Pami is Jean Monnet Professor in international relations and main PI of the university’s Research platform on Climate Neutral Energy Systems and Society CNESS. He works at the interface of European integration, international relations and political economy, specialising on energy policy issues. His main interest is in interdisciplinary work on energy transitions and energy issues in general, as well as international environmental governance, where alongside scholarly work he also seeks to engage with the business, public administration and NGOs.

Keynote speech: Security dimensions of the electricity crisis: who is responsible for what?

Jyrki has a  wide experience of transmission system operators business. Recently he has been focusing on power system balancing issues and ensuring optimal and cost-efficient procurement  and  use of reserves. He has been participating in several Nordic and European transmission system operators steering bodies.

Keynote speech: Winter Electricity Adequacy Outlook

Mikko is leading the business development by finding a sustainable and new ways to produce energy by the means of feasibility and efficiency. Demand response, ancillary markets, sector integration, machine learning and optimising are the part of diverse energy production and consumption system. He has experience in energy communities and microgrids where energy is produced and consumed locally and supporting energy networks with excess energy.

Keynote speech: Self-Sufficient, Resilient and Independent Microgrids – Case LEMENE

Markku Turunen heads the Pervasive Interaction Research Group (PRIG) at Tampere University. The group works with various interaction techniques and technologies to create novel human-technology interaction solutions for different real-world uses. The group works with different organizations, including various industrial and technology companies, and different kinds of user groups from professionals in varying fields to users with special needs. He also leads the international Sustainable Digital Life (SDL) M.Sc. programme and is a founding member of the Tampere Accessibility Unit (TACCU).

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Steve O’Hern works at the Transport Research Centre VERNE within the Faculty of Built Environment of Tampere University. His research aims to provide access to safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transport systems for all. His areas of interest include sustainable modes of transportation, road safety, connected and autonomous vehicles, infrastructure design, road user behaviour, simulation, big data and network modelling.

Ali Huttunen heads the Rolling Stock team at Tampere Tramway Ltd with the aim to get created the fastest, most comfortable, safe, most reliable and easy to access tramway system for the citizens of Tampere and its visitors. Tampere Urban Rail Mobility Services (TURMS) is a tool for the City of Tampere as a Mobility 2.0 forerunner in developing the next generation tram transportation concepts and supporting the competitiveness of individual companies in developing intelligent products and services in the international transport solution markets.

Karoliina Korppoo is an alumnus of Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Her best-known game design position has been working as the design lead for Cities: Skylines. She is a passionate games developer, game researcher and entrepreneur interested especially in end-users: what they want, what they expect and what they feel when using a product. Karoliina delivered a TED Talk at the main TED Conference (2017).

Daniel Fernandez Galeote explores how games can engage audiences with climate change. Connecting citizens to the climate crisis is essential in order to advance towards a more sustainable civilization. The engaging possibilities offered by modern games of all kinds and their massive popularity, especially among the young, make them a decisive medium for involving people’s minds, hearts and hands in this endeavor. His research is conducted within the Gamification Group, in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences.

Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk is a PhD in Interaction Design with an industrial product background. He focuses on creating novel interactive environments for gaming purposes. He currently manages the GArMEnt project funded by Business Finland, exploring the integration of wearables into mainstream gaming. He is also a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship Grant Holder with WEARTUAL project which focuses on creating design knowledge for extended reality wearables. In his keynote he discusses how to design wearables for fostering playfulness. And more, how designing for playfulness can present new opportunities for the wearables field and augmenting human abilities.

Mikko Räkköläinen is a PhD candidate in International politics in the Faculty of Management and Business. In his dissertation he explores the ways in which the increasing presence of private military companies and other commercial service providers is impacting the execution of foreign and security policy in conflict areas. His research interests also include the organizational behavior in security organizations, the changing nature of warfare, and the impact of emergent technologies on military and societal security.

Dr. Jaana Parviainen is a philosopher and a senior research fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her philosophical expertise covers the ethics of technology, social epistemology and the philosophy of the body. She has conducted and led several interdisciplinary research projects. Her on-going research project NEGATE is concerned with how the spread of influential misinformation and manufactured ignorance places pressure on the work of experts in various sectors.

Juha Nurmi is the founder and project leader of the Ahmia search engine project. He is the CEO of data mining and security company Dignify, a security researcher, and has been involved in numerous projects funded by both the commercial and government spheres. Juha is also a noted lecturer and public speaker. Juha’s work on Ahmia has been in part sponsored by the Google Summer of Code.

Dr Juha Virtanen is Principal Engineer in GE Healthcare with extensive experience from startups to large corporations. His main focus at the moment is on wearable patient monitoring sensors.

Professor Mäntysalo focuses on printed electronics technologies and its applications for example in healthcare and smart environments. He develops stretchable, ultra-thin, and conformable electronics. Read more about his research project Elastronics in Finnish/inEnglish.

Professor Lupo and his group develop energy autonomous sensors and printable sensor circuitry. They use novel materials and thin film devices based on non-toxic materials and low cost processes like printing. The group aims to enable the digitalization of our everyday world in a economically and environmentally sustainable way. 

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Professor Lempiäinen targets to find new revolutionary solutions and applications for mobile communications technology fields. He also initiates national discussion and demand to have emergency mobile network in commercial fequencies for all inhabitants in Finland.

Jukka Talvitie pursues novel approaches to utilize 5G and beyond communications signals for a wide variety of industrial verticals, especially focusing on localization and environment awareness. Besides academic contribution, he has several years of experience from various research and development projects in communications industry.

Matti Keskinen manages R&D and Business related consultant items in Nokia Networks. He has held various positions within Nokia since 1982 and is world class recognized expert turning different solutions to successful business.

Solves challenging robotics problems, builds autonomous robots to work for human and with human, and trains future robotics engineers to be able to do so.

Leads FAST-lab which promotes the seamless knowledge integration of humans and machines.

Focuses on machine learning models for situational awareness and navigation systems. Works as an AI development lead for remote and autonomous operations at Rolls-Royce Marine

Developer of Nokia’s 41 Megapixel Monster Camera and VR Camera Ozon is now in charge of the Imaging team at Axon’s newly established Tampere unit. The team develops wearable cameras for police as well as cameras for police cars.

Leads a team of nine researchers who develop computer vision, pattern recognition and Image Google. “Our major goal is to do everything with a camera that people can do with their eyes.”

“The ultimate aim of modern visual technologies is to convincingly reproduce reality and to relay information in a natural way.”