Timo Rito­num­mi

Timo Rito­num­mi has wor­ked in the Mini­stry, Ener­gy Depart­ment (cur­rent­ly Mini­stry of Eco­no­mic Affairs and Emplo­y­ment) since 1996. Cur­rent­ly he is Depu­ty Direc­tor Gene­ral wor­king most­ly with clean ener­gy tech­no­lo­gies.

Lau­ra Rahik­ka

Lau­ra Rahik­ka is a foun­der and the CEO of Hyca­mi­te TCD Tech­no­lo­gies Oy, a com­pa­ny com­mercia­li­sing the tech­no­lo­gy to split met­ha­ne into hydro­gen and solid car­bon. She is a M.Sc. (Tech.) in Process Engi­nee­ring and has 20+ years of expe­rience in process and che­mical engi­nee­ring.

Herk­ko Plit

Herk­ko Plit is the foun­der and CEO of P2X Solu­tions Oy, a fore­run­ner in the Fin­nish hydro­gen and e‑fuel industry. He leads P2X with his visio­na­ry atti­tu­de and acti­ve­ly par­tici­pa­tes in the crea­tion of the Fin­nish and Euro­pean hydro­gen eco­sys­tems in seve­ral forums.

Plit is Vice-Chair of the Fin­nish H2 Clus­ter. Befo­re establis­hing P2X Solu­tions, Plit has been in lea­ding posi­tions in com­pa­nies such as Bal­tic Con­nec­tor, For­tum, and TVO. He has also wor­ked as Depu­ty Direc­tor Gene­ral at the Mini­stry of Eco­no­mic Affairs and Emplo­y­ment, Ener­gy Depart­ment, and in the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion.

Heli Virk­ki

Heli Virkki’s role as Head of Hydro­gen Val­ley Deve­lop­ment at Gasgrid Fin­land entails pro­mo­ting regio­nal hydro­gen value chain deve­lop­ment work in Fin­land. Clo­se col­la­bo­ra­tion with com­mu­nal and industrial sta­ke­hol­ders is of essence in advancing the natio­nal hydro­gen infra­struc­tu­re deve­lop­ment as well as in the rea­liza­tion of industrial invest­ments wit­hin the hydro­gen value chain.

Heli’s com­pe­tence pro­fi­le inclu­des sta­ke­hol­der and eco­sys­tem mana­ge­ment wit­hin new clean tech­no­lo­gy deve­lop­ment. Background in pet­roc­he­micals, che­micals and ener­gy industry. Pas­sio­na­te about advancing sus­tai­nable industry wit­hin cross-func­tio­nal value chains and glo­bal sta­ke­hol­der networks.

Åsa Hed­man

Dr Åsa Hed­man works as Head of Ope­ra­tions at Flexens Oy Ab. Flexens is a pro­ject deve­lop­ment com­pa­ny focusing on lar­ge sca­le green hydro­gen- and its deri­va­ti­ves pro­jects. Flexens most matu­re pro­ject is a green ammo­nia plant with 300MW elect­ro­ly­ser capaci­ty in Kok­ko­la, Fin­land. Prior to joi­ning Flexens, 3 years ago, she wor­ked 20 years in the ener­gy field in various R&D and con­sul­tancy posi­tions at VTT, Moti­va and as an ent­repre­neur.

Joo­nas Ala­rau­dan­jo­ki

Joo­nas Ala­rau­dan­jo­ki has 5+ years of expe­rience in forest industry, especial­ly from its ener­gy rela­ted ope­ra­tions. He works cur­rent­ly as a Pro­ject Mana­ger at Sto­ra Enso and is res­pon­sible for dif­fe­rent car­bon cap­tu­re acti­vi­ties. Joo­nas holds a degree in M.Sc. (Tech.) in Industrial ener­gy and envi­ron­men­tal engi­nee­ring.

Alek­si Have­ri­nen

Alek­si Have­ri­nen is a hydro­gen and Power-to‑X expert with 10 years expe­rience in invest­ment pro­ject and busi­ness deve­lop­ment. Mr. Have­ri­nen is dri­ving Plug Power’s lar­ge-sca­le invest­ment pro­jects in Fin­land. By the end of the deca­de, the com­pa­ny plans to deve­lop three green hydro­gen plants tota­ling 2,2 GW capaci­ty in Kok­ko­la, Kris­tii­nan­kau­pun­ki and Por­voo.

