9.00 
Event begins

9.05 – 9.20
Opening speech
Ministry of Employment and the Economy – Mika Lintilä, Minister of Economic Affairs

9.20 – 9.40
Ministry for the Economy and Finance, France – Renaud Vedel, Coordinator of France ’s National AI Strategy
The French AI Strategy: an openness to close bilateral partnerships and a desire to tie in with the European Coordinated Plan, for a Stronger Digital Europe
Conceived in 2018, the French National AI Strategy is the subject of a first progress report. It will soon be adjusted to fully integrate the new European Priorities. It will comprise two important new components, serving the ecological transition and smarter education. Aware that both digital Europe and digital France must be strenghtened on value chains and aim for greater sovereignty on critical segments, France promotes the idea of close bilateral partnerships and supports the guidelines announced by the new Commission. In particular, franco-finnish cooperation within the field of AI deserves to be supported and deepened.

9.40 – 10.10
Keynote: Silo.AI – Tero Ojanperä
Improving society with the help of AI
How AI is already today helping societies to improve and to become more efficient and smarter. The presentation will showcase practical uses of AI that improve the life of a citizen, ranging from sewage pipes and district heating to customized digital pharmacy experience.

10.15 – 11.00
Panel discussion
Research to Business: How to transfer research knowledge / expertise to companies. Panelists: FCAI – Petri Myllymäki, TAU/AI HUB – Heikki Huttunen, Neuro Event Labs – Kaapo Annala, Nrich – Markus Ståhlberg

11.00 – 11.20
European Commission – Juha Heikkilä, Head of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence unit, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

11.20 – 11.40
MURC (Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting) – Senior Managing Executive Officer, Takehiko Nagumo
Digital New Deal in Japan
Mr Nagumo will talk about the most recent digitization policy development in Japan called the ”Digital New Deal,” with special focus on digital government and smart cities in the age of with corona.

11.40 – 11.50
Academy of Finland: 3 x 3 minutes Research pitching (Projects of the Academy’s various programs: Eero Hyvönen, Nønne Prisle, Ilkka Pölönen)

12.00 – 13.00
Lunch break

13.00 – 13.20
Insta – Juha Latvala
Future-proof factory – What are the steps to turn the traditional operation into data-optimized production?
Industrial companies face ever-increasing challenges such as production efficiency and sustainability demands, price pressure, and the lack of know-how on how to utilize digital technology. Industry 4.0 and artificial intelligence are technologies that promise optimized production, better sustainability, and ability to answer increasing customer demands. But how to get started? How to make progress in a systematic manner without getting stuck in an everlasting proof of concept phase? In his presentation, Juha Latvala explains how to determine the current digitalization maturity of a company, and how to make industrial AI a reality for you.

13.20 – 13.40
Glaston – Kai Knuutila
Bringing AI for intelligent glass processing
Glaston is a technology and innovation leader in the glass industry and thus also wants to lead in taking AI in the use. This speech will highlight with examples how Glaston uses data and AI for creating new products and services for our customers.

13.40 – 14.00
Cargotec – Juho Vihonen
On sustainable load handling
This speech will cover some recent advances in the domains of electrification, artificial intelligence and automation at Cargotec.

14.00 – 14.20
Sandvik – Olli Snellman
AI in Mining Automation
How we utilize now and near future AI in our offering.

14.20 – 14.40
Valmet – Arttu-Matti Matinlauri
Operator 4.0 – How AI is reshaping the role of the Manufacturing Workforce
Based on real life experiences: how is AI being dreamed about, how is AI actually being implemented and what can be seen as the upcoming research items to follow?

14.40 – 15.00
Unikie – Petri Kalske
AI on Wheels – Data driven automotive disruption

15.00 – 15.30
Coffee break

15.30 – 15.50
Upright – Toni Laitila
New era of value creation: How to measure net impact of companies with an AI-based model
Upright is building a new type of AI-based quantification model for the net impact of companies. Upright’s model utilizes scientific papers and machine learning to summarize how companies impact the environment, the health of people, the society, and the creation and distribution of knowledge. At the core of the model is a neural network that has been taught to classify causalities in natural language.

15.50 – 16.10
Aiforia Technologies – Kari Pitkänen
Aiforia – Empowering Medical (and any other 2D) Image Analysis by Deep Learning AI
Kari shall introduce company Aiforia Technologies, main features of Aiforia deep learning AI platform and major applications in health and industry related image analysis.

16.10 – 16.30
FAIA, Finland’s AI Accelerator – Alexander Törnroth
State of AI Finland 2020
Presenting the ”State of AI Finland”-report, the most comprehensive and deepest investigation into the domestic AI ecosystem. The report is conducted by FAIA, Technology Industries of Finland, FCAI, Silo AI, Business Finland, AI Hub Tampere, VTT, University of Helsinki, VAKE and Reaktor.

16.30 – 16.45
Closing speech
VTT – Riikka Virkkunen