Industry Panel: AI and Knowledge in Motion
AI and Knowledge in Motion: From Buzzwords to Real-World Value
October 9th, 14:00-15:35 | Paidia Living Lab of Play, Nokia Arena, Tampere | ONLINE
AI is everywhere in today’s conversations – but without the right foundations, it cannot deliver meaningful results. Our panel “AI and Knowledge in Motion: From Buzzwords to Real-World Value” shifts the focus from what AI is to what it can be applied to. With no proper input, there can be no valuable output.
Together with experts from social services, software innovation, healthcare, and knowledge management, we’ll explore how high-quality data and deep understanding drive effective AI applications. From using community data to design better public services, to enabling startups to build software more easily, to advancing cancer treatment and organizational knowledge systems – we’ll look at how data and knowledge form the backbone of impactful AI.
Join us at Academic Mindtrek 2025 Industry Panel to see how, across very different sectors, the path from data to knowledge to AI leads to real-world value!
Our panellists:
Heidi Suutari
Entrepreneur, Arkiste & Vim Digital
Heidi Suutari is founder passionate about turning ideas quickly into reality with AI. She runs a B2B digital marketing consultancy and Arkiste.com, a portfolio platform for architects, and is currently helping people to learn use AI tools to make innovation faster and more accessible.
Sami Ekmark
Founder of Commu
Sami Ekmark is one of the founders of the helping app Commu and is a psychiatric nurse by profession. Commu is Finland’s largest helping app with over 100,000 users and +35 000 good deeds.
Evelina Boytsova
Senior Computer Vision Engineer, Varjo
Evelina Boytsova is a Senior Computer Vision Engineer. She is currently working on an R&D project focused on deep learning-based video super-resolution, with an emphasis on integrating high-performance models into real-time processing pipelines. Evelina has developed AI solutions for LG and Huawei.
Krista Sorri
D.Sc. (tech), is a University Instructor in the field of information and knowledge management at the Tampere University in Finland.
Her research interests are business model creation and development in relation to GenAI, IoT and digital platform ecosystems. She joined academia in 2017 after an extensive career in industrial management.