Official Afterparty

Welcome to the Official Helsinki Data Week 2025 Afterparty!

After a long week of data & AI events and activities, what better way to spend Halloween night than sipping cocktails (or mocktails) and snacking on snacks at Bar Mate!

This is a low-key, chill afterparty - we want to wind down in good company and toast this year's successful event.

Bar Mate is one of the best cocktail bars in town, specializing in highball cocktails. If you're not familiar with them, you'll find out soon enough!

Attendance is free, and light snacks will be provided. The bar will serve your refreshment needs, but you'll need to buy drinks for yourself!

Join us after The Snowflake Experience (that ends at 17:00), starting at 17:30!

Do note: space is limited! And it’s first-come, first-served. But you can let us know that you’re coming on Meetup.com.

Helsinki Data Week: The Snowflake Experience

This is a full-day event for both business and technical experts, where we’ll explore how organizations are transforming their businesses with open data foundations and AI with experts like Luke Roquet, founder of Datavolo.

You’ll hear directly from Finnish industry leaders at companies like Kesko and Marimekko on how they’re driving value from their data, and deep dive into a fireside chat with SOK on the role of data for decision-makers. 

Whether you’re a business leader looking for real-world case studies or a practitioner seeking a technical deep dive, this day is packed with valuable insights. You can get hands-on with the latest innovations in our Bonus Track or explore topics from our own experts on Snowflake Openflow, Snowflake Intelligence, and Agentic Development.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with your peers and accelerate your data strategy.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Free for participants! Registration is now closed!

Agenda

10:00 Welcome & Registration

10:30 Keynote: Open Data Foundations Powering AI Transformation Luke Roquet, VP, Industry Strategy & Solution Sales, Co-Founder and COO of Datavolo

11:00 Snowflake Keynote: Angela Carpenter, Senior Solution Engineer, Snowflake

11:30 Q&A Session with Keynote Speakers

11:45 Lunch

12:45 Data for Business Track

• Towards Better Data Every day – Thomas Kirk, Head of Data & AI Solutions, Kesko: The journey to increase data value through technological and organizational change

  • Leveraging Snowflake’s capabilities

  • Formalising a Data Platform

  • Embedding ownership of data and its development

• Accelerate. Scale. Succeed: ADE’s Path to AI-ready data – Matti Karell, CEO, Agile Data Engine

12.45 Data for Practitioners Track

• Amplify your Data Integration for the AI Era: An Introduction to Snowflake Openflow – Alexander Frank & Angela Carpenter, Snowflake

13:45 Coffee

14:00 Data for Business Track

• Fireside Chat: The Role of Data & AI for Decision Makers – Luke Roquet, Snowflake & Annika Nordbo, Head of eCommerce Data & Analytics, SOK

• Fireside Chat: Markus Päivinen, Snowflake & Antti Voutilainen, Head of Data & Analytics, Marimekko

14:00 Data for Practitioners Track

• Hot From the Oven: Snowflake Intelligence Demo – Rami Huuskonen, Snowflake

• Beyond AI Code Generation: Agentic Development Workflows in Data Engineering – Mikko Sulonen, Recordly

15:00 Wrapping up the day

15:20 Mingle, drinks & bites

15:20 Bonus track! Mingle & Code Hands-on-Lab

17:00 Event Ends

AWS PARTNERS PRESENT - putting the data at the core

This year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) partners will join the Helsinki Data Week buzz to meet every data enthusiast and discuss how data is changing everything. From how we think to how we work, to how our businesses are run.

Join us for a day of killer keynotes, presentations, and networking with peers and industry leaders who are shaking up the data and AI game. We’ve carefully curated an exceptional lineup of presenters who are prepared to equip you with new strategies, insights, and expertise to take your business to the next level.

Free for participants! Registration is now closed!

Agenda

08:30
Morning coffee and registration

09:00
AWS opening words

09:15
Collibra
Reviving Metadata Management - UPM’s Journey with Collibra
Speakers: Sakari Himanen, Senior Security Manager, UPM &
Lasse Rantalainen, Lead Information Architect, UPM

Join UPM in this keynote as we reflect on a six-year metadata management journey—starting strong, facing adoption challenges, and now entering a new chapter with a revitalized Collibra platform. We’ll share practical lessons learned, what worked (and what didn’t), and how we’re aligning metadata with business value to support data governance and self-service at scale.

Who Should Attend:

This session is ideal for data leaders, governance professionals, data stewards, platform owners, and anyone involved in metadata management, data catalogs, or enterprise data strategy. Whether you're just starting or rebooting your own metadata journey, you’ll gain valuable insights from UPM’s real-world experience.

