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Solita Summit 2024 – the virtual edition

+25 speakers across 6 outstanding tracks. Insights from cloud, AI & data and digitalisation pioneers. Half a day. For free.

Location Virtual

Date 2 Oct 2024

Give us half a day, we’ll give you ideas, inspiration and energy for the challenges ahead.

Six incisive tracks on the tech innovations changing your market
24 hype-free sessions from pioneers
The inside stories from Europe’s best digital transformations
Hot takes from high-speed expert panel

Solita Summit has become one of the most anticipated virtual events on Europe’s tech & business calendar. For 2024, it’s even bigger, smarter and more comprehensive.

Join us online October 2nd between 9:00-11:40 CET for an insight-packed half-day of expert sessions, inside case stories and real-life roadmaps from the strategists, pioneers and tech leaders transforming the European industry.

Bring an open mind—and prepare to have your thinking challenged on everything from AI, cloud, and data to security, platforms, automation, productivity in digitalisation and accelerating change.

Discover six outstanding tracks filled with insights!

This year we didn’t want to leave anything or anyone out. That’s why we’ve packed the program with six diverse tracks, covering topics from secure cloud transformation to data & AI-driven business to productivity in digitalisation. Tracks for business leaders focus on strategic insights from customer cases, while tracks for technical experts dive deeper into the technical implementations of various cases.

Too much to choose from?

No worries! Attend as many sessions you like and watch the ones you missed on-demand. You don’t have to stick to just one track; feel free to switch between tracks as you wish.

To get a full picture of our inspiring roster, download the presentation schedule here or read more below.

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Olivia Gambelin

Expert in AI Ethics and Product Innovation

Keynote: Left behind or rushing to the frontiers: How to evolve with AI?

Olivia Gambelin

Keynote: Left behind or rushing to the frontiers: How to evolve with AI?

Expert in AI Ethics and Product Innovation

One of the first movers in Responsible AI, Olivia Gambelin is a world-renowned expert in AI Ethics and product innovation whose experience in utilising ethics-by-design has empowered hundreds of business leaders to achieve their desired impact on the cutting edge of AI development.

Mainstage

9.10-9.40 CEST

Left behind or rushing to the frontiers: How to evolve with AI?

More info coming soon
Kristiina Tiilas

Vice President IT, Europe, Outokumpu

Driving sustainability with AI innovations at Outokumpu

Kristiina Tiilas

Driving sustainability with AI innovations at Outokumpu

Vice President IT, Europe, Outokumpu

Kristiina is a digital strategist with a robust background in physics. She specialises in future trends in digital transformation, innovation, and leadership. In recent years, she has spearheaded digitsation initiatives in three publicly listed companies. Kristiina’s unique ability to merge technology with human perspectives provides her audience with a distinctive and enriching learning experience.

Track 3

9.45-10.05 CEST

Driving sustainability with AI innovations at Outokumpu

We are living in the middle of the generative AI era, and businesses are striving to harness data to unlock new opportunities for growth and efficiency. While many are still seeking the right starting point, early adopters – like Outokumpu – are already scaling AI innovation to drive transformative change. Join and listen how Outokumpu established their Digital Innovation Hub to drive AI innovations.
– How Outokumpu came up and established the idea of digital innovation hub to drive AI innovations
– How to be successful in change management of digital transformation
– How to succeed in scaling AI and find the most valuable use cases for AI
Hashmeet Virdi

Lead Enterprise Architect, Metso

Productising GenAI solutions – Fireside chat with Metso

Hashmeet Virdi

Productising GenAI solutions – Fireside chat with Metso

Lead Enterprise Architect, Metso

Hashmeet Virdi, Lead Enterprise Architect of Metso, has worked over the last decade in various IT roles across the oil and gas, nuclear power, metals and the mining industry. His latest quest is to reshape Metso digitally while keeping an eye on the big picture. Hashmeet’s mantra is “Make the right architecture, not the architecture right.”

Track 3

10.15-10.35 CEST

Productising GenAI solutions – Fireside chat with Metso

In this session you will learn:
– How to successfully implement GenAI solutions
– What are the key learnings to get RAG models reliable and functionable
– What are the key technical learnings when going from GenAI PoCs to actual in production solutions
Richard Widerståhl

CIO, Adapteo Group

Merging integration and data disciplines – To drive efficiency and control

Richard Widerståhl

Merging integration and data disciplines – To drive efficiency and control

CIO, Adapteo Group

Richard Widerståhl is the CIO at Adapteo Group, the leading modular space provider in Northern Europe. Joining in 2019 when Adapteo was demerged from Cramo Group, he leads the data & digitalisation team to deliver a scalable, secure and efficient IT delivery to support Adapteo’s fast growth pace through both acquisitions and organic growth.

Track 5

9.45-10.05 CEST

Merging integration and data disciplines – To drive efficiency and control

More info coming soon
Hjalmar Hult

Information Architecture Lead, Volvo Cars

From strategy to reality: concretising implementation of data products

Hjalmar Hult

From strategy to reality: concretising implementation of data products

Information Architecture Lead, Volvo Cars

Hjalmar has worked with information architecture with multiple teams from conceptual business models to logical data models to business process models. He is leading the work around data products at Volvo Cars. Hjalmar is also working towards solving the Rubic’s cube in less than 1 minute and holds a black belt in judo.

