We are a proud sponsor of the Data Innovation Summit on April 24-25, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden. Come and visit us at our booth D87. We are looking forward to connecting with you!
You can also find us presenting at the Data Science & AI Strategy Stage, participating in a panel discussion and hosting a workshop on AI for business. Please find the details below.
About the event
The Data Innovation Summit is a premier annual event in the Nordics and beyond, uniting minds from various sectors such as Data Science, AI, Big Data, and IoT to foster AI-driven transformation. With 300+ speakers, nine stages, seven workshop rooms, and 200+ TIP sessions, it's the go-to event for professionals and organizations aiming to leverage data and AI for customer experience enhancement, operational efficiency, sustainability, business model innovation, and product/service development.
Thoughtworks' sessions
13:30 CEST
- Jussi Ritola - Head of Data & AI, TWFI | Thoughtworks
- Hazal Sener - Senior Developer Advocate | SqlDBM
- Henrik Norhøj Nielsen - Principal Sales Engineer | Snowflake
14:40 CEST
Barton Friedland - Principal Advisory Consultant and Head of Thoughtworks’ Europe AI Hub
Mikko Rekola - CTO Bolt.Works
We’ll cover the collaborative success story between Bolt.Works and Thoughtworks in deploying AI, focusing on risk mitigation, security, transparency, sustainability, governance, AI readiness, safe productionzation, and the impact of a human-centered approach on the implementation of AI at Bolt.Works.
Key takeaways:
- The Bolt.Works & Thoughtworks collaboration: Delving into the success story of our shared project and share our learnings.
- Effective AI deployment: Addressing key considerations like risk mitigation, security, transparency, sustainability, and governance that ensure safe deployment of AI
- Bolt.Works’ AI readiness: Highlighting how Bolt.Works was able to set up and address AI governance, skill requirements, and a human-centered approach in their deployment of AI.
- Ensuring safe productionization: Underlining the measures Bolt.Works took to ensure a secure and well-designed implementation and key strategies
- Human-centric AI at Bolt.Works: Finally, we will highlight how a human-centric approach has been a game changer at Bolt.Works
10:30 CEST
Barton Friedland - Principal Advisory Consultant and Head of Thoughtworks’ Europe AI Hub
Henri Kasurinen - Senior Machine Learning Consultant
Introduction to our human-centric approach to AI, which enables people to see, think, create and act with extraordinary clarity.
We'll :
Have a group discussion
identify your organization’s top pain points and bottlenecks to shape the future of your work
show you examples of the small steps you can take to get started with AI quickly.
find profitable use cases to address any business problem you might have
get started building your AI strategy
Meet our speakers
Barton Friedland
Principal Advisory Consultant and Head of Thoughtworks’ Europe AI Hub
As a digital pioneer at both Apple and NeXT Computer, Barton has worked with and implemented leading-edge technologies for over 30 years for large-scale global organizations. His primary areas of focus are strategy, decision-making, and execution.
Mikko Rekola
CTO Bolt.Works
Mikko is a strategically thinking CTO with an extensive background in software development and a robust record of employing cutting-edge technologies to drive business growth and efficiency. Leveraging a deep understanding of technical complexities, he focuses on aligning technological processes with business needs above all else. Mikko is a relentless problem solver and thrives on transforming challenges into opportunities for growth and innovation. He is a leader in AI advancements, using data-driven strategies to foster progress and deliver optimal solutions.
Jussi Ritola
Head of Data & AI, Thoughtworks Finland
Jussi Ritola is a data professional and leader with 10+ years experience on delivering results in various settings, ranging from government sector initiatives to a multinational business environment. He loves to connect with people on the topics of AI, ML, data engineering, and how organizations should use their data more efficiently. Jussi thrives when constantly learning new things. His current interests lie in data ops team building and designing and building production-grade reinforcement learning systems.
Henri Kasurinen
Senior Machine Learning Consultant
Henri is a MSc (Tech) in machine learning and signal processing, who has previously worked (among others) at Nokia as a machine learning developer and even has a patent to his name. As a machine learning consultant he’s been advising companies in the use of AI and participated in the implementation of AI systems.
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