Solita Meeting Point 2020 – Resiliency Bootcamp

Meet the speakers

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  Karoliina  Pentti Head of Business Design OP Financial Group

  Karoliina works as Head of Business design in the strategy function at OP Financial Group. With her team, she supports the strategy implementation of OPs key business areas. In her current role, she is inspired when solving complex business challenges by combining in-depth human elements with business perspectives. Karoliina holds a degree of M.Sc. in Economics and has a background in design, product and service development and marketing at Nokia and OP.

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  Lasse  Eriksson Vice President, Technology Kalmar

  Dr. Lasse Eriksson is heading the Technology function at Kalmar, part of Cargotec, since 2019. He is responsible for the technology strategy and development in the focus areas of automation, electrification and digitalisation as well as for the coordination of R&D within Kalmar Mobile Solutions business unit. He is a member of the Kalmar Mobile Solutions leadership team.

  Lasse Eriksson joined Cargotec in 2015 as Vice President, Digitalisation, to drive Cargotec’s digitalisation strategy implementation. He then moved to the Kalmar business area in 2017 as Vice President, New Service Business Concepts, to drive new service business development. Before Cargotec, Dr. Eriksson has worked in various research and development positions related to Industrial IoT and automation, both in industry and academia.

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  Kristofer  Ågren Head of Data Insights, Division X Telia

  Since 2018, Kristofer heads up the Data Insights business unit at Telia’s Division X and is an experienced leader and evangelist in the analytics space. Prior to joining Telia he held commercial, analytics & technology positions in various consulting houses, start-ups, scale-ups and corporates both in Europe and the US.

  Artificial Intelligence has been a special interest, and has resulted in Kristofer taking part in and leading several deliveries in the AI area. Kristofer has over 20 years of experience of working with Technology and Analytics, and studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at universities in the US and Sweden.

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  Antti  Toivanen Lead, New technologies in humanitarian aid Finn Church Aid

  Antti has worked as a humanitarian for over a decade in various roles in conflict and disaster areas, oftentimes in most challenging contexts.

  Currently he works as a Lead, new technologies in humanitarian aid at Finn Church Aid (FCA), concentrating on the use of blockchain in humanitarian cash based interventions. Antti also works on his PhD on forced migration at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

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  Mikko  Aro Director, Head of Global Maintenance R&D Kone

  Mikko is digital product and business leader specialised in building winning products and organisations. Currently Mikko is leading the global maintenance business’ services and solutions R&D. Responsible for example on KONE 24/7 Connected Services that utilises IoT, cloud and AI.

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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.

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  Jaakko  Luomaranta Business Designer Solita

  Jaakko is an experienced Business Designer bridging strategy, insight and design thinking. Jaakko works with leading Nordic companies, helping them to adapt to their ever-changing business environment across topics ranging from strategy to service development. He is part-time working on his PhD on the value of design thinking for adaptive strategic management.