Speakers

Joni Kettunen

CEO, Firstbeat technologien Ltd.

Joni Kettunen is a co-founder and CEO of Firstbeat. He has been guiding Firstbeat towards new frontiers in linking physiological measurement with new products and services that reveal hidden truths about our lifestyle and health. The technology has been applied in different areas including worldwide elite sports, corporate wellness programs and advanced heart rate monitors. The key is to process the physiological information into understandable messages. Mr. Kettunen has received a Ph.D. on behavioral physiology at the University of Helsinki.

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Ville Levaniemi

Co Founder and Sales & Marketing Director
HappyOrNot

HappyOrNot challenges traditional, infrequently held Employee and Customer Satisfaction survey methods and other service quality monitoring methods with Easiness, Large Sampling from all Hours of Operation and continuous flow of valuable up-to-date information of the satisfaction and well-being of the most important interest groups of any company or society. Levaniemi has 7 years experience in international marketing and sales of software services and products. Previously Levaniemi was responsible for THQ Wireless´s marketing activities and handset manufacturer relations in EMEA and APAC regions and a steering group member and Sales and Marketing Director in Finnish game company Universomo.

HappyOrNot

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Kimmo Pentikäinen

Director, Environmental Information, Elisa Ltd.

Kimmo Pentikäinen is in charge of environmental affairs and cleantech business development in Elisa corporation, a leading Nordic communications services provider and a publicly listed Eurotop-500 company.

Kimmo's business experience includes a variety of different fields, besides green technology, business communication solutions, telecommunications, public safety communication, field force management, agile SaaS software development, mobile software development, marketing and advertising.

Kimmo is a past startup entrepreneur with years of experience from business to business solutions including government customers from Europe and Southwest Asia. His experience covers organizing industry alliances with several companies e.g. EADS, Nokia and Logica.

Kimmo has a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Helsinki (Finland). Kimmo also holds a college diploma in video and visual communications from Lahti Design Institute (Finland). He has been a visiting associate at the UC Berkley (USA), studied philosophy, semiotic studies and information processing at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) and cultural history at the University of Turku (Finland).

Kimmo resides in Helsinki, Finland with his wife and two children.

While Kimmo likes to actively debate on sustainability also on his spare time, he still finds time to practice the sport of fencing and takes part in sport organizational work. Among other positions he is president of the Finnish Fencing Federation, member of the Finnish Olympic Commission's council and member of the International Fencing Federation's promotion commission.

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Riikka Saarimaa

Project Manager, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku

Ms Saarimaa has several years of experience in futures research and foresight processes. She has been working in Finland Futures Research Centre since 2001 and has participated in number of research and development projects focusing in environmental scanning, future visions, scenario processing and trends. One of the projects is “Ubitrends 2020” which concentrated to track down trends and weak signals of ubiquitous technology and society; future of the ubiquitous technology.

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Albrecht Schmidt

Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen

Albrecht Schmidt is a professor for Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Previously he was head of department at the Fraunhofer institute for intelligent information and analysis systems. From 2003 to 2006 he headed the embedded interaction research group at the University of Munich. Albrecht studied in Ulm, Karlsruhe and Lancaster, where he completed his PhD on the topic “ubiquitous computing – computing in context”. His primary research interest is in human computer interaction beyond the desktop, including user interfaces for mobile devices, cars, and embedded systems. The focus of his work is on engineering novel user interfaces, inventing interaction techniques and designing interactive applications in the context of mobile and ubiquitous computing. Albrecht enjoys creating new interaction techniques and interfaces technologies. In the last 10 years Albrecht published well over 100 refereed archival publications. Albrecht is Column Editor at the IEEE Computer for invisible computing. He was a member of the steering committees of the international conferences Pervasive Computing and Ubicomp. He has chaired several program committees of the internationally leading conferences in his field and has a long-standing service on the program committees of Ubicomp, Pervasive, and SIGCHI. Albrecht is the co-founder of the conference series on Tangible and embedded interaction (ACM TEI) and of the conference Automotive User Interface conference (auto-ui.org).

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Toni Sormunen

COO, There Corporation Ltd.

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Dr. Henry Tirri

Senior Vice President and Head of Nokia Research Center, Nokia

Dr. Henry Tirri is Senior Vice President and Head of Nokia Research Center (NRC). Nokia Research Center drives breakthroughs that reach far into the future, enabling new business opportunities for Nokia. As Head of Nokia Research Center, Henry is responsible for labs worldwide that pursue disruptive innovation. NRC works closely with all Nokia operating units and promotes open innovation, working on research projects in collaboration with leading universities and research institutes around the world. Henry joined Nokia in 2004 as a Research Fellow in the Software and Applications Laboratory. Henry holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki, Finland. In addition to his Nokia role, he is also an Adjunct
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki and an Adjunct Professor of Computational Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology. He has extensive experience in running research activities in the fields of intelligent systems and networking and his personal research interests span
artificial intelligence, information theory, search technologies and wireless sensor networks.

Before joining Nokia, Henry was a Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Graduate School and the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Helsinki, leading a large, world-class research group in probabilistic modeling. Previous positions include working as a Research Scientist at Microelectronics
and ComputerTechnology Corporation (MCC), MTS at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Visiting Scientist at NASA AMES where he contributed to the Mars Rover technology for the 2003 mission.

In the academic world, Henry has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He was also Vice President of Scientific Operations and Co-Founder of Ekahau. He is the author and co-author of more than 175 academic papers in various fields of computer science, social sciences and statistics and holds five patents.

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Hideyuki Tokuda

Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Keio University

Hideyuki Tokuda is Dean of the Graduate School of Media and Governance and a Professor of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan.

His research interests include ubiquitous computing systems, smart spaces, sensor networks, distributed real-time operating systems and embedded systems. He has created many distributed real-time operating systems and software tools such as Real-Time Mach, the ARTS Kernel, Shoshin, Scheduler 1-2-3, and ARM (Advanced Real-Time Monitor). He also created many UbiComp platforms such as Smart Space Lab., Smart Furniture, uPhoto, uTexture and uPlatea. Because of his research and educational contributions, he was awarded the Motorola Foundation Award, the IBM Faculty Award, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Award and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication Award in Japan.

He is a corresponding member of Science Council of Japan, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Fellow and a member of the IEEE, ACM, IPSJ, IEICE. He was a general chair of UbiComp2005 in Tokyo and a co-general chair of Pervasive2009 in Nara.

Pervasive computing and communication is the key technology for achieving economic growth, sustainable development, safe and secure community towards a ubiquitous network society. Although the technology alone cannot solve the emerging problems, it is important to deploy services everywhere and reach real people. We have been creating smart spaces where every object is connected to networks seamlessly and supports our everyday life. In smart spaces, we can test new context-aware ubiquitous services for easy deployment.

In this talk, we will discuss the issues and challenges in creating smart spaces everywhere. We first review the ubiquitous network projects in Japan. Then, we discuss applications and architecture for creating various types of smart spaces. Several applications such as DIY smart object services, uCare services, follow-me services, real-time ranking service for consumers, and an environmental monitoring service for a city park are described. We then address the challenges in creating smart spaces and conclude with the importance of creating social and technological innovation together for future society.

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