10:30
Snowplow
Building High Quality, AI-Ready Behavioral Data on AWS
Speaker: James Borlase, Product Manager, Snowplow

Organizations are racing to implement AI with AWS services, but most discover their behavioral data isn't ready for machine learning. As AI evolves from predictive models to autonomous agents, infrastructure requirements change dramatically. Join Snowplow Product Manager James Borlase for a technical exploration of building customer data infrastructure on AWS designed for both traditional ML and cutting-edge agentic applications.

We'll walk through the event tracking design, from type-safe event collection and real-time validation. You'll see how organizations are collecting billions of events, maintaining quality at scale, and transforming behavioral data into ML-ready features. We'll also show how Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI-assisted tracking design that maintains schema governance while accelerating implementation timelines.

You'll leave with practical patterns for streaming with Kinesis, validating events in real-time, and architecting systems where governance enables (rather than hinders) AI innovation with AWS services.

Key Takeaways:

• Architecture patterns supporting both ML training and agentic applications

• Type-safe event design that prevents schema drift at scale

• Live demo: Event tracking design with Snowplow MCP 

• How MCP accelerates tracking design with governance built in

11:30
Lunch

12:30
IBM & Arrow
Beyond Pilots - Creating the Data Supply Chains that Power the AI Future
Speakers: Giuseppe Mura, EMEA Data Integration Lead, IBM & Thibault de Baecker, EMEA VP of Sales, IBM

The future of enterprise AI will be defined not by experiments, but by the ability to scale trusted intelligence across the organisation. IBM is helping clients reimagine how data and AI work together, transforming raw information into governed, production-ready pipelines that fuel innovation at speed.

In this session, we’ll explore how organisations can break free from stalled pilots by focusing on the use cases that matter, the data that powers them, and the industrialised supply chains that keep AI models relevant, accurate, and ethical.

13:30
Eficode
Rewriting software development (SDLC) with Generative AI
Speaker: Marko Klemetti, CTO, Eficode

Modern software development lifecycle isn't just about tooling — it's about turning data into actionable insights for development teams. This talk explores how to build a culture where developers, data engineers, and AI systems collaborate to accelerate value delivery. Marko will share lessons from companies that moved from monolithic delivery models to AI-augmented, decentralized DevOps practices on the cloud. He'll cover technical patterns for building a future-proof data foundation, along with leadership strategies for embedding AI into development culture.

Key Focus:

Cultural and technical transformation, AI-driven decision-making in SDLC, AWS data strategy.

14:30
Coffee

15:00
Qlik
Revolutionising Iceberg Integration - The value of Open Lakehouse architectures
Speaker: Yoni Eini, Co-Founder, Upsolver & Principal Architect, Qlik

16:15
Taking a breather for fresh air and light exercise

16:30
Networking and refreshments
@ Roasberg, Sivukonttori, Mikonkatu 13
(basically next door to where we’ve been the whole day)

21:00
End of the Event

ADE Summit 2025 - success at scale

This isn't another conference about "the future of data." This is about what's working right now for companies scaling their data operations successfully.

Expect sharp perspectives. Real stories. Unfiltered insights. This year’s speaker lineup includes data leaders from major organizations in telecom, finance, and retail. They will be sharing how they’ve scaled their data efforts for long-term impact.

Keynote speaker - Veronika Durgin

With over 20 years spanning the entire data landscape, Veronika Durgin has seen it all—from database trenches to C-suite boardrooms. She has built and scaled data teams across various industries, mastering every layer of the data stack and understanding how it all connects to drive real business value.

Veronika’s superpower? Seeing the big picture. While others get lost in technical details or chase AI shiny objects, she understands how data quality, governance, engineering, and AI enablement work together as a unified ecosystem. Her approach is refreshingly practical: strong foundations aren’t glamorous, but they’re what separate lasting success from expensive failures. A passionate advocate for “data as a team sport,” Veronika breaks down silos between technical teams and business stakeholders. She’s dedicated to building cultures where innovation thrives—grounded in reality, not hype.

Why attend

• Get inspired by real-world cases from scaling journeys in demanding environments

• Hear directly from data teams working at the intersection of business and tech

• Connect with professionals from some of the most ambitious data organizations

• Learn what’s next from ADE — and how platform thinking can unlock smarter scale

• Get insights from key technology partners enabling these transformations

AGENDA

14:30 – Doors Open: Refreshments & Snacks available

15:00 – Part 1

• Welcome to Summit

  • Speaker: Juha Teljo (Agile Data Engine)

• ADE Keynote

  • Speakers: Matti Karell (Agile Data Engine), Harri Kallio (Agile Data Engine)

• Keynote – Omenapiirakka Doesn’t Bake Itself. Why Scaling Requires Strong Foundations and Constant Care

  • Speaker: Veronika Durgin (Saks Global)

  • More data, more dashboards, more AI, but where's the value? This keynote explores why efficiency without strategy accelerates decay, and why so many scaling efforts rot from the inside out. Veronika Durgin shares what separates teams that transform data into lasting impact from those drowning in unused inventory. Success demands strong roots, smart recipes, and the courage to keep things fresh.

