Applying AI Events in Helsinki

​Join us on May 19th for a joint meetup organized by Helsinki MLOps Community and Helsinki ProductTank to conclude the spring semester with a bang!

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Agentic AI is moving from prototypes to production and everybody must balance speed of adoption and reliability. Due to their dynamic task executions, the behavior of agentic AI is even more unpredictable than in regular AI system where ML/AI models - large or small - are utilized in predefined workflows. Nevertheless, going forward all the AI and product teams will be dealing with agentic AI sooner or later.

What does it take to build and operate the agents as productized software solutions?

Let's hear it from forerunners that have been living through the latest regarding advanced agent cases in enterprises or as technical founders.

🎤 The talks and the panel:

​Case Story from WithSecure - Seamus Moloney, Data & AI Team Lead, Principal Data Architect / WithSecure Corporation

From Prompt to Product: Managing AI Agents in Production - Pasi Vuorio, Founder, CEO / ModernPath

Panel Discussion: Choosing the Right Approach for Agentic AI: Where It Fits and What It Demands
Chaired by:

• Dan Khurram, Senior consultant, Business and PM coach / Eficode

Panelists:

• Valentin Sattinger, Co-Founder & Product Manager / Luo & Advisor / 8wave
  (Past: Director of product management / Noice & Product manager / Unity)
• Arto Tolonen, CEO & Co-founder / ProductSense
  (Past: CPO / Smartly.io & CTO / Audiodraft)
• Aaro Isosaari, Co-founder & CEO / Flow AI
  (Past: Co-founder & CEO / Flowrite)

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📍 Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences (Pasila campus next to Pasila railway station)
📆 May 19th
🕔 17:00 - 21:00
​​Beverages & snacks + Discussions & networking

Organized in collaboration with

• Brillian (https://brillian.fi/),
• Aiven (https://aiven.io/),
• Haaga-Helia UAS (https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en)
• "Applied AI in Business and Education" innovation hub of the Ulysseus European University (https://ulysseus.eu/innovation-hubs/artificial-intelligence/)

Most founders waste months building the wrong thing.
This workshop fixes the earliest and most expensive mistake in the startup journey: building before validating real demand ⛔

Turn your expertise into a validated business idea in a single session. This hands-on workshop skips the theory and dives straight into execution using Startup Blueprint, the AI-native evolution of startup validation.

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What You’ll Accomplish:

• Target the Right Problem: Pinpoint a high-value challenge within your domain.
• Build Your Business Case: Construct a robust business model designed for scale.
• Launch & Validate: Create a live landing page to test your idea with real customers immediately.

The Requirements:

• Bring Your Laptop: This is a "doing" session, not a "watching" session.
• Bring a Problem: Come prepared with a specific pain point or industry gap you’re passionate about solving.

Leverage your expertise.
Build your blueprint.
Validate your startup.

Validated: A Practical AI-Powered Ideation & Validation Workshop for your startup

Date: 21.05.2026

Time: 16:30 - 19:00

Place: Maria01, Lapinlahdenkatu 16, Helsinki

Venue: Classroom, Building 2

Schedule:
16:30 Doors Open
17:00 Quick Intro to Startup Blueprint
17:15 Ideation & Solution
18:00 Validation
19:00 End

Event is hosted by:

Para Narendradhipa - Founder at Startup Blueprint

Bambi Dang - Founder at FunFox

Organized by AI Collective Finland

Hosted at Maria01

The AI Collective** **is a global non-profit building the human layer for the AI era. We unite 200,000+ leaders, builders, and stakeholders across 100+ forums worldwide to democratize the frontier, build trust, and coordinate how society navigates the rapid acceleration of technological progress.

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CITCON:AI is about conferring with others, and having discussions you can't replace with a search on Google.

CITCON (Continuous Improvement in Technology Conference) is the premier event for fostering innovation and excellence in software development, delivery, and operations. Formerly known as the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, CITCON has evolved to embrace a wider array of subjects, including emerging technologies and practices that drive continuous improvement across the tech industry.

Since its inception, CITCON has been a hub for professionals from every corner of the technology sector to share insights, explore ideas, and collaborate on practices that enhance technological advancement.

From Test-Driven Development to Continuous Deployment, code metrics to post-release monitoring, and the integration of artificial intelligence in development processes, CITCON covers a broad spectrum of topics that empower teams to deliver superior software and systems. Attendees include software engineers, QA specialists, product managers, DevOps practitioners, operations engineers, UX designers, data scientists, tech leads, and anyone passionate about advancing technology, processes, and outcomes.

What makes CITCON different is the unique Open Space format: attendees don't sit in rows listening to presentations. Instead they openly discuss the topics that matter to them, with the experts, both local and visiting.