November 19, 2024 - Helsinki, Pikku Finlandia

Speakers at the Future of Software

Embracing Collaboration in an AI-Powered World

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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.

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Tero Hottinen

Head of Strategic Technology Partnerships, KONE

Future-proofing oneself in AI-driven world via smart partnering

Tero will talk about the importance of setting up and maintaining strategic partnerships in today’s world where the technology development speed, especially driven by digitalization, is so fast that no one can do things alone. He will cover the Why, What and How, and give also concrete outcome examples of successful partnering.

Tero has a long background in strategic digital business development from different global industrial corporates. This includes several senior leadership positions in Wärtsilä, Cargotec, and KONE. In his current role, Tero is globally responsible for KONE’s strategic technology partnerships. Tero is a true advocate of integrating physical and digital works seamlessly together via innovation, partnerships and collaboration.
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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.

Tommi Vilkamo serves as the Director of RELEX Labs, responsible for AI and Data Science related research and development at RELEX Solutions. In addition to leading the Labs team, he is leading the Gen AI adoption at RELEX, as well as the Knowledge Management for making the RELEX’s primary Gen AI system Rebot know everything RELEX knows about the world of retail.
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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.

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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.

Tiina Koivula has a comprehensive background in customer-oriented service and systems development, spanning over 14 years at Accountor. Beginning her journey as a payroll accountant, Tiina advanced to project manager before leading the support services team. Her expertise is in harnessing the power of technological tools like Jira Service Management to enhance client experiences and achieve operational excellence.
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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.

I am a fearless driver of growth and a builder of sustainable value, and I believe in getting things done and transforming at pace. With over 20 years of experience in working in different industries, bridging business, marketing and IT together, and working with people from around the world, I have embraced my passion for creating and driving the evolution of functions, mainly focusing on digital and marketing. At the same time, my greatest achievements have stemmed from the high performing teams I have built. The secret ingredients to my successful teams have been genuine empowerment, psychological safety and drive. All of which are close to my heart.
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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.

Jani Ruuskanen has 19 years of experience on public administration and digital transformation of the public sector in Finland. He was leading the development of national Suomi.fi-services that are mandatory to use by all public sector organisations in Finland. He currently works as the secretary general of the management board of the Finnish Digital Agency (Digi- ja väestötietovirasto).
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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.

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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).

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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.

Eero Jyske is a lifelong software enthusiast with a passion for people and scaling up product development organizations. Eero currently serves as the VP Engineer at Apheris, building the Federated Computing solution to unlock the world’s most valuable data for collaboration.
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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.

Peter Schneider is a Senior Product Lead for AI at the QT Group. Before his current position, Peter has been the Chief Product Officer at Efecte, a publicly listed company developing a cloud-based service management platform and AI-powered services. Earlier in his career, he has been holding various global product management roles at Nokia and Siemens. Peter is a contributor to AI publications such as DevOps Digest, The New Stack, and VentureBeat.
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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.

I work as an Enterprise Architect at Barona, and my responsibility is to manage our technical solutions for the Barona staffing and recruitment business area. During my seven years working with Barona, I have led our internal ERP development, IAM transformation, common API solution, and SaaS-based ERP transformation, among other smaller developments. My role has changed from leading our internal service development to managing Barona architecture to meet business needs with our SaaS partners and internal development teams.
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Henri Hämäläinen

Head of Advisory Services, Eficode

The Future of Software

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.
With 20 years in software and organizational development, Henri leads Eficode's Global Advisory Services, specializing in Agile, DevOps, and Portfolio Management transformations. His career includes leadership roles in operational management and product ownership, focusing on enhancing organizational efficiency and employee satisfaction. Henri has managed complex, multisite software projects and transformations, prioritizing quality and effective methodologies.
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Marko Klemetti

CTO, Eficode

The Future of Software

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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