Solita Frontline Summit 2021 – Scaling digital

Meet the speakers

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  Sangeet Paul  Choudary Founder Platformation Labs

  Sangeet Paul Choudary is the founder of Platformation Labs and the best-selling author of Platform Revolution and Platform Scale. He has advised the leadership of more than 30 of the Fortune 500 firms and has been selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Sangeet’s work on platforms has been selected by Harvard Business Review as one of the top 10 ideas in strategy and has been featured thrice in the HBR Top 10 Must Reads compilations. Sangeet is a frequent keynote speaker at leading global forums including the G20 Summit, the World50 Summit, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.

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  Jukka  Backlund Head of Operational Excellence, Technical Services ISS Finland

  Jukka Backlund heads Operational Excellence and acts as Product Owner at Technical services in ISS Finland. He is responsible for developing methods and concepts, tools and systems. Jukka will talk us through ISS Finland’s journey of evolving data ecosystem from data handling to practical solutions.

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  Carl  Schnackenburg Head of Data & Analytics Skandia

  Carl Schnackenburg is heading the Data & Analytics team at Skandia. He has 25+ years of experience in Information Management, both as a consultant and in line functions. The Data & Analytics team is driving and building up capabilities for Data Governance, Self-Service BI and Analytics. He will share the thoughts and the frameworks Skandia is using when building their new data platform -YoDA.

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  Anni  Ojajärvi Business Ethnographer Lead Solita

  Anni is an experienced Business Ethnographer and solves complex business challenges by combining human insight with business perspective. By analysing human experience, cultural changes and customer data, she will turn deep customer insights into elements of future business strategy, design drivers and development actions. Anni holds a PhD in sociology and works in Design & Strategy unit in Solita.

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  Dries  Vanmarcke Technical Architect Colruyt Group

  Dries Vanmarcke works as Technical Architect for Application Integration in Colruyt Group. He is responsible for the technology strategy of the integration systems (API Management, ESB, BPM, Messaging) and the overall guidelines for APIs and web services. In his talk, Dries will go through the tooling and setup of their API management platform and learnings along the way.

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  Ossi  Lindroos CEO Solita

  Ossi Lindroos president and CEO of Solita. Ossi has had several key leadership roles in Solita during the past 10 years. Ossi has previously led the company’s internationalisation and the largest business unit Solita Finland as well as sales, marketing and consulting. He has extensive experience in managing digital businesses and he’s been working with many of the most respected brands and organisations in various industries.

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  Peter  Barkman EVP, International expansion & CMO Solita

  Peter Barkman leads international expansion and marketing at Solita and acts as the moderator for this virtual event. Peter was earlier responsible for Solita’s private business sector. He joined Solita 3 years ago as part of Solita’s acquisition of Palmu Inc. a service design pioneer where he was co-founder and CEO. Throughout his career he has held different top-management positions in growth companies and chairs two growth company boards.