About the speakers
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Helen Ala
Consultant Manager, Innofactor Sweden
Helen manages our Swedish BI and Analytics team. She is passionate about the power of data and what is achievable when insights are spread within an organization and acted upon. With 25 + years in IT, she's had various roles - in sales, as a consultant and as a manager.
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Jussi Uusitupa
Data Scientist, Innofactor Finland
Jussi Uusitupa is a Data Scientist at Innofactor. He enjoys the feeling that comes from providing business value in novel ways, which in his case, follows from using data in an innovative way. He is inspired to see how the data science field continually becomes more accessible and useful in serving business needs. His toolbox includes e.g. Python, Microsoft Azure services and Power BI.
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Ville Vakkilainen
Director, Projects & Analytics
Ville has been working in the Microsoft Partner Ecosystem for the past 15 years and has 25 years of experience in the IT industry. He works closely with Microsoft both in Finland and globally and enjoys nurturing partner relations with different parties. Ville aspires to help organizations digitalize their processes with the support of tools; be that the Lead-to-Oder-to Cash-process or the Idea-to-Market process. He's motto in the fast-paced digitalizing world is: Never stop learning.