FinEst Twins Helsinki Final Event: Smart City Innovation Beyond Borders 27.10.

Location: Saastamoinen Foundation Stage, Marsio, Otaniemi
Type: Live networking event with online live stream
Schedule: 27 October, 2025 at 12:00-16 (the program starts at 12:15)

FinEst Twins Helsinki Final Event invites all the curious minds to learn about the latest smart city innovations beyond borders. The afternoon will concentrate on the culmination of the FinEst Twins project: the six clever solutions developed and tested during the Pilot Programme 2025. The event will offer a great chance to connect with like-minded, innovation oriented people. 

The FinEst pilot programme focused on six topics, all of which will be presented during the event. The fields of the six groundbreaking pilots held in Helsinki together with 18 organisations were: 

• stakeholder collaboration in large-scale clean energy transition projects
• gathering procurement and transport data to manage fleet emissions
• children’s pediatric innovations in the hospital environment
• energy consumption optimisation by steering consumer behaviour
• simulating critical energy incidents in a 3D digital twin
• and AI-powered touchpoint analysis for Helsinki Youth Services.

The Final Event will conclude the aspiring, six year long FinEst Twins project’s operations in Helsinki. The agenda features fireside discussions, insightful panels between hosts and pilot organisations, and keynote speeches highlighting the impactfulness of the pilot programme. There will also be time for mingling and sharing ideas. This event is something you don’t want to miss!

Agenda

12:00-12:15 Networking and settling in

12:15-12:30 Welcome and Introduction

FinEst Design Sessions:

• 12:30-12:40: Managing beyond borders
• 12:40-13:00: Design as a tool for sustainable Built Environment
• 13:00-13:30: Public-private co-creation for Mobility
• 13:30-14:00: Complex stakeholder collaboration in Energy sector 

14:00-14:20 Coffee Break

FinEst Technical Sessions:

• 14:20-14:50: Power of AI in Smart Governance
• 14:50-15:20: Integrating innovation culture in Health and Wellbeing
• 15:20-15:50: Digital twin for cross-border resilience

15:30-16:00 Thank you and Networking

After 16, We’ll have mingling and drinks!

Organisations supporting the event: 

Challenge hosts: Helsinki Partners, Business Finland, HUS Helsinki University Hospital and The New Children Hospital Foundation, The City of Helsinki Culture and Leisure Division (KUVA) and Helsinki Youth Unit, KIRAHub, The City of Helsinki Urban Environment Division (KYMP), Stara Logistics Services, The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom, Finnish AI Region (FAIR EDIH) and AIRE (AI & Robotics Estonia).

Pilot organisations and their stakeholders: Akordi, AR-GO Lab (ARBEE Studio), Enutime, East2North, Flou, INS Intelligent Network Solutions, Nexus Twin, and NinjaLABO.

FinEst Twins Partners: FinEst Centre for Smart Cities, Aalto University, TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology, The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia, Ministry of Education and Research of Estonia and Forum Virium Helsinki.

FinEst Twins is an EU Horizon-funded project that started in 2019.

Photo: Lauri Rotko / Helsinki Partners