| Blok Maiken | Senior Manager Technical Documentation | BK Medical | Maiken found her calling and is an educated Technical Communicator. She holds a master’s degree in Technical Communication and Localisation from the University of Strasbourg, France and the TCTrainNet certification. Both as a mentor for tech com students and as part of her commitment to tekom Danmark, she aspires to spread the word about our profession and motivate even more people to join the field of technical communication. As Senior Manager of the Technical Documentation team at BK Medical ApS in Denmark, she uses her knowledge and skills to motivate the team and deliver high quality documentation in 27 languages. |
| Engstrand Boo | Senior Information Engineer | Devarion | Boo started his technical writing career at Ericsson in 1990 and after working there for 9 years he started his first consulting company. Many years later, he’s still around working as a consulting information architect and have worked with a plethora of customers and product areas. Today he splits his working time between teaching technical writing and consulting. In his free time, he likes to tinker with his old motorbikes or build a guitar or two. Of course, his family and grandkids takes a lot of time. |
| Enwald Heidi | Yliopistonlehtori, dosentti | Oulun yliopisto | Heidi Enwald toimii yliopistonlehtorina ja oppiaineen päävastuuhenkilönä Informaatiotutkimuksella, Humanistisessa tiedekunnassa, Oulun yliopistossa. Enwald on tehnyt Informaatiotutkimuksen alaan liittyvää tutkimusta aiheenaan terveystieto, terveystietokäyttäytyminen, terveystiedon lukutaito, e-terveyspalvelut ja terveysviestintä vuodesta 2008 lähtien. Myös avoin tiede ja osallistava tutkimus kuuluvat hänen mielenkiintonsa kohteisiin. Enwaldin vuonna 2013 julkaistun väitöskirjan otsikko oli “Tailoring health communication. The perspective of information users´ health information behaviour in relation to their physical health status”. Vuonna 2019 hänelle myönnettiin dosentin arvo Oulun yliopiston Tieto- ja sähkötekniikan tiedekunnasta nimikkeellä Tailored eHealth communications. Useiden monitieteisten terveysteemaan liittyvien tutkimushankkeiden jatkoksi hän toimii tällä hetkellä työpakettivastaavana ja tutkijana STN-rahoitteisessa RECIPE-konsortiossa (Resistant Cities: Urban Planning as Means for Pandemic Prevention). Lisätietoa tutkijaprofiilissa: https://www.oulu.fi/en/researchers/heidi-enwald |
| Ehsani Elin | Senior AI Scientist | silo.ai | I started working on natural language processing in 2012 during my master's studies and continued with my PhD. I finished my postdoc research in 2018, and since 2018 I have been working on different AI projects in two different companies. I worked on small, medium, and large-scale projects. Visiting customers, listening to their requirements and making a solution proposal for them were among my main responsibilities. I have also taken the project management role in large-scale projects, leading international teams. In all of these projects, I also performed the machine learning developer role. AI projects that I have been working on include NLP projects such as entity extraction from the texts as well as entity extraction from scanned documents. |
| Forsman Kristian | Solution Design Owner, Content Solutions | KONE | Kristian Forsman is the Solution Design Owner, Content Solutions at KONE Corporation, Finland. He has worked mainly within the IT domain, and since 2004, he has been focusing on modular content management solutions—enabling content teams to author, manage, translate, publish, and deliver modular semantic content. |
| Heinonen Hanna | Digital Content Lead | KONE | Hanna Heinonen is the Digital Content Lead at KONE Corporation, Finland. She has 20+ years of experience from the technical communication domain and has specialized in information architecture and design, user-centered, task-based documentation, DITA XML, and content management systems and tools. She is also pursuing a Ph.D in Interactive Technology at Tampere University, where her research interests include the role and potential of XR technologies in the field of technical communication. |
| Karasjärvi Pia | Väitöskirjatutkija | Vaasan yliopisto | Pia Karasjärvi on teknisen viestinnän väitöskirjatutkija Vaasan yliopistolla. Hän on kiinnostunut teknisen viestinnän ja saavutettavuuden rajapinnasta. Häntä kiinnosta saavutettavuus erityisesti autismikirjon henkilöiden näkökulmasta. Lisäksi hänellä on yli 15 vuoden monipuolinen kokemus eri teknisen viestinnän tehtävissä. |