Track 4

10.15-10.35 CEST

From strategy to reality: concretising implementation of data products

More info coming soon
Anja Skovslund Henriksen

Team Leader, Team Waste Data, Miljøstyrelsen

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency goes clean, containerised and cloud-ready

Anja Skovslund Henriksen

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency goes clean, containerised and cloud-ready

Team Leader, Team Waste Data, Miljøstyrelsen

Anja is a qualified engineer in chemical engineering and has a diploma in leadership. She has been a team leader in Danish EPA for 3 years of which 1,5 years she has been working with waste data and system development.
Anja has 12 years of experience in the Danish Public Sector, project management and involvement of external interests.

Track 5

11.15-11.35 CEST

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency goes clean, containerised and cloud-ready

– Get an insight into IT development in the Danish public sector
– Discovery and investigation challenges using an outdated system
– Joining several software systems in one
– Involvement of users in the development of a new system
Tomi Lahti

Senior Product Manager, Nokia MX Industrial Edge

Enabling low data latency, enhanced reliability, and improved security with Edge computing

Tomi Lahti

Enabling low data latency, enhanced reliability, and improved security with Edge computing

Senior Product Manager, Nokia MX Industrial Edge

Tomi Lahti is a seasoned software and digitalisation professional who fights climate change and nature loss with data-driven industrial digitalisation. There is no green without digital!

Tomi has been working with software solutions, lately with MXIE 3rd party ecosystem and before that, with Industrial OT data solutions like data historian, analytics and AI solutions.

Track 4

11.15-11.35 CEST

Enabling low data latency, enhanced reliability, and improved security with Edge computing

Demo with Nokia MXIE, Crosser, Solita & Snowflake
Pekka Suomalainen

CIO, Säästöpankkiryhmä – Savings Bank Group

How to take a 200-year-old bank to cloud?

Pekka Suomalainen

How to take a 200-year-old bank to cloud?

CIO, Säästöpankkiryhmä – Savings Bank Group

Pekka is an ICT leader and technology enthusiast with 25+ years experience of developing and running IT services. He is currently heading the ICT for the Savings Banks Group as CIO and owner of the digital transformation program.
Previously he was responsible for the production of critical services for multiple Finnish banks, created cloud solutions on startup and built app ecosystems and mobile services at Nokia on a Global scale.

Track 1

10.45-11.05 CEST

How to take a 200 year old bank to cloud

Finnish Savings Banks’ Group CIO Pekka Suomalainen and CTO Markus Saari explain how they are executing a full cloud transformation to a 200-year-old bank.
In this presentation, you will hear how the initiative lines up with Savings Banks’ business strategy and how it is supporting the larger digitalisation journey of the bank. In this session, Pekka and Markus will walk you through the lessons learned on how to get your journey started and comment on their views on strategy, compliance and resources.
Emma Lindahl

Head of ICAx, ICA

Do tank – AI experiments with ICAx

Emma Lindahl

Do tank – AI experiments with ICAx

Head of ICAx, ICA

Emma Lindahl leads ICA Gruppen’s innovation unit ICAx. With a diverse background that includes a PhD from Karolinska Institutet, and roles in business development, design, product management, and teaching, Emma excels in integrating creative research strategies with cutting-edge technology. She emphasises an experimental approach to strategy, new technology, business and human wants so that innovation consistently can be translated into real-world impact.

Track 3

10.45-11.05 CEST

Do tank – AI experiments with ICAx

More info coming soon
Sallamari Tolonen

Data management service owner, F-Secure

From data strategy to dynamic implementation: The journey of F-Secure towards a data-driven future

Sallamari Tolonen

From data strategy to dynamic implementation: The journey of F-Secure towards a data-driven future

Data management service owner, F-Secure

Sallamari is Data Management Service Owner at F-Secure with a mission: everyone knows their role with data, and data is created and maintained only once, and used thousands of times.

She has 8 years experience of leading data governance ramp-ups in large enterprises, and has a master’s degree in product data management.

Track 3

10.15-10.35 CEST

From data strategy to dynamic implementation: The journey of F-secure towards a data-driven future

Cyber security company F-Secure has gone through a big company demerger and established its own new IT and data organisation from scratch. Come and listen to how we have built our new data governance model. We will present our great way of working to implement our data strategy at full speed. Learn:
– How to create a data strategy that can be implemented properly
– How to create and implement a workable data governance model
– What good data quality enables that
Jenni Heinisuo

CIO, ISS Finland

Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS

Jenni Heinisuo

Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS

CIO, ISS Finland

Jenni Heinisuo has been leading ICT in several businesses such as Electricity Infrastructure, Rail and Road Infrastructure, most recently in ISS Finland. Heinisuo holds an MSc in Information and Knowledge Management. Heinisuo believes that sharing experiences and cultivating best practices is the key to success in Business Transformation, Change Management and AI Transformation.

Track 5

10.15-10.35

Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS

More info coming soon
Petri Kukko

Chief Information Security Officer, HSL

Shifting gears: Securing software in the public transportation business

Petri Kukko

Shifting gears: Securing software in the public transportation business

Chief Information Security Officer, HSL

With 25 years of experience in digital public transport systems, cybersecurity is a profound passion of mine. As the CISO of HSL, my primary responsibility is to facilitate business and risk-based cybersecurity governance to achieve our organisation’s strategic goals. As both a leader and a human, my foremost duty is to empower our security and privacy specialists to succeed.

Track 1

11.15-11.35 CEST

Shifting gears: Securing software in the public transportation business

More info coming soon
Mirke Turunen

Head of IT, Fimea – Finnish Medicines Agency

Overcoming myths – Fimea’s journey to public cloud

Mirke Turunen

Overcoming myths – Fimea’s journey to public cloud

Head of IT, Fimea – Finnish Medicines Agency

Mirke is responsible of all things IT related in Fimea. During the last couple of years Mirke and her team has enabled Fimea to become one of the forerunners in the government agencies journey to the public cloud. In addition Mirke is passionate about podcasting, public procurement, low code and adding value. Agility for her isn’t just a way to develop IT but also a hobby with her dog.