• Databricks – Reinventing Manufacturing - Driving Growth, Productivity, and Resilience with Data & AI

  • Speaker: Florian Gorzitzke (Databricks)

  • Manufacturing leaders are investing heavily in data and AI — but too often, the results don’t match the promise. This session explores common patterns and pitfalls seen across the industry, and how successful companies are closing the gap between data ambition and real business outcomes. Learn how transformation enablers — not just technology — make the difference between stalled pilots and scalable AI success.

• Customer Success Story – Kesko – Data and insights at retail scale

  • Speaker: Tuuli Bollmann (Kesko)

  • The retail industry has undergone a massive data‑driven transformation. Personalized offers are now the norm, and stores and vendors need near‑real‑time insights to keep up with ever‑growing market expectations. A vast, data‑optimized supply chain is essential to deliver both efficiency and great customer experiences.

    But how do you move billions of rows of transactions across systems and merge them with other data to make this possible?

    In this session, Kesko pulls back the curtain on the platform behind one of Finland’s largest retailers — and how they’ve learned to scale success behind the scenes.

• Break

Part 2

• Snowflake – Bridging technology and business strategy to help companies gain crucial insights from their data

  • Speaker: Sam Bäcknäs, Head of Acquisition Solutions Engineering

  • Enterprise data platforms are great at telling you what happened — but often struggle to help you act on it. In this session, Sam Bäcknäs, Head of Acquisition Solutions Engineering at Snowflake, shares how leading companies are aligning technology with business strategy to close that gap. With over 20 years of experience in data warehousing and BI, Sam unpacks what it really takes to build systems that move from insight to outcome — and deliver decision-ready data when it matters most.

• Customer Success Story – DNA – Business and data - scaling success together

  • Speakers: Juuso Karikoski (DNA), Arto Osala (DNA)

  • Thousands of tables. Tens of thousands of loads every month. Dozens of developers. Multiple business domains. Sound familiar?

    At DNA, the challenge hasn’t just been managing scale — it’s been maintaining the connection between data engineers and the business, so every solution actually delivers value.

    In this talk, DNA shares how their data platform has evolved to handle massive scale without losing the plot. Expect insights on architecture, team collaboration, and how to keep things sane when complexity kicks in.

• Scaling Success Together

  • Speaker: Juha Teljo (Agile Data Engine)

18:00 Dinner & Refreshments

20:00 After-party sponsored by Databricks @ Bar Simon (Simonkatu 9)

Free for participants! Registration is now closed!

Helsinki Data Week Nortal Partner Event

Join us during Helsinki Data Week for an afternoon of real-world insights into data and AI. Hear how leading organizations like St1 and Stora Enso are building scalable, AI-ready ecosystems and unleashing the value of data through edge computing.

Seats are limited - secure yours today!

Free for participants! Registration is now closed!

Agenda

12:00 Event starts

12:05-12:15 Opening remarks

12:15-12:45 Keynote: Fueling transformation: St1’s journey to a scalable, AI-Ready data ecosystem

Speakers: Johannes Heikkinen, Head of Architecture, Data and Technology, St1 & Ergin Tuganay, Head of Data & AI, Nortal Finland

Join St1 and Nortal as we share how a long-term partnership evolved into a data-driven transformation. From shaping architecture vision to building a modern data and analytics platform (DAAP), this session explores how domain-driven design, real-time capabilities, and AI-readiness are enabling smarter decisions across the organization.

You’ll hear real use cases, lessons learned, and a future vision powered by GenAI and citizen development

12:45-13:15 Unleashing the value of data & AI using edge computing at Stora Enso

Speakers: Mikko Suominen, Solution Owner, Operations Digitalization, Stora Enso & Mikko Leinonen, Lead Architect, Packaging Materials, Stora Enso

Over the past decade, the development of cloud-based data platforms has gained popularity among enterprises, including Stora Enso. However, to fully harness the value of data and enable the utilization of AI in manufacturing, it is crucial to bring these capabilities closer to the daily operations.

In this session, we will provide an overview of our approach for extending the data platform and other cloud-native capabilities to the infrastructure of our mills.

13:15-14:00 Coffee, sweets, and networking

14:00 Doors closing

Driving Business Value with Data Products and Generative AI

You are warmly welcome to join our event on October 29, held as part of Helsinki Data Week. In this session, we’ll dive into two timely and business-transforming themes: data products and the use of generative AI in information management.

Expect practical examples, actionable insights, and fresh perspectives on how to make the most of data in your organization.

Enrich Your Business with Data Products

Data products are not just about technology — they are a way to create real business value. When data is harnessed to serve both internal and external customers, it leads to greater efficiency, deeper customer understanding, and timely decision-making.

