FutureTech Oulu

FutureTech Oulu

Event Details
 Date: Octo­ber 9, 2025
 Loca­tion: Tullisali Event Cen­ter, Oulu
 Time: 8.30 – 14

FutureTech Oulu 2025 – The Evo­lu­tion of Auton­o­my and AI

Business­Oulu invites you to FutureTech Oulu 2025, a pre­mier event ded­i­cat­ed to the lat­est advance­ments in arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, auton­o­my, and intel­li­gent deci­sion-mak­ing.

With the theme “Auton­o­my, Quan­tum and Agents”, Future Tech 2025 will delve into key top­ics such as Code to Con­trol – how AI and soft­ware are shap­ing deci­sion-mak­ing process­es; Autono­Verse – explor­ing the world of autonomous intel­li­gence; AI Com­mand – exam­in­ing how AI is redefin­ing con­trol and agency; and Mind & Machine – the evolv­ing rela­tion­ship between human intel­li­gence and AI-dri­ven deci­sions. These ses­sions will pro­vide valu­able insights into the tech­no­log­i­cal, eth­i­cal, and prac­ti­cal dimen­sions of auton­o­my.

Join us for an insight­ful day of knowl­edge-shar­ing, net­work­ing, and for­ward-think­ing dia­logue. Whether you are from indus­try, research, or pub­lic admin­is­tra­tion, FutureTech Oulu 2025 offers a unique plat­form to con­nect, learn, and be inspired by real-world appli­ca­tions and future pos­si­bil­i­ties of AI and auton­o­my.

Event Theme: Auton­o­my, Quan­tum, and Agents

A deep dive into how auton­o­my and AI-pow­ered agents are trans­form­ing deci­sion-mak­ing and con­trol in dig­i­tal sys­tems.

• Code to Con­trol – Explor­ing how AI and soft­ware shape deci­sion-mak­ing
• Autono­Verse – The world of autonomous intel­li­gence
• AI Com­mand – How AI is redefin­ing con­trol and agency
• Mind & Machine – The inter­sec­tion of human and AI deci­sion-mak­ing
• Quan­tum Advan­tage – Lever­ag­ing quan­tum com­put­ing for com­plex deci­sion-mak­ing

Why to attend and who should join?

FutureTech Oulu 2025 is for pro­fes­sion­als, researchers, entre­pre­neurs, and pub­lic sec­tor experts work­ing with or impact­ed by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, auton­o­my, and dig­i­tal inno­va­tion. Whether you’re lead­ing devel­op­ment, dri­ving strat­e­gy, or explor­ing the soci­etal impact of emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies, this event will offer key insights, prac­ti­cal exam­ples, and valu­able net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to help you stay ahead of the curve.

Agen­da

08:00–09:00 Break­fast + Net­work­ing
09:00 Wel­come speech
09:10 Part­ner greet­ing – Markus Syr­jä­nen (Chief Archi­tect, Kale­va)
09:30 Keynote – Col­in Brown (CEO, Capa­bil­i­ty Brown) – “AI and the Great Reshuf­fle”
10:00 Humanoid Robot­ics and AI – Mat­ti Tikan­mä­ki (CEO, Pro­bot Oy) and Antti Tikan­mä­ki (Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu, Humanoid Robot Lab) – Dis­cov­er how humanoid robots and AI are reshap­ing our future – with the Uni­tree G1 humanoid robot live on stage!
10:30 Break
11:00 Wild Vision­ing – Com­pa­ny Talks – Pert­tu Lau­ri­nen (CEO, Indal­go), Pekka Vuo­rio (Co-Founder Bright­ly), Aino Top­pi (For­sight Lead, OP), Mari Kärkkäi­nen (CEO,Near Real), and Mat­ti Tikan­mä­ki (CEO, Pro­bot Oy). Dis­cus­sion Focus: Quick-wit­ted speak­ers, joint dis­cus­sion on stage, co-cre­at­ing visions, inspir­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion, and the pow­er of the ecosys­tem.
11:45 Keynote – Juha Var­ti­ainen, (Co-Founder, IQM) –“Quan­tum time is now”
12:15 Keynote – Mikko Alasaarela, (Author, pub­lic speak­er) –“How to build an AI native orga­ni­za­tion”
12:55 Clos­ing words
13:00 Self-fund­ed lunch

Join us and be part of the future

Future Tech 2025 offers a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to explore how AI and auton­o­my are reshap­ing the world we live in. Whether you’re a tech leader, researcher, pol­i­cy­mak­er, or innovator—this event will leave you inspired and bet­ter con­nect­ed to what’s next.