Track 1

9.45-10.05 CEST

Overcoming myths – Fimeas’ journey to public cloud

More info coming soon
Almir Tokalic

Director, Company & Contact MDM, Konecranes

Centralised enterprise MDM: Bottleneck or enabler? – The Business-Owned MDM of Konecranes

Almir Tokalic

Centralised enterprise MDM: Bottleneck or enabler? – The Business-Owned MDM of Konecranes

Director, Company & Contact MDM, Konecranes

Almir is a seasoned expert with a decade of experience in master data management at Konecranes. Almir has achieved significant milestones in MDM area such as: the implementation of centralised MDM, complex company and contact data migration activities as part of the global CRM and ERP system implementations, raising awareness of data importance across Konecranes and establishing himself as a respected spokesperson for MDM. Recently, Almir successfully led a project to implement a new MDM solution. Currently, Almir is leading a global team of data professionals and spearheading a project aimed at streamlining processes, systems, and organisational structures, all while empowering businesses and taking MDM to the next level.

Track 4

9.45-10.05

Centralised enterprise MDM: Bottleneck or enabler? – The Business-Owned MDM of Konecranes

Data quality, streamlined and efficient data processes, data usability and accessibility and organisation involvement are crucial elements of being data-driven. Most often, a functional MDM model enables all these key factors but as often MDM implementation in the organization seems to fail. Konecranes approached MDM differently and involved business strictly with the project. How did they do it, and what were the results and key outcomes, join and listen!
Jani Leppänen

CTO, Pharmac Finland

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution

Jani Leppänen

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution

CTO, Pharmac Finland

More info coming soon

Track 6

10.15-10.35 CEST

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution

Pharmac started an ERP renewal project two years ago with Solita. Project started with concepting phase following implementation project. In this presentation we will tell you how we have built co-operation, helped Pharmac to improve development practices and how we overcome major obstacle challenging our schedule and sanity.
Sofie Karlsson

Innovation Manager and Method Lead ICAx, ICA

Do tank – AI experiments with ICAx

Sofie Karlsson

Do tank – AI experiments with ICAx

Innovation Manager and Method Lead ICAx, ICA

Sofie Karlsson is the Method Lead for the New Business and Innovation Manager at ICAx, ICA Gruppen’s innovation unit. Driven by curiosity, she brings extensive experience in consulting, innovation for large corporations, service design, and digital product development. At ICA, Sofie uses an experimental mindset to new ideas and tech, leading high-uncertainty projects and prototyping with a focus on practical applications and impact to shape ICAs future business.

Track 3

10.45-11.05 CEST

Do tank – AI experiments with ICAx

More info coming soon
Joonas Julkunen

Director, Business Technology & IT, F-Secure

From data strategy to dynamic implementation: The journey of F-Secure towards a data-driven future
Joonas Julkunen

From data strategy to dynamic implementation: The journey of F-Secure towards a data-driven future

Director, Business Technology & IT, F-Secure
Joonas is IT Director, in the world of cyber security, with over 13 years experience working with data architecture, analytics, and master data. He has recently successfully completed two demergers targeted to build a modern IT environment purely in the cloud. Joonas is passionate about simplifying and streamlining IT architecture to ensure valuable use of data. Join Joonas and learn:

How to create a data strategy that can be implemented properly
How to create and implement a workable data governance model
What good data quality enables that
Track 3

10.15-10.35

From data strategy to dynamic implementation: The journey of F-secure towards a data-driven future

Cyber security company F-Secure has gone through a big company demerger and established its own new IT and Data organisation from scratch. Come and listen to how we have built our new data governance model. We will present our great way of working to implement our data strategy at full speed.
Markus Saari

CTO, Säästöpankkiryhmä – Savings Bank Group

How to take a 200-year-old bank to cloud?

Markus Saari

How to take a 200-year-old bank to cloud?

CTO, Säästöpankkiryhmä – Savings Bank Group

Markus is a technologist and ICT leader with 20+ years of background in both consultancy and in-house positions. Markus has an extensive background on data and analytics domain with a high emphasis on the utilisation of public cloud services.
He is a techie with a strong business focus and is always keen to learn what´s happening in the market and what possibilities the emerging tech brings. Markus is currently responsible for technology strategy and operational information security as the CTO for Savings Banks Group.

Track 1

10.45-11.05 CEST

How to take a 200 year old bank to cloud

Finnish Savings Banks´Group CIO Pekka Suomalainen and CTO Markus Saari explain how they are executing a full cloud transformation to a 200-year-old bank.
In this presentation, you will hear how the initiative lines up with Savings Banks’ business strategy and how it is supporting the larger digitalisation journey of the bank. In this session, Pekka and Markus will walk you through the lessons learned on how to get your journey started and comment on their views on strategy, compliance and resources.
Sami Öfverberg

Head of IT Customer Engagement, ISS Finland

Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS

Sami Öfverberg

Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS

Head of IT Customer Engagement, ISS Finland

As a Head of Business Operations IT at ISS Palvelut Oy, Sami has dedicated his career to demystifying technology and simplifying complex concepts for diverse audiences. He champions the idea that technology should be understandable to all, emphasising its true value in serving humanity. Using this approach, Sami has led technology transformation projects in both small companies and large enterprises.

Track 5

10.15-10.35 CEST

Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS

More info coming soon
Johanna Vesterinen

Production Manager, Responsible Pharmacist, Pharmac Finland

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution

Johanna Vesterinen

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution

Production Manager, Responsible Pharmacist, Pharmac Finland

More info coming soon

Track 6

10.15-1035 CEST

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution

Pharmac started an ERP renewal project two years ago with Solita. Project started with concepting phase following implementation project. In this presentation we will tell you how we have built co-operation, helped pharmac to improve development practices and how we overcome major obstacle challenging our schedule and sanity.
Nick Tobias

Senior Scientist Bioinformatics, AB Enzymes

Digital transformation in corporations: How strategic involvement drives success

Nick Tobias

Digital transformation in corporations: How strategic involvement drives success

Senior Scientist Bioinformatics, AB Enzymes

With over 15 years of experience in bioinformatics, Nick specialises in automating complex data workflows and optimising process efficiency. Passionate about emerging technologies, he is dedicated to driving innovative solutions in research and development. By fostering data-driven decision-making, Nick empowers R&D teams to unlock new insights and accelerate scientific discovery.

Track 3

11.15-11.35 CEST

Digital transformation in corporations: How strategic involvement drives success

More info coming soon
Timo Sipilä

Information Systems Project Manager, Team Leader in FinnGen Project, University of Helsinki, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM)

Protecting privacy, enabling discovery: FinnGen’s cloud-based approach to genomics research

Timo Sipilä

Protecting privacy, enabling discovery: FinnGen’s cloud-based approach to genomics research

Information Systems Project Manager, Team Leader in FinnGen Project, University of Helsinki, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM)

Product owner of FinnGen Sandbox a Trusted Research Environment based on the Google Cloud platform. FinnGen Sandbox is an analysis environment hosting sensitive health data of 500,000 FinnGen research participants. The environment is used worldwide by FinnGen researchers to carry out state of art medical research.

As I am a researcher at heart and by education, my daily work is motivated by the mission of unleashing the power of cloud computing to the reach of all researchers in an easy, secure and sustainable manner.

Track 1

10.15-10.35

Protecting privacy, enabling discovery: FinnGen’s cloud-based approach to genomics research

– Revolutionising genomic research through secure cloud-based analysis of sensitive population data.
– Providing the cutting-edge cloud infrastructure and user experience that power FinnGen’s secure research environment, ensuring privacy while unlocking discoveries.
– Fostering innovation within a regulatory framework, demonstrating why such research is uniquely possible and beneficial in the cloud.
Thomasz Wozniak

CEO, Future Mind a Solita company

AI-powered retail efficiency. How to drive unparalleled optimisation with a B2E app?

Thomasz Wozniak

AI-powered retail efficiency. How to drive unparalleled optimisation with a B2E app?

CEO, Future Mind a Solita company

Thomasz is the CEO at Future Mind, a digital advisory & delivery company that forms part of the Solita group, was established in 2008, and has built over 300 digital products for top Polish companies and startups. Lecturer at multiple higher education institutions, including Kozminski University’s Executive MBA, mentor, promotor of initiatives that support companies’ digital transformation efforts, technology advisor. Actively participates in clients’ projects, with a focus on validating business models and strategic planning. Also serves as a board member at Digitree Group S.A. (previously SARE S.A.) and BETFAN S.A.

Track 5

10.45-11.05 CEST

AI-powered retail efficiency. How to drive unparalleled optimisation with a B2E app?

Discover how Żabka, the largest convenience store chain in Central and Eastern Europe, is redefining retail efficiency with an AI-powered B2E app that turns data into action, driving unparalleled efficiency across over 10,500 stores. Learn how this innovative solution is cutting costs, minimising waste, and enhancing the experience and productivity of 50,000 employees – all while ensuring compliance with the highest food safety standards and setting the stage for the future of convenience retail.
Paulina Moditba

Founder of We Should Be Friends, board member, speaker

Host and moderator

Paulina Moditba

Host and moderator

Founder of We Should Be Friends, board member, speaker

Paulina Modlitba is one of Sweden’s leading thought leaders in technology and innovation. As an angel investor in tech companies, board professional, lecturer, and consultant, she takes on society’s major challenges with insatiable passion. At Solita Summit she will be acting as a host and moderator.

Mainstage

9.40-9.45 CEST

How to navigate Solita Summit 2024 tracks
Anna Metsäranta

Head of Sustainable AI, Solita

Keynote: Left behind or rushing to the frontiers: How to evolve with AI?

Anna Metsäranta

Keynote: Left behind or rushing to the frontiers: How to evolve with AI?

Head of Sustainable AI, Solita

Anna Metsäranta is a strategic designer with a passion for sustainable use of data, analytics, and AI. She has over 18 years of experience in information systems development and seven years with AI and ML, driving interdisciplinary collaboration to solve complex business problems. Anna leads Solita’s work in helping organisations to decipher what it takes to create AI solutions that maximise good and minimise harm to business, people, and the planet. She works with senior leaders in high-risk industries to increase AI literacy and promote responsible and sustainable use of AI. She is a well-known public speaker on topics related to sustainable and responsible value creation with AI.

Mainstage

9.10-9.40 CEST

Keynote: Left behind or rushing to the frontiers: How to evolve with AI?

More info coming soon
Anahit Pogosova

Lead Cloud Software Engineer, Solita

The art of embracing failures

Anahit Pogosova

The art of embracing failures

Lead Cloud Software Engineer, Solita

Anahit brings over a decade of experience in full-stack and data solutions to her roles as a Lead Cloud Software Engineer at Solita and an AWS Data Hero. Since getting into the world of cloud and serverless she has been passionately sharing her knowledge and experience with the community through various channels.