This talk will cover:
• What is a data product and why does it matter?
• How data products transform operations
• Practical examples and steps for managing data products
• Key considerations when getting started

Using Generative AI to Support Information Management

In this talk, we will demonstrate how generative AI can enhance information management while ensuring data security and operational effectiveness.

You will learn about:
• Use cases for AI in information management
• Technological and operational solutions
• Approaches to handling sensitive internal data securely

You can attend the event live or online (Teams).

Free for participants! Register here!

HELSINKI DATA WEEK OPENING EVENT [LIVE]

Helsinki Data Week starts here, with this opening event.

Speakers (and schedule)

Main Partners

• Snowflake

• Agile Data Engine

Partners

• Nortal

• Sparta Consulting

Price/ticket

• Three different prices depending on when you buy

  • Early bird (from May to Aug 5) - 50 €

  • Regular (from Aug 6 to Sep 30) - 75 €

  • Last chance! (from Oct 1 to Oct 27, 12 pm (EET)) - 100 €

• Note! The price of admission includes lunch

• Note! Limited capacity. When the event is sold out, it’s sold out

• Get your tickets below!

PS. You can attend all the other events during the week for free!

Agenda

08:45-09:30
Doors

09:30-09:45
Stage 1
Opening remarks

09:45-10:30
Stage 1
Keynote
John K. Thompson: GenAI – Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond

GenAI has been with us for nearly 3 years. The technology is not showing signs of slowing down; in fact, the entire area is accelerating. Innovations are being developed and delivered at impressive speeds. Enterprises and developers alike are trying to make decisions on how to develop tools, technologies, applications, and solutions.

Data professionals are seeking to understand how to leverage these tools to convert data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom. In these past 3 years, we have gone from using approximately 1% of the world’s data to at least 100%. That change alone has been mind-bending. 

GenAI and AI in general hold great promise to deliver value and insights, leveraging more than 100% of the world’s existing data. In this session, we will discuss the short yet dynamic world of GenAI and project forward what we can expect to see in the next 3 to 5 years, as well as in the next 10 to 30 years.

10:45-11:30
Stage 1
Hannes Mühleisen: DuckLake - The SQL-Powered Lakehouse Format

Managing changes to tables in data lakes has been very challenging in the past. The formats and systems involved did not exactly cooperate, and as a result, sketchy workarounds were all too common. This is ostensibly solved by the advent of Lakehouse formats that attempt to sanitize changes by specifying formats, processes, and conventions to enable changes to tables.

However, common Lakehouse formats like Iceberg only appear majestic until one starts looking under the surface. There lurks a huge amount of complexity and some questionable engineering decisions. And even after all that, the hard problems like transactional consistency are delegated to an opaque catalog server, e.g., Polaris or Unity Catalog, that in turn delegates this to a bog-standard SQL database like Postgres.

DuckLake re-imagines the Lakehouse design by putting an SQL database in charge of managing metadata. This allows a very elegant design that still scales arbitrarily and greatly reduces complexity, with the actual table data still being on object stores in open format. For the first time, DuckLake allows a “multi-player” experience with DuckDB, where computation can happen anywhere and in parallel, but with centralized transactional safety.

Stage 2
Tiankai Feng: Humanizing Data Strategy

People are emotional, irrational, and unpredictable – and yet they are the most important aspect of any data strategy. Tiankai introduces his framework of the 5 Cs – competence, collaboration, communication, creativity, and conscience – with actionable examples to help you put the human being really at the center of your data efforts, and to turn your team members and employees into active advocates for your data strategy.

11:30-12:45
Lunch

12:45-13:30
Stage 1
Joe Reis: The Great Data Engineering Reset - From Pipelines to Agents

For years, data engineering was a story of predictable pipelines: move data from point A to point B. But AI just hit the reset button on our entire field. Now, we're all staring into the void, wondering what's next. While the fundamentals haven't changed, data remains challenging in the traditional areas of data governance, data management, and data modeling, which still present challenges. Everything else is up for grabs.

This talk will cut through the noise and explore the future of data engineering in an AI-driven world. We'll examine how team structures will evolve, why agentic workflows and real-time systems are becoming non-negotiable, and how our focus must shift from building dashboards and analytics to architecting for automated action. The reset button has been pushed. It's time for us to invent the future of our industry.

Stage 2
Maija Hovila: Crossing the AI Chasm

According to some sources, 95% of generative AI pilots fail, and companies are stuck at the start line, unable to reap benefits from their data and AI investments. It doesn't have to be this way. Come and hear insights on how to cross the AI chasm and ensure your data is working for you.

13:45-14:30
Stage 1
Katariina Kari: From Silos to Shared Practice - Making Data Everyone’s Business

In many organisations, data is treated as a secondary by-product of applications rather than the foundation of the business itself. This application-centric mindset creates silos, duplications, and fragile data ecosystems that fail to serve long-term strategic needs.