Sami Lakio

Sami Lakio, the Sales Direc­tor of Q Power, doesn’t just dri­ve reve­nues; he embraces cus­to­mer-cent­ric solu­tions for figh­ting cli­ma­te chan­ge. Sami has been wor­king with Q Powers’ mic­ro­bio­lo­gical met­ha­na­tion solu­tions since 2020. He is hel­ping cus­to­mers in dif­fe­rent industries to turn CO2 emis­sions, car­bo­nous was­te mate­rials and hydro­gen into renewable, synt­he­tic met­ha­ne and to replace fos­sil fuels.

Vik­ke Saa­re­lai­nen

Vik­ke Saa­re­lai­nen is an expe­rienced busi­ness and ope­ra­tio­nal execu­ti­ve, who has accu­mu­la­ted his exper­ti­se in seve­ral industrial sec­tors, from star­tup com­pa­nies until to the SME sec­tors at in glo­bal com­pa­nies in Fin­land and abroad. Vik­ke is known as an inno­va­ti­ve refor­mer and doesn’t afraid take on big social chal­len­ges eit­her — now as the the latest, ener­gy mar­ket trans­for­ma­tion.

In his cur­rent role as Vice Pre­si­dent of Skar­ta Ener­gy Vik­ke is res­pon­sible for the ope­ra­tio­nal mana­ge­ment of renewable ener­gy pro­ject deve­lop­ment and is par­ticu­lar­ly fami­liar with the social chal­len­ges and oppor­tu­ni­ties rela­ted to solar ener­gy pro­duc­tion. Vik­ke is invol­ved in e.g. as a mem­ber of the stee­ring group at Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu’sOYH2 — Hydro­gen tank research pro­ject and acti­ve­ly tra­vels around tel­ling the good news of renewable ener­gy and the hydro­gen eco­no­my in dif­fe­rent pro­vinces and events.

Claes Fredriks­son

Claes Fredriks­son has many years of expe­rience deve­lo­ping renewable ener­gy solu­tions inter­na­tio­nal­ly. He has held lea­ding posi­tions in lar­ge inter­na­tio­nal cor­po­ra­tions and inno­va­ti­ve start-up com­pa­nies. In 2015 he beca­me awa­re of the pos­si­bi­li­ty to crea­te car­bon neut­ral met­ha­nol. In 2017 Claes foun­ded Liquid Wind and since then, he has been wor­king relent­less­ly to assemble an expert team and world-class con­sor­tium to bring green elect­ro­fuel, eMet­ha­nol, to mar­ket at sca­le with the ambi­tion to elect­ri­fy Swe­dish and inter­na­tio­nal ship­ping.

Rob Cas­tien

My who­le career has been about high-tech pro­ducts and sys­tems, and inter­na­tio­nal busi­ness. In Resa­to the­se aspects come per­fect­ly toget­her and I have been able to add com­pa­ny owners­hip to the mix. It has been a pri­vi­le­ge to lead the Resa­to team to growth and I hope we can con­ti­nue to build a great com­pa­ny that tru­ly helps in making our cus­to­mers success­ful.

Resa­to spurs the ener­gy tran­si­tion by dri­ving zero emis­sion mobi­li­ty. We are a hy-tech com­pa­ny with world-class hydro­gen refue­ling tech­no­lo­gy. That’s how we acce­le­ra­te “100 to 0” emis­sion.

Our engi­nee­ring DNA has brought amazing results: hydro­gen refue­ling sta­tions with unpa­ral­le­led relia­bi­li­ty and per­for­mance. We aim for the hig­hest efficiency and up-time and most com­pe­ti­ti­ve Total Cost of Owners­hip.

Haru­ka Arai

Haru­ka Arai is Execu­ti­ve Direc­tor at Cef­mof. Cef­mof is establis­hed by the City of Jyväs­ky­lä, TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Ral­ly Team, and Toy­ota Mobi­li­ty Foun­da­tion. We are crea­ting a car­bon-neut­ral futu­re.

