Energy solutions for the block level – Opportunities in Smart City business environment -seminar 12.9.2019

Energy solutions for the block level – Opportunities in Smart City business environment -seminar was kept on Thursday 12 September 2019. Thank you for all who joined! You can load the event materials from the links below.

Welcome – Event host Sami Kazi, Research Team Leader, VTT

Case examples from Finland and Norway:
– MAKING-CITY project – Samuli Rinne, Project Manager, City of Oulu
– Energy Wise Cities project: How an urban district can act as a carbon sink? – Tuomas Vanhanen, Project Manager, City of Tampere
– Smart Otaniemi – Ismo Heimonen, Senior Scientist, VTT
– +CityxChange – innovation and integrated measures for positive energy districts – Dr. Bjørn Ove Berthelsen, Project Leader, City of Trondheim and Dr. Dirk Ahlers, Project Manager, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Views from enablers:
– Business Finland – Pia Salokoski, Chief Funding Adviser, Business Finland
– KIRAHub – Sami Lankiniemi, Head of Partnerships, KIRAHub
– It is all possible with intercompatible data – Pirkko Laitinen, Chief Marketing Officer, Platform of Trust
– Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) – Experiences from a Cold Climate Country  – Eerika Janhunen, Doctoral Candidate, Aalto University

Business cases:
– Finnish Industrial Internet Forum – Arto Peltomaa, Program Manager, DIMECC
– Energy Efficiency and Partnership – Erika Salmenvaara, Head of Energy Efficiency Services, Helen
– Siemens TEM-Ministry energy spearhead project – Virtual Buildings Ecosystem Oy – Veikka Pirhonen, CEO, VIBECO
– City wide deployment for coming winter – Ossi Porri, Business Development Director, Leanheat