Keynote speak­ers

Col­in Brown

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British, based in Fin­land for the past 3 years. Olympic row­ing coach (10 years). UK gov­ern­ment role deliv­er­ing Lon­don 2012 Games and major infra­struc­ture projects (5 years), Found­ed glob­al tech start­up with two exits (7 years),Currently coach­ing entre­pre­neur teams solv­ing human­i­ty-lev­el prob­lems and advis­ing World Bank (6 years)

Mikko Alasaarela

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Award-win­ning, glob­al­ly expe­ri­enced impact AI entre­pre­neur and hack­er. Author, pub­lic speak­er on AI, algo­rith­mic influ­ence and their impact on the future of human­i­ty. 7 star­tups, 3 exits.

Juha Var­ti­ainen

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Co-founder of IQM Quan­tum Com­put­ers, a fast-grow­ing Euro­pean deep-tech com­pa­ny where he dri­ves glob­al expan­sion, part­ner­ships, and com­mer­cial­iza­tion. Juha is pas­sion­ate about scal­ing break­through tech­nolo­gies into impact­ful busi­ness­es and shap­ing Europe’s lead­er­ship  in the rapid­ly grow­ing quan­tum indus­try.

Speak­ers

Aino Top­pi

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Oulu-born and pas­sion­ate about shap­ing the future, Aino Top­pi is an expert in inno­va­tion and fore­sight. Aino works in OP’s inno­va­tion unit and leads OP Cam­pus Oulu, a devel­op­ment unit of over 500 employ­ees in the North­ern Fin­land. With an MSc in Eco­nom­ics and Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu, she blends aca­d­e­m­ic knowl­edge with prac­ti­cal exper­tise to dri­ve trans­for­ma­tion.

Mari Kärkkäi­nen

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Mari has strong expe­ri­ence in health tech­nol­o­gy in Fin­land and abroad. Over her career she has seen the big chal­lenges that health and social care face: an age­ing pop­u­la­tion, staff short­ages and ris­ing costs. These chal­lenges push her to make the most of telemed­i­cine and dig­i­tal health solu­tions.

She works as CEO in Oulu based com­pa­ny Near Real Ltd. At FutureTech Oulu, Mari will share bold visions how wide, well-planned use of tech­nol­o­gy, cre­at­ed togeth­er with front­line staff, can help health sys­tems meet today’s needs and cre­ate ser­vices that last.

Pert­tu Lau­ri­nen

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Dr. Pert­tu Lau­ri­nen has over 20 years of expe­ri­ence at the cross­roads of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and busi­ness. In 2010, he found­ed Indal­go to bring prac­ti­cal, AI-dri­ven inno­va­tions to indus­try. Today, he leads a team of 25+ spe­cial­ists, deliv­er­ing scal­able AI tech­nolo­gies that cre­ate mea­sur­able busi­ness impact—especially in man­u­fac­tur­ing.

Pekka Vuo­rio

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Pekka Vuo­rio (M.Sc., Com­put­er Sci­ence) is an entre­pre­neur from Oulu, a tech­nol­o­gy enthu­si­ast, and one of the co-founders of Bright­ly, a con­sult­ing firm focused on arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, data, and IoT solu­tions. Bright­ly was found­ed in 2020 and has, in just five years, become a trust­ed part­ner for major Finnish com­pa­nies and a want­ed work­place for top-tier pro­fes­sion­als. Last year, Brightly’s rev­enue was approx­i­mate­ly €10 mil­lion and con­tin­ues to grow this year.

Through­out his con­sult­ing career, Pekka has sup­port­ed sev­er­al of Finland’s top 100 com­pa­nies in design­ing data archi­tec­tures and AI-based solu­tions, giv­ing him a broad per­spec­tive on the devel­op­ment of Finland’s data and AI mar­ket.

Mat­ti & Antti Tikan­mä­ki

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Mat­ti Tikan­mä­ki (CEO, Pro­bot Oy) and Antti Tikan­mä­ki (Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu, Humanoid Robot Lab) explore how humanoid robots and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence are reshap­ing the way we work and live. Their talk pro­vides an acces­si­ble vision of the robot­ics rev­o­lu­tion: what humanoid robots are, how AI dri­ves them, and why thought­ful reg­u­la­tion mat­ters. On stage, the Uni­tree G1 humanoid robot brings these ideas to life as a strik­ing embod­i­ment of AI in motion.

Markus Syr­jä­nen

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Chief Archi­tect at Kale­va Media, Markus leads the company’s enter­prise archi­tec­ture and strate­gic AI devel­op­ment pro­gramme. He is focused on bring­ing agen­tic AI into every­day news­room work and will share unique insight from the media indus­try on how AI can shape the future of news.

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