In this talk, I will share how organisations can shift towards data-centricity, where data development is a shared practice spanning management, product, and engineering. I’ll show what it looks like when the conceptual model of the business is also machine-readable—and why this matters for aligning data engineering with the organisation’s core concepts.

Drawing on experiences from Zalando, IKEA, and, most recently, building a data-centric organisation at the Finnish strategy start-up In Parallel, I will demonstrate how making data models explicit and machine-readable transforms both daily operations and long-term value creation.

Participants will leave with a clear understanding of what data-centricity looks like in practice and concrete ideas for how to take ownership of the central concepts in their business, ensuring that data is managed not just as a technical asset, but as a shared organisational responsibility.

Stage 2
Vin Vashishta: The Hallucination Game - Preventing AI Hype From Taking Over Your Business

With AI, what sounds like hype is real, and what sounds real is hype. With all that fog, how can businesses monetize AI? How do we get CEOs to stop chasing the latest shiny object before their businesses follow the hype off a cliff?

This talk covers the most common misconceptions about AI, and most will surprise you. Here are the three most controversial slides…

Hype: Hallucinations are bad. Reality: Hallucinations are why LLMs have any value.

Hype: No one’s getting any ROI out of their AI investments. Reality: AI is the fastest technology cycle to start delivering returns that we have ever seen.

Hype: AI can replace people. Reality: AI makes people more important than ever.

Come learn what’s real and what’s vapor from someone who’s building agentic platforms and monetizing AI for Global 2K clients outside of tech’s echo chamber.

14:30-15:00
Coffee

15:00-15:45
Stage 1
Panel
Veronica Durgin, Katariina Kari, Maija Hovila, Säde Haveri, and Eevamaija Virtanen (moderator): AI Trust Issues

AI is becoming part of everyday products and decisions, but reliability remains a challenge. From data quality to design choices, numerous factors influence whether people can rely on these systems.

This panel brings together experts in strategy, infrastructure, semantics, design, and analytics to explore what trust in AI really takes and how to build it.

15:45-16:00
Stage 1
Closing remarks

16:00-17:00
Mingling

(17:00-19:00
@ Kaisla, Vilhonkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Unofficial low-key afterparty)

Data After Hours

Keep the party going at the iconic Data After Hours during Helsinki Data Week. Join the Databricks team for an evening of networking, learning, and refreshments, enjoying the Helsinki Skyline from the Sky Room at Clarion Helsinki.

Hear from Neon founder Heikki Linnakangas and Databricks experts on the new database offering Lakebase — a first-of-its-kind, fully-managed Postgres database built for AI.

Who should attend?

Data analysts, data scientists, architects, developers, AI specialists, and business leaders – anyone looking to get more from their data with Databricks.

Register now – seats are limited! We hope to see you there!

Free for participants! Register here!

HDW x Solita Meetup

Join the next Helsinki Data Week Low-Key Data Meetup - hosted by Solita's brand-new Helsinki office! Mingle with data buddies and get into hands-on GenAI action!

• A live, facilitated session where GenAI collaborates with individuals from diverse backgrounds to address a real-world business challenge.

• Open discussion: What could these tools mean for your work with data, decision-making, and innovation?

• Wrap it up with pizza, drinks, and conversations at Solita's brand-new Helsinki office!

Free to attend! Limited seats! Remember to register on Solita's website to ensure yours!

HDW X ADE Meetup

Join the first Helsinki Data Week Low-Key Data Meetup of the autumn - hosted by Agile Data Engine (ADE)!

Meet old and new friends and geek out with the HDW2025 main partner, ADE, at their office in Postitalo!

Program:

• 16:30 Doors open with food, drinks & networking

• 17:00 Program kicks off!

• Opening remarks by Helsinki Data Week & ADE

• Part 1: What "AI-ready data" means for Data warehouse data modeling

• Part 2: Using DORA metrics in data warehousing, ADE Insights demo

• 18:00 Networking & open discussions continue

• 19:00 Lights out!

Free to attend! Register at Meetup.com!

Join us for another LOW-KEY meetup of data people at Kaisla!

The first meetup of 2025 in March was a great success with many new and old faces. Let's have at least this one more meetup in Helsinki before the summer break!

A couple of words about Helsinki Data Week in the beginning. After that, it’s again just hanging out with like-minded folks and your beverage of choice!

Free for participants!

Sign up for the meetup on Meetup.com!

Join us for A LOW-KEY meetup of data people at Kaisla!

We enjoyed the meetups last year and thought it would be about time to have the first (of hopefully many) in March.

A couple of words about Helsinki Data Week in the beginning. After that, it’s again just hanging out with like-minded folks and your beverage of choice!

Free for participants!

Sign up for the meetup on Meetup.com!

Join us for an in-person meetup with Helsinki Data Week & Amazon Web Services (AWS)!

