The Future of Transportation Summit 2022

27 September 2022 15:00Epicenter Helsinki

The transportation sector is an industry adjusting to rapid changes in technology and customer expectations.

These changes are being driven by four major trends:

electrification
automation
mobility as a service
traffic management.

Pick you brain in the deep dive conversations with the industry experts from Ministry of Transport and Communications, Fintraffic, Sensible 4, and Remote Oy.

These trends won’t just drive change in the movement of people, but how we move goods will also change. Rapid advancements in transportation will affect most businesses, regardless of sector, businesses with a supply chain that relies on the movement of goods should be aware of these trends.

Join us for The Future of Transportation Summit 2022.

Speakers

Johanna Särkijärvi
Director of Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Transport and Communications

Traffic management

10m

Johanna Särkijärvi

Johanna Särkijärvi is an expert in transport policy, research and development, and strategic management. She is a Senior Ministerial Adviser and works currently as a Director of Strategic Affairs at the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finland.

Traffic Management

Kerkko Vanhanen

Kerkko Vanhanen works as Programme Director for Smart City development in Forum Virium Helsinki, an innovation company owned by the City of Helsinki. He has been leading the smart city development also in the Smart Kalasatama district. Before this, Kerkko has worked as CEO for Traficon Ltd – A traffic planning and consulting company – and for Helsinki Region Transport (public transport authority) as the Head of Information Systems Group leading all development projects around digital passenger information and open data.

Kerkko’s special competence is in smart mobility and digital service design around mobility. He has strong interests also in smart energy solutions and circular economy services as well as generally in any innovation that makes urban life easier and causes less negative impacts on nature. Kerkko has M.Sc. in Civil Engineering (Aalto University, former Helsinki University of Technology) and he has also studied minor in the department of architecture about urban planning.

Traffic management

Janne Lautanala

Janne is an accomplished digital business leader with more than 25 years of professional experience in leading organizations like Accenture, Avanade, Wärtsilä and Nokia. Currently he works as the Chief Ecosystem and Technology Officer at Fintraffic, the company responsible for traffic management and control in all modes of traffic in Finland.

Electrification Keynote

15:55 Tuesday

10m

Eemil Rauma, Head of Government Relations and Partnerships, Virta Ltd.

Eemil Rauma

Eemil is a passionate electric mobility business developer and advocate with a special interest in combining Electrification-as-a-Service with the circular economy of mobility. He is part of the Virta team which is the fastest-growing electric vehicle charging platform in Europe and is operating in over 30 countries. Eemil holds the position of head of government relations and partnerships. Previously he has successfully coordinated a large cooperation program around the circular economy of mobility (which no one had ever heard of before 2021) at ITS Finland and before that led the mobility services team at Korkia consulting.

Electrification

Tuukka Heikkilä

Tuukka works as a Senior Advisor in Finnish Energy, representing electricity, gas and heat companies of Finland. He is the chairman of the [Finnish electricity standardization organization] SESKO’s committee "Electrical road vehicles and charging systems". He is also a member of the board of e-Mobility Finland. He got his first electric car in April of 2017 and has been an EV driver ever since.

Electrification

Dr. Jacob Dibble

Dr. Jacob Dibble is a mathematician by training, Jacob later transitioned into the field of Urban Design and Planning. Through his research and professional practice, Jacob grew to specialize in quantitative methodologies of assessing urban form and urban mobility patterns. He is a practitioner of Space Syntax and has founded the field of Urban Morphometrics.

After applying his analytical approach to understanding how urban spaces are formed and consequently how people move through them, in a variety of academic, public, and private projects, he later transitioned into micro-mobility at TIER Mobility where he leads a team of up to 350 managers, mechanics, and operations associates across four countries. Jacob's academic background and research, data-based approach affords him a unique perspective on the micro-mobility industry and MaaS in an emerging, fast-paced, and competitive environment.

Automation Keynote

16:30 Tuesday

10m

Tuomas Sauliala, Technical Marketing Manager, Sensible 4

Tuomas Sauliala

Tuomas joined the Sensible 4 as the Technical Marketing Manager in 2020. Sensible 4 develops a SAE Level 4 automated driving software, able to operate in all weather conditions. Tuomas has done his studies at Helsinki University of Technology, in the Electrical Engineering Department. The school is nowadays known as Aalto University. Tuomas has been interested in software, electric power trains, electric mobility and car automation for years, so joining Sensible 4 was a natural move after working with the technical marketing of a software consultancy and as a founding member of a digital agency. In his free time Tuomas writes a car blog in Finnish at autovouhotus.fi/oikosulku and also enjoys cooking and cycling with his family.

Automation

Mika Rytkönen

Mouth as a marketer, soul as an engineer, mind as a strategist and heart as a leader. This is Mika Rytkönen. With more than 30 years of business development experience in corporates, start-ups and scale-ups in telecom, location and mobility businesses, he helps cities to give streets back to people and to improve quality of life in cities. He is implementing this vision via several companies. He is a partner in Remoted, an autonomous fleet operator, PayiQ which is developing mobile ticketing solution and NOETON developing emission catcher for stoves and fireplaces.

Automation

Kati Borgers

Kati works at the City of Espoo Centre for Sustainable Development, in projects involving smart and sustainable traffic and autonomous vehicles. She has long experience from working in startups and is passionate about partnering with private companies and the science community to help Espoo reach its ambitious climate goals. She has a Master's degree in software engineering from Aalto University.