AI Finland Summer Forum
AI Finland Summer Forum is the network’s flagship event under the new concept, bringing together leading AI practitioners, cutting-edge insights, and hands-on collaboration. Alongside inspiring keynotes, participants will work on concrete ideas in interactive workshops.
June 3, 2026 | Helsinki, Oulu, Kuopio, Tampere, Turku and online
The event features unique joint keynote sessions:
From Infrastructure to Impact: How an AI Gigafactory Drives Growth
Pasi Toivanen, SVP, Strategic Government & Industry Initiatives, Nokia
Laura Halenius, Senior Lead, Growth from Critical Technologies, Sitra
Building a Quantum AI Lab
Juha Vesanto, Director, Quantum and AI Research Centre, OP Pohjola
Topias Uotila, working at Qutwo
In addition, the program includes AI Full Stack pitches, showcasing the latest data, cloud and AI solutions.
Beyond the stage program, the event offers a hands-on component: In Helsinki, participants can choose from 13 focus groups covering current AI themes. Sessions are facilitated by our strategic partners and provide practical tools and peer-to-peer sparring. Online and satellite events will host focus groups based on participant interests.
Program
12:00–13:00 Networking lunch
13:00–14:10 Keynotes & AI Full Stack pitches
14:10–14:50 Coffee break & networking
14:50–15:45 Focus groups
16:20 Wrap-up
16:30 → Afterwork hosted by our partner
Participation options
You can join the event in three ways:
- in person at the main event in Helsinki
- at local satellite events across Finland
- fully online
For the best experience, we recommend attending in person.
Main event in Helsinki includes:
- Networking lunch
- Keynotes from leading AI experts
- Practical focus groups and workshops
Satellite events include:
- Local networking lunch
- Livestreamed keynotes
- Local workshops based on participant interest
Online participation includes:
- Livestreamed keynotes
- Virtual focus group
Focus groups
The focus groups will be held in either Finnish or English, depending on the participants.
AI in Sales and Marketing: Use Case Factory – Workshop
AI isn’t adopted all at once — it starts with one strong use case. In this workshop, we’ll build that first (or next) one for you. We’ll go through your sales and marketing processes, identify opportunities for automation and intelligent assistance, and turn them into actionable use cases. The outcome: a prioritized backlog and a clear next step.
Target Group: Managers and leaders responsible for marketing, sales, and business development.
Level: Beginner to Mid-level
Hosted by Avaus
AI archetypes in manufacturing for quality, uptime, and efficiency – Clinic
In this hands-on session, you’ll explore industrial AI in OT and IT in small groups. We start with a keynote on AI in manufacturing, highlighting key use cases. Participants then rotate between two sessions: where AI can be applied in manufacturing (OT) and where it creates value in business processes (IT). The aim is to show both perspectives are essential in AI transformation through collaboration and discussion.
Target Group: Leadership in manufacturing, process industry, industrial companies
Level: Beginner to Mid-level
Hosted by Brillian
From Data Chaos to AI Power: Hands-On with AI-Ready Data
Your AI solutions are only as good as the data they work with. In this hands-on workshop, participants tackle real-world data challenges that block AI solution performance. Through practical exercises, you’ll learn to structure, enrich, and govern data so that AI solutions can reason, act, and deliver results. Suitable for intermediate practitioners and motivated beginners alike.
Target Group: Business, IT and others working on data and AI projects
Level: Intermediate
Hosted by Bruvo
Designing agentic workflows with the A.G.E.N.T. Framework – Workshop
A practical hands-on session on how to identify and redesign workflows for agentic AI. Participants get a short introduction to the A.G.E.N.T. Framework and then use DAIN Studios’ interactive tool to explore one workflow and how it could be transformed into an agentic workflow.