| Karjalainen Tarja | Localisation Program Manager | Oura | Tarja Karjalainen on lokalisoinnin ja kansainvälistämisen asiantuntija, joka on myös toiminut itse kääntäjänä. Hän työskentelee Ourassa Localisation Program Manager -nimikkeellä ja vastaa Ouran sovelluksen lokalisoinnista ja kansainvälistämisestä. Tarja on puhunut useissa kansainvälisissä lokalisoinnin konferensseissa ja onkin hyvin verkostoitunut alalla. |
| Katajisto Laura | Solutions Architect | Etteplan | Laura Katajisto is a Solutions Architect at Etteplan. After a 20-year career in technical communication, she’s done it all – technical writing, information design, CMS development, process improvement, and lately, digital content creation, publishing, and delivery, just to name a few. Laura is a popular speaker and trainer, and likes to share what she’s learned. |
| Kormu Henna | Development Manager, Product Documentation | Sulzer Pumps Finland | With over 10 years of experience in engineering and technical documentation in the machinery industry, Henna has been one of the main project drivers for her organization’s migration to structured content. A DITA learner, and enthusiast, she is leading the Content Component Management System (CCMS) change process at Sulzer Pumps Finland, where the team is currently carrying out a CCMS migration. |
| Ohtonen Liisa | Head of Learning Services | Acolad Group | Liisa Ohtonen on työskennellyt yli 10 vuotta monikielisen viestinnän ja rakenteisen dokumentaation parissa niin teknisenä kirjoittajana kuin projektipäällikkönäkin. Hän on ollut mukana lukuisissa migraatioprojekteissa, joissa monikielinen sisältö on siirretty lineaarisesta rakenteiseen järjestelmään. Tällä hetkellä Liisa vastaa Acolad Nordicsin oppimis- ja sisällöntuotantopalveluista. |
| Peltomaa Leena | Director, Accounts | Acolad Group | Leena Peltomaalla on yli 20 vuoden kokemus lokalisoinnista, monikielisestä sisällönhallinnasta ja käännös- ja lokalisointiteknologioista. Hän on perehtynyt järjestelmäintegraatioihin ja lokalisointiohjelmistoihin sekä asiakasprojekteissa että Acolad Groupin sisäisissä kehitysprojekteissa ja toiminut mm. kehitysjohtajana, asiakkuusjohtajana ja projektijohtajana. Nykyisin Leena vastaa Acolad Nordicin asiakkuuksista ja niiden kehittämisestä. |
| Siltanen Sanni | Senior Ecosystem Lead | DIMECC | Dr. Sanni Siltanen received the M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Joensuu University, Joensuu, Finland, in 1999, and the Lic.Sc. (Tech) degree in Information Technology and the D.Sc. (Tech) degree in Information Sciences from Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Her background is in XR research in the industrial context, and she has been involved in numerous industry–academy jointly-funded research projects. She is a Senior Ecosystem Lead at DIMECC Oy and holds a docentship in the field of industrial XR at Tampere University. |
| Turunen Markku | Professor of Interactive Technology | Tampere University | Dr. Markku Turunen is a professor of Interactive Technology at the Tampere University. He is leading the “Pervasive Interaction research group” as a part of the “Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction” (TAUCHI) and the international master’s programme “Sustainable Digital Life” (SDL). He also recently established with his colleagues the “Tampere Accessibility Unit” (TACCU). Prof. Turunen has 70+ externally funded research projects and 240+ articles in human-technology interaction. He has been working closely with his industrial partners with XR technologies, among others. |
| Viljanen Eeva | Senior UX Writer | Oura | Eeva Viljanen on kielitaustainen teknisen viestinnän asiantuntija, joka on työskennellyt alalla yli 15 vuotta. Nykyisin hän työskentelee Ourassa Senior UX Writer -nimikkeellä ja vastaa Ouran sovelluksen copystä. Uran varrelle on mahtunut monenlaisia työnkuvia myös teknisen viestinnän kouluttamisen parissa. |
| Virtaluoto Jenni | Senior Lecturer in Technical Communication | University of Jyväskylä | Jenni Virtaluoto is a Senior Lecturer in technical communication at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She received her PhD in English/technical communication from the University of Oulu, Finland, in 2015. She also has 15 years of practical experience in technical communication. Her research interests include minimalism in technical communication, meaningfulness in the work of language graduates, and cognitive accessibility. She is the Vice Chair of the Finnish Technical Communication Society STVY ry. |
| Öörni Eeva | CX Content Designer | Posti Group | FM Eeva Öörni on työskennellyt vuosituhannen vaihteesta lähtien kielenhuoltajana muun muassa käännöstoimistossa, Verohallinnossa ja Postilla. Hän on kirjoittanut kansantajuisesti kielenhuollosta, tekstien selkeydestä ja sävyasioista. Erityisesti häntä kiinnostavat digipalvelujen tekstit ja niiden vaikutus asiakaskokemukseen. |