Oulu Event at Dubai Expo

OULU, FINLAND

City on the Edge:
Excit­ing Future of 6G and the Smart North

Where: Finnish Pavil­ion, Expo 2020 Dubai
When: March 18, 10.30 am – 4.30 pm
Reg­is­tra­tion: Reg­is­ter here by March 17, 6 pm

Oulu offers the opti­mal ecosys­tem for cut­ting-edge inno­va­tions and exper­tise. Dur­ing half a cen­tu­ry of glob­al ICT lead­er­ship focused on tech­no­log­i­cal break­throughs, we have learned that our edge does not just cut – it cre­ates.

Every day, near­ly three bil­lion peo­ple glob­al­ly use mobile tech­nolo­gies devel­oped in Oulu. The city has been at the fore­front of 3G, 4G and 5G devel­op­ment, and is now going fast towards 6G. 6G Flag­ship of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu was even the first – and still lead­ing — 6G RDI pro­gram in the world..

Oulu, the fastest grow­ing region in the Nordics, is an inter­na­tion­al busi­ness city full of oppor­tu­ni­ties in tech­nol­o­gy, cul­ture, and every­thing in between, and a hub for research, devel­op­ment, edu­ca­tion, and co-cre­ation. The col­lab­o­ra­tion between com­pa­nies, the pub­lic sec­tor, and acad­e­mia is inten­sive.

Morn­ing Recep­tion:

Dis­cov­er How Future Will Change Our Lives – Deep Dive into 6G

10.00 am
Pavil­ion opens
Morn­ing Cof­fee

10.30 am
Open­ing of the event
Mr. Simo Kekäläi­nen host­ing

Open­ing speech
Ms. Tyt­ti Tup­pu­rainen, Min­is­ter for Euro­pean Affairs and Own­er­ship Steer­ing of Fin­land (online)

Wel­come to Oulu
Mr. Mikko Sal­mi, Direc­tor of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, City of Oulu

Keynote pre­sen­ta­tion: 6G – What does it mean?
Prof. Ari Pout­tu, Vice-Direc­tor, 6G Flag­ship, Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu

Pan­el dis­cus­sion
Par­tic­i­pants:
Mr. Aji Ed, CTO Mobile Net­works MEA, Nokia
Prof. Ari Pout­tu, Vice-Direc­tor, 6G Flag­ship, Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu
Mr. Juha Ala-Mur­su­la, Direc­tor, Business­Oulu

Con­clu­sion of the dis­cus­sion

12.00 pm
Clos­ing of the event

12.00 – 2.00 pm
Net­work­ing and lunch

Expe­ri­ence the amaz­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties of Dig­i­tal Mag­ic, brought to you by aston­ish­ing magi­cian Mr. Joni Paka­nen dur­ing the event.

After­noon Recep­tion:

Vis­it Oulu – cen­tre of edu­ca­tion­al pro­grammes and des­ti­na­tion of fast-grow­ing tourism

2.30 pm
After­noon Cof­fee

3.00 pm
Open­ing of the event
Mr. Simo Kekäläi­nen host­ing

Edu­ca­tion
Oulu Edu­ca­tion­al offer­ing – How inno­v­a­tive solu­tions are found through col­lab­o­ra­tion in edu­ca­tion?

• Pre­sent­ing North­ern Edu­ca­tion Excel­lence in PINO net­work
  Mr. Pekka Eksymä, Design­er, PINO Net­work / Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu
• Open­ing words: STEAM ped­a­gogy – a key for learn­ing the skills for the future
• Oulu Steam Chal­lenge: demon­strat­ing inno­va­tion, col­lab­o­ra­tion, and use of mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy
• Com­men­tary: Lessons learnt through STEAM

Tourism
Oulu and Pohjo­la Route scenic ring road – a new way to dis­cov­er Fin­land from the sea to the arc­tic fells.
Mr. Yrjö­ta­pio Kivisaari, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Vis­i­tOulu

Net­work­ing and meet­ings

4.30 pm
Clos­ing of the event

Expe­ri­ence the amaz­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties of Dig­i­tal Mag­ic, brought to you by the aston­ish­ing Mr. Joni Paka­nen dur­ing the event.

Reg­is­tra­tion: Reg­is­ter here by March 17, 6 pm

More infor­ma­tion

Wel­come to Oulu — the city on the edge

Oulu offers a high­er grade of liv­ing. Get to know Oulu. It is a north­ern Euro­pean city of cul­ture, exud­ing com­pas­sion­ate ener­gy and buzzing with tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tions for the future.

