

October 12th, 2023 | VIRTUAL EVENT
GOING LIVE 9AM (CET) 10AM (EEST)
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SCALING INTELLIGENCE
A cross-industry event for business leaders, strategists, and practitioners looking for game-changing strategic insights, business growth and actionable know-how.
Whether you are implementing, optimising or scaling your AI projects, we provide you with practical tools, comprehensive knowledge, inspiration and lessons learnt to plan your own AI roadmap and competitive edge.
Featuring a mix of strategic insight and technical know-how, you’ll discover how to align AI with long term business objectives and prove its real value. From experimental to exponential the agenda addresses some of the myths and misconceptions around AI, as well as, highlighting what you need to be aware of going forward.
You will walk away with tangible, solid and workable takeaways for instant implementation. Unlock a complete list of action points to re-shape processes, habits and services affecting the way you do business and how you interact with your clients, partners and staff in the future.
Welcome to create value and business impact with AI.

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MODERATOR
PETER NYMAN
JOURNALIST, TV-HOST
Peter Nyman is a well-known, charismatic and experienced TV-anchor and business event moderator. He is a journalist, news-anchor and media professional that coaches on three languages. Peter has run communication trainings for business directors- and experts for years, but speaks about communication skills also to bigger audiences.

SPEAKERS 2022

Laura van Beers
CHIEF DATA OFFICER, INTEGRATED GAS | SHELL (NL)
Laura van Beers is an experienced business executive with a strong focus on data driven value delivery. She has a track record in (award-winning) digital product development. Laura enjoys leveraging the power of new digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence to create new value streams. Laura has held a variety of digital roles in (multi)nationals and in the start-up environment and currently works as Chief Data Officer for Shell’s Integrated Gas business.
MAJ. Gen. John M. Olson
CHIEF DATA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER | UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (US)
Maj. Gen. John M. Olson is the Mobilization Assistant to the Chief of Space Operations (CSO) and Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Air Force. He supports the CSO with responsibility to organize, train, and equip space forces; develop and acquire military space systems; and conduct space operations to advance and protect U.S. and allied interests. He is the Space Force lead for Joint All Domain Command and Control and the Advanced Battle Management System. As the first Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer for the Department of the Air Force, he leads both Air Force and Space Force data and AI initiatives in operations, technology, innovation, personnel, mobility, logistics, maintenance and finance. He also serves on the Office of the Secretary of Defense Operational Energy Innovation Technical Advisory Group and flies as an Airborne Emergency Action Officer on the Looking Glass Airborne Nuclear Command Post leading strategic deterrence missions.


ANGEL HORVAT
DIRECTOR EMEA - DIRECT CONSUMER DATA STRATEGY | NIKE (NL)
Angel is an experienced business executive with a focus on leveraging data and AI to better the world we live in.
Angel is currently the EMEA Director for Consumer Data Strategy at Nike where he leverages his passion and knowledge of data and AI to have an impact in the world of sports. Previously, Angel worked at Gartner Consulting where he led AI Services practice shaping the global consulting AI offerings and leading tier one clients to Data & AI Ethics vision and strategy, Responsible AI and AI Governance frameworks, Explainable AI, MLOps, and AI strategy and execution.
ANNE-LAURE CEBILE
DATA SCIENCE TEAM LEADER | DANONE (FR)
I have a master degree in theoretical physics. I spent the first 6 years of my career working for an airline, to develop Data Science for marketing and commercial applications. I joined Danone 2 years 1/2 ago, and I am now the manager of the global Data Science team. I'm fascinated by how Machine Learning and mathematics can modelize business problems and help improve our operations.


DANIEL ENGBERG
HEAD OF AI, DATA AND PLATFORMS | SAS - SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES (SE)
Daniel is passionate around how technology can be used to drive value, starting out as a consultant in the IT strategy field helping companies maximize their use of technology before transitioning into SAS. He started the SAS AI journey in 2018 and is now responsible for AI & Automation, Data & Integration, Cloud and developer tooling at SAS.
KRISTEN BENNIE
DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION AND PARTNERSHIPS | NATWEST GROUP (UK)
Kristen is a creative leader with a wealth of experience in innovation and transformation programs. She is the Director of Innovation and Partnerships at NatWest where she helps bring the future into focus through strategy, design, technology and cultivating a culture of openness, creativity and collaboration.
Her career has always involved the development and delivery of new products, services and software to drive sustainable growth and positive customer outcomes. She has created and leads NatWest’s award winning innovation studios in London and Edinburgh and is a recognised leader in her domain and was named as one of the top 35 women leaders by IBM for her work using AI to power digital transformation.


Muhannad Alomari
EUROPEAN AI HUB LEAD | ROLLS-ROYCE (UK)
Muhannad leads a brilliant team of Data Scientists and developers, working on introducing state of the art AI/ML algorithms into Rolls Royce.
He completed his PhD in AI & Robotics from the School of Computing, University of Leeds. His thesis was awarded the highly prestigious EurAI Dissertation Award 2017, by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence; and awarded the Research Excellence Award from University of Leeds. His research interests are in Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Robotics, and Computer Vision.
KIAN ABOLFAZLIAN
HEAD OF DATA TRANSFORMATION | PHILIPS (NL)
For the past 20 years, Kian has been a Principal Digital Strategist and Trusted Advisor to boards of directors, C-Suites and senior stakeholders in knowledge-intensive organization, across Europe, Americas and Asia. He has specialized in design and delivery of large scale E2E Customer-centric Digital Transformations for institutions within both Public and Private sectors, Design of National ICT and AI strategies. He has as well been an advisor on projects financed by World Bank, IADB and UNDP among others. He is passionate about designing People-literate technologies, as well as People-centric Digital-First solutions in the context of Smart Spaces for manufacturing, global logistics, buildings & shops, and homes.


