Seamless and Secure Connectivity Ecosystem Event

Kirsi started her career in ICT and digitalization at Nokia, where she was holding management positions in product and business development for more than 15 years. Kirsi has been working at the Finnish innovation funding and internationalization service provider Business Finland since 2015, after heading the five-year Digital Trust Finland program that successfully completed, she is currently responsible for the preparation of a new Digital Resilience program of Business Finland.

Jari Partanen has been active researcher with over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles, publications or conference papers during the past years in the areas of innovation management, agile and lean software development and cyber security. Currently Jari is in the position of Director; Quality and Research at Bittium.

Jari Partanen is also involved for various R&D&I activities as board member e.g. of ITEA (Eureka R&D&I Cluster programme), FISC (Finnish Innovation Security Cluster) and as advisor in Business Finland’s Digital Native Finland group as well as various steering or management teams for research projects like 5G Compad (EDF), iDUNN (Horizon 2020), 6G SW (BF 6G Bridge), Konttihyppy – Quantum Leap (BF), CISSAN (Celtic – Next) and Digital Defense Ecosystem (DDE).

Visa Vallivaara works as a Senior Scientist in the Applied Cryptography team at VTT. He has 11 years’ experience in cyber security research and is an author of 14 scientific publications on cybersecurity, cryptography and blockchains. He has won the best paper award both in ICISSP 2022 and in SECURWARE 2019. He was a guest researcher at NIST in USA for one year, 2019-2020. At NIST, Vallivaara was researching Post-Quantum Cryptography and participated in the PQC standardization.

After returning to Finland, Vallivaara has been project manager of national research project PQC Finland 2021-2022 and is coordinator of the continuation project BLimPQC 2024-2027. He is also partner country project director of NATO SPS research project “Secure Communication via Classical and Quantum Technologies”, 2023-2025.

Alexey is Research Collaboration Manager at the University of Jyväskylä, coordinating R&I efforts in European projects in the cybersecurity domain. Between 1997 and 2023, he worked at F-Secure (now WithSecure), first leading the development of the cryptographic modules and authorization infrastructure of the company and then as Head of External Collaboration. Prior to joining F-Secure, he worked in the area of Computer Graphics at Altsys Corporation, Richardson, TX.

Since 2016, Alexey's been contributing to the efforts of WG6 (Technologies & Innovation and Defence & Space) of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO). He's also one of the trainers of the national team of Finland for the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Dr. Tapio Seppänen, professor of biomedical engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu

Prof. Seppänen leads Physiological Signal Analysis research team which focuses on cardiovascular signal processing, cardio-respiratory signal processing, autonomic nervous system signal processing, human motion analysis, affective computing and medical image analysis. The applied technologies are digital signal analysis, machine learning and image analysis. Applications include clinical medicine in hospital and home-care, and sports physiology.

Mr. Teemu Alajoki received M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Oulu in 2004. He works currently as a Research Team Leader at VTT. Teemu has more than 20 years of experience in printed electronics, hybrid integration and photonics packaging, and is an author or co-author of over 40 scientific articles. His research interests include wearable electronics for medical applications, flexible and stretchable electronics, and photonic sensors.