Agenda:
• HDW2024 Highlights: A recap of this year’s best moments and a sneak peek into HDW2025!
• Speaker: Veli-Matti "Vellu" Ojala, AWS
• Networking & Mingling: Open discussions and networking until 4 PM

Where: Mikonkatu 7, Helsinki
When: 11.12.2024 13-16:00

See you there!

Helsinki Data Week Closing Party

After a week full of exciting data events, it’s time to let loose!

What a great chance for tradin’ war stories from the past week!

Also, what better way to end the week if not by singing some karaoke!

The event’s free (as all the others are), but we’d love it if you would let us know you’re coming by clicking the attend button on this LinkedIn event!

Schedule:

5pm to 8pm Free Mingling
8pm to 11pm Karaoke
11pm to 4am This Private Party Is Over, but the Bar Is Open Until 4am

Northstar Builder Education Programme

In these workshops, you’ll learn how to build on Snowflake by actually building on Snowflake. Join other developers, data engineers, data scientists, and data architects as you roll up your sleeves and explore the possibilities of Snowflake. Each in-person workshop is instructor-led, but you’ll also learn from your peers and get help from our product experts.

No prior Snowflake knowledge required! Complete the hands-on lab for a chance to earn a badge.

During Northstar Builder Workshops you will:

• Get hands-on: Learn to build data apps, pipelines, and machine learning workflows using Snowflake as your data platform. Complete the lab for a chance to earn a badge!

• Ask the experts: Connect with Snowflake dev experts and get your questions answered.

• Network: Meet other Snowflake builders from your local area

Agenda:

9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:30 Introduction to Snowflake for Builders: Data Engineering
10:00 Break
10:15 Hands-on Lab: Intro to Data Engineering with Snowpark Python
Learners understand how Snowflake can be used to build modern, end-to-end data engineering pipelines.They will also be able to build an end-to-end data engineering pipeline using Snowflake.
12:00 End

Free for participants! Register here!

Helsinki Data Week at RELEX

As part of Helsinki Data Week, join us for an exclusive event hosted by RELEX Solutions. Nordic data and AI professionals will hear first-hand about our innovative work in data and AI.

RELEX Solutions, a leader in supply chain and retail planning, utilizes data and AI to offer comprehensive visibility and optimization across the entire value chain. Our solutions empower retailers, wholesalers, and consumer goods manufacturers to align demand, merchandising, supply chain, and operations planning, enhancing both resilience and efficiency. 

Agenda: 

• 17:00 | Coffee and snacks

• 17:30 | RELEX Data & AI – Presentations and open dialogue

• Introduction to RELEX Solutions

• Data Mesh & Data Products at RELEX

• RELEX Gen AI story (featuring Rebot – Relex AI assistant)

• 20:00 | Event ends

Free for participants! Register here!

WhereScape Exclusive In-Person Session

Join Us at Helsinki Data Week for an Exclusive In-Person Session

WhereScape is pleased to host a complimentary afternoon event at the prestigious Klaus K Hotel in Helsinki together with WiseDigi. Taking place on Thursday, October 31, 2024, this session will bring together data professionals and industry experts to discuss the latest innovations in data management and automation.

Attendees will have the opportunity to explore real-world case studies, gain insights from interactive discussions, and connect with peers—all in a relaxed and engaging environment.

Free for participants! Register below!

Sparta Consulting Partner Event

In the event, Sparta will cover the regulatory requirements that have been imposed on companies and those that will be in the future.

Presentations will explore how data management helps companies effectively meet regulatory compliance.

Additionally, Sparta will demonstrate how data management practices not only facilitates regulatory compliance but also supports business growth and development by providing better insights for decision-making.

Agenda:

9.00 - 9.10: Opening words and setting the tone - Tero Ollila, Sparta Consulting CEO

9.15 - 9.45: Data Governance as Regulation Compliance Enabler – Harri Leinonen, Sparta Consulting, Lead Consultant

9.45 - 10.00: Discussion on the first topic

10.00 - 10.15: Refill the coffee mug

10.15 - 10.45: Best Data Management Practices To Meet Regulatory Compliance - Janne Maijanen, Sparta Consulting, Chief Development & Technology Officer

10.45 - 11.00: Discussion and wrap-up

11.00 - 11.30: Free mingling

This event is free to attend, but space is limited. Register now to reserve your spot!