She star­ted her career as a sales plan­ning and ana­ly­sis of mar­ket research in NTT DOCOMO, Japa­ne­se telecom­mu­nica­tions com­pa­ny, since 2010. She gai­ned cor­po­ra­te, busi­ness plan­ning and col­la­bo­ra­te between com­pa­ny expe­rience through a second­ment to a sub­si­dia­ry. She was in char­ge of pro­mo­ting open inno­va­tion between star­tups and the NTT Group, and inves­ting in star­tups at NTT DOCOMO Ven­tu­res, Inc., which is DOCO­MO’s cor­po­ra­te ven­tu­re capi­tal since 2020.

Kim­mo Ala­tulk­ki­la

Kim­mo Ala­tulk­ki­la is Deve­lop­ment Direc­tor at Oulun Ener­gia Oy.

Dive into the Hydro­gen Eco­no­my: I’ll be lea­ding ini­tia­ti­ves to har­ness the poten­tial of hydro­gen as a clean ener­gy source, paving the way for a sus­tai­nable futu­re.

Powe­ring Trans­for­ma­tion in Ener­gy Pro­duc­tion: Join me on the path to revo­lu­tio­nize ener­gy pro­duc­tion met­hods and make them more eco-friend­ly and efficient.

Elect­ri­fying Our World: We’­re on a mis­sion to elect­ri­fy industries and com­mu­ni­ties, cont­ri­bu­ting to a gree­ner and smar­ter futu­re.

Enhancing District Heat Com­pe­ti­ti­ve­ness: Get rea­dy for a chal­len­ge as we boost the com­pe­ti­ti­ve­ness of district heat, ensu­ring affor­dable and sus­tai­nable warmth for all. District hea­ting is the key fac­tor in futu­re proof ener­gy sys­tem acting as an inte­gra­tor for new sources.

Jan­ne Hie­ta­nie­mi

Jan­ne Hie­ta­nie­mi is a C‑level lea­der and a sea­so­ned stra­te­gist when it comes to buil­ding busi­nes­ses, networks, and plat­forms wit­hin envi­ron­men­tal sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty. He has 25+ years of expe­rience in the clean­tech busi­ness. Co-foun­der of seve­ral star­tups. He cur­rent­ly works as a Key Account Direc­tor for Business­Oulu.

Pia Erkin­hei­mo

Pia Erkin­hei­mo works at The Fin­nish Cli­ma­te Fund as a mem­ber of the execu­ti­ve team res­pon­sible for dealflow and cus­to­mer rela­tions­hips. Her background is from com­pa­nies like Nor­dea, Nokia, and Cap­ge­mi­ni. The Euro­pean Com­mis­sion has bene­fi­ted from her S&T&I expe­rience for 15+ years as inno­va­tion expert and jury mem­ber, and she has advi­sed he G7 count­ries in digi­tal tech­no­lo­gies, advanced robo­tics, and data eco­no­my.

Besi­des that, she is a mem­ber of the board at Lap­peen­ran­ta Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­no­lo­gy, Fin­land, and is or has been invol­ved in half a dozen growth com­pa­nies eit­her as an inves­tor, board mem­ber, or mem­ber of the execu­ti­ve team. She is a mem­ber of FiBAN, Fin­nish Busi­ness Angels Network whe­re she was also a mem­ber of the board in 2018 and regu­lar­ly wri­tes columns to Tek­niik­ka & Talous (Tech­no­lo­gy & Eco­no­my) weekly pro­fes­sio­nal magazi­ne. Pia is a co-foun­der of Women in Tech Fin­land, a network of com­pa­nies stan­ding for diver­si­ty and inclusion.

Simo Kekä­läi­nen

Simo is a mul­ti­lin­gual com­mercia­li­sa­tion and mar­ke­ting expert with near­ly 10 years of expe­rience in the industry. He now works as Chief Mar­ke­ting Officer of a Fin­nish health tech com­pa­ny but divi­des his time and inte­rest with his own host/speaker com­pa­ny cal­led Pret­ty Good Hosts.

Simo is an aspi­ring voice actor and TEDxS­pea­ker who has also appea­red in many TV quiz shows in Fin­land. His dream is to tra­vel the world and some­day beco­me the ori­gi­nal voice of an ani­ma­ted Dis­ney cha­rac­ter.