Track

11.15-11.35 CEST

The art of embracing failures

The cloud and serverless have introduced many new and exciting ways to build and run our solutions. However, to take full advantage of these technologies, we need to understand and accept the fundamental principles and limitations, rather than simply believing in magic.
During this talk, explore some of the most common challenges and pitfalls inherent to distributed systems and architectures. But above all, learn to embrace failures. Because as Dr. Werner Vogels likes to say: everything fails, all the time.
Auli Peltola

Head of Strategic Growth, Solita

Driving sustainability with AI innovations at Outokumpu

Auli Peltola

Driving sustainability with AI innovations at Outokumpu

Head of Strategic Growth, Solita

Auli is an innovative growth leader who together with 2,100 Solitans aims to impact that lasts. She has a strong background in technology and business, having held various senior leadership roles in prominent large system integrators and consultancies. Auli is known for her expertise in business applications, data management, digital solutions, and strategic development, helping organisations leverage advanced technologies for business improvement and operations excellence.

Track 3

9.45-10.05 CEST

Driving sustainability with AI innovations at Outokumpu

We are living in the middle of the generative AI era, and businesses are striving to harness data to unlock new opportunities for growth and efficiency. While many are still seeking the right starting point, early adopters – like Outokumpu – are already scaling AI innovation to drive transformative change. Join and listen to how Outokumpu established their Digital Innovation Hub to drive AI innovations.
Mikko Koivisto

Mikko Koivisto, Customer Lead, Solita

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution?

Mikko Koivisto

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution?

Mikko Koivisto, Customer Lead, Solita

Mikko supports Solita customers and teams in digitalisation. He is a problem solver with over 20 years of experience in building custom software and has worked with both private and public sector customers. Together with agile project teams Mikko has been delivering and supporting bespoken ERPs, web portals, e-commerce and global CMS solutions.

Track 6

10.15-10.35 CEST

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution

More info coming soon
Santtu Seppänen

Senior Cloud Architect, Solita

Mastering complex cloud migrations: Strategies, challenges, and best practices

Santtu Seppänen

Mastering complex cloud migrations: Strategies, challenges, and best practices

Senior Cloud Architect, Solita

Santtu Seppänen is a highly experienced Senior Cloud Architect with over 15 years of expertise in designing and implementing robust cloud solutions. Specialising in complex AWS migrations, Santtu has a proven track record of helping organisations seamlessly transition to the cloud, optimising their infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

Track 2

10.45-11.05 CEST

Mastering complex cloud migrations: Strategies, challenges, and best practices

– Conduct the migration assessment
– Projectise the migration
– Don’t forget the importance of communication and communication plan
Paula Pippuri

Project Lead, Solita

Mastering complex cloud migrations: Strategies, challenges, and best practices

Paula Pippuri

Mastering complex cloud migrations: Strategies, challenges, and best practices

Project Lead, Solita

Paula Pippuri is a seasoned and proficient Project Lead who is inspired by high-performing teams’ success stories. Having worked in multiple roles in various projects in IT businesses over a decade Paula sees value in agile ways of working, emphasises collaboration as a success factor and aims for openness and focus in communication.

Track 2

10.45-11.05 CEST

Mastering complex cloud migrations: Strategies, challenges, and best practices

– Conduct the migration assessment
– Projectise the migration
– Don’t forget the importance of communication and communication plan
Pekka Tamminen

Data Architect, Solita

Centralised enterprise MDM: Bottleneck or enabler? – The business-owned MDM of Konecranes
Pekka Tamminen

Centralised enterprise MDM: Bottleneck or enabler? – The business-owned MDM of Konecranes

Data Architect, Solita
How to succeed with MDM implementation that benefits the business
How to leverage centralised MDM to streamline business processes, enhance efficiency and improve data quality
What successful MDM implementation enables for data-driven business
Track 4

9.45-10.05 CEST

Centralised enterprise MDM: Bottleneck or enabler? – The business-owned MDM of Konecranes

Data quality, streamlined and efficient data processes, data usability and accessibility and organisation involvement are crucial elements of being data-driven. Most often, a functional MDM model enables all these key factors but as often MDM implementation in the organisation seems to fail. Konecranes approached MDM differently and involved business strictly with the project. How did they do it, and what were the results and key outcomes, join and listen!
Massimo Prencipe

Senior Security Consultant, Solita

Shifting gears: Securing software in the public transportation business

Massimo Prencipe

Shifting gears: Securing software in the public transportation business

Senior Security Consultant, Solita

Massimo is our Security Specialist with a background in software development and architecting cloud solutions. He has experience in organisational DevSecOps security transformations and leading the adoption of secure software development tools in teams. Massimo also knows the practicalities of building and securing cloud infrastructure.

Track 1

11.15-11.35 CEST

Shifting gears: Securing software in the public transportation business

More info coming soon
Mikko Puonti

Data Architect, Solita

How Fintraffic reduces data platform costs with optimisation

Mikko Puonti

How Fintraffic reduces data platform costs with optimisation

Data Architect, Solita

Mikko is a seasoned expert in data vault modelling, data warehouse automation and continuous delivery in data projects. He has published articles and his doctorial thesis on the topic as well as worked with several companies helping them to speed up the creation of their analytics solutions. Helping customers to utilise data in decision-making and getting the idea of analysis to production fast is close to his heart.

