IoT Breakfast Finland 2024

Case Aidon: Enabling Smart Energy Lifestyles

Tommi Blomberg is a skilled management & finance professional with extensive experience across large multinationals and SMEs. He’s passionate about driving results, continuous improvement, and building successful teams.

Aidon is the leading provider of smart grid and smart metering solutions, applications and services in the Nordics. Their smart systems enable reliable metering and distribution of energy and efficient maintenance of distribution networks. The technology supplied by Aidon is in use in more than 5 million energy metering points in the Nordic countries.

Tommi will tell us about Aidon’s connectivity journey: How and when have they started, what have they learned on the way, and what is the next step on the road to scaling up?

Case Lining: Smart Water Management Systems

Tero Auvinen leads the Digital and Automation department at Lining. He has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry. In addition to his main role, he serves as the chairman of the Finnish Water Forum’s Smart Water group, providing him with an excellent perspective on Finnish and international water sector digitalization. In his presentation, Tero will discuss intelligent water guidance solutions based on IoT and AI technologies.

Oy Lining Ab specializes in technical solutions for water supply and sewage water lines and facilities. Lining is the market leader in the water sector in Finland, holding over 50% market share. Oy Lining Ab is part of the international technology and industrial business group Indutrade, which includes over 200 companies in more than 30 countries.

A look at emerging IoT technologies and trends

As Chief Technology Officer, Martin Whitlock leads Telenor Connexion’s global technology team, driving major technology-enabled initiatives as part of the company’s expanding business strategy. Martin has extensive experience from the telecom industry. Prior to taking on this role, he held the position as Director at Northstream, where he was responsible for strategy assessments, sourcing projects and change management engagements with a broad range of clients.

Martin holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management with major in Radio Communications Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Telenor and DNA: Joining forces across the Nordics to benefit customers

Ari Alakiuttu works as a Director of large and international customers in DNA’s B2B operations. He is constantly striving to develop DNA’s customer-centric sales, account management, and internal operations to support customers’ businesses both domestically and internationally. Ari is strongly committed to solution sales and delivering customer solutions that meet their needs.

Ari has extensive international experience in sales, business, and product organization management in cybersecurity, manufacturing industry, and telecommunications.

He is passionate about driving innovation and bringing about change through the development of customer-centric solutions and delivering customer value. People and their development are at the core of achieving these objectives.