Target Group: Business, IT, digital, operations, transformation
Level: Intermediate
Hosted by DAIN Studios
Beyond the Screen: Physical AI in the real world – Interactive presentation & Facilitated dialogue
Move past LLMs into the world of Physical AI. We explore how AI senses, reasons, and acts in the physical realm, from smart machinery to autonomous systems. This session breaks down why Physical AI is a strategic necessity, showcases concrete industrial use-cases, and shares lessons on building systems that survive the “messiness” of the real world.
Target Group: People involved in R&D, Business, Innovation
Level: Beginner-Friendly (No coding or deep technical background required)
Hosted by Emblica
Navigating the leadership shift in agentic software development – Roundtable
Software development leadership shifts from managing humans to orchestrating hybrid teams of people with changed roles and autonomous agents. This interactive session explores how organizations have defined new roles and how they are planning to organize and follow and measure teams.
Target Group: Engineering team leadership, CIO, CTO
Level: Beginner
Hosted by Futurice
Lead the transition toward the production of digital services in the age of AI – Roundtable
Digital services are increasingly the cornerstone of organizational competitiveness. In this roundtable, we’ll discuss—based on an expert introduction—how service production should be organized in the age of AI. You’ll get concrete steps on how to connect business and user experience to production, how to build an AI-driven operating model, and how to lead the transformation.
Target group: Business Management, CIO, Head of AI, Head of Software Development
Level: Advanced
Hosted by Gofore
From AI Chaos to AI-Native Advantage. A Leader’s Playbook for Software Transformation – Training
The “software apocalypse” can feel overwhelming, but leaders need clarity—not hype. AI coding tools are already widely used, often without guidance, leading to risks like technical debt and weak governance.
Pasi Vuorio, CEO of ModernPath, shares a practical view on AI-native development and how to make AI a controlled part of development.
Target Group: For leaders in software-driven organizations seeking results now
Level: Beginner to Mid-level
Hosted by ModernPath
Data doesn’t create value; your data ecosystem does. – Workshop
Data doesn’t produce value on its own; it requires an entire ecosystem around it. The value is created with a business use case. Data needs to be extracted, harmonized, linked to other data, and molded by data science, etc. There are different roles, like data engineer, data scientist, and business leader, involved. In this session, we discover how to build organizational data ecosystems.
Target Group: Business, IT, data
Level: Beginner to intermediat
Hosted by Reaktor
The agentic software factory: from spec to ship – Workshop
Experience the shift from manual AI assistance to a fully realized agentic software factory. We’ll dive into how agent swarms function as an autonomous production line, coordinating complex tasks across the entire development lifecycle. Join us for a technical look at swarm orchestration and a candid discussion on the practicalities of moving to an agentic workflow.
Target Group: IT / software development
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Hosted by Vincit
Processes: From data and AI to business impact – Roundtable
Why do AI capabilities often fail to deliver expected value? The key challenge is not technology, but how data and AI are embedded into business processes and decision-making. In this roundtable, we will build a shared understanding of what enables value creation, what slows progress, and where the key bottlenecks are at a strategic level.
Target Group: Business and technology leaders, data & AI development owners
Level: Relevant for leaders at all levels of experience
Hosted by Vuono Group
The AI Operating Model — Designing Your Organisation for Production AI – Roundtable
Many organisations struggle to generate meaningful returns from AI at scale. The difference is not the technology — it is the operating model. This session explores how leading organisations structure AI ownership, governance, and operations across business and IT.
Target Group: CIOs, CDOs, VPs of Engineering, and Heads of AI and Digital
Level: Beginner
Hosted by Siili Solutions
Bonus: AI1000 Frontrunners: Turn your AI idea into a quickly testable solution through vibe coding
This focus group is designed for companies that have completed the AI1000 training and want to advance and concretize their AI use cases. Participants will develop their ideas through vibe coding—rapidly building solutions and testing them in practice. The outcome is a tangible prototype and a clear foundation for further development.
Exclusively for representatives of companies that have completed the AI 1000 training
Hosted by Gofore
The event is intended exclusively for AI Finland member companies. The number of participants is limited, and spots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Participant quotas per organization are determined by membership type and are specified in more detail on the registration form.