Mikael Laine has served as Senior Vice President, Strategy with Cargotec since 2014. He is a member of Cargotec Leadership team. Since 2016 he has also acted simultaneously as a member of the Board of Directors of Aspo Plc.  Prior to his current role, Mr Laine has acted as President and the CEO of Moventas Group between 2012 and 2013, Senior Vice President in Business Development and Corporate Functions of Moventas Group between 2008 and 2012 and the CEO of YAP Solutions Oy between 2005 and 2008. In addition, Mr Laine has worked as CFO, Senior Vice President and deputy CEO of TeliaSonera Finland between 2003 and 2005, in various positions in Sonera Oyj between 1996 and 2002, and as CFO of Oy Mikrolog Ltd between 1995 and 1996. Mr Laine holds the degree of Master of Science in Economics. He is a Finnish citizen.

Pekka Koponen is Chair of Professio Group and also a Chair of Infinit Capital, a family office investing in companies building better future, with special focus in renewing education sector. Infinit Capital is a major shareholder in Spinverse, a platform for his passion to drive the growth of new business by innovation and to bring new technologies to market. Founded in 2004, Spinverse is the Nordic leader in innovation consulting, specialised in building and leading open innovation ecosystems and arranging public funding for them. Under Pekka’s leadership, Spinverse helped the network of its international customers raise over 1,5 billion € of EU funding and coordinated over 2 B€ worth of projects. Pekka’s extensive network covers the highest-ranking European innovation leaders from large corporations, most innovative SMEs, research institutes, universities and governmental organizations both in European Commission and member states.

Pekka’s experience in lobbying covers driving regulation and budget for innovation both in Finland and at EU-level. As Chairman of Innovation&Competitiveness Working Group of Technology industries of Finland, he successfully facilitated an agenda for increasing public funding for industry-driven innovation ecosystems leading into a historic law to guarantee growing government funding. As a Co-founder and President of European Association of Innovation Consultants, he lead building the leading Europe-wide association for innovation funding consultants.

Before founding Spinverse, Pekka had exciting 14 years at Nokia during its growth phase. He joined Nokia as a smart card expert for the company’s first GSM phone and wrote software that shipped in 500 million pockets. His later achievements included cellular network market entries in a number of emerging countries, facilitating Nokia’s ecosystem strategy and developing corporate venturing operations. His extensive international career includes expatriate assignments in China, Singapore, UK and Czech Republic.

Pekka holds an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Oulu. His marriage with Laura includes an extended family of five children, all board members in Infinit Capital. Former endurance-sports enthusiast, a finisher of a dozen marathons, triathlons and long-distance races in cycling and cross-country skiing now relaxes by snowboarding, playing golf and catamaran sailing.

Heikki Ailisto works as a research professor at VTT Technical Research Center of Finland. His core area of expertise and main focus is the digitalization of industry, especially AI. During last 20 years, his research activity has covered biometrics, IoT and artificial intelligence. Heikki Ailisto is coordinator of VTT activities on applied AI. He is also responsible for industrial co-operation in the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence, FCAI and member of the FCAI Steering Group. He wants to develop AI technologies as feasible solutions beyond the obvious hype.

Samuli Hänninen leads the Vaisala Xweather software and data business. Samuli holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and has enjoyed building and scaling new products and businesses all his career, both in hardware and software.

During his career, Samuli has been both an entrepreneur and a technology company executive (Microsoft, HERE, Nokia) working internationally in Seattle, New York, Berlin, and Helsinki. Samuli is driven by his passion for innovation and has worked on many cutting-edge products and strategies that have shaped the company’s success e.g., as part of Microsoft Devices and Services Leadership Team. Following his time at Microsoft, Samuli joined Vaisala and is leading the Xweather business with a passion for solving environmental challenges through data and science.

Mauri Kotamäki on ekonomisti, joka työskentelee tällä hetkellä pääekonomistina Finnverassa, Suomen valtion omistamassa erikoisrahoitusyhtiössä. Nykyisessä roolissaan hän tutkii suomalaisten yritysten vientiä ja kansainvälistymistä, investointeja sekä yritysrahoituksen puutteita.

Ennen siirtymistään Finnveraan hän on tehnyt merkittävän uran muun muassa Keskuskauppakamarissa, Työeläkevakuuttajat Telassa, Valtiovarainministeriössä ja Suomen Pankissa. Maurin asiantuntemus politiikananalyyseissa sekä taloudellisessa tutkimustyössä on tunnustettu laajasti ja hän on erityisen arvostettu työmarkkinatalouden ja julkistalouden asiantuntijana. Koulutukseltaan Mauri on valtiotieteiden tohtori Turun yliopistosta.

Telian teollisuusratkaisujen kehitysjohtaja Marko Lepola haluaa rakentaa ja luoda, työntää mahdollisuuksien rajoja ja innovoida yhdessä asiakkaiden kanssa. Hänen ammatillinen painopisteensä on 5G:n ja digitalisaation vaikutuksissa teollisessa toiminnassa sekä uusien kyvykkyyksien kehittämisessä Teollisuus 4.0:lle, 5G:lle, Edgelle ja pilvipalveluille sekä data-analytiikalle ja visualisoinneille.

Peter Nyman on kokenut ja karismaattinen juontaja ja moderaattori kolmella kielellä. Hänellä on satojen isojen seminaarien kokemus. Hän on ollut lavalla niin kansainvälisten tähtien, yritysmaailman huippujen kuin kuninkaallisten ja valtionpäämiestenkin kanssa. Hänet voi laittaa tilanteeseen kuin tilanteeseen. Laaja yleissivistys ja huumori sekä vahvasti ajassa eläminen ovat Peterille tärkeitä työkaluja.

Hän on journalisti, tv-juontaja ja viestintäammattilainen, joka on tv-urallaan voittanut lukuisia Telvis- ja Venla-palkintoja.