Women in Tech Network

Women in Tech Finland aims to encourage more women in technology and to promote the value of diversity, inclusion and equity in technology.

Women in Tech network include people across Finland and our community is growing all the time. Our activities and events are free and open for all individuals.

Women in Tech activities include events that have become very popular both in Helsinki and other cities in Finland. For example, Women in Tech Breakfast Dates have been organised on average 1-2 times a month since 2016.

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Upcoming Events

Women in Tech Breakfast Dates are hosted by member organizations of Women in Tech network and are free and open for everyone.

Virtual WiT Breakfast Date: TV, Media and Telco in Revolution by Telia) - 27.11.2020

What: WiT Breakfast Date: TV, Media and Telco in Revolution by Telia

When: 27.11.2020 08:00-09:00

Where: Online Stream

Hop on a bus or train and you'll quickly notice how everyone around you is consuming content. Be it watching videos, listening to music, or connecting to their loved ones – everything and everyone is one swipe away.

The acquisition of Bonnier Broadcasting has made Telia one of the biggest media houses in Nordics almost overnight. During the Breakfast event, we will give you an overview on the TV, Media, and Telco Revolution through the eyes of Telia and MTV. Our daring and insightful female leaders will share their thoughts and experiences from the industry.

Speakers:
Heli Partanen, the CEO of Telia Finland will give us an introduction on how the telecom industry has changed during the past two decades and where it is heading at in the future.

Saara Pekkonen, Director, VOD (C More), MTV Oy, has seen multiple industry revolutions in the gaming, music, and media businesses during her thriving career. Saara will share her insights, reflections, and highlights along her journey.

Kati Riikonen, VP, Head of Marketing and Analytics at Telia Finland, will share with us about customer experience and data-driven decision making and the way forward where technologies and humanity are more intertwined.

Registration is opened till November 25th. Secure your seat here

Virtual WiT Breakfast Date: Digitalization in Sales & R&D by KONE by Kone - 3.12.2020

What: WiT Breakfast Date: Digitalization in Sales & R&D by KONE

When: 3.12.2020 08:00-09:00

Where: Online Stream

Registration for our virtual Breakfast date with KONE Oyj is opened now. The topic for the event is: "Digitalization in KONE's sales&RnD" and will be held on December 3rd at 8-9 am EET.

Digitalization has an impact on every area of our lives. During the Breakfast event, we will give you an overview on what digitalization has meant for KONE particularly from RnD and Sales perspectives. Our amazing female leaders will share their thoughts and experiences from the industry.

Speakers:
Elli Kalliokoski, Head of Systems Development

Is an experienced organizational and change leader. She has great experience in leading R&D teams, product development projects and programs and developing organizational capabilities in large, global firms. As a leader, she has the ability to create business cases from a strategic point of view with hands-on operational details.

She believes in growing knowledge by active sharing. The best results can be created with collaborative teams.

Anna Wäck, Head of Sales & Offering Development, Maintenance Business

Is a business development professional with a passion for transforming visionary ideas into something concrete - from a winning strategy to a commercially successful service concept. She has a proven track record of accelerating strategic growth initiatives as well as driving demand and boosting sales for new services. A healthy mix of analytical thinking, structured problem solving and a pragmatic "let's get this job done" attitude is key to her success!

Join us discuss more on this topic by securing your seat here.

Past events

Women in Tech Forums
Women in Tech Forums have been organized in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019.

Breakfast Dates:

2020

19.11.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Perspectives to leading agile teams (Frantic)

12.11.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Behind the scenes stories of people who enabled GE Healthcare's rapid COVID-19 response (GE)

27.10.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Forum 2020

22.10.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Starting up your own tech startup (Tesi)

15.10.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Data-Driven Business Planning(BearingPoint)

08.10.2020 Co-hosted Women in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital with Aaltoes.

06.10.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Business, Technology and Regulation(Hannes Snellman)

01.10.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: The Role of Technology in Sustainability(University of Turku)

01.10.2020: Product Development During COVID-19(Zalando)

28.09.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: New Era of Innovate or Fall Behind (Accenture)

23.09.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Myyttejä teollisuudesta (SAMK)

06.09.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Psychological Sustainable Remote Work(Wunderdog)

3.09.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date Using Technology to Better Customer Support (ABB)

27.08.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date Digitalization of commercial buildings (Schneider Electric)

25.08.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Digital Learning Opportunities(Aalto & FiTech)

10.06.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Science-based Innovations (Vaisala)
23.06.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Enabling Affordable Energy Transition (Eaton)
05.06.2020 Virtual Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Unleashing the magic of data (TietoEVRY)
19.03.2020 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Salaries and Career Advancement in Tech – Equal or Not? (TEK)
06.03.2020 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Deloitte Tech Trends
05.03.2020 Konsultointitaitoja ja samppanjaa! Naistenpäivän tapahtuma