ADE Summit 2024 - Powering Resilience

This year we’ll showcase our dedication to helping you effectively manage data work that drives your organization forward in a dynamic business landscape — as well as helping you to tackle real-world challenges and roadblocks — such as:

• increasing agility

• reducing the cost of ownership

• removing multiple failure points

• empowering data professionals and teams to be more productive

ADE Summit 2024 Program

15.00: Opening remarks - Christoph Papenfuss Area VP, DACH, Agile Data Engine

15.10: Keynote - Dr. Carsten Bange, Founder & CEO, BARC

"Data Culture Eats Data Strategy for Breakfast"

15.55: ADE Customer Panel - Moderated by Christoph Papenfuss

• Juha Kännö — Solution Lead, Data & Analytics @ Gasum

• Niko Alanko — Concept Owner, Data Platforms @ Nokian Tyres

16.35: INTERMISSION

17.00: ADE Keynote - Matti Karell, CEO & Harri Kallio, CPO, Agile Data Engine

"Frictionless Data Work - Unleash the Power of Data"

17.25: Data Trends Panel - Moderated by Christoph Papenfuss

• Jens Siebertz — CEO & Founder @ INFORM DataLab

• Joakim Hilj — Country Lead, Finland & Norway @ Databricks

• Markus Päivinen — Country Manager @ Snowflake Finland

17.50: Closing remarks - Christoph Papenfuss, Area VP DACH, Agile Data Engine

18:00: Afterparty with dinner, drinks, and mingling!

Free for participants! Register here!
Registration for ADE Summit 2024 closes on October 23.

HDW x Aalto EE: Three Perspectives on Winning

Panel on Strategic Business Transformation

In the upcoming panel on business, digitalization, and AI, three prominent leaders will engage in an insightful discussion on improving business with strategic digital and AI-driven innovation. The panel aims to delve into the synergies and conflicts between business leadership and technology strategies, offering executives actionable insights on succeeding in strategic business transformation in evolving markets and societies.

Facilitator:
Marko Turpeinen, Adjunct Professor, Aalto University and Founder & CEO, 1001 Lakes

Panelists:
Vin Vashishta, Founder & AI Advisor, V-Squared
Maija Hovila, Chief Data & AI Strategist, Futurice
Tommi Vilkamo, Director, RELEX Labs

Read more about the panelists on the Speakers page.

The event is free of charge.

Aalto EE is the sponsor of Helsinki Data Week 2024.

Register for the event as soon as possible, on October 28, 2024, at the latest. Seats are limited, and registration closes when the event is full. You will get arrival instructions before the event date.

VaultSpeed Breakfast Hands-on

Register for the breakfast hands-on session

🍳 Get your eggs and ham on, register for our breakfast hands-on, and go from Zero to Data Vault in 2 Hours!

Join us during Helsinki Data Week for a morning hands-on session over breakfast.

Automating data integration and Data Vault modeling is increasingly essential for enterprise companies.

However, most automation tools require upfront template coding to make it work for your specific data and technology stack. This can be very time-consuming.

Fortunately, VaultSpeed provides a no-code approach to integrating and modeling different data from a multitude of sources and technologies, covering 2220 combinations.

In this free hands-on training, we'll guide you through setting up fully functional automation in under 2 hours.

You’ll learn:

• how to set up automation for your specific tech stack by simply setting parameters

• how to harvest metadata from data sources

• how to map the Data Vault model to your unique business model

• how to automate the generation of ETL, DDL, and workflow code

More details coming soon!

Free for participants! Register here!

Morning Fun Run with ADE

Brisk morning run through the center of Helsinki to get your day started - lead by ADE team members for the Helsinki data community.

Meeting point: Eteläesplanadi 8 (ADE offices in the city center!)

Alvin After Work: The next evolution of metadata (HDW2024)

Welcome to Alvin After Work at Helsinki Data Week!

Most companies have an untapped, but hugely valuable resource, lying deep within their data systems: metadata! Fresh from delivering the keynote on Monday, metadata legend Ole Olesen-Bagneux will be joining Alvin CEO Martin Sahlen to explore how metadata can be applied practically within your organization.

In his upcoming book, “Fundamentals of Metadata Management”, Ole introduces the “MetaGrid”. In our conversation, Ole will use this as a theoretical framework to explore a new way of thinking about metadata.

Martin, on the other hand, brings his perspective from the real world, outlining all of the weird and wonderful ways he is seeing metadata being leveraged by companies to automate data workflows. Alvin recently announced the Metadata Warehouse, both a concrete technology but also a philosophy around building a product that feeds on metadata. From the very conceptual, to the very practical, how does the MetaGrid relate to the Metadata Warehouse?

To accompany the discussion, there will be food and (appropriately branded) beer, and plenty of time to mingle with a room full of interesting people at this not to be missed after work event. And in case that wasn’t enough, we’ll be giving away 20 copies of Ole’s first book, “The Enterprise Data Catalog”, 10 to the first people through the door and 10 to the most insightful question askers (have those questions ready!).

Program (TBD):
17.00 - 17.30 Welcome and drinks
17.30 - 18.15 A meta conversation between Martin and Ole
18.15 - 18.30 Grab some refreshments
18.30 - 19.15 Applying metadata in your organization: a practical guide
19.15 - ? Mingling

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Free for participants! Register here!

Zeenea x Actian Partner Event

In today's data-driven world, ensuring your data is both high-quality and easy to access is critical to unlocking its full potential. Join us for a session with experts from Zeenea and Actian, who will show you how the latest data catalog and integration tools can transform how you manage data, boosting agility and quality across the entire data lifecycle.