Track 6

9.45-10.05

How Fintraffic reduces data platform costs with optimisation

– How to cut data platform costs and reduce CO2 footprint
– What are the common reasons for the data platform cost increase
– Why collaboration is more important than traditional optimisation techniques when reducing computing costs
Tero Peltola

Senior Cloud Advisor, Solita

Mastering complex cloud migrations: Strategies, challenges, and best practices

Tero Peltola

Mastering complex cloud migrations: Strategies, challenges, and best practices

Senior Cloud Advisor, Solita

Tero Peltola is a seasoned cloud advisor whose main interest currently lays on cloud strategies, cloud adoptions, migrations, cloud governance, and finding ways to establish the optimal cloud centre of excellence. He holds multiple cloud certifications and has a passion for finding lucrative business opportunities and value-creation methods based on cloud technologies.

Track 3

10.45-11.05 CEST

Mastering complex cloud migrations: Strategies, challenges, and best practices

– Conduct the migration assessment
– Projectise the migration
– Don’t forget the importance of communication and communication plan
Marko Taipale

Principal Consultant, Solita

Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS

Marko Taipale

Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS

Principal Consultant, Solita

Marko Taipale is Solita’s Principal Consultant. He is solving two challenges in the world. He helps companies to 1. Find what are the services and products worth enough to be develop 2. Figure out how to get those services done effectively

Track 5

10.15-10.35 CEST

Principal Consultant, Solita

More info coming soon
Vili Koistinen

AI Designer, Solita

Productising GenAI solutions – Fireside chat with Metso

Vili Koistinen

Productising GenAI solutions – Fireside chat with Metso

AI Designer, Solita

More info coming soon

Track 4

10.45-11.05 CEST

Productising GenAI solutions – Fireside chat with Metso

In this session you’ll learn:
– How to successfully implement GenAI solutions
– What are the key learnings to get RAG models reliable and functional
– What are the key technical learnings when going from GenAI PoCs to actual in production solutions
Pasi Orovuo

Security Specialist, Solita

Cloud security posture management– Efficient CSPM for agile world

Pasi Orovuo

Cloud security posture management– Efficient CSPM for agile world

Security Specialist, Solita

More info coming soon

Track 2

9.24-10.05 CEST

Cloud security posture management– Efficient CSPM for agile world

Cloud and agile ways of working requires a different approach to security. The presentation looks at CSPM processes and processes, and discusses how they need to evolve.
Antti Loukiala

Senior Consultant on Data & Architecture Solita

From strategy to reality: concretising implementation of data products

Antti Loukiala

From strategy to reality: concretising implementation of data products

Senior Consultant on Data & Architecture Solita

Antti has helped multiple Northern European companies design and implement data platforms. In the past years, he has focused on distributed data development models and ways of working. In Antti’s spare time he aims to build something concrete from concrete and after 34 years of football he doesn’t still call himself a professional football player.

Track 4

10.15-10-35 CEST

From strategy to reality: concretising implementation of data products

More info coming soon
Toni Kuokkanen

Cloud Advisor, Solita

What the *** is platform engineering?

Toni Kuokkanen

What the *** is platform engineering?

Cloud Advisor, Solita

More info coming soon

Track 6

10.45-11.05 CEST

In this presentation, Jorg and Toni will share their experiences (in the context of Platform Engineering) and address two key challenges: low developer productivity and scattered practices.

They will discuss that platform engineering is not just something technical, but a methodology which is very human-centric. With PE, Developers will be freed from the overhead tasks and focus on the high-value activities that are within their business domain. Further Jorg and Toni discuss how scattered practices are a problem almost every organisation struggles with and can be solved by having something called Golden paths.
Angeline Johnson

Transformation and Sustainablity Enabler, Solita

Expert panel

Angeline Johnson

Expert panel

Transformation and Sustainablity Enabler, Solita

More info coming soon

Mainstage

10.05-10.15 CEST

Expert panel 1

Mainstage

10.35-10.45 CEST

Expert panel 2

Mainstage

11.05-11.15 CEST

Expert panel 3
Jeroen Wanten

Connected Data Lead, Solita

Expert panel

Jeroen Wanten

Expert panel

Connected Data Lead, Solita

More info coming soon

Mainstage

10.05-10.15 CEST

Expert panel 1

Mainstage

10.35-10.45 CEST

Expert panel 2

Mainstage

11.05-11.15 CEST

Expert panel 3
Antti Peltonen

Lead Cloud Architect, Solita

Protecting privacy, enabling discovery: FinnGen’s cloud-based approach to genomics research

Antti Peltonen

Protecting privacy, enabling discovery: FinnGen’s cloud-based approach to genomics research

Lead Cloud Architect, Solita

Antti is a 40-something security-minded cloud architect with 25 years of experience in the IT industry.

Track 1

10.15-10.35 CEST

Protecting privacy, enabling discovery: FinnGen’s cloud-based approach to genomics research

Timo and Antti discuss about doing incredible research in the cloud while breaking down preconceptions on what is possible for processing highly sensitive personal information in the cloud.
Minna Kärhä

Business Lead, Data-Driven Business, Solita

Expert panel

Minna Kärhä

Expert panel

Business Lead, Data-Driven Business, Solita

More info coming soon

Mainstage

10.05-10.15 CEST

Expert panel 1

Mainstage

10.35-10.45 CEST

Expert panel 2

Mainstage

11.05-11.15 CEST

Expert panel 3
Jorg Snyders

Cloud Consultant, Solita

What the *** is platform engineering?

Jorg Snyders

What the *** is platform engineering?

Cloud Consultant, Solita

More info coming soon

Track 6

10.45-11.05 CEST

What the *** is platform engineering?

