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Dr. Ayesha Khanna is a globally renowned expert and advisor on artificial intelligence, smart cities, and innovation. She is Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence solutions firm and incubator, which Forbes magazine featured as one of four leading artificial intelligence companies in Asia and Ayesha as one of South East Asia's groundbreaking female entrepreneurs. Ayesha serves on the Board of Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the Singapore government's agency that develops and regulates its world-class technology sector to drive the country's digital economy and power its Smart Nation vision. Prior to founding ADDO AI, Ayesha was co-founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group established to analyze the social and economic impact of accelerating technologies.

Wayne Soutter is the Business Development Manager for IoT EMEA Public Sector at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Wayne has over 20 years experience in designing, manufacturing and deploying IoT and disruptive technologies in a range of sectors including councils and cities across the globe. At AWS Wayne is focused on helping Public Sector customers get control and ownership of their data to enable the organisation and it’s citizens to make data driven decisions to create new innovative delivery solutions or drive cost out of the business. Wayne’s previous role was with Digital Catapult, a UK government initiative to drive IoT innovation into business across the UK.

Patrick Halford is Vice President of Key Digital Technologies at Spinverse, based in Espoo. He is on the faculty of Singularity University covering mobility and drones, and he is on the board of advisors on a number of Nordic drone companies. He is a mentor at start-up hubs in Turku, Copenhagen, Reykjavik and the Basque Region. He also teaches business model innovation exploiting exponential technologies at Hanken & SSE, Turku School of Economics, and Copenhagen Business School. He is also an advisor for Strategic Accounting Finland, based in Turku.

Urho Konttori is founder and chief product officer at Varjo. He is a product innovator and program manager who has 15 years of experience in designing, engineering and managing large-scale hardware and software projects at Microsoft and Nokia. Varjo is forerunner in the VR and XR space, the first company having built fully immersive human eye resolution XR technology, focused purely for the professional market.

Alexander helps companies leverage AI technologies at FAIA – short for Finland’s AI Accelerator, one of the key initiatives within the national AI strategy - and Silo AI, the largest private AI Lab in the Nordics.

Perttu Pölönen is an inventor, author and composer. He is an inspiring and thought-provoking speaker who fosters optimism for the future and talks e.g. about the challenges and the possibilities regarding information technologies. He has won the EU’s biggest science competition for youth and studied exponential technologies at Singularity University, based at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. MIT Tech Review has honored him among 35 Innovators Under 35 in Europe.

Kirsi Karlamaa is a visionary in transportation and communications. She has been building a safe, smooth and service centric digital society in the administrative sector of the Ministry of Transport and Communications for over twenty years. Karlamaa's areas of expertise cover mobile technologies, space technology and cyber security – all vital when creating new solutions for moving data, goods and people. She has in-depth understanding of smart city solutions and innovation potential of smart transport enabling sustainable future solutions. Since the beginning of 2019, she has worked as Director-General of Traficom. Prior to that she has worked as the Director-General as well as Director of Administration of Radio Frequencies and Director of Security, Director of the Cyber Security Center at the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA).