Speakers
Anne Lise Kjaer
Futurist
The Human Interface
Interested in learning how technology and empathy work together? Anne Lise Kjaer, a well-known futurist and visionary speaker, will take us on an exploration of this topic as she takes center stage at our conference.
Known for her work with household names like Amazon, BBC, and IKEA, Anne Lise will explore "The Human Interface," which looks at the critical yet complex relationship between people, businesses, and technology.
There's a fine line between being helpful and being intrusive, and Anne Lise teaches us how to navigate this using the power of technology and our core human values, which we must not lose sight of!
Step out of the cold world of algorithms and robotic interactions and discover how genuine human connections are the key to building trust, innovation, and shaping a future that reflects our deepest desires.
Tommi Vilkamo
Director, RELEX Labs
RELEX Gen AI journey
Things we have learned so far in adopting Gen AI internally, and as integrated part of our customer-facing product offering.
Harri Santamala
Ex-Sensible 4 CEO | Serial Entrepreneur | Co-Founder, Stealth
Sensible 4 - Learning from deep tech SW startup: the art of failure
Learn from the experiences of a serial entrepreneur, engineer, and former CEO of Sensible 4, a pioneering Finnish self-driving automotive software company. Harri led a team that grew university research spin-off to recognized startup and pioneer in the self-driving industry. The company went from zero to 90 persons, grew from bootstrapping into acquiring major global customers, raised 18M€ of funding, built global awareness and then in 2023 they all went for garden leave.
Harri used this time to reflect, refresh and to start all over again in the deep-tech startup sector. Presentation covers the journey and lessons learned and how these experiences are impacting his ongoing work with building one of the most ambitious deep-tech startups in stealth. They’re set to transform a key aspect of everyday technology, revolutionizing an industry that has been without real innovation since the 1970s. It’s time for a major shift, and humanity deserves nothing less.
Tiina Koivula
Head of Support Services, Accountor HR Solutions
Enhancing Client Visibility and Service Through Jira Service Management
In this session, Tiina will explore the transformative role of Jira Service Management in facilitating a unified customer portal. She will highlight specific strategies and real-world examples demonstrating how Jira has improved service delivery, operational efficiency, and client satisfaction within their organization. The discussion will cover best practices for integrating Jira with Confluence to Service Management to maximize visibility and streamline client communications.
Leila Mojtahedi
Head of Digital Marketing, Wärtsilä
The Fearless Marketeer: the transformative journey of digital marketing
With changes and shifts now being a constant in markets, more and more B2B companies look towards marketing pondering the value it brings. Now is the time to embrace change and adopt new capabilities to take ownership of a new era for marketing with future-shaping technologies and re-inventing marketing as a provider of growth and true commercial impact. Excellence is achieved by breaking silos and daring to try.
Çağrı Akgül
Senior Product owner
Dots And Lines in Product Management, with AI Pencil
You have set the expected business outcomes, planned the output deliveries accordingly. You have also set up metrics like North Star and Input Metrics to track how it is going, connecting the dots and lines . Now you have a good enough map and a self-made compass. But as you navigate through the territory, how can you be sure that your map and compass are accurate? Do adjustments need to be made—perhaps erasing some and drawing new dots and lines? This is where it can feel like performing a "rocket surgery." In this talk, I invite you to a conversation about how GenAI can serve as the pencil with an eraser, helping us refine both the map and the compass as we go.
Jani Ruuskanen
Chief Senior Specialist, Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV)
Towards digital by default in Finland
This session will delve into the future of Finland's Suomi.fi services as the country advances towards a "digital by default" approach. Key topics will include recent updates to the Suomi.fi platform aimed at enhancing public service accessibility and user experience. We will discuss strategies to ensure inclusivity, such as improving digital literacy and making services accessible to all citizens.
The session will give a forward-looking vision for Suomi.fi and Finland's digital transformation. Attendees will learn how Finland is leading the way in digital public services and ensuring that digitalization benefits everyone.
Emma Byrd
Agile Transformation Leader, Orange Business
Unleashing Transformation: How we use the Tea strategy to revolutionize our company
Let’s dive into the remarkable journey of transforming an entity of 2000+ people through the power of Agility.
Discover how we navigated challenges, embraced change, and leveraged Agile methodologies to drive empowerment, enhance efficiency, and achieve remarkable results.
Join us as we share insights, strategies, and lessons learned from this transformative journey.
Emma Byrd started work as a telecommunication and network engineer. Eager to help teams be more efficient, she began her management journey. She soon realized that coaching was how to make a team and team members genuinely blossom, and testing new ways of working was key to being more adaptable to ever-changing environments.