Oulu is known for the amaz­ing­ly high qual­i­ty of every­day liv­ing, inter­na­tion­al career and self-devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties that are open to all, and an inspir­ing cul­ture for invest­ments, inno­va­tion, and busi­ness. Oulu is an insight­ful and down-to-earth city that lives and breathes on the terms of the north­ern nature. It is also a meet­ing place for tal­ent and mean­ing­ful oppor­tu­ni­ties for the future. Oulu has space and time for encoun­ters that can turn your whole life around. A high­er grade of liv­ing!

oulu.com site (opens in new tab)

Wel­come to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu – 6G Flag­ship pro­gramme

The pro­gramme sup­ports the indus­try in the final­i­sa­tion of 5G. The Flag­ship will car­ry out tech­nol­o­gy and sys­tem pilots for select­ed ver­ti­cals by co-cre­at­ing with com­pa­nies and ensure the avail­abil­i­ty of time­ly rel­e­vant wire­less exper­tise for indus­try needs. It will enable eco­nom­ic growth via ear­ly adap­tion of crit­i­cal smart soci­ety tech­nolo­gies and speed up dig­i­tal­iza­tion in the soci­ety.

Dig­i­tal­iza­tion via 5G is strong­ly dri­ven through the key ver­ti­cals. The Flag­ship pro­motes devel­op­ment of ver­ti­cal appli­ca­tions and ser­vices in a full-stack mod­el includ­ing con­nec­tiv­i­ty, ser­vices, con­tent, end-user com­mu­ni­ty and appro­pri­ate devices. The Flag­ship increas­es the impact of the 5G-dri­ven soci­ety in build­ing exper­tise around crit­i­cal ver­ti­cals and in devel­op­ing those ecosys­tems fur­ther, both in co-oper­a­tion with the exist­ing ecosys­tems and by pro­mot­ing new forms.

6G Flag­ship site (opens in a new tab: oulu.fi)

Wel­come to the Future of Edu­ca­tion- PINO Net­work

PINO Net­work is a col­lab­o­ra­tion net­work of edu­ca­tion­al pro­fes­sion­als in North­ern Fin­land. The mem­bers are either pub­lic edu­ca­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions or pri­vate enter­pris­es with­in the region. PINO mem­bers show­case the best edu­ca­tion­al prod­ucts and solu­tions for both edu­ca­tion­al con­tent and infra­struc­ture. We help edu­ca­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions in our area to devel­op their skills and find part­ners to cre­ate inter­na­tion­al prod­ucts and ser­vices for edu­ca­tion and par­tic­i­pate in glob­al edu­ca­tion devel­op­ment. Our mem­bers’ prod­ucts include learn­ing mate­ri­als, pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment pro­grammes, edu­ca­tion­al games, soft­ware prod­ucts, school build­ings and infra­struc­ture, edu­ca­tion­al con­cepts, and con­sult­ing ser­vices.

PINO Net­work site (opens in new tab: pinonetwork.fi)

Wel­come to the Oulu region – just for fun

From city life to the sound of silence, the Oulu region pam­pers you with colour­ful north­ern expe­ri­ences and adven­tures that refresh and inspire you to the core. The Oulu region ties togeth­er 9 des­ti­na­tions which all pro­vide you with spe­cial­ties of their own. Expe­ri­ence the mag­ic by trav­el­ling the new Pohjo­la Route north­ern ring road.

Vis­i­tOulu site (opens in new tab: visitoulu.fi)

Vir­tu­al mag­ic show is inter­ac­tive and enter­tain­ing!

It brings par­tic­i­pants togeth­er and pro­vides shared expe­ri­ences.

Joni Paka­nen is a top class magi­cian who cre­ates an inter­na­tion­al career by com­bin­ing humor, visu­al­i­ty and close inter­ac­tion with the audi­ence. Paka­nen, who main­ly per­forms for cor­po­rate clients, has been seen in the back­ground teams of oth­er artists, the­ater and show­pro­duc­tions in recent years. The past two years he has devot­ed for build­ing a mag­i­cal vir­tu­al expe­ri­ence. Paka­nen won the 1^st price in the Stream­ing Mag­ic com­pe­ti­tion on Octo­ber 2021.

JONI PAKANEN ENTERTAINMENT

”1^st price in Stream­ing Mag­ic Cham­pi­onships 2021”

“Per­former of the Year 2019”

“Magi­cian of the Year 2018”

Joni Paka­nen offi­cial web­site (opens in new tab: virtuaalitaikuri.fi):