Meet our speakers

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  Niklas  Sundberg SVP, CIO ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions

  Niklas Sundberg is a Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions division and the author of Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders (To be released November 2022). He is part of the divisional Executive Management Team. Prior to joining ASSA ABLOY, Mr. Sundberg was a Managing Partner at Gartner.

  He has 18+ years of experience in IT and management consulting in various industries primarily within Retail & CPG, Manufacturing & Telecommunications.

  Niklas is a passionate Sustainable/Green IT advocate and the lack of literature available on the topic inspired him to write his first book, Sustainable IT Playbook for technology leaders. He is also part of the board of directors for SustainableIT.org which nonprofit organization (NPO) led by technology executives who seek to advance sustainability around the world through technology leadership.

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  Ann-Charlotte  Mellquist Senior Researcher Research Institutes of Sweden

  Ann-Charlotte Mellquist works as a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in the area of circular economy and circular business models. With a background in business and finance, an MBA in Innovation Enterprise and Circular Economy and several years’ experience as a Consultant and Project Manager in the IT industry, Ann-Charlotte has the ability to understand and explain the sustainable transition from many perspectives.

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  Jussi  Aho CEO Flow Technologies
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  Jussi  Mäkinen Director of EU Regulation Technology Industries of Finland

  Jussi Mäkinen is the Director of EU Regulation at Technology Industries of Finland (TIF), a national trade association representing 1,800 technology companies in Finland. Technology Industries of Finland is together with its member companies paving the way for carbon-neutral, digital and responsible Europe. Jussi takes charge of TIF’s EU agenda together with experts of the association. He is also a member of the executive board of DIGITALEUROPE. Jussi has been with TIF for four years. Prior to joining TIF, he worked for the Finnish Telecom sector and several years as civil servant in the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications. Jussi holds a master’s degree from the Law School of Helsinki University.   

   

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  Sami  Köykkä Senior Consultant Solita

  Sami works at Solita as a senior consultant and people lead of a 20-strong enterprise architect team. During the last three and a half decades, he has witnessed the rise of the Internet from many different viewpoints, from academia to new media startups and to multinational corporations. He has a passion to create things that utilize the newest technology innovations and high-quality user experiences have a positive impact to the life.

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  Saana  Tikkanen Business Designer, Sustainability Lead Solita

  Saana spends her days designing business sustainability – helping companies to identify what should be done with the complex theme of sustainability – helping create competitive advantage out of it – and helping build abilities to sustain a business.Her passion is to identify projects with a big impact: take Finnish sustainable startups to China, to scale the business big time and to save the world (2019), build EU wide tool for designing more sustainable lifestyles EU citizens (2020 – ongoing) or create digital product passport concept to make product business more sustainable (2022).

  She believes the perfect recipe for big impact can be found from the intersection of design, business and technology. 
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  Host: Minna  Kärhä Data Strategy Lead Solita

  Minna is a data-culture ambassador and builder, who believes, that data literacy is a citizen skill everyone needs. She has over 20 years of experience from the intersection of business and data, building and leading teams, developing and transforming ways of working, utilising design thinking, and building a business driven, actionable data strategy that leads to concrete activities.

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  Host: Topi  Ahava Account Director, Consultant Solita