Conferences / Helsinki Data Week
Helsinki Data Week 2026
Oct 26–30, 2026 · Epicenter (opening event and masterclasses); partner events at venues across Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Conference
- Helsinki Data Week Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Oct 26, 2026 – Oct 30, 2026
- Venue
- Epicenter (opening event and masterclasses); partner events at venues across Helsinki
- Place
- Helsinki, Finland
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No attendance figure found; the opening event sold out (Ticket Tailor / tickets page).
- Website
- helsinkidataweek.fi
- Recorded
- 16 sponsors · 37 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Third edition. Format: three paid three-hour masterclasses (Mon Oct 26, Epicenter), a paid two-stage opening event (Tue Oct 27, Epicenter, Mikonkatu 9; lunch included; sold out) followed by a low-key meetup at Kaisla, then free partner-hosted events: Ambientia (UpCloud), Vuono Group (Epicenter), MotherDuck with dltHub (Helsinki Bryggeri), Snowflake hands-on lab (Epicenter), Nitor data leaders' lunch, Actian with Solita (Solita office), Nortal (Epicenter), Qlik x Goodin AI Reality Tour (Reaktor HQ), and an after-party (Bar Mate). Tallinn Data Week (Oct 19-23) was a community partner. Speakers: all named speakers of the masterclasses, opening event and partner events (partner sessions marked 'sponsored talk').
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening event (early bird) | €75 | May 31, 2026 | Sold from March; lunch included; partner events free | helsinkidataweek.fi |
| Opening event (regular bird) | €100 | Sep 30, 2026 | helsinkidataweek.fi | |
| Opening event (late bird) | €150 | Oct 26, 2026 | helsinkidataweek.fi | |
| Masterclass (per session, workshop add-on) | €250 | — | Separate from the opening-event ticket | helsinkidataweek.fi |
Sponsors 16
Title / headline 1
- Actian · Main Partner
Community 5
- DAMA Finland · community Partners
- DAMA Norway · community Partners
- DataTribe Collective · community Partners
- Knowledge Graph Guys Academy · community Partners
- Tallinn Data Week · community Partners
Other 10
- Ambientia · Partners
- Dun & Bradstreet · Partners
- Goodin · Partners
- MotherDuck · Partners
- Nitor · Partners
- Nortal · Partners
- Qlik · Partners
- SelectZero · Partners
- Snowflake · Partners
- Vuono Group · Partners
Speakers and talks 37
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henri Schildt | Skimle / Aalto University | Keynote | The World of Meanings and the Unbearable Ambiguity of Text | — |
| Adam Burnage | Metso | Sponsored talk | Leading data-driven business transformation: The shift towards postmodern data work | — |
| Adrian Brudaru | dltHub | Sponsored talk | The Workbench of the Future: How MotherDuck and dltHub support the post-modern data stack | — |
| Aleksandar Simeunovic | Neo4j | Sponsored talk | From data analysts to business context problem solvers: How leading global enterprises build the knowledge layer for AI | — |
| Amy Raygada | Thoughtworks | Panelist | The Data Team’s New Tools (MotherDuck panel) | — |
| Amy Raygada | Thoughtworks | Talk | The Readiness Illusion: Why Even the Best AI Can’t Fix Bad Data | — |
| Ari Linja | Metsä Group | Sponsored talk | 21 Mills and Counting: Metsä Group's Industrial Data, One Governed API Away | — |
| Dumky de Wilde | MotherDuck | Sponsored talk | The Workbench of the Future: How MotherDuck and dltHub support the post-modern data stack | — |
| Ergin Tuganay | Nortal | Sponsored talk | 21 Mills and Counting: Metsä Group's Industrial Data, One Governed API Away | — |
| Hannes Hautala | Ontology Pipeline | Sponsored talk | Moving fast within the rules: Data Products in a regulated industry | — |
| Jessica Talisman | Ontology Pipeline | Workshop | Masterclass: Just Enough Semantics | — |
| Jessica Talisman | Ontology Pipeline | Talk | Context Graphs, Context Layers, and the Semantic Renaissance | — |
| Joona Soratie | Vuono Group | Sponsored talk | Welcome (Vuono Group partner event) | — |
| Juha Korpela | — | Talk | Concept Models, Ontologies, Metric Layers, Graphs - oh my! | — |
| Juha-Pekka Joutsenlahti | Solita | Sponsored talk | Building the Company Brain: The Enterprise Context Layer for AI-Ready Organizations | — |
| Jussi Ritola | Renessai | Sponsored talk | Data Products for AI agents: what changes when the consumer is an agent? | — |
| Kimmo Kontra | — | Panelist | Here’s AI, where’s the business value? (panel) | — |
| Maarja Pajusalu | University of Tartu | Talk | From Default Charts to Decisions and Impact - Dataviz in Action | — |
| Marek Daifi | — | Sponsored talk | The Promptable Enterprise: From Data Platform to Context Platform (Ambientia) | — |
| Mark Freeman | On the Mark Data | Workshop | Masterclass: Data Quality in an Agentic World | — |
| Mark Freeman | On the Mark Data | Talk | Data Contracts in an Agentic Era: When Knowledge Becomes Machine-Readable | — |
| Matti Uusivuori | Nortal | Sponsored talk | Becoming Data-Driven: The Compass Group Finland and Nortal Story | — |
| Mikko Koho | Vuono Group | Sponsored talk | The semantic layer decides if agentic AI scales | — |
| Ole Olesen-Bagneux | Actian | Sponsored talk | How Data Catalogs are Changing in the Era of AI | — |
| Ole Olesen-Bagneux | Actian | Talk | The Meta Grid, Revisited | — |
| Ole Olesen-Bagneux | Actian | Panelist | Here’s AI, where’s the business value? (panel) | — |
| Oskari Heikkinen | Datablinc | Talk | From Cubes to Copilots: The Evolution of Data and Analytics Platforms | — |
| Pekka Hytönen | Compass Group Finland | Sponsored talk | Becoming Data-Driven: The Compass Group Finland and Nortal Story | — |
| Ritva Aula | — | Panelist | Here’s AI, where’s the business value? (panel) | — |
| Säde Haveri | RELEX Solutions | Panelist | Here’s AI, where’s the business value? (panel moderator) | — |
| Sasikumar Kumaraswamy | KONE Corporation | Sponsored talk | Value Over Volume: What Kone Learned Building Data Products for AI | — |
| Shane Gibson | agiledata | Talk | Concept Models, Ontologies, Metric Layers, Graphs - oh my! | — |
| Stijn Zanders | Aiven | Panelist | The Data Team’s New Tools (MotherDuck panel) | — |
| Terhi Rautiainen | Nitor | Sponsored talk | Moving fast within the rules: Data Products in a regulated industry | — |
| Vesa Tikkanen | Qumio | Talk | From Cubes to Copilots: The Evolution of Data and Analytics Platforms | — |
| Winfried Etzel | Winfried Etzel AS | Workshop | Masterclass: Think Across - Governance as One | — |
| Winfried Etzel | Winfried Etzel AS | Talk | From Handover to Hangover - How Organizations Delegate Decisions to Machines and Lose Accountability on the Way | — |
Sources
- https://www.helsinkidataweek.fi/events/hdw2026-helsinki-data-week-opening-event-live
- https://www.helsinkidataweek.fi/speakers
- https://www.helsinkidataweek.fi/partners
- https://www.helsinkidataweek.fi/tickets
- https://www.helsinkidataweek.fi/masterclasses
- https://www.helsinkidataweek.fi/events
- https://www.tickettailor.com/events/helsinkidataweek/2096097