For 15 years, she has been coaching teams on their transformation path, helping not only the team to become more collaborative and productive but also accompanying the team members in their soft skill development and evolution. To do so, she promotes the Agile mindset and empowerment and specializes in Agile practices.
In Orange Group, she was a key instrument in transforming a multi-cultural entity of 5000+ people and is now leading an Agile transformation for a division of 2000+ people spread all over the globe.
Gaëlle Laigo
Head of Agile & New Ways of Working Transformation, Orange Group
Unleashing Transformation: How we use the Tea strategy to revolutionize our company
Let’s dive into the remarkable journey of transforming an entity of 2000+ people through the power of Agility.
Discover how we navigated challenges, embraced change, and leveraged Agile methodologies to drive empowerment, enhance efficiency, and achieve remarkable results.
Join us as we share insights, strategies, and lessons learned from this transformative journey.
Gaëlle started her journey as a transformation and DevOps project manager in product development and end-to-end process manager for telephony solution deployment within Orange Business in 2011. She was a cross-functional project manager in charge of improving operational performance and offering quality, customer, and operational satisfaction in France and internationally.
Later, she created and managed the center of expertise for business transformation (30 people), promoting continuous improvement, performance, and team spirit (scope of 8500 people worldwide). She was promoted to Director of Agile Transformation and New Ways Of Working for Orange Group. Her scope is on-demand support for managers, program directors, and project leaders in transforming their working methods, empowerment, delegation, decision-making, role clarity, and implementation of continuous improvement (a scope of 20,000 managers worldwide).
Eero Jyske
VP Engineer, Apheris
Your AI is only as smart as the data you give it - Unlocking the world’s most valuable data for the next generation of AI with Federated Computing
By leveraging the power of Federated Computing, we ensure that AI systems can access and learn from vast, diverse datasets without compromising privacy or security. This approach not only accelerates the development of smarter AI but also empowers businesses to harness the full potential of their data. As we move forward, the integration of high-quality, distributed data will be the key to creating AI that is more robust, reliable, and capable of solving the world’s most complex challenges.
Peter Schneider
Senior Product Manager, QT
Supercharging Cross-platform UI Development with Gen AI
UI Development tomorrow will be nothing like today. Every step in the UI Creation Process will be accelerated by Generative AI. This presentation will outline how software makers can optimize time to market by utilizing AI and computer vision. Peter Schneider will describe opportunities how AI-powered capabilities can help software developers to do what they love the most: be creative and write great code. The presentation will outline UI development acceleration areas such as UI design to code conversion, coding, and unit/GUI test case generation with practical examples.
Simo Haakana
Enterprise Architect, Barona
Making the leap from in-house development to using SaaS partners
In this talk, I’ll cover Barona's shift from in-house development to SaaS software and how our business reaped the benefits. Thanks to this transformation, we have more time to tailor solutions for all business units, with our focus now changing from development to operating services. One detail I find of particular interest and importance is that we defined and migrated some basic building blocks, including SSO, from our own solution on top of other SaaS-based solutions.
Bruno Almeida
Vice President of IT operations, Fortum
Bridging the gap between traditional IT infrastructure, Platform Engineering and Innovation
In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, innovation in IT operations is not a luxury - it's a necessity. This talk dives into the transformative journey of reshaping IT infrastructure and operations, focusing on the seamless integration of Core IT and Digital development. Discover how we revolutionized our approach by modernizing tools, processes, and people, fostering a culture of collaboration and efficiency. By aligning service management with cutting-edge software development practices, we started a transition towards unified platform engineering capabilities that bridges the gap between traditional IT operations and digital innovation.
In this talk we explore key strategies, challenges faced, and the outcomes so far of this journey, offering insights that can be applied to other organizations towards a future-proof IT ecosystem.
Bruno works as VP, IT Operations at Fortum - a leading energy company developing clean technologies and sustainable solutions - and he regularly advises and helps organisations in areas such as cloud, data and security.
Based in Finland, Bruno has a long history using cloud technologies and driving organisations and engineering teams, in different adoption and transformation stages.
Throughout his career he worked in a wide range of positions from senior management to deep technical roles. He is passionate about culture and digital transformation and has been involved in several projects from both the human (Leadership, Coaching, Mentoring) and technical (Cloud, DevOps, AI) perspective.
