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Tieto Veturi showcase event
You are warmly invited to attend the Tieto Veturi final showcase event to reflect on the journey and outcomes of strategic innovation work done by Tieto and ecosystem partners while building Trusted Digital Societies.
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Tieto Veturi showcase event
About the programme
Tieto Veturi has driven collaborative research, AI innovation, and platform-driven development across smart city and energy, healthcare, financial services, and creative technologies.
This showcase marks a key milestone bringing together proven outcomes, real-world impact, and practical learnings, while opening the conversation towards new business opportunities, partnerships, and future innovation initiatives.
Why join?
Moving forward together
Gain insights into the outcomes and impact of the Veturi programme across industries.
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Future collaboration opportunities
Identify concrete opportunities for co-innovation, partnerships, and future business engagement across industries.
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Inspiring keynotes and expert insights
Gain forward-looking perspectives from industry leaders, experts, and partners on AI, digital transformation, and trusted technologies.
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Ecosystem networking
Connect with a diverse network of stakeholders from business and academia to exchange ideas and build new collaborations.
What to expect
The program reserves ample time for networking inviting you to fully benefit from getting to know stakeholders from academia and business partners. Exchange insights, share your view-points, and build foundations for the new collaborations that drive future business and innovation.
Agenda
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Arrival and registration
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Networking lunch
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Welcome and introduction
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AI leadership in practice: Why most fail and how the best execute?
Marko Komssi, Senior Scientist, AI-Driven Corporate Foresight & Strategy, VTT
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Insights, learning and key outcomes from Tieto businesses
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Networking break
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Panel discussion on leadership in the age of AI
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Keynote (to be announced)
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Funding and engagement insights from Business Finland
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Closing reflections and next steps
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Networking - drinks and light snacks served
Keynote speaker
Marko Komssi
Senior Scientist at VTT, specializing in AI-driven strategic foresight and corporate strategy
He advises leadership and AI teams on AI research topics and investments for companies driving innovation with AI. Marko has received best speaker recognition both nationally and internationally, as well as three international research awards for his publications.
Marko’s expertise in artificial intelligence began in 1997 at Lingsoft, where he was part of the team that developed spell checkers for Danish and Norwegian languages for Microsoft. He has extensive experience in globally oriented software business, particularly in cyber-security software, and was a core member of the Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence at F-Secure and WithSecure.
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Timo Sorsa
Chief Advisor at Business Finland
Timo has a background in high-tech industry and leading R&D and innovation activities. Currently he works at Business Finland on R&D funding with particular focus on AI.
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Kimmo Ahola
Chief Innovation Adviser at Business Finland
Research and Innovation Funding Advisor, specialising in ICT and digital industry RDI funding at both national and EU programme levels.
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Ksenia Avetisova
Strategic Development Lead, Innovation Partnerships at Tieto Group, Tieto Veturi Programme Lead
Ksenia is a strategy and innovation leader with over a decade of international experience in strategic partnerships, ecosystem development, and stakeholder engagement. She currently leads the Tieto Trusted Digital Societies programme and has extensive experience managing international research and innovation initiatives.
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Farnaz Abroon
Strategic Program Manager and Head of AI enablement and Adoption for Support Functions at Tieto Group
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Antti Seppalä
Senior Consultant at Tieto Tech Consulting
Antti is ecosystem builder and business turnaround specialist with background in energy and banking industries. Currently Antti is developing European digital identity and trust infrastructure.
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Mikko Erkkilä
Operational Excellence Lead at Tieto Caretech, Data Driven Care
Mikko has a long history on banking domain and have been working on care domain now a bit over than a year. Long history on publicly funded programs, mainly on financial services, current role is to ensure efficient, compliant, and harmonised ways of working that improve quality, reduce risk, and enable reliable delivery of patient‑centric digital services.
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Iftikhar Ahmad (PhD)
Head of R&D Central Function, Innovation partnerships at Tieto Group
Senior technology leader with 25+ years spanning Nokia Mobile Phone, Tampere University and Tieto. Currently Head of R&D Central Function at Tieto, leading the digital & AI agenda including GenAI/LLM deployment, data quality, governance, and AI-enabled workflows. Proven track record translating large AI investment into business impact across complex, cross-functional, matrixed organizations. PhD from Tampere University in content-based information retrieval. My professional interests focus on energy efficient, trustworthy artificial intelligence for edge and cloud environments using AIOps. Currently, my work concentrates on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and visual large language models, deployed both in cloud environments and locally. In GenAI my focus areas include prompt engineering, context engineering (retrieval augmented generation (graph-RAG)), and intent engineering for real-world applications.
