has years of experience working in developing countries among forest inventory and management. She is tech lover, a Singularity university GSP17 alumni and XPRIZE Visioneering 2018 category winner.

NATHAN PIERCE

Head of the Smart London Team

Greater London Authority, UK

Nathan is the Programme Director for Sharing Cities, a pan-European programme that tests out innovative smart city solutions across a number of major European cities, replicating and scaling what works through new business and investment models. He is determined to improve the lives of regular people by finding innovative ways to make government more sustainable, efficient and citizen focused.

DOMINIQUE BONTE

Managing Director | ABIResearch, 
Belgium, Brussels

Dominique leads ABI Research's end markets research team, which covers intelligent transportation, automotive, smart mobility as a service and smart cities. His personal focus areas are within Smart cities, autonomous and connected vehicles, ADAS, V2X and cooperative systems and telematics among others. He previously worked for Orange and BT in Belgium before starting his own company.

TUOMAS QVICK

VP, Digital Energy and Energy Business |

Schneider Electric, Finland

Tuomas is an energetic leader with a proven track-record in developing businesses and transforming organizations for profitable growth. He has 15 years of experience in senior management and leading international, cross-cultural and cross-functional teams. Tuomas has a good understanding of international markets within the real- estate and construction industry, and the market dynamics between different stakeholders from the investor to the single user of the building.

JONNE SANDBERG

Development Director | City of Kokkola

Jonne has 20 years of experience in business development with SMEs. He has acted as development director for the city of Kokkola since 2012. Special knowledge areas are city development, invest in activities, digitalisation and aviation development.

TOMMI RIIKONEN

Sales Director | Väre, Finland

Tommi is responsible for the customer service function, B2B and B2C sales in Finland and a member of the management team. As the energy sector is in the midst of the biggest transformation ever, Tommi seeks innovative business solutions and solid change management for his companies client’s and partners.

KAISA VÄÄNÄNEN

Professor, Research Director | 
Tampere University, Finland

Kaisa is a professor in Human-Technology Interaction at Tampere University. Kaisa has over 25 years of experience in research of user needs for novel technological solutions in people’s everyday lives. Kaisa’s research interests cover user experience and human-centered design, with emphasis on design of digital services for advancing sustainability and human-centered AI.

PATRICK LINDQVIST

Chief Innovation Advisor | 
City of Helsingborg

The City of Helsingborg has formulated the goal to become one of Europe's most innovative cities by 2022. Patrick  is helping the city to establish new forms of city governance to foster innovation in the short and long term. The task consider adoption of new organizational concepts and establishing a culture that encourages innovation.

JANI VEHKALAHTI

Head of Sales | 
Wirepas

Jani has 20 years of experience in wireless and is passionate to make industrial world connected. At Wirepas, he works with more than 100 companies worldwide to help them connect their assets more affordable. Jani is able to turn complex use cases into simple technical solutions and value for the end customers. 

LISA OLSSON

Head of Innovation Unit| 
City of Helsingborg

The City of Helsingborg has formulated the goal to become one of Europe's most innovative cities by 2022. Lisa  is helping the city to establish new forms of city governance to foster innovation in the short and long term. The task consider adoption of new organizational concepts and establishing a culture that encourages innovation.

VAFA JÄRNEFELT

Research Scientist | 
VTT, Berkeley LAB

Vafa is passionate about clearing the path for a sustainable circular economy. Currently conducting research on sustainability of carbon capture and utilization technologies (Affiliate at Berkeley Lab, USA) and the role of data in CE. Vafa has published several CE visionary roadmaps and has acted as a Board member in the Environment and permits sub-committee of the City of Helsinki.

EINAR HOLTHE

Founder Natural State & Managing Partner 
Nordic Circular Hubspot, Oslo

Einar is a Smart City specialist and serves as an adviser to the Governing Mayor of Oslo and is involved in the new city of the future, Dokken in Bergen. Holthe has built and realised numerous large development projects in public and private sectors, such as Innovation Cluster Arena Oslo, the international brand strategy for the City of Oslo, as well as several urban development projects

JAN HERRANEN

Country Manager, Finland | 
Rototec Group

Jan has many years of experience in services promoting circular economy as Develop Manager and Customer Accounts Director at Lassila & Tikanoja. He is a board member of Club of Rome (National Chapter) where he is promoting an understanding of the global challenges facing humanity. Now he is also promoting carbon neutrality through being Country Manager for Rototec Oy. 

Piero Pelizzaro

Chief Resilience Officer |                          City of Milan Municipality

PÄIVI LAAJALA

Päivi Laajala on toiminut Oulun kaupunginjohtajana vuodesta 2017. Ennen sitä hän on ollut valtiovarainministeriön kunta- ja aluehallinto-osaston ylijohtaja. Laajala on aiemmin ollut Oulun kaupungin apulaiskaupunginjohtaja ja sitä ennen eri kunnissa kaupungin- ja kunnanjohtajana. Laajala on koulutukseltaan hallintotieteiden maisteri ja sosionomi.

PEKKA TIMONEN

Mayor | City of Lahti

TIMO KOIVISTO

Mayor | City of Jyväskylä

Timo Koivisto on toiminut Jyväskylän kaupunginjohtajana vuodesta 2015 ja kaupungin apulaiskaupunginjohtajana kymmenen vuotta ennen sitä.  Vuosina 2002-2005 Koivisto toimi pääministerin,  valtiovarainministerin ja kauppa-ja teollisuusministerin erityisavustajana vuorollaan. Koulutukseltaan hän on oikeustieteen kandidaatti Turun yliopistosta.

JOAKIM STRAND

Chairman of the Committee for the Future

Joakim Strand is a member since 2015 of the Parliament of Finland for the Swedish People's Party of Finland representing the Vaasa constituency. He is the Chairman of the committee for the future. He holds a double degree in Master of Laws and Master of Science .