ANN-ELISE DELBECQ
DATA SCIENCE AND AI ELITE TEAM, CLIENT ENGINEER EMEA- PROGRAM DIRECTOR | IBM (BE)
Ann-Elise is currently leading the IBM Data Science and AI elite team in EMEA. She is focused on Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for IBM in EMEA enabling clients to successfully apply Data Science and deploy trustworthy, scalable and resilient AI into business processes. Ann-Elise has wide industry experience, in sectors ranging from Telco to Finance.
Ann-Elise holds a Master in Business Engineering and an advanced Master in Financial Economics (MS) from KU Leuven, Belgium, where she delivered a final dissertation on machine learning in the space of Fraud Detection.
HENRIK WARFVINGE
DATA AND MACHINE LEARNING ADVISOR | GOOGLE CLOUD (SE)
Henrik is currently a technical advisor and technical lead for Google Cloud Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence team in Sweden. He has a general passion for data and the innovation power behind it. He works cross-industry to help organizations to raise their data maturity level and to realize specific use cases. He likes to evangelize around MLOps and does not shy away from diving deep into code. Besides data, he is also a basketball fanatic and enjoys exercise by practicing racket sports.


JANNE FLINCK
AI AND DATA LEAD | CODENTO (FI)
Janne joined Codento from Accenture 2022 with extensive experience in Google Cloud Platform, Data Science, and Data Engineering. His interests are in creating and architecting data-intensive applications and tooling. The main technologies used include BigQuery, GKE, Cloud Run, Airflow, Docker, R, Python, and Ansible. Some minor scripting with Bash for automation purposes. Janne have two professional certifications and one associate certification in Google Cloud and a Master’s Degree in Economics.

ANNA METSÄRANTA
HEAD OF SUSTAINABLE AI | SOLITA (FI)
Anna is a strategic AI designer and business developer with a passion for sustainable use of technology. She has more than 15 years of experience in the development of information systems and utilisation of multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex business problems. Anna currently leads Solita's work in helping customers and partners to decipher what it takes to create AI solutions that maximise good and minimise harm to business, people, and the environment.

JESSIE WANG
DATA CONSULTANT | THOUGHTWORKS
Jessie Wang is a data consultant at Thoughtworks and has worked in multiple industries, with clients including airlines, FMCGs and financial services to help manage and utilize their data for better business insights. Jessie is currently doing a long-term assignment for a year at Thoughtworks Finland from Melbourne, Australia and here she gets to participate in exciting data science projects while exploring the country. She is passionate about optimization, operational research and machine learning. In the past, she has worked as an assistant researcher at the University of Melbourne.

SAMI LAINE
COMPETENCE LEAD, DATA MANAGEMENT ADVISOR | SIILI SOLUTIONS (FI)
Sami Laine has been working in data management practitioner, consultant, researcher, and teacher roles for 20 years in several business sectors. During these years, he has been an active advocate promoting quality and ethical perspectives in data management and business. He is also the current vice-president of DAMA Finland ry and MIT CDOIQ Symposium Planning Committee Member.

MIKA JÄMSEN
ADVISORY SOLUTION CONSULTANT | SERVICENOW (FI)
Mika is a long-term software professional, with background in many major software vendors. He works as an Advisory Solution Consultant at ServiceNow, where he focuses on Creator Workflows, an area which combines business workflows with underlying platform technologies like cloud, robotics, analytics and AI. Mika has been involved in many major development projects on ServiceNow platform.

DANIEL COSBY
SENIOR SALES EXECUTIVE | M-FILES (FI)
Daniel's meandering career path has led him to become a passionate enthusiast for the human side of software and business applications. Having served in various roles throughout sales, product marketing and partner enablement at M-Files, the puzzle of how to manage the threats and opportunities posed by virtually infinite amounts of information in our finite day-to-day work lives has been front and center. As a humble non-engineer, Daniel is particularly interested in working with organizations looking to engineer maximum returns on their information portfolio without sacrificing user experience and security.

SAARA HYVÖNEN
CO-FOUNDER, DATA & AI EXECUTIVE | DAIN STUDIOS (FI)
Saara is one of the three Founders of DAIN Studios, a Finnish-German company providing consultancy on Data & AI from strategy to implementation. Saara´s main focus is to help companies in the area of data and AI strategy development, from identifying data use cases to defining related requirements on data, algorithms, architecture and compliance. Her work in AI ethics has ranged from helping define principles of AI ethics for companies to translating these into concrete actions for business and developers alike. She also has worked on algorithmic fairness and finding novel ways of creating transparency using explainable AI.

JUHA LATVALA
CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER | INSTA (FI)
Juha Latvala is an experienced software and technology leader and works currently as the Chief Digital Officer at Insta. He works with senior industry leaders in accelerating the adoption of AI and data platforms and the transformation of MES and ERP systems. Juha is a keynote speaker and known for charismatic presentations in topics involving leadership, technology, and modern organizations.
Juha holds a Master of Science degree in software and technology, a Master of Business Administration in Management and Finance as well as a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma.

JUHA PUOLAKKA
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR | LOIMUA (FI)
As the head of technics, Juha is leading the asset management and system optimization in Loimua. He is also developing Loimua’s energy service business to enable sustainable and efficient energy production and use of the clients in the energy sector and industry. Juha has an extensive background in international energy business in energy utility, consultancy, and power plant supplier roles.
EXPERTS

PER LÖJDAHL
Sales Executive
M-Files

HUGO GÄVERT
Chief Data & AI Officer
DAIN Studios

KARTHIK SINDHYA
AI Strategist
Solita
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MIKAEL RUOHONEN
Data Science, AI & Analytics
Solita
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