Jorg and Toni will share their experiences (in the context of platform engineering) and address two key challenges: low developer productivity and scattered practices.
They will discuss that platform engineering is not just something technical, but a methodology which is very human-centric. With PE, Developers will be freed from the overhead tasks and focus on the high-value activities that are within their business domain. Further Jorg and Toni discuss how scattered practices are a problem almost every organisation struggles with and can be solved by having something called Golden paths.
Ossi Lindroos

CEO

Solita

Ossi Lindroos

Solita

CEO

Ossi will open and close Solita Summit 2024 virtual event.

Mainstage

9.00-9.10 CEST

Welcome to Solita Summit 2024

Mainstage

11.35-11.40 CEST

Thanks for joining! Event ends.

Mainstage

Real people, being honest about hard technology things

The main stage is where it all begins and ends. Hear the keynote and expert panels between the tracks. We’ll also share how to navigate Solita Summit tracks.

See the full agenda and all the tracks at one glance here.

Agenda

Date 02/10/2024

Location Online

09.00	Welcome to Solita Summit Ossi Lindroos, CEO, Solita
09.10	Keynote: Left behind or rushing to the frontiers: How to evolve with AI? Olivia Gambelin, Expert in AI Ethics and Product Innovation and Anna Metsäranta, head of Sustainable AI, Solita
09.40	How to navigate Solita Summit tracks Moderator Paulina Modlitba
10.05	Expert panel Panelists Angeline Johnson, Minna Kärhä and Jeroen Wanten
10.35	Expert panel Panelists Angeline Johnson, Minna Kärhä and Jeroen Wanten
11.05	Expert panel Panelists Angeline Johnson, Minna Kärhä and Jeroen Wanten
11.35	Final words Ossi Lindroos, CEO, Solita
11.40	Event ends

Track 1 – Cloud for business leaders

Secure cloud journey: Stories, strategies, value

Strategies and models for navigating your cloud journey and maximising business value

Discover practical strategies for modernising your application landscape to the cloud, empowering your organisation to better and faster serve your customers’ evolving needs. Gain real-world insights into the security challenges exacerbated by current global conditions and dispel common misconceptions about the potential of public cloud platforms.

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Agenda on track 1

Date 02/10/2024

Location Online

09.45	Overcoming myths – Fimeas’ journey to public cloud Mirke Turunen, Head of IT Fimea – Finnish Medicines Agency
10.15	Protecting privacy, Enabling discovery: FinnGen’s cloud-based approach to genomics research Timo Sipilä, Information Systems Project Manager, Team Leader in FinnGen Project, University of Helsinki, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) and Antti Peltonen, Lead Cloud Architect, Solita
10.45	How to take a 200 year old bank to cloud Markus Saari, CTO, and Pekka Suomalainen, CIO, Säästöpankkiryhmä – Savings Bank Group
11.15	Shifting gears: Securing software in the public transportation business Petri Kukko, Chief Information Security Officer, HSL – Helsinki Region Transport and Massimo Prencipe, Senior Security Consultant, Solita

Track 2 – Cloud for tech experts

Secure cloud insights: Practical solutions

Insights for securing your cloud journey with real-world examples and technical solutions

Fellow technical experts share practical strategies and best practices for improving security posture, enhancing compliance, and ensuring robust protection against evolving cyber threats. And also, valuable insights to optimise your own migration projects and maximise the business value of cloud adoption.

See the full agenda and all the tracks at one glance here.

Agenda on track 2

Date 02/10/2024

Location Online

09.45	Effective CSPM (cloud security posture management) for agile teams Pasi Orovuo, Security Specialist, Solita
10.15	Hybrid cloud management Microsoft
10.35	Mastering complex cloud migrations: Strategies, challenges, and best practices Paula Pippuri, Project Lead, Tero Peltola, Senior Cloud Advisor, and Santtu Seppänen, Senior Cloud Architect, Solita
11.05	The art of embracing failure Anahit Pogosova, Lead Cloud Software Engineer, Solita

Track 3 – Data & AI for business leaders

Real-world cases about the business impact of new data and AI models

Harness data. Empower AI. Transform the future.

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, data and AI have the potential to reshape our future. Our data & AI for business track emphasises the importance of using data to fuel (Gen)AI technologies, leading to smarter predictions, intelligent automation, and innovative solutions. This transformation not only enhances efficiency and decision-making but also provides a significant competitive advantage by enabling businesses to stay ahead of market trends and rapidly adapt to changing environments.

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Agenda on track 3

Date 02/10/2024

Location Online

09.45	Driving sustainability with AI innovations at Outokumpu Kristiina Tiilas, Vice President IT, Europe, Outokumpu and Auli Peltola, Head of Strategic Growth, Solita
10.15	From data strategy to dynamic implementation: The journey of F-secure towards a data-driven future Joonas Julkunen, Director, Business Technology & IT, F-Secure and Sallamari Tolonen, Data management service owner, F-Secure
10.45	Do tank – AI experiments with ICAx Emma Lindahl, Head of ICAx and Sofie Karlsson, Innovation Manager and Method Lead ICAx, ICA
11.15	Digital transformation in corporations: How strategic involvement drives Success Nick Tobias, Senior Scientist Bioinformatics, AB Enzymes

Track 4 – Data & AI for tech experts

Discover tomorrow’s data & AI solutions

Front-line tools, tactics and technologies for accelerating your AI initiatives

Stay ahead with the newest data and AI technologies in our data & AI for technical experts track. Leverage state-of-the-art tools to enhance your technical capabilities, optimise computational efficiency, and maintain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving technological landscape.

See the full agenda and all the tracks at one glance here.