2019

21.1.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Artificial Intelligence: Human Talent meets Machine's Efficiency (Reaktor), Turku
1.2.2019 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Urban Insight – Mitä tekniseltä turvallisuudelta vaaditaan, jotta kaupungit ovat turvallisia? (Sweco), Helsinki
14.2.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Data, technology and customer experience (Salomaa Yhtiöt), Helsinki
6.3.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Shorter time to market - Smart supply chains in New Product Development projects (Wärtsilä), Turku
7.3.19 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Eettinen tekoäly (Digia), Helsinki
4.4.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Making a Sustainable Difference (Metso), Tampere
8.4.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Cyber Security (Tieto), Espoo
10.4.19 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Digitalisaatio energia-alalla (Empower), Oulu
3.5.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Change Management in Cloud Transformation Journey (BearingPoint), Helsinki
14.5.19 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Basecamp-tapahtumassa (Salesforce), Helsinki
23.5.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Digitalization in Healthcare (GE Healthcare), Helsinki
29.5.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Exponential World (Telia), Helsinki
14.6.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Business productivity (Hilti), Espoo
19.6.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Data and Analytics (Gofore), Tampere
29.8.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: How to ensure quality in large scale (Sogeti), Espoo
3.9.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Humanizing Technology (ABB), Helsinki
19.9.19 WiT Breakfast Date: Energy disruption and climate change (Fingrid)
05.11.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Tulevaisuuden Energiayhteisöt (Empower)
07.11.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: How 5G is enabling digitalization (Messukeskus)
26.11.19 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Employee Experience = Customer Experience (Digitalist)
04.12.19 Digitalization – the new services (KONE)

2018

25.01.2018 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: AI in healthcare (GE Healthcare), Helsinki
28.2.2018 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Miten Watson voi auttaa Sinua? (IBM), Helsinki
9.3.18 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: IoT ja tekoäly bisneksessä (Turku)
27.3.18 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: palvelurobotit (Fujitsu Finland), Helsinki
26.4.18 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: palvelumuotoilu IT-alalla (HiQ), Helsinki
26.4.18 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Security in everyday life (Accenture), Tampere
5.6.18 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Making Yourself Visible (Sogeti), Espoo
30.8.18 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: virtuaalivoimala (Siemens), Espoo
13.9.18 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Teknologia tukemaan asiakaskokemusta (Frantic), Helsinki
25.9.18 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Tukiäly asiakaskokemuksen kumppanina(Qentinel), Helsinki
12.10.18 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Service design hands-on (Gofore), Tampere
17.10.18 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Finanssiäly asiakkaiden hyödyksi (OP), Helsinki
8.11.18 Daddies in Tech -aamutreffit: isät tyttärien tukena avaamassa teknologia-alan mahdollisuuksia (Teknologiateollisuus ry, Microsoft), Helsinki
16.11.18 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Culture of Innovation (Salesforce), Helsinki
22.11.18 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: eSports ja 5G - mistä on kyse? (Telia), Helsinki
12.12.18 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Service design hands-on: rapid idea prototyping (Gofore), Helsinki

2017

14.03.2017 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Sales and marketing in tech (Schneider Electric), Espoo
26.04.2017 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Diversity and Inclusion (Accenture), Helsinki
09.05.2017 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Henkilöbrändäys (Dell EMC), Espoo
16.05.2017 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Hoivarobotiikka ja älykaupunki, Turku
31.08.2017 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Opportunities of 5G (Nokia), Espoo
12.09.2017 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Technological disruption (KONE), Helsinki
27.09.2017 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Smart Energy Cluster (Schneider Electric & Wärtsilä), Vaasa
12.10.2017 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Teknologia17, Helsinki
13.10.2017 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Case ZenRobotics, Turku
16.11.2017 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Shaping the history of technology together (Metso), Helsinki
05.12.2017 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Itseohjautuva organisaatio (Reaktor), Helsinki

2016

06.04.2016 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Laatu kuuluu kaikille (ABB), Helsinki
13.05.2016 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Brändi rakentuu arjen tekemisistä (Ensto), Helsinki
14.09.2016 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Accelerating Digitalization (Microsoft), Helsinki
13.10.2016 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Towards better services experience (Valmet), Tampere
27.10.2016 Women in Tech -aamuteffit: Teollinen muotoilu (Valmet), Jyväskylä
28.10.2016 Women in Tech -aamutreffit: Kyberturvallisempi työ ja vapaa-aika (CGI), Helsinki
08.11.2016 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: Sustainability (Valmet), Helsinki
25.11.2016 Women in Tech Breakfast Date: The Future of Work in Tech (Tieto), Espoo

Workshops:

25.10.18 Women in Tech Workshop: Digital Transformation Now and in the Future(ABB, Accenture,Schneider Electric), Helsinki and Vaasa

22.5.19 Women in Tech Workshop: Towards a future of 100% renewable energy (Frantic & Wärtsilä), Helsinki