Jonas Wahlberg
Senior Manager, HR Technology & Process, Outokumpu
Data, AI, and the Human Factor: Guiding Organizational Transformation
Digital Transformation: Moving from traditional data systems to the cloud and data lakes is essential to support advanced analytics and decision-making, so that we can move into crafting. HR teams must focus on becoming "content scientists" by creating value-driven content from data rather than becoming data scientists.
HR Data and Business Value: Organizations need to understand how to leverage HR data to drive meaningful business transformation and make better decisions. The future of HR will be heavily data-driven, with a shift from structured data analysis to generating new insights.
Jonas has extensive experience in HR and HRIT roles, working with both global and local teams across all organizational levels. His passion lies in integrating people management with technology, believing we are on a journey that will continue to reshape the HR department, HR roles and the impact it will have on the operational part of the business.
While AI and automation bring new opportunities and challenges, Jonas also remains focused on the importance and potential of people and HR's critical role in driving transformation and fostering trust, good organisational culture, and engagement. Jonas’ expertise spans developing global HR technology frameworks, ensuring digital agility, and creating end-to-end business transformation solutions.
"Attitude is everything." With a positive attitude Jonas has been able to drive the biggest projects and changes. He believes we learn from being brave, by doing it, by working together and by being adaptable and committed.
Richard Crampton
Senior ITSM Solution Engineer, Atlassian
Confronting the Future: Challenges and Opportunities in AI Adoption
As we stand on the brink of an AI-driven era, organisations face a myriad of challenges in adopting these transformative technologies. This discussion will delve into the primary challenges that impede successful AI integration.
Key obstacles include technical complexities, financial limitations, and issues related to the control of agency. We will also examine the potential futures that AI can unlock, from enhancing productivity to creating value-orientated outcomes.
By understanding the challenges and envisioning the possibilities, we can better prepare for a future where AI not only complements human capabilities but also drives innovation and progress. Join us as we navigate the intricate landscape of AI and its implications for the future.
Richard is a seasoned ITSM solution engineer at Atlassian, bringing over a decade of experience in IT service management and consulting using Atlassian products. Richard is passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex business challenges and is dedicated to helping clients achieve their strategic goals through effective ITSM solutions.
In addition to the technical and business-focused skills, Richard regularly enjoys sharing his knowledge through webinars, panels and speaking engagements. He believes in the power of community and actively participates in industry forums to exchange ideas and best practices.
Varun Manoj
Senior Solutions Engineer, Snyk
Efficiency vs. Security: Striking the Right Balance with AI-Generated Code
The rise in popularity of generative AI coding tools is revolutionising software development, promising unparalleled efficiency and productivity. However, the rapid adoption of these tools has also raised concerns about their potential security implications. This session will explore the delicate balance between efficiency and security in the context of AI-generated code. Varun Manoj, Senior Solution Engineer at Snyk, will delve into the benefits and risks associated with these tools, providing actionable insights and best practices for mitigating vulnerabilities and ensuring the integrity of your organisation’s software development processes.
Henri Hämäläinen
Vice President, Head of DevOps and Cloud, Eficode
Software Development will be AI-driven - Scenarios of the Future
Attend an insightful keynote talk featuring Henri Hämäläinen and Marko Klemetti. They will explore the dynamic software development landscape through four compelling scenarios that envision the industry's future. These scenarios will dive into emerging technologies, evolving methodologies, and the shifting demands of the digital age. By examining these potential futures, the talk aims to spark a thought-provoking discussion on navigating and shaping tomorrow's software world. This is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable insights and participate in a forward-thinking conversation about the future of software.
Marko Klemetti
CTO, Eficode
Software Development will be AI-driven - Scenarios of the Future
Attend an insightful keynote talk featuring Henri Hämäläinen and Marko Klemetti. They will explore the dynamic software development landscape through four compelling scenarios that envision the industry's future. These scenarios will dive into emerging technologies, evolving methodologies, and the shifting demands of the digital age. By examining these potential futures, the talk aims to spark a thought-provoking discussion on navigating and shaping tomorrow's software world. This is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable insights and participate in a forward-thinking conversation about the future of software.Marko is the CTO of Eficode and spends a significant amount of his time advising organizations on their path to becoming modern and software-driven. He is still a passionate programmer, working mostly on emerging technologies that have the potential to become mainstream in the future. That helps him gain a very in-depth understanding of the trends and new possibilities.
As part of his work at Eficode, Marko is also a founder and advisor in many tech startups. Marko is an active speaker, and you can find him not only on the DevOps Sauna podcast series by Eficode, but also on The DEVOPS Conference stage and as a speaker at various other conferences.
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