Amir Hamza, Presales Engineer at Zeenea, will demonstrate how Zeenea’s data catalog and marketplace tools help businesses improve data discovery, governance, and access. He'll also provide a live demo of how Zeenea’s platform can streamline metadata management and reveal hidden value in your data.

Next, Vincent Vinot, Principal Solutions Engineer at Actian, will discuss the importance of data quality, especially when preparing for GenAI. He'll talk about Actian's Data Connect add-on and show you how to set data quality rules, gather metrics, and integrate everything seamlessly into Zeenea’s platform. By visualizing data quality metrics early on, businesses can spot areas for improvement and move from messy to clean data, promoting real data agility.

Don’t miss the chance to ask our experts questions and connect with others as we discuss how to turn data challenges into opportunities.

Agenda:

• 13:00 - 13:20 - Welcome Coffee

• 13:20 - 13:40 - Introduction to Actian & Zeenea


• 13:40 - 14:20 - Unlocking Data Value: The Power of Data Catalogs and Marketplaces by Amir Hamza - Presales Engineer at Zeenea

• 14:20 - 14:40 - Coffee break

• 14:40 - 15:20 - Driving Data Agility: Enhancing Data Quality with Actian and Zeenea - by Vincent Vinot - Principal Solutions Engineer at Actian


• 15:20 - 15:40 - Q&A


• 15:40 - 16:00 - Networking

Free for participants! Register below!

BCS PARTNER EVENT

Learn about the relationship between Data Centres and the Data Sector, to understand how the Mission Critical infrastructure that the Data sector relies upon, is built.

Learn why and how BCS is incorporating a new "Data & Delivery Intelligence" service, to utilise and leverage Data, to optimise the delivery of Data Centres, completing the loop of Data optimising Data Centres, to optimise Data...

Agenda:

09:00 - 09:20 Welcome, Coffee & Breakfast
09:20 - 10:15 Introduction to BCS & Data Centres
10:15 - 10:30 Mid morning Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 The BCS Delivery Intelligence Service
11:30 - 12:00 Q&A
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break & Networking

Free for participants! Register below!

Morning Fun Run with ADE

Brisk morning run through the center of Helsinki to get your day started - lead by ADE team members for the Helsinki data community.

Meeting point: Eteläesplanadi 8 (ADE offices in the city center!)

HELSINKI DATA WEEK OPENING EVENT [LIVE]

Helsinki Data Week: Five days of inspiration and shared learnings with the Nordic data community - free for participants! Live in Helsinki!

And the week starts here, with this opening event.

Speakers: Vin Vashishta, Joe Reis, Ole Olesen-Bagneux, and Pasi Jalonen

Gold Partners: Agile Data Engine, RELEX Solutions
Silver Partners: Alvin AI, BCS., Snowflake, Sparta Consulting, Vaultspeed, WhereScape, Zeenea/Actian, and more!

All the talks will be 45 minutes (max.), so you will have at least 15 minutes between each one to get refreshments, talk, etc.

Agenda:

14-15 Mingling + Opening Words

15-16 Pasi Jalonen, COO & Co-Founder of ADE: Is There a Recipe for Succeeding with Data Platforms?

16-17 Ole Olesen-Bagneux, O'Reilly Author: The Meta Grid is the third wave of data decentralization

17-17:30 Short Break

17:30-18:30 Joe Reis: Mixed Model Arts - The Convergence of Data Modeling Across Apps, Analytics, and AI

18:30-19:30 Vin Vashishta: Endgame Engineering - Using AI To Manage Businesses By Intent & Outcomes

19:30-20 Q & A with All the Speakers

20-21 More Mingling + Goodnight!

Free for participants! Register below!

HDW X Skillio After Work

Expect an evening filled with networking, light snacks and drinks, and most importantly, engaging conversations with fellow data professionals!

The evening begins with a short learning session, Data & Business – The Core of Success:
💡 Why is business understanding crucial for data professionals?
💡 How to recruit data talent with business acumen, and how to develop this skill?

In this session Juha Korpela, a founder of Helsinki Data Week and Stefan Heinrichs, a founder of Skillio, will share their insights and discuss these highly relevant topics for about 20 mins.

Please register via this link.

Looking forward to seeing you at the after work!

JOIN US FOR Another LOW-KEY MEETUP OF DATA PEOPLE!

The launch party was a success and we’ve decided to host more of these low-key data meetups before the official Helsinki Data Week 2024.

If hanging out with like-minded folks and your beverage of choice sounds inviting, please join us!

Free for participants!

Join us for A LOW-KEY meetup of data people at Kaisla!

We are celebrating the official launch announcements of Helsinki Data Week 2024.

A couple of words from the organizers. After that it’s just hanging out with like-minded folks and your beverage of choice!

Free for participants!