Agenda on track 4

Date 02/10/2024

Location Online

09.45	Centralised enterprise MDM: Bottleneck or enabler? – The business-owned MDM of Konecranes Almir Tokalic, Director, Company & Contact MDM, Konecranes and Pekka Tamminen, Data Architect, Solita
10.15	From strategy to reality: concretising implementation of data products Hjalmar Hult, Information Architecture Lead, Volvo Cars and Antti Loukiala, Technical Lead, Solita
10.45	Productising GenAI solutions – Fireside chat with Metso Hashmeet Virdi, Lead Enterprise Architect, Metso and Vili Koistinen, AI Designer, Solita
11.15	Enabling low data latency, enhanced reliability, and improved security with Edge computing – Demo with Nokia MXIE, Crosser, Solita & Snowflake Tomi Lahti, Senior Product Manager, Nokia MX Industrial Edge

Track 5 – Digital productivity for business leaders

Streamline, save, innovate with technology

Harness the power of digitisation to streamline operations, cut costs and boost efficiency

Discover how to streamline operations, cut costs, and boost quality with cutting-edge technologies. Empower your workforce, enhance customer engagement, and drive innovation. Propel your business forward in the digital age.

Join in to learn how digital technologies and tools are utilised to enhance business processes, reduce costs, improve output quality, and accelerate workflows to gain better efficiency and effectiveness.

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Agenda on track 5

Date 02/10/2024

Location Online

09.45	Merging integration and data disciplines – To drive efficiency and control Richard Widerståhl, CIO, Adapteo Group
10.15	Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS Jenni Heinisuo, CIO and Sami Öfverberg, Head of IT Customer Engagement, ISS Finland and Marko Taipale, Principal Consultant, Solita
10.45	AI-powered retail efficiency. How to drive unparalleled optimization with a B2E app? Tomasz Woźniak, CEO, Future Mind a Solita company
11.15	The Danish Environmental Protection Agency goes clean, containerised and cloud-ready Anja Skovslund Henriksen, Team Leader, Team Waste Data, Miljøstyrelsen – The Danish Environmental Protection Agency

Track 6 – Digital productivity for tech experts

Renew technical architecture for business value

New gains in operations, sustainable business and software development

Dive into renewing technical architecture for better business value. Come and listen to how we have optimised our customers’ operations for sustainability, compared software development and GenAI-driven software development and streamlined customers’ business operations.

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Agenda on track 6

Date 02/10/2024

Location Online

09.45

How Fintraffic reduces data platform costs with optimisation

Mikko Puonti, Data Architect, Solita

10.15

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution

Johanna Vesterinen, Production Manager, Responsible Pharmacist and Jani Leppänen, CTO, Pharmac Finland Oy and Mikko Koivisto, Customer Lead, Solita

10.45

What the *** is platform engineering?

Toni Kuokkanen, Cloud Advisor and Jorg Snyders, Cloud Consultant, Solita

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F-Secure
Miljøstyrelsen – The Danish Environmental Protection Agency
Metso
Pharmac
HSL – Helsinki Region Transport
Finnish Medicines Agency Fimea
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Olivia Gambelin

Olivia Gambelin

Left behind or rushing to the frontiers: How to evolve with AI?

Kristiina Tiilas

Kristiina Tiilas

Driving sustainability with AI innovations at Outokumpu

Hashmeet Virdi

Hashmeet Virdi

Productising GenAI solutions – Fireside chat with Metso

Richard Widerståhl

Richard Widerståhl

Merging integration and data disciplines – To drive efficiency and control

Hjalmar Hult

Hjalmar Hult

From strategy to reality: concretising implementation of data products

Anja Skovslund Henriksen

Anja Skovslund Henriksen

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency goes clean, containerised and cloud-ready

Tomi Lahti

Tomi Lahti

Enabling low data latency, enhanced reliability, and improved security with Edge computing

Pekka Suomalainen

Pekka Suomalainen

How to take a 200 year old bank to cloud

Emma Lindahl

Emma Lindahl

Do tank – AI experiments with ICAx

Sallamari Tolonen

Sallamari Tolonen

From data strategy to dynamic implementation: The journey of F-secure towards a data-driven future

Jenni Heinisuo

Jenni Heinisuo

Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS

Petri Kukko

Petri Kukko

Shifting gears: Securing software in the public transportation business

Mirke Turunen

Mirke Turunen

Overcoming myths – Fimeas’ journey to public cloud

Almir Tokalic

Almir Tokalic

Centralised enterprise MDM: Bottleneck or enabler? – The Business-Owned MDM of Konecranes

Jani Leppänen

Jani Leppänen

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution

Sofie Karlsson

Sofie Karlsson

Do tank – AI experiments with ICAx

Joonas Julkunen

Joonas Julkunen

From data strategy to dynamic implementation: The journey of F-secure towards a data-driven future

Markus Saari

Markus Saari

How to take a 200 year old bank to cloud

Sami Öfverberg

Sami Öfverberg

Collaborative AI-assisted teamwork at ISS

Johanna Vesterinen

Johanna Vesterinen

How Pharmac renewed their dose dispensing ERP with a custom solution

Nick Tobias

Nick Tobias

Digital transformation in corporations: How strategic involvement drives success

Timo Sipilä

Timo Sipilä

Protecting privacy, enabling discovery: FinnGen’s cloud-based approach to genomics research

Thomasz Wozniak

Thomasz Wozniak

AI-powered retail efficiency. How to drive unparalleled optimisation with a B2E app?

Paulina Moditba

Paulina Moditba

How to navigate Solita Summit 2024 tracks

Anna Metsäranta

Anna Metsäranta

Keynote: Left behind or rushing to the frontiers: How to evolve with AI?