Conferences / Helsinki Data Week
Helsinki Data Week 2025
Oct 27–31, 2025 · Epicenter (opening event); partner events at venues across Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Conference
- Helsinki Data Week Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Oct 27, 2025 – Oct 31, 2025
- Venue
- Epicenter (opening event); partner events at venues across Helsinki
- Place
- Helsinki, Finland
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No attendance figure found.
- Website
- helsinkidataweek.fi
- Recorded
- 12 sponsors · 43 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Second edition. Format: a paid, two-stage opening event (Tue Oct 28, Epicenter, Mikonkatu 9; lunch included) followed by free partner-hosted events: Databricks 'Data After Hours' (Clarion Hotel Skyroom, Oct 27), Sparta Consulting (Huone Kluuvi), Nortal (Epicenter), ADE Summit 2025 (Bio Rex Lasipalatsi), AWS Partners Present (AWS office, with Collibra, Snowplow, IBM & Arrow, Eficode, Qlik), The Snowflake Experience (Epicenter, Oct 31) and an afterparty (Bar Mate). Speakers: all named speakers of the opening event and partner events (partner sessions marked 'sponsored talk'); affiliations from the speakers-2025 page and event pages.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening event (early bird) | €50 | Aug 5, 2025 | Sold May to Aug 5; partner events free | helsinkidataweek.fi |
| Opening event (regular) | €75 | Sep 30, 2025 | helsinkidataweek.fi | |
| Opening event (last chance) | €100 | Oct 27, 2025 | helsinkidataweek.fi |
Sponsors 12
Title / headline 2
- Agile Data Engine · main partners
- Snowflake · main partners
Other 10
- Aalto EE · partners
- Arrow · partners
- Collibra · partners
- Databricks · partners
- Eficode · partners
- Nortal · partners
- Qlik · partners
- Snowplow · partners
- Solita · partners
- Sparta Consulting · partners
Speakers and talks 43
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John K. Thompson | The Hackett Group | Keynote | GenAI – Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond | — |
| Luke Roquet | Snowflake | Keynote | Open Data Foundations Powering AI Transformation | — |
| Veronika Durgin | Saks | Keynote | Omenapiirakka Doesn’t Bake Itself. Why Scaling Requires Strong Foundations and Constant Care (ADE Summit 2025) | — |
| Alexander Frank | Snowflake | Sponsored talk | Amplify your Data Integration for the AI Era: An Introduction to Snowflake Openflow | — |
| Angela Carpenter | Snowflake | Sponsored talk | Snowflake Keynote | — |
| Annika Nordbo | SOK | Panelist | Fireside Chat: The Role of Data & AI for Decision Makers | — |
| Antti Voutilainen | Marimekko | Panelist | Fireside Chat (with Markus Päivinen, Snowflake) | — |
| Arto Osala | DNA | Sponsored talk | DNA – Business and data - scaling success together | — |
| Eevamaija Virtanen | Invinite | Panelist | AI Trust Issues (panel moderator) | — |
| Ergin Tuganay | Nortal | Sponsored talk | Fueling transformation: St1’s journey to a scalable, AI-Ready data ecosystem | — |
| Florian Gorzitzke | Databricks | Sponsored talk | Reinventing Manufacturing - Driving Growth, Productivity, and Resilience with Data & AI | — |
| Giuseppe Mura | IBM | Sponsored talk | Beyond Pilots - Creating the Data Supply Chains that Power the AI Future | — |
| Hannes Mühleisen | DuckDB Labs | Talk | DuckLake - The SQL-Powered Lakehouse Format | — |
| Harri Kallio | Agile Data Engine | Sponsored talk | ADE Keynote (ADE Summit 2025) | — |
| Heikki Linnakangas | Neon | Sponsored talk | Data After Hours: Lakebase (Databricks) | — |
| James Borlase | Snowplow | Sponsored talk | Building High Quality, AI-Ready Behavioral Data on AWS | — |
| Joe Reis | Joe Reis Media | Talk | The Great Data Engineering Reset - From Pipelines to Agents | — |
| Johannes Heikkinen | St1 | Sponsored talk | Fueling transformation: St1’s journey to a scalable, AI-Ready data ecosystem | — |
| Juha Teljo | Agile Data Engine | Sponsored talk | Scaling Success Together (ADE Summit 2025) | — |
| Juuso Karikoski | DNA | Sponsored talk | DNA – Business and data - scaling success together | — |
| Katariina Kari | Inter IKEA | Talk | From Silos to Shared Practice - Making Data Everyone’s Business | — |
| Katariina Kari | Inter IKEA | Panelist | AI Trust Issues (panel) | — |
| Lasse Rantalainen | UPM | Sponsored talk | Reviving Metadata Management - UPM’s Journey with Collibra | — |
| Maija Hovila | Futurice | Panelist | AI Trust Issues (panel) | — |
| Maija Hovila | Futurice | Talk | Crossing the AI Chasm | — |
| Marko Klemetti | Eficode | Sponsored talk | Rewriting software development (SDLC) with Generative AI | — |
| Markus Päivinen | Snowflake | Panelist | Fireside Chat (with Antti Voutilainen, Marimekko) | — |
| Matti Karell | Agile Data Engine | Sponsored talk | Accelerate. Scale. Succeed: ADE’s Path to AI-ready data | — |
| Matti Karell | Agile Data Engine | Sponsored talk | ADE Keynote (ADE Summit 2025) | — |
| Mikko Leinonen | Stora Enso | Sponsored talk | Unleashing the value of data & AI using edge computing at Stora Enso | — |
| Mikko Sulonen | Recordly | Sponsored talk | Beyond AI Code Generation: Agentic Development Workflows in Data Engineering | — |
| Mikko Suominen | Stora Enso | Sponsored talk | Unleashing the value of data & AI using edge computing at Stora Enso | — |
| Rami Huuskonen | Snowflake | Sponsored talk | Hot From the Oven: Snowflake Intelligence Demo | — |
| Säde Haveri | RELEX Solutions | Panelist | AI Trust Issues (panel) | — |
| Sakari Himanen | UPM | Sponsored talk | Reviving Metadata Management - UPM’s Journey with Collibra | — |
| Sam Bäcknäs | Snowflake | Sponsored talk | Bridging technology and business strategy to help companies gain crucial insights from their data | — |
| Thibault de Baecker | IBM | Sponsored talk | Beyond Pilots - Creating the Data Supply Chains that Power the AI Future | — |
| Thomas Kirk | Kesko | Sponsored talk | Towards Better Data Every day | — |
| Tiankai Feng | Thoughtworks | Talk | Humanizing Data Strategy | — |
| Tuuli Bollmann | Kesko | Sponsored talk | Kesko – Data and insights at retail scale | — |
| Veronika Durgin | Saks | Panelist | AI Trust Issues (panel) | — |
| Vin Vashishta | V-Squared | Talk | The Hallucination Game - Preventing AI Hype From Taking Over Your Business | — |
| Yoni Eini | Qlik | Sponsored talk | Revolutionising Iceberg Integration - The value of Open Lakehouse architectures | — |