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Solita Summit 2026

Today’s structure defines the AI future. It is time to get real with AI. Join Solita Summit 2026 online on Wednesday, October 7. 

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Date 7 Oct 2026

Solita Summit is the biggest virtual AI, data and tech event in Northern Europe. Join 5,000+ leaders and tech experts on Oct 7 for real customer cases and practical insights across five focused tracks. Join live or watch on demand.

Your organisation may have run AI pilots, seen some succeed and others stall, while the cost of GenAI has become a real business consideration. The challenge now is turning AI’s potential into sustained value. Solita Summit is built for that challenge.

Explore practical approaches to AI strategy, AI-ready data, agentic delivery and human-AI workflows with real customer cases and expert insights.

What to expect

  • 5 specialised tracks
  • Real implementations, no vendor pitches
  • Organisations at the forefront of AI
  • Fast-paced sessions for busy professionals
  • Live and on-demand access

Whether you’re a business leader, IT or data professional, engineer, designer or technical specialist, come and discover what it takes to make AI work in the real world.

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Almost 5,000 attendees last year

On stage +25 speakers

Happy attendees 97 % in Solita Summit 2025

Choose your path from 5 tracks

The timetable (CEST)

Solita Summit 2026

09:00 – 09:10

09:10 – 09:40

09:40 – 09:45

09:45 – 09:55

09:55 – 10:15

10:15 – 10:25

10:25 – 10:45

10:45 – 10:55

10:55 – 11:15

11:15 – 11:25

11:25 – 11:45

11:45 – 11:55

From discovery to AI value

AI-ready data foundation

AI agentic delivery

Architecting AI-human collaboration

Deep tech

Solita Summit begins

Keynote

Intro to tracks

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AI at DNA Finland: A VP view on transforming development from idea to production

09:55

The single source of truth: Why master data matters for AI

09:55

Case: Danish Agricultural and Fisheries Agency

09:55

From employees to AI teammates: How to redesign work

09:55

Building custom AI agents in production with Databricks

09:55

Expert panel

From AI ambition to business impact: How to find your biggest opportunities?

10:25

AI data readiness: The key to scaling impact

10:25

AI in development: What it automates and what still requires human?

10:25

Case: Health and wellbeing

10:25

The AI architecture nobody talks about: Trade-offs behind production systems

10:25

Expert panel

Beyond the use case: How to redesign work around AI

10:55

Adopting AI-augmented data engineering at Nordic Investment Bank

10:55

The agentic developer: Rethinking the software development lifecycle

10:55

Beyond the copilot: Designing the agentic enterprise

10:55

From AI assistants to AI operators: Making enterprise AI act on live data

10:55

Expert panel

The automation trap – How the thinking organisation is already rewriting the competitive environment

11:25

When data becomes an AI teammate: The future of enterprise knowledge

11:25

Don’t forget everything you’ve learned. Software engineering is evolving fast but fundamentals – and humans – still matter.

11:25

The autonomous organisation: How far can human–AI collaboration go?

11:25

When software, data and AI become one discipline

11:25

Final remarks by Ossi Lindroos

Some of the confirmed speakers

Karri Linnoinen, Nordic Investment Bank Chief Data Officer

AI-ready data foundation

Karri Linnoinen is the Chief Data Officer at Nordic Investment Bank, leading the Business Intelligence & Data Architecture team. Responsible for developing the bank’s data, AI, and analytical capabilities, he is also focused on implementing the bank’s strategic vision to become more data-driven. Prior to joining Nordic Investment Bank, Karri worked at Nokia as well as in consulting, delivering data and cloud solutions to customers spanning a diverse range of industries. 

Ville Partanen, DNA Vice President, Service Development, Consumer Business

From discovery to AI value

Ville Partanen is VP, Service Development at DNA, responsible for consumer service development across subscriptions, devices and digital services. His work sits at the intersection of business and technology, turning strategic needs into scalable products and services that customers love to use. 

Kamilla Sultanova Professional keynote speaker and our host

Inspiring stories of impactful projects

Kamilla is an award-winning, multilingual keynote speaker, an experienced DEI consultant, and Finland’s dancing event host!

Minna Kärhä Business Area Lead, AI Business Design

Architecting AI-human collaboration

Minna is passionate about bringing humans to the front and centre of technology development. It should be technology helping people, not technology defining people!
Lasse Girs Head of AI Transformation

AI agentic delivery

Lasse leads Solita’s Generative AI Enablement and drives the company’s GenAI transformation through R&D, people upskilling and empowerment, and AI technology development. Lasse has a long and diverse background, starting from marketing, moving into data and analytics, and specifically focusing on the organisational aspects of becoming data-driven.
Mikko Väätäinen Transformational Excellence Lead

“The automation trap”

Mikko has extensive cross-industry experience and is a dynamic Business Designer and advisor dedicated to guiding companies through transformative growth and innovation.He will share about “The automation trap” – How the thinking organisation is already rewriting the competitive environment.

Pragati Gupta Machine Learning Engineer

AI in production: The architecture, challenges and lessons learned

Pragati is a Machine Learning and Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of industry experience, specialising in LLMs and agentic AI on scalable cloud infrastructure, with strong MLOps practices.

Björn Olofsson Data Tech Lead

When data becomes an AI teammate: The future of enterprise knowledge

Björn works as a Data Tech Lead at Solita and has over 20 years of experience in data and analytics, evaluating new technologies, knowledge sharing and advisory roles. He has been working with the biggest companies in Sweden, guiding them in their data-driven journey.

Tommi Somersuo AI Tech Lead

AI agentic delivery

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Dan Nielsen Head of Strategy & Transformation

From discovery to AI value

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    Interesting guests, great organisation, speedy and informative. Loved the panel recap in-between.

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    Fast-paced, quality-rich sessions with relevant topics, valuable docs shared per session and a strong production platform and high-quality production set